Jeremy Marquez, midfielder for Atlas and Jose Paradela from Necaxa, arrived in Mexico City to report to their new team, Cruz Azul, for the 2025 Apertura tournament and where both elements together with the Serbian Luka Jovic, will seek to enhance the sky-blue effort for the title of the 2025 Apertura tournament.

After several weeks of negotiations and where several complications had to be overcome, both players were finally hired by the sky-blue board of directors as two of the key pieces of the reengineering they carried out after thanking the Uruguayan coach Vicente Sánchez.

In this new face of Cruz Azul, the presence of the Argentine coach Nicolás Larcamon became important and he was the one who approved the arrival of Márquez and Paradela, as two of the key players to put together a competitive team that can fight for the title that has been denied to the sky-blues after four years ago they won the League title in the 2021 Clausura tournament.

Jose Paradela arrives with good credentials

The Argentine Jose Paradela arrives with excellent credentials to the cementero team after his time at Necaxa where he arrived last year from the Tigre de la first division of Argentina where he played 14 games after the stage at River Plate in which he recovered the level of play in his career.

Paradela was an important signing for Necaxa, where he played 56 games, scoring 16 goals and contributing with 18 assists that put him on the radar of the important teams of the Lig MX, but in the end the offer from Cruz Azul ended up gaining ground to other teams.

The sky's the limit for Jeremy Marquez

In the case of Jeremy Marquez, he arrives with a very big horizon of opportunity to Cruz Azul after six years of his appearance in the Liga MX with Atlas and now they will seek to enhance his ability in a team with greater demands.

Márquez arrives with a total of 179 games in the starting lineup of the red and blacks where he scored 12 goals and that allowed him to have an opportunity in the Mexican national team, which caught the attention of the new Cruz Azul coach Nicolás Larcamon as well as the sporting director of the sky blue, Iván Alonso.

So Jeremy Marquez arrived at a team where every step he takes will be news and that pressure can make him grow or fall to return to teams of less demand.

Case of Luka Jovic

As for the Serbian Luka Jovic, it will be in the next few hours when it can be known what day he will arrive in Mexico City to report to Cruz Azul, especially after it is reported that the Uruguayan Gabriel Fernandez will be traded to Atlas and thus open the second foreign spot to be able to register him, while Giorgios Giakoumakis will be traded to Major League Soccer (MLS), especially at Atlanta United.