The Independiente management gets tired and Tevez momentarily loses one of his jewels: Santi López will train with the Reserve

The situation had been tense for some time, but this week the cord was finally cut for the leadership Independent with the long renewal of youth Santiago López. The 17-year-old gem, who has until now trained under the wing of Carlos Tevez in the first team he was unable to reach an agreement to extend his contract with the Avellaneda club, which expired in December this year. And after one last meeting in which there was no progress, The Board of Directors has officially announced that they will take him to train with the Reserve.

Why was this cutoff point reached? The Diablito Echeverri case has put all of Argentine football on alert. And in Avellaneda they are trying to avoid a similar situation from happening again with Santi López, another of Diego Placente’s Under 17 national team. However, the talks have always been far from a positive conclusion.

The decision of the Red managers, in fact, was not to put him on the plane to Miami for the preseason which never took place. The days passed, Tevez kept him in his team, but the talks with his representative did not prosper. The management claims to have offered him several possibilities for renewal, but that there has been no convincing response from the other side and they suspect that they are trying to gain time because they would have an offer from abroad.

López will go down to the Reserve and if the dialogue resumes and the parties meet to sign, the boy will be taken into consideration again. Otherwise the management is firm on the fact that he will not play in the Primera del Rojo.