Just over five years ago, Gustavo Gómez was one step away from Xeneize, but the operation fell apart and today he is the leader of his rival in the semi-finals.
On July 5, 2018, Gustavo Gomez He was, in words, a player of Mouth. He had left Milan, arrived in Buenos Aires, passed through Casa Amarilla, He passed part of the medical examination and even had his presentation video filmed. But at the same time The final details of the operation caused its foundation to fall, almost as a plea requested by Guillermo Barros Schelotto. A few days later he was a new reinforcement for Palmeiras, Xeneize’s rival in the semi-finals of the 2023 Copa Libertadores.
It is true that, a few months after these events, The Paraguayan suffered Darío Benedetto in the same event as the 2018 editionwhen Pipa was decisive with three goals between the first leg and the second leg against Verdao, which had the defender himself as author of the 2-1 partial in Brazil. History brings them face to face againalbeit with Gómez in the role of captain and leader of the club that became champions in 2020 and 2021.
And the opinion, five years after that frustrated pass, is final: “Fate wanted me to join Palmeiras. Everything was prepared, we were ready to sign, but when I went there were some little things in the contract that we didn’t like. It was very close, but thank God fate brought me to Palmeirassaid the man who a few days ago had rejected a 30 million offer from Arab football and committed himself to winning the trophy for the third time in his career.
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WHY DOESN’T IT REACH THE MOUTH?
To understand the failed negotiations, you have to go back a few months to that market in mid-2018. And then back to 2014. Guillermo Barros Schelotto met the defender when he was coach of Lanús and was blinded by his potential. For this reason, during the January 2018 recess, he asked to be admitted anyway Boca even offered Milan $6.5 millionowner of his pass, but could not catch the footballer.
Six months later he returned to the fray and after numerous offers and counter-offers, everything was agreed with the Rossonero and also with Gómez’s representation. But while he was undergoing the medical examination, the final obstacle appeared: the dollar, since the request for a salary went with the “free” currency, while in Xeneize they offered to pay with the same “ceiling” already budgeted and with which the rest of the team was paid in case of any devaluations.
The negotiations ended abruptly and the player’s direction was Milan and San Pablo, to sign for Palmerias. Daniel Angelici said a few days later that “the medical examination was done and while we were in the country we had the final conversation with his representative, who He told me he wanted a free dollar contract. There I told him he had to go. I don’t like these novels on the market”, to add that”Boca is a very big club, and when we look for a player, I like that player to want to come.”.
Almost a month later the answer came: “The Brazilian leaders were very good to me from the first moment. They are very serious, they call you directly, they don’t lie and they don’t publish anything in the press.Unpleasant. “They delivered on everything they promised,” he counterattacked. Ultimately, the reinforcement that arrived for that position was Carlos Izquierdoz and the rest of the story of that year is known, but it will have a new chapter in 2023, again in the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores.
Source: Goal