Every day doubts grow more about the arrival of Juan Carlos Osorio as the new coach of América de Cali. The latest is a juicy offer from Al-Ain Football Club, of the United Arab Emirates, which has its initial desire to be in front of the ‘devils’ in suspense.
Tulio Gómez, maximum shareholder of the Valle del Cauca club and who is in charge of the dialogues with the Risaraldense coach, acknowledged that the situation was complicated by the possibility that arises from the Middle East, and that he has Osorio thinking seriously.
Gómez told the journalist Carlos Arturo Arango that “every day new proposals come to him, the last one that came to him seems to be from Arabia, if you earn $ 100 pesos and they tell you that they will pay you $ 1,000… we are fighting a checkbook from the Arab sheikhs. It is a tiger fight with a tied donkey ”.
Regarding whether he is no longer sure that Osorio signs with the reds, he confessed that “I have doubts because the one that came to him is an offer that damages anyone’s heart, it is an offer from the National Team. With him we are at 90%, but 10% is very difficult, let’s see what happens, but we are fighting against a very large checkbook, we are not talking about being paid double, triple or quadruple, it is try 8 or 10 more times, that’s screwed up, but let’s see what happens ”.
He also revealed that he has other options to find a replacement for Juan Cruz Real, he said that we have Plan B, Plan C, Plan D, every day resumes of technicians arrive at America, the advantage is that many technicians want to come to direct the America”.
Regarding the financial side of the club, he said that “in the last four years America has had one of the three or four highest paid coaches in Colombian football, we have been there, behind Millonarios and Nacional.”
As for whether he reversed the value of Osorio’s relationship, he maintained that “no, there is already a budget, logically that the estimate that we get for Osorio is much higher, but until there, we cannot burst. One can raise 5 or 10 pesos, which cannot be doubled, is that the Colombia-Arabia ratio is not from 20 to 80, but from 20 to 200. As the saying goes, he who does not have more with his wife goes to bed … We are going to exhaust all the resources so that Osorio comes to work with us, but we cannot sell the house to get into debt ”.
He complemented that the management of having the helmsman has not been easy: “If it were up to us, now, but he has his group of advisers, and he asks for one thing and the other. If possible, we will bring it, but let it be within our means. Osorio is a World Cup coach, it is a leap we want to take. In these 8 days we have to close it, for better or for worse, he talks a lot ”.
Regarding what has been said that Osorio expressed his desire to lead America, Gómez pointed out that “that it comes, but there are some demands that I cannot accept, there are things that have not been closed, the people who say that do not know the details of the matter, but we are going to exhaust things, have Osorio, only two clubs can afford that luxury ”.
He also said that he likes coaches like Luis Fernando Suárez, ‘Bolillo’ Gómez and Alberto Gamero. We have technical conversations, we cannot give names because of ethics, because we have always wanted to bring Osorio ”, he argued.
Similarly, he referred to the positions they are seeking for the second semester: A left back, winger and forward, of which two are in Colombia. At the same time, he added that there is still no list of players who will not follow.
Finally, he said that the last time he spoke with Juan Carlos Osorio was on Friday, but “we are competing against a very large offer, those Arabs have the money in storage, today they are owners of PSG, Manchester …”.
Marco Antonio Garcés
Correspondent Futbolred Cali
On twitter: @marquitosgarces
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