Alser is considering withdrawing its sponsorship of BM Puerto next season

The club acknowledges that without this support, “we would not even compete at regional level”

Alser is considering withdrawing its sponsorship of BM Puerto next season

The Sagunto benefactor is calling for greater business support so that “the effort is worthwhile”

These are not good times for Alser BM Puerto. At the bottom of the Asobal league and seeking the support needed to meet its commitments over the coming months, the organisation chaired by Juanjo Bataller was shaken this week by Alser's announcement. Its manager, Julián Castelblanque, acknowledges that “if contributions from other sponsors do not allow the club to grow, we have to consider whether the effort we are making is worthwhile”.

The businessman adds that the red-and-white organisation has “the lowest budget in the division”, so its position at the bottom reflects the fact that “better players are lacking, and they are obtained with more money. Being known as a reliable payer helps, but it is not decisive, so we must ask the public, private and mixed companies that make a great deal of money in Sagunto to reinvest part of it in the city”. Castelblanque, who centralised his sponsorship in 2005 with BM Puerto and is part of Alser's board, says that “perhaps someone needs us to take a step back so that we can take the steps forward required by the club's situation”. Meanwhile, from the port organisation, Bataller says that “we are already in a critical situation, so if Alser withdraws its sponsorship, we will not even be able to put together a regional-level team”. The red-and-white president again points to “Valencia Provincial Council, which does nonsensical things such as giving grants to everyone except us”, and to the “business and institutional sectors, because it is all fine words but they provide no solutions”. Regarding Castelblanque's decision, Bataller agrees that “this makes no sense. We compete on unequal terms with all our rivals, and that prevents the project from progressing, so it is normal that he has grown tired of being on his own”, he says. The uncertainty surrounding Alser erupted during the break in the Asobal competition for the Copa del Rey. This short pause is allowing Alberto Estornell to focus on the issues he believes must be improved urgently, with the sole objective of winning next week in Logroño against Naturhouse. The Riojan side is one of the two teams the red-and-whites have beaten, so the mission does not seem as impossible as some others. Among the few pieces of good news for Alser, both Iago Muiña and Patxi Peg are in the final stage of their recoveries and have not been ruled out for Logroño.

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