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Yes, Funes leaving means one less CB but if Pau left he was never going to start anyhow-that much was clear. One we let get away.ĭoes Funes Mori’s departure mean we’re more confident about keeping Pau Torres? Not really. Carlos Bacca, Gerard Moreno, and Ramiro Funes Mori Carlos Bacca is a dynamic and speedy forward from Colombia. Still only 30, he has had a pretty good career with Eibar, Newcastle and Alavés.

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Don’t remember him? He was the young French center-back that Villarreal developed in the 2011-14 seasons but let him leave on a free transfer. In an odd twist of fate, news comes today that Alavés have today signed Florian Lejeune from Newcastle. He leaves with a Europa League medal (he looked like he was trying slightly too hard to celebrate, didn’t he? And wearing his shirt back-to-front? Awkward).

And decent was the least we were hoping for, spending almost €9m on him. I’ll mostly remember him for the blunders and clumsy jumps, but he did put in some decent shifts-just nothing any better than that. I can’t imagine any Villarreal fans are going to miss him he wasn’t awful, in fact sometimes (especially under Emery late last season) was decent, but you always had the feeling that a misstep or a blunder might be only a second or two away. It was pretty much an open secret he was leaving, and the wording of the official club comminiqué sort of reflects that-terse, brief thanks, but see ya. Unai Emery evidently wasn’t impressed with him either he saw only 700 minutes of La Liga action in 2020-21.

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Funes Mori was given the chance to succeed, and he didn’t really take it-not only did he have 15 (!) yellow cards in 2018-19, but even though Javi Calleja relied on him that season, the next year, the emergence of Pau Torres, plus an Achilles tendon problem once the pandemic-suspended season resumed, meant that he played in only 7 league matches.

We hoped for more, we didn’t get it.įunes Mori featured a lot in his first season with Villarreal-31 matches in the league plus 10 in the Europa League-but of course, that was the 2018-19 season when we flirted with relegation. Funes Mori was a controversial signing to begin with-his time at Everton didn’t exactly indicate he was a calm presence in the back line. We apparently transferred him for the amount of his transfer fee left to be amortized (€2.2m). The Argentine defender, signed from Everton three summers ago, has left to join.Al-Nassr FC in Saudi Arabia. His identical twin brother José Ramiro is also a footballer who played as a defender for Premier League club Everton and La Liga outfit Villarreal and for the Argentina national team.Well, we won’t have Ramiro Funes Mori as a member of Villarreal’s 2021-22 squad. He began his career at River Plate before transferring to Benfica, after a brief stint in Turkey he signed with Liga MX club Monterrey in the summer of 2015 and quickly established himself as one of the league's best strikers, winning the league, two domestic cups and two CONCACAF Champions League titles and surpassing Humberto Suazo to become the club's all-time top scorer in all competitions. ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 30 November 2022 *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 April 2023

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