07/26/2021 11:13 AM
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Updated 07/26/2021 11:14 AM
Sevilla and Tottenham Hotspur agreed to an exchange between the Spanish Bryan Gil and the Argentine Erik Lamela that included a bonus of 25 million euros disbursed by the English.
Yes, the former River leaves London and moves to beautiful Andalusia.
Both clubs made the agreement official on Monday.
Bryan Gil, 20 years old and 1.75 meters tall, signed a five-year contract with Tottenham, until June 2026. He is currently playing the Tokyo Games with the Spanish Olympic team.
Despite his age, he already has three appearances with the senior team.
The winger from Barbate (Cádiz) arrived at the Sevilla youth academy at the age of 12 and from there he did not stop until reaching the first team under Pablo Machín in January 2019.
Bryan Gil, 20, is going to the Premier League.
Photo: AFP
That season he played eleven LaLiga matches and two in the Cup, with an assist and a goal against Rayo Vallecano at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán on April 25 of that year.
Thus he became the first player born in the 21st century to score in the highest category of Spanish football.
In 2019-20, as a member of the first team, he played two league games, one in the Cup and four in the Europa League, with a goal and an assist in the home win against Qarabag, although in that winter market he was loaned Leganés, with 11 games and 1 goal in his stage in the Madrid team.
Last season, and again in the First Division, after playing with Sevilla against Cádiz on the opening day, Bryan went on loan to Eibar, where he played a very leading role and played 28 more games in LaLiga and another in the Cup. , with 4 goals scored and three goal passes.
International in all the lower categories of the national team before his debut with the Major, on March 25 in a Spain-Greece match, led by Luis Enrique Martínez, the fine winger from Cádiz is a great bet for Tottenham.
Bryan Gil will be Argentina's rival at the Tokyo 2020 Games. Photo: AP
"Sevilla FC thanks Bryan Gil for his dedication throughout these years and wishes him the best of luck both in Tokyo and in his new stage in England," said the Andalusian club, which, within this operation, is With the services for three seasons of the Argentine winger Lamela, 29 years old and his second signing after that of Serbian goalkeeper Marko Dmitrovic, from Eibar.
Born in Carapachay and trained in the lower categories of the River, Lamela is an international attacker with the Albiceleste who counts 25 games with the National Team and 3 goals.
He comes from spending the last eight seasons at Tottenham.
He made his debut with just 17 years in the River Plate first team in the 2009 Clausura Tournament and continued in the 2010 Apertura, being the undisputed starter in all the Clausura 2011 games, with two goals, although he did not manage to prevent the decline of the Millionaires in Promotion before Belgrano.
Lamela spent eight seasons in the Premier League.
Photo: AFP
At just 19 years old, he made the leap to Europe by signing in the summer of 2011 with Roma, where he played 31 games in his debut, with six goals and seven assists.
The following year he played 33 games and scored 15 goals, one less than the then league top scorer for his team that season, his compatriot Daniel Osvaldo.
From there he went to the Premier League at the age of 21, when he arrived in the summer of 2013 at Tottenham under the Portuguese coach André Vilas-Boas.
In his first campaign he hardly played due to a back injury, although his consolidation came in 2014-15, with 46 games and 5 goals;
and then improved his records (11 goals in 2015-16).
His progression was slowed in the following two seasons, by a hip injury, and in the 2018-19 season (33 games and 6 goals) he achieved the greatest milestone of his career, the runner-up with Tottenham in the Champions League.
In 2019-20 and 2020-21 he also had good records (35 games and 4 goals in each of them).
Source: EFE
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