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 contract renewal. If all goes well, the young player would sign for two more years this Friday and then head off 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 return to Buenos Aires.

Currently, Subiabre has a contract with River until December 2026, but the fear within Jorge Brito's management is that a situation similar to Claudio Echeverri's might occur. In a similar scenario, the "Diablito" excelled in the U-17 World Cup in 2023 and upon his return, refused to renew. In that situation, the club was left without negotiation tools and ended up hastening 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 nor for tonight's match against Palmeiras in Brazil. In fact, due to the need to overturn an adverse result, Marcelo Gallardo is taking only 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 increase the release 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 confirmed that the player's salary would be closer to what the company led by Claudio Caniggia was seeking.

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