Before making official the arrival of the first reinforcements with a view to forming their River 2026, Marcelo Gallardo He began to make substantive decisions and moved forward with a purification of the squad, molding it to his criteria and his idea of a team. In this process, heavy names like Enzo Pérez, Nacho Fernández, Milton Casco, Pity Martínez, Miguel Borja and Federico Gattoni They did not start the preseason, clearly marking the course of the new cycle.
Gattoni’s case appears to be one of the most particular. The defender, who had little participation during his time at River, returned to Seville, the club that owned his pass, in a return that from Spain was bluntly defined as “unwanted”. This was reflected in Diario As in a note titled “Gattoni, the expected and unwanted new face in Sevilla”where they detail how his return came about and the complex scenario that the Andalusian club faces, which will have to find a new destination for him in the short term.
The reaction of the Spanish press to Gattoni’s return to Seville.“He never completely convinced in Seville and he had a chain of loan spells to Anderlecht and River Plate, where he encountered the problem that his supporter, Demichelis, was quickly dismissed and a Gallardo arrived who did not count on him”they describe in the first instance, explaining the context that left it without a place both in Núñez and in Spain.
Later, They describe that the panorama is even more forceful and even classified as “serious” if a quick solution is not found: “Now he returns to a Sevilla team that has no free chips and with whom he has a contract until 2027. The club hopes to be able to quickly place him on the South American market. Otherwise, the problem would be serious.”
