This Sunday, the march of Rodrithe last goodbye to a summer in which there was an exodus of youth in the EA Sports League. In total, 35 players under 25 have gone abroad throughout this transfer market. As they say, the end of the holidays was the transfer of the playmaker of Betis for eight million Al-Arabi of Doha (capital of Qatar), a move that represents the departure of a great value from Spanish football.
But there are many others who have crossed the borders of our country to embark on other adventures more attractive than those offered by our League or, at least, more economically succulent. It’s been a while since Xavier Thebes to look away from this subject, but the main consequence is a progressive aging of a League which is gradually emptying of its talents.
Before Rodri, 34 young footballers said goodbye for good to SpainBut if we include transfers abroad, the figure increases considerably. The most notable victims were those of Joao Felix At Chelsea for 52 million euros, that of Samu Omorodion to Porto for 15 or Savinho At Manchester City after completing your loan in the Girona. Another case is that of Mamardashviliwhich left 30 million in the coffers of the Valencewhere the Liverpool He will leave him on loan this season.
The list is long, but the financial amount that the League clubs have paid is not commensurate with this flight of talent, since ten of them have left for free. Among the 20 Spanish teams that make up the competition, they have received a total of 557.94 million and the transfer figure of these 35 players represents almost 50% of it.
Flight of talents… and stars
This is the only reason that explains an exodus of this magnitude, a drought in which the majority of clubs are mired, forcing them to part with precious stones who go abroad to continue their careers. But these youngsters are not the only ones to have said goodbye to the League this summer, because a market in which big recruits like Kylian Mbappé At the real Madrid either Julien Alvarez At Atletico Madrid was partly overshadowed by departures such as those of Ilkay Gündogan, Alvaro Morata, Joao Cancelo, Alex Garcia…
Great talents and proven players who said goodbye to Spanish football, leaving a void that most clubs have tried to fill with wickers who are more bets than footballers. While we wait to know how many of them will do well, the League has started a new season with new faces and with the absence of many others who already shine in multiple stadiums in other countries far from the drought of our championship.
The 35 players who left the League abroad
- Deportivo Alavés: Mahmoud (Al Arabi – 90 thousand euros) and Álex Balboa (Almere City – free).
- Athletic Club: Imanol García (Sparta Prague – 500 thousand)
- Atletico Madrid: Joao Félix (Chelsea – 52 million) and Samu Omorodion (Porto – 15 million).
- Barcelona: Julián Araujo (Bournemouth – 10 million), Mika Faye (Rennes – 10.3 million), Marc Guiu (Chelsea – 6 million), Estanis Pedrola (Sampdoria – 3 million) and Dest (PSV – free).
- Betis: Juan Miranda (Bologna – free), Chadi Riad (Crystal Palace – 15 million), Abner (Lyon – 8 million), Rober González (NEC Nijmegen – 1.2 million) and Rodri (Al Arabi – 8 million).
- Celtic of Vigo: Larsen (Wolves – 3 million per loan plus purchase option of 30), José Fontán (Arouca – free), Miguel Baeza (Nacional – free).
- Spanish: Max Svensson (Casa Pia – free).
- Getafe: Greenwood (Marseille), Gastón Álvarez (Al-Qadsiah – 12 million) and Sabit Abulia (Botafogo – free).
- Girona: Savinho (Manchester City), Iker Almena (Al-Qadsiah – 5 million), Arnau Ortiz (Wroclaw – free), Yan Couto (Borussia Dortmund) and Gabri Martínez (Braga – free).
- The Palm Trees: Saúl Coco (Turin – 7.5 million).
- the real Madrid: Rafa Marín (Naples – 12 million).
- Valladolid: Tunde (AVS Futebol – free) and Monchu (Aris Thessaloniki – 3.6 million).
- Valence: Mamardashvili (Liverpool – 30 million)
- Villarreal: Jorge Cuencia (Fulham – 6.7 million), Jörgensen (Chelsea – 24.5 million) and Ben Brereton (Southampton – 8.3 million)
