Sociedad signs Prieto, Elustondo to extensions
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Real Sociedad has signed midfielders Xabi Prieto and Gorka Elustondo to new contracts, as the La Liga club locked up a pair of important players.
Prieto, 28, agreed to a four-year contract extension through 2016-17, while Elustondo, 24, signed a two-year extension that keeps him at the club through the 2014-15 season.
"It's another reason to be happy. This renovation is part of the same project of consolidation meant the renewal of Xabi Prieto," Sociedad sports director Loren said on the club's website.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Prieto has been with Sociedad's first team since 2003, while fellow ex-Spain youth international has been with the first team since 2006. Both were youth players for Sociedad as well.
"Of course I would like to retire at Real and ... I have taken a step further towards that dream," Prieto told the club's website.
Sociedad is unbeaten in its last five games, and has climbed seven points off the foot of the table.