Cascini, harsh on Valentín Barco for his departure from Boca: “Sometimes in life you have to be grateful”

The member of the football board of Boca Juniors, Raul Casciniafter the departure of Valentine’s Day boat to the Brighton of England due to the low release clause, stated that the club wanted to renew the player’s contract for “four years, but he and his representative did not want to”.

It was on the eve of Xeneize’s 1-0 friendly win against Gimnasia y Tiro, in Salta, which marked Diego Martínez’s debut as manager of the team.

“What to say about Valentín (Barco) is clear and everyone knows it: at the time we wanted to renew him for 4 years and he and his representative didn’t want to, they only signed for one year with the condition of the clause (10,000,000 dollars ),” said Cascini, interviewed by ESPN.

Furthermore, the manager underlined that as soon as the team returned to training, the management wanted to renew the young man, 19 years old, who is called up to play the Pre-Olympic Championship in Venezuela with the Argentine Under ’23 team. .

“We sat with him and his representative, they told us that they would respond two days later and they came with the signing of the clause, so it was”, reconstructed Cascini, with a stern gesture.

“We are not lying. We are on the right path, we wanted to renew it for another 4 years, to continue growing in our club, to continue learning. You have to be grateful sometimes in life, things went the way they went,” He added

“What they need to know is that when what happened happened, the clause was executed by the player, it was made and signed by the player. We have no choice but to do what happened, that he signed it. But today we are happy, he is the only player who left and we are happy with the squad we have”, confessed Cascini.

On the other hand, when asked about the situation of Kevin ZenoUnión player, from Santa Fe, who is interested in Xeneize, the CF member quips: “And Zenón? We understand your work (the journalists), but Zenón is one of the 8, 9 who “Have signed with our club , Right?”

“We are happy with the squad we have, the most important and most difficult thing is to maintain a squad, which we are achieving, the one that reached the final of the Libertadores, which is not easy,” he concluded.