The winger, condemned to ostracism with Vicente Moreno, will meet again with Diego Martínez, with whom he shone at Granada
Vadillo went to Malaga in January on a fruitful loan that has made him feel like a footballer again, leaving good numbers
If there has been an Espanyol player who has been especially happy about the arrival of Diego Martínez on the bench, that is Alvaro Vadillo. The winger, condemned to ostracism with Vicente Moreno in both the Second and First Divisions, has once again felt like a footballer in a fruitful loan spell at Malaga. This summer he will return to the blue and white discipline and shis reunion with the Galician coach can give him the boost he needed to succeed at the RCDE Stadium.
Player and coach coincided for two seasons at Granada, where Vadillo showed one of his best versions. Under the tutelage of the mister from Vigo, the Andalusian winger was a key player in the team that rose to the highest category of Spanish football with four goals and eleven assists in 40 games, almost 3,000 minutes played.
No less important was in the following year, 2019/20, although in the First Division his numbers were three goals and one assist in 22 games. The pandemic interrupted that season and in the resumption he did not play a single minute due to flu gastroenteritis that left him KO.
Vadillo arrived in that atypical ‘summer’ market at Celta but he went on loan to Espanyol, where he failed to convince Moreno. The promotion forced the club to buy him and after having even less prominence in the First Division as a parakeet, in January he left on loan to Malaga. As an anchovy he has almost always been a starter, leaving three goals and two assists in 17 games. His future pointed to a transfer, but under Diego Martínez, who adapts to his players, although wingers have always been important in his schemes, anything is possible.