After securing Agustín Sant'anna and Rodrigo Villagra,
River
was unable to put a bow on the transfer market this Thursday.
In the end, the Uruguayan scorer Luciano Rodríguez, one of those sought by Martín Demichelis and company, will stay in Liverpool de Montevideo to play in the Copa Libertadores.
From Núñez they made the last attempt with a second offer of 12 million dollars for 70 percent of the pass.
But the proposal did not convince José Luis Palma, the president of the Uruguayan club, either.
In this way, in Núñez they have already lowered the blinds and will no longer make any more additions in this summer window.
Both the River leaders and the coach considered that Lucho Rodríguez was not a necessity but rather a bet with great projection.
Therefore, they consider that it makes no sense to look for another alternative in the last hours of the pass book, which closes this Friday at 8 p.m.
In the hours before the window closed in Europe, this Thursday, Liverpool and Feyenoord gave up on completing a transfer that seemed on track because the Netherlands team changed the payment method and the times did not fit to seal the deal.
At the same time, as River's second and last proposal (the first had been 7 million euros for 60% of the token) was not sufficient either, Palma made the decision to keep Luciano Rodríguez until mid-year (July- August), the strongest market period, mainly in Europe.
In fact, in Uruguay it is not ruled out that Feyenoord could close a deal now, despite the market having closed this Thursday in the Old Continent, to take him in the second half of 2024.
Liverpool's objective is for the 20-year-old striker to continue growing and showing his great international projection in the Copa Libertadores, a showcase as important as the Pre-Olympic Championship was for the striker who on the other side of the pond is pointed out as Luis Suárez's successor. .
For this reason, Palma will make a significant investment, in line with what the player could have earned at Feyenoord or River and his high price: Liverpool wanted 16 million dollars for the 80% it owns of the striker's salary.
The advance payment from the president of Liverpool
"He can go to the Netherlands today, maybe tomorrow to River and there are other open markets, or we can give him a great contract so that he can play for the Libertadores with Liverpool. It won't affect the life of either the player or us. I don't mind. "We are interested in breaking the record of the most important transfer in history in Uruguay," José Luis Palma had said this Wednesday night, after the team won the Uruguayan Super Cup title with a 1-0 victory against Defensor Sporting.
In the hours after this statement, the president of Liverpool was inclined to retain the main figure of Uruguayan football because he understands that, sooner rather than later, he will achieve a million-dollar transfer to Europe.