LOS ANGELES – At the age of 29, on January 6, 2022, Jesús Tecatito Corona will study in detail the offers made by his promoter Matías Bunge to emigrate to another European football, or to MLS or Rayados himself of Monterrey. Meanwhile, he ignores the singing of any mermaid.
This Tuesday, April 13, the Mexican striker will have a new opportunity to add routes to his possible future. Porto lost to Chelsea in the Champions League (0-2), and intends to go to Stamford Bridge for a new feat, such as eliminating Juventus in a tragic outcome.
This weekend, in the victory against Tondela, Sergio Conceição he was relevant in the game to some of his gladiators. He wants them full this Tuesday. Tecatito Corona is among them. The Mexican knows that what the pandemic stole from him, the emergence of a powerful club in Europe, the post-pandemic can pay off.
The Mexican promoter himself encourages these serenades of allegedly interested in signing it. As is often the case, the more it is exaggerated, the less credible it is, but not therefore disposable. It is insisted that clubs in Spain, the Premier, and Italy, bid for the versatile player.
In 2019, Porto made the big bet for him. The shield with a clause of 30 million euros (which this summer is substantially reduced), and a salary, with bonuses, which in a good year, as it was 2020, allows Corona to pocket up to 6,200,000 d ‘euros.
Because, just as his daring adventurous spirit one day cut the umbilical cord with Monterrey, so Corona is seduced by a great team in a great league. The torch to watch over new horizons, is still lit. Especially when it comes to Inter Milan, Sevilla, Chelsea itself, West Ham and Wolverhampton.
Portugal is often seen as a gestational football. It is usually a platform towards better destinations. But their football and the country itself, develop a special comfort to take root in a paradise for migrants. Although this is not the case with the Mexican striker.
Beyond an exacerbated mania to magnify the error in the first leg against Chelsea in the Champions League, Tecatito Corona enjoys admiration in European places, and of course, affectionate privileges in Portugal, because the his numbers and performances have made him a spoiler.
Considered the best player in the League in 2020, for his all-terrain activity, his sacrifice in defense, and his relentless offensive football, full of delight and joy for the rostrum, Tecatito has the support of his club for be sold in the next pass window, because from December 2021, Corona could 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 extend the contract to the Mexican player, knowing that offers will resurface, and especially, they hope to have a good World Cup in Qatar 2022, and this will allow the broth of the negotiations.
His coach, Sergio Conceição, is an admirer of the Tecatito. Like the Mexican, he liked daring football, gambetero, generous, exploiting, because like him, he had the conditions of a right wing. That is why, at one point, he became his most powerful prosecutor, though also his most sincere ally.
In 2019, the Portuguese coach faced Tecatito and warned him that he no longer intended to count on him. It didn’t fit into his plans. Far from resigning and lamenting, Corona reinvented herself. Comfortable in the tasks of right-wing attacker, he understood that he had to renew himself or die on the bench, or be exposed to an unwanted transfer.
Crown began to learn, master, and polish the arts of good defense, to add them to the virtues of a fierce, challenging, daring attacker. The experiment was a success. He became a must-see for Porto and began tinkling on the radars of other teams.
With the termination clause he had, and the salary he receives, for powerful clubs, it didn’t seem far-fetched to become the Mexican striker. Everything indicated that in the summer of 2020 his transfer would be completed. But the pandemic decapitalized clubs worldwide. All of a sudden, a profitable, useful player became a luxury item.
The economic contraction in football, a galloping recession in team finances, ended up holding back any operation. In football, Jesus Manuel Corona was another victim of the pandemic.
According to its representative Matías Bunge, there are still clubs interested in Corona, which are following their performances in the League and the Champions League, with the hope that it will soon cease to become a craving, to become a reality.
Despite the MLS’s insistence, Tecatito prefers to see it as a last resort, and might even at some point choose to return to Mexico, and finish his career at the club that was his incubator, Scratch, according to revealed to Aztec TV.
“I have it in mind (back to Rayados), why mind? I have it in mind because that’s where I came from, I’d like to go back to a club and fight for championships which is what makes me happier. “I came out of there and fell in love with him at the club, I met a lot of important people in my life here, like my wife. So of course I would like to play in Monterrey again,” he said. Jesus Manuel Corona.
At first, the Tecatito is in no hurry. His performances in the League and in the Champions League, eliminating Juventus, place him in the European shop windows, but, for his sporting, emotional and family tranquility, he knows that there are two first-class tickets in the drawer , one for MLS, and the other, especially seductive, in Monterrey.
That’s why this Tuesday’s game against Chelsea is especially important. Corona can give another ‘taste’ of his conditions to German technical director Thomas Tuchel, who has confirmed his interest in signing him, especially during the summer, when, according to different versions, the termination clause could go down from 30 million euros to 20 million euros, according to a special agreement between club and player.