While the contribution of US$ 50 million promised to fall this week in Botafogo is not enough, the club is working with two plans for the sequel to the 2026 season: one without the transfer banwhich would be paid with the help of this investment, and another with the continuation of the ban on registering players, according to journalist Bernardo Gentile on the “Arena Alvinegra” channel this Monday (26/1).
SAF leaders are prepared for both scenarios so that, if John Textor cannot complete this new financing, they should not be surprised.
– There are two plans going on. One is if you can pay the transfer ban, be free to hire and everything else. And the other is if you can’t pay the transfer ban. Botafogo knows that these two possibilities exist. As much as Textor says that money has come in, we know that time is short, it involves many people, it involves MLS, it involves lawyers, etc. So, you have to prepare all the grounds – Gentile explained.
– If you pay the transfer ban, great. Go there, try to close with Medina, you can sign up Villalba, Ythallo, you can look for other possibilities in the window that were paralyzed due to the transfer ban. Didn’t the transfer ban go down? Then there is the issue of the youth teams, of young people going up to the professional level, being added to Anselmi’s squad, because, when you need depth in the squad, if you can’t hire them, you resort to what you have at the base – he completed.
Botafogo already has five reinforcements awaiting FIFA’s permission to be registered: defenders Ythallo and Riquelme, left-back Jhoan Hernández, midfielder Wallace Davi and striker Lucas Villalba. There is also the agreement made with Cristian Medina, from Estudiantes.
According to “Rádio Tupi”, Botafogo already has an agreement in place with MLS to pay off the debt with Atlanta United that generated the transfer ban, in three installments of US$10 million. Part of the contribution announced by Textor will be for this purpose.
