Apparently the leadership of Gremio de Porto Alegre is still bothered by having paid $2 million to America de Mexico for Michael Arroyo, who failed in the Brazilian club where he signed in the previous June for two seasons and only remained for six months.
The reproaches from the board of the current champion of the Copa Libertadores de America and the press of Porto Alegre do not stop. After Arroyo was called "the problem player of Gremio," who "became a huge headache," according to several publications of the newspaper Zero Hora, journalist Eduardo Gabardo, from that newspaper, reported that the tricolor informed the Gaucha leadership "that he did not have the psychological conditions to continue in the club."
Last Wednesday, Zero Hora announced that the 30-year-old midfielder signed "for two seasons" with Barcelona de Guayaquil and "with that, Gremio gets rid of a problem, since Arroyo had a contract until December 2019."
The note adds that "Arroyo was hired by Gremio in June 2017. In Arena, the midfielder had a dim passage, with a melancholic ending." The newspaper explains that the Guayaquil-born player, in addition to the "psychological conditions" that he claimed to not perform at Gremio, also "claimed lack of motivation to play for the Gremio team" and that is why "the player was left out of the delegation in the Libertadores final and also in the Club World Cup."
Other 'returns'
Most of the recent steps of tricolor players in Brazil have been unfortunate; Arroyo and Miler Bolaños are two of the latest cases.
They are added to Luis Bolaños, who did not convince at Internacional de Porto Alegre (who paid $3 million) nor at Santos. Patricio Urrutia fought to go to Fluminense in 2009; he signed for two campaigns and returned in five months. He only played a few minutes.
In 2017, Luis Kunti Caicedo returned, who deflated at Cruzeiro; and for 2018, Jefferson Orejuela returns, who did not transcend at Fluminense. This year, Frickson Erazo will play for Vasco da Gama, after going unnoticed at Flamengo, Gremio, and Atlético Mineiro.
$2 million dollars
That's the amount Gremio de Porto Alegre paid for Michael Arroyo, who played seven official matches for the club, which did not take him into account for the Copa Libertadores that they won.
The bad experiences with the Ecuadorians Bolaños and Arroyo, who asked to leave, increased the vigilance of the leadership regarding foreign players.
Zero Hora, newspaper from Porto Alegre
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