Goalkeeper - 2
Nyland - Contract through 2026
Álvaro Fernández - Contract through 2025
Centerback - 5
Salas - Contract through 2026
Gudelj - Contract through 2026
Bade - Contract through 2027
Marcao - Contract through 2027
Nianzou - Contract through 2027
Fullbacks - 5
Navas - Contract through Dec 2024
Valentín Barco - Contract through June 2025
Carmona - Contract through 2025
Juanlu - Contract through 2026
Montiel - Contract through 2026
Pedrosa - Contract through 2028
Midfielders - 5
Sow - Contract through 2028
Albert Sambi Lokonga - Contract through 2025
Saúl Ñíguez - Contract through 2025 with option
Lucien Agoumé - Contract through 2028
Pedro Ortiz - Contract through 2025
Wingers - 3
Suso - Contract through 2025
Lukebakio - Contract through 2028
Chidera Ejuke - Contract through 2028
Center Forwards - 3
Isaac Romero - Contract through 2028
Peque Fernández - Contract through 2028
Kelechi Iheanacho - Contract through 2026
Arrivals
Peque Fernández (SS, CAM) from Racing Santandar - €4 Million
Chidera Ejuke (LW) from CSKA Moscow - Free
Albert Sambi Lokonga (CM) From Arsenal - Free
Saúl Ñíguez (CM) From Atletico Madrid - Free
Kelechi Iheanacho (CF) from Leicester - Free
Lucien Agoumé (MF) from Inter Milan - €4 Million
Valentín Barco (LB) from Brighton - One year loan, no option
Departures
Youssef En-Nesyri - To Fenerbahce - €19.5 Million
Lucas Ocampos - €7.25 Million
Marcos Acuña - €2.5 Million
Luismi Cruz - To CD Tenerife - €300k
Thomas Delaney - FC Copenhagen - Free
Frederico Gattoni - River Plate - Free
Oliver Torres - Monterrey - Free
Erik Lamela - AEK Athens - Free
Rafa Mir - Valencia - Loan
Adnan Januzaj - Las Palmas - Loan
Jordan - Alaves - Loan
Augustinsson - Anderlecht - Free (Bonuses possible)
Marko Dmitrovic - Leganes - Free
Oscar Rodriguez - Leganes - Free
Sergio Ramos - ? - Free
Mariano Diaz - ? - Free
Maybe I’m a bit pessimistic but this scares the poop out of me. There’s been a colossal dereliction of duty by the directors. The Sevilla Atlético lads are not receiving big salaries so they’re not the problem. The problem is that Sevilla still have Janujaz, Augustinsson, Delaney and Oscar and have renewed Jordan and Rafa Mir when they weren’t doing much for the club.
There needs to be a massive turnover but there’s no room to manoeuvre when you’ve got players who are content to just not play rather than move on.
I don’t see Oliver on the list,but he’s gone today.
Sevilla’s first signing on the year is Chidera Ejuke, a Nigerian right-footed winger who plays mostly on the left side. @Edinho finally has his left winger. He’s 5-9 1/2 (176cm) and 159lb (72kg).
He’s coming from the Belgian league where he featured at Antwerp scoring 4 goals with 4 assists in 2,025 minutes in 33 matches across all competitions. Ejuke played with Lukebakio at Hertha BSC in the 2022-2023 season registering 3 assists in 938 minutes over 21 matches.
At 26, Ejuke is coming in as a free agent and should provide depth at a position that struggles with dribbling into the box and progressing passing. Ejuke excels at beating defenders one-v-one at 4.08/90minutes (60 successful attempts) at a clip of 55.0% and is in the 99percental in this stat among his peers. Lucas Ocampos led Sevilla with 64 successful take-ons, but with only a 40.8% success rate.
Ejuke is also in the 90th percentile with progressive carries (94th), passes attempted (93), and progressive passes (91). His 73 progressive carries would rank second in Sevilla only behind Ocampos’ 130. Ejuke doesn’t take many shots and tracking back may be his biggest weakness.
Anyway, there is no indication of his salary, but it appears to be a low-risk buy for a position that hasn’t been fulfilled since Quincy Promise.
He did well in Holland to get the big transfer to Russias CSKA Moscow. Looks to be part of the skillset of what we need, hint of Villarreal’s Chukwueze I’m smelling here. But I’m not against that, doesn’t look to be an assist focussed guy tho. That is still very much needed, a player who sets up team mates consistently for succes. Lukebakio and Ejuke together does not really add to that. But Isaac is exactly someone who doesn’t need it either.
Updated with the latest news of Augustinsson leaving for Anderlecht officially. He’s leaving for free; however, Sevilla could end up getting some money due to bonuses included in the transfer. Most of the player’s salary has been waived as well.
Some more official news now shaping out the roster. Dimitrivoc and Óscar Rodríguez move to Leganés on a free transfer and goalkeeper, Álvaro Fernández arrives on a one-year deal to fill in the backup spot.
Fernández played for Huesca last season featuring in 42 games where he had 20 clean sheets and gave up 33 goals in 3,692 minutes. He came up in the Osasuna youth system featuring in one game with the senior team in the 16/17 season. After he moved to AS Monaco B playing in 11 matches. He was then loaned to Extremadura before transferring to Huesca. Brentford (12 matches giving up 2 goals per match in 1,080 minutes of action) of the Premiere League loaned him for a season as did Espanyol (11 matches, 18 goals conceded) before returning with Huesca for the 23/24 season.
If you haven’t seen the Kinky Flores comments on Acuña, here’s what I read (EstadoDeportivo). It seems that his transfer to Aston Villa last season was frustrated by outstanding legal issues between Del Nido Carrasco and Monchi. Acuña’s resentment caused his 2023-24 lack of form because his head and heart were not committed. Apart from that, Acuña was the best lateral player that Flores has ever worked with.
Just a few more days left in the transfer window. The club would still like to move out World Cup winner Montiel and Europa League winner and best midfielder of all time, Jordan before the window. The question is, can they do that and bring in someone else?
