2024-01-13 06:16:47
“The club makes a sporting, economic and human effort, and sometimes the players do not return it and do not even value all those years.” The leader of an important club speaks in the middle of a summer that he once once more sets off alarms for those who train footballers. The jewels of the two most important teams in Argentina slip through the hands of presidents and coaches. Valentín Barco, from Boca, moved to Brighton, from the Premier League, due to the activation of the termination clause; and Diablito Echeverri was bought by City in a future transfer whose terms and conditions will set a worrying precedent for the coming breaks.
The news, which multiplies in the transfer markets even though it has little “news”, releases managerial anger, rumors that representatives sow to position their footballers and lies that journalists turn into supposed truths. Show must go on. Or as La Renga continues to sing these days in Racing despite the Casa Rosada, anarcho-capitalism and everything: “Panic show in broad daylight.”
There is another show on the other side of the world: The Mirror announces the arrival of the Argentine youth player to the English franchise and is enthusiastic regarding his performance in Football Manager, the little game we all play to pretend to be almost professional coaches for a while. “Despite his lack of senior experience, many football fans know him due to his potential in Football Manager, where he is one of the most bought stars in the game,” the English newspaper publishes.
And Boca? And Riquelme? The disagreement is notable and understandable: yesterday the club received the payment of 10 million dollars for the termination clause in Barco’s contract, but was never satisfied with it. Last year, the leadership headed by Román offered him a contract with a higher clause, but the player – and especially his representative, Adrián Ruocco, the same as Carlos Tevez – never accepted it.
Barco had arrived in Boca in 2013, when he was just nine years old. The club trained him as a player, invested and improved him: in 2020, still at Seventh Division age, he signed his first professional contract. Everyone in Boca knew that he had the conditions to reach First Division and break it.
It is also true that the leadership did not like his nocturnal nature. They warned him regarding some behavioral problems, perhaps inherent to any 19-year-old boy, but incompatible with high-level professional athletes. Could this have prevented the player and the representative from giving more alternatives? These are questions that few people can answer with certainty.
Fine print. On the other hand, in River, Echeverri also marked with fire a leadership agitated by the kid’s statements in the middle of the celebrations for the Champions Trophy, once morest Central. Joy quickly turned to concern when he said he was not going to renew.
El Diablito was finally bought by Manchester City in exchange for a sum close to 24 million euros, although for River to receive all that money, many things will have to happen. For now, the kid will continue on Demichelis’ team, which is now conditioned to put him: the purchasing club can take him on July 1 if Echeverri does not participate in at least 30% of the official matches: nine of the 28 that he has this semester.
Argentine football is torn on both sides of the business. Some condition with the departure (Boat). Others condition with permanence (Echeverri). “Let’s get used to the fact that, when a gem comes out, we are going to enjoy it little,” said Tevez, coach of Independiente, this week. He spoke for Barco, Echeverri but above all for Santi López, the kid from Rojo who shone in the Under 17 World Cup and almost left for Manchester United these days. He decided to stay following the coach gave him brutal but effective advice: “You have to provide the eggs, let no one manage your future. Not your mom, not your dad, not your representative, not Independiente, not me. It is your future and you have to decide.” The next day, López went and said that he wanted to stay. Nobody knows for how long.
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