Matías Bustos Milla
07/24/2020 - 18:04
- Clarín.com
- sports
When Francesco Totti, the glory of Roma, decided to start his career as a representative and agreed with Mateo Retegui to take over the future of the Argentine striker, in Boca they took it as a possibility. It is that the visibility of the 21-year-old forward changed, who barely played 8 minutes and had a good move on loan from Estudiantes de La Plata. And now in Europe, as everyone thought, his last name appears among options of teams unimagined by the career that the player has developed so far.
In the last hours it emerged that Retegui appears among the options that Porto manages . Two weeks ago it was the German Schalke 04 interested and since Daniele De Rossi appeared as possible coach of Fiorentina, also the name of the son of the DT of the Lionesses appeared on the scene. But in Brandsen 805 they did not receive any offer or concrete contact. Although they do not close the possibility of a transfer.
Retegui, despite the good signs he showed in Estudiantes, with a goal included in the classic, is not a priority option for Miguel Russo. And with 21 years, without any step for a youth team, the moments to consolidate in the country can be few.
So the Football Council is willing to listen to offers for Retegui, but with one caveat: they intend to retain a percentage of the pass . It is that in privacy, Juan Román Riquelme and company believe that he is a footballer who, due to his characteristics, can mold himself in Europe and then trade in another way.
That is why they established that they can let him go even for a value less than the one mentioned (8 million dollars), as long as Boca retains a potion from the chip.
"It is a pride and a huge joy that a person as important as him takes notice of me and it was something very nice. I am very happy that he is my representative," said the forward recently, when it was confirmed that Totti had decided to bet on he, whom he had defined as "a strong and devastating striker". The young man played just 8 minutes in the Guillermo Barros Schelotto cycle in his time at Boca.
In 2019, with another Boca coach, Retegui went on loan to Estudiantes de La Plata and set a purchase option for half of his record at $ 1.8 million.
It was Juan Sebastián Verón who gave up executing it and despite the fact that many clubs called Boca to tempt Retegui and add him on loan, from the Football Council they decided to wait for the figure of Totti to start circulating in a nascent European market. At least in terms of versions, the move paid off. Now they hope that it will materialize in a final proposal.
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