2024-07-31 03:01:00
The announcement is delayed because negotiations are slow and the fine print of the contract is taking too long to be agreed upon. Marcelo Gallardo’s return to River’s coaching staff is well underway. But the negotiations between the club’s president, Jorge Brito, and the coach himself have not been finalized. Therefore, the institution itself informed the squad on Tuesday that the Reserve coach, Marcelo Escudero, will be in charge of directing River next Sunday at 3:00 p.m. (Argentine time) against Unión de Santa Fe at the 15 de Abril stadium, for the ninth date of the Professional League.
Although everything seems to indicate that Gallardo will be the new coach of the club from Núñez, the management does not want to do things in a hurry and They hope that the Doll can organize and plan well done the work before presenting yourself to the team.
The president and the imminent coach had a private dinner on Monday nightAnd after the meeting of the River Plate Board of Directors, Brito offered a contract for a year and a half until the end of his mandate, payable in pesos at dollar value. And Gallardo asked for total control of the institution’s football, from pre-infant to professional squad, and to have the final say regarding the signings and dismissals of the first team. The conversation reached that point and continued at a slow pace on Tuesday afternoon, according to reports. Brito is not in favour of transferring all football power to Gallardo as Rodolfo D’Onofrio did in his second presidential term. But that would not be an obstacle to reaching an agreement.
One detail that stops negotiations is that after the death of his representative Juan Luis Berros, It is the technician himself who manages the economic and tax aspects of his contract with the advice of some professionals in the field. There is a lot of money at stake and the coach does not want to make a false move, so time is being consumed between a few consultations and essential numbers while the anxiety of millions of River fans is increasing.
Even though there are lists of players circulating that River could incorporate before the transfer window closes, Gallardo did not reveal names or positions that could be reinforced. River believes that they will ask for a central defender, a left winger and perhaps a two-way midfielder with a good ability to score goals.But these are just speculations.
Another issue put on the negotiating table is the return of the doctor Pedro Hansing as head of the team’s medical staff, Jorge Bombicino as a kinesiologist and doctor Sandra Rossi as a neuroscience specialist. The three professionals left their posts during Demichelis’s term and Gallardo would like them to return to work with him, as well as the area of player tracking and detection that was dismantled by Brito’s administration.