Roque Mesa (Las Palmas, 1989) will become a new Sporting player in the next few hours. The Canarian midfielder and the club closed last night the last economic fringes of a contract that will join the rojiblanco club until the end of the season, with the option of one more campaign depending on objectives, as reported in its digital edition by LA NUEVA ESPAÑA . The possibility of incorporating Telde’s, free after finishing his contract with Valladolid, began to cook last Wednesday, two days before the market closed. A farsighted call from Miguel Angel Ramirez to inquire about his situation ended up leading to his imminent arrival in Gijón.
Sporting entered the scene when Roque Mesa saw his return to Unión Deportiva Las Palmas, the club where he was formed, frustrated. He was the player’s first choice. There was something more than the sporting challenge of enjoying the First Division again in the team that he discovered as a footballer. There was also a strong sentimental value in that return, that of making his father happy, in a delicate state of health. Seeing him at home was the best medicine. Miguel Ángel Ramírez, trained in the Sports Union as a coach, where he met Roque, kept himself informed. When the player saw, this very week, that there was definitely no place for him in the yellow locker room, he received a phone call from the Sporting coach.
Miguel Ángel Ramírez, who shares a good relationship with the footballer, then asked him if he was available to come to Gijón. After talking about the project, the role that he could occupy in the rojiblanco team, everything was subject to the fact that in the last days of the market the situation continued without incident on both sides. That is to say, that Sporting did not finally sign the center forward that they wanted, and that Roque continued without the option of returning to the Unión Deportiva. And so it happened.
On the last day of the market, with Sporting without the possibility of signing a new attacker, Ramírez’s conversation with Roque came into play again. The club was clear that, at this point, the priority was to hire a midfielder. He analyzed the options market in the hours before midnight on Friday. When he found out from Roque the willingness to sign for Sporting, all the alternatives went to the background, focusing on closing the deal. Yesterday, with a game in between, progress was made quickly. There were only fringes left for his officialdom.
Sporting sees in Roque Mesa the opportunity to add experience, leadership and a good footing to the midfield. At 34 years old, he has more than three hundred matches as a professional. In addition to Unión Deportiva Las Palmas and the last three years at Valladolid, he played for Sevilla and Leganés and played in the Premier League with Swansea.
2023-09-03 02:15:00
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