Sevilla had just completed in the last hours the transfer of Bryan Gil to Tottenham, which includes Erik Lamela as a counterpart in addition to some 25 million euros more variable. The Argentine winger, El Desmarque announced, is already in the Sánchez-Pizjuán and after the medical examination, the signature and the officiality will go to the concentration of Lagos, Portugal, where Lopetegui and his men are. Bryan will have to wait to travel to London, as he is with Spain at the Games.
Will be the second new face of the Nervionense summer after the incorporation, free of Eibar, of the Serbian goalkeeper Dmitrovic. Lamela, 29, has played for the last eight seasons at Spurs, where he arrived from Roma. In the Italian team he spent two great campaigns that earned him his sale to the Londoners in exchange for 30 million.
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Quality lefty and verticality in attack, Lamela has lost a lot of prominence in recent seasons and in fact he no longer appears for the calls of Argentina, a selection with which he has played 25 games and scored three goals. LaLiga will be another challenge for this precocious prodigy, who with 12 years He was about to land at Barcelona and Seville itself when he was still active in the lower ranks of River Plate.
In the winger position he will compete for the moment with Suso and Ocampos. Munir and Idrissi also move through these areas, although the continuity of both is by no means certain in Lopetegui's squad for next season. Everything will depend on how the market continues to evolve.