Carlos Rodríguez, Erik Lira, Christian Tabó, Uriel Antuna and Alejandro Mayorga are the five confirmed discharges of Blue Cross, which until January 6, has invested a total of 9.6 million dollars in its new reinforcements, although they are waiting for at least two more incorporations for the Clausura 2022 tournament.
Juan Reynoso, coach of Blue Cross, expects at least two more reinforcements to arrive, although it does not close the doors to a third, which will make it “another squad basically”, because in addition to the new incorporations, they suffered the loss of important elements for the championship they achieved in May 2021, like that of Luis Romo, Orbelín Pineda, Roberto Alvarado or Jonathan Rodríguez.
After the resignation of 12 of its players for reasons such as the end of their contracts, higher economic demands, the search for more minutes of play or simply a change of scene, the celestial have been one of the most active teams in the market of transfers.
Although the 9.6 million dollars in investment represents a considerable increase over their investment in transfers last year, in which they had practically zero spending, it is not close to the investment of the pre-pandemic year, in which they spent up to 35.2 million in registrations It is according to data from the Transfermarkt portal. Even in the 2018-19 season, an expense of almost 60 million dollars was recorded, despite the fact that the costs of players such as Pablo Aguilar or Igor Lichnovsky, among others, have not been recorded.
This season the transfer costs are divided as follows: they acquired Erik Lira, from the Pumas, for 4.5 million dollars; to Christian Tabó, from Puebla, for 2.8 million; In turn, Mexican media revealed that the incorporation of Carlos Rodríguez, from Rayados, occurred in exchange for the transfer of Luis Romo and the payment of a difference of 2.3 million dollars.
On the other hand, Alejandro Mayorga, who was part of the Chivas, arrived as a loan for one year with an option to purchase, estimated at 3.5 million dollars, according to ESPN, and Antuna was exchanged for Roberto Alvarado at no real cost.
Plum Lira comes to Blue Cross in the best moment of his career so far, as the Pumas youth squad managed to position himself as one of the benchmarks of the auriazul squad and one of the last signs of effectiveness of the youth squad, while in October 2021 he debuted as a national team in the first team. Transfermarkt puts it at a value of $ 2.2 million.
The right winger, Christian Tabó, an acquaintance of Juan Reynoso during his time in Puebla, also arrives at the best moment of his market value (2 million dollars). The charrúa was a fundamental part of Nicolás Larcamón’s scheme to command the poblanos to the Liguilla in the last two tournaments. In the Apertura tournament, Tabó scored five goals in 16 games of the regular phase, in addition to a score in the Fiesta Grande.
Carlos Rodríguez is the player who stands out the most among the reinforcements of Cruz Azul with a value of 11.3 million according to Transfermarkt, which so far would place him as the most valuable player of the entire squad. The midfielder, who has experience in Europe as he played with Toledo of the Third Division of Spain, has become a recurrent in the calls of the Mexican National Team, he was even part of the team that won the bronze in the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020.
Alejandro Mayorga increased its value from 2.2 million in 2020 to 3.1 at the end of 2021. The left-back was part of the team that got the ticket to the Tokyo Olympics and will seek to earn ownership and be a recurring player to be considered in the Mexican National Team.
Uriel Antuna arrives at Cruz Azul with an estimated value of 5 million dollars, although his best value was reached at the end of 2020 (5.6 million). The speed and care of the professional towards the ball is one of the qualities that has led him to be called by Gerardo Martino to the Mexican National Team.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx