He Seville
FC has made the hiring of the Argentine official Alexander 'Papuan' Gomez until June 2024, thus becoming the first reinforcement for the team of Julen
Lopetegui at the winter market. The midfielder arrives from the Italian Atalanta, where he arrived in 2014 from the Metalist Ukrainian and where he has lived special moments at the Bergamo club with qualification for the Champions as a historic achievement.
The international albiceleste, who will be 33 years old in February, arrives in exchange for about 8 million euros, although 5.5 of them will be fixed and the rest in variables, an amount that Sevilla understands is a great opportunity and that it favors a strong confrontation with his coach in the Atalanta, Gian
Piero
Gasperini.
He arrives to occupy the organizing role of Banega
At Seville he 'Papuan' Gomez He arrives to fill the role of organizer that his compatriot played Ever
Banega, who left last summer at the end of his contract seduced by a juicy contract in Saudi football. The Argentine landed in Seville at noon and underwent the relevant medical examination prior to signing, after which the club made his signing official.
Gomez, who began his career in the Arsenal
of
Sarandi and played in Saint
Lawrence
of
Almagro, Catania and Metalist Ukrainian, has played more than 250 games with the shirt of the Atalanta and has scored 59 goals and has given 71 assists, one of his specialties and for what Monchi bet on him, since he was looking for a man capable of being important in the last pass. In the current campaign his numbers had stayed at 5 goals and 4 assists in 16 games before his confrontation with Gasperini.
The player, in principle, would not be for the appointment before him Valencia Cup for the urgency of his signing, although he will already train this Wednesday with the team, but in the League he could make his debut this weekend in Ipurua before him Eibar.