The million dollar questions: will Boca hang up Rossi, will he enjoy him until July or will he let him go now for a ridiculous amount?

The framework that constitutes the present, the continuity and the future of Augustine Rossi It has some chapters written, but not the end. The concrete thing is that on July 1st the goalkeeper will in fact be a reinforcement flamenco. However, the possibility that the transfer will be brought forward is a fact that, for it to crystallize, depends on what Mouth and the Brazilian club will deal in the coming days.

Boca’s next match will be against Everton of Chile, for the pompous “International Summer Soccer Tournament”, the triangular one which takes place in San Juan and which Independiente completes. It will be Friday and the technical director Xeneize, Hugo Ibarrahe will do the same as he did at the start of the race, when he conceded a time to Rossi and another to Javier Garcia: this time the rotation in the arc will include a Sergio Romero and to the minor Leander Brey.

That is Rossi’s gift: with a guaranteed start in July, but at the same time in consideration of Ibarra for the semester that Boca has ahead: Professional Soccer League, Super Cup, Copa Libertadores and, without a definite date, Copa Argentina. However, it is not the property in xeneize what interests the goalkeeper the most: in his environment they advocate a meeting between the two clubs to anticipate the arrival in Brazil.

There is only one way for this to happen: Flamengo must compensate Boca for the early departure. Otherwise, when June ended, it went free. And herein lies the crux of the matter, because Boca wants more than what the club offers. Mengãowho offered 300,000 dollars: a paltry amount for elite football and at the same time a figure that could change the life of anyone who uses SUBE every day.

Undoubtedly the figure is low for Rossi’s size and for the deal Boca could have made with his move after six years at the club. But it’s much more than what he will take in July when Rossi says goodbye: nothing. And the negotiations and Boca’s position on the figure under discussion focus on this dilemma.

The negotiations

The official meeting has not yet taken place. What has happened so far is a public match: first, Flamengo announced on their social networks the signing of a contract with Rossi until December 2027, effective from July 1, one day after the expiry of the current one with Boca.

Ibarra won’t use him in the match against Everton on Friday. The excuse is the preseason goalkeeper rotation. Hypotheses pile up in this pressure game: Flamengo has announced his transfer, Boca proves they don’t use him. What if it “hangs”?

If that happens, the deal for Flamengo won’t be so round because in July they will incorporate a goalkeeper without shooting in the last six months. Maybe that’s why he considers something more than the 300,000 offered. In Boca they understand that with a higher figure everyone wins: the Brazilian club because it takes reinforcements in advance; the goalkeeper, interested in their immediate departure, and them because even if they lose the starting goalkeeper, they receive American currency, instead of being left with nothing.

Who saves in Abu Dhabi?

Matches aside, Boca’s first important match in 2023 is the International Super Cup which will be played in the United Arab Emirates against Racing on Friday the 20th. It is an official match and the winner will add a star and the dollars will get another one there too. Are you proposing or having Flamengo as the starting goalkeeper in such an important match? What is the price of that conquest?

Next Monday, the delegation leaves for Abu Dhabi and that is the time when Flamengo must increase their offer and prevent the goalkeeper insured for the restart from boarding the plane with Boca.

The continuity negotiation between the goalkeeper and Boca was not easy. Indeed, he kept the property and ended up signing the pre-contract with Flamengo as a free player. The Football Council, the same president Jorge Amor Ameal and the deputy Juan Riquelme have publicly and in harsh terms referred to the claims of Miguel González, representative of the 27-year-old goalkeeper, who has been whipped for the number of zeros declared to renew in his mouth .

Those closest to the Football Council environment ensure that Rossi would no longer tie to Boca, even if the fans continue to pay homage to him on the networks.

Rossi made his debut at Chacarita Juniors in 2013 and then his career, straddled by good performances, extended to Estudiantes de La Plata and Defensa y Justicia, before joining Boca in 2017. Two years later, the club Ribera first loaned him to Antofagasta, from Chile and then to Lanús, where all his conditions were exploited and for this he recovered him until he became a figure, with calls to the selected world champion in 2022.

The move to Antofagasta was due to the fact that Rossi had previously arranged everything to join Minnesota United, American Major League Soccer (MLS), but his fans complained due to a gender violence complaint from a former partner dating back to 2017. That’s why the step was truncated.