Without dollars, Argentine clubs activate the transfer market with an internal rotation of many young people and few weighty surnames

With renowned returns that are explained by the interest of the footballers and not by the contracts pesified at the official exchange rate;

transfers between clubs that compete with each other and returns after a pre-world championship summer in different leagues,

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The particularity is that the transfer book is open from November 10, 2022 and will close together with the start of the competition, around the end of the first month of 2023.

The World Cup shakes the markets of some European leagues and the MLS.

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Strictly speaking, after each World Cup and with exceptions during the 90s, for contemporary Argentine soccer it was always like that.

The World Cup players that the Professional Soccer League will have - Franco Armani and Nicolás de la Cruz, for Uruguay, in River, and Alan Franco, for Ecuador, in Talleres-, were already there before.

The world of football is quoted in dollars -or euros- and Argentina has a peculiarity that (also) explains the transfer market.

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So that footballer who agrees on his salary in -for example and in round numbers- 10,000 dollars, will receive the equivalent in the national currency according to the official exchange rate of the day.

If he were the one closing this note, he would sign his receipt for $1,798,000.

If he received the green bills, the change in the illegal market would be $3,680,000 and that difference of $1,882,000 is what prevents reinforcements from another hierarchy.

Brazil

can "import" Brazilian soccer players from elite markets and pay them a salary of that level.

, with its dollarized economy, is a magnet for soccer players;

, when it pays, does it better than our soccer and even

is an option that can tip the balance against a pesified offer from any Argentine team.

“Change complicates.

Any market is more attractive than Argentina.

Going to play anywhere, financially, is more attractive.

For the average player, today, any market is much more seductive than ours.

If they stay, it's because Argentine soccer gives you a certain prestige that no other league does.

It is a showcase for a better sports career.

But any side, from the economic point of view, is better”, graphs

, representative of soccer players.

With all the restrictions of the Central Bank, which follows the instructions set forth by the IMF, the Argentine pass market moves at the pace imposed by the clubs themselves: some institutions have not yet been strengthened, others have received a flood of incorporations and the dynamics that prevails is similar to that of barter,

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Without arrivals from abroad, the internal market is what moves.

No one charges in dollars?

Maxi Moralez, one of the most resonant movements on the market.

Photo: Racing Press.

Some footballers charge in dollars.

Leaders consulted explain that it is "very difficult" or "impossible" for a foreigner to come to Argentine soccer and accept a stack of orange bills with the image of the hornero, our national bird.

“Through agreements with foreign clubs, a type of engineering is possible that allows dollars to be taken abroad.

", excused a leader of a Buenos Aires club who knows the

.

The only way to get dollars out of the country is to buy soccer players.

So a foreign club sells to an Argentine one: if the pass is for 10 dollars -again a round example, although absurd-, it is done for 20, half is for the pass and the rest constitutes the player's salary.

It is a kind of triangulation first cousin of the one that was done in the 80s and 90s to evade taxes.

But in this case, there must be a commitment between the parties so that the money reaches the agreed destination.

Those who do not like to go to the

have another option: the

.

has a similar price

,

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It is an exchange rate that is operated in the capital market: a bond is bought in pesos that is later sold in dollars.

It is the only thing that the footballers accept, who no longer agree to caps on pesification.

What were the caps?

The leaders set a symbolic number in dollars, but they paid in pesos with a ceiling on the price: if the currency passed it, the change for the club remained the same.

Weights, weighted or triangulated

The inhibitions that weigh on some clubs also pull the market: a sale makes it possible to pay back wages and enter the open market.

He passed to

, which fought for the last championship with union measures of its players and then lost coach

in the middle of the preseason due to lack of payment.

He had to get rid of his figure,

, for money to come in, the blockade to be unlocked and thus also be able to reinforce himself.

In this way, the

was left with one of the jewels of the internal market.

His other six additions are free players or on loan from other institutions and none with the Uruguayan sign that came from

.

Thus, the most outstanding of the last tournament become a difficult figure.

In addition to Aleman,

was loved by several and he is about to sign the contract with

.

's free throws

will now be for

, who arrived from

, who in turn will return

, hanging in

after being expelled from

.

In two paragraphs, there are seven clubs and four footballers: a handrail from the same market.

What do the greats do?

Nacho Fernández will have River's 10 in Demichelis' team.

Photo: River Plate Press

Boca

has not yet disbursed a peso in incorporations.

and

have already been assured

and here the exception to what is seen in the market: affective play -in both cases it is about returns at 29 and 33 years of age, respectively- and currency exchange is a detail that is not substantial.

In

something similar happened:

arrived free from

of the MLS, after receiving five years in dollars.

Independent

, a separate case among the greats.

He brought a dozen soccer players, all from the local market or free.

None with the weight of Moralez or Nacho Fernández and not even Aleman or Pulga Rodríguez.

Perhaps

,

and

raise the bar among the newcomers.

, austere: brought Chilean

from

in his country.

“It is an atypical market for the length and for how it is taking place.

They are taking many first-contract players, young enough to do business later, instead of those with experience and hierarchy: of those, very few hired ”, explains Scandizzo, the representative, to understand the phenomenon.

“Before, it was always the other way around: first those in the hierarchy, the most experienced, and then the filler, the youngest, with little experience and less name.

Perhaps we will see many footballers on the field that we do not know, similar to the pandemic, ”he predicts.

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