The footballer was involved in a controversial party on a yacht with his teammates. He played only seven matches and left for Huracán after six months. To these eight signings, several players who were already at the club and did not manage to play 10 matches under this management are added, as well as players who were brought back but did not get minutes and were loaned out again. Additionally, there is the particular case of goalkeeper Joaquín Blázquez, who arrived at Independiente in January of this year from Talleres de Córdoba, and his loan will expire in December without having played a single minute. In the last transfer market, Lucas Román was loaned out to Atlético Tucumán, just six months after his arrival. The list was started by another Colombian, forward Mauricio Cuero, who arrived at the club in January 2023—the first transfer window of this board of directors—and became a free agent in July. Along with the Colombian, defender Luciano Gómez left, whose loan from Argentinos Juniors was interrupted. In August 2023, defender Julio Buffarini joined the team at the request of coach Carlos Tevez, and until his departure in January of this year, he only played 8 matches. At the beginning of 2024, the arrival of Uruguayan midfielder Gabriel Neves was confirmed, but after six months, he terminated his contract with Independiente and joined Estudiantes de La Plata. In the middle of the year, the now Boca defender Marco Pellegrino arrived on loan from AC Milan of Italy. Independiente's defender Facundo Zabala will continue his career at Olimpia of Paraguay, the club that sold him to the 'Red' for 2.5 million dollars at the end of July. If the deal goes through, he would be the nineteenth player to leave after six months or having played fewer than ten matches during this administration. After a positive first half of the year competing well in three competitions, the 'Red' went into a freefall in the second semester, and this Sunday they officially ended their year by being eliminated from the Round of 16 of the Torneo Clausura due to the victories of Talleres de Córdoba and Sarmiento de Junín. Added to the 15 matches without a win, one of the main issues was the controversial departure of Colombian Álvaro Angulo, one of Independiente's figures in the first half by scoring five goals, and the arrival of his replacement Zabala, who did not meet expectations nor the exorbitant figure of 2.5 million dollars the club paid for his card from Olimpia of Paraguay. Indeed, Zabala lost his position from the moment Gustavo Quinteros arrived as coach, playing only two matches as a starter and being overtaken by the youngster Jonathan De Irastorza. The footballist is one of the most harassed by the Independiente fanbase, and everything indicates that his next destination is Paraguay, where he would wear the Olimpia shirt again. Both clubs are in advanced talks to interrupt the transfer payment, for which the 'Red' board only paid 500 thousand of the 2.5 million. One of the points to be polished is whether Independiente keeps a percentage of what was paid or if those 500 thousand dollars serve as a charge for a 'six-month loan'. Thus, during the management of this board that began in October 2022 and ends in a year, Zabala will become the nineteenth player who leaves Independiente after six months of arriving or leaves without having reached 10 matches played. His predecessor in the position, Colombian Angulo, was the last on this list, as he had arrived at the team in January of this year from Atlético Nacional of Medellín.
