Tonny Sanabria, that after Tuesday's game against Real Sociedad -which played as a starter by express desire of Pellegrini– said goodbye to his colleagues in the ranks of the Real Betis, He has already collected his belongings from the locker room and this afternoon he left the city of Seville for Turin, where he must pass the relevant medical examinations in the next few hours before signing his signature on a new contract, for the remainder of this season and four more with him Torino, which struggles to avoid the decline in A series Italian.
He Torino will pay to Real Betis 7 million euros, plus 3 in variables for the transfer of the Paraguayan international, while the Verdiblanco club maintains 10% of the player's pass, an amount that he will receive in the event of a future transfer of the forward, who is 24 years old and already played in Italy in the ranks of Genoa, the Rome and the Sassuolo, to which he was transferred in January 2014 by Fc Barcelona (5.7 million euros) in a bridge operation that took months later to.
The loss of Sanabria up front, where Pellegrini has to Loren, Borja Iglesias and JuanmiThe Verdiblanco club is not going to cover it with the signing of another striker, nor has Pellegrini called Raúl -pichichi of the subsidiary- to join the training sessions with the first team.
The federal discharge of Sanabria allows the Betis cover his hole with some player from Betis Deportivo and the technicians are considering the possibility that the 27-year-old center-back Luis Martínez is the one promoted to the first team -because there is a greater need for troops in that area-, since three reinforcements from outside are going to arrive at the subsidiary, with the idea to consolidate their options to qualify for the new Segunda B Pro next season (with two groups of 20 teams, North and South), or even compete in the promotion phase to Second A if it gets within range.
Raúl, like many other players under the age of 23, can switch seamlessly between the first team and the reserve team, which those over that age cannot.