Dos of the strongholds in recent years at RCD Mallorca have put an end to their stage as vermilion players. We talk about Save Seville and Manolo Reina. The second of those mentioned already said goodbye to the fans a few days ago; instead, the midfielder did the same this past Tuesday. Salva Sevilla announced that he was leaving the island and, moments later, it was the club that officially notified that neither one nor the other would continue to wear the Majorcan jersey. Both leave a tremendous void in the fanssince they have chained five seasons in the Balearic entity.
Salva Sevilla’s numbers are stratospheric if you take into account how he arrived and how he has adapted since then. The Andalusian landed on the island when the club was a member of Second Division B. Many called him crazy, assuming that he was going to Mallorca to retire. After five seasons, three promotions, 186 games, 25 goals and 21 assists, has confirmed that, rather than going to the island to hang up his boots, he has experienced a second youth. In the retina of the vermilion fans are the goals against Atlético Saguntino, Deportivo de La Coruña, UD Almería or the five that he has scored this season in the First Division.
“It’s time to say ‘see you later’. It’s not a ‘goodbye’. We’ll see each other again”. These are the words of Salva Sevilla himself, who wanted to dedicate a publication through his social networks to thank all those who have been with him during the last five years. “Friends and acquaintances called me crazy. I was very clear about it and time proved me right,” he says in that same publication. And it is that Salva Sevilla decided to go down to the mud to later take Mallorca to the First Division. In this last service that he did to the team, he has been able to keep the entity in the elite.
Farewell in Son Moix and the future
As MARCA learned yesterday, Mallorca will make a big farewell for the two banners who are already like legends of Majorcanism. It will be a joint farewell Manolo Reina and Salva Sevilleand it would be in Son Moix, with all the fans paying the tribute that both deserve.
If Manolo Reina’s future is more or less clear, Salva Sevilla’s not so much. The Andalusian midfielder is not retiring from football, he wants to continue playing. From Mallorca they report that there are already several clubs that have been interested in hiring his services: Alavés or Cartagena are two Second Division teams that would have already asked about their situation. Now, being a free agent, it will be Salva Sevilla himself who decides where to play the 2022-23 season.
