Alex Menendez signed two - year contract with Girona

Alex Menendez signed two - year contract with Girona last Aug. 1; eight days after it has become unemployed. In between a serious injury, several sensationalist headlines and the most unusual story summer transfer market in Spain. The defense, from the Sporting Gijon , knee hours after signing his contract with the Catalan club, which has decided to reverse its incorporation injured.

Gijones central defender, a member of Sporting in the final climb of Asturian club First, suffers a cruciate ligament tear in his right knee that can take eight months in dry dock. Girona has decided to invoke a clause in the agreement by which players can cancel the contract until 15 days after the signing if the player is detected physical problems that prevent you from carrying out their work properly. This has been reflected in a public statement .

"As set out in the employment contract and the collective agreement for the activity of professional football (Annex I, Item 4), during the 15 days mandatory for conducting medical tests to determine the physical fitness of the player, Club Medical Services have detected a serious injury, pre-existing contracting the player, preventing him from carrying out the work performed under the conditions required by the Girona FC. right knee, "said the Catalan.

"No player deserves this , " Menendez said in a statement to the newspaper Marca . The player holds the Girona accused of "get injured" and "bent stick it ". The Catalan club, through its technical secretary Quique Carcel has corroborated this version (supported in the diagnosis of three different doctors) but defends himself by saying that he was offered different alternatives to termination of contract. "The club has proposed that operate and stay in Girona doing rehabilitation with another type of contract and the possibility of signing another when he recovered".

Spanish Footballers Association and its president for personal reasons publicly support the player . "The cause of the injury occurs after passing the medical examination, while the player performing own training exercises and therefore was providing professional services with a contract in force, so there is no cause that justifies the dismissal "says the union.

Es una decisión insólita, errónea, injusta y, lo peor de todo, triste. Por eso #AlexMenendez tiene el respaldo de @afefutbol

— Luis Rubiales (@LuisRubiales17) August 8, 2016