According to information from TVC Sports, the Cruz Azul team, still with Ricardo Peláez in charge of sports management, was very close at the time of signing Argentine striker Gustavo Bou in the summer of 2019, being at that time a player of Xolos de Tijuana.
As detailed in the information, this operation, which in the first instance was very serious, ended up falling because in La Noria I thought that the price that was requested for ‘La Pantera’ was out of the market, around 8 million dollars.
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Therefore, this interest ended up disappearing due to the high cost, in addition to the player having another suitor in the MLS, who paid 10 million dollars for him, like the New England Revolution
However, Peláez as Caixinha, who was the coach at the time, decided to sign Brayan Angulo from Ecuador’s Emelec for 7.5 million dollars, something that today can be said to have ended up being a wrong bet.
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