Rafael Santos Borré is looking for a new team and the chances of him returning to Spain are high. The Colombian striker for Eintracht Frankfurt has lost a lot of prominence in the German team after the additions made by the club last summer and wants to find a new team from December to play regularly. And there have appeared, so far, two Spanish clubs that have shown their interest in opting for Borré’s loan to strengthen their squads, as well as another team from Italy.
For Santos Borré it would mean returning to Spain after his time as an Atlético de Madrid player, with whom he did not make his official debut, but since he was loaned to Villarreal for one course, 2016-17, playing up to 30 games. After that he was transferred to River Plate, where he made the big leap, with 55 goals scored, which allowed him to return to Europe, to Eintracht Frankfurt, his current club.
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His first season at Eintracht was a dream: he scored 12 goals, four of them in the Europa League, including one against Barcelona in the quarterfinals, another against West Ham in the semi-finals (and an assist) and another against Rangers in the final, in addition to scoring the decisive penalty in the shootout that tipped the scales and made Frankfurt champion. That title allowed Frankfurt to play the last European Super Cup against Real Madrid in Helsinki, where they could do nothing to stop Ancelotti’s team.
Borré, valued at 20 million euros
But this course that sweet moment was broken: Eintracht signed two strikers last summer, Kolo Muani and Lucas Alario, and Borré’s prominence has fallen. He has played 571 minutes and Oliver Glasner’s favorite is Muani, who is already on the verge of 800, despite the fact that the Franco-Congolese has barely scored two goals, to one from the Colombian. Santos Borré believes that he will have better opportunities outside of Eintracht and his representatives are already working to facilitate his departure. For now, he already knows that in Spain he has a poster and it is not unreasonable to think that he can return to the League more than five years later.
Although before Borré has the objective of making the most of the minutes that Glasner gives him between now and January; he knows that his performance until then will depend on having more options to choose his future. That, of course, if Eintracht agrees to negotiate. A transfer seems complicated, with Borré’s price is very high today (according to Transfermarkt his value is 20 million; Frankfurt would claim even more in a potential transfer), but a loan is viable. There is a lot left for January, but Borré is beginning to move so that the 2022-23 academic year will spread as much as possible.