Although it was an open secret at the end of the season and then became entrenched due to his professional situation, the confirmation of the new coach of the Unión Deportiva Las Palmas is a matter of hours
Since Pimienta's goodbye began to be rumored, his name came to the fore: Luis Carrión had every chance to replace the Catalan on the yellow bench and when his departure was confirmed the announcement seemed imminent.
However, the board's effort to confirm it as soon as the season ended was in vain due to the professional situation in which Carrión found himself; about to face the promotion playoff with Oviedo. Despite this, according to sources close to the yellow club, the board managed to convince the Oviedo coach to sign a pre-contract that would automatically make him coach of UD Las Palmas if Oviedo did not achieve promotion.
A plan that went awry for the yellow board, since Oviedo reached the playoff final against Espanyol and a certain unrest began to be felt in the club's leadership. Names like Eder Sarabia or Rubén Albes were beginning to be heard strongly in view of a possible promotion of Oviedo and the possibility of Carrión continuing to lead the Asturian team in their first-class adventure.
An anxiety that increased when Oviedo won the second leg 1-0 and 6 days later Rubén Albes signed for Sporting de Gijón, leaving Las Palmas without one of its three main candidates for the bench.
However, an Oviedo debacle in the final minutes of the first half of the second leg gave Espanyol promotion and seemed to confirm Carrión's arrival at the Unión Deportiva.
As if that were not enough, two days after the end of the promotion playoffs in which Oviedo was on the verge of promotion, the president of the Las Palmas Sports Union, Miguel Ángel Ramírez, uploaded an image with a text in English that reads “Keep calm and carry on”; a traditional saying that the yellow president uses in clear allusion to the surname of the Oviedo coach.
Many saw this publication as a “leftover” or an excess of cockiness, but other fans justify it as a response to the president of Oviedo, who, in response to the rumors of Carrión's departure to the yellow team, stated that “he would understand his departure to a club like "Atlético de Madrid, but not to a project worse than that of Oviedo and in which they could kick him out after three months."
Despite the rumors coming from Asturias about a possible renewal in extremis of Carrión and that the coach himself has not yet commented on his future, everything seems to indicate that he will be announced as the new coach of the Unión Deportiva Las Palmas in the next few hours.
For its part, Unión Deportiva Las Palmas has shifted into high gear and has already made significant progress in the transfer market, confirming this week the arrivals of Manu Fuster, Iván Cedric, Iván Gil and, as Maspalomas24h reported , goalkeepers Jasper Cillessen and Dinko Horkas.
