Atlético Nacional is in Lima, where it is competing in the Copa Ciudad de Reyes, a friendly tournament that serves as preparation for the Liga BetPlay and the Copa Colombia, competitions in which it is obliged to win the title and not repeat the failure of the first semester.
Of the signings for the remainder of the 2024 season, one of them is Edwin Cardona, a midfielder who has been declining in relation to his market valuesince it suffered a considerable decline that demonstrates the difficulties in consolidating itself into a group.
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At the moment, he is working under the command of Pablo Repetto to recover that level that made him appear in teams such as Boca Juniors, Monterrey and until the end of 2023 in América de Cali, a team in which he went from happiness to tragedy in a matter of four months.
One of the positions in which Nacional had problems was in the creation, because it only has Pablo Cepellini since his arrival in February 2024, so the option of recovering a man who was a figure in the 2011 and 2014 titles in Colombian soccer was presented.
However, Edwin Cardona arrived in green with a devaluation of 200,000 euros in the last six monthsdepending on the platform Transfermartkdue to his poor results with América in the first semester and that he currently has it at a cost of 800,000 euros.
In fact, in the set Scarlet He had improved that condition after his discreet time at Racingsince he left the Argentine team worth 750,000 euros in September 2023 and in the red, commanded at that time by Lucas González, he reached one million.
Everything is due to his sporting performance because Cardona went from playing 21 games under the command of the Bogota native, to only 16 games with César Farías, who left him on the bench due to lack of rhythm and that also cost him elimination in the qualifying phase. All against all.
The 31-year-old midfielder is expected to feature in Atlético Nacional to fight for the title, and could also reunite with Roger Martínez, Racing striker for whom the Purslane They continue to bid to acquire it in the coming weeks.
Atlético Nacional is about to close an unexpected transfer by selling the young attacker Óscar Perea, 18, whose contract with the club extended until December 2024. The operation, which involves the investment group Chelsea Co., chaired by Todd Boehly , is estimated at approximately $5.5 million.
Perea will leave the Colombian U-20 team to travel to London, where you will undergo the corresponding medical examinations. This movement occurs while the forward was preparing to participate in friendly matches and a microcycle of work with the national team.
However, Perea’s immediate future will not be in England. According to the Chelsea consortium’s plans, the Colombian striker would be loaned to Racing Club de Strasbourgof the French Ligue 1, in which he would find himself as a rival against another coffee grower who is Deiver Machado, left back of Lens, and until January 2024, Óscar Cortés belonged to that team until his loan to Rangers of Scotland.
At Strasbourg, the striker will have the opportunity to continue developing and accumulate minutes of competition in the coming season. This loan is part of the consortium’s strategy to maximize the player’s potential in a competitive environment.
