CD Leganés

Charlotte FC, but didn't want to start his career in MLS.

Uh, eventually, uh, Laganes or Laganes, uh, who tempted him to sign with La Liga and signing with them in late 2024.

So think about who was our coach and team in 2020, in late 2024, when he was probably training with us.

Um, interesting.

or receive and wait and watch people move and then drop it off.

And so for me, the thing that was striking about him, and bear in mind that I've sat at the touchline watching him play for Leganes, so that kind of athleticism was already there.

So maybe what struck me is the stuff that I hadn't seen before.

And I think it was possibly the patience, actually, that I was really struck by.

However, what I would say is one of the other comments that has been made in relation to managerial appointments of late has been the same old faces.

And this is more in relation to Borja Jimenez, who has picked up the job at Cadiz and Luis Carrion, who's picked up the job at Leganés.

The same old faces on that managerial merry-go-round.

And we talked about it on the show before.

Hace dos años, los tres equipos que descendieron de la liga-- que ascendieron de la liga premier de, de Inglaterra, fueron los mismos que al año siguiente descendieron.

¿Sí? El Leganés en España hace dos años ascendió y al año siguiente descendió.

¿Cuál es el problema, sí? O sea, pero hay mecanismos de parachutes financieros para que puedan cubrir sus compromisos que tenían en primera, ¿sí? Este, y que puedan tener las condiciones para regresar inmediatamente, ¿no? O sea, eso es lo que sucede en todas las ligas.

El tema es que acá se, se sataniza.

But yeah, I think we do have to bear in mind that that was certainly, you know, a less than full-strength Eibar side that they dispatched.

So let's move on to Butarque and it was of course Luis Carrion's first game in charge of Leganes and he rung the changes.

He changed and moved away from the 3-4-2-1 formation that Ruben Alves had been playing.

Changed it radically both in terms of shape to a 4-2-3-1 and also defensively.

I can say we're probably a little bit unlucky there.

Leganes and Mallorca ended 1-1.

Mallorca managed 0.28xg from open play and six shots in the box.

Again, on another day, BTDS no banks there.

Slow start, but to be expected because he was only 19 years old when he signed.

He only had really one full season in one of the big five leagues in Leipzig, coming from Leganes, where he was in Spain before.

But he was an up-and-coming player at the time.

But the way that I think he was patient, that Jose was patient and worked with him to get him to this stage now where he can start on the left-hand side, score like a banger against Leipzig, for example, coming off the bench.

You've got your front four sorted.

So, the astonishing story, Diomande, as well.

I mean, Jules mentioned about Leganese.

He came halfway through the season.

A psychologist, a psychoanalyst of a very high caliber because there's no rational to his thinking.

Anyway, the long and short of it was the first three games of the season were played in Leganes.

How far away is that? Leganes from Vallecas is probably half an hour.

Drive is probably 20 kilometers.

It's not the two hours, 200 kilometers that Burgos is.