The team that would pay $5 million to make Santiago Giménez leave Cruz Azul

Cruz Azul is slowly leaving the top spots of Clausura 2022 as they have won just one out of the last five games they’ve played in Liga MX, but if it wasn’t for Santiago Giménez, they would have lost the five matches, as he was the one who scored the brace that gave La Máquina the victory over Toluca and gave the assistance to tie the game against Tigres in the final seconds of the match.

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That hasn’t been enough for Juan Reynoso, who has only placed him on his starting XI once, on the last game La Máquina had against Club Puebla, although he substituted him after 57 minutes, which was a mistake given that Giménez becomes a threat in the last 10 minutes of the match.

It’s true that Reynoso has started to give him more playing time in Liga MX after he scored his first brace in Mexico’s top flight, which also marked the end of a 5-month drought, as before that game against Toluca, he scored his last goal in August, but he hasn’t fully earned the trust of the Peruvian coach.

In a year that the World Cup will be held and given the lack of good strikers Mexico National Team currently has outside Raúl Jiménez, “Chaquito” could be looking for a fresh start where he’d be considered a protagonist and earn the regularity needed to be part of the final squad that will go to Qatar 2022.

What’s the team that wants Giménez?

CF Monterrey is looking for a striker that could complement Rogelio Funes Mori, as rumors of the departure of Maxi Meza are becoming stronger by the day, and Santiago Giménez would be the perfect striker for José Manuel Vucetich scheme.

Maxi Meza is not the only player that could leave Rayados, as Vincent Janssen is on the radar of Turkish side Galatasaray SK, who are willing to pay $5 million for the Dutch forward and return him to Europe after three years in Liga MX, same money that Monterrey could invest in the 20-year-old Cruz Azul striker.

According to reports, “Vuce” has already requested him to Rayados management, same thing he did when he was coaching Chivas, although Liga MX rules prevented him from arriving in El Rebaño because he is not registered as a player formed in Mexico, given that he was born in Argentina.

Santiago Giménez’s numbers with Cruz Azul

Since his debut with Cruz Azul in 2019 on a match against Xolos de Tijuana, “Chaquito” Giménez has played a total of 85 games for La Máquina, in which he has scored 14 goals and assisted 11 occasions. He’s under contract with Los Cementeros until the end of the 2022-23 Liga MX season and his current market value is set at $5 million.

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