Boca paid millions, he left for free, now set for lower leagues | OneFootball

Spending millions of dollars on a reinforcement doesn't always guarantee success, and Boca knows this well. In recent years, transfer markets have seen names that cost significant sums of money and have not performed as expected at the Xeneize.

In this context, there is one of those names that excited all the Xeneize fans. To bring him in, Juan Román Riquelme and the now-defunct Football Council made one of the strongest investments ever seen, but his performance was below expectations.

Darío Benedetto returned to the club in 2022 after a lackluster stint in Europe. Boca paid a sum of 10.5 million dollars to Olympique de Marseille to bring him back, but he was far from his goal-scoring version of 2017-2018. His poor level and off-field scandals ended with the mutual termination of his contract in July of last year.

Benedetto said goodbye to Boca in July 2024.

Since then, Pipa has not been able to be the same. After several unsuccessful stints in Mexico, Paraguay, and recently at Newell's, his future seems tied to Argentine promotion. Almirante Brown recently hired Walter Erviti, a former Xeneize, as the club's manager, and the plan of the Mar del Plata native is to add the striker to the squad.

Benedetto's tough time since leaving Boca

After a first stage full of goals, with performances that led him to be part of the Argentine National Team, much was expected of the forward who emerged from Arsenal de Sarandí upon his return, but the goals everyone expected did not come.

Benedetto recently terminated his contract with Newell's.

After leaving as a free agent, following a mutual termination, he joined Querétaro in Mexico. He played eight matches, couldn't score, and decided to move to Olimpia in Paraguay, coached by Martín Palermo, where he managed to provide two assists but maintained his drought and, after 13 games, left again. His bad streak continued at Newell's, where, after nine matches, he terminated his contract for the third consecutive time with a club and is now looking for a place to revive his career.

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