Newell’s is taking its first steps with a view to the 2026 season, in which it will have to add many points to avoid problems in the average table. The team has already returned to work and now the club is looking to strengthen it for what is to come.
The milestone of this new stage can be set on December 14, the date on which the club members elected a new board of directors. With Ignacio Boero at the helm, the managers quickly took the first step.
This involves the hiring of the technical duo made up of Favio Orsi and Sergio Gómez to take charge of leading the first team. Champions with Platense in this year’s Apertura tournament, the coaches arrived at the Park with very good expectations and the objective of having a good campaign.
Luciano Herrera, a priority
The next step will be to strengthen the squad, and the managers began to work on it as soon as Orsi-Gómez took charge of the team. Some players have already left, including none other than Ever Banega, others have not had their contracts renewed and some more whose contract expires at the end of the year are a priority for the coaching staff.
The most notable case is that of Luciano Herrera, one of the footballers with the best performance at Newell’s throughout the year. The striker belongs to Defensa y Justicia and was on loan, with a purchase option. Even before Orsi and Gómez arrived, there was a consensus in the club that he was a player that the club should retain.df
Reinatti does not enter the negotiation
And finally it seems that this will be the case, since Newell’s informed Defensa y Justicia that it will execute the purchase option. The Parque club will keep 80 percent of the player’s transfer in exchange for one million dollars and the forward will sign a contract until the end of 2028.
Until now, there was speculation about the possibility that goalkeeper Josué Reinatti, who is on loan at Defensa y Justicia, would enter the operation for the transfer of Herrera. However, in the last few hours that alternative seems to have been put aside, although the player would continue at Halcón de Varela.
