The tarantula is a museum piece. A Banksy with a gold frame. Zamora de Primera is on the agenda of Real Betis Balompié, the club where he trained before making the jump to the UD Las Palmas reserve team (2018). Álvaro Valles Rosa (La Rinconada, Seville, 26 years old) is the fashionable goalkeeper of LaLiga EA Sports collecting recitals. From Siete Palmas to Villarreal. Eight goals scored in nine games and a supernatural performance make him a coveted asset. And a good business.
The contract ends on June 30, 2024, although the yellow sports management, led by Luis Helguera, has an automatic extension option if it reaches 25 official matches – it already has nine and will reach renewal on February 25 against Osasuna in Seven Palms if he is not injured. The data is tremendous. With an 82% success rate in stops, he has accumulated 363 passes (198 short and 65 long). 31 interventions and 18 clearances to shine against Mallorca, Valencia, Real Sociedad, Girona, Seville and above all, Real Madrid. At the Santiago Bernabéu, he gave a lesson in power. A biblical giant with gloves. Beyond the old and well-known interest of Real Betis Balompié in repatriating Valles, from the upper echelons of UD, they are very calm. Coffee and cigar. Liquor and big data. There is a gentlemen’s agreement to achieve automatic renewal – which would tie the spider until 2026 and increase its termination clause.
“Once the transfer deadline has closed, we are already with the renewals,” Luis Helguera said just a few days ago on Radio Marca. And the fact is that, beyond the renewal of the 25 games, UD hopes to leave the Valles’ contractual extension is more than closed in the near future. It is an obligation. His performance has aroused the interest of the most powerful leagues on the Old Continent. Precisely in Seville, at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán and against the eternal rival, the Rinconada arachnid put on an exhibition.
At Betis, the situation in goal invites a renewal, as they have the 40-year-old Chilean Claudio Bravo, who has played the last LaLiga games, as well as one in UEFA. For his part, the Portuguese Rui Silva played in the first five league games and retired injured in Cornellà against Barça. In the second half, it was the turn of Fran Vieites (24 years old), who received three goals in the (5-0) final.
The Gran Canaria connection with Villamarín is known. The sports director of Real Betis is Ramón Planes, formerly of FC Barcelona, who played a key role in Pedri’s signing for the culé giant (2019). In addition, Alexis Trujillo is the Team Manager of the green and white team, which is directed by Manuel Pellegrini. Tino Luis Cabrera, who coached Las Palmas Atlético last season, is also part of the Betic organizational chart (he heads the Methodology Area).
Predictable ecosystem
From the noble zone of the UD, they assume that Valles has become one of the great sensations of the championship. «There is always interest in our players, it is not something new. “We are not going to waste a minute on this case.” Product of the Annex factory, like Pedri, which thanks to a blessed engineering operation, will leave just over 25 million in the box. Josep Martínez or Álex Domínguez have also generated benefits. Golden gloves, reflections with dividends. But the one from La Rinconada, beyond the pride of signing the season of his life, has no intention of leaving the Island.
The signing of Aaron
The yellow squad was reinforced with nine faces – to which we can add those already known as Sandro Ramírez or Marvin Park – to face this year in the top category with the challenge of sealing permanence. With a high amount of uncertainty, in another of the soap operas of the yellow summer, Aarón Escandell arrived from Cartagena. The Valencian goalkeeper started as a starter in the first instance since his arrival in Marbella in preseason but the earthquake of the spider Valles has been devastating. Crowned as Zamora.
Aarón Escandell is another guarantee. He has not yet made his debut in an official match and will have his opportunity in the Copa del Rey. The Gran Canaria entity had to pay a transfer (about 250,000 euros) to remain in ownership of the former Cartagena goalkeeper. But Valles, the hero of the promotion against Alavés, with his magical save against Villalibre, is touched by the gods. If Araujo was the canvas of the 2015 promotion, the Sevillian has gone down in history as the intellectual author of the last promotion. He is now on the radar of Betis and several European teams. But the UD accelerates to provide it.
2023-10-14 22:23:53
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