The disappointments of Almería with the Uruguayans

A couple of weeks after the transfer of Darwin Núñez to Lisbon meant a record transfer in the history of the Second Division and Benfica, Almería made official the entries of Cristian Olivera and Juan Manuel Gutiérrez. The rojiblanca entity paid two million euros for the first to the extreme and three for the second to the Danube. The figures would have been unthinkable a few years ago for the Mediterranean, especially for two 18-year-olds. However, an amount close to the sum of the two was paid by the UDA a season earlier to Peñarol himself for Darwin Núñez, who was only 20 years old at the time, in one of the most profitable moves after the event.

Both Olivera and Gutiérrez have gone completely unnoticed in the southeast of the peninsula, his entries being understood as collateral movements by that of Darwin Núñez; Not in vain, Olivera belongs to the TMA agency, as does the now Benfica forward, whose representative, Edgardo Lasalvia, also placed Brian Rodríguez in Almería, who spoke more off the field than on the green.

Olivera debuted in October 2020 in the defeat against Sporting de Gijón (0-1), entering the 88th minute. Six days later the winger returned to act, with 17 minutes in Logroño. He also came off the bench in the seventh match, against Cartagena at home (1-1). In the league he never participated again, but he did so in December in the Cup, starting at Hospitalet de Llobregat. In the winter market the rojiblanco club made him a record of the 'B', with whom he played 13 games (nine of them as a starter) in the Third Division, without scoring a single goal.

For his part, Gutiérrez, did not even make his debut in the Almeria first team, historically with a Uruguayan flavor. If he played 17 games with the subsidiary, but only seven as a starter, scoring only one goal (against Real Jaén). Neither of them ended up adapting to either the club or the city. Olivera had several encounters with fans on social networks, returning last month to Peñarol, who got his loan until June 2022. Gutiérrez, meanwhile, has packed his bags this weekend to go on loan (both have a contract until 2025) to the National, as indicated by the Dean (the UDA has not yet reported …).