Piero Hincapié shines at Leverkusen, set for Arsenal move | OneFootball

At 23 years old and with a solid presence in European football, Piero Hincapié is on the radar of several Premier League giants in the final stretch of the transfer market. Arsenal has already initiated concrete negotiations to secure the Ecuadorian central defender, formerly of Talleres de Córdoba, while Chelsea and Tottenham remain attentive to the evolution of the situation.

The defender's release clause is 60 million euros and is valid until September 1st. The team led by Mikel Arteta —which has Gabriel Heinze on its technical staff— has already opened formal conversations with Bayer Leverkusen, a club that, for now, has no intention of negotiating for less than that amount.

From England, they explain that the departure of Pole Jakub Kiwior to Porto and the future of Oleksandr Zinchenko could accelerate the arrival of the Ecuadorian to London. Meanwhile, Hincapié himself has already made the decision to change teams, although everything depends on a club paying the amount set in his contract.

Despite the interest of several teams, Leverkusen is firm: it will not listen to offers below the clause. This forces the defender to wait for the total amount to be executed if he wants to finalize his departure in this transfer window.

Last weekend, the player was the protagonist of an image that went around the world. After Leverkusen's surprising defeat at home to Hoffenheim 2-1, in the start of the Bundesliga, Hincapié left the field in tears, in what many interpreted as a farewell.

His story with Talleres does not go unnoticed in Argentine football. He arrived in Córdoba from Independiente del Valle in 2020 in exchange for one million dollars for 50% of the pass. Just a year later, with 22 games played, he was transferred to German football for a figure close to nine million dollars, in one of the most important sales of the T.

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