Arsenal to check up on Salamanca

 

Richard Law is set to visit UD Salamanca, the Spanish club that we use to loan out players who do not have an EU passport, this week in an effort to discover how much trouble Salamanca are in currently.

Richard Law, the Arsenal representative, has been very involved in the creation of the partnership between Salamanca and Arsenal, and the Gunners have sent him to find out how the current financial situation at the Spanish club lies. They hope to know first hand what the decision of Juan José Pascual will be regarding a possible sale of the club. Meanwhile, they will also check on Pedro Botelho’s progress, a subject that they are not worried about given the amount of first team opportunities that he is getting at the club. According to the article at www.nortecastilla.es, the intention of Arsenal is to loan out Pedro for another year next season until he recieves his EU passport, rather than perhaps loan him out to a La Liga club instead next season as we did with Carlos Vela.

The article also tells us that Arsenal will have to give Salamanca the loan of another player next season regardless of whether Pedro remains with the club, and if Arsenal fail to loan out a player to them, a part of the agreement that Salamanca have with Arsenal is that the Spanish club will get a fee of 150,000 Euros in compensation, something that the struggling club may indeed prefer given their financial difficulties.