River confident Ian Subiabre will sign new contract in the coming hours | OneFootball

After several unsuccessful negotiations and with the intervention of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), River and Ian Subiabre are close to reaching an agreement for the renewal of his contract. If all goes well, the young player would sign for two more years this Friday and then go on to compete in the U-20 World Cup.

The AFA played a crucial role in the negotiations and assured the Núñez club that if the player ultimately does not agree to extend his contract, he will be immediately removed from the Argentine National Team and will return to Buenos Aires.

Currently, Subiabre has a contract with River until December 2026, but the fear in Jorge Brito's leadership is that a case like Claudio Echeverri's will repeat itself. In a similar situation, Diablito shone in the U-17 World Cup in 2023 and upon his return, he did not want to renew. Faced with this scenario, the club was left without negotiation tools and ended up accelerating his sale to Manchester City.

Although there was always optimism, the negotiation reached such a tense point that the player was not called up for the match against Atlético Tucumán last Sunday or for tonight's match against Palmeiras, in Brazil. In fact, given the need to overcome an adverse result, Marcelo Gallardo only takes three forwards: Miguel Borja, Facundo Colidio, and Maximiliano Salas.

The new agreement that Subiabre would sign would tie him to River until December 2028 and would raise the termination clause, which is currently 30 million dollars. It has not yet been confirmed that it will indeed be up to the 100 million that the club wanted, but it is known that the player's salary would be closer to what the company run by Claudio Caniggia was aiming for.

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