The quality of Oribe Peralta as a player and person were never in doubt by the board of Chivas, But his hiring in 2019 was a mistake in the sporting aspect, according to the former CEO of the Guadalajara, José Luis Figuera.
Being one of those who made the decision to hire in the Brush, Arriving from America, the now president of Atlético Morelia said he was not the best as he did not fit into Chivas ’sports model.
“We’re wrong, he’s a great player, a great person and I don’t want that to be misunderstood, But as a sporting decision it was bad; they won us over a lot of needs, a lot of issues that we had at the time, “Figuera told Half time.
“There were a lot of emergencies and we were in a hurry, something that hadn’t happened to me before; all my decisions were very thoughtful, calm, and this time not, we had several pressures and it was a decision that was not for the successful model in Chivas”.
The arrival of Peralta in the Ramat became 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 DT of the team, Thomas Boy.
“You reviewed the performance and it was one of the decisions that should not have been made in Chivas,” he added. “As CEO (Chief Executive Officer) I shouldn’t have even proposed a table to make a decision, it shouldn’t have happened nor the first filter “.
‘WE WON THE DESPAIR OF HAVING A REFERENCE’
per Fig, The hiring of the brush, Who arrived at no cost after being offered by America, was faced with a lack of referents and players with hierarchy. Although he proposed 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 would have given results; I think we gained the despair of having a benchmark and having a player with the hierarchy that Oribe had,” he recalled.
From 2019 to date, Peralta has only started nine league games and has only scored two goals, one in the MX League and another in the MX Cup.
“I think there are three, four or five identical examples, it was a total myopia of those of us who were there, me as the most trusted people by Amaury was a bad recommendation“, Added Figuera.
ALAN POLIT, THE MOST COMPLICATED NEGOTIATION
For Figuera, his most complicated negotiation as a manager of Chivas was when in 2016 they returned to Alan Pulido a la MX League, As it took almost two years, as the striker belonged to the ‘ Olympiakos Greek.
“It was a brutal wear and tear, it was very complicated that of Alan Pulido; that of Oribe Peralta was quite easy because it was not even up to me to decide, we decided several,” he clarified.
The current situation will hardly change for Oribe, as Chivas is currently the third highest scoring team, with 12 goals, just below Toluca (15) and Creu Blava and Sant Lluís (13), after Ramat’s victory this Sunday over Pumes, in which Oribe stayed for the seventh consecutive game on the bench
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