Pellegrini and the challenge of climbing a step up in Europe in his fourth project

Manuel Pellegrini is Chilean faced his fourth project as coach of Legs and he does it in an attempt to go up a step with the Verdiblanco team, which he classified in the last three seasons for european league and for this the illusion is in entering the positions Championsa difficult challenge but the club does not give up in its quest for growth.

The veteran South American coach, who will be 70 next September, arrived in the summer of 2020 and, in his three seasons at the entity, won a Copa del Rey (second year) and he managed to get béticos on three consecutive occasions in a continental European competition, an unprecedented event in the club’s history.

Despite this, the last season ended with a certain bitter taste, as the team entered the final third of the league competition with well-founded options to finish in fourth position and thus have the right participated today in the Champions League, but in the final stretch lost the pulse with the Real Sociedad and Villarreal and finally placed sixth in the table.

Now, with more to say until the end of the month in the preparation of the squad both in additions and losses, it is clear that Pellegrini will have a very new team, with absences synonymous with his captain, the winger Joaquin Sanchez, who left soccer as a player and is now part of the coaching staff.

Another of those who will be absent is another mainstay, the Cantabrian midfielder Sergio Canalesalso in the bético captains team and that was transferred to Rayados de Monterrey Mexican, so the club announced almost on the spot the arrival of the Malaga midfielder Isco Alarcon after being out of work for the entire second half of last season following his unsuccessful spell at Sevilla in the first half.

The ex-madridista, one of the media signings of this preseason, should help in the creation zone, where the Frenchman is now absent, at least until October. Nabil Fékir, who is recovering from a serious knee injury that occurred last year.

Isco Alarcon join a project where the Canarian striker is also present Ayoze Perez, who will remain after his loan spell from English Leicester City; while another new thing is the midfielder Mark Rock that last year he was also in Leeds in English.

The central Marc Bartra, For his part, he returned after his departure in August to turkish trabzonsporlike the right hand Hector Bellerin after his passing during the campaign for FC Barcelonaa club that also loaned out the Spanish-Moroccan center back Chad Riyadh.

What doesn’t stay is the medium Alex Colladowho came for free from the Barcelona club but Betis moved to Saudi al-Okhdood, while right back Martín Montoya joins the departure of players such as Victor Ruiz or Edgar Gonzalez.

Pellegrini, on the other hand, is guaranteeing the continuation of his compatriot claudio bravo in purpose and in Mexican Andres Guardado in the midfield, two veterans who worked hard in the three concentrations designed, in Germany, England and the American tour.

In the end, it was measured in an atypical derby at the Akron stadium in Guadalajara (Mexico) against Seville, before losing in overtime with a goal from Moroccan Youssef En-Nesyri.

Already entered USAagainst Real Sociedad at Oracle Park in San Francisco, the Verdiblancos again went down 1-0 in a game in which Isco played his first minutes.

After that, the preparation for the first official match of the course will be completed in Seville, the first day of LaLiga will measure him on Sunday, August 13 in villarreal at La Cerámica stadium.