After weeks without a coach, Juan Reynoso goes to the blue sofa and after Cruz Azul did not reach an agreement with Hugo Sánchez
MEXICO.- Ultimately, Cruz Azul had to resort to option D to have his new coach.
Juan Reynoso, member of Cruz Azul’s last champion team in Winter 97, will be the new technical director of La Maquina this Saturday, as long as the final details of the negotiation are resolved and the Peruvian coach signs the contract with the celestial board.
ESPN may have known from several sources consulted that Reynoso gave the “yes” to the cement slab, after the negotiation by Hugo Sánchez fell on December 30, when practically the “Penta” and Cruz Azul had an agreement and so he was on his way to Madrid to travel to Mexico City.
However, minor differences between the two sides could not be resolved and for this reason, negotiations ended, eventually being ruled out on Cruz Azul’s side on January 1.
It was then that this Saturday’s heavenly directive was to resort to its Plan B, enbecause the three options of Plan A, Antonio Mohamed, Matías Almeyda and Hugo Sánchez, could not be realized for economic reasons.
In plan B, ESPN he also discovered that there were numerous technicians in the portfolio Juan Reynoso, Alfonso Sosa, José Manuel de la Torre, Rubén Omar Romano, Mario Carrillo and Paco Palencia, but the managers did not start talks, but with one or two of them, being Peruvian Reynoso who always had a hand in the scenario that Mohamed, Almeyda and Sánchez La Noria could not reach.
These media were also able to confirm that Reynoso agreed to join the team to adapt to Cruz Azul’s current economic realities, which prevents him from investing a lot of money in reinforcements as he has one of the highest payrolls in Mexican football today, as He has been hit hard by the pandemic and because it has also been unable to give way to players like Pablo Ceppelini, Milton Caraglio, Jesús Corona, Guillermo “Pol” Fernández, Walter Montoya and Bryan Angulo.
Juan Reynoso will have a final meeting with Cruz Azul leaders this afternoon to fine-tune the final details of the contract and sign the signature that will join the club as coach for a year.
Champion in the Peruvian league with clubs like Coronel Bolognesi, Universitario de Deportes and Melgar between 2007 and 2017, Reynoso was Enrique Meza’s technical assistant at Cruz Azul in 2012 and has just led a tournament where Puebla surprises by knocking out Rayados. in the rematch and face him in the quarter-finals, who would eventually become the 2020 Guard1anes champion, the Club León.
Why did the negotiations with Hugo Sánchez fail?
While issues such as contract duration, salary and coaching staff confirmation were initial differences between Cruz Azul and Hugo Sánchez, ESPN He was able to know that “Penta” had already agreed to direct La Maquina for one year and not two years, adjust to the proposed salary and even resolve the non-arrival of Olaf Heredia as goalkeeper coach. to keep Oscar “Conejo” Pérez, but a slight difference in economics and the fact that they may not be able to find the reinforcements Hugo needed, made Cruz Azul withdraw the offer on the table and decided to move to his option D as a coach.