This has emerged from Racing in the last few hours Augustine Almond He signed a pre-contract to be a reinforcement of the Avellaneda club from July, on a free transfer. And the name of him, despite having played only 6 months in the last 3 years of his career, entered the club’s legal field. The reason? A debt of the player to the institution.

As documented in Boca, the club loaned Almendra $769,000 in February 2019, date of his last contract renewal in the management of Daniel Angelici. For that moment, his surname appeared as one of the promises of the club being sold despite his behavior off the field then led him on a complicated path: he thought about leaving football, he had arguments with teammates, coaches, he changed 4 agents and is linked to various legal and judicial issues.

Now with the pass in his possession, now Boca must receive the money it lent them (a custom that was common in the old management of the club, beyond the questionable because it deals with money coming from the institution’s treasury and not from a private action) or start a lawsuit to collect it. In this, Racing will not be involved.

The case of Almendra is not the only one with this scenario: Manuel Roffo had to pay almost 200 thousand dollars before going to Tigre, Andrada had to repay about 2 million dollars before leaving for Rayados de Monterrey and is still in the case (with the possibility of sanctioning the old managers) the Pavón issue, for which Boca paid a capital gain of almost 3 million dollars for a transfer that was never made.

Jorge Almirón tests the team to welcome Estudiantes

With a few days of work but many official commitments ahead, Jorge Almiron keep trying and look for surnames that provide solutions to this bad present of Mouthin the prelude to the match against Estudiantes de La Plata but especially on the eve of the match for the Libertadores Cup against Deportivo Pereira next week. Is that although he thinks of competing and growing in the Professional League, this tournament Boca and its DT will take it as a test bed to build the team for the second semester.

With injuries (Bruno Valdez and Frank Fabra), underground performances penalized (Figal) in some cases, the defense that Almirón will have will have an unprecedented construction: Marcelo Weigandt will be on the right, Roncaglia and Valentini will have their chance and In the left sector there will be Valentín Barco, the boy from the Reserve promoted by Almirón. A line of 4 defenders to break with the proposal that was raised on the San Lorenzo field for the first time.

Half of the field will have two names who have played during the week: Alan Varela (he is the central midfielder that Almirón wants to recover) and Juan Ramírez will be at his side. And Ezequiel Fernández will come on to give him a little more ball recovery. Can you change the tactical design to a 4-2-3-1? It’s another of the ideas with which the coach has also arrived at the club, despite the fact that he has little time to oil it.

In attack there will be different pieces. Almirón will keep Villa and Benedetto. And since he doesn’t even have Luca Langoni, he will change into a design that he will have Oscar Romero starting from outside but who will become the team’s link and with a very clear double 9 Miguel Merentiel and Luis Vazquezwhich he sometimes repeated to Lanús when he had to live with López and Sand.

It will be the second game for the new coach and a new testing ground for players who are, almost all, at a weak level and who must first regain confidence and spirit to then prevail from a football point of view. For this reason, even if I have dealt with some relevant players and names, every game is a way to find solutions. And that’s why Almirón wants to see them all in action.