Nahuel Molina, out of the Udinese squad and heading to Atlético

The Argentine international side Nahuel Molinawhose signing lasts Atletico Madrid for this season, he no longer played this Thursday with the Udinesehis current team, in the friendly match against Bayer Leverkusento set course for the rojiblanco team, in an operation that is only pending to be definitively formalized.

The footballer was not even part of the call made up of 24 players with which Andrea Sottil, the coach of Udinesecounted for the fourth friendly of this preseason, without the Italian club reporting any injury or any reason for his absence among those chosen for the match, when he pointed to the starting lineup.

Nahuel Molina, 24 years old and whose transfer must be completed in the next few hours to put himself under the orders of his compatriot Diego Simeonehad participated in the three previous friendlies of this preseason of the Udinese.

In the most recent, four days ago, he came out as a starter and played one hour of the match, while negotiations continued between his club, the Udinesein which he has played the last two seasons (2020-21 and 2021-22), and the Atletico Madridto which he will arrive this summer transferred, in an operation that will include, in turn, the transfer to the Italian club of Nehuen Perez, who already played on loan there during the past campaign.

Waiting for the incorporation of Nahuel molinaAtlético had responded for now this summer to his four outings (the scorer Luis Suarezthe midfielder Hector Herrerathe side Sime Vrsaljko and the unprecedented goalkeeper last year Benjamin Lecomte; all due to the end of their contracts, in the case of the goalkeeper, his transfer from Monaco) with two reinforcements: the central midfielder Axel Witsel (free by the conclusion of his bond with the Borussia Dortmund) and the end Samuel Linoin exchange for some six million from the Gil Vincent.

The right side was missing, which will be Nahuel Molina. not convincing there Daniel Wasswhose departure is likely in this summer market, and has gone Sime Vrsaljkobecause the contract ended, but above all he left before Kieran Trippier (in the winter market from last January to Newcastlewith the vacuum that it caused in that area for the rest of the campaign) and the coaching staff is certain that Mark Llorente, The urgent solution then, has to play in more advanced positions, where it is much more decisive.

Among all these circumstances, the right side was a priority position for the Atlético in this summer market. You already have it solved with Nahuel molina. He was the one chosen by Simeone.


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Nahuel Molina celebrates a goal with Udinese.

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