Through a statement, the Chivas de Guadalajara made it official that Fernando Gago executed the termination clause of his contract and stopped being the first team coach. From which, the details were cleared for Gago to be the next Boca coach. The idea is for him to arrive in the country next Sunday, conduct his first training session in Ezeiza on Monday and debut next Saturday when he faces Tigre from 20 in Victoria.
With the execution of the clause, estimated at $1,500,000, Gago was automatically released from Chivas and will not coach in the friendly classic against América on Sunday the 13th in Houston (Texas). Now, The coach and Boca have a completely clear path to close the negotiations with a contract that has already been fully arranged and that Boca sent to Diego Merino, Gago’s representative, who had demanded this step in order to activate the termination clause.
The negotiations accelerated in the last hours after a video call between the members of the Boca Football Council and Gago himself. The only thing left was for the clause to be paid, something that was resolved as expected after the cash disbursement of around $1,500,000, a sum that Boca would later reimburse the coach in the contract.
In that first formal contact between Gago and the Football Council that make up Mauricio Serna, Marcelo Delgado y Raul Cascini, the new Boquense coach confirmed his intention to take over as soon as possible to be in charge in the match on Saturday the 19th against Tigre and on Wednesday the 23rd against Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata in Rosario for the quarterfinals of the Argentine Cup. The Colombian Serna, who took the lead on behalf of the Council, stressed to Gago that it is an absolute priority for the club’s interests to win the Argentine Cup to be able to play in Libertadores 2025.
According to some sources, in that talk, Gago found out about the situation of two players in particular: Sergio Romerowho this week returned to training with the squad after having served two games of suspension by the institution and Marcos Rojowho is in the full stage of recovering his physical condition. In both cases, they responded that The decision on the ownership or filming that they will have from now on will be exclusively at their expense.. From which it is possible that Romero will recover the Boca goal starting next Saturday.
Gago led Chivas de Guadalajara for thirty-eight games in 2024with seventeen wins, eleven draws and ten losses, and reached the semifinals in the Clausura Tournamentwhere they fell against América, which also eliminated them in the round of 16 of the Concacaf Champions Leaguethe competition that brings together the best teams from Central and North America.
Chivas was the third team in Gago’s career as technical director. His debut was in Aldosivi from Mar del Plata during 2021, where they achieved seven wins, three draws and sixteen losses in twenty-six games. At the end of 2021 it reached Racingwhere he remained in office until the end of 2023. and obtained the 2022 Champions Trophy and the International Super Cup at the beginning of 2023 in both cases against Boca.