Javier Correa’s Possible Departure Creates Uncertainty for Estudiantes

Javier Correa could leave in this transfer market and the team will feel it / Archive

Estudiantes took the policy of purifying their squad a little, taking into account that they will not have triple competition for the remainder of the year and that in some positions they have players who will not be used and due to the lack of overlapping matches they are managing sales or loans.

Juan Pablo Zozaya has already left for Arsenal and Ezequiel Naya for Sarmiento. It is very likely that Franco Zapiola, Alexis Manyoma, Bautista Kociubinski and Nicolás Fernández will follow the same path. The same could happen with Mauro Méndez, who wants to have greater continuity but Pincha only releases him in the event that an offer arrives that is tempting and that allows the Club to recover the money it invested at the time.

The problem now settled with Javier Correa, one of the best players that Estudiantes has on offense. In fact, he was one of the most outstanding players in the last tournament: scorer and author of decisive goals.

The first club to show interest was Colo Colo from Chile, which is playing in the current Copa Libertadores and has expectations of qualifying for the next one despite being far from the leader U. de Chile. His coach Jorge Almirón put him in the first places of forwards to go after this break.

Things got worse when Boca arrived at the meeting, wanting a forward to fill the place that Darío Benedetto will leave vacant, who will leave these days without pain or glory.

Correa, in addition to having scored 10 goals for the last champion, was key in the duel between the two teams. Among other things, he scored the winning goal in UNO under the rain that ultimately meant the team’s passage to the quarterfinals.

At Estudiantes they know that these two clubs are interested and they know that their exit clause is low: 2 million dollars. For a player who scored that many goals in a few games (because in many he was a substitute for Guido Carrillo) it makes him a seductive forward.

The man from Córdoba is one of the few players on the current squad who is not on vacation outside the country. He stayed in his province and is training. He knows that news can arise at any time and if he has to pack his bags, he is in shape to jump onto the field when necessary.

At Pincha they do not want to lose him but they know, at the same time, that he has a very low termination clause according to his potential: on social networks it was said that it was 1.8 million dollars but they confirmed to this medium that it is larger, barely larger than the two sticks of the North American currency.

The technical office will have a talk with the player. He will be offered an improvement in his contract because Eduardo Domínguez wants to retain him. But then it will be more a decision of the player and his representative than of the Club. At the time when they went looking for him he was not a leading figure and it was not a bad investment made.

Correa, 31, would be an option for the substitute bench, behind starters Miguel Merentiel and Edinson Cavani. Estudiantes’ response is still pending, but negotiations are expected to advance in the coming days.

In addition to Correa, Boca maintains its target on Brian Aguirre from Newell’s. Despite offering four million dollars for the young forward, the Rosario club rejected the initial proposal.

Estudiantes will offer Correa a contractual improvement to be able to retain him

The only favorable thing for Estudiantes in the event that Boca or Colo Colo make use of the exit clause is that in these operations it is an instant payment and no installment plan. It is paid instantly in the agreed currency.

In the case of the Chilean team there is no good relationship with the management company after what happened with goalkeeper Bryan Cortés, who already had everything arranged with Pincha but at the last minute did everything possible to retain him. And Boca, with Juan Román Riquelme as president, was against the use of this type of clauses in player contracts after what happened with Ezequiel Barco and his departure to Brighton in England for 10 million dollars. At the time he said that never again will a player from his club sign that or do the same with another institution.

The concrete thing is that a climate of uncertainty was generated in a sector of the field that was not in the plans. What happens to the team if Javier Correa leaves in this market?

2024-06-27 13:49:48
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