Independiente eye Racing fan struggling at San Lorenzo | OneFootball

El Rojo has already started talks with the agent of the striker who came up through the youth ranks at the Academia and who is currently very upset with the Ciclón due to a significant debt.

Even though the team already has an overcrowded attack with Gabriel Ávalos, Ignacio Pussetto, Walter Mazzantti, Matías Abaldo, Santiago Montiel, and a long list of young players, coach Gustavo Quinteros knows that more than one of them has their days numbered at Independiente, especially the Paraguayan No. 9, and that’s why he has started the search for another striker. The chosen one surprised everyone in Avellaneda due to his past at Racing and his complicated current situation.

We’re talking about Alexis Cuello, who is currently wearing the jersey of a San Lorenzo in crisis. Although he returned to training under Damián Ayude and has a contract until December 2026, no one in Boedo dares to guarantee his continuity for next season. Aware of his situation, El Rojo opened its doors wide and the management has already started initial talks with his agent.

Having scored six goals in 37 matches this year (14 in 73 games overall), Cuello is very upset about a debt that Ciclón has owed him since his arrival in January 2024. The debt amounts to 75,000 dollars and led him to send a formal notice weeks ago, threatening to become a free agent if payment was not made within the set deadline.

In his claim, he detailed that he has not received bonuses, nor a percentage from his loan, nor what he is owed after the permanent transfer from Almagro, which continues to pressure for the money to be deposited or for him to be sold.

In the previous transfer window, he was on Racing’s radar, the team he openly supports and where he developed as a player. Born in Dock Sud, he spent much of his youth career at the Tita facility and in 2019 was promoted by Eduardo Chacho Coudet, but never made his first-team debut and decided to try his luck in the lower divisions, first at Barracas Central and then at Instituto and the Tricolor.

However, a segment of the Academia fans did not approve of his arrival because he celebrated a goal passionately against them in a clásico at the Nuevo Gasómetro and because of an unintentional taunt. After the match, the striker shared a post from a San Lorenzo fan account that said “Racing S.A”, as a jab, referencing the 2000 management era, and added a silence emoji, silencing the fans who called him ungrateful for celebrating the goal.

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