The hiring of the former Boca midfielder Christian Medinaannounced on Friday by the club president, Juan Sebastian Veronit is the first, but apparently it will not be the last that he will make Students of La Plata in this transfer market. Several footballers are being analyzed by the Technical Secretariat of the institution and, in that dance of names, one of those that sounds strong is the striker. Lucas Alario.
The leadership of the La Plata club, with Verón at the helm, is negotiating an agreement with a group of investors headed by the American millionaire Foster Gillett. Although this agreement must be approved by an Extraordinary Assembly of partners that has not yet been convened, the leadership is already working with the assumption that it will be validated. And also with the bills that Gillett and company bring.
That injection of money was what allowed Medina to join and it is what the Pinch would need to incorporate Alario. The player born 32 years ago in Tostado (Santa Fe) has a contract until December 2025 with Inter de Porto Alegrewhich he joined in January of this year, but the team’s coach, Roger Machado, does not have him in his plans for 2025. This season, he participated in 36 games (he started only 15) and scored just five goals.
The forward trained in San Lorenzo de Tostado and moved to Colón in 2009. He debuted in the Primera del Sabalero on June 11, 2011 in a 1-0 defeat against Arsenal (he replaced Germán Lessman 40 minutes into the second half). In 2015 he was bought by River, with whom he was champion of the Copa Libertadores of that year, the 2016 Recopa Sudamericana and the 2016 and 2017 editions of the Argentine Cup.
In Europe, he served in Bayer Leverkusen for five seasons, between 2017 and 2022, and then wore the Eintracht Frankfurtwith whom he played very little: 26 games in a year and a half before moving to Brazil. In addition, the attacker played nine games and scored three goals with the Argentine national team during the cycles of Edgardo Bauza, Jorge Sampaoli and Lionel Scaloni (his last performance was in a 1-1 draw with Paraguay at La Bombonera in November 2020).
In the race to hire Alario, Students must compete with Nacional de Montevideowhich also intends to have its services. “He is a player that we really like and he is close to Nacional,” said Alex Saúl, second vice president of the Uruguayan club, 10 days ago. In recent days, Olimpia of Paraguay would have joined the bid for his chip.
In addition to Alario, another of the men they are excited about in La Plata is Joaquín Correa from Tucumánwithout too many opportunities at Inter Milan. “There are a lot of things that have to happen for Joaquín’s return, we have to see what his projects are. The club doors are always open. “Sooner or later it will happen, but in its time”explained the technical secretary of Estudiantes, Marcos Angeleri.
Another of those who could return to the club is the defender Santiago Núñez, who played (little) last year for the Mexican Santos Laguna. “We have to hire defensive players and we have to look for someone who knows the locker room, who has experience. It is a name that we have on the table”Angeleri admitted. On the radar of Pinch Santa Fe also appears Imanol Machucaformer Unión player who currently works for Fortaleza in Brazil. The midfielder could agree to join in the next few hours.