Although without detailing the amount of the operation, Lano announced Thursday the sale of 70 percent of his striker’s pass José Manuel Lopez a palms of Brazil, current two-time champion of Libertadores Cup from america. The club would shell out 10 million dollars.

The remaining 30 percent remained in the hands of the Garnet, which will keep that stake for the next sale. Brazilian media echoed Lanús’ statement, since Palmeiras had not yet announced al Subtle as a reinforcement.

According to the sports newspaper TO THROW!, the pass will amount to about 10 million dollars and was not announced by Palmeiras because some procedures still remain, including the payment method and the documents that would have accompanied the payment plan. The contract will be for five years.

The 21-year-old from Corrientes emerged from the lower divisions of Lanús, reaching them at the age of Quinta, from completing previous steps in the Independiente divisions until his liberation. In his first season with the first team, he scored 14 goals in 37 games. In the second, he scored 7 goals in 19 games.

Before being confirmed in the First Division, -was in 2021, under the leadership of Luis Zubeldía- Lanús loaned him to the Colegiales de Tres Arroyos where he played in the Regional League tournament and was the team’s top scorer. Just four years had passed and the experience was fundamental to forging himself as a footballer.

“It was like being in my city but playing football. And then you get hungry. You want to move on, you begin to appreciate everything you had in Lanús and fight to return, “he told Clarín last year.

In that interview, El Flaco talked about, among other things, how confirmation as a professional footballer has affected his life. “On social media they wrote everything: ‘El Flaco López doesn’t know how to score with his foot’, ‘El Flaco only plays with his head, he doesn’t even know how to give a pass.’ ego. Now when I’ve been going on Twitter for a while I see them saying, “I have to apologize to Flaco López for criticizing him” and I burst out laughing. You don’t have to give him a ball. It doesn’t change you at all, it doesn’t add to you, “he said.

“The first time I focused we went to the Sheraton. And he said ‘it can’t be, look where I am.’ If I didn’t play football I couldn’t even pay for a night. And how they treat you, how they feed you. . Or how people look, children, when you go to the pitch and go into police custody. It happened to the kids in my city: now everyone wants to play football and when I go, they go crazy, like me when I said I wanted to be like, I don’t know, Laucha Acosta, today the kids in my city say they want to be Flaco López “, he told us.

El Flaco traveled to the San Pablo last week for preliminary medical examinations and returned to Buenos Aires as he was in La Fortaleza on Friday to watch his former teammates’ game against Defense and Justice. López will travel to Brazil again in the next few hours to be officially introduced to the two-time Copa Libertadores champion.