Elche returns next season to First Divisioncategory of which two courses
In the disaster that was consumed in 2023, but that was set in large part during the second half of the year 2022, Elche ended up ultimatelyadding only 25 points, 12 away from Espanyol, which was penultimate already 16 of the permanence. An consummated descent many weeks in advance in a mathematical way and that in sensations was practically sealed during the break that was at the end of 2022 by the World Cup that was played in Qatar.
That Elche only got five victories throughout the championship, the first one on day 20, a surprising 3-1 to Villarreal on February 4. At that time, the Franjiverde score was a Pyrrician 6. In 2022-2023, with six coaches, counting the two interim, the Ilicitano team used 32 players. Of all of them, at the moment, five continue with a contract or have visions to return to the elite.
They are the survivors left of that 2023 disaster: Josan Ferrández, Pedro rice, Nico Fernández Mercau, John Chetauya y Axel Werner. The first two must still officially confirm their continuity; Argentines, for various reasons, are difficult to continue.
Josan ferrández y pedro bigas
Josan, con 258 official matches Disputed with the Green Strip, an entity of which it was youthful and the one that returned in January 2018 in Second B, its renewal is on track. Both parties are willing to continue, at least one more season. The performance of the Crevillentino, despite the handicap that may be his age, has been very high in 2024-2025, so an abrupt exit would have been incongruous.
Josan and Fernández Mercau collide their hands after scoring a goal. / Áxel Álvarez
The one who has already announced his renewal, so far unilaterally, is Pedro Bigas, with a clause to continue by matches played, fulfilled slack in the course of the ascent, in which the Balearic has been a defensive bulwark, forming a large couple of plants next to Monkey and clearly leaving more with the future of the tournament.
As with Josan, the figure of his age is the only thing that generates doubts in Elche, since he has physically seen very good tone with the course of the months, despite being one of those players with a tendency to accumulate blows throughout the matches. Bigas has a poster, especially in the Second Division, so in case of not continuing to defend the green strip they will not miss offers. In his case he has reached the centenary category (122 official matches) and if Christian Bragarnik Give the OK will continue until June 2026.
Fernández Mercau
Three matches of those historical hundred is Fernández Mercau, who lived that traumatic 2022-2023 as a newcomer, signed from Argentina and without finding his hole in the main rotations of the different coaches. A very different number from 2025, both in position (now occupies a much more advanced area, with total freedom of movements) and in performance (it has been fixed, except during its two -month injury, in the last two campaigns with Eder Sarabia y Sebastián Beccacece).
The problem for the continuity of the “10” Franjiverde is the offers you will receive to, theoretically, improve in the economic and sports. Anywhere else will he feel as dear as in the city of Las Palmeras, which has left his voice during the last months of the season singing the «Nico, stay», Both in the games played at the Martínez Valero stadium and at home and in the celebrations of June 2.
River Plate and Seville are on the prowl of the Argentine, whose departure was applauded between Bragarnik and Nico himself after the last winter market and that now he could only stop the footballer's ambition to exercise as a franchise man in Elche and a gesture from the offices to improve the current economic conditions.
John Chetauya, during the match against Almería / LOF
John y Werner
The fourth survivor of the disaster two years ago is the one that apparently more options has to follow, at least today: John Chetauya. The canterano has exceeded the injuries that have been ballasting in different seasons and has ended up being an important man for his versatility. He has 68 official matches in the first team, exceeding twenty in the last two seasons.
The last member of this group has barely defended the Elche goal five times. And he has accumulated assignments in the last campaigns, in which he has stayed in his country of origin. A Werner who arrived as a bet of Bragarnik under sticks, but to which the passage of time has only served to receive the good news of the current season from the distance, with few options to return now.
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