Operating on a shoe-string budget and entertaining their own fans and neutrals alike, there is something inherently underdog about the Basque minnows. Jota represents one of the many reasons why this Eibar side deserve the opportunity to test their fortunes against Spain’s giants, with anything but promotion sending out the wrong message to small clubs as to how to run their club best. The highest finish the club has enjoyed in its history was a fourth-place Segunda spot back in 2004-2005, meaning that not even the most optimistic of Eibar fans could have predicted what this season held in store.įittingly, the man to score the decisive 61st minute goal against Alaves was Jota Peleteiro, the midfielder who has helped to inspire his teammates to complete such a fantastic campaign.īlessed with confidence and technical ability in abundance, the same man netted versus promotion rivals Deportivo La Coruna on the previous matchday, though this time the ball flashed into the back of the net one minute later and wilder celebrations followed. There is undoubted charm to Eibar’s cause, as a former player in the form of 38-year-old Garitano has led them to unforeseen success. Should the Basque club fail to find the funds or investment required to satisfy the LFP’s rulebooks, their financial situation would see them demoted back to the third division, a literal case of one step forward and two back. Logically, if this stumbling block proved too high for Eibar to clamber over, they would merely be contained within Spain’s second tier for another season – but this wouldn’t be the case. After reaching Spain’s top flight for the first time, due to unprecedented back-to-back promotion success, Gaizka Garitano’s men could be sent back into the depths of the League from whence they came by a rule designed to protect them.īy attempting to run their club the right way, Eibar’s growth could be hamstrung by the LFP regulation which states that the Basque club require capital worth a quarter of the expenses of every club in the Division, bar the two richest and two poorest, in order to ratify their promotion.įor a team which takes in modest gate receipts, spends little-to-nothing on transfers and can only offer their players nominal wages, this represents a huge problem. SD Eibar, founded in 1940, have spent much of their operational years battling it out in the Segunda, but now stand on the edge of a lucrative and historic new era of their history.
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