The keys to Echeverri’s move to Manchester City: he will play the entire 2024 Copa Libertadores at River and then go to England

He Diablitogate We continue adding new chapters but there are already some certainties. One of them is that Claudio Echeverri will be transferred to Manchester City. The other, who will continue to wear the red armband in 2024. Yes, the young 17 year old (turns 18 on January 2) He will remain in River at least a year AND will play the next edition of the full Copa Libertadores (regarding Núñez’s team).

“It will be here throughout 2024,” he entrusted it to him Clarion a senior leader of River. This will stop the turbulence generated by the player’s declarations at the Madre de Ciudades in Santiago del Estero (“I will not renew”, he said), after Martín Demichelis’ team won the Champions Trophy by beating Rosario Centrale 2-0 .

The fact that the youngster will stay for another year gives Micho peace of mind, who is counting on Echeverri as a key piece for an important year, in which River will once again aim all its weapons against the Copa Libertadores. And Diablito can give you the freshness your team needs. He demonstrated it on Friday in the final of the Champions Trophy, in which he played as a starter, in an attack position.

And it will also bring peace of mind to oneself. Echeverri, symbol of the renewal that will come to the River. After the explosion caused by his words and the anguish they caused him, El Diablito spent Christmas in Chaco with his family and appeared smiling in a photo that he published on his social networks.

As reported by Clarín, the player who shone in the Under-17 World Cup will leave his money to River. And in 2025 he will leave for Manchester City. It could be at the beginning of that year or in the middle, after the new club super world cup. His stay in Núñez will depend on the club’s qualification for that event, as well as his luck in the 2024 Libertadores.

Meanwhile, the English club is finalizing the details. The amount to complete the transfer will exceed 20 million euros and River would be left with a capital gain. 85 percent of the token belongs to the Millonaria institute, while the remaining 15% corresponds to Deportivo Luján de Resistencia, the club where Diablito made his debut, who after the sale will remain at Núñez on loan after loan.

It’s a method that City has applied in recent times, with very young players. For example with the Brazilian Gabriel Jesús, who in 2016, at the age of 19, was signed by the Manchester club and left on loan to Palmeiras for 6 months.

The same thing happened with Julián Álvarez, who was bought by City at the beginning of 2022 and six months later went to England to join the team led by Pep Guardiola and begin a path of glory, in which in a year and half arrived he won the Premier League, the FA Cup, the Champions League and the Club World Cup and was also world champion with the Argentine national team.

Thanks to the good pre-existing relations between River and the City Group, after the sale of Álvarez, the parties entered into a final phase of negotiations which will lead to a formal offer with an agreement in sight: in addition to the definitive number and the modalities and the terms of the installment payment, in these hours the terms of Echeverri’s transfer will be defined and the clauses to be activated during that loan should the English possibly want to have it sooner than expected.

With the possibility of staying in 2024, El Diablito will be able to recompose through his gestures on the playing field the discomfort that his statements have generated among the fans.that they were the product of innocence, since when he realized what he had said, the young man did not stop crying and showing regret.

Happens The people of River followed Echeverri’s educational career very closely since he was in the Infantiles and has been waiting to see him in action in the First Division for seven years. A forced sale a few hours after his first official match as a starter was evidently not what the public expected, even in this difficult economic context of the country.

When El Diablito spoke of “non-renewal”, he marked, unconsciously brought to light, this agreement with City which is about to be signed. And regardless of when he ends up going to England, he will have time to do his misdeeds in the shirt he loves most, that of River. The one from the club that hosted him since he was a child.