The signings Costas wants after confirming he’ll stay at Racing | OneFootball

The coach of La Academia aims to remain competitive and plans to bring in a right-back, a box-to-box midfielder, another creative midfielder, and a center forward.

Racing's 2026 is starting to take shape. After the defeat against Estudiantes in the Torneo Clausura final, it was confirmed that they will play in the next Copa Sudamericana as they did not qualify for the Libertadores through the annual standings. On Wednesday, La Academia took another important step and secured the continuity of Gustavo Costas, who accepted a three-year contract and, barring any unforeseen circumstances, will sign in the coming days. Thus, they must now focus on assembling the squad.

The club already knows the positions the coach wants to strengthen to remain competitive: a right-back, a box-to-box midfielder, another creative midfielder, and a center forward. With a somewhat clear outlook, the Technical Secretariat led by Sebastián Saja has already started moving in search of some interesting names.

On the right side of the defense, the departure of Facundo Mura, who will not renew his contract and will leave as a free agent, left a gap that Gastón Martirena will now fill alone, and Racing has set its sights not too far away and will head to La Bombonera to negotiate with Boca for Lucas Blondel, who is not considered by Claudio Úbeda. On the opposite side, River's Marcelo Herrera, who is on loan at Columbus Crew in the MLS, is another target.

On another note, Eros Mancuso, who emerged from Boca's youth ranks, had a good spell at Estudiantes and recently was relegated in the Brasileirao with Fortaleza, is a possible option. The chance of having Santiago Arias, the Colombian who played for Atlético de Madrid, PSV, and Bayer Leverkusen, currently playing for Bahia in Brazil, is more distant.

For the midfield, there are no clear names for the more defensive player, but the creative one is a concrete target: La Academia has begun negotiations with Huracán to secure Matko Miljevic, after his great last season. As for the center forward, Adrián Balboa competed little with Maravilla Martínez, and the Avellaneda team is looking for another player in that position, which could be Milton Giménez, a long-standing desire of Costas when he was still at Banfield but who eventually joined Boca.

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