And again it’s no. The third and, of course, probably the charm. Edinson Cavani will not play in Boca. Just when the version was that the striker could arrive in the country to put the seal on Riquelme’s old dream, the Matador contacted the vice president, He warned him that he was rejecting the last offer that the club had made him in these hours and told him that his priority is to continue in Europe.
The delay in the striker’s response had already caused concern in Román and his Council. “He still doesn’t answer us,” was the message that came from the Ezeiza property in the face of the latest questions about the Uruguayan. After hours of a lot of adrenaline, in which Cavani had accepted for the first time the possibility of going to Boca and in the Xeneize they had been excited again with a chance that he did not have in the plans right now, everything collapsed the same way it got up.
The Uruguayan had been training with the Uruguayan team at the AUF site.
“We only sent him the offer because he told us he was interested in coming.” In Boca, when communicating the reason for this Uruguayan decision, they also wanted to put white on black in the negotiation. “Everything else, optimism, which came this Sunday, came more from Uruguay,” they completed the response to the failed operation. In fact, there were many fans and even media who waited for the striker this morning at Aeroparque. He never came.
The fans and the media waiting for Cavani at Aeroparque. (Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi)
In principle, Cavani told Riquelme that he was interested in coming to Boca, but that his family did not want to live in Buenos Aires and that is why his priority was to continue in Europe. The reality, too, is that the Matador at this time was always on the lookout for what would happen with Villarreal and now another proposal from a team from that league, in which he never played, would have come up.
bewilderment and anger
In Boca, however, they were surprised by the way the operation collapsed. Because in reality, this management was carried out because the Uruguayan himself raised his thumb. And from there, there was a back and forth of proposals. Until the last one, even with an adjustment requested by the striker, had a delay in the response that already began to generate bad sensations. And in the end, that perception that was in the Council was confirmed with the final call.
In the Xeneize they also distrust that the real reason why Cavani has rejected the offer is fundamentally family. As close to his family as he is, so attached to his partner, his daughter India and his son Silvestre, barely a year old, it seems impossible that he did not take this aspect into account before telling Boca that this time he was willing to play in Argentina.
In fact, from their surroundings they had been saying that el Matador was convinced that the Xeneize was the best option to prepare for the World Cup in Qatar also because of the proximity between Buenos Aires and Salto, his town, precisely because of the family issue. And that he also loved the idea of playing in the Libertadores next year, that Cup that he could never play in his career and that is a pending account for him.
For now, in recent days, the striker had been in contact with Marcos Rojo, the Xeneize captain, with whom he had a good relationship at United, and had told him that he was waiting for the Villarreal door to open for him. Then, the Boca plan was activated and that talk seemed to be left behind, but… “Something else happened,” say those who were minute by minute of the negotiation.
Cavani Marcos Rojo played together at United.
Specifically, in the club suspects that Cavani began to negotiate with Boca because that possibility, that of Villarreal, did not finish defining theme (due to financial fair play, the Spanish club had to part with two players first) and then activated the “closest” option. But that the chance to go to Europe was always in the striker’s head. What will Edi say when he speaks publicly?
With the arrival of the Matador, Boca gave a giant blow in the Argentine market and put a full blow in sports (thinking about the Copa Libertadores next year) and also in politics, since it would have been a token that would have strengthened the management. Now, we will have to wait for the negotiation with Chiquito Romero, another response that the Council is waiting for.