The worst scenario for Oviedo in its attempt to keep its star player is already a reality. Borja Sánchez, the blue team’s creative reference along with Borja Bastón, has three offers on the table for the following seasons: one from a First Division team, another from a Second Division team and a third from a foreign club .
The scores, the calls and the interest, which come from afar, have already been captured black on white, with specific figures for salary and contract duration. Borja is a pearl in the market, essentially for two reasons: her low salary (little more than the minimum in Second Division) and the duration of her contract, which expires in a few months.
The situation, although foreseeable for Oviedo due to the fact that the player from Oviedo ends his contract in June, is a serious setback for the blue sports management, which today sees first-hand how a strategic renewal that has been brewing for some time is complicated. months.
Tying Borja would also be a positive operation for the fans in the remaining section of the competition. Sell illusion. His goodbye, on the other hand, would be difficult to explain in the social section, being Borja, from Oviedo and from youth squad, the great talent that has come out of El Requexón in recent seasons. In addition, Oviedo would not receive a single euro in the event that Borja left.
The blue club is aware of the interest of several teams in Borja and also knows that it is late for a renewal on which there was even an agreement in principle a little over a year ago. Of that agreement, which included a new salary and a clause of 10 million euros for the current three, nothing was known.
During Christmas, after a time with hardly any conversations between the blue club and the player’s agents, there were approaches and small advances, without an agreement being closed. Oviedo is confident of being able to undertake the operation, but the truth is that within the entity a certain pessimism is beginning to be breathed with the long-awaited renewal.
The three offers that the player has received only increase the unease. Borja, while his future is being settled, has opted for a low profile, without public statements about his renewal, focused on the sports section.
The player considers that the team is at the key moment of the season and does not want anything to distract the group from the goal of the play-off. Borja has always maintained that his intention was always to continue at Oviedo, he even accepted the terms that the club proposed to him a year ago, before the death of Francesc Arnau.
For its part, the club considers that the renewal of the player is on the roof of Borja himself. The entity, after a waiting time, sat down with the agent from Oviedo, the Asturian Juan Mata, and raised his renewal offer, with an improved salary.
In general, the figures were to the liking of the footballer, but small clauses made the agreement and the drafting of the final contract difficult. The club maintains, therefore, that Borja can renew whenever he wants and that his hand is outstretched. And the player, in the current situation, is not in a hurry and will choose what suits him best.
The “10”, to be important again
Borja Sánchez wants to be important again for the remainder of the season, a decisive stretch of the season for Oviedo in their aspiration to get into the play-offs. The blue “10”, the top assistant in the Second Division with seven goals, will fight this week for a place in the match against Girona, on Sunday in Montilivi (9:00 p.m. CET). In recent games, Borja’s participation has been lower than in previous games. After giving Bastón an assist against Amorebieta, he started against Huesca, but in the next game, against Burgos, he stayed on the bench due to the change in system. Against Sanse, last week, he went out of hand, but he only played 57 minutes, his worst mark in the games he starts. Borja is usually an easy change for Cuco: he has been since last November, against Burgos at the Tartiere, without playing a full match.
