Agustín Almendra leaves Racing, set to join Necaxa as their new signing | OneFootball

The curtain is slowly coming down on 2025 and Racing is close to finalizing an important sale, which will also represent a significant loss for Gustavo Costas looking ahead to the next season. It is already a fact that Agustín Almendra will leave and play for Necaxa. He had expressed his desire for a change of scenery and was sold by the Academy. He is moving to Mexican football, and Gustavo Costas loses a starter for 2026.

The curtain is slowly coming down on 2025 and Racing is close to finalizing an important sale, which will also represent a significant loss for Gustavo Costas looking ahead to the next season. It is already a fact that Agustín Almendra will leave and play for Necaxa.

Although the midfielder used to play from the starting whistle during the last season, he was also one of the first to be substituted in the second halves of the matches. Having arrived from Boca in August 2023, he had expressed internally his desire for a change of scenery in this transfer market.

Far from putting obstacles, Diego Milito's management opened the exit door wide at the Cilindro de Avellaneda and accepted the proposal that came from Mexico. In that position, the coach will regain Baltasar Rodríguez, returning after finishing his loan at Inter Miami. The figures of the operation are currently unknown, but the Academy sold the entirety of the midfielder's transfer rights, and he will travel in the coming days to join Los Rayos' preseason and will sign a three-year contract.

Wearing the Racing jersey, a club he is a confessed fan of, Almendra played 102 matches (he reached the hundred mark against Tigre, in the quarterfinals of the Clausura), scored six goals and provided eight assists. He was also a champion of the Copa Sudamericana and the Recopa.

Despite being a regular starter for Costas, he rarely finished the matches, and his substitution between the 60th and 70th minutes became a habit that eventually wore down his cycle. The trend is clear in his numbers: of the 42 matches he played this season, he was substituted between the 60th and 69th minutes in 15, and in 12 he was changed between the 70th and 78th.

He only completed two matches: one against Colo-Colo in the group stage of the Copa Libertadores and another against Banfield at the end of the regular phase of the Clausura. The average is compelling:

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