The rumor, as the weeks went by, mutated into reality. Boca Juniors made an offer to Sergio Ramos to play in the Copa Libertadores in 2025. This was admitted by an important club source to Infobae in the last few hours. Now the completion of a signing that promises to break the transfer market will depend on the financial needs of the 38-year-old Spanish footballer and his willingness to move to Argentina to take the last steps of his professional career.
He world champion with Spain in 2010 He played his last official matches last May with the Sevilla shirt, where he was a starter and captain. However, he has not agreed to join any club since then and, although he stays in shape by training individually, he has lost his football training. However, a Fernando Gago who had him as a teammate at Real Madrid and a Juan Roman Riquelme who knows the hierarchy that his arrival would bring to a team that will compete in the Club World Cup in 2025, they agreed to make him a formal proposal.
Although at the beginning of the month Infobae They denied that it was possible to hire a figure of Ramos' stature, now history has changed and they were encouraged to propose a viable scenario so that whoever is to this day one of the best central defenders in history can wear the Boca shirt. From La Ribera, they not only confided in this medium that they had already sent them the formal offer, but they even stated that The salary cap will be the one Edinson Cavani hasbetter payment of the staff xeneize.
Sergio Ramos flirted with clubs in Saudi Arabia, another destination that, despite the millions they offered him, did not captivate him, and from Spain they made it known that the Andalusian's demands with the South American clubs were of 6 million dollars in exchange for a one-year contract. Although the numbers of Cavani's bond at Boca were never made public, it would range from half the amount demanded by the footballer who won 28 titles throughout his career (between Real Madrid, PSG and the Spanish team).
Of course, Boca is not the only suitor that Ramos has in South America. In recent days an approach of the Cruisewho was precisely the executioner of Xeneize in the Copa Sudamericana. “What we have as information is that he has doubts about leaving Europe, perhaps to Arabia. Coming to South America has not crossed his mind. That's what we heard,” said Alexandre Mattos, general director of the Azulaoin a note with TV Bands Minas.
Pedro Lourenco, owner of the Belo Horizonte club, maintains hopes of having his services in 2025: “If he wants to come, he can negotiate with us under Cruzeiro's conditions. We will talk to him. He could join us as we are considering the purchase of a new central defender.”. In Cruzeiro they have already done the math and are clear that they could formalize a proposal for a one-year contract to seek revenge in the Sudamericana.
The advantage that Boca has over Brazilian clubs or other interested parties is the desire that Sergio Ramos has been pursuing for years to play in La Bombonera. In fact, he was photographed in 2010 on the playing field when Vicente Del Bosque's Spanish team practiced there before playing a friendly with Argentina at the Monumental.
“Argentine football generates sympathy in me, I have always been told that I have many similarities to the Argentines, of always going well when cutting, crossing, those traits, Boca Juniors may have sympathized me a little more. I have had friends like Pipa Higuaín and Saviola who were from River and I have a special affection, but If I stay with one, Boca Juniors has always favored Maradona, Riquelme and La Bombonera”Ramos expressed some time ago in dialogue with streamer Ibai Llanos.
Meanwhile, a few years ago, Gago himself had referred to the chance of playing in the military alongside Sergio Ramos in Boca in the future. At that time, peaked He was still part of Real Madrid: “Now he can't come, they would send him off in every game, but if I come back, we come together.” That wish, in 2025, could come true although being his coach.
