On the other hand, River agreed with Liverpool of Uruguay to purchase 20% of the economic rights of the player. From now on, both clubs will share equally the income from a future transfer.
River must pay the Uruguayan team 2.5 million dollars for that operation that was agreed in these hours, since when it bought it in August 2017 it had acquired 30% of the pass for 4.5 million dollars.
The player had already publicly announced that he was not going to be released on December 31 after the situations that the club went through with the departures without renewal of Carlos Sánchez, Rafael Borré, Benjamín Rollheiser and Fabricio Angileri, among others.
Currently, the exit clause of De la Cruz, 25, exceeds 20 million dollars, but with the new contract it will be lowered in order to give the player the possibility of a transfer in the next transfer markets.
According to what River told Télam, the idea is that “in the post-Qatar transfer market, they only leave because of the clause or a similar figure that will depend on their level in the World Cup, otherwise the best chance is for July.”
In recent years, De la Cruz has positioned himself as one of the most complete midfielders in South America, which led him to be a starter not only in River but also in the Uruguayan national team, which has him on its list for the World Cup in Qatar.
De la Cruz had a difficult start at the club with some injuries and a lack of adaptation but, after the departure of Gonzalo Martínez, Gallardo gave him confidence and since mid-2019 his career has been on the rise.
The key match that meant the takeoff of Carlos Sánchez’s brother, another historic player of the Gallardo cycle, was against Cerro Porteño in Paraguay for the quarterfinals of the Copa Libertadores, on August 28, 2019.
De la Cruz, on the morning of the match, was delayed for several hours due to an incident in an Under 20 match with Liverpool and after declaring he was released: he started and scored a great goal that meant the tie for the pass to the semifinal.
From its beginnings until the end of October 2021, Nicolás de la Cruz played a total of 176 games, with 29 goals and 36 assists and became champion eight times during the five years he has been at the club.
Their titles were the 2018/2019 Argentine Cup, the 2019 Argentine Super Cup, the 2018 Conmebol Libertadores Cup, the 2019 Recopa Sudamericana, the 2021 First Division championship and the 2021 Champions Trophy.
After de la Cruz’s contract was terminated, the leadership must wait for the arrival of the new coach to define the rest of the contracts that end on December 31 but that will depend on other factors.
The initial reference is for two historic players like Javier Pinola and Jonatan Maidana, who are at the end of their careers. In Pinola’s case, he could continue at the club as Martín Demichelis’s field assistant.
While in the rest of the cases, Ezequiel Barco, Tomás Pochettino, Leandro González Pírez and Juan Fernando Quintero, the particularities are economic and individual performance.
Source: Ambito
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