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Once the departure of Martin Anselmi As technical director of Cruz Azul, the celestial board headed by engineer Víctor Velázquez made the decision to cut corners and prevent the Argentine coach from saying goodbye to the fans next Saturday against the Puebla.
In this way, the Uruguayan Vicente Sánchez, who directs the Under 23 team of the Maquina Celeste, He will be in charge of directing against the fringe squad on date three of the Clausura 2025 tournament and on matchday 4 against Necaxa, pending the decision of which coach will take charge of the rest of the tournament in relief of Anselmi.
The above could be learned through a source worthy of all credit at Cruz Azul who told The Opinionunder the condition of anonymity, that Anselmi’s decision generated a lot of annoyance in the Cruz Azul high command, For this reason, they have taken a tough attitude against the South American strategist. considering that he failed to fulfill the commitment he had made and where he guaranteed that his word was above any contract.
The same source revealed to this publishing house that although it is true that in the contract There is a contract termination clause for a total of $5 million dollars (approximately 100 million Mexican pesos), Cruz Azul directors were confident that Anselmi would respect the four-year contract he signed six months after arriving at the Celeste Machine.
In this agreement, the cement board met all its demands and made him the second highest-paid coach in Mexican soccer in a monthly amount of $130,000 dollars per month (more than 2.5 million pesos per month), where Anselmi even came out to say publicly that his word was above any contract and that he would respect the agreement.
The offer from Porto arrived in November
In more data, which could be accessed, It was assured that Martín Anselmi received the offer from Porto since November pastjust when the Celeste Machine showed a decline in its football level.
We were also told that Anselmi had already been preparing his departure and that he still decided to demand that the board hire several reinforcements such as Jesús Orozco Chiquete, Omar Campos, Luka Romero and Mateusz Bogusz, who together with the players he brought in since his arrival such as Luis Romo, Willer Ditta, Kevin Mier, Gonzalo Piovi , Giorgios Giakoumakis and Jorge Sánchez, made Cruz Azul spend, according to unofficial figures, around $70 million dollars (1,450 million Mexican pesos).
They even authorized the departure of Luis Romo due to differences within the locker room, all with the aim of keeping the team fully involved in the competition for the title in the Clausura 2025 tournament, only for it to come out at this point with the decision to go to Porto in Portugal.
For now and in the latest details that were accessed, it is stated that Cruz Azul demands cash payment of the contract termination clause. and will not allow the Portuguese to want to pay the money in payments.
The candidates
So with this, Cruz Azul will dedicate itself to the search for the new coach, but next Saturday Vicente Sánchez will appear on the light blue bench against Puebla, while they seek to specify the arrival of another Argentine like Gabriel Milito or the Uruguayan Diego Alonso.
It is true that the names of the Portuguese Renato Paiva have been used, as well as the Mexicans Jaime Lozano and Efraín Álvarez.
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