Total reshuffle at Boedo: Álvarez stays, Barrientos goes | OneFootball

San Lorenzo is going through a period of restructuring following Marcelo Culotta’s victory in last Saturday’s elections, as it must make a series of major decisions regarding the professional football department. After a meeting between the three new heads of the area and coach Gustavo Álvarez, all signs point to Pablo Barrientos leaving his position at the club.

While the head coach held a meeting lasting more than three hours with Walter Perazzo (General Coordinator), Guillermo Franco (Manager), Martín Saric (Sporting Director) and two other directors on Monday, during which preseason planning and the budget ahead of the transfer window were discussed, this Tuesday a meeting was held with Pitu, who returned to the club in February as President of Professional Football on an ad honorem basis.

Although no decision has been made, everything seems to indicate that the Comodoro Rivadavia native would leave the position he took on during Sergio Costantino’s transitional administration, under which he made the decision to hire Gustavo Álvarez over Martín Palermo.

It is expected that the Ciclón will part ways with several players in this transfer window, and the first names emerging as candidates to leave the club are three undisputed starters: Orlando Gill (set to play in the World Cup with Paraguay), Jhohan Romaña (whose contract expires in six months and who still has not reached an agreement to renew) and Alexis Cuello. At the same time, Manuel Insaurralde has drawn interest from Brazilian and Chilean football.

As for the youth football department, Marcelo Romano is expected to be dismissed and Perazzo will become the main person in charge of the area, the former coach of Argentina’s Under-20 national team, who will also be involved in decision-making for professional football. As for the transfer window, Álvarez is said to have requested at least six signings, not including possible departures he will obviously look to replace: a center back, two full-backs, two wingers and a center forward.

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