Miguel Borja is, without a doubt, the most important operation for the 2022 Betplay I League. The attacker returns to his beloved Atlético Junior after having descended in Brazil with the Gremio and seeks revenge and, more than anything, continuity to stay in Reinaldo Rueda’s deck for the Colombian National Team.
The transfer, however, was not easy and went through an agreement with the Brazilians and an insistence by the player on returning to the team that made him a league scorer and that opened the doors of the national team for him.
“Bringing Miguelón to us is a very important triumph because it is already the purchase of the player. He will have a 36-month contract, that is, three years. It is a total purchase, 100%, between 3 and 3.5 million dollars” Said at the time the man who revealed the signing, the former mayor of Barranquilla and current presidential candidate, Alejandro Char.
But here it is worth making a clarification: the player’s agent, Juan Pablo Pachón, explained that the purchase from Palmeiras was for 50 percent of the player’s economic rights, which is not the same as his federative rights, which, By FIFA regulations, they cannot be in the hands of two clubs at the same time.
It means that Palmeiras continues to have the last word in the event of a future negotiation by the player, who for now only wants to be told about Barranquilla, Junior, the Copa Sudamericana and of course, the Colombian National Team, for which he could be available on 16 January, if coach Reinaldo Rueda needs it against Honduras, and of course for the Qatar 2022 Qualifiers.
And the salary? As FUTBOLRED explained at the time, Borja’s arrival breaks the average salary not only in Junior but in the entire League, since it is a player whose income is equal to that of stars like Duván Zapata. The effort of the club and businessmen of the Atlantic capital will cover this enormous expense: there were no concessions.
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