With the focus on the Copa Libertadores 2022 and after finalizing the return of center forward Darío Benedetto, Boca Juniors continues to shake the market of passes Y this Sunday finished closing a new booster, Given the William “Pol” Fernandez too He will return to the club after his departure at the end of 2020. The steering wheel, from Cruz Azul, thus joins the defender Nicholas Figal, who This Monday he will sign his contract.
Pol Fernandez, who in recent weeks had a constant dialogue with vice president Juan Román Riquelme, comes from the Mexican team with which he had a contract until mid-year and became the third new face for Sebastián Battaglia’s team. for your pass, Boca will pay 2,000,000 dollars to Cruz Azul and will sign with the wheel a contract for three seasons, until the end of 2024.
The 30-year-old player was also wanted by Talleres de Córdoba, who approached him with an offer; but Fernandez, that this Monday the medical review will be done, decided to have his fourth stage in the Ribera club, where he got three titles: Argentina Cup 2012, Super League 2019/20 and Diego Maradona Cup.
Another who will sign a contract this Monday as a new player xeneize and he already did the medical review is the defender Nicolás Figal. The former Independiente defender, 27, arrived for one hundred percent of his record from Inter Miami in exchange for 3,000,000 dollars.
Second Boca incorporation in this season, since the first was Benedetto’s return to the club, Figal underwent the corresponding studies in a laboratory in the Barracas area and was accompanied by former soccer player Raúl Cascini, who is part of the institution’s soccer secretary.
Figal -who He began his career at Rojo, where he debuted in 2014– Had a six-month loan spell at Olimpo de Bahía Blanca, before being transferred to Inter Miami in 2020.
The transference of the first central marker It takes place after the departure of Lisandro López, who went to Xolos de Tijuana in part payment for the arrival of Benedetto and due to what Boca has suspended Marcos Rojo and Carlos Izquierdoz, with 5 and 4 parties each, respectively, and they can’t be in much of the first phase of the Copa Libertadores of this year.
in this position, the technician Battaglia also has Carlos Zambrano, played a weak game last Friday in the 3-2 victory against Universidad de Chile. In fact, It is very possible that the defender – quoted by Ricardo Gareca, coach of the Peru national team, for play the next two dates the South American Qualifiers– continue your career abroad, given that there is interest from a Mexican club for his pass.
The another central defender, the youthful Gastón Avila -of a very good performance in the 2-0 win against Colo Colo- he is left-handed and would be the replacement natural Red in that position.
That’s the way it is, Figal will remain this Monday under the command of Battaglia to train with his new teammates, who will do it in the afternoon in Yellow House, to then be concentrated in a hotel in the Monserrat neighborhood.
Boca Juniors plays on Tuesday next from 21.10 against San Lorenzo the final of the tournament Summer hexagon at the UNO stadium of Students of La Plata.
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