Euroleague Musa and Llull put an end to suffering in Athens
Not even two years ago,
Facundo Campazzo
headed for the NBA, the next step in an amazing rise.
A necessary escape, the chance of a lifetime.
In 2014 he had arrived at Real Madrid as MVP of the Argentine League with Peñarol from Mar del Plata and, after two seasons on loan in Murcia and a lot of effort to adapt and improve physically, he became king of the white team until he drew the attention of the best league of the world.
It was not a conflictive goodbye, but it was not clean either: a very high termination clause to pay, a march with the season started...
Now, once again with the course in Europe already started, the base may end up undoing that trip.
Like his compatriot
Gabriel Deck
.
Despite his efforts and his undeniable conditions, in two seasons and 130 games in the NBA, he has not managed to break down that wall.
They received him like
Francisco
and he went from more to less in Denver: he failed to gain an important role despite losses, as the performance of
Monte Morris
and the emergence of rookie
Bones Hyland
cut him off.
Last June, the Nuggets gave up the
qualifying offer
and he was free to wait for offers that, three months later, still have not arrived.
"Waiting"
As EL MUNDO has learned from sources close to the player, who awaits the resolution of his future by training in his native Córdoba -in September he played and won the Americup with Argentina-, Facu "is still waiting" for a last-minute proposal of the NBA, of some gap to fill in some template, of a loophole through which to continue fulfilling his dream.
That was always his absolute priority.
But, verifying that the deadlines are running out, he has had no choice but to open the previously prohibited seal: he will listen to offers from a Real Madrid that never took his eyes off his situation or from any other European team that is interested.
What's more, the first talks with the white club have already taken place, but at the moment the economic agreement does not seem close.
"They were quite far away," admit those familiar with the situation.
Campazzo had to face the six million euros of the contract clause that he renewed for five seasons in the summer of 2019. And he still owes Madrid approximately two.
In the removal of that money and in the salary to be received are the differences.
Other Euroleague teams sounded for Facu (Partizán, Fenerbahçe...) and Madrid, with its very large closed squad of up to four bases (although
Williams-Goss and Alocén
, who could be the ones affected by the return of the Argentine, are still injured) , has the option to match any continental offer and the right of first refusal in the event that it is an ACB team.
Away now, condemned to understand each other later.
"I wish," acknowledged
Chus Mateo
, because there would be no better icing on his first cake.
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