Real Club Deportivo Mendes, a Portuguese house in Riazor

Gone are the times that even the humblest million was spent each summer its good. The economic bubble of Spanish football has come to swell as if here, the Government, CSD and LFP were as strict as in other countries, we are left without the most Premier League teams. In Scotland have imposed administrative fell to one of the two large, Glasgow Rangers, who has been forced to close down and re-founded at another club and jump-start over from the 3rd division. That this is unthinkable, especially if they were, as in Scotland, one of the two most successful clubs.

The bubble affects everyone. A small teams of all, as is customary in recent times, but you have to see how little we have moved so far the two giants, Madrid and Barcelona: the Catalans have only invested 14 million in Jordi Alba, while whites have not yet spent a single euro. Of course presumably more ficharán before the market closes, but if we look back no doubt that this year, are much more careful than before.

The assignment, as an alternative to the main bet

Computers that do not have money to spend (but the opposite: they are obliged to reduce their debts), they move between two alternatives: sign free agents, that is, players who complete the contract and, therefore, do not pay transfer for them, and make assignments. The problem with the signings of free players is that, taking advantage of the club who want to not have to pay the transaction, usually get on the vine in their financial claims, which causes not many teams that ultimately aspire actually buy them.

So many are left to search assignments. And here goes the Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña, the greatest exponent of this summer holiday football strategy. To this day six are the new faces of the team led by José Luis Oltra, all without exception, on loan, which must be added to Salomão, which was second last season and has renewed its assignment another year.

Except for Abel Aguilar (Colombia) and Evaldo Fabiano (Brazilian) the rest are all Portuguese: Andre Santos, Pizzi, and Roderick Nelson Oliveira. Counting those already on your computer, Salomão, Zé Castro and Bruno Gama, are seven lusos this year Bluegill defend the jersey. So many assignments arrivals from Portugal have their rationale: the friendship between Caesar Augustus and the well-known Lendoiro and billionaire representative Jorge Mendes.

Lendoiro and Mendes

It all started fifteen years ago, when a very young Jorge Mendes place you got your first transfer to Lendoiro as a representative of players: a goalkeeper of the most mediocre called Nuno Espirito Santo. Since then and for what they say, both have cultivated a great friendship now Lendoiro is the same as always but Mendes is the most important intermediary in the world of football. So Depor president has pulled the friendship for what it, I'm not sure why it has taken to calling Operation Banana.

This template Depor has up to six players represented by Gestifute, the company created by Mendes, all but one Portuguese: Zé Castro. These circumstances leads us to ask several questions to try to answer without Manichaeism:

Is it good to have so many players from one country?

Years ago I lived in A Coruña is similar to what we will have this season: a large number of players from the same country, in this case Brazil (came to agree Riazor Donato, Mauro Silva, Djalminha, Conceição, Luizão and Renaldo). A similar lived Barca Van Gaal, full of Dutch, or in recent times times the Madrid (four players plus lusos the technical staff). In these circumstances there are always the same questions: is it good to have so many players from the same country? Template can be changed by the presence of a foreign clan so large?

In regard to Deportivo must assess a peculiarity: the Galicians do not feel so foreign to the Portuguese as they would with any other country because they are still a sister with whom we share a language of origin and a common culture, especially with the Lusitanian living between the river Douro (Douro) and the Minho. Not the same a Portuguese, with which we can communicate perfectly Galician, a Norwegian, a Czech or a Cameroonian.

Now, this is valid in terms of social impact: no doubt they will be welcomed by the fans. Another issue is the level of clothing, where only four Galician, two fixed: Bergantiños and Dominguez, and two young people who they are looking transfer: Juan Carlos and Seoane (but may also raise the first team Insua, with the U19 European Champion), other (removing the Brazilian Fabiano) will not understand much Portuguese, so it could form a language barrier . That's where Oltra must take care of customs and work in a collective conviviality. Valencia coach has already come out against the bickering to clarify that in a locker room under his command no clans or nationalities that are worth. Time will tell.

Is it good to have so many players in the same agent?

This is hard to decide, because the truth when we know little, very little, the microcosm that are presidents, representatives and brokers. However, with the little we have to evaluate what happens in the offices, I personally do not like that a representative has many players stuck on my computer. I think, to benefit someone, always benefit him more than the club. Lendoiro boasts of his close friendship with the Almighty Mendes but I wonder: where has this friendship in recent years? Depor Mendes does not need more than previous season so why not exploit that relationship Lendoiro to recover Caparros assembled the disaster or to prevent Lotina we become another notch on his shovel digger? This renewed friendship, so little cultivated in previous years, if I wake up something is distrust.

Is it good to have so many players transferred?

Before answering that question must be another question: can the Depor else other than getting players assigned? Hard. Any type of transfer is often too expensive and the only alternative to the transfer is the signing of free agents (now negotiating with Depor Carlos Marchena, just terminate his contract with Villarreal). Another feature to consider is that of all temporary workers, only one, André Santos, comes with an option to buy (and as if he had, as this would amount to 8 million, a figure unattainable for current Depor).

So Depor will play his first stay in a good percentage of their regular equipment consists of players transferred. If you perform poorly, for nothing, they can send to the house and do not have to eat as if you had purchased. But if you perform well, return to their home club or be transferred to another computer without you to see a single cent for it. Economic risk is minimal, but as sports plan has not traveled in the medium / long term.

How will respond transferred in the final stretch of the season?

How will respond in a hypothetical transferred league final stretch to stay in game? I have my serious doubts. Will you continue putting your foot just as strong or begin to think more in future than in the present? What if your home club has already announced that he will next season or you intend to pass it on to a better team? Take a hypothetical case: imagine that Nelson Oliveira comes to day 32 with more than fifteen goals. There remain six games but he has already made his campaign on the individual level. Benfica, happy with his performance because it has been reported to him for the next year or that you plan to sell it to a powerful club? At a time of risk, what will Oliveira? ¿Will insert foot? Do you play your physique by a computer that you have six weeks and not return?

A house Riazor Portuguese

Anyway, whether you like about the sportsmanship (some are already complaining that now we can not call (pejoratively) to Celta Portuguese), the fact is that next year we will have a Portuguese house in Riazor. And it is Uma Portuguese house the name of one of the nicest Canções popular music has Lusa. With Reinaldo Ferreira lyrics and music by Artur Fonseca VM Sequeira and was popularized by the grand dame of fado, Amalia Rodrigues.

No bad thing that we did our sportsmanship one of the virtues of a Portuguese house:

A joy gives poverty
nesta is great substance
to give, and ficar contented.

That is: The joy of poverty is in this great give and be happy. So this season is about to begin in Riazor will have to be a gap between the Miudiño and live to sing na Coruña Uma Casa Portuguesa. We have to teach us who our veterans tuna: