In Juanfer Quintero. In Enzo Perez o SEbastián Driussi. River’s first reinforcement in the transfer market is called Gonzalo Tapia.
With Marcelo Gallardo there is always room for surprises, for the unexpected. For what is not in anyone’s plans, except yours. It can be with a formation or a tactical scheme for a key match. And it could also be in the transfer market, to look for an alternative in a forward line in which there are not many and there could be losses. This is the aforementioned Gonzalo Tapiaa 22-year-old Chilean young man who decided not to renew his contract with the Catholic University that expires this Tuesday and for whom River moved forward and reached an agreement to incorporate him as a free man.
From Chile came confirmation of the green light for the operation by the striker who this year He scored 11 goals and gave four assists in 33 games and that he would arrive in the country in the next few hours to undergo a medical examination and sign a contract until December 2028.
Being one of the great promises of his country, River was logically not alone in this: the one born in the commune of Recoleta (in the North of Santiago) had polls from Brazil and was even close to reaching an agreement with a club from the Netherlands, although this proposal to be directed by Gallardo It seduced him much more to continue his career and achieve the great leap he is looking for.
For quite some time now, Chile has considered this young man, whom they highlight as leadership, education and humility as one of the great promises of football in the trans-Andean country: If your transfer will not leave several million in the UC treasury, it is because the parties could not agree on the amounts to renew the contract.
“There have to be two wills here. Ours has been there and he has had some doubts about his future. They are doubts about his project, about what he wants to do,” said Juan Tagle, president of the UC, two months ago and half.
Skillful, fast, spicy, 1.80 meters tall and always looking for the opponent’s goal, He can play as a winger on both wings and also as a second striker.a position in which Tiago Nunes (DT of the U. Católica) put him this season and in which he performed best: he scored 50% of the goals of his career, among which some very good diagonals and other headers stand out. .
That last one is a virtue that has been recognized since he was very young, both in his Inferiores stage in the Católica (he arrived as a child) and in the Chilean team, in which he went through the Sub 15 and Sub 17 before reaching this present that has it in the consideration of Ricardo Gareca (73′ in three games in these Qualifiers, between October and November).
From now on, River must solve a no minor issue. Because Today all six of the foreign quota boxes are full. (the Uruguayans Agustín Sant’Anna, Nicolás Fonseca and Sebastián Boselli, the Colombian Miguel Borja and the Paraguayans Adam Bareiro and Robert Rojas, back in the club after their loan spell with Vasco da Gama, although not being taken into account by Gallardo ).
Of them, Rojas could free up his place if his transfer to Olimpia takes place in the coming days. And we will have to see if Fonseca, Sant’Anna y/o Bareiro end up having an exit that would become necessary if the arrivals of both Tapia as of Leo Fernandez. Here we must remember that although Boselli Today he is not part of the squad, he is on loan to another Argentine soccer club ( Estudiantes ), so he continues to occupy a spot.
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