River was once again The Machine (to be sold): 245 million euros in a handful of transfers

Waiting for the official announcement, but with confirmation from all parties of the sale of Claudio Echeverri to the Manchester City it’s a fact, River resells a player for a millionaire. Diablito’s transfer will exceed 25 million euros and in this way the club’s income from the sale of players will increase.

Of the last 11 major transfers, which include the efforts of Jorge Brito and Rodolfo D’Onofrio, including that of Echeverri, Núñez’s club has sold players for 231 million euros. The figure is in gross amount.

So far in the management of the Brito presidency (detected two years ago), with the four most impressive sales achieved so far More than 100 million euros have already been raised. Exactly 141,000,000 European currency.

De la Cruz, 16 million dollars: to Flamengo

The last jewel River sold, although it did not come from his inferiors, was Nicolás De la Cruz. The Uruguayan arrived at the club in August 2017 at the hands of Marcelo Gallardo and won everything: with Madrid’s Copa Libertadores in the lead, he won ten titles and scored 36 goals in 214 games. He just went to Flamengo in exchange for 16 million dollars (around 15 euros), although in this case the millionaire will receive half of it.

Lucas Beltrán, 22 million euros: to Fiorentina

The Diablito operation will amount to just over 25 million euros. Meanwhile, Lucas Beltrán’s deal, which occurred mid-year, went to Fiorentina in Italy, and for 22 million euros.

Enzo Fernández, 52 million euros: Benfica/Chelsea

For his part, that of Enzo Fernandez It was lightning fast. The world champion footballer went to Benfica last year and moved to Chelsea at the beginning of 2023, the total amounting to 52 million euros. River had retained 25% of the midfielder’s shares when they sold him to the Portuguese club for 18 million euros.

Then he took over the total with the percentage that corresponded to him after the multi-million dollar sale of Benfica to the London institution for 121 million euros.

Julián Álvarez, 27 million euros: at Manchester City

With Manchester City, in 2022, River also signed a magnificent transfer. None other than that of Julián Álvarez. He closed at 27 million euros.

From D’Onofrio to Brito: the River becomes a machine to sell

But the question doesn’t stop there. The fact is that these transfers, among the best in Argentine football, also occurred in previous years, under the mandate of Rodolfo D’Onofrio, and with Brito as the club’s first vice-president.

In 2020, Lucas Martinez Fourth He was sold to Fiorentina in exchange for 12 million euros. And Juanfer Quintero to China, for 7 million euros.

In 2019, another sale that made noise was that of Exequiel Palacios, who left for Bayer Leverkusen in Germany for 17 million euros. Previously, Pity Martínez had gone to Atlanta, United States, for 13 million converted into euros.

And in 2018, Marcelo Saracchi surprised with a transfer to Germany’s Lepizig for 12 million euros. While, in 2017, Lucas Alario and Sebastián Driussi were sold for 28 million euros. For Pipa, River had 11 million left (of the 24,000,000 euros gross, for which the transfer was made) given that Colón had 40% of the transfer and for Seba, 20 million euros.