‘Chiquito’ Romero will undergo knee surgery for the second time and Gago will look for another goalkeeper in the market

The renewal of Javier Garcia had caught the attention of the fans of Boca and, this Tuesday, one of the possible reasons arrived: it is that Sergio ‘Chiquito’ Romero will have to undergo surgery for the second time to have surgery on his right kneewhich will force Fernando Gago to also look for a goalkeeper in the current transfer market, in the face of the dispute of the Professional League and the Copa Libertadores.

The news resonated loudly at the Ezeiza facility, where the blue and gold team is carrying out its preseason. The intervention, as it turned out, will be next Monday and will keep ‘Chiquito’ off the courts for at least three months.

The person in charge of the operation will be Jorge Batistawho has already been in charge of other interventions on the 37-year-old goalkeeper, but who is not in the country for a few days.

Romero, since his arrival at ‘Xeneize’, has already had an operation performed, in 2022: it was in September for an arthroscopy on his meniscus, to clean the area, something similar to what will be done next Monday. In March of that same year he had surgery on his right knee in Italy, when he was still a Venice footballer.

The discomfort that arose had already appeared at the end of the 2024 season and was not allowing him to train 100% during the preseason. After a talk with the coaching staff headed by Fernando Gago, it was decided that it was the best way out.

Leandro Brey had already won him the position after that fight with the plateístas after the defeat in the Superclásico against River in La Bombonera and García himself occupied a place on the substitute bench in the last two games of last season, against Newell’s and Independent.

At the beginning of 2025, García, who will turn 38 at the end of the month, had renewed his contract for 12 months at the request of the coach, who saw him as important within the group and for the young players.

The possibilities that appear in the market for ‘Xeneize’, based on the report by goalkeeper coaches Cristian Muñóz and Fernando Gayoso, are the Chilean Brayan Cortes and the Uruguayan Washington Aguerrecurrently in Colo-Colo and Peñarol respectively.