As Boca Juniors got close on signing Manchester United star Edinson Cavani this summer, this is a story which still hasn’t left the Argentine media.
Landing the 34-year-old would obviously be a huge deal for the Buenos Aires side, and that’s why they’re still hopeful they can do it in the future.
ESPN Argentina had an interview last night with Jorge Patrín Bermudez, who’s a former Boca Juniors midfielder and current member of the club’s board. He made it clear that with Cavani willing to make the move, that will be a possibility again in the future.
“Although it’s not logical, it is possible, if the player wants.” Bermudez told ESPN Argentina.
“If Cavani tells our vice president ‘I want to play for Boca, I want to feel what it is to score a goal with Boca’s shirt’, do you think it’s not important? And if he tells you, ‘I don’t care how much I earn, I want to feel it before I retire’, isn’t it important?
“He spoke many times with Riquelme and we’ll be waiting for him.”
Boca Juniors’ hope had been to sign Cavani as a free agent. As said by the Argentine media many times, the striker had been in constant talks with the La Bombonera side last year, when leaving Paris Saint Germain, and promised vice-president Juan Roman Riquelme that once he decided to return to South America, they would be his next club.
Cavani, however, ended up agreeing to a new deal with Manchester United, renewing his contract for one year. That makes it near certain that the Buenos Aires side will only try his signing once again in 2022.
