Storm and torment

There is practically nothing to hold on to at the moment at Real Zaragoza. The weather begins to fluctuate between discouragement, indignation and an anger that begins to be extreme to see a club adrift, without solutions and without reaching out for them to exist. The lack of action and decisions of true significance, beyond the fact that Lalo Arantegui, the next head within the entity’s pyramidal scale, has been fired. Right now nothing works, it’s a disaster and, In the midst of this storm, which is a torment for everyone, there is football, which is the only nail that, in the short term, can give some life to an inert team, empty and whose problems already transcend the merely sports, which also has its own.

Real Zaragoza is presented against Fuenlabrada this Sunday (9:00 p.m., Goal) after six consecutive defeats, being bottom, in the worst sporting moment of some 88 years of history that deserve much more respect and high-mindedness, without a sports director at close range three weeks after the official opening of the January transfer market, with a coach who knows himself sentenced but who is not executed, with what that entails for him personally and for a team aware that its guide is going to change, with ownership more in question than ever and with the entry of Ander Herrera and César Sánchez into the club stopped by the great difference between opinions. Dantesque and shameful.

The devastation that threatens the future of the club is such that football, pure sport, which in the end is the great sustenance of everything, which fosters happiness and discouragement, has taken a back seat for everything that surrounds Real Zaragoza in the extra sport. And a third, too. Now, it should not be forgotten that while looking for solutions (at a snail’s pace, without any rush), the team needs to add up before the winter revolution so that permanence is within a salvageable distance. At the moment he is five points away with one game less, but the situation is critical.

Like Jack the Ripper said, in parts. This Sunday a convicted Iván Martínez will sit on the bench and who has had to see how since Thursday the entity has been negotiating with Pacheta and, above all, with Paco Jémez, to relieve him of his position. In this situation, which is very difficult for him, the coaching staff and the players themselves, has to lead the team and show the greatest professionalism possible, knowing that it is the second plate. A dream cut short by the most adverse circumstances.

Meanwhile, Jémez said no to Real Zaragoza on Thursday due to lack of sports guarantees, but that route, through Cuartero, is still open. Now, the former Blanquillo defender sees a priority undertaking, at least, five reinforcements and that is the main obstacle to reaching an agreement. Paco is not in a hurry and at the club it seems that neither because he has a temporary umbrella in Iván.

But what has shaken the shaker the most this week has been the possible entry of Ander Herrera and César Sánchez, who has suffered a very important stoppage because there is no agreement on the conditions for their entry into the entity. They already tried in 2019, with one million euros each, and the intention was to accommodate both, through a capital increase, in the Council and the former goalkeeper would be the special commissioner in the sports area. Now that is stopped and with the winter market looming.

As for the game itself, Atienza is not yet available, as are Papu, James and Adrián González. Iván Martínez did not want to give clues about the system and the players that he will use, if he will continue the 5-3-2 that he has been using in recent duels and if he will try something different against a Fuenlabrada that is very uncomfortable, physical and powerful in the game. aerial game. The one that possibly has minutes is another of the great pearls of Zaragoza, Luis Carbonell, while there are doubts with the presence in the eleven of Narváez.

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