The Rabona Chronicles #9: Preparing the big leap

Another season of transition at Real Valladolid. We remain comfortably installed in the middle of our group in Division 2 and making the club's balance sheet grow. A balance that has grown exponentially thanks to the airdrop that Rabona has given us this past week. Let's go with the review of what has been this season with the ninth chapter of our series The Rabona Chronicles.

This season we have not touched the stadium but we have touched the facilities. It has been a season in which we have focused on laying the foundations for the great leap forward that we are going to make in the near future. We are going to improve the stadium one more level and we have already prepared the rest of the facilities for this. These have been the works undertaken this season in the Real Valladolid's offices

1.- Parking and Hotel seven days away from completing its upgrade to level 8..
2.- The Office Building upgraded another three levels to 6.
3.- Building Yard upgraded to level 5. We are looking to slightly reduce construction times.

As soon as the construction of the Building Yard is completed, we will undertake to upgrade the stadium one level further. We will expand it to level 9 to have a capacity of 6000 seats and considerably increase the club's income in order to lay the foundations for the project of promotion to DIvision 1 with guarantees.

This season there have only been two players who are out of contract so we have decided to save money and not invest in looking for youth players. So, after the arrival of Pokorny and Kraan last season, this time we will not promote anyone from the club's youth academy.

In terms of renewals, these were the players who finish their contracts and the decisions taken on them:

1.- Vito Gatti - Defender - 10763 RBN - Not Renewed
2.- Tony Tian - Midfielder - 13152 RBN - Renewed

This leaves a squad of one goalkeeper, four defenders, five midfielders and four strikers with a salary of around RBN 1.9 million. An amount that is close to the limit available according to the total income the club will have next season. We will keep an eye on the free agent market to prepare for next season as 3 more players will finish their contracts and it will be difficult for us to take on their salary increases.

We were coming off a season in which we finished seventh with 49 points. Well, with few changes in the squad and giving minutes to the youngsters, the result has been slightly lower in terms of points. Finally we finished this season in 10º position with 42 points, 49 goals scored and 51 goals conceded. We conceded so many goals and that's was our main handicap this season.

Last season's renewals have considerably increased the amount of players' salaries, although we must recognise that this increase was planned and calculated. So the balance has again been positive and we continue to ensure the economic growth of the team. Slight profits again this season, with these figures in terms of income and expenses.

It can be said that it has been a good season at Real Valladolid. Without high aspirations in sporting terms, the team has performed acceptably and in terms of infrastructure and economy we have laid the foundations to make a leap forward that should ensure our growth and the possibility of being promoted to the next category in the medium term. For the moment we continue with our policy of improving a little more each season, step by step.

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