An Athletic adrift: the delicate situation of Gaizka Garitano

• Athletic: Alavés turns on the alarms

Gaizka Garitano has been sending a series of messages for a few weeks that are teasing the entire club: some to the fans, others to the players, others more to their superiors.

To think that the team gave a "good image" in its initial defeat in Granada was hardly tolerable.

That after losing to Cádiz he said that the First Division "is not easy for Athletic", a phrase that he ended up denying two days later was directly unacceptable.

Nor has it liked in the offices that, after making an effort to please his desire to sign

, he publicly insisted that he is missing a center forward.

Because that, no one escapes, is implicitly claiming the controversial return of

, which has already been vetoed by the board of directors no less than two times in a year and a half.

All these demonstrations, of course, would remain mere anecdotes if Athletic had started the season well.

Or at least in an acceptable way.

But it turns out that no, that after four games against accessible rivals -Granada, Eibar, Cádiz and Alavés-, the rojiblanco team adds three points and is placed, with one game less due to the postponement of

, in positions descent.

And as bad as the results are the sensations of a flat, predictable team, without mordant or alternatives and that has lost the defensive reliability that it had clung to in recent times to survive.

Rodrigo Ely's goal that gave Alavés the first victory of the course yesterday simply confirms the sad reality in which Athletic is immersed.

Nothing that was not known after Thursday's duel in San Mamés, in which Cádiz, a recently promoted, went ahead with 10 players and preserved the victory playing 20 minutes with nine men.

The good final half hour of the rojiblancos in Ipurua a week ago is consolidated as an oasis in the middle of their football desert

Garitano, in short, is very questioned and it will be necessary to see if he sits on the bench against Levante in two weeks or the club takes advantage of the break to seek a revulsive that revitalizes a sports project with clear symptoms of exhaustion.

Now, the replacement of the coach would not be the panacea.

As noted as Garitano are several of the franchise players who are offering a very low level, such as captain

, the highest paid footballer in the club's history.

Because the newcomer Berenguer may end up being a good signing, but he is not a differential player.

Much or little, there is what there is.

The only very reasonable doubt is whether Garitano is still the most appropriate to optimize those resources.

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