While nothing has been officially announced yet, Gómez looks set to make a dream move this winter. Multiple media outlets have reported that he’ll move to English Premier League side Brighton & Hove Albion in a transfer deal approaching $20 million, which would rank as one of the biggest such outgoing transactions in both MLS and Paraguayan soccer history.
“He is a footballer who has a very good present, but also an impressive future. So we will all be very happy if he manages to do it,” said Martino last month, calling such an outcome “also a small title” for IMCF’s player development outlook.
Speaking to media in August, the Argentine coach framed pathways like Gómez’s as Exhibit A of MLS’s evolution into a globally recognized cultivator of top young talent.
“I like to focus a lot more on the young footballers who come to the league and who change the way we look at footballers, especially Latin footballers, South Americans, the ones who still aspire to reach the first level,” he said. “And the first level, as we always say, is in Europe. So we can convince Diego to come here and develop and complete his evolution in a year, a year and a half or two years, and he can be sold. That is, from my point of view, fabulous to say; that is something that I have thought about since my arrival in Atlanta seven years ago, so I agree with that part, it seems to me that it is very important for growth.”
That’s some legacy for a 21-year-old. The sky’s the limit for Gómez, and by extension, his rise provides a route map for others to follow.
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