The agony of Extremadura: "It is not a matter of grief, it is that we cannot take any more"

"It is not a matter of giving pity, it is that we really cannot take it anymore", confesses

, Extremadura right back, on strike with his teammates since last Friday due to the non-payment of several payrolls, both to the staff and to the coaching staff and club employees. The players decided not to appear last Sunday in Riazor to play the match of the twelfth day of the First RFEF against Deportivo as an extreme measure of protest against the "continuous breaches" by the president,

. If they do not play against Calahorra next Saturday, when another strike is scheduled, they will lose the category in the middle of the season and disappearance would be close.

Married - "my wife does not work" - and with two children, Saúl González, a 30-year-old defender, had signed last season for the Almendralejo team, from Marbella. In the final stretch of his sporting career, he assures EL MUNDO that he "had no luck." Debts not only accumulate from this campaign (almost four monthly payments), but also from the previous one (three others).

. The snowball continues, because the club has also been in bankruptcy (voluntary) since last February 5. "I have lost more than I have gained since I have been here, the situation is unsustainable," confesses the Madrilenian.

Last Friday was the first day of the three consecutive strike and therefore included the game. The club was sanctioned with the loss of three points (3-0 was the official result) and accumulated a federative sanction of another three points in the standings, to add to its already delicate situation in the table. Monday and Tuesday the players returned to training under the command of their coach,

. The next break is scheduled to take place from Friday and would coincide with the match against Calahorra. If nothing changes, the automatic descent would occur.

The AFE has confirmed that the Extremaduran squad "remains open, as it has done from the beginning, to negotiate and seek solutions that allow putting an end to the extreme problems they are suffering, reiterating their commitment to the future viability of the club."

However, there is little hope among the players that Franganillo - one of the club's founders and who has starred in several controversial episodes since he became president in 2014 - will fix the situation.

There are already those with problems of non-payment of rents and the staff calls the situation "unsustainable."

A player has lost up to eight kilos in weight and suffers from anxiety problems.

He has not played a single minute since his depression symptoms began, although he has been summoned so far.

Khalifa Capital

Franganillo conditions the arrival of investments to his continuity at the head of the entity. This was the case of the Khalifa Capital group, which committed in writing on June 30 to make an investment of 3.5 million euros in exchange for becoming a shareholder of the entity, but in the end withdrew. The bankruptcy administrator,

, does not rule out going to court against this Russian capital fund for breach of contract.

Meanwhile, the Commercial Court of Badajoz will decide whether to validate the payment schedule of the creditors' agreement approved at the meeting held at the end of October, where - with 68% of the votes of the 340 creditors - the payment of the full debt (4,200,000 euros) in a period of 10 years but with a grace period of one year. The liquidation of the club was avoided at that moment. Much of the debt is owed to Social Security and the Treasury.

The rest comes from contracts above the market standards made with numerous footballers when the team played for two consecutive seasons in the Second Division (20018/19 and 20019/20).

Then, the economic management included the businessman

, who had half of the shares of the club.

The Federation of Peñas has called for next Saturday, match day, a demonstration to protest the situation of a club that is dying.

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