The River market: Matías Suárez is close to renewal, but Zuculini and Mammana will not continue

The landscape of his future has changed for Matías Suarez in recent days. Contrary to what was assumed, the attacker He is close to organizing the renewal of his contract with River. Even though it didn’t take place much, Martin Demichelis He wants to have him in the squad in 2024. And the Cordovan wants to stay. The management, therefore, will seal a new bond with its representative in the next few hours which will last a year.

“I have many possibilities to continue”Suárez made the comments on Friday in Santiago del Estero after River won the Champions Trophy. The Córdoba player played 220 minutes divided into 15 matches during 2023, scoring two goals (against Gimnasia and against Talleres). Too little compared to what he expected a year ago, before suffering a flare-up of a right knee problem that took away his continuity.

“I think staying at River is the best thing for me. The decision I made is that, if I have to leave, I will do it by playing, doing many other things. I didn’t want to leave like this, in this way, because I didn’t play much. If I have to continue, I will do my best,” Suárez added.

Despite the talks between the institute’s leaders and the player’s agent, Cristian Colazo, they advanced, the issue is not yet resolved. There was talk of a productivity contract. And if what has been discussed turns out to be on paper, the 35-year-old from Córdoba will begin his sixth year at the club, where he arrived in January 2019 at the request of Marcelo Gallardo.

For his part, for Demichelis, Suárez is “a player of great quality” and he hopes that knee injuries do not affect him in order to be able to give him more minutes and have fun on the pitch. Micho considers him another center forward, so much so that he competes with Facundo Colidio and Miguel Borja and also with Agustín Ruberto, scorer of the Under 17 World Cup and already part of the professional team.

It is therefore expected that during this week everything will accelerate so that Oreja can seal its continuity. Naturally, ‘Micho’ will have to find a balance so that Suárez’s presence does not cover the already projected youngsters like Ruberto.

On the other hand, those who will not continue are Emanuele Mammana AND Bruno Zuculini. This was confirmed by both players Clarion. Both contracts are expiring and neither will be renewed. The defender has been relegated in Demichelis’ consideration and will look for new directions. He could go to Racing, since Gustavo Costas intends to do so.

Meanwhile, Zuculini doesn’t have a club for now and is waiting for an offer. There was talk of Racing, but now Nacional de Montevideo would arrive to charge him. The truth is that nothing has been defined yet.

Another one who could leave River soon is Agostino Palavecino, but in this case via a bank transfer. San Lorenzo and the brand new president of Ciclón want it, Marcelo Moretti has already maintained contact with Jorge Brito to ask him about the midfielder’s condition.

The last weekend, Enzo Perez AND Jonathan Maidana, two historians, end their cycles in River; That Solomon Rondon he decided to leave and Nicola De La Cruz He was transferred to Flamengo.