River are enthusiastic about Esequiel Barco’s football: the secrets of its reinvention

Esequiel boat makes the fans go crazy River. He invites them to live like crazy. Like on Wednesday evening against Sporting Cristal in which the footballer who wears the number 21 on his back once again made a great performance, he made an impression and sanctioned his great present, which is no longer made up of isolated appearances, but rather there is a continuity of four matches at a very good level.

In those four matches (Huracán, Gimnasia, Newell’s and Sporting Cristal) Barco played three. Only against Rosario’s team did he go on the bench, but came on in the second half. AND in all it was decisive. your mean clarion in those four presentations it was 7.75 as a result of a score of 8 before the BalloonHe Wolf and the Peruvians and 7 against Gabriel Heinze’s team.

The present of the River Boat is no coincidence. It is the product of a talent that has been contained and has begun to break free. Now he looks more like the footballer who dazzled in Independiente, before going to play for Atlanta United in the US MLS. It’s pure explosion. But it also added patience and fluency to his game. Playing inside, he doesn’t get so excited about the ball anymore.

Matured boat. He understood when it is more pertinent to pass than to tackle, but he also learned to read the precise moment in which to execute. This united him with an undeniable courage, once highlighted by Marcelo Gallardo and approved by Demichelis, which led him to call for penalties when he was still being watched from the side, all to show the confidence he had. And what do you have?

Thus, the goal and a half – the first was given to Lucas Beltrán – against Sporting Cristal certified a leap in quality that can be explained from a conceptual point of view and which justifies the investment that River will make for him. Clear, Núñez’s club will pay $7 million to keep his pass.

Last year, due to the number of games Barco played, the activation clause was activated for River to buy 100% of the player’s transfer to Atlanta for $7 million. ANDIt will be paid in six installments from 2024 to 2026.

Barco is on loan until the end of the year as River has paid $2.2 million a season to all intents and purposes, i.e. a total of $4.4 million in US currency. AND from January 2024 he will be 100% a club player. In fact, he has already signed his contract until December 2026.

Atlanta, which invested $15 million in it when it bought it from Independiente at the time, saving salary for the past two years, will pocket $7 million in six installments (two a year, one in March and one another in September) between 2024 and 2026 e it will also retain a 50 percent capital gain for a future sale of the player.

There are also several stipulations that River could pay Atlanta some extra money based on goals. For example, if the champion of America comes out, as happened at the time in the River-San Pablo agreement for Lucas Pratto.

“It was a great night for everyone. In the Cup we started on the wrong foot, with one less it became difficult, but we managed to do it. We really needed it.”said Barco after his goals and victory over Sporting Cristal. And River will also need a lot of him, of course. For the River Plate ship to reach a safe port.