Alianza Lima: Why was the much talked about pass from Paolo Guerrero to Matute frustrated?

Alianza Lima has started the year 2023 with smiles, an unforgettable ‘Blue and White Afternoon’ and the formation of a squad that leaves fans satisfied, due to the quantity and quality of the players that make it up. From Carlos Zambrano to the return of Gabriel Costa, who even scored in the friendly match against Junior, Alianza has put together a great team, although the close ones were left wanting to have Paolo Guerrero who always highlighted his support for the club.

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The question then jumps, what happened so that the ‘Predator’ did not accept the proposal of the intimate? To answer the question you have to travel back in time to where it all started, at the end of the year 2021. There, the aliancistas became champions of the Clausura and were going to fight the final against Sporting Cristal.

At that moment, the first contacts between the former captain of the Peruvian team and the Victorian squad took place. “Paolo, you have the club’s doors open, we would like to count on you so we have to talk”would have been the dialogue of a member of the ‘Blue and White Fund’ with the attacker who was free, after terminate your contract with Inter Porto Alegre.

After winning the Liga 1 title, the club began planning the following campaign. It is then that Jefferson Farfán decides in December of that 2021 to stay to play one more season, recover and make a pair with his ‘compadre’. They say that the ‘Foquita’ tried to convince Guerrero to signbut the ‘Predator’ would have been evasive.

We entered 2022 and time began to run quickly. The board of directors asked Carlos Bustos to wait for Paolo Guerrero and for this reason they never finished signing another ‘9’ and only winger Darlin Leiton was brought in for the attack. up, they continued Hernan Boats Y Marco Aldair Rodriguez.

We reached May 2022, Alianza was already playing in the Copa Libertadores and was doing poorly, going through the Apertura was not the best and the Guerrero issue was beginning to tire the managers. “Paolo Guerrero knows that Alianza Lima is his home. We have already had talks with him, last year, but he got injured.”said Salomón Lerner, a member of the Blue and White Fund.

According to sources up to that moment, the player had had two specific offers, with salaries more than 60 thousand dollars per month and a two-year contract by the alliance members. At times he did not answer the phone, at others he asked for more time. His idea was clear: keep playing abroad.

Alianza Lima and the breaking point with Paolo Guerrero

When in Matute they launched a third offer to Guerrero, in the middle of the year and with a view to having him for the Clausura, the unexpected happened. The player apparently gets annoyed by a previous medical examination that he had to pass to settle with the intimate and ends up closing his pass to the Avai from Brazila club that was fighting relegation.

According to Brazilian media, the “Predator” had one of the highest salaries of that team, but the figure only came to 30 thousand dollars, almost a third of what they came to offer from Lima. In La Victoria they were very upset with the attitude of the player who never showed a good level and would end up losing the category with Avaí, while Alianza was crowned two-time champion.

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The last contact between the club and the player was a step that Guerrero himself took trying to get closer to the blue and whites in December 2022, but this time the ‘coin’ turned. Alianza did not make him any offer, he ‘rejuvenated’ his forward with the signing of Pablo Sabbag (25 years old) and the highest economic effort was allocated to the defensive zone with Carlos Zambrano.

What one day never was, no day will be. Alianza Lima wanted it and Paolo Guerrero didn’t. The book was closed forever.

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