2023-12-20 00:56:49
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Goodbyes are not always those sweet pains. In the case of RiverAt least, the taste buds will perceive them differently depending on the result of this Friday’s match in which the team has a lot at stake against Rosario Central for the Champions Trophy in Santiago del Estero. It will be a final, but it will also be the end of the cycle of many important players for various reasons. Even without an official announcement, it is a fact that the biggest idol of the last decade will leave. A legend from this stage of glory will also leave. The team’s MVP will leave. The scorer will leave. More players will leave and others will have the chance to do so: Friday’s game will be a game that in graphic terms will inevitably be a vertex for a delayed change of era within what was already a new beginning since Gallardo’s departure at the end of last year. . In football and symbolic terms, the farewells of Enzo Pérez and Nicolás de la Cruz are the heaviest.
The captain will probably communicate on Friday what until now has been an open secret for months: After half the year, the man from Mendoza stopped renewing his contract because he understood that shortly after turning 38, his time at the club of his loves was coming to an end. In that sense, the gestures were eloquent more than the words: with Huracán, in the team’s final match at the Monumental in 2023, Not only did he have a back-and-forth with people with a taste of goodbye, but he took his family to the countryside to take a photo that was read in that logic.
For the rest, the leaks that strained the relationship of the locker room but particularly his with Demichelis himself in the day-to-day life after elimination from the Cup were a point to ratify a position that, except for an unexpected last-minute turn, is firm: Enzo, thus, would say goodbye in Santiago del Estero for the Champions Trophyexactly like his film predecessor, Leonardo Ponzio, who left after the defeat of Colón that added its last star to the Gallardo era.
Starting with Enzo, the disarmament will have other names and the one that will most affect the operation is undoubtedly that of De la Cruz: eThe tandem of the half between the leader and the Uruguayan will have its last function against RC: with a move to Flamengo that is conceptually made according to three of the four legs of the table of this story, it is inexorable to notice that on Friday the great figure of this time and perhaps the most valuable midfielder in local soccer will say goodbye to La Banda. Not counting a legend like Jonathan Maidana that he will not renew his contract of his own free will (he has not yet decided whether he is retiring or if, averaging 38 years old, he plays for a while longer), the other weight loss that River will have after this final commitment is that of Salomon Rondon: The Venezuelan gave notice in the last few hours to the coaching staff and the CD that his desire is to leave the club in this market because he (nor his family) could not adapt to the country.
De la Cruz is one step away from emigrating (River press).
River and a reduction operation that is necessary
Of course, River will seek compensation to recover the investment it made in SR and in that sense the most viable option that the forward’s entourage is considering presenting today is a proposal from the Pachuca Group, which could return him to Spain to play for Real Oviedo, one of the clubs whose majority shares are managed by the Mexican holding company. For the rest, and waiting for negotiations not yet resolved due to the renewals of Zuculini and Matías Suárez, the certain departure of a Mammana who played as much or less than them throughout the semester and whose contract is also expiring could drag the from other footballers with few minutes who will depend on the market.
Rondón asked to leave River (Photo by Diego Haliasz / AFP).
Cases like those of Palavecino, Herrera or David Martínez can enter into that logic by which the club accepts that it must continue reducing a squad that today was very long with a staff of 32 professionals since the promotion of Agustín Ruberto. Of course, the transfer book could present other sales possibilities: in addition to the situation of González Pirez with the manifest intention of Inter Miami to recover him (if River, as is taken for granted, first makes use of its almost symbolic purchase option) , important men in the structure like Paulo Díaz (probed this semester from Betis), Solari and Barco are footballers who have open markets in Europe. Yes, a final is coming. And also the end for many. Whether the goodbyes are sweet will depend on River itself.
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