Riquelme sweetens the ear of a world champion and has almost closed on a five who arrives from Mexico

While the team is getting ready to play tomorrow against Almirante Brown for the Argentine Cup, Juan roman riquelme advance through reinforcements thinking about the second semester. With Gary Medel Confirmed as the first addition and ready to debut in Mendoza, there are other names that made noise at this time. Thomas Belmonte It’s very close, Thiago Almada confessed a call from the president, Matias Galarza It is an option that seduces and Fausto Vera should not be ruled out, despite the interest of Atlético Mineiro.

Boca would pay Necaxa $3,500,000 for 50% of Belmonte’s pass. With the Mexicans, under those terms, there would be no problems repatriating the 26-year-old former Lanús midfielder. He remains to sharpen his pencil with Toto, since he wants a salary higher than what he receives in Aztec soccer. As Clarín was able to find out, it would not be an impediment and in the next few hours there will be a rapprochement. Riquelme does not want to go around and define the issue before the weekend.

As for Almada, world champion with the Argentine National Team, yesterday he confessed that he communicated with Román. “I always talk to Román, he asks me how I am, how my family is. We have a nice relationship. Just yesterday we talked. Yesterday I spoke, but there is nothing formal yet,” said the 23-year-old forward on TyC Sports.

“I talked a little about everything, it was a nice conversation, he told me that he wants me to play for Boca. I’m doing well here and the club has treated me very well since I arrived. We will see what happens in these months,” he added.

Currently, Almada belongs to Atlanta United and his termination clause is around 12 million dollars. Outside of the list of 26 that will compete in the Copa América, the goal of the former Vélez is to compete in the Paris Olympic Games with the Under 23 National Team. There, he would share the call with Kevin Zenón, Equi Fernández, Cristian Medina and Leandro Brey.

Although Boca needs its reinforcements for the playoff with Independiente del Valle, which will coincide with the competition on French soil, Almada is a footballer who reveals Román. However, there is already another talented one in the pipeline. This is Galarza, 22 years old, former Argentinos Juniors who plays with the Belgian Genk shirt. Robert Pires, former player of the French National Team, went so far as to say that he “has things similar to Riquelme.”

The Vera thing is not closed, beyond a specific proposal from Atlético Mineiro. Gabriel Milito wants to have the midfielder that he knows from Argentinos and the Brazilian club offered 4 million dollars for 80% of the player, which is owned by Corinthians. The central midfielder is tempted to return to our country and his future has not yet been resolved. He has the same representative as Marcos Rojo, the Englishman Kristian Bereit, and that relationship could help when closing the negotiation.

At the same time, Boca is working to close this first semester in the best possible way. Yesterday, Diego Martínez stopped two teams and in one of them, Medel played as a central midfielder. Edinson Cavani did not participate in training due to discomfort and in the afternoon the injury to Jabes Saralegui was confirmed, who had a tear and will be out for tomorrow.

The good news is that Nicolás Figal participated in practice, already recovered from a tear in his left leg. Aaron Anselmino, with the same injury, remains out of the race.

The possible training? Sergio Romero; Marcelo Saracchi, Lautaro Di Lollo, Rojo, Lautaro Blanco; Pol Fernández, Equi Fernández, Cristian Median, Zenón; Lucas Janson or Cavani and Miguel Merentiel.