The Unión Deportiva Las Palmas will face the 2024/25 season, where it celebrates its 75th anniversary this Thursdaywith deep adjustments in many of its areas: it has a new coaching staff with Luis Carrión in charge and will have a squad with eleven additions, a dozen departures and the doors are open to new movements that there are entrances and exits.
After leaving Oviedo on the brink of promotion to the First Division, Carrión landed in Gran Canaria as a replacement for XAvi García Pimienta, who decided to close his cycle on the island bench to sign for Sevilla. He fate, often variedthe two clubs want to face each other on the first day of the championship, with the Seville team visiting the Gran Canaria Stadium on August 16 (2-2).
And to face its debut against Sevilla, Las Palmas has new players after renewing all its lines. For the purpose, he chose mmix the LaLiga experience of Dutchman Jasper Cillessen (former goalkeeper of Barcelona and Valencia) with Croatian youth Dinka Horkas. And Álvaro Valles, last season’s most outstanding player, will be transferred after the club’s renewal proposal was rejected.
In defense, Saul Coco He left a significant void after his departure from the Italian team Torino for 7.5 million euros. The Scottish international will try to fill his void Scott McKennaa signing made official just eight days after the ball started rolling in Gran Canaria.
The absence, also in defense, of Sergi Cardona was replaced by Alex Muñoz. And the Catalan left back also does not want to renew, although he will continue to wear yellow, but at Villarreal.
As it did with Álex Muñoz, a former Tenerife player who arrived from Levante, the Gran Canaria team caught up with LaLiga Hypermotion (Second Division) players like right back Viti Rozada (key piece for Carrión in Oviedo)midfielder Iván Gil (Andorra) or winger Manu Fuster (Albacete).
And to try to solve his lack of purpose, Las Palmas trusts in the seniority of Jaime Mata (Getafe)with the youth of Iván Cédric (Valladolid), with the strength of another Scottish international, Oliver McBurnie (Sheffield United), and with the speed and skill of Adnan Januzaj (Sevilla), even though the Belgian suffered a muscle injury in the penultimate friendly of the summer, a week before the league’s premiere.
The club is also considered high Marvin Parksigned as an asset after playing on loan from Real Madrid for the last two seasons. Among those ten casualties, two were significant, Eric Curbelo and Cristian Herrerabecause they reduced, with Coco, the quota of islanders in the squad, of which only half a dozen remained, between Gran Canaria and Tenerife.
Other players who left were goalkeeper Aarón Escandell, defender Álvaro Lemos, midfielders Mfulu and Perrone, and attacker Munir El-Haddadi, while Sory Kaba was also shown the exit door of the club, as well as center Enrique Clemente.
Through this roulette of ups and downs, the goal of the yellow team is to become permanent againafter the previous campaign in which he surprised in the first round, but struggled in the second, without a single victory since the beginning of February.
Gathering all these new pieces is the work you need to do Luis Carrión, who came with the intention of maintaining the styletook the initiative of the game, but changed Pimienta’s 4-3-3 for a 4-2-3-1 where won’t take too many risks defensively. In addition, they will try to remedy the invalidated attack that calls into question their mathematical survival until the last day of the previous year.
Source: La Verdad
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