Boca Might Get Their Man After All

Have you ever gone to a sore and seen a com­puter or TV set, what have you, and you knew right away it was going to be yours. The prob­lems was that you couldn’t afford it. You waited and waited for it to go down in price but sev­eral peo­ple after you were inter­ested and had the cash, but some­how it did not leave the sales floor. That is the feel­ing sev­eral bar­gain hunters have, but none like Boca Juniors this morning.

It seemed as if Juan Román Riquelme was on his way to Atlético, but a few snags in the nego­ti­a­tions made his move to Col­chonero Land fall through right before the trans­fer mar­ket closed.

Now Boca Juniors is the only club that will be capa­ble of swoop­ing up the out of favor Vil­lar­real play­maker. Accord­ing to an inter­view will Argen­tine sports daily Olé, nego­ti­a­tions began with the Xeneizes once again and the offer is sub­stan­tially smaller than the €9 mil­lion that was put on the table a few weeks ago. Boca will now offer the club €8 mil­lion two loan out Riquelme for the remain­der of his con­tract with the Yel­low Submarine.

but with sev­eral options attached to it. First of all, Boca will give them $US 5 mil­lion (€ 3.6 mil­lion) now as well as part of the mon­eys earned from an even­tual trans­fer of either Rodrigo Pala­cio or Ever Banega. In other words, it is the same offer that Macri had on the table a few week ago, but with some more incen­tives for Vil­lar­real than just to give Riquelme away. Vil­lar­real would also ben­e­fit either directly or indi­rectly in two of the most promis­ing trans­fers in Argen­tine football

For the Span­ish side this is a last-ditch effort to get rid of Riquelme as coach Manuel Pel­le­grini has him train­ing on his own and has emphat­i­cally men­tioned that he has no plans for the for­mer Barcelona player. If not they will have to pay his con­tract even though he will be at home watch­ing the matches from the lux­ury of his home.

Boca is cur­rently the only team that would be able to obtain his ser­vices as they added to the list of play­ers for the sec­ond semes­ter of the year. They were also given an exten­sion by the Argen­tine FA to be able to bring Riquelme in, but they will have to do so by Monday.

Boca´s one has changed from ¨impos­si­ble¨ to ¨mir­a­cles can hap­pen¨. This was what club pres­i­dent Mauri­cio Macri said this morn­ing. So after wait­ing and see­ing that their most desired object is still there, they are close to a deal yet again.