Boca, very attentive to the extensive MLS pass market

Matías Bustos Milla

08/03/2020 - 16:53

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While the pass market is just beginning to move in the large markets of Europe, on a lagged schedule for South American competition, in Boca they are more than attentive to what will happen in the United States in the coming weeks : the MLS will open a atypical pass market (dates changed due to pandemic) and surnames linked to Miguel Russo's staff appear on the scene.

The possibility of transferring Emanuel Bebelo Reynoso is concrete. The Cordovan, who came to the club in 2018 after an agreement that included passing percentages between Boca and Talleres, has the chance to emigrate to Minnesota United after three seasons in which he alternated good and bad in Brandsen 805. Praised in privacy , with touches of hierarchy but inconsistent in his performance, the left-hander (5 goals in 66 games at the club) was a substitute in the quarter in which Miguel Russo led the team to the title. So from MLS they came looking for him.

There were weeks of conversations between Boca and Talleres to resolve a complex situation regarding percentages. But finally the Football Council kept 80 percent of the Reynoso file and accepted the amount that was proposed from the MLS for its part of the pass. Then, the conflict between CIBI (Reynoso training club) and Workshops will continue. If everything is signed, Brandsen 805 will enter close to 5 million dollars for a footballer who, although he likes the coaching staff, can find him an easy replacement and with the same Cordovan tune: Gonzalo Maroni will return from Sampdoria and will be part of the team.

The opening of the MLS passbook will be huge. As determined by the league, the possibility of incorporating will be from August 12 and will last until the last week of October. There, then, infinite number of player buying and selling options can be solved. Boca is aware of that and the uncertainty that reigns in AFA about the return of the competition conspires against planning and complicates the search for incorporations, as happened with Mauricio Isla.

Almond, another last name linked to the MLS. (Photo: REUTERS / Agustin Marcarián).

Last names that appear on the MLS scene include Boca players. One is Agustín Almendra, who after being one of the revelations during 2019, lost his place and hardly participated in the Miguel Russo cycle. At 19 years old, the boy is always among those targeted by the different scouting teams in the country, but an official proposal was never finalized. His name appears again linked to Inter Miami and in Boca, aware of the new values ​​of the world market, they also lowered expectations about the termination clause that had been set. Of course: in the current context, it sounds difficult to imagine a sale of more than 15 million dollars.

In addition to Reynoso and Almendra, in the MLS there is a player who should return to Boca in December and for whom there was still no communication between the teams. This is Cristian Pavón, who will play in the Los Angeles Galaxy until the end of the regular tournament in the United States and then would have to return to Boca, where they await him with open arms.

However, from the team led by Guillermo Barros Schelotto they can still make an attempt to stay on top, despite warning that they will not execute the $ 20 million clause. Will Boca accept to sell a percentage of your chip for a lower amount or await proposals from Europe? In the Football Council they believe that for Kichán to emigrate to the Old Continent it is better to recotize it in Boca than in the North American league.

In Boca they expect the LA Galaxy to make an offer for Pavón. (AP Photo / Michael Wyke)

Linked to the MLS and Pavón is also Sebastián Villa, who was informed by the club that they will seek to improve his contract for his continuity in Boca, but that they are willing to hear proposals from him as long as they are for a sale and not for loans.

The Colombian - with a clause of more than 40 million dollars, which today seems priceless - can be tempting for a league like the MLS, which bets on young players. Your representative (shares agent withJuanfer Quintero and Jorge Carrascal) is one of those who is moving the most in this recess. In the bunker of Juan Román Riquelme and company await.