Sporting Gijón has taken steps to keep forward Andrés Ferrari in their squad for the upcoming season. The club has formally requested Sint-Truidense to extend the loan of the Uruguayan forward, who has become a priority for the club's sports management for the next season. The Belgian team is now in a state of uncertainty about their bench. The coach will not continue and Frédéric De Meyer, who was the second coach, is likely to be the successor. The Gijón entity wants to continue counting on a footballer who left a great impression during the months he spent in Mareo. Ferrari arrived in the winter market and needed little time to demonstrate conditions that convinced both the technical staff and the sports managers of the club. His progress was halted abruptly by a serious injury. The striker suffered a peroneal fracture when he was going through one of his best moments since his arrival in Gijón. Until then, he had scored two goals and had become one of the most positive news of the final stretch of the course. Despite this setback, the Sporting maintains its confidence in the forward. The sports management considers that Ferrari can be an important player within the project and understands that a complete season, once the injury is overcome, would allow them to see his best version. In fact, the continuity of the Uruguayan attacker is considered a strategic issue within the sports planning. In Mareo, they understand that Ferrari has conditions to become an offensive reference of the team and want to give continuity to a bet that barely developed during a few months before the injury cut off his progress. For this reason, the Sporting has already communicated to Sint-Truidense its willingness to prolong the connection of the footballer through a new loan. The operation will now depend on the position adopted by the Belgian entity, which will have to decide whether to count on the forward for their squad or to reopen the door to a temporary exit.