Elche CF has been the third striker of the club in the season that now ends, but with a share of protagonism much higher than what a player with that role usually has. The above, combined with the staggering figures that link from the UK to offers from English clubs for the Uruguayan player, makes it fulfill the two great premises that must preside over any operation of buying and selling rights in an entity of the profile of the franjiverde, which must buy cheap and sell expensive. In the era of Christian Bragarnik at the helm of the club of the Martínez Valero, we have two clear examples, paradigmatic, of transfers of footballers who fulfilled the above partially or totally. One is from the winger 'Emi' Rigoni, who arrived at Elche on the last day of the summer transfer market of the 2020/21, from Zenit of St. Petersburg and in the framework of a loan deal with an option to buy that the club would exercise months later, despite the poor performance of the Italian-Argentine on the green: in the entire course, he only participated in 25 official matches (23 of LaLiga EA Sports and two of the Copa del Rey), in which he barely scored a single goal. The aforementioned option to buy had a ridiculous price (100,000 euros revealed by the Diario As) if compared to the 2.9 million that the Sao Paulo FC was forced to pay to Elche at the end of that campaign, just five years ago, when the parties agreed on the transfer of the economic rights of the player. The other example is a footballer who not only offered economic performance, but also sports. It is Lucas Boye, another Italian-Argentine, this center-forward. After exercising also in 2021 the option to buy that was contemplated in his loan deal by Torino FC and with a value of 2.6 million euros, two years later Elche transferred him to Granada CF for a sum that could reach 10 million (with objectives). By then, the player from San Gregorio had been a key piece of two consecutive permanences of the franjiverde squad in LaLiga EA Sports, a performance that valued even his call-up to La Albiceleste. The case of Rigoni is a good example of how, sometimes, the best deals are not necessarily those that bring the most joy on the pitch. The case of Boye, on the other hand, and surely no one in the Bragarnik era, represents the category of footballer ideal for a selling entity: he revalued his market value at the same rate that he raised his competitive level and that of the team.
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Elche CF sells low and buys high: the case of Álvaro Rodríguez
Elche CF aims to recover the investment in Álvaro Rodríguez and sell him at a high price. Can the club achieve its goals?
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