Matthew Retegui It’s news every day in Italy. After showing up with two goals in his first call-up with Roberto Mancini’s team, the Tigre striker has a personal imprint and, when he doesn’t get noticed for his goals, he does it with declarations. This Friday, for example, was the protagonist of the cover of La Gazzetta dello Sport, Tano’s main sports outlet, where he already anticipates an imminent leap to football in Europe.
“My next club will be in Europe. It’s my father who takes care of my future, my mind is 100% on the Tiger… We started the Copa Sudamericana and we played with Godoy Cruz on Sunday, all my attention is there,” said Mateo, who suffered a defeat to San Pablo on Thursday in his Copa Sudamericana debut.
In this sense, the 23-year-old forward added: “President (Ezequiel) Melaraña said that in July they are likely to sell me. I like the idea a lot, it’s a dream for everyone who plays football, the greatest are in Europe”. There are several clubs from the Old Continent that have already set their sights on Retegui, including the German Eintracht Frankfurt (Lucas Alario and Rafael Santos Borré play there) and two Italian giants such as Inter and Milan.
“Which league would I like to play in? I’d like to play in Italy, but it’s still early. But it would be wonderful to become a protagonist in the championship, someone who scores many goals. How I would like to score many also for Italy, one of the most important teams in history,” concluded Retegui, who has seven goals in nine Lega Professionisti matches.
At the end of last month he was called up for the first time by the Italian squad, for Euro 2024 qualifying matches, and his cover letter was unbeatable: he scored a goal in the defeat against England and repeated it in the victory against Malta. His days in Argentina are numbered.
The contractual situation of Retegui
Retegui is on loan at Tigre until the end of 2023, but his pass is owned Mouth, who was able to repatriate him on a couple of occasions but didn’t make use of the play-off clause that his contract assumed. Given this scenario, the Matador will execute the option to buy 50% of his token (about $2,300,000) and split the proceeds from a sale (in June?) with the Xeneize. According to Transfermarkt, its market value is eight million euros.
Source: Clarin
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