LOS ANGELES – On his 29th birthday, January 6, 2022, Jesús Tecatito Corona will study in detail the offers that his promoter Matías Bunge has to emigrate to another European football, or even the MLS or Rayados de Monterrey itself. Meanwhile, don’t ignore a siren’s song.
That same Tuesday, April 13, the Mexican attacker will have another chance to add routes to his possible future. Porto loses to Chelsea in the Champions League (0-2), and plans to head to Stamford Bridge for another feat, such as knocking out Juventus in a great outcome.
This weekend, in the victory over Tondela, Sergio Conceição he was relieving some of his gladiators in the game. He wants them full on Tuesday. Tecatito Corona is one of them. The Mexican knows that what the pandemic stole from him, emerging in a powerful club in Europe, the post-pandemic can pay him back.
The same promoter of the Mexican encourages those serenades from supposedly interested people to sign it. As is often the case, the more it is exaggerated, the less credible it is, but that is not why it is not rejected. It is urged that clubs in Spain, the Premier and Italy bid on the versatile player.
In 2019, Porto closed the big gamble for him. He shielded him with a clause of 30 million euros (which will be cut sharply this summer), and a salary, with bonuses, with which Corona will raise up to 6.2 million euros in a good year, such as 2020.
Because, just like his daring spirit of adventure one day cut the umbilical cord with Monterrey, so Corona is seduced by a great team from a great class. The torch to scan new horizons is still burning. Especially when you talk about Inter Milan, Seville, Chelsea, West Ham and Wolverhampton.
Portugal is often seen as a pregnancy football. It is usually a platform to better destinations. But his football and the country itself develop a special consolation to take root in a migrant paradise. Although it is not the case with the Mexican attacker.
In addition to an exacerbated mania for magnifying the mistake in the first leg against Chelsea, in the Champions League, Tecatito Corona enjoys admiration in European places and, of course, loving privileges in Portugal, having made him an indulgence through their numbers and achievements. a.
Considered the best player in the League in 2020, for his all-terrain activity, his sacrifice in defense and his relentless attacking football, loaded with gloating and excitement for the stands, Tecatito has the support of his club to move into the next pass window, as from December 2021 Corona was able to negotiate freely and leave Porto without any benefit to the club.
Reports from Portugal indicate that Porto’s board of directors will decide this summer whether to make a proposal to renew the contract with the Mexican player, knowing that offers will come again, and most importantly, they hope he will have a good World Cup. in Qatar 2022, and that will allow him to thicken the negotiating broth.
His coach, Sergio Conceição, is an admirer of Tecatito. Like the Mexican, he liked daring football, dribbling, generous and exploitative, because like him, he had the terms of a right winger. For this reason, at one point he became the most powerful prosecutor, but also the most sincere ally.
In 2019, the Portuguese coach faced Tecatito and warned him that he no longer wanted him. It was not in their plans. Rather than resign and complain, Corona reinvented herself. Comfortable in the duties of attacking the right, he understood that he needed to renew himself or die on the couch, or expose himself to an unwanted transfer.
Corona began to learn, master, and polish the arts of good defense, adding them to the virtues of a daunting, defiant, daring attacker. The experiment was a success. He became an essential part of Porto and started ringing on the radars of other teams.
With the termination clause he had and the salary he receives for powerful clubs, it didn’t seem unreasonable to become the Mexican striker. Everything indicated that his transfer would be completed in the summer of 2020. But the Pandemic has decapitated clubs worldwide. Suddenly, a profitable, useful player became a luxury.
The economic contraction in football, a galloping recession in the teams’ finances, stopped any operation. In football terms, Jesús Manuel Corona was another victim of the pandemic.
According to his representative Matías Bunge, there are still clubs interested in Corona following their League and Champions League performance in the hope that it will no longer be a spur of the moment to materialize.
Despite the MLS’s insistence, Tecatito prefers to see it as a last resort, and even, at some point, he could choose to return to Mexico and end his career at the club that was his incubator, Rayados, as revealed to TV Azteca.
“I have it in mind (to return to Rayados), why am I lying? I have it in mind because it’s where I come from, I would like to return to a club and fight for championships, which makes me happier. … that’s why I went to the club and took love, I met many important people in my life there, like my wife. For that reason I would of course like to return to play in Monterrey, “said Jesús Manuel Corona.
For now, Tecatito is in no hurry. His appearances in the League and Champions League, eliminating Juventus, put him on the European dressers, but because of his sporty, emotional and family calm, he knows that there are two first-class tickets in the drawer, one of which is destined for the MLS, and the other, especially tempting, to Monterrey.
That is why Tuesday’s game against Chelsea is especially important. Corona can give another ‘taste’ of his terms to German technical director Thomas Tuchel, who has confirmed an interest in signing him, especially during the summer when, according to various versions, the termination clause could drop from 30 million euros to 20 euros . million euros, under a special agreement between the club and the player.