Colo Colo lives very complex days in terms of reinforcements. At the departure of three of its starters, Gabriel Suazo, Óscar Opazo and Gabriel Costa, a painful game was added, that of the scorer Juan Martín Luceroexclusive figure of Macul’s painting. The striker had already spoken with Gustavo Quinteros and Daniel Morón on Friday and expressed his desire to emigrate to Brazil in response to an offer that came. However, while the majority recovered from the New Year’s celebrations, the gunner and his representative hardened their position and warned the club that Gato would definitely not return to the Monumental.
In the afternoon, The player who scored 24 goals in 39 games ratified his position, despite the fact that Colo Colo had complied with notifying the use of the purchase option of US$ 900,000 that weighed on the 31-year-old Argentine. The new link even had a penalty clause of US$ 1 million that the soccer player and his representative understand as an exit clause, something that Blanco y Negro denies.
A directory source explains that the representative was asked to make a proposal explicit. However, it never came. On the contrary, the only response they received was this afternoon, when he notified the club that the footballer was not continuing.
Given the irruption of a proposal from Brazil, that at the concessionaire’s table they are also not clear that Fortaleza is the team behind it, the path that the board envisions is that of suing both Lucero and the club that seeks his services before the competent courts. FIFA has already had precedents in this regard, where clubs have been penalized with the impossibility of signing during transfer periods.
Faced with the situation, which will surely continue to escalate, Colo Colo is going to have to urgently look for a scorer with similar characteristics, which will allow him to replace the number of goals that the man from Mendoza contributed for the 2022 title. Gustavo Quinteros, for his part, resigns himself and is upset at losing such an important piece less than a month before the start of the National Tournament and only two weeks before the definition of the Super Cup against Magallanes.