In the twilight of a 2021 that closed in a big way for River, The millionaire club is already beginning to pull the strings for the coming season, which has guaranteed anticipated happiness for its fans for the time being: the continuity of Marcelo Gallardo. In this context of preparation for the new objectives, one of the moves of the Núñez institution includes driving Cristian Ferreira, who will return from his loan in Colón six months ahead of schedule to join the preseason in January that the recent Argentine soccer champion will perform in the United States.
The 22-year-old footballer He had sealed his loan to the Santa Fe club for a year and a half -without charge and without option- at the beginning of 2021, as part of the negotiation by the winger Alex Vigo, but by common agreement their return will be anticipated. “It will depend on how the transfer market moves,” they reported from River to the agency Telam, while from the player’s environment they assure that the first month of the year will be the moment of a conversation between the attacker and Gallardo to see what continuity is like.
The data for Ferreira’s year in Colón include it as protagonist of the two finals that Sabalero played. Despite some absences due to Covid-19 and injuries, he added 1,253 minutes in 23 games, 14 as a starter and 9 as a substitute, with 3 goals scored and 4 assists, numbers that are proof of the footballer’s shooting before this return to the club that formed him.
Time to go back?
The midfielder is part of the list of names that the millionaire DT must analyze in the face of the final conformation of his squad 2022. The specific case of Ferreira -with a contract in River until June of next year- is different from the others, since his agreement includes an exit clause of the highest of the campus (of 28 million dollars), which returns his different chances than the other eight players who must also return from their loans.
Of those who have to return, only Ezequiel Centurión ensured its continuity, due to the departures of Germán Lux and Enrique Bologna. The goalkeeper had continuity in Estudiantes de Caseros, where he played the 33 official matches of the team in the National B tournament and the Argentine Cup.
Others who return and will be evaluated by Gallardo are the forward who has just played in Talleres, Carlos Auzqui, and the lateral Elijah Lopez, who had good performances in Godoy Cruz. The one with the most chances of continuing at the club is the side, whom the DT had promoted to First, where he played three games and comes from a season in which he added 2,317 minutes in 30 games -28 of them as a starter- with a goal scored. Auzqui, for his part, has already been on loan for two seasons and has a purchase option of 2.5 million, but it was not revealed whether Talleres will make use of it.
Franco Paredes, who was in Defense and Justice, free of charge and with an option of one million dollars for 50% of the pass, broke his ligaments and will recover in River after having played 35 games, 23 as a starter, and having scored three goals in almost a year and a half. Another returning to recover from a ligament injury is Hernán López Muñoz, who after adding minutes in the first for River and scoring a goal, was at Central Córdoba in Santiago del Estero, where he played 233 minutes in nine games, with only one as a starter.
The defender Augusto Aguirre He also returns from Godoy Cruz – he had gone free of charge a year ago – where he played three games, only one as a starter and with 137 minutes on the court. To conclude the long list of names that Gallardo will have at his disposal, two boys from the inferiors who also return to the club join him: Matías Benitez, who was in the second team of Atlanta United with 22 games in the season, and the hitch Matías Moya, who played in Ñublense de Chile adding 28 games -22 as a starter- and six goals scored.
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