Cali America They continue with their planning for the second half of the year where they will seek to be protagonists after a bad first half where they were eliminated in the Copa Sudamericana and Liga Betplay at the first opportunity.
The scarlet team, faced with the failure of the first months of this year, made the decision to fire César Farías and bring in Jorge ‘Polilla’ Da Silva and now they are looking to make a good investment to reinforce areas of the field that were weak in the first half .
América already has Felipe Gómez and Yerson Candelo signed, but is expected to announce new hires and also more departures in the coming weeks.
Well, Marcela Gómez spoke this Friday with Smoke Free Zone and there she referred to the issue of signings, the negotiations that are underway and the need to bring in a top-level player.
Initially, he commented that the attacking zone will be reinforced especially: We understand that the shortcoming we had last semester was the lack of goals and that is what we are reinforcing for this semester. “We are looking for players who are decisive.”
Then, he spoke about the transfer rumors around the club: “We have not spoken with Cuadrado or Juan Fer Quintero. “Duván Vergara has his link with Rayados, he has open doors to America, he left a big mark on the club. institution and always has the option to return.
Afterwards, he referred to the possibility of bringing Duván Zapata in the future: “We started talking to Adrián 2 years before arriving and we want to do the same with Duván Zapata, but today it is not an option, he has just arrived in his new club.”
Marcela Gómez also referred to the situation of Andrés Sarmiento and confirmed the offer from Millonarios and Nacional: “Sarmiento’s situation, he still has a contract for 1 year and a half, at the beginning he said he wanted to continue, then recently he said no, we have option of several teams, the issue is being studied in the economic aspect why there is a percentage as well. We have an offer from Millonarios for Sarmiento from his businessman and from Nacional directly with the club, they are being studied.
Finally, he confirmed that the goal is to bring a top-level player who generates enthusiasm in the fans: What we want is to be able to do what Florentino did with his model at Real Madrid, all the presidents in the world want to do it, bring players let them move fertilizers, move the turnstile”.
