Sevillismo is swallowed up by the vaunted Seville between the wars, also cornily called the ‘regeneration process’. It is the label that a prominent leadership clings to, pressured by the largest shareholder, who is also unconvincing. “There is no one who can stand this,” the average fan in Nervión blurts out desolately. And many Sevillistas already know perfectly well what it is to suffer boredom, cross deserts with infamous squads and complete days doomed to the final disaster of relegation. The current disturbing scenario seems to maintain a small safety cushion over those disastrous projects of the late nineties, although everyone has the feeling that if the house moves a little more than it is swaying… it will collapse. Nobody knows for sure how long the reconstruction of Sevilla FC will last. It is evident that it is difficult, or downright impossible, to get used to it. There have been many years of wine and roses, and it takes a world to assimilate the present without luster, far from the spotlight of the winners… without money entering the drawer or the display cases. In the middle of November, once again, Sevilla walks timidly, heads down, goes into the break giving a very bad image, poor as hell, in its last two games against Real Sociedad and Leganés. I would say that the fan is resigned, but seeing the number of Sevillistas who went to Butarque to suffer the umpteenth blow of ‘regeneration’ there is still hope in the people, the only irreducible heritage of the club. The Sevillista, bored, enraged, coexists with his team in a spiral of vulgarity from which he senses with dread that it will take sweat and tears to escape. The team is little more alive than two years ago with Lopetegui and Sampaoli at this point, and practically the same (badly) as last year in the disastrous transition between Mendilibar and Diego Alonso. It is true that García Pimienta was able to give some impetus to the project, squeezing out a breath of hope where there was none. But the weight of logic, and the injuries (which all remain), have taken away that light and have lowered Sevilla to the infertile ground. The spiral of ‘regeneration’ is going to be long. And no one guesses his exit. Now everyone is looking to a January market where the team obviously needs to strengthen. And there arises in the middle of the loop of problems of this Seville the famous law of the Caparrós blanket: if I pull from one place, I discover myself from another. The club’s coffers are tight and the salary limit exceeded by many millions. The economic outlook is not there for too many signings, which is a tremendous paradox for a club that fights and does the math to smooth out its journey through the desert as much as possible.
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