The quality of Oribe Peralta as a player and person they were never in doubt for the board of Chivas, but his hiring in 2019 was according to the former CEO of the Guadalajara José Luis Higuera.
Be one of those who made the decision to hire to the BrushArriving from America, the now president of Atlético Morelia said it wasn’t the best because it didn’t fit Chivas’ sports model.
We were wrong, he’s a great player, a great person and I don’t want him to be misunderstood, but as a sports decision it was bad; many needs won us over, many problems we had at the time, ”said Higuera Media tempo
“There were many emergencies and we were in a hurry, something that had never happened to me before; all my decisions were well thought out, calm, and not this time, we had different pressures and it was a decision that was not for the successful model in Chivas
The arrival of Peralta al Herd was made official on June 17, 2019, when the attacker was already 35 years old, in a decision that went through several minds. The happiest was the then coach of the team, Thomas Boy.
“You’re watching the performance and it was one of the decisions that shouldn’t be made in Chivas,” he added. As CEO (Chief Executive Officer) I shouldn’t even have suggested a table to make up my mind, it didn’t have to be done nor the first filter ”.
‘Desperate to have won a reference’
In front of Higuera, hiring Brush, which arrived free of charge after being offered by America, was due to the lack of references and players with hierarchy. Although he suggested the signing, he clarifies that the decision was also made by Amaury Vergara, Mariano Varela and Marcelo Michel Leaño.
“If I had stopped to evaluate what had happened to similar players, none of them would have produced results; I think we were overwhelmed with the desperation of having a benchmark and a player with the hierarchy Oribe had, ”he recalled.
From 2019 to now, Peralta has started just nine league games and has added just two goals, one in the Liga MX and another in the MX Cup.
“I think there are three, four or five identical examples, it was total myopia from those who were there, I like the most trusted people because Amaury was a bad recommendationHiguera added.
ALAN PULIDO, THE MOST COMPLEX NEGOTIATION
For Higuera, his most complicated negotiation as a manager of Chivas It was when they returned to Alan Pulido to Liga MXsince it took almost two years since the attacker got to the Olympiacos Greek.
“It was brutal wear and tear, Alan Pulido’s was very complicated; Oribe Peralta’s was pretty easy because I didn’t even have to decide, some of us decided, ”he clarified.
The current situation will hardly change for Oribe, as Chivas will currently the third highest scoring team, with 12 goals, only below Toluca (15) and Cruz Azul and San Luis (13), after the herd’s victory over Pumas this Sunday, in which Oribe remained on the bench for the seventh consecutive game