River Sports Policy Focuses on Bringing Back Former Players: Will German Pezzella Return?

When you think about strengthening, River Sports policy has been defined in recent years. The priority is aimed at players who have returned the red band. And if they leave good memories, even better. For the next transfer market, it is no exception. So, like today, the strongest thing is the ability to return German Pezzella.

River asking for this project of bringing back the previous players that is designed within the framework of the center. Because it is not only strictly about football, but also that these players, having been at the club, already know the philosophy and idiosyncrasies of River Plate. However, on the field they are still not able to show the past.

There is nothing linear in football. And whether it is because he has a last name or because he has a good gift, that does not mean that a player will automatically put on the shirt and shine. That is perhaps the most paradigmatic case Manu Lanzini.

The attacking midfielder He returned to River at the age of 30 and has good news from the Premier League, where he played for West Ham. But the hopes he inspired back are still different from his performance on the pitch. Although there was an improvement in recent games as he entered the second half, much more is still expected from him.

Manu River arrived on the same day Martín Demichelis’ side were kicked out of the Libertadores in Porto Alegre, but since then he has shown little sparks, never earning a place in the 11, never placing he visited him and at the beginning of this year he suffered a tear that kept him away for more than two months. He stood too long.

The other footballers who returned recently did not offer a better version either. Plus: injuries kill them. Matias Kranevutter He broke his ankle in his first game after returning to the club, in a friendly against Unión La Calera from Chile in San Luis in December 2022. He was expected to start but had a tough time settling in after recovery. And at the beginning of 2024, it was torn just before the first trip of the League Cup, against Argentinos. He first played in the final of the Argentine Super Cup against Estudiantes but did not impress. And today he is relegated, behind Rodrigo Villagra and Nicolás Fonseca.

For his part, Ramiro Funes Mori They also saw him as a starter in defense alongside Paulo Díaz. However, the couple suffers from his knees. Chronic synovitis took him off the field and he has not played a game since February 14 against Atlético Tucumán. So, his future is complicated.

While, Pete Martinez, another much-anticipated return, given his popularity during the Marcelo Gallardo era, he played almost no part in the current cycle. Although he had some minutes in the latter part of 2023, after recovering from a torn cruciate ligament he suffered from his time in Arab football, in the preseason in the United States he suffered same injury again. And it will be revived only at the end of this year.

Nacho Fernández’s case can be taken as an exception for good times since his return in December 2022, but his ups and downs show that he is still far from his target level. Or Leandro González Pirez, who had a very good first semester in 2023, after returning in 2002, but he went into decline again and his performance is being studied.

Of course, it is no coincidence that Demichelis asked for a mark in the middle. And The target is nothing less than the world champion like Germán Pezzella, who is in Betis in Spain, where he is a starter. But he was already waking up at the River. Not only He asked that his termination clause be reduced from 50 to 4 million eurosbut he already held a meeting with Leonardo Ponzio, River’s technical secretary.

If Pezzella returns to the club, he will do so at 32 years of age and 9 seasons after his departure. It is valid. However, football River and Argentina want a lot. It will be necessary to see if he puts on the red tape, if he can raise the bar for the “exes” which, for now, is very low.