Boca Juniors Freeze Out Saracchi as Celtic Decision Looms | OneFootball

Boca Juniors have made their position brutally clear – Marcelo Saracchi will not train with the first team until he leaves, and the ball is now firmly in Celtic’s court.

Marcelo Saracchi has returned to Buenos Aires following his loan spell at Celtic and is training apart from Boca Juniors’ first-team squad, with Argentine outlet El Intransigente reporting that the club’s coaching staff have deliberately excluded him from group sessions. The message from Boca is unambiguous: he occupies a foreign-player slot they have better uses for, and they want him out – ideally permanently, and ideally abroad.

As reported by 67HailHail, the training segregation signals that Boca are actively managing Saracchi out of the door rather than simply leaving his future to chance. The club had already inserted a €2.5m purchase option into Celtic’s loan agreement, and reports from Argentina suggest Celtic did not activate that clause before the loan concluded – a decision that has now created this peculiar limbo.

Here’s the thing: €2.5m is not a fee that should give anyone pause if the player is right. The question is whether the football department – operating in the current vacuum with no permanent manager in place – has actually reached a settled view on Saracchi or whether he has simply drifted down the list of priorities. With UCL qualifier preparation making recruitment genuinely critical, drifting is not an option we can afford.

ÇORUM FK CIRCLING

Newly promoted Çorum FK have entered the picture as a potential alternative destination, offering Saracchi a route back to Turkey, where he played for Galatasaray. There is no indication he prefers that move over a return to Celtic, but Boca will not wait indefinitely, and the longer this drags, the more realistic that alternative becomes.

The broader recruitment picture – with Dortmund now competing for Ghédjem – suggests this is a window demanding decisiveness rather than committee thinking. Journalist Seba Ongarelli noted that Saracchi’s agent confirmed Celtic made no permanent offer, which tells its own story about where things stood at the loan’s end.

Boca will keep Saracchi kicking his heels until a transfer is done. The question is whether that transfer is to Glasgow or elsewhere. Celtic need to answer that – and soon. Mon The Hoops.