Ramón Sosa arrived at Nottingham Forest from CA Talleres in the summer window and signed a contract until 2029.
The winger, determined to join the Reds, had gone on a strike after the Argentine side initially refused to sanction a move.
There was a lot of drama surrounding his move to Nottingham Forest because the English club initially refused to hold on their part of the agreement. This didn’t please Talleres, who blocked the 25-year-old’s move.
Sosa was unhappy with this and refused to train with Talleres, to force a move to Nuno Espírito Santo’s side. Agent Daniel Campos was negotiating his move to Nottingham Forest, but the Paraguay international cut off ties with the representative.
Campos has told Radio 780, relayed by La Voz, that Sosa’s decision to end ties with him was “high treason” and he will “regret” it in the future. The agent was also critical of his former client’s treatment towards Talleres.
“Talleres behaved very well. I couldn’t believe it. He also went against Talleres. They made him do things. Talleres has a lot of experience. ‘When the time comes, do what you have to do,’ I told them. They sell him for more media reasons than economics. Because they were going to leave him hanging. Talleres was very mistreated,” he said.
“They came to squeeze him. They sent the kid as a hostage, to say: ‘Look, I’m not playing, what if I’m not?’ Because the people loved him, the kid. I don’t want to talk anymore because it’s a legal issue. It’s all documented.
“We were the ones who sold him to Nottingham. The sports director calls us and tells us: ‘The boy says not to talk to you.’ When we had been sitting in November, and we knew he was going to go to Nottingham.”
The South American club, led by their president, Andrés Fassi, were unhappy with Sosa’s antics.
His former agent claims Nottingham Forest tried to put pressure on Fassi, and it paid off because of a psychiatrist. The representative states the Talleres president was asked to get rid of Sosa.
“He had a football slump. That decides the sale. If it was for Fassi, he wouldn’t sell. He doesn’t like to work under pressure,” Campos explained.
“The Nottingham Forest chairman, who is a Greek… With the context in which the player had turned against Talleres…he pressed. ‘If you don’t want him, let him leave,’ he said. Fassi isn’t a guy that you talk to like that, and he shuts his mouth…. He amassed a personal fortune, and the club sold more than $150m worth of players.
“He’s not going to be squeezed by just anyone. But then he evaluated. The kid was very bad. The last few days when he didn’t play against River Plate, he didn’t train. He had problems. He lost weight.
“In the end, I think there was a report from a psychologist or a psychiatrist who told them: ‘Sell him because this kid is very bad’. And they sold him. They tightened up a little bit, the kid lost the percentage. The business was reduced, because Talleres didn’t end up making the big deal they could have made.”
