The positions Boca will look to strengthen in the transfer market | OneFootball

The semester is not over yet for Boca, but the club’s leadership is already planning what the second half of the year will look like. Xeneize will have a busy transfer window, and it is already clear that they will look to strengthen several positions in the squad.

This Thursday, May 28, the Ribera side will play its final match of the season, which ends with the game at La Bombonera on matchday six of the Copa Libertadores. After this match, the squad will be given more than a month off due to the World Cup that will be played in the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

Taking advantage of this break in Argentine football, Boca’s leadership plans to keep working on building a squad that hopes to remain in continental competition, as well as compete in the Torneo Clausura and the Copa Argentina.

In that sense, the squad will have to be strengthened by the leadership headed by Juan Román Riquelme, with Sporting Director Marcelo Delgado in charge of the matter. The transfer window will be approached primarily with the aim of signing a goalkeeper. Agustín Marchesín’s injury has made this a key position to reinforce.

Boca close out the semester against Católica.

In addition to a goalkeeper, Boca need a right-back. The players they currently have in that position, Marcelo Weigandt and Juan Barinaga, lost their place in the starting eleven to Malcom Braida, a player whose natural position is on the left flank and who will end up playing there this semester because of the poor level shown by the aforementioned players. As well as looking for a signing in that spot, the idea for the second half of the year is to promote a promising youth player from the reserve team: Dylan Gorosito. 

One of the options at right-back is Felipe Loyola, whom the club’s leadership has reportedly already contacted through his representatives to let them know they intend to make a move for him. Although the Chilean’s natural position is central midfield, he has played in the role Boca are considering him for.

This upcoming transfer window will also have other targets. Given Carlos Palacios’ limited involvement due to the injury that kept him off the pitch all year, the club’s leadership is reportedly determined to look for a player who can operate in that area. 

Xeneize will rebuild for the second half of the year.

There is also talk of the possibility of signing a winger amid the possible departure of Changuito Zeballos. The name of Sebastián Villa, despite the fact that he is in a legal dispute with the club, is on the table and some even dare to say that Boca will go after him. 

On the other hand, much will depend on what happens with the offers that will surely arrive for several players, since there have already been several inquiries from European clubs for players considered starters and who would be very difficult to replace.

Boca and the possible departures in this transfer window

The transfer window will be tied to what happens with the team’s fate in continental competition. Depending on whether Xeneize stay alive in the Copa Libertadores, or in the worst-case scenario end up playing in the Sudamericana next semester if they fail to qualify for the round of 16, they will need to reinforce more or less accordingly.

Several players will leave Boca in this transfer window.

There could be several departures in this transfer window. Milton Delgado, the squad’s highest-valued player, Exequiel Zeballos, Lautaro Di Lollo, Lautaro Blanco, and several others have already been approached by other clubs looking to sign them, and the leadership will have to decide whether to sell them or back their continuity. In specific cases such as Changuito’s, the club has proposed renewing his contract, which expires at the end of the year, but no agreement has been reached yet.

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