Million dollar sale: how much Manchester City will pay River Plate for Julián Álvarez
The details of the contract, tax costs and the player’s relationship with the Premier League team are topics that remain to be defined for the announcement
By iProfessional
01/21/2022 – 8:20 p.m.
River Plate and Manchester City, from England, arrived to an agreement in principle for the transfer of striker Julián Álvarez, scorer and star of the last Professional League.
The negotiation is “one step away from closing” and the British will invest 27.5 million dollars while River ensures the continuity of the player until June with an option until the end of the year .
Manchester City, champion of English football, will not pay the termination clause set at twenty million dollars and River will keep a capital gain on the footballer’s pass in a future sale, which would increase the profit of the Argentine club.
The details of the contract, the tax costs, the player’s link with the Premier League team and the percentage of the fifteen percent that belongs to the club where the player started in Córdoba are the issues that remain to be defined for the official announcement.
The continuity of the player, at least until June, is one of the strictest conditions that River put in the negotiation and even from the club they assure that it could be the whole year as requested by the DT Marcelo Gallardo when he decided to renew his contract.
Those in charge of the negotiation on the English side did not take a dim view of the player staying at the club since they are waiting for the departure of Brazilian striker Gabriel Jesús so that he can have more chances in the team and that his growth does not stop.
To this we must add that River recently closed an agreement with Amazon so that Amazon Prime Video appears as a sponsor on his shirt for US$2.5 million.
How Álvarez became the millionaire jewel
His official debut in River took place on October 27, 2018
Álvarez, 21 years old, he is the jewel of the “millionaire” quarry and was negotiating with the leadership the renewal of his current contract that ends on December 31, 2022 and that will now be with Manchester City.
The “Spider” had an explosion in the last semester where he was a substitute at the beginning of the season, lagged behind by the level of Matías Suárez and the arrival of Braian Romero who contributed a scoring streak in his first games.
However, after Suárez’s injuries and Romero’s slump, Gallardo changed the tactical system to play with Álvarez as a false center forward, which gave the player and the team a better performance which led him to be crowned champion of the tournament and of the final against Colón.
So the striker, champion of the Copa América Brazil 2021 and with serious projections of playing the next World Cup from Qatar, was River’s top scorer in the last Professional League with 18 goals.
His dreamy 2021 made him chosen as the best soccer player in South America in the traditional poll published every year-end by the Montevideo newspaper El País.
His official debut in River took place on October 27, 2018 against Aldosivi de Mar del Plata in the Superliga, just over a month before his participation, at the age of 18, in the final of the Copa Libertadores won over Boca Juniors in Madrid .
That was the first of his six titles with the red band shirt: then came the Recopa Sudamericana, the Supercopa Argentina, Copa Copa Argentina, the Professional League and the Trofeo de Champions.
River reinforcements
In 2021, River was champion of the local tournament and Julián Álvarez was the top scorer
When his exit materializes, River will look for a center forward but without the characteristics of a classic 9 to compensate Gallardo and not lose potential in a squad that this year will have as its main objective the conquest of the third Libertadores .
Although the name of former Independent Ezequiel Barco -currently at Atlanta United, in the United States- was immediately circulated, in River they did not deny it but it is not to take the place of Álvarez and they point out to an alternative to Suarez.
That is why rumors began to surface again that point to Facundo Farías, a 19-year-old footballer from Colón de Santa Fe, a target that was already on the Muñeco’s radar and that the player himself He made it public a few months ago.
So far, the “millionaire” squad was reinforced with the arrival of defenders Emmanuel Mammana and Leandro González Pirez and midfielders Tomás Pochettino and Juan Fernando Quintero.
Furthermore, and while awaiting the resolution of the Fabrizio Angileri issue and his contract and closely following the evolution of the issue of Fabricio Bustos from Independiente, the “Muñeco” wants two full-backs per wing if no progress is made with the aforementioned negotiations.
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