There are four open negotiations that River continues to include, days after their debut in the League Cup

River he was forced to leave pass market. The fact is that we have gone from abundance to having a shorter roster. Among the seven departures at the end of the year, the four injured players and the three who are in the Pre-Olympic, in the group of Martin Demichelis Now you are missing the pieces to complete the puzzle.

AS, the situation has changed. If you are satisfied with the number of players in the squad, the management, the sporting director Enzo Francescoli and the technical secretariat, Leonardo Pontius, they returned to market research. Not only to focus on a striker, but also for players in other roles.

In any case, they will not do so out of desperation, but rather by focusing on specific names. “We will not take hasty steps to bring players that we shouldn’t bring, we must bring quality players that we believe can adapt to the great team we have”, was the line lowered by the president Jorge Brito during the preseason, when he recognized that, after the injuries of Pity Martínez and Santiago Simón, “the areas we need to strengthen are on the external side, and perhaps on the winger and on the right midfielder”.

And the central or mixed steering wheel position has also been added. Not just why Manuel Lanzini was placed on the injured list, but also why Nicola Fonseca, the only reinforcement so far, they still don’t see him with a level of football pace. Therefore, they moved on Rodrigo Villagra.

Nearby is the Talleres midfielder, brother of Cristian “Kity” Villagra, ex River. From Núñez they have already made an offer to the Córdoba club which is close to seven million dollars, a figure that Andrés Fassi, president of the “T”, would like to ask for.

Villagra, 22, is a River fan. And he has been training separately since his frustrated move to Rayados at the end of last year. The positive thing for Núñez’s club is the pressure that the former Rosario Central player can exert, who currently has a promise of sale from the Córdoba club.

But in Udaondo and Figueroa Alcorta should not fall asleep, because they are also looking for him from the outside. Vasco da Gama, the team led by Ramón Díaz, also asked for conditions for Villagra, while Danish FC Midtjylland presented a proposal for 50%, which Talleres did not agree with.

On the other hand, due to the loss of Pity Martínez, priority is also given to the search for a left winger. And the desire makes itself felt Luciano Rodriguez, one of the revelations of Uruguayan football and figure of the Uruguayan U-20 world champion. But Liverpool of Uruguay, the team he plays for, is asking for 15 million dollars for him.

This is an unattainable figure, even if River, through Francescoli, has already opened negotiations to try to buy part of the pass, something it had already done with Liverpool when it hired Nicolás De La Cruz, who arrived in mid-2017 in exchange of $4 million for 30% of the pass and years later, Núñez’s institution paid another $2.6 million to reach half of the token.

On the right wing, River once again focuses on another Uruguayan. Regard Augustine Saint Anna, footballer of Defensa y Justicia, who he had followed. But since Demichelis was satisfied with the players he had in that area (Sebastián Boselli, Andrés Herrera, Simón and possibly Milton Casco), the search stopped. After Simón’s right hand was fractured, contacts were reactivated by Florencio Varela’s Halcón defender.

The other open front that River has is that of Jose Lopez, the 23-year-old Argentine striker who plays for Palmeiras. The information coming from Brazil indicates that the hypothesis of a transfer had been raised because the former Lanús (Granate retains 30% of the transfer) would have turned to the management of the Sao Paulo club asking them to negotiate the matter. It’s not easy, of course. Because for him they ask between 10 and 12 million dollars.

Although the League Cup starts on Sunday, time is not running out for River as the transfer window has been extended by another week and will close on 2 February. In the meantime, the TMS will remain open until the 18th of the same month.