How River are coping day to day after their exit to Racing | OneFootball

Without a football calendar, 2025 for the Millonario will end with a handful of training sessions where Marcelo Gallardo will make strong decisions before releasing the players until the preseason.

«I will start working from tomorrow for what's coming. That's the only way I see when things are going bad», asserted Marcelo Gallardo right after River was eliminated by Racing. The «terrible» quarter for the Millonario ended with the defeat in the round of 16 of the Clausura, and also a dreadful year. Prematurely, there will be no more football in Núñez in 2025, a shock for the club's history but also a reality check that the Muñeco will seek to reverse in the next season.

Although the squad will have Tuesday off to rest and reflect on a match lost at the last minute -and much more-, the coaching staff will begin the «diagnosis» to carry out an imminent cleanup of the squad. According to the coach, reaffirming his stance of not giving up despite not having achieved any of the set goals, the time has come to make strong decisions.

On Wednesday, both the players and the CT will meet in Ezeiza to resume training, with reconditioning tasks, but above all to analyze what was a disastrous year for River's football aspirations.

It will be a short week of introspection, self-criticism, and “seeing how we continue”, according to the coach. And this means that Gallardo will directly inform those players he will not consider for the future: the departures could be up to 10.

Next weekend (11/29), after a handful of training sessions, Gallardo will release the players and the entire delegation will start a long summer vacation. On December 20, three weeks later and just before the end-of-year holidays, the start of work is scheduled with an eye on the 2026 preseason.

Standard studies, progressive training, and an extremely active transfer market (in terms of reinforcements and departures) will kick off with the arrival of Christmas in Núñez. Above all, there will be a fresh start, because internally at River they know the situation is critical and they need to make a decisive turnaround for what's coming.

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