By AARON CRANFORD
Erick Torres donned the Dynamo orange earlier this afternoon, and the club hopes that they can have their designated striker wear it on the field sooner rather than later.
Torres, who made a late appearance for Chivas Guadalajara in Saturday night’s 1-0 defeat against Santos, arrived in Houston Sunday for an impromptu press conference.
Torres was transferred to the Dynamo with the inclusion of a loan stint that could last up to six months, but Dynamo president Chris Canetti suggested ways in which Torres could join them earlier than anticipated.
“There’s an opportunity to get him here before May 13 depending on how things go down at Chivas. If not, then we have to wait for the [July] window to open,” Canetti told the audience in Houston. “We have terms in our contract that I can’t disclose that indicate when the loan can end. It’s got moving parts to it. We’ve got scenarios that work for us to get him here earlier.
“We’re hoping very much that things could fall in our favor and contractually the loan can end and we can get him here before the window closes.”
With Chivas fighting relegation, the Dynamo forward has seen little time in the Liga MX Clausura season, and the Dynamo remains optimistic that they can have their latest designated player before his loan is set to end.
“I know I haven’t had a lot of minutes, but I’ve been doing everything I can to train hard and work hard at training,” Torres told the media. “I’ve been playing a lot in Copa MX and that gives me some minutes that allow me to stay at a good level in terms of soccer and on the field.”
But Torres does not mind waiting for his chance to shine for the Dynamo.
“I’m very motivated and very grateful for the effort from the Dynamo front office,” Torres said. “Now I just have to be patient in the next five or six months to deliver results to repay them for all the attention they pay to me.”
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hm, Chivas Guadalajara? Isn’t their owner the one that got pushed out and burned by MLS? uh, I’m thinking he won’t be doing MLS any favors. Cubo won’t be released till July.
Seriously! An agreement is an agreement. I’m sure MLS overpaid to get Cubo anyways, please don’t pay any more for this kid…
Part of the reason he’s there til July is we didn’t want to pay more to buy him.
I would assume one timing factor is how well Chivas fares in MX this year. Maybe we also have some stats driven option where if he’s not really playing as of x date we can either buy him for more or at least accelerate the deal.
I don’t think we will get him early because we are cheap, I think we will get him whenever Chivas bows out which may be well before July though.
Exactly
I gotta wonder if MLS will go after more mexican top talent and markets like chicago, los angeles, dallas, houston, denver, ny and even atlanta would do perfect with a couple of mexican dps.
They get good dp money in mexico but mls needs to get more top mexican talent, and lets be honest they are in ligamx due to money but sure they will come to mls for a better life but money talks.
Imagine chicharrito in LA2 or nycfc or fire. Same thing with marco fabian, guillermo ochoa, di nigris, but dont get rejects like pineda in seattle. (pineda sucks now and he plays for seattle, thats how you loose respect)
Pineda did quite well for Seattle last season actually. You know the team that finished top of the table and won the US Open Cup. The surgery fixed his nagging injury that had been holding him back. That said, probably only has a couple more years tops.
I do agree about the need for more Mexican players though. I’d love for Seattle’s next DP to be a young up and coming Mexican National Teamer. We’ve done a lot to make our brand nationally recognized, but I don’t feel that we are that well known outside the US soccer bubble. Mexico would be the obvious next market.
But with all respect Pineda played D2 then came to MLS and got a contract, and he is way below average now.
If he can get a contract then I can too 🙂
Hopefully MLS steals the great ones from ligaMX.
Pineda did quite well for Seattle last season actually. You know the team that finished top of the table and won the US Open Cup. The surgery fixed his nagging injury that had been holding him back.
The surgery fixed his nagging injury that had been holding him back.
The surgery fixed his nagging injury that had been holding him back.
The surgery fixed his nagging injury that had been holding him back.
Also, Pineda never played D2, he remained without a club in order to become a free agent
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I say
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