Riquelme and the DETAILS of why Cavani rejected Boca: “He told me that…”

Román gave his opinion on the frustrated pass of the Uruguayan striker, who seemed to be very close to Xeneize but finally ended up giving him the thumbs down at the last moment.

The arrival of Edinson Cavani a Boca in the last transfer market it had ceased to be an illusion for the fans and had become a latent chance. The Matadorfree after moving away from Manchester United, He was one step away from wearing the blue and gold shirt, but he ended up giving Juan Román Riquelme a thumbs down at the last minutewho gave details about the talks they held.

“I talked to him two and a half years ago. I speak very often”, opened the vice president xeneize on ESPN. And he recounted the details of the last call they had, in which the Uruguayan striker ruled out the possibility of being a reinforcement of Hugo Ibarra’s team: “He was very clear with me. He told me that he had an arrangement with Villarreal or I don’t know what other team. But a bomb exploded somewhere and they said ‘tomorrow he travels to Buenos Aires'”.

Beyond the fact that the answer was not what was expected again, the idol of Don Torcuato does not close the gate of La Bombonera to the Uruguayan scorer: “Of course we would be very excited with that kind of player. This is what happened to us with Romero. They are stars and when we have the possibility of a star coming to the club, we don’t hesitate, we do it right away, as long as we can fulfill what they want”.

And he concluded: “That’s good for our roster to have more hierarchy and for the guys in the Lower League to be lucky enough to learn from those kinds of players. But that’s all that happened with Cavani.”

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