Racing want him, but Boca won't part with Milton Giménez | OneFootball

The board’s position is clear: the striker is an important part of the squad, and there are no plans to sell him in the next transfer window, much less to a direct rival.

Amid their footballing crisis and the need to strengthen a battered squad ahead of the second half of the year, Gustavo Costas —whose future entered uncertain territory after the team’s elimination from the Copa Sudamericana— has once again set his sights on Milton Giménez. Long admired by Racing’s coach, rumors of renewed interest for the next transfer window have resurfaced in Avellaneda. However, Boca’s stance is firm: they have no intention of parting ways with the striker.

This is not the first time the Academy has shown interest in the 29-year-old forward. They had already tried in both 2025 transfer windows, though without success. At the time, Boca were asking for a fee close to seven million dollars, three million more than they had paid Banfield in mid-2024. Racing eventually backed off and ended up going for Elías Torres, who failed to establish himself amid appearances off the bench and injuries.

And now? Today, starting for Boca due to Adam Bareiro’s injury, and with Edinson Cavani still unable to log minutes because of the lingering back injury that has kept him off the pitch for months, the club’s leadership considers Giménez an important piece of the squad and has no intention of selling him. Even less so to a direct rival like Racing.

Now fully recovered from the groin injury that hampered him at the start of the year and kept him sidelined for several weeks, the striker has begun to show better form again and currently stands as the team’s main attacking reference in Bareiro’s absence. Since returning, he has scored four goals in ten matches for Boca in 2026.

Looking ahead to the second half of the year —and based on the fact that the board is not seeking to sign another center-forward in the next transfer window— Giménez is a player valued internally and one they are counting on to face, if the result against Universidad Católica goes their way, the decisive stretch of the Copa Libertadores.

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