The quality Oribe Peralta as a player and as a person, they were never bent on the board Chivas, but his hiring in 2019 was a mistake in the sports aspect, according to the former CEO of Guadalajara, José Luis Higuera.
Being one of those who made the decision to hire at the BrushArriving from America, now the president of Atlético Morelia said that he is not the best, because he does not fit into the Chivas sports model.
“We were wrong, he’s a great player, a great person and I don’t want to be misunderstood, but as a sports decision it was bad; many needs conquered us, many problems we had at that time “, said Higuera Half time.
“There were many emergencies and we were in a hurry, something that had not happened to me before; all my decisions were well thought out, calm and not this time, I had various pressures and it was a decision that was not for the successful model in Chivas”.
His arrival Peralta al Herd was made official on June 17, 2019, when the striker was already 35 years old, in a decision that went through several heads. The happiest was the then coach of the team, Thomas Boy.
“Review the performance and it was one of the decisions that should not be made at Chivas,” he added. „As CEO (executive director) I shouldn’t have proposed a table to make a decision, it shouldn’t have happened nor the first filter ”.
“DESPAIR OF BEING A REFERENCE WON”
For Fig, hiring of Brush, which arrived at no cost after being offered by America, was due to a lack of references and hierarchical players. Although he proposed the signing, he states that the decision was also taken by Amaury Vergara, Mariano Varela and Marcelo Michel Leaño.
“If I had stopped to evaluate what happened to similar players, none of them would have given results; I think we were overwhelmed by the desperation to have a benchmark and to have a player with the hierarchy that Oribe had “, he recalled.
From 2019 until now, Peralta has started only nine league matches and added only two goals, one in Liga MX and another in MX Cup.
“I think there are three, four or five identical examples, it was a total myopia of those who were there, I like the most reliable for Amaury was a bad recommendation“Higuera added.
ALAN PULIDO, THE MOST COMPLICATED NEGOTIATION
For Higuera, his most complicated negotiation as manager of Chivas When in 2016 they returned Alan Pulido to Liga MX, because it lasted almost two years, since the attacker belonged Olympiakos Greek.
“It was a brutal wear, Alan Pulido’s was very complicated; Oribe Peralta’s was quite easy, because I didn’t even have to decide, many of us decided it “, he clarified.
The current situation will hardly change for Oribe, because Chivas is currently the third highest scoring team, with 12 goals, just below Toluca (15) and Cruz Azul and San Luis (13), after the triumph of the herd over Pumas this Sunday, in which Oribe remained on the bench for the seventh consecutive game
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