An ex of FC Barcelona signs as the new sports director of Betis

Ramón Plans signed his agreement like new sportive director of the Real Betis Balompié this Monday, with which will assume the reins of the planning of the club to the end of the season 2025/26. The Catalan leader was attach to the technical office of the Barça in the seasons 2018/19 and 2019/20, commissioning formally of the area in the 2020/21 in replacement of Éric Abidal, a charge that kept until his renunciation in November of 2021.

During his stage in the Barça, Plans worked in the management of the signings of Ansu Fati, Gavi, Alejandro Balde, Pedri and Ronald Araújo, being these the traspasos more important of his career dirigencial. Now, the Catalan arrives to the group 'verdiblanco' to relieve to Antonio Cord and with the mission to close several pending negotiations, between them the renewals of the Mexican Andrés Saved and of the Chilean Claudio Bravo, together with the signing of the forward Ayoze Pérez.

Like this it presented the Betis to Ramón Plans

"Ramón Plans Novau (Lleida, 1967) has developed a wide and successful professional path that started in 1999 in the CE L'Hospitalet. Later it has had places of sportive responsibility in the Racing of Santander, Sportive Alavés, EU Lleida, RCD Espanyol, Tottenham Hotspurs FC, Elche CF, Ray Vallecano, Getafe CF -in two stages- and FC Barcelona", wrote the group bético in the communiqué of presentation of the director.

📣 OFFICIAL | Ramón Plans, new sportive director of the Real Betis Balompié 🆕💚

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— Real Betis Balompié 🌴💚 (@RealBetis) May 1, 2023

In this sense, the managerial 'verdiblanca' stood out his "wide " and successful path", together with "his work in the training and the catchment of talent, a profile that fits to perfection with the bet of the club by the quarry and the good football". For the Betis, the priority is to arm a competitive staff that it was able to compete to domestic and European level since, except surprise, the ones of Manuel Pellegrini will contest again in the Europe League the next season.