The ‘Goal Cartel’, as the place responsible for the report calls it, has been in the MX League for more than 10 years
Amir Ibrahim, director of ElQuintanaRoo.mx, reveal a new and alleged network of corruption that predominates in many of the transfers made to the MX League and that boasted, in the past, of an important portfolio of trainers and agents of player who still stay active in Mexican soccer, among them technicians like Guillermo Vázquez and Miguel Herrera.
According to journalist Amir Ibrahim, the alleged organization had a structure made up of “promoters, namesakes, front companies, technical directors and managers”, which obtains large sums of money through the sale of players at “surcharge” and the tax evasion “, a complaint made by the journalist with documents that support the information.
Amir Ibrahim’s information entitled: The ‘Goal Cartel’, as the place responsible for the report calls it, has been in the MX League for more than 10 years so he has managed to have “almost absolute control over the hiring of players,” in the case of promoter Greg Taylor.
The leaders of this network, Ibrahim accuses, would be Taylor himself, owner of the Promanage company; Manuel Velarde, partner and agent of Promanage (Current partner and owner of Querétaro’s White Roosters), and at the time, Jorge Espinosa, Taylor’s former lawyer and self-employed, away from Taylor.
The note also notes that Mario Hernández Lash, a former player who served as Necaxa’s sporting director between 2017 and 2019, would be Greg’s new nickname, as Taylor is also part of the owners of the White Roosters.
In the portfolio of technicians that the journalist says he boasted at the time Taylor’s team include in emails the names of Miguel Herrera, who was fired from America a few weeks ago, and Antonio Mohamed, who also lost his job on the Monterrey front.
the the rest of the coaches who allegedly accuse Amir and were represented by this organization are Guillermo Vázquez, José Manuel ‘Chepo’ de la Torre, Francisco Palencia, Héctor Hugo Eugui and Benjamí Galindo, Who would have been the link with Carlos Hurtado, who has been noted for being responsible for many negotiations in Aztec football.
One of the cases that exemplifies how the leaders of this structure would work is the transfer of Ecuadorian footballer Joffre Guerrón to Tigers in 2014 from Beijing Sinobo Guoan. The example is that the ram was bought at the Chinese club for $ 2.9 million and sold to the feline set for $ 4.2 million, so they would have earned a commission of $ 1.2 million.
On the other hand, it is interesting to note that Gustavo Matosas, two-time champion with León, was part of this supposed network together with the promoter Fernando Pavón; however, both would have been vetoed by Greg Taylor. This issue was also touched on last year by the same journalist.
Matosas returned to Liga MX to lead Atlético de San Luis in 2019, but left the institution after Ibrahim revealed an audio where the strategist is heard talking to Pavón about how much money they would get for the arrival of Matías Britos.
Amir Ibrahim claims to have in his possession a “package of evidence” and highlights “conversations via WhatsApp, BlackBerry PIN, hundreds of emails, private contracts between promoters and players, multimillion-dollar banking operations, bills, evasion strategies, recordings in audio and video “to demonstrate the gross business of Greg Taylor and his allies.