The sports director will close his second stage with the Seville team to go to the Premier with Emery
Aston Villa offers six million per season to a technical secretary who has a clause of 2.5
In March 2019, Monchi, capable of turning a hypocoristic into a generic for sports directors, returned to the Seville. His home, from which he had walked away for two seasons for a frustrated experience in Roma. The return of the prodigal son was accompanied by phrases like “Sevilla FC could not be understood without Monchi, because he is Sevilla”, but little more than four years later, the ‘León de San Fernando’ will leave again. And in principle not to return.
He will do it heading to the Premier to enroll in the astonville from Unai Emery, who with a substantial sum (six million per season) will make the technical secretary change colors, at least in his work routine. “It’s not a professional issue, it’s something personal. The main reason is exhaustion and the need for change,” he argued in his first outing, perjuring that he had not signed anything with Roma.
Disabilities in the signings of coaches
Gone were five europa leaguetwo King’s Cupsa Spain Supercup and a European Super Cup. Monchi explained that he was a “until next time” so it was. In his return to the Sevilla team, Monchi has won another two continental scepters, although the last one after an exhausting campaign in which Sevilla It was several days in decline. Unprecedented situation for a team established for years in the elite.
He club replaced Lopetegui and derailed with Sampaoli, a contract that was about to blow up Sevilla. That of the Argentine was a much-discussed incorporation, even by Monchi himself, who amended the plan by bringing the savior Jose Luis Mendilibarthe great Spanish sensation on the bench this season.
However, for the roadmap for next season, the technical secretary had closed a pre-agreement with Andoni Iraola, former Rayo coach who is now at a crossroads. He will decide between the remaining free benches (Almería is close to hiring Vicente Moreno and Celta points to Philippe Montanier). The achievement of the seventh Europa League unleashed a popular clamor for the renewal of ‘Mendi’ for one year.
A very deficit summer market
This contract was endorsed by Monchi, but the one from San Fernando already had his mind in other coordinates. Monchi has felt supervised and, on occasions, supplanted in his functions in charge of the sports project. Different board positions and figures related to the board of jose castro They have gained weight in decisions.
The Sevilla summer market was bad. In paid transfers: 16 million euros were paid to Bayern for Nianzou. In the free incorporations: Isco was a fiasco. And in the outputs: ocampos he returned in January after an unsuccessful loan to Ajax. The winter window partially corrected the damage, with the transfer of Pape Gueye, Bryan Gil either Loic Badé, but the current summer window will require reinforcements on all lines. The last rumor: the bizarre Sergio Ramos’s offer to return home.
Luckily, the victory in the Europa League, which grants the right to play in the Champions League, has saved the league disaster (Sevilla was 12th). In these unusual circumstances for him, Monchi has not stopped living football as he feels: on the front line of battle.
Starting with a victory in the first twelve games of the season led him to show his face in front of the fans. This is how he spoke and harangued the ultras of Seville in Almería. The same ones who targeted Castro and his leadership with intimidating graffiti while Former President Del Nido He ignited a legal battle that he ended up losing.
Six million per season for Monchi
His son, who acts as vice president, is the only one who has spoken from the inside about the future of Monchi. “He has a valid and indefinite contract. There is no one in Sevilla who does not want Monchi to lead the planning of the club in the next 750 years. I have no record that he is considering leaving, “he assured after winning the Europa League, a position that, like the highest president, did not endorse Lopetegui’s renewal until 2024.
The tug of war was wearing down a relationship that Monchi will decide to end for a challenge in the Premier. The disagreements with the Sevilla board of directors are as important as the project that is proposed to ‘León de San Fernando’. A signing for Aston Villa that, regardless of its route, entails a “goodbye” for Sevilla.
Although there is an important stumbling block to solve: Monchi has an exit clause of 2.5 million euros to which would have to be added an additional 600,000 euros that the sports director would pay for failing to comply with the notice periods. It will compensate him, because he will sign at a rate of six million per season.
With that amount, the technical secretary would receive more than any player on the Sevilla squad. It should be remembered that in 2018, wes edensco-owner of the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks, and Egyptian billionaire nassef sawiristhey bought 55% of the ‘villans’.
As a curiosity, Monchi will coincide with diego carlos at Aston Villa, one of his last major operations (31 million) together with Jules Koundé (50 million paid by Barça). The two center backs left a very difficult gap to fill with which Monchi’s substitutes will carry. On the table there are continuity solutions such as Fernando Navarroright hand of San Fernando, or signings as Victor Ortafree after leaving Leeds. Braulio Vazquezfrom Osasuna, is another of the names associated with Sevilla.
Monchi option after the fright of Alemany
Monchi’s option emerged after the reversal of Mateu Alemany, who after having said goodbye as Barça’s football director rectified his departure. By the way, Jordi Cruyff announced his departure as Barça sports director. “Aston Villa has an impressive institutional and sporting project and one of the best coaches in Europe,” Alemany defended when he explained the change in his decision.
After thirteen years of crossing the desert, under the orders of Unai Emery Villa has returned to Europe and will play Conference League next season. The Basque trainer, who signed for four seasons plus an optional one (seven million per course), unleashed a revolution by replacing Steven Gerrard. He made the Birmingham team one of the most competitive teams in the Premier.
It will not be a flash in the pan, as evidenced by the first signing of the summer before the arrival of Monchi: youri tielemans, Belgian midfielder for Leicester. A talented player from a relegated team, the kind of opportunities that the future technical secretary of Aston Villa has seen so many times.