Rosario Central transferred center forward Alejo Véliz to Tottenham Hotspur, from England, for a record amount for the history of the club from the Arroyito neighborhood of 17 million dollars plus the possibility of charging another 6.1 for goals, “rogue” sources reported tonight .
The total of the transfer includes bonuses for objectives and a capital gain, in a figure that widely exceeds the amount of the termination clause, of 15 million dollars, with which it stands as the sale of the largest amount in the history of the club, behind the transfers of Giovani Lo Celso (20 years old) to Paris Saint Germain, from France, at 16 million dollars, and Ángel Di María (19 years old) to Benfica, from Portugal, at 8,300,000.
In this way, the transfer of Véliz is added to that of the offensive midfielder Gino Infantino, which Central has just completed to Fiorentina, from Italy, at 3.4 million dollars plus the possibility of adding another 550,000 for goals and 10 per cent. percent of capital gains, as reported by the Arroyito entity on its Twitter account.
Who is Alejo Veliz?
Véliz, born 19 years ago in the Santa Fe town of Bernardo de Irigoyen, will now be a teammate of Giovanni Lo Celso and “Cuti” Cristian Romero.
And perhaps he will also be their teammate in the national team, to which the technical director Lionel Scaloni would summon him for the double qualifying date in September.
Véliz became the best player in Central last year, where he scored the header with which Carlos Tevez’s team won last year’s classic at the Gigante de Arroyito at Newell’s and, since then, the most loved by the “rogue” fans, in this last tournament he was the top scorer for Miguel Ángel Russo’s team, with 11 goals.
Alejo Véliz’s performance with the national team’s jersey in the U-20 World Cup, where he scored three goals in four games, raised his price.
The great semester that Veliz had made many European clubs set their eyes on him and that is how some offers began to appear, among them the one from Torino, from Italy (of around six million dollars), which was classified as insufficient by of the “rogue” leadership commanded by former player Gonzalo Belloso.
It was for that great semester of Veliz that other Italian clubs such as Milan, Roma and Salernitana (he took Agustín Martegani, from San Lorenzo) signed up in search of the goalscorer’s services, but in the meantime from Central they received a proposal from Tottenham , on which they worked with great secrecy, even towards the footballer’s own environment.
The intention of the leadership of Central was to keep the player at least until December, but it was always clear that this desire would depend on how important the offer that arrived was. And the one that Tottenham made was the equivalent of the release clause, which made it impossible for Central to retain him.
Alejo Véliz wore the Rosario Central shirt in 63 games in the institution’s first team in which he scored 19 goals and is moving away from the club with which he appeared in big football without having won any First Division championship.
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2023-08-04 02:44:30
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