The symbol does not move from Montilivi. Christian Stuani continues in Girona. The club has announced the agreement with the 38 -year -old Uruguayan striker, for one more and an optional season. It is, therefore, the 'first signing' of the new Míchel project. It was a priority objective of the property guarantee the continuity of the Captain, transformed into a vital piece in recent months to ensure permanence in the First Division.
Although Girona signed two strikers last summer to replace Dovbyk's march to Rome, Stuani has been capital. Nor Abel Ruiz (4 goals in 23 league days, 4 in 27 official matches) that came from the sporting of Braga, nor Bojan Miovksi (2 goals in 17 of the League; four in 25), Coming from the Scottish Abderdeen, they have been able to fill the absence of the nine Ukrainian.
11 goals in 1,059 minutes of league
And it had to be the Uruguayan who appeared in the two dramatic months that the Míchel team had to avoid the descent to Second Division. He has scored 11 goals in the 32 league days that he has played taking into account, in addition, his role as substitute during the first two thirds of the season.
He has barely played 1,059 minutes in the league tournament. scoring five goals in the last seven and decisive days. “I am very excited, I don't deserve so much,” the striker said after achieving salvation in Valladolid, with a goal of his, of course.
The intention of the club, already slipped by Quique Prison, its sports director, on June 3 was that Stuani follow. He had been offered a renewal, confident the Girona in which the captain would accept that last proposal.
It arrived in 2017
Almost a month later, the striker has accepted that proposition to continue in Montilivi, where he arrived anonymously in the summer of 2027, from Middlesbrough. And now, eight years later, it is the symbol of the club, which has lived a deep and successful transformation, capable of as the last season of playing the Champions League.
“Girona is Stuani. Stuani is the Girona.” With this motto the Club announced the most wanted agreement. Now it is his turn to execute the signings that Míchel has asked to give a new impulse to the squad after the suffering of last season.