Mauro Zárate accepted Boca's proposal and will continue in the club

Matías Bustos Milla

07/17/2020 - 18:08

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After several talks between the parties and a negotiation that seemed to extend beyond the account, finally Mauro Zárate accepted the proposal made by Boca to continue for one more year in the club , with the possibility of extending it until December 2021. As with Carlos Tevez, now only the signature remains to sign a word agreement that was sealed between the striker and the Football Council. Miguel Ángel Russo already has two of the three priorities that he had set at the beginning of the recess due to the pandemic and has key players available to begin to outline what the team will be for the remainder of the season.

The former Vélez had polls from Europe (Benevento from Italy communicated with his environment to express the desire to add him in Serie A), but his priority was always to continue in Boca. At least for a while longer.

It is true that an attempt was made to set an exit clause for the end of the year, but from the club they insisted that the sporting idea is to have him until June, although they will agree to talk about a renegotiation at the end of Boca's participation in the Copa Libertadores, before the year end or in the first months of 2021.

At the coach's request, the Football Council improved the salary caps of the contract, similar to those of Tevez, despite the fact that he considerably reduced what he received so far.

Mauro Zárate celebrates a goal by Boca.Photo: AP

The coach's bet is to recover a player he knows from his time at the Liniers club, but who could only use a few minutes in the year because he suffered muscle injuries that marginalized him from the title that the team achieved in hand-to-hand with River .

Zárate, who fought and wore out a lot in his troubled departure from Vélez, assumed that it depends on him to achieve a prominent place in what is to come. And even in the privacy of his family he had to convince those who preferred a change of air to go abroad. He won the challenge of wearing the blue and gold shirt.

With 17 goals in 65 games , the challenge now is to achieve the continuity that he seemed to have on his arrival at the club with Guillermo Barros Schelotto, but that was diluted in a daily competition for the position with Tevez that did not provide solutions on the field of game. For Russo, in addition, it may be vital to have them both in the face of uncertainty about how they will return after several months of inactivity.

Zárate will sign - when confinement allows - for another twelve months with the club and both parties will have the possibility to rethink the future in June 2021, right in the midst of international competition. For the player, who arrived in Brandsen 805 in 2018, it will also be a challenge to face this year if Tevez decides to emigrate or retire in December, according to what happens in the Libertadores.

Although the player had an automatic extension until 2021, having not complied with the minimum of 50 percent of the games played, everything led to a renegotiation that was first delayed by the novel with Tevez and that later had an uncertain outcome. , because the postures did not seem to come close.

In the last hours, the talks between Mauro, Riquelme, Bermúdez and Delgado ended up unlocking things and also set clear objectives: in the Council they want to have a footballer convinced of what he can do on the pitch, with a lower profile in his statements and social networks, but with the hunger for glory that a club like Boca needs to achieve great goals.

Solved the two great market situations, now in Boca they will seek to finish defining the extension of the contract of Franco Soldano , for whom Olimpiakos from Greece requests a high charge (300 thousand euros), which from Boca they do not plan to pay. If the amounts are lowered, it will continue. And if it is not achieved, there will be other options to incorporate. 

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