The former LaLiga ambassador and former president of Deportivo Augusto César Lendoiro applauded this Thursday that the First Division is once again “open and even” like the one that the Coruña team conquered with him at the helm in the year 2000.
“The first days of LaLiga make us all excited dreaming that many fans are excited about the possibility of being champions, which leads us to look back to find similar situations,” he says in an article he sent to Efe.
“We must go back to 1999-2000 to find the only season, in at least the last 25 years, in which three clubs reached the last day with a chance of being champions. and the top six finishers were within a range of only five points. It will be very difficult to enjoy that equality again, “he adds.
Lendoiro specifies that in this period of time there have been “years of titles presided over by the scandalous 100 points of the steamrollers of Messi’s Barça or Cristiano’s Madrid, which managed to move away the third classified by 30 points.”
“Now, after the first eight days, it is possible that, if Sevilla beat Barça in their postponed match, there will be a tie at 17 points between Madrid, Atlético, Real and Sevilla,” he argues.
For the one who was president of Deportivo between 1988 and 2014, one of the reasons is “Madrid’s risky bet to invest in brilliant but very young players to achieve immediate success.”
“On the side of Barcelona, I would focus it on the person of (Josep Maria) Bartomeu, which is being charged with the debt of the lack of success and lack of some signings that have ruined Barça’s economy, but, at the same time, it is unfair to him by not scoring the many young people with a golden future What Ansu Fati, Pedri, Gavi, Araujo or Eric García“, he points out.
“Everything seems to indicate that this will be a League in which the champion will not add many points, a reason why, often, they have tried to subtract merits from the title won by Depor with ‘only 69 points’, when it is LaLiga 2000 may have been one of the most exciting in the modern history of Spanish football, “says Lendoiro.