Jeremy Marquez, a young talent from Atlas, became Cruz Azul's first official reinforcement for the Apertura tournament 2025, after the light blue board headed by engineer Víctor Velázquez reached an agreement with the leadership of the red and black for the transfer of this player.

Marquez, an element that little by little was growing in his football level arrives at the cement producers for an amount of around 4.5 million dollars, according to unofficial data and where the negotiations were finalized after it was initially handled that the topic had been canceled.

Jeremy was presented by the high command of the Maquina Celeste, headed by the general director Víctor Velázquez and the sports director Iván Alonso, who highlighted the capacity and growth of the midfielder on the field of play, with which they generated the interest of the cement team to add him to their ranks.

Among the data attributed to the leadership of Atlas, it is assured that the player signed for the next four years under a model of sporting achievements and where in case of adding a certain amount of minutes, goals and assists, will have a certain amount, which generated interest in the player, beyond the fact that this contract model can be subjective and under the optics of the coaching staff to use it on the field of play.

In his career, Márquez played a total of 181 games with the Atlas first team, where he managed to add 14 goals and eight assists, being part of that team that achieved the bichampionship under the command of the Argentine Diego Cocca.

This growth allowed him to reach the Mexican national team, but above all to be in the orbit of teams at the level of Cruz Azul, Tigres, América and Monterrey, who consulted his contractual conditions to be able to include him in their ranks, the Maquina Celeste being the one that acquired his services.

The other signings

For now, Cruz Azul awaits its debut in the 2025 Apertura tournament against Mazatlan, This Saturday at the Estadio Olimpico Universitario at 9:05 pm, negotiations are still pending for Gabriel Fernandez and Giorgios Giakoumakis to add the Serbian Luka Jovic and the Argentine Jose Paradela to the squad for the upcoming championship. The latter has already reported to La Noria but needs a foreigner's quota to be officially presented.

With Paradela, all contractual aspects were finalized for an amount close to 11 million dollars, in one of the most relevant negotiations for the next championship, such as that of the Argentine Tigres player, Angel Correa, from Atlético de Madrid.

But without a doubt the one that Cruz Azul wants to make a lot of noise is that of Luka Jovic, because he is a sought-after player as an authentic killer in the area who demonstrated his ability at Eintracht Frankfurt, and later played for Real Madrid, Fiorentina and AC Milan in Serie A.