Dembele, Luis Suarez, Pogba, Dybala, Isco or Marcelo are free agents from this Friday, without having determined their future
While enjoying the much-anticipated vacations, today a handful of football stars live in permanent contact with their agents, waiting to get out of the unemployment queue they’ve entered since 12 a.m. Friday. June 30 marked the expiration of the contracts signed by figures of the caliber Pogba, Dybala, Luis Suárez, Dembélé, Isco or Marcelo, to name just a few of the most bombastic names within a very extensive list of football day laborers who are looking for a new destination to continue their careers.
Today, all these players, like many others, become free agents and their situation presents an interesting market opportunity for the clubs bidding on their services. It goes without saying that in certain cases it is not about bargains, far from it. Because while you don’t have to pay any amount for a transfer, in order to commit them to a number of salaries that are not reduced at all, you have to add up the resulting transfer fee that has caused a trend that is increasingly in vogue: that of the player who chooses to exhaust the bond with his club, leaves with the letter of freedom in hand.
Seventy-seven football players who played in the First Division last season ended their contracts on June 30. Some extended with the entity that paid them weeks and even months in advance. That was the case, for example, with Real Madrid player Luka Modric, Barca player Sergi Roberto, Betis player Claudio Bravo or ‘txuri urdin’ David Silva. Others closed a podium to open a new one without going a day without payroll or leaving the League. It was the case of Joselu, a former Alavés player who forms a fearsome duo at Espanyol with Raúl de Tomás, or Brian Oliván, who trades the vermilion of Mallorca for the blue and white of the parakeets. But there are those who remain in uncertainty.
A position that has reached three heavyweights in the Spanish championship in the past decade, such as Marcelo, Isco and Luis Suárez. The Brazilian winger and Málaga midfielder have been key players in Real Madrid’s royal cycle in Europe, which runs from the Décima to the Decimotercera, but after the final in Kiev they started a marked downturn leaving them with a residual role in the Decimotuarta . Now aged 34 and 30 respectively, they are chasing a chance to show they still have a lot of football in their boots.
Fenerbahçe has courted the former Fluminense player, who is also loved by Valladolid, under the chairmanship of his compatriot Ronaldo Nazário, although he prefers not to see the Community of Madrid, which puts Getafe and Rayo on the board. leave. Sevilla and Betis compete for the midfielder of Benalmadena, two teams led by two supporters of their magic, such as Julen Lopetegui and Manuel Pellegrini. Roma and Galatasaray have also beaten the Andalusian, but their intention is to continue in the League.
Luis Suarez, on the other hand, will leave the skin of the bull, after six campaigns spreading gunpowder at Barça and another two shooting targets with Atlético’s elastic. El Pistolero is looking for a new challenge as they prepare for the World Cup in Qatar and while his original intention was to continue in Europe, River Plate is best positioned to include him in their ranks.
Rocambolesca is Dembele’s situation. The French winger, who resigned months ago with salary demands that clashed with Barça’s harsh financial realities, finds no ‘entente cordiale’ in Joan Laporta, who is tied hand and foot by LaLiga rules. Chelsea, PSG and Bayern remain on hold. The azulgranas, by the way, depend on the famous levers to announce the transfers of the Danish Andreas Christensen and the Ivorian Franck Kessié, free after leaving Chelsea and Milan respectively.
Outside the Spanish League, the cases of Pogba and Dybala are attracting particular attention. In 2016, Manchester United made the French midfielder the protagonist of what was then the most expensive purchase in history, after paying €105 million to take him out of Juventus. Six years later, the Vecchia Signora prepares to get him back without paying a single pound to the red devils, on whom he has left no trace.
Dybala is exactly leaving Juventus, with whom Inter want to attack the throne of Milan together with Romelu Lukaku. The Argentinian had everything ready to move to Giuseppe Meazza, but the ‘Nerazzurri’ club must release salary bills before joining him and teams like Sevilla are keeping the radar activated to take action as what would be one of Madrid’s summer activities, gets frustrated. the series a
Source: La Verdad
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