This afternoon, Agustín Rossi underwent a medical check-up and signed the contract to become a new player in Al Nasser. The 27-year-old goalkeeper will be on loan at the Saudi Arabian club until June 30 in exchange for one million dollars to Boca. Now he will be a partner Cristiano Ronaldo and the former player of River, Gonzalo “Pity” Martinez.
After the news broke that Agustín had signed a pre-contract with Mengão (the club that owns his card as of June), Xeneize took advantage of his trip to Abu Dhabi for the final of the International Super Cup, which he lost to Racing, to negotiate the loan with Al Nassr. The agreement was closed while the Boca delegation returned to Argentina and for this reason the goalkeeper did not resume the flight on the Madrid scale.
In the capital of Spain, Rossi had to go buy clothes, since he only had the Xeneize clothing and wait for the work visa to arrive. It should be noted that the prince who owns the Saudi club has known him since the friendly between Boca and Barcelona (December 2021) and after asking for references to, for example, Miguel Ángel Russo, former coach of the Arab team and the Ribera team.
What Hugo Ibarra said about Rossi’s future in Boca
In the press conference after the 2-1 defeat against the Academy at the Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium, the Boca coach did not avoid questions about the goalkeeper. “We all remember a team from Brazil that communicated about a pre-contract signed with Agustín,” he declared before learning of the million-dollar agreement with Al Nassr.
“All the players have to be 100 percent committed to the club. From that moment I made the decision. I work with 29 or 30 footballers and I want them committed,” added El Negro. In this way he made it clear that Rossi was not going to add minutes under the three sticks in the time that remained of his relationship with Xeneize.