Paco Jemez has admitted that he expects Alberto Bueno to leave Rayo Vallecano at the end of the season.
The Real Madrid youth product has enjoyed an impressive season at Vallecas, scoring 13 goals in La Liga, including four in one match against Levante last month, and the Coach confessed the club may no longer be able to satisfy the attacker’s ambitions.
“This could be his defining season. Imagine he scores 18 or 19 goals, he’ll have opened many doors,” he said at a Press conference.
“He’s been rewarded for his hard work and hopefully he’ll be playing for a great team next season.
“Firstly, he deserves it and secondly he’s a great player who should be competing for titles and can’t do so here.”
Jemez then looked ahead to Rayo’s encounter with Granada in La Liga on Saturday and urged his players to be wary of the threat posed by Abel Resino’s strugglers, despite their lowly position in the table.
“We’re eager to approach the match [against Granada] after a great week,” he added.
“We hope to continue giving our fans victories and looking up [the table] in order to finish as high as possible.
“[Granada] are a team who have many players with great potential because they always use the summer and winter [transfer windows] to sign top players.
“I don’t know how they do it, but no team [in our area of the table] can be strengthened like them. That makes them a much more important rival.
“Granada are at a very good level and will come here with the unique idea of taking something positive [home with them].
“There are 12 games [left] and I don’t know what will happen. You can suffer like Eibar, who have gone seven or eight games without a win. If you can’t win at this stage, you’re going down.
“This match is no more or less important than the others. There are still no finals, neither does this match have any special connotations, but we have to play with confidence.”