Santos snap up long-time Boca target, Di Cesare set to stay at Racing | OneFootball

The Brazilian team did not increase their offer for the Academy's center-back and ended up signing Adonis Frías, who at one point was close to joining Xeneize.

After Racing rejected an offer for Marco Di Cesare, Neymar's Santos did not raise the numbers in a new proposal and shifted their focus to another Argentine central defender. In this way, the departure of the former Argentinos Juniors player cools off, and for now, he is expected to stay a while longer in Avellaneda.

In crisis and with Juan Pablo Vojvoda as their brand-new coach, Peixe is going after Adonis Frías. The defender, who previously played for Los Andes and Defensa y Justicia, will leave León of Mexico and arrive in São Paulo for 4 million dollars, the same amount that had been offered for 70% of the Avellaneda club player's rights, for whom they were asking 6.5 million.

With three days left before the transfer window closes, it seems that Di Cesare's future will continue to be sky blue and white, and he will have to compete for his spot with the new signing Franco Pardo, who scored the goal that qualified Racing for the quarterfinals of the 2025 Copa Libertadores.

In August 2022, Frías was close to joining Boca Juniors, a team he publicly declared himself a fan of, but the transfer fell through due to the financial demands of Halcón de Varela.

“I’m really upset, I’m waiting for someone to explain to me what happened,” said the defender in the midst of negotiations between Defensa and Boca, which ultimately did not come to fruition. Halcón wanted two million dollars for the defender, Boca offered up to 1.5 million, and there was no agreement. Additionally, the Varela side wanted to keep him until the end of 2022. Finally, in January 2023, he was bought by León for four million dollars, where he stayed until this move to Neymar’s Santos.

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