São Paulo eye free agents to replace André Silva | OneFootball

President Julio Casares and football director Carlos Belmonte (Instagram)

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After the failed negotiation to sign Marcos Leonardo, São Paulo's board is considering whether or not to go into the market for free-agent center-forward options. The club has until the 12th of the next month to register new players for the Copa Libertadores quarterfinals, where they will face LDU from Ecuador. In the Brazilian Championship, the deadline is October 3rd.

Options offered or raised by the club's analysis department will be discussed between the board and Hernán Crespo's technical committee.

Unemployed players, that is, those who have no contract with any other club, are the only possibilities for hiring by Brazilian clubs after the window closed last Tuesday (2).

According to the National Regulation of Registration and Transfer of Athletes of the CBF, teams can hire players as long as they are free in the market. The only condition is that the athlete has terminated his contract or is without a link until Tuesday.

Besides the legal factors, there are the São Paulo conditions, so to speak. In financial difficulty and with a spending cap implemented by the investment fund that assists in managing the accounts, Tricolor cannot spend more than it can afford.

Without him and two other options (Calleri and Ryan Francisco, who are also in Reffis), Hernán Crespo has to line up the attack, as a native center-forward, the countryman Dinneno, a name that came from Cruzeiro even when the coach was Luis Zubeldía, who even recommended him to Tricolor (a fact, by the way, that may contribute to his low usage with the new commander).

In addition to Dinneno, pieces can be improvised, like the wingers Ferreirinha and Tapia, as well as Luciano, who can perform functions like a false 9.

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