After weeks without a coach, Juan Reynoso is heading to the blue bench and after Cruz Azul has not reached an agreement with Hugo Sánchez
MEXICO.- Finally, Cruz Azul had to resort to option D to have his new coach.
Juan Reynoso, member of the last Cruz Azul champion team in winter 97, will become the new technical director of La Maquina this Saturday, as long as the last details of the negotiation are resolved and the Peruvian coach signs the contract with the celestial council.
ESPN he was able to find out from various sources that Reynoso had given a “yes” to the cement council, after Hugo Sánchez’s negotiation fell on December 30, when practically “Penta” and Cruz Azul had an agreement and everything was on its way. from Madrid to Mexico City.
However, small differences between the two sides could not be resolved and for this reason the negotiation went into a hiatus, after which it was finally ruled out by Cruz Azul on 1 January.
Then the heavenly directive had to resort from this Saturday to its Plan B andbecause the three options of Plan A, Antonio Mohamed, Matías Almeyda and Hugo Sánchez, could not materialize for economic reasons.
In Plan B, ESPN also learned that there are numerous technicians in the portfolio, such as Juan Reynoso, Alfonso Sosa, José Manuel de la Torre, Rubén Omar Romano, Mario Carrillo and Paco Palencia, but the managers did not start conversations, but only with one or two of them, being the Peruvian Reynoso who always had a hand in the scenario in which Mohamed, Almeyda and Sánchez could not reach La Noria.
This media also managed to confirm that Reynoso agreed to join the team adapting to the current economic reality of Cruz Azul, which will not allow him to invest a lot of money in reinforcements, because today he has one of the highest salaries in Mexican football, because it was hit hard by the pandemic and also because it failed 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 this afternoon with Cruz Azul leaders to settle the final details of the contract and sign the signature that will join him as coach for a year.
Champion in the Peruvian League with clubs such as Coronel Bolognesi, Universitario de Deportes and Melgar between 2007 and 2017, Reynoso was Enrique Meza’s technical assistant at Cruz Azul in 2012 and comes from directing a tournament in which Puebla caught eliminating Rayados in the Repechage and face them in the quarterfinals, which will eventually become the Guard1anes 2020 champion, Club León.
Why did the negotiation of Hugo Sánchez fall?
Although issues such as the duration of the contract, the salary and the confirmation of the coaching staff were initial differences between Cruz Azul and Hugo Sánchez, ESPN He was able to know that “Penta” had already agreed to run La Maquina for a year and not for two, as well as to adapt to the proposed salary and even resolve the non-arrival of Olaf Heredia as head coach. to keep Oscar “Conejo” Pérez, but a small difference in the economy and the fact that he might not be able to meet the reinforcements that Hugo asked led Cruz Azul to withdraw the offer on the table and decide to go to his option D as coach.