After the inclusion of Raúl De Tomás, who is already registered to compete this January after returning to the club in September, Andoni Iraola has 29 players in his squad, a very high number that the club hopes to reduce in this winter market .
With Liga as the only goal after being eliminated from the Copa del Rey, Andoni Iraola knows that the high number of players in his squad will cause many of them to be relegated to a secondary role, as has been the case so far.
The sports management also knows this and for this reason the winter transfer window in Rayo is faced with the need to lighten the troops and strengthen itself only in case there is a good chance for someone to make a jump in quality in the squad or something. unexpected departure if the club has paid the clause of one of its holders.
In the final match of the Cup against Sporting, a rival in the Second Division, it was notable that three players (Bebé, José Ángel Pozo and Esteban Saveljich) with only a few minutes left in the team.
Cape Verde winger Bebé has, of the three, the most minutes so far with 209 spread over six games, one less than Pozo, who has 93 in seven games. Saveljich, burdened for part of the season by injuries, participated in only two games.
Bebé is ahead of Isi Palazón and Álvaro García, the two starting wingers for Iraola, and also Salvi, who joined the team this season from Cádiz. Until now he is the fourth player for that demarcation but the return of Andrés Martín after several months injured could relegate him another position.
Pozo, who last season was already on loan for the second half at Al-Ahli in Qatar, does not seem to have fully convinced Iraola, who is banking on captain Oscar Trejo for the midfielder and, if the Argentine does not play, to Unai López or Randy Nteka.
Saveljich, whose injuries have kept him from performing since the beginning, looks like the fifth center back this season. Alejandro Catena and the Frenchman Florian Lejeune are the starters and, as reserves, Iraola prefers the Ghanaian Abdul Mumin, who strengthens this campaign, and the veteran Mario Suárez, who fulfills the little played he.
Apart from these three candidates, there are also other players who can assess their situation in the team, such as goalkeeper Miguel Ángel Morro, third goalkeeper in the shadow of Stole Dimitrievski and Diego López, or even right-back Mario Hernández, who has never been in the League and replaces Ivan Balliu.
Source: La Verdad
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