Without a euro in their coffers, the president in jail and the ex-rojiblanco as one of his captains: “We can’t take it anymore,” he says.
“We are pulling as we can …”, launches Gorka Santamaría, former Athletic striker integrated in a Badajoz CD that is sinking, that they owe them almost three months of payroll, although they received a small amount so that they could not leave and dismantle the template in this January market. “Some who cannot pay the rent for this month, other colleagues who gather in flats because they no longer have an economic mattress. The squad have committed to everything, but we can’t do it anymore. We are fed up with excuses and deceptions, “launches the San Adrián striker, with the president, Joaquín Parra, in jail for six months, and Extremadura football also bleeding with its neighbors CD Extremadura and Mérida in serious financial trouble. “The club, every day that passes, loses more value, is about to die,” laments the battering ram for EL CORREO. If they wanted our good, they would sell. The only solution is for the Parra family to step aside and come someone who injects capital and enthusiasm “, slides the expunta from Cádiz, Recreativo and Sporting B, who lives the most elusive face of bronze football.
«I want to stay, but if we are going to stay without payment …, some of us are allowed to leave. Sportingly, you cannot give up, “says Santamaría, who insists, as one of the capitals of the squad, that the footballers of the Badajoz club want to give social repercussion to this chaotic situation after months of silence so as not to further cloud the situation of a team which is tenth in the table of the First RFEF, with 25 points. A CD Badajoz that has already passed through Lezama to take on Bilbao Athletic and that will have to travel to Majadahonda, on the day, because they can’t wait any longer. They do not know if they will have a bus for the next trip to Calahorra, with a ten-hour journey in which they have even slipped their private cars.
If CD Badajoz does not appear in two official matches, it disappears, but Santamaría clarifies that “we need a solution.” The drama of the Badajoz club is huge, with evictions, medical neglect (without analytics lately) and even food. “There is not one more euro in the club’s coffers, it already comes from before the Amorebieta match in the summer, which owed us four payrolls,” he confesses of that frustrated promotion to the SmartBank League, and draws the weakness of its structure: ” There is neither to wash clothes, nor massage cream, nor for bandages, nor for sandwiches after trips, “says the forward of San Adrián, who has the support and advice of the AFE.
Joaquín Parra’s family owns gas stations, furniture and vegetable companies, with the president’s son in charge: “We are tired, the staff only wants to carry out their work with enough tools, with a few minimums,” he insite. Santamaría slides that the only solution is to sell the club to cement a new project: “The president has not sold the club and has not made any commitments to the workers,” he says. The general director was going to meet with Parra in the Alhaurín de la Torre prison this Wednesday, but he has not obtained authorization, so they will have to speak by phone. Apparently, there is a private purchase and sale contract between a businessman interested in the acquisition of CD Badajoz: «The club is dying and we are only asking for a solution. The only one goes through the sale and we are waiting for him to sign that contract, ”emphasizes the striker. CD Badajoz’s debt oscillates over a million, with construction companies, gardening companies and suppliers waiting their turn.
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