Espanyol in transition
By: Armando | November 24th, 2008If it seems that life at the Montjuic is about to get more interesting, then it isn’t just appearances. It is about to get very interesting at the Montjuic and it isn’t just about the latest announcement that club president Dani Sanchez-LLibre revealed that the club would be moving to the new stadium in March of next year. No, last week signaled a seismic shift at the club with the appointment of Joan Collet as Vice-President in charge of expansion and marketing under Sanchez-Llibre and the return of former club official Germán De la Cruz who, after 4 years away from club, has taken over all sporting side operations. What does this mean for the club?
Clearly, Collet who has long been rumored as the successor for Club President, will have a say as to the future economic direction of the club and may yet take over for Sanchez-Llibre, who has said in the past that he may not finish his 5 year term in 2011. De la Cruz’s direction is even more interesting. He is returning to the club after being forced out during the last elections in 2006 and will help Sanchez-Llibre with the day to day running of the club in La Liga. His first action in charge was to have a meal with close friend Tintin Marquez at a local restaurant and not to meet with sporting director Paco Herrera who would join the club oddly at Racing Santander whereas he is usually scouting other matches away from the club. While the newspapers are already mounting Tintin’s head on a virtual pike, I would say that Paco has more to lose with the club changing it’s leadership.
Rightly or wrongly, the club are in for a very interesting winter break.
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Well, this Wednesday it will get a lot more interesting if we don’t get through the next round. I am still hopeful of progressing through, maybe we’ll give the fans another convincing display like the 3-0 endorsement to Celta (was that our last win??!!).
At least there’s the comfort of not having to “remontar” a 5-0 defecit like the one Villareal had to in the previous round.
Keep the faith, sometimes that’s all we have as Perico supporters!!!!
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