Nicolás Tagliafico leaves Ajax to join the French team of Lyon. Photo: AFP
It is a bustling market for Argentina national team players. After the recent addition of Lisandro Martinez to Manchester United in a record figure for an albiceleste defender, now Nicola Tagliaficowho was his teammate at Ajax, he closed his contract with the Olympics in Lyon for three years and will play in Ligue 1 in France, as Lionel Messi and Leandro Paredes, other members of the Scaloneta.
The transfer was sealed 4 million euroslow figure because he was in the last year of his contract with the Dutch club and because the management had promised him that they would let him out in this transfer window.
as he knew Clarione, the 29-year-old left-back who came out of Banfield has accepted the jump to Lyon even though he will not play the Champions League this season, as he has been seduced by the sporting project they seek to rearm for strength in the future. In turn, they guarantee ownership and are one of the pillars of the campus. These are key months before he faces his second World Cup in Qatar 2022.
Tagliafico considered it essential to move to Lyon to have continuity in the year of the World Cup in Qatar, which he will play with the Argentine national team. Photo: Reuters
In Ajax he had lost importance and the southpaw needs continuity as he fights to stay with the Egg Thicken the left side of the Scaloneta. In Dutch football, the former Independiente played in total 170 gamesstructure 16 goals and gave 23 assists. He has won three championships, a Dutch Cup and a Super Cup.
Although he had received interest and polls from Premier League clubs such as Brighton and other major teams like Barcelona from Spain, no one has advanced strongly as these days it is not a priority to strengthen that position. This resulted in a longer wait towards closing the transfer book and the player turned to give the go-ahead to Lyon.
Over the weekend he will travel to France to undergo the overhaul and sign his new bond for the next one three seasons. Lyon’s Ligue 1 debut will be on 5 August against Ajaccio at home.
This transaction will not provide an economic return for Independiente, his former club where he won the 2017 Copa Sudamericana as captain. It is that the Avellaneda entity maintains a capital gain of 15 percent on a sale that exceeds 5 million and in this case the switch is made in 4 million European currency.
Nahuel Lanzillotta
Source: Clarin
