Salomón Rondón, the millionaire transfer scorer who arrives at River with a wink from Pekerman and the confidence of Demichelis

Salomón Rondón, new River reinforcement, has a record that is difficult to match. He is the protagonist of the most expensive transfer in the history of Venezuelan football. But the record doesn’t stop there. There’s more… The Caracasian, born 33 years ago, who is also the top scorer in the history of his national team, is also the protagonist of the second most expensive transfer in the history of the Caribbean country. And also of the third and fifth. Yes, this 6-foot-tall handsome center forward has nearly made $70 million in the last decade. Stupendous. Almost what will come to Núñez without the club putting a burden on it…

It was 2019, just four years ago, when Rondón made the history of Venezuelan football. After a season on loan at Newcastle, the striker was sold by West Bromwich in England to Dalian Pro FC in China, in the midst of the Asian giant’s football bubble, in exchange for $19,830,000

That voluptuous deal surpassed his own switch from Russia’s Rubin Kazan to the same country’s Zenit, which paid 19.5 million greens for his services in 2013. Just a million more than two years later the same Briton of the West Bromwich paid him to Zenith. And all this without counting that Zenit had brought Spain’s Malaga close to 10 million in 2012. Yes, it sounds like a tongue twister. But it is so.

Why did they pay so much? His numbers support that, and not just those in his bank account. Even though he has never played for a top club – only in Russia, even if far from the European elite – he has always given good results and stood out for his good technique and scoring power. In his career he played 493 matches with 165 whoops and 46 assists at club level. He has a lot of experience. To this we must add his long journey in the Venezuelan national teamwhere he played 95 meetings and marked 38 points. Not bad, right? Of course, he is the all-time top scorer for Vinotinto, where he is still considered by the coaching staff he leads Jose Nestor Pekerman.

Rondón’s curriculum, the fourth new piece that Demichelis will add after the additions of Ignacio Fernandez, Matías Kranevitter Y Enzo DiazIt’s a soccer song. But contrasts with what he has been able to offer in recent months. The Venezuelan comes free tohe Evertonof the English Premier League. in the current season he only played seven games in the other Liverpool team, where he added 104 minutes with Frank Lampard as coach.

His arrival at the River

The agreement between the parties, which is in full preparation of the deeds up to the final signature of the player, will have a two-year duration, until December 2024, with the open possibility of an automatic extension for a further year. Rondón will travel to Buenos Aires next week to undergo a medical and immediately present himself as the fourth reinforcement of the post-Marcelo Gallardo era. He is currently on vacation in Miami.where River is doing the preseason.

The last procedure they carried out from the River Plate offices before going ahead with the deal was to consult Pekerman, who provided them with the best references of this goalscorer born on 16 September 1989.

Rondón is also an old acquaintance of Martin Demicheliswith whom he shared a team in the Spanish Málaga, where the Venezuelan played between 2010 and 2012. He will be the alternative that Marcelo Gallardo’s successor needed so that the Colombian Miguel Borja has internal competence and substitute in all the duties assigned to him. they will arrive at Slumdog Millionaire in 2023.