Director says São Paulo squad is settled, but a new signing isn't ruled out | OneFootball

With five signings this season, almost all at no cost, the São Paulo squad is complete and ready for the rest of the year to compete on equal footing with any other team. At least that's what Rui Costa, the club's executive director of football, assured.

However, the director did not rule out any new negotiation opportunities, both for departures and arrivals, during this transfer window, which still has a few days left.

“If you ask me objectively, is the squad ready? In my assessment, yes. The football market is another thing. As long as the window is open, one of our players might leave, and another player might arrive. Because that's how squad formation works,” Rui explained in an interview with UOL this Thursday (19).

The Tricolor director expressed enthusiasm with what he has been seeing in training regarding the squad and assured that the current group of players is capable of competing against any other team.

“But I am absolutely convinced that with the work with the group we have, with the level of commitment this group has, with the profile of those who have arrived, and with the growth I see daily alongside Rafinha, with the president, in the training sessions I follow daily, São Paulo indeed has a team, a working group capable of competing at any level and against any opponent,” said the Tricolor executive.

Who is no longer leaving and is already reintegrated into the training sessions led by Hernán Crespo is the midfielder Alisson, after a failed negotiation with Corinthians, which backed out at the last minute with São Paulo.

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