Workshops, the Argentine team that sells to Europe and adds millions of dollars in the midst of the crisis

Ramón Gómez

07/06/2020 - 18:58

• Clarín.com
• sports

Workshops is the strange case of a club that amid the economic pandemic and the parate of soccer in Argentina can generate good news. Within a panorama of uncertainty that cooled the possibility of transfers in world football, the Cordovan club exports talent to Europe and fresh dollars enter its treasury. Although, of course, at the cost of seeing your campus disarm.

The T has already sold Facundo Medina to Lens de Francia for 4 million gross dollars . And this Tuesday the pass from former Boca Andrés Cubas to Nimes Olympique de France will be sealed. But the story does not end there: President Andrés Fassi told Clarín that it is possible that goalkeeper Guido Herrera will go on loan to Montpellier from France due to the departure of Gerónimo Rulli, who returns to the Royal Society of Spain.

Guido Herrera, goalkeeper of Talleres. (Photo: EFE)

Another who is leaving is the scorer Nahuel Bustos, who has just turned 22 years old. His destination would be Valencia of Spain, a club that already had contacts with Fassi. "Talleres is a selling club, and I want to confirm that Nahuel Bustos is definitely going to European football," said Fassi.

As soon as Herrera left, he explained: "We had promised him that he was leaving, because in two previous markets he chose to stay when the contracts they offered him were very important. That is why the time came for him to look for his destination," reported the leader, who is quarantining today in Mexico.

Bustos engages before the Domínguez brand. (Photo: @CATalleresdecba)

For Facundo Medina, Talleres will have 65 percent of the total pass, while the rest will go to River. As for Pablo Cubas, the entire pass is from Workshops, although Boca, where it started, will receive a percentage for training rights. To Bustos, Fassi wants to sell it definitively for a value that will only be known in the next few days. But that of Atletico Mineiro from Brazil is totally ruled out because there was no important offer. So his career would continue at Valencia, Russia's Krasnodar or a Premier League club. "I do not want to give figures or any other information so as not to hinder the negotiations," Fassi told Clarín .

The contrast of the good economic winds is that the team is left without some important pieces and to that are added the exits of Tomas Pochettino and José Mauri, who did not renew their respective contracts. In that sense, Fassi confirmed that he promised the DT, the Cacique Alexander Medina, to hire between six and seven reinforcements for the next tournament. "We intend to play a good role in the South American Cup and in the First Division tournament," he said.

Fassi also has about the position taken in AFA on the return of soccer. "There is a lack of commitment to return to training with a protocol that even President Alberto Fernández gave him. The leaders are dedicated to listening to the bosses and they even accept that there are no talks about what is happening in Argentine soccer," claims. Fassi received a mountain of criticism from the leaders of the First Division clubs and accused him of having the hidden intention of moving forward with a project to transform the clubs into Public Limited Companies. "We are going backwards, you still cannot take a step forward, and that has Talleres worried," he defended himself.