The New York City puts its eyes on Papu
The New York City can be an exit route in this winter market for Papunashvili. The club of the Major Soccer League is very interested in the Georgian player and both he and Zaragoza are looking for a way out for the player, who aims to leave the team in January to release wage mass. Papu and some more, because the Aragonese club needs to release wage mass to make room, in addition to a 9, with Darío Poveda as a goal, to a midfielder with capacity with the ball that Victor wants and that he already asked for in summer. The departure of the Georgian, with a contract until 2022, would be through a transfer, even if it was not high, and he would release his salary.
The American team has followed the player and in Zaragoza they already know the interest in him, but there is currently no firm offer. The New York City is waiting to finalize the hiring of a new coach after the termination of Doménec Torrent's contract two weeks ago, after falling in the MLS semifinals against Toronto, which would later lose the final with the Seattle Sounders in which exzaragocista Víctor Rodríguez played. With Torrent the New York City reached its best historical score in the Eastern Conference, but the coach decided not to continue.
The New York club is determined to bet on Papu, but wants to wait to sign a coach to make that decision in common, although in MLS the weight of the technicians is not as great as in Europe. In New York City, founded in 2013 as a Manchester City franchise (the other founder is the New York Yankees, one of the great baseball clubs in the United States), Spanish soccer players such as David Villa, Iraola, Angeliño or Pablo Alvarez This season has been done by the former player of Numancia Callens. An offer in February of 1.3 million by James Igbekeme, specifically from Toronto, came to Zaragoza in February, which was rejected by the club and there are several teams from that League interested in Eguaras, especially the Seattle Sounders.
Papu arrived in Zaragoza in the summer of 2017 after paying Dinamo de Tbilisi a little less than 100,000 euros in his transfer. His first course was notable in the second round, under the command of Natxo González, and the club decided to renew him until 2022 and not transfer him even though he knew of the interest of some Russian team in the Georgian end. His second campaign was marked by a long ankle injury and last summer Zaragoza, with partisan voices in the club for sale, decided to keep his bet on him when considering the sports direction that was not the best time for his transfer. This season he has played 10 games, but only two starts and 308 minutes, with a performance far from his level in a role of revulsive that Victor has assigned and that has not been easy to adapt. Papu, in addition to in Russia,
