Change of Dates

Agreement between the clubs now there is just the waiting for the federation to agree.     




     


Club Deportivo Tenerife will hear in the next few days the result of when the missing game against Granada C.F. will be played. Both presidents have agreed in principal on the 29th of January as the date that they could both approve of.  CD Tenerife would have preferred the 12th of January but Granada C.F. Were not keen as this would have given the club three away games in a row. Their preferred date was the 19th of January, a Wednesday three days before one of the biggest games in the season the derby against Las Palmas.

Firstly  there is the need to obey the federation rules. These establish that the game must  must be played before the second round of the league is started. Therefore before the 23rd of January.  With this in mind there are four Wednesdays that would be possible; 22nd of December & the 5th 12 and 19th of January. The first is no the day the players want to play as this will shorten their holidays; the second is unlikely as the stadium is used for the city of Santa Cruz's visit by the three kings and the last date doesn't' interest CD Tenerife as it is three days before  the big home game.

Up to here everything is clear: for Tenerife there is the 12th of January The problem then starts as the favourite game for Granada is the 19th of January just before the main game. Why? The group from Granada are away in Villarreal for the 9th of January and also away on the 15th against Elche. To travel to Tenerife between these two dates would be a blow to their planning.,

The problem then arises  because the 29th of January is after the first round finishes, but before the second round starts. In this case Tenerife & Granada need to convince the Federation that the second criteria is more relevant than the first.

And if that doesn't work out? If Tenerife & Granada don't manage to agree another date it will be the federation who decide what date the game is played.  This is the least interesting possibility for Tenerife as here we would have no negotiating power and would be at the mercy of the organising body.

It would seem, therefore, we are in for a long and tedious negotiation. For Tenerife appear not to have managed to gain control when the game was suspended now the difficult part will be to convince the LFP.