Football Season Guide

Real Mallorca won promotion through the second division’s play-offs, which was a great achievement as it was their second consecutive promotion. Coming up through the play-offs, though, comes with complications. Real Mallorca didn’t even know they were going to be in the top flight until June 23rd, the day of their play-off victory over Deportivo. So they have had a much shorter time to plan their squad than every other team. They’ve done a decent job of building a squad for the first division. Only one player from last season’s main starting XI has left, with left-back Pervis Estupinan’s loan coming to an end. Then they’ve been able to bring in several new faces to freshen up the squad and to add competition. They’ve been especially keen to sign attacking options, bringing in four good-quality strikers to mean they have six centre-forwards in the squad. It remains to be seen, though, if this scattergun approach to finding a centre-forward will work. The best news for Real Mallorca is that they have confidence in their coach Vicente Moreno and there is hope that he can get the best out of this squad, a squad that is probably the weakest in the division. Moreno is a strength, as is Real Mallorca’s home form. As an island club, a visit to their ground is always a tough journey for visiting teams and they lost just twice at home last season in the second division. Their main weakness, meanwhile, is just the talent level of this squad.