Elche sign Pablo Piatti

Surprise at Martínez Valero and not because of the match between Sevilla and Elche, but because of what happened in the offices a few minutes after the start of the match: Pablo Piatti is already a new Elche player. The Argentine returns to LaLiga to join the Elche discipline to contribute experience and goals and will help Escribá's team to try to achieve permanence.

Piatti, who was without a team after his experience in MLS, at Toronto FC, accumulates 294 matches in First Division. The attacker went through Almería, Valencia and Espanyol. In total, he scored 48 goals in the top flight. Piatti expands a lead in which Boyé, Carrillo, Pere Milla and Nino are already there. It is the second signing that Elche incorporates after the market closes and will arrive in the city tomorrow.

“Piatti is an experienced player who comes to add”

Elche coach Fran Escribá said this afternoon that the club's new signing, Argentine Pablo Piatti, He is a player who will bring experience and who comes to join the team in the final stretch of the season.

The club from Elche announced minutes before the match against Sevilla (2-1) the incorporation to its squad of the Argentine attacker, who was without equipment and it will cover one of the two federative licenses that Elche had free.

The Argentinian is scheduled to arrive in Elche this Sunday and in the next few days, after passing the medical tests and those established by the sanitary protocol of the competition, he will join the work with the group under the orders of Fran Escribá.

“The news has been a joy”, said Escribá, who assured that he had not carried out “no request” to the club owner, Argentine Christian Bragarnik, in their meeting this week.

“I already said that if there was any option to sign for me it would be fantastic“, clarified the coach, who guaranteed that Piatti, with experience in teams like Almería, Valencia and Espanyol, “It will adapt in five minutes.”

The Elche coach said he knew the forward personally, which he described as “a ten on a human level.”

“It is different from everything we have and very skilled in one on one. Of all those who play outside, he is the one with the most arrival and goal, “he said.