"I'll meet with the players on Saturday in Holland and talk face to face," Maradona told Argentinean radio station, La Red.

The former soccer star had two stints with Boca Juniors, in 1981/82 where he helped the club win a league title, and later in the twilight of his career from 1995-1997.

Maradona, 44, and just a few months removed from gastric bypass surgery, was hired last month as a vice president, a post he'll officially commence on August 1st. The club hopes his presence will help them, after a disastrous 2004-05 season, which coincided with Boca's centenary, where they finished 7th.

The players are not making it easy for the 1986 World Cup Champion.

In his new role as liaison between management and players, he faces his first challenge in the Netherlands, where he'll try to smooth over the intense conflict between forward Marcelo 'Chelo' Delgado, who accused club president, Mauricio Macri of being "stubborn" and "of having personal deals with the club".

Chelo Delgado was offered a 1.5 million dollar one-year deal by a Japanese club. The 32-year-old Delgado, who has been with Boca since 2000 when they last won the League Championship, and helped the club win 5 South American Titles, was upset because he was not allowed to leave Boca after receiving the lucrative offer.

Before the short circuit between Macri and Delgado, which culminated in the former Cruz Azul player's return to Argentina on Wednesday, Maradona had had harsh words for the players, who'd demanded bonuses for their recent tour through Asia.

About the Delgado and Macri issue, he said: "I'd like to hear from both sides and do what's best for the club. It's not good to undermine the possibility of a player's growth, and it's useless to have someone who doesn't want to be here."

Maradona added that "we should not get in the way of Delgado being able to make money at this stage of his life.

"Boca would be minus one forward just a few days before the start of the league tournament, and in today's Argentinean soccer, to give away a forward means great deal."

Delgado is to meet with club vice president, Pedro Pompilio, to determine his future, which is thought to include a suspension that could last up to six months.

The stalemate thickened when former Boca players like Antonio Barijho and Colombian, Jorge Bermudez, came forth to criticize Macri.

About the bonuses, he had this to say: "I won't confront the players (…) no Boca player would dare demand prizes for losing," Maradona stated. "They earn their pay by working, earn their salaries, their bonuses, earn the public's affection, but to gain from losing, no one likes that."

"To get paid you must win. No Boca player demanded anything after the loss to Chivas" the Mexican club that ousted Boca from the Liberators Cup tourney in the quarterfinals.

Boca will close out in Europe the tour they began in Asia, in friendlies versus Ajax of Holland and Porto of Portugal.

Maradona concluded by saying, "My business with Boca is from the heart, not with a signature, that's my job and if I don't do it, I'll go back to my place (at Boca's La Bombonera Stadium)."