San Lorenzo pay Romaña, avoid losing him on a free | OneFootball

After adding yet another formal notice, along with being the club with the most sanctions on the continent, San Lorenzo breathed a sigh of relief after confirming the payment of the overdue salary to defender Jhohan Romaña, thus preventing the key player from being able to consider himself a free agent.

The news broke on Friday morning, after the Colombian player formally demanded that the club, known as El Ciclón, pay his salary for the month of October, which was still owed to him. As a result, the Boedo club was forced to resolve the situation to prevent the defender from becoming a free agent 48 hours later.

In fact, on Saturday morning, the payment of the outstanding amount was confirmed, something that was also verified by the Players’ Union. Thus, another conflict between the management and the player was resolved, since in October he had filed a complaint about unpaid wages along with Alexis Cuello. Romaña never hid his dissatisfaction with the current management, aside from the instability of the Board of Directors and the uncertainty regarding San Lorenzo’s institutional future.

In this way, Romaña will not become a free agent, but he also won’t be present against Sarmiento. The defender had been excluded from El Ciclón’s squad for the match against the team from Junín. The official reason given was that he is dealing with a physical issue that prevents him from being at 100 percent, but the truth is that the news came just hours after his formal demand to the club.

With the mini-crisis averted, San Lorenzo still finds no peace. Just a few days ago, the club received two more sanctions from FIFA, bringing the total to 14 and making it the most penalized club on the entire continent. All this, moreover, is happening alongside the bankruptcy request the institution is facing from the Swiss fund AIS Investment Fund, for 4.7 million dollars.

According to the Federation, these sanctions were registered on November 13 and, like the most recent ones, are for an indefinite period. The previous sanctions had been filed by Rafa Pérez, a player who was with the club in 2023, and a percentage of the solidarity mechanism for the transfer of Diego Herazo, who arrived from Deportes Tolima in February 2024.

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