In Boca they see Salvio more outside than inside, but he is still slated to face Corinthians

Sebastián Battaglia and company do not stop at the negotiations of a market that is out of phase in the calendar and which sees most of the teams competing while the teams are assembled and disarmed. In this context, the Boca coach has prepared a team to go to San Pablo and face Corinthians for the first leg of the Copa Libertadores. And the technician reflected, at least from the surnames, that his proposal will remain the same. With a 4-3-3 that now seems unchanged with Villa and Zeballos as owners and with the boy Agustín Sández occupying the left wing in the vacancy left by the disqualification of Frank Fabra.

With the rest of the eleven almost confirmed in Rossi, Advíncula, Izquierdoz, Rojo, Sández (or Zambrano), Pol Fernández, Varela, Óscar Romero, Villa, Benedetto and Zeballos, the appearance of Eduardo Salvio on the citation list It was another novelty. At least outside the club, because it was announced that the striker would not be called up if he had not positively confirmed the renewal proposal that Boca had made more than ten days ago. Even being more outside than inside, the technician quoted him.

But even if that scenario hasn’t changed, Toto will be in Brazil (at least on the bench) with little certainty about its continuity in Brandsen 805. When will this be resolved? The striker had had the club’s renewal offer for some time (a 30-month contract, with a significant drop in salary but a big increase paying him every dollar with the official exchange rate) but he still decided to listen to all the proposals from abroad. Mexico (America and Pumas), MLS and even Brazil. Even from Europe they are interested in having it and Boca knows that economically it cannot (nor does it want to) compete in that market.

Toto’s evaluation has existed since they agreed to give him the shirt with the number 10 and even to accompany him in the weeks in which he experienced a situation of denunciation and conflict with his ex-wife. But the values ​​he had established when he arrived from Benfica as a figure adapted to Salvio’s 3-year performance, with muscle injuries in the center and a serious knee injury that sidelined him from the fields for 8 months.

Nonetheless, Boca, with the support of Battaglia, made an effort to extend the contract of a forward who is now a replacement for the DT. do not give the ok continue in the club, which they already feel at Boca as something more than likely, So it may be that if he has minutes in Sao Paulo, they will be the last for the striker who arrived in 2019 and who has played just 70 games (50 as a starter, with 19 goals) of the 140 played by Boca in the period he was at the club. With the particularity of the 8 months that brought him a convalescence that has lengthened more than necessary.

Whenever he could, the striker whitened that he wanted to continue in Boca. And the same was done by the Football Council. Even in the last few hours, it was Juan Román Riquelme himself who expressed his desire to renew the contract of the former Lanús. But all the rest of the economic proposals, as advised by his representative Agustín Jiménez (son of the vice president of Racing) are better. And all roads lead to an exit to the Aztec lands.

Is it a complication or a solution for Boca to look for another striker in this transfer market? For Battaglia it is not a question to be resolved: his head and that of the starting team are in the first battle against Corinthians, in Brazil, for the Libertadores. Nothing less.