River received a very hard and unexpected blow in the Copa Libertadores de América. Last Tuesday, Palmeiras thrashed him 3-0 on the Independiente court for the first leg of the semifinal and it seems almost impossible that the Millionaire could turn the result around. “We should have an epic night, the kind that happen from time to time … But they exist in football,” Marcelo Gallardo said after the meeting at a press conference. However, the news of the day goes the other way: two starting players will leave the institution when the participation in the continental competition ends.
As reported by journalists Hernán Castillo and Nicolás Distasio in TNT Sports Radio (Monday to Friday from 19 to 21 on the screen of TNT Sports), Gonzalo Montiel and Nacho Fernández will leave River once the Copa Libertadores de América is over. The conditions will be set by the Argentine club: the number for the right side will be 7 million euros, while for the midfielder it will be 4 million euros. Both would be clean, not gross.
On the side of the defender of the Argentine National Team, he has wanted to emigrate for a while, but offers that serve both him and the institution had not yet arrived. There were polls from West Ham from England, also from Lyon from France and from two teams from Italy: Rome and Bologna. His representative, Pablo Sabbag, has direct contact with the sports director of Roma and it is a great chance that Montiel will play in Serie A next season.
Nacho Fernández’s situation is different: the midfielder is 30 years old and wants to make an economic difference in his professional career. It is worth noting that he only played in Argentina: Gimnasia, Temperley and now, River. One of the offers that had come for him was from the International of Porto Alegre, Brazil. But that happened when Eduardo ‘Chacho’ Coudet was the coach. It will be necessary to see if they try again for him, since the Argentine DT went to Celta de Vigo.
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