The midfielder, who is in Paris 2024 with the U-23s, exercised the release clause and will be an Al Qadisiya player when he returns from the competition. The numbers of an important transaction for the club’s history.
The story of Equi Fernández in Boca
After beating Ukraine in the group stage of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Ezequiel Fernández resolved his immediate sporting future at club level. The Boca player executed the termination clause and will become a new Al Qadisiya player once the competition is over, so he will not return to Brandsen 805. Given this situation, the club moved quickly to find his replacement and is very close to closing the arrival of Ignacio Miramón as a sixth reinforcement.
Although the Football Council had been reluctant to accept the first offers that had come from exotic Arab football, the player’s desire to emigrate to that destination, understanding that it is a previous stopover to play in Europe, ended up weighing heavily.
“Today Equi Fernández is a Boca player. He is happy to represent the club and his country at the Olympic Games. Offers will always appear when there are great footballers. We will see what happens,” said Mauricio Serna, a member of the CDF, a few days ago.
Equi Fernández’s goal helps the U23s beat Iraq
But everything changed. From Paris (where he scored a great goal against Iraq), Equi raised his thumb to the chance to fly towards a path that is ascending by leaps and bounds in the world of football based on his economic power and while all the parties began to give in. With the execution of his clause already confirmed, which had increased from 15 to 20 million in the days prior to the first match of the season, the talented 22-year-old midfielder will not return to Xeneize after the 2000 Olympics and will become a man of Al Qadisiya.
How will the transfer money be divided? The Ribera team will get 15 million gross in US currency, although taxes must be deducted from that. In addition, there will be percentages destined for the player, to Futbolistas Argentinos Agremiados and to a club from San Miguel, for training rights, which would be around 20 percent. Therefore, it is estimated that the net amount that will reach the accounts of Brandsen 805 would be close to 10 million, although Boca’s official confirmation remains to be awaited.
The reason why Equi Fernández will leave Boca for Arab football
Despite the notable sporting differences between the exotic Arab league and the local championship, the reason why the midfielder will emigrate to the Asian continent is not only strictly economic; it also has to do with the fact that Fernández believes that Al-Qadsiah is the previous step for his great leap to Europe. As an example, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, former Arsenal and Barcelona player, was transferred to the aforementioned Arab team from Olympique de Marseille due to the good relationship that prevails between them.
In this sense, deep inside Boca they suspect that, behind this insistent interest, there are groups of investors who intend for Al-Qadsiah to simply be a stopover so that the skilled footballer who is in Paris, on the occasion of the 2024 Olympic Games, can end up in one of the major leagues of the Old Continent before the end of the year.
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