La Liga News, Transfers, Match Reports & Updates – Football Espana
It would have been somewhat traumatic under any circumstances, if it wasn’t to your most bitter rivals. If your manager had not weeks earlier told the press that ‘I’m not saying I’d cut off one of my hands to guarantee it, but nearly’. Yet that’s exactly what happened – ‘There were no calls, no communication’ when Barcelona activated his €25m release clause said Espanyol Sporting Director Fran Garagarza – but after nine matchdays, it has barely been mentioned.
It is no exaggeration to say that Joan Garcia was the difference between survival in La Liga and what would have been a backbreaking relegation in financial terms, one with far more traumatic consequences than…
