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Abelardo

had said

after losing this Sunday against Celta that he had a pending conversation with his sports director,

Sergio Fernández

.

And that he wanted to be honest with Alavés, dropping his resignation now, instead of holding on in office until the club decided to prepare his settlement.

Well, the pending conversation came this Monday and it confirmed what was already sensed, that Abelardo immediately ceases to be the coach of the Vitoria team.

As this newspaper has learned, his replacement will be, in the absence of the signature and subsequent official confirmation,

Javi Calleja

, unemployed since Villarreal decided in the summer to bet on

Unai Emery

, despite having qualified for the Europa League.

It will be the Madrilenian who has the responsibility of removing Alavés from the last place in the classification and achieving permanence (which he now has three points behind) in the year in which the babazorra entity turns 100.

Javi Calleja, in his time at Villarreal BRAND

Calleja will be Alavés' third coach this season.

The season began with

Pablo Machín

, dismissed after matchday 18, with the team one point above relegation.

The arrival of Abelardo did not give the team the boost it needed, which is why it closes its stage after 11 league games and one in the Cup, in which it has only added one victory against Valladolid and two draws against Getafe and Cádiz, all them in league.

In total, five points out of 33 possible.

In the last seven games, Alavés had only added one.

The controversy with Lucas Pérez

For the second consecutive season, Abelardo takes a team in the middle of the course and leaves it before the end.

It already happened last year with Espanyol and now he repeats with Alavés, in a second stage in Mendizorroza marked by both the poor results and the controversy that has surrounded

Lucas Pérez

, who now sees a possibility of turning his back on situation after being removed from the team.

"I do not consider myself very smart, but neither do I stupid. And if I make this decision with a player of his quality, it is very thoughtful," the Asturian coach had said this Sunday about the striker, perhaps the highest level footballer in the squad, from who said that he had "disrespected" both him and his companions.

His decision had the express endorsement of the board of directors, so it could be maintained.

A hot potato as soon as he landed for Calleja, in what will be his first experience outside of Villarreal, and which will debut on Saturday in San Mamés.

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