Real Betis press conferences training sessions transfers and rumors

Betis is one of the institutions with the most followers in Spanish football, with thousands of fans who want to know everything that happens at the club. For this reason, Goal gathers in this article all the news of the Pellegrini team: last minute live, press conferences, transfers and rumors.

Tuesday March 30
Tello consolidates its contract until 2022 by fulfilling a hidden clause
The extension for one more season was conditional on playing at least 20 official matches and he has already been in 25. The Catalan winger started the season strongly and scored four goals in the first eight days, but in the last four months he has only started one League game and another in the Cup and has not seen the door since the double on November 1 against Elche, Real Betis' next rival.

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In this way, Cristian Tello has seen his relationship with Real Betis consolidated for one more season, until June 2022, having already participated in 25 official matches in the current 2020/21 season and thus exceeding the minimum of 20 set in his contract, which was for four seasons, plus a fifth conditional. Tello arrived at Real Betis transferred by FC Barcelona in the summer of 2017, for four million euros, plus one in variables, with the Barça club reserving 50% of a future transfer, which could be at most 12 million euros, the amount set in its termination clause.

Tello has participated this season in 25 games, 21 in the League and 4 in the Cup, and started the season with strength, scoring four goals in the first eight days and enjoying the title in up to seven consecutive League games - for the first time in his career. -, although since the defeat against Eibar on November 30, he has barely enjoyed the title again. He played the last game of 2020 against Levante at the beginning - he was injured a few minutes before the start - and in the cupbearer clash against Real on January 26 and his twelve appearances since then have all been as a substitute, because in what that goes from 2021 has not yet made his start in LaLiga. His last goal was against Elche - he scored two - on November 1, since since then he has not seen a goal in the following 17 games that he has played -between the League and the Cup-,

Monday March 29
Betis looks at Luis Muñoz, from Málaga
Málaga has Luis Muñoz one of its great assets, being key in Pellicer's scheme to become the top scorer of his team. At the age of 24, the Malaga footballer already knows that clubs of a higher category such as Betis, Levante or Granada, have begun to ask about his situation. At least that is how 'Sports Stadium' revealed this Monday. Málaga want Muñoz, who signed a new contract last summer that ends in 2022, to remain at the club, but the call for First Division teams could be a small setback for the Malaguista team.

Sunday March 28
Fekir, in the sights of Arsenal
Arsenal are considering a summer move that would affect Betis. It is that the London team, if it fails to retain Martin Odegaard, would make an attempt for Nabil Fekir. The 27-year-old Frenchman has signed for the "Promoesport" representation agency, a company that has a significant presence in the Premier League. The Verdiblanco player came to LaLiga from Olympique Lyon in exchange for 20 million euros.

Saturday March 27
Pellegrini: "Hopefully we can qualify for Europe"
The Verdiblanco coach, Manuel Pellegrini, has analyzed for Radio ADN, originally from his country, his feelings regarding the objectives proposed since his arrival at the Verdiblanco team: "We have managed to come back in a very irregular season in its first stage. Since December, they arrived good results, but there is still the final stretch, the most important. Hopefully we can qualify for Europe next year. "

Pellegrini adds: "There is a chronological age, when one was born, and a biological age, as required. Hopefully I will end these three years with Betis and we will see in the future where I and Chilean football are. directing the national team, but of giving so many years of experience in international football; I would like to work for a globalized development if there is the right directive ".

Friday March 26
The Betis Foundation helps 58,000 people in the middle of the pandemic
The Real Betis Balompié Foundation, with a budget of 800,551 euros, helped an estimated total of 57,916 people during the 2019-20 season through 21 own projects, involvement in 34 projects from other entities and support for 657 organizations, all of them framed in the five areas of activity of the Foundation: Social Area, Sports Area, Environment Area, Former Players Area and Area of ​​Cultural and Historical Heritage. These five areas were joined by the action plan against the health and economic effects during and after the pandemic in mid-March 2020.

This institution is the one in charge of developing the corporate social responsibility of the Verdiblanco club and has its field of action both in Seville, and where it can represent and support Beticism. Under this premise, during the 2019-20 season the Verdiblanca entity has quadrupled the number of beneficiaries with respect to the same number of the previous season, thanks to the great effort made in reaction to the greater emergencies that have arisen since the beginning of the pandemic.

Thursday March 25
The Betis squad will adjust their salary
As with most clubs, the pandemic has wreaked havoc on Betis accounts. Hence, in February, the board of directors had to start negotiating a salary adjustment with the workforce, whose framework agreement has already been reached. This pact will allow the club to save a significant amount in salaries this season to meet its budget. But the effort made by its players will now have to be reflected contract by contract, depending on both the record of each player and the existing connection conditions with the entity in each case. With footballers who have a long-term contract, the possibilities to make the adjustment will be much simpler (delay of payments, reassignment, renewals to distribute amounts in more years, etc. ) than with those who end their relationship this coming summer or a year from now. In the latter cases, Betis will look for solutions that allow it to carry out its savings plan.

After losing more than 20 million ordinary income, mainly due to the absence of public in the stadiums for more than a year in addition to the fall in revenues from marketing, advertising and television rights, the Verdiblancos needed to reduce expenses and increase income to comply with LaLiga controls and that its market movements next summer will not be affected. And the first route is already on the way to begin to be resolved.