Roberto Colombo Friday 21 July 2023, 02:49
SAINT FERNANDO – Mateo Retegui is a new Genoa player: the number 9 of the Italian national team played his last match with the Tigre shirt, in the Copa Sudamericana against Paraguayan Libertad Asunción and was then informed by his entouragefirst of all his father, Carlos Jose for everyone The sheetformer coach of the Argentine national field hockey team and winner of gold and silver Olympic medals, of the successful outcome of the negotiations with the Ligurian club.
From the red and blue of the Tiger to that of the Griffin, therefore. But also give it Xeneizes of export, those of Buenos Aires, the Boca Juniors where Mateo exploded, to the authentic Genoese, those of Zena, his new team, where he will seek glory in European football. Retegui was paid an amount close to 16 million euros: Genoa secures 80% of the price tag, Boca and Tigre keep 20% of the future resale of the Italian-Argentine bomber, who will travel already on Friday evening or at the latest tomorrow morning from the Ministero Pistarini airport in Ezeiza, Buenos Aires, to Rome where he will make a stopover to then reach the Ligurian capital. In short, after a bit of apprehension and a bit of anxiety that had taken hold in the late afternoon of Thursday, everything ends for the best, also for the joy of Robert Mancinicoach of Retegui in the national team who had advised the blue number 9 to choose a team in which he had the chance to be able to fully show all its undoubted qualities.
The backstory
We were talking about hours of rossoblù anxiety: yes, because the rumor had spread that Genoa had given Mateo and Tigre a sort of ultimatum. Either accept our offer by Friday 21 July, or consider it null, this is the gist. There was no need to force the hand: Retegui, despite the interest of Lazio, the court of Aston Villa and also that of Wolverhampton Wanderers (destination that would have been appreciated by the player but did not materialize due to the impossibility of the Wolves to sell Raul Jimenez in a short time) in a few hours he will meet the Lantern and will exchange his first words and first hugs with Alberto Gilardinohis new coach.
2023-07-21 00:49:00
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