Perez returns to Atletico, Udinese now risks redoing the whole defense

The Argentine international will be shot for another year on loan, but no longer in Friuli. With Marì returning to Arsenal and Becao leaving, there are many question marks

UDINE. First the reverse with the renunciation of the race for Nahuel Molina and now the decision to go home immediately Nehuen Perezwithout therefore extending the dry loan with which last summer he had given him to Udinese, which instead counted on that renewal option by another sporting season.

With these moves Atletico Madrid has placed its nineties load on the Zebretta programming, impacting not so much on the future sale of a Molina always courted by Juventus, but on the preparation and therefore the composition of the next starting defense to be delivered to the new technician. Andrea Sottil.

WALL IN PIECES

Because the early departure of Perez, who has already given his consent to return to Madrid, with the prospect, among other things, of a further loan around Europe, represents in fact the second blow to the Juventus defensive wall after the loss of Pablo Marìalready returned to Arsenal, as he had arrived on loan until the end of the season.

Accounts in hand, Perez and Marì were two very successful players in the second part of the season, with Gabriele Cioffi who used the Argentine Perez 16 times (most often used as a center on the left) and the Spanish Marì 15 times, who turned out to be a upgrade for the whole team, for how he was able to raise the defensive line.

NEXT STARTING

To convey the idea of ​​the wall that is falling apart, there are then the increasingly recurring rumors of a possible sale of Rodrigo Becaofresh from his best season since arriving in Udine in 2019. the 26-year-old Brazilian made 35 appearances (21 of which with Cioffi management), two goals and an assist.

All numbers that led Tottenham and Everton to ask for information, as well as Torino, which is thinking about the aftermath Gleison Bremer. Per Gino Pozzo it cannot be sold, provided however that the requested 20 million arrive, a figure that would also please the former Becao team in Brazil, Bahia, which would receive 15% of the sale plus 4.5% of the production bonus.

In summary, what was the starting defense for the whole second part of the season, is therefore destined to lose two pieces, with the third on the market.

RECONSTRUCTION

Enough and move forward to review part of the strategies, without counting the situations of the prestigious defensive outsiders such as Molina and Udogie, appetites of many big names. At the moment, therefore, all that remains is to count, thinking of the 32-year-old cuirassier Bram Nuytinck which will expire in a year, to the 24-year-old Croatian Filip Benkovic which arrived in January but which is still to be discovered, to the evaluations that await the 18-year-old Ghanaian (with an Irish passport) James Abankwahon which Sottil will have to work a lot, at the possible departure of Marvin Zeegelaarwhich has not renewed its contract expiring in 15 days, but also to market rumors.

And there Udinese is working under the radar, even if some names have already sprung up, like the 30-year-old Armando Izzo of Turin, the class of ’97 Andrea Cistana, which Brescia has put up for auction, starting from 8 million. The 32-year-old Franco-Moroccan also emerged in the weeks race Romain Saissat parameter zero from Wolverhampton.