Argentine midfielder Alejandro Darío 'Papu' Gómez is a new Sevilla player until June 30, 2024, where he arrives transferred by Italian Atalanta.

The international with the Albiceleste, who will turn 33 next February, has signed a contract for three and a half seasons with his new club after landing early this afternoon at the Sevillian airport and passing the medical examination, once he reached a agreement between Sevilla and Atalanta de Bergamo.

Papu Gómez has been an absolute international with Argentina five times, he will not occupy a foreign place as he also possesses Italian nationality and, although the figures have not been officially revealed, for his signing the Sevilla entity will pay Atalanta

between 5.5 and 8 million euros

, depending on the variables, according to sources of the operation.

The right-handed man from Buenos Aires is 1.67 meters tall and arrives at the Nervión neighborhood club after nine seasons in Italy, with an intermediate year in the

Ukrainian

Metalist

, specifically between

Catania

and

Atalanta

, a team in which he He has emerged as "one of the best players in Serie A", highlighted Sevilla.

The attacking midfielder, who can also play on the left wing, has extensive experience in European competitions, both in the Champions League and in the Europa League, and began his professional career at Arsenal de Sarandí in his country, where he made his debut in 2005 and was until 2009.

With Simeone in Catania

That same year he signed for

San Lorenzo de Almagro

and at the end of the 2009-10 campaign he made the leap to Europe by signing for Calcio Catania, after adding 24 goals and twelve assists in more than 150 games in Argentina, where he was a few months under the command of

Diego Pablo Simeone

.

In the Sicilian team he played three seasons, with 18 goals and 17 goals in just over a hundred games between Serie A and the Italian Cup, until in the 2013-14 season he left for

Metalist Kharkiv

from Ukraine. where he achieved 4 goals and 6 assists in 24 games played.

Then Atalanta noticed him, an entity in which Papu became a benchmark in the six seasons in which he has been at the Bergamo club until his arrival in Spanish football.

From the 2014-15 campaign until his transfer to Sevilla, Gómez has played more than 250 games with the bergamasco club, with 59 goals and 71 assists to his teammates, which helped him to make his debut with the Argentine senior team. in 2016-17, in June of that last year and under the guidance of Jorge

Sampaoli

, precisely a former Sevilla coach.

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