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For: Kike Frías Updated 30 Apr 2022, 16: 16 pm EDT
After four months in the Spanish League and only 51 minutes played, the Mexican striker Orbelín Pineda is already preparing his bags to return to Liga MX and Chivas de Guadalajara are the best positioned club to get their services.
According to the newspaper El Universal MX at the CD Guadalajara offices they have already contacted ‘El Maguito’ to find out what his intentions are for the future, at the same time that they arranged a conversation with directors of Celta de Vigo to whom they will present an offer of transfer.
In recent days there was also talk of an interest from Cruz Azul in having one of the talismans that helped him win the Clausu Tournament ra 2021 to ‘The Machine’.
“Chivas have already looked for him to find out if he wants to return to the team, recover his level and project himself towards the World Cup”, is the information that emerges from the column Brava Bar of El Universal MX.
In this context, Celta’s coach, Eduardo ‘Chacho’ Coudet, assured that Pineda is not among the first options for change in his approaches and much less as a member of the starting XI.
“I’m not saying he’s bad or that he won’t play, but he has to grow up, adapt to football here. He is a boy who has spark, who has arrival, he is not denied, but he still has to grow, “said the Argentine coach to Spanish media.
Orbelín Pineda has been able to play five games, without goals or assists, the rest of the games he has seen from the substitute bench and one in which he was not called up due to a technical decision.
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