Which are the Boca players that the City Group is probing to have priority in the event of a jump to Europe

The World Cup won by the Argentina national team put the country’s footballers into another orbit among Europe’s big clubs. Logical, for those who have played in Lionel Scaloni’s team, but also for the site of the raw material: the Lega Professionisti. For this reason, while waiting for the great pass market in June, there are already European teams that have begun to move pieces. And one of them is citizen groupwith whom he had a very good plenary session Giuliano Alvarez and that Now he has bet on Boca players.

The first contacts, all informal, took place months ago. With a following in every competition Boca has had in 2022 that has found them two-time champions. But also, after the World Cup, they moved the chips again to clarify their intentions: they have priority in securing footballers who feel they are ready to make the leap to Europe.

The most important in Boca was Alan Varella, which took over the midfield and consolidated with a growth that was expected indoors but which has been delayed. There were already price requests for him, but even in Boca they made their idea clear: to keep Varela for the whole of 2023, even at the cost of a transfer. And again: they will try to keep a percentage of their chip instead of negotiating for the entire pass. Is that, as has been verified, once players set foot in Europe their price doubles, so the intention of Juan Román Riquelme and company is to keep part of the pass of every young person who emigrates.

For Varela, logically, there are several teams interested (he has a clause worth over 20 million dollars). But it is the Citizens Group which has previously communicated that it claims to be behind him. In Boca they believe that the midfielder (he has 76 games with the club, 54 as a starter and has already won 4 league titles) should stay at least another 6 months and, if possible, the whole year. Maybe that’s why the return of Ezekiel Fernandez from Tiger be more relevant to the season.

The other player is Valentine boatwhich was absent from the courts during the 2022 closure for a ankle problem. Something that even marginalized him to be a substitute in the Reserve behind Nahuel Genez. But his participation with the Argentina national team marked him as a reference.

In Boca he has a contract until December and the meetings with his representative (Adrián Ruocco, the same one who coaches Carlos Tevez) still have points to file: the extension. While Barco asks to sign for one season, Boca want to sign for three. In between, the City Group appeared, which knows how to attract talent from a young age and is trying to hit the key again in Argentine football.

With Massimo Perrone -Vélez footballer- as their next target, the group that has Manchester City and at least ten other clubs in the world, is closely watching two players from Hugo Ibarra’s team. Even in 2022 they had approached to consult Exequiel Zeballosbut after the injury against Agropecuario for the Argentina Cup that put him out of action for 3 months, everything disappeared. Will he join City’s most wanted list?