River Plate chief Francescoli explains Man City plans for Echeverri

Manchester City new boy Claudio Echeverri will spend a year on loan at River Plate.

The 18-year-old is set to sign on the dotted line for City in the coming weeks.

He is signing from River, the same team that nurtured the talent of Julian Alvarez before he joined City.

ESPN Deportes quotes River Plate sporting director Enzo Francescoli on the transfer, who stated: "He is very calm, I see him the same as last year. Obviously he must have his internal things. But he deserves it, he is a great boy. He is very well, with his feet on the ground beyond what happens to him at 18 years old, which is a lot. I spoke to him a couple of days ago. He is very well, calm."

He then added: "I understand. People get impatient and don't know how things happen. There is no longer an ideal world as always imagined.

"You have to live with globalization, on a day-to-day basis. The same thing happens in football. Nobody should be surprised. It is very difficult to sustain long-term projects.

"The inevitable ones are these, players like Claudio who surprise, who excite many people. Distant markets and others closer like the Brazilian, which has more economic power than us and has an easier path in the economic part. River has that condition to at least consider having him play for a year.

"A sale without going to the clause as is mostly the desire, very similar money and he stays with us for one more year. Things have been done well, with the boy's will, his representative and City, who could have waited six months to take him. You have to take a lot of things into account. Today the market and the Argentine situation, too."

"The sale is very good economically. We know the conditions he has, but he is only 18 years old. You cannot put a clause of 100 million on the players like in Europe, which has high salaries. It is not that easy."