Neither Boca, nor River, nor Vasco da Gama, nor Saudi Arabia, nor the MLS of the United States, the Bundesliga or Elche by Christian Bragarnik. “Diego Valoyes is staying, the offers that have arrived are not what Talleres and the player expect,” announced Andrés Fassi, the president of the albiazul club, a week before the start of the Professional League Tournament.
The news brought relief to the fans of the ‘T’, but also accelerated some business opportunities that were hanging around the Jardín neighborhood. The sales of Rafael Pérez to San Lorenzo (US$700,000), of Enzo Díaz to River (US$1,600,000) and of Ángelo Martino to Newell’s (US$1,500,000) ‘saved the potatoes’.
These three transfers, added to the transfer of Alejandro Maciel to Banfield (US$600,000) and the loans of a couple of soccer players, allowed Talleres to pay off the US$5,000,000 that Vasco da Gama offered for the Colombian striker and get something of liquidity to finance the reinforcements in the transfer market.
For the moment, Fassi put Valoyes in a fixed term: if the attacker recovers the level of his best times in the AFA top category and wins minutes with his country’s team, sooner rather than later he could fulfill the promise of procuring him a new horizon.
Beyond the declared “need to sell”, the leader does not want to give up on his claim to pocket US$ 8,000,000 for 70% of the economic rights to the record of the best valued player on his team, who has a contractual relationship in force until June 30, 2024.
THE MOST EXPENSIVE. The ‘T’ invested US$ 2.5 million to hire the Paraguayan Sosa. In 2022 he had paid US $ 2.3 million for 50% of Girotti’s pass.. /// PHOTO: CEDOC PROFILE
new year, new team
At the end of last year, Fassi promised Talleres “six or seven important players” for the three commitments in 2023: the Professional League Tournament, the Professional League Cup and the Argentine Cup. The hiring of winger Nicolás Pasquini (32), on the verge of closing the transfer book, completed the ten new faces that the albiazul team exhibits.
Pasquini, a native of Los Surgentes and with a past in Atlanta and Lanús, joined on loan, as a free player, for this contest. Another defender, Franco Saavedra (19), came from Tigre on loan without charge and with an option to buy. The case of midfielder Luis Alberto Sequeira (20) is similar: he was transferred free of charge by San Lorenzo, as part of the agreement for the Colombian ‘Rafa’ Pérez, and the Cordovan entity will have the possibility of acquiring part of his record in the epilogue it’s from the season.
For the other seven reinforcements, Talleres will have to pay other clubs to be able to add them. Five were buyers: striker Ramón Sosa (22), defenders Juan Portillo (22) and Vicente Fernández (23), winger David Zalazar (20) and midfielder Valentín Depietri (22). The defender Juan Gabriel Rodríguez (28) and the attacker Nahuel Bustos (24) arrived for a year.
The Paraguayan Sosa, former Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, is the largest investment in ‘human resources’ in Fassi’s management: Talleres disbursed US$ 2,500,000 for half of his token and signed him until 2016.
NAHUEL BUSTOS. The striker’s return to Talleres on loan from the City Group. He comes from playing for Girona in Spain and Sao Paulo in Brazil. /// PHOTO: WORKSHOPS PRESS
green market
In exchange for US$1,000,000, Albiazul also bought 50% of Zalazar’s pass, whose economic rights it shares with Argentinos Juniors, the club of origin. For Depietri, the “T” paid US$ 450,000 to Fortaleza of Brazil to acquire 25% of the economic rights and ensured ownership of the federative rights. Likewise, it guaranteed the Brazilian entity the collection of one fifth of the proceeds of a possible subsequent transaction.
In the case of Portillo, Unión de Santa Fe received US$1,500,000 for the total token and secured a 10% capital gain on a future sale of the player. For the trans-Andean Fernández, Palestino de Chile received US$ 1,250,000 and the “T” kept ownership of the pass. Rodríguez’s loan, from Defensa y Justicia, was arranged in exchange for US$300,000.
The repatriation of Bustos, the first big announcement by Talleres in terms of hiring in 2023, was possible by virtue of complex engineering. As far as is known, the Cordovan club, which maintains 35% of the economic rights of the pass, is committed to the City Group, owner of the remaining 65% and the federation file, the payment of “an important part of the salary” in the framework of a joint plan for the ‘revaluation’ of the player. The transfer was agreed until next December 31, with no opportunity to continue.
The investment made by the “T” to renew its squad -equivalent to the annual budget estimated by the leadership for 2023- was completed with the purchase of passes for defenders Matías Catalán (US$1,800,000) and Gastón Benavídez (US$ 700,000), which ensured the continuity of both.
QUINTET. Franco, Álvarez, Buffarini, Pizzini and Ortegoza, five of the 21 reinforcements hired by Talleres in the 2022 season. /// PHOTO: WORKSHOPS PRESS.
I reduce the quota
Of the 21 footballers that Talleres hired last year to face the Professional League, the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Argentina, only Benavídez and Francisco Pizzini were starters on the initial dates of the current tournament.
Another six alternated – Julio Buffarini, Catalán, Rodrigo Garro, Ulises Ortegoza, Christian Oliva and Alan Franco – and goalkeeper Alan Aguerre was a substitute in all three games. The list of those who are still at the club is completed with three injured: Federico Girotti, Lucas Suárez and Favio Álvarez.
Another trident, the one made up of Francisco Álvarez, Emerson Batalla and Kevin Pereira, was loaned out after adding a few minutes on the court. And six dismissals were registered: Ramiro González Hernández, Matías Esquivel, Leandro Espejo, Matías Godoy, Samiel Diarte and Tomás Cavanagh.
CHANGE OF PLANES
- “Between February and March there will be news,” Andrés Fassi told PROFILE CÓRDOBA at the end of last year, alluding to his arrival in Spanish football. The recent extension of the judicial administration of Málaga CF, which will remain in office until at least July 27, 2023 while ‘The Al-Thani Case’ is delayed, ruins the landing of the Cordovan man on the Costa del Sol. Granada, Another Second club, currently in the hands of the Chinese Wuhan Double consortium, is Plan B on which the albiazul holder has been advancing for a long time.
- Last January, the Fassi Group announced its departure from Atenas de San Carlos, a Uruguayan club where it had formalized a relationship for 25 years, with an option for another quarter of a century, to manage ‘active football’. In two and a half years of managing the Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, Maldonado’s team played 71 games under the leadership of seven different technical bodies and never entered the playoffs for promotion to the First Division.
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