In greenhouse football, apologies do not fill stadiums or fulfill dreams. Well they say that to the land you go, do what you see, but in the AS Monaco they preferred to apply the “you apologize” with Mexican Erik Lira.
The management of the French set tried to heal in health after the colossal administrative ridicule that left the midfielder of Cruz Azul with the suitcases made and the plane ticket in the hand; moreover, even already with the foot in the strap of the aircraft.
The director general of the club declared how grateful he is with Cruz Azul and his way of negotiating, and also wished Erik Lira to find a great team in Europe pic.twitter.com/h1cIrGLLxy
However, the words of the Principality picture ended up throwing more salt to a wound that remains open and bleeding in the footballer’s environment. The Celestial Garderob and the player themselves were already visualized in the Ligue 1.
The negotiation was blinded on paper, but the decisions of the long-pants people in Europe again proved that the desk is usually the worst enemy of the ball and above all that managers often have very hollow words.
The intrahistory of this frustrated match has a collateral villain: Folarin Balogun.The American forward was the master key that would open the doors of the European paradise for Mexican contention.
Monaco’s management had a virtually closed deal to transfer Balogun to Everton in the English Premier League. That movement was vital, as it liberated the extra-Community squad Erik Lira needed to be formally registered in France.
The phones burned during the last night of the ticket market. In La Noria’s offices there was optimism; the deal between clubs was made and the “Bulldog” waited for the signal to address the flight. But the castle of cards collapsed.
At the last minute, Balogun’s departure to British football fell completely. Unable to get rid of the American, Monaco stumbled upon a regulatory wall. There was no legal quota to register the Mexican. The deal was frozen and the button that was supposed to activate the transfer was never pressed.
The person in charge of coming out and showing what we know in Mexico as “crocodile tears” was Thiago Scuro, sports director of AS Monaco. Pressured by criticisms about the poor planning of his directive.
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The leader appeared to the media on Wednesday to try to justify the disaster, revealing even that he had to personally call the Aztec footballer to offer him a pardon he knows very little.
“We were very saddened by the situation with Erik Lira,” Scuro admitted with a speech that sounded sloppy and hollow on social media. “We want to thank Blue Cross for all their support and we value the agreement we had reached.
The deal was closed, the player ready to travel and everything ready to sign. Unfortunately, we depended on liberating Balogun’s foreign square and as we didn’t, we couldn’t bring Erik, which was our great desire.”
Far from keeping a light of hope for the winter market, the Brazilian manager was tactful in pointing out that the Monegasque team is not in a position to ask for patience from the Player of the Machine.
The window closed and the train of the Principality seems to have gone away definitively, leaving the footballer with the frustration of having touched the European elite with the tip of the fingers.”We talked to him this Tuesday and we ask forgiveness for not being able to concretize it. It’s a human issue and one of the toughest parts of working in the pass market.”
"ERIK LIRA WAS NOT THE PRIORITY OF MONACO" @Javier_Alarcon_ about the controversy of the Blue Cross player.Enjoy Picante Football on #DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/c5IHYvdiRr
I really hope that it will be fine and that I will soon find an opportunity to jump to a top-level team in Europe because it deserves it; he was a gentleman in every conversation,” Scuro concluded, trying to clear the image of an institution that failed the footballer at the summit.
The dream of the French Blue Coast was transformed, due to a logistical error, into the reality of returning to the mud of the MX League. The “Bulldog” will have to lame the wounds in La Noria and demonstrate that its level gives to re-touch the gate of the old continent, hoping that next time, the contractors will know how to do their job.
