Alaves purchased the contract of central defender Rodrigo Eli from Milan. 23-year-old Brazilian spent the last six months in rent in Alaves and managed to impress the leaders of the Basque team who offered him a four-year contract.

In 2015, Milan bought Eli from Avellino for 8 million euros, but since then, the guy played for the Rossoneri only four games.

Born in Brazil, Rodrigo received Italian citizenship and played for the U-19 and U-20 national teams of Italy, for which he played 10 matches, but later decided to regain the citizenship of his historic homeland and three times played for the Brazilian Olympic team (U -23), preparing for the Olympics-2016.