Enrique Clemente He returns to UD Las Palmas after playing a year on loan at Racing de Ferrol, however, the intention of the yellow club is to loan him out again, although the Zaragoza native will begin preseason next Monday with the rest of his teammates. In the same way, the central defender will see his contract extended again, as happened last summer, when he signed a new contract until 2026. In some way, the sporting management does not want to let him go despite the fact that at 25 years old he has not yet convinced and does not convince the first team in the top flight.
It should be remembered that Clemente He arrived free from Real Zaragoza –he had just played on loan at Real Sociedad B, where he barely played a role under Xabi Alonso– in 2022 and signed for two seasons, but he never enjoyed Xavi García Pimienta’s trust in the promotion season. Considered the fourth centre-back, he didn’t make his debut until the first midweek match, in Lugo, and throughout the campaign he only accumulated 16 appearances, some as a left-back.
To everyone’s surprise, the sporting management, who had been clear that they would loan the player out because they considered that he was not yet at the level to play in the First Division, extended the player’s contract for two seasons before loaning him to the Galician club. A year later, in more or less the same circumstances, the plan is the same.
Enrique Clemente, in a match with Racing de Ferrol last season. / LaLiga
Because the footballer’s time in Ferrol was not as fruitful as expected on the Island. The numbers speak for themselves: Enrique only played in 20 matches and he spent long periods on the bench, such as between the end of September and the end of October, and between the beginning of March and the beginning of May. Thus, he did not count for much in a team that had just been promoted and that, unlike UD the previous year, had as its objective to maintain its category, as it did, and not to win promotion.
Stagnant
Despite everything, the defender will begin pre-season and as the weeks go by his future will become clearer. The forecast, as last summer, is that several second division teams will knock on his door to take the player on loan, who was an under-21 international for Spain but whose career has stagnated in recent years.
It should be remembered that the UD Las Palmas will start on Monday with four central defenders in the squad: Saul Coco y Mika Marblethe most headliners last year; Alex Suarezwho acted more as a right back and is also expected to feature in that position alongside Viti Rozada; and Juanma Herzoga youth-team player who made his debut last season with four games and two headed goals from corners – against Villarreal, at home, and Celta, away – and who will be the substitute for Eric Curbelo, who finished his contract and did not renew because the offer they made him came at a bad personal time and was very low – yesterday, the Santa Brígida player, in a farewell letter, said: “I’m leaving without wanting to leave” –.
The signing depends on Coco
In addition, there is a possibility that Coco The club has not received a firm offer for the centre-back – last summer they rejected an 8 million euro offer from Rennes in France. Since Miguel Ángel Ramírez revealed in his press conference at the end of the league that the Lanzarote native did not want to renew, he would have two options, also announced by the president: to be sold for an amount that satisfies UD Las Palmas or to be on the bench, or in the stands.
In the event that he finally leaves, the island club would sign a centre-back. In that sense, the Turks Eray Comert y Emirhan Topcuthe main target, are the favourites. In any case, and with nine signings closed, the market will determine the next operations. One of them will be the loan of Clemente.
2024-07-03 19:52:43
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