Racing want him, but Boca won't let Milton Giménez go | OneFootball

The position of the club’s leadership is clear: the striker is an important part of the squad and there is no intention of selling him in the next transfer window, much less to a direct rival.

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

It is not the first time that the Academia 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 what they had paid Banfield in mid-2024. Racing ultimately backed off and ended up going for Elías Torres, who failed to establish himself amid substitute appearances and injuries.

And now? Currently a starter 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 blue-and-gold leadership considers Giménez an important part of the squad and has no intention of selling him. Even less so to a direct rival like Racing.

Now recovered from the pubalgia that hampered him at the start of the year and kept him sidelined for several weeks, the striker has begun to show a better version of himself again and currently appears to be the main attacking reference point in Bareiro’s absence. Since returning, he has scored four goals in ten matches for Boca in 2026.

With the second half of the year in mind —and based on the fact that the club’s leadership is not looking to bring in another center-forward in the next transfer window— Giménez is a player valued internally and one they are counting on for the decisive stretch of the Copa Libertadores, if the result against Universidad Católica goes their way.

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