Although all the teams in Liga MX made moves to strengthen themselves in the winter market, the truth is that only four teams spent large sums of money for transfers, while the rest opted for loans and free players as options for their squads.
Tigres and Monterrey, the ones that spent the most
Of the 83 million euros that were spent on transfers, according to figures from Transfermarkt and press reports, close to half (39.4) were payments made by Tigres and Monterrey by players who will serve to shore up their squads in this Clausura 2023.
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Tigres was the one that broke the Mexican market with an investment of 28.7 million euros that was spent on three signings: midfielder Fernando Gorriarán and forwards Nicolás Ibáñez and Diego Lainez. While Rayados spent more than 10.75 million euros on the incorporation of Jordi Cortizo and the defender Víctor Guzmán.
Behind them are América and Toluca who paid around 7 million for a couple of players each in positions they considered key to their squads. This with a view to fighting for the League title this semester, in a League that could be taken away by the northern clubs.
Clubs like León, Tijuana and Cruz Azul opted for signings that would amount to more than 4 million, while clubs like Necaxa and even Pumas went to clubs in the Expansion League in search of players who could perform in the First Divisionas an important bet considering that they are players with a past in Liga MX.
Once again, Chivas was once again the club that suffered the most from the issue of transfers, as they tried to negotiate for Liga MX players, but found that the rest of the clubs did not want to sell them or gave them more than what they could cost. the federative rights of a player, as Fernando Hierro explained a few weeks ago.
For this reason, El Rebaño made the effort to re-sign Víctor Guzmán and the rest of his reinforcements arrived from Tapatío and Charlotte FC, to repatriate striker Daniel Ríos, waiting for him to arrive loaded with goals for the goal of the rojiblanco team.
While Pachuca was the last team to add a reinforcement, since it made official this Wednesday, February 1 the hiring of Cristian Arangowho arrives from the MLS to occupy the place left vacant by Nico Ibáñez, who signed with Tigres.
Cruz Azul, without bomb striker
La Máquina had high expectations in this winter market, because they were behind the signings of Luis Suarez and Radamel Falcaobut the Uruguayan rejected the sky-blue offer and signed with the Gremio, while the Colombian did not arrive due to Cruz Azul not being able to free a foreigner’s place, since they have their ten full places.
Liga MX has an extraordinary period of records
In this way, the transfer market in Liga MX closed this Wednesday, February 1 at 5:00 p.m. Although in accordance with the regulations more players can be hired in an extraordinary period that runs until March 8.
However, for this registration, the clubs must justify up to two registrations in accordance with the Competition Regulations in its article 38 Bis, which establishes eight essential requirements for these cases.
Yo. Player registration must be completed no later than March 8, 2023;
ii. Player registration can only be carried out if the interested Club has availability of numbers on the shirts from 1 to 40;
iii. The Player to register may not use the jersey number of another Player who has been discharged during Clausura 2023;
iv. The provisions of article 35 of these Regulations must be complied with, as well as with article 5, section 4 of the Regulations on the Statute and Transfer of FIFA Players;
v. Only applies to Players whose contract ended (for whatever reason) before February 1, 2023; and
saw. The distribution of FM and NFM Players established above is complied with.
vii. If the contract was terminated by mutual agreement with a Club affiliated with the Mexican Federation of Association Football, AC, the withdrawal must be processed at the SIID before February 1, 2023, and there will be a maximum period of 5 days to deliver the corresponding original document;
viii. An injured NFM Player may not be replaced by another Player in this case, if the Club had already covered its limit of 10 NFM Players with the Player who suffered the injury.
