Valentín Barco explained his transfer and replied to Cascini: “If they answered my phone, I would still be at Boca.”

The summer romance has come to an end. After several back and forths, Valentine’s Day boat executed the clause for $10 million and, starting next season, will play for the English club Brighton. The exit pleased the Boca world very badly and the football board defined him as ungrateful. This silence was broken this afternoon by the young people who are training with Javier Mascherano’s National Under 23 team, which will begin the Pre-Olympic Qualifiers for the Paris 2024 Games on Saturday. “We were training, I tried not to think and let it be my representative to take care of him”, began Colo, describing how his contract was defined.

Criticism of the young footballer came for the way he said goodbye. The club took it badly that a player who had come out of the lower leagues forced his departure by executing the clause: “As everyone knows, I could have left free when Getafe wanted me, but my dream was to play for Boca. In the midst of the Cup I I stayed again, they wanted to fulfill the clause and I told my representative that I would stay until the end of the Cup. And now they are back, I wanted to leave a percentage to Boca and since there was no agreement reached I had no other choice but execute the clause.”

“I always told my representative that I didn’t want to respect the clause, I wanted to leave something to Boca, but they didn’t reach an agreement and I understood that the best thing for my future was to emigrate,” continued the young man. dialogue with ESPN.

On Saturday, in the preview of Boca’s friendly match against Gimnasia y Tiro de Salta, Raúl Cascini (member of the football council), had called the youngster ungrateful for having respected the club’s exit clause: “I hadn’t heard about it.” , he surprised me. Being ungrateful meant going free, I had this chance, I renewed and now I leave the money to the club. I am very grateful to the fans, they have always treated me very well.”

The young man also left a strong phrase: “Maybe if they answered the phone I would still be at Boca”. And he expanded: “If you’re interested, what you do is come and make an offer. They tell me I have to submit the offer, it’s nowhere to be seen.”

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