San Lorenzo explodes with anger for Gattoni: from the applause at the New Gasometer to going to Europe without authorization

Saint Lawrence won his league debut, against Arsenal 1-0 on Saturday, but the tranquility vanished this Monday at the Boedo club. And this Federico Gattoni didn’t show up to go back to work e traveled to Europe without managerial clearance to complete the citizenship process. In the middle of a negotiation chewing gum for the renewal of his contract, which expires in five months, ea strong interest from Sevilla of Spainthe captain hit the foul and You no longer play in the Cyclone?.

All of San Lorenzo was shaken. The shock is strong because he is a kid who grew up in the Barça youth team who also wears a tape on his arm in every game of the Ruben Darío Insua era. Although the talks took much longer than necessary, no one expected this to happen.

Much of the management wanted Gattoni not to play on the first date if he hadn’t signed earlier, but Insua spoke to the defender and after that dialogue he decided to count on him for the weekend as, according to the coach himself , the footballer he had told him that on Tuesday he would sign with San Lorenzo if an offer did not arrive when the European transfer market closes.

This, for example, raised the internal temperature as Matías Caruzzo, coordinator of professional football, did not agree. as he learned clarionCaruzzo has even cut off contact with Gattoni and his representative, Marcelo Lombilla, after the deal was not signed last Friday.

Gattoni was owner and captain of the Nuevo Gasómetro against the team of Sarandí. The next day he would have asked for authorization to get on the plane, but they told him that if he hadn’t signed, they wouldn’t have authorized him to cross the Atlantic. He left anyway.

“We don’t know if he traveled or not, but if he did it was without the authorization of the club. Neither the management, nor the coach, nor the coaching staff gave him the green light.”, assure from Boedo. The defender had already traveled to Italy to start the process for citizenship in the first week of pre-season in Uruguay. But on that occasion he had been with him. okay everywhere.

Negotiations for the renewal of his contract, which expires at the end of June, began in May last year. More than eight months later, the matter remains undefined. And now everything indicates that the end will be on bad terms.

The main crux was in the exit clause. In his current contract it is 15 million dollars. But from Gattoni’s representation it was decided that to renew that figure it had to drop drastically: to 1.5 million. In San Lorenzo they put the cry in the clouds since it is a very low number.

In any case, they understood that they had approached in recent days having finally accepted that request, but inserting two clauses, one for local football and one for abroad. There was optimism in the board to reach a good port.

The truth is that time has passed and Gattoni has not sealed his new bond. Something similar had already happened before signing his previous contract. In Boedo there are no good references to Lombilla, agent of Gattoni.

He has been in Barça’s sights since 2018, when the young Francisco Bonfiglio, under his representation, moved to Villarreal in Spain for parental authority. From that moment every negotiation involving him has been cumbersome for San Lorenzo.

What will be the end of this story? The versions that bring Gattoni closer to Jorge Sampaoli’s team are growing in Seville. For the moment, no formal offer has arrived for him from Spain. In these hours the management evaluates which decision to take, even if everything indicates that, if he continues until mid-year without writing his autograph, he will be removed from the professional team.