Roman return

Announced on Friday, unveiled today. Boca’s summer-long search for a playmaker worthy of the shirt has finally borne fruit - Juan Román Riquelme is back. And they’ve got him for free!
Well, that is, they haven’t paid a transfer fee, because Villarreal are allowing him to go back to his boyhood club on loan for no [...]

A quick weekend round-up

On Saturday, Boca made a statement of intent, and lead the scoring charts (and indeed the league) after giving Banfield a 4-0 spanking away from home. Facundo Sava levelled in the 85th minute for Racing, who drew 1-1 away to Chicago. Wonderkid Mauro Zárate got his domestic campaign up and running for Ricardo La Volpe’s [...]