The World Cup ended for César Montes and a new phase began in his relationship with Rayados de Monterrey, which has already been publicly tense in recent months due to the Mexican club’s refusal to let one of its franchise players go. The Qatar 2022 World Cup has served as a showcase, for him and other young players like Luis Chávez, author of one of the goals in Qatar and who strongly wants Bayer Leverkusen. With Montes, the same thing happens with Espanyol, who has a predilection for footballers, who welcome playing in the Spanish League.
Direct sources from Monterrey warn that the central defender has had a “good World Cup” and that they are aware that the silence that has prevailed since September will now become proposals for one of their best footballers. They tell from Mexico that they are not only waiting for contact from Espanyol, but from other European clubs, and they prefer not to put a figure on the transfer of the player, which could be around eight million euros. Espanyol is willing to invest with the six million that it has as a salary limit for a 25-year-old footballer who wants to follow the path of other compatriots, such as Rafa Márquez or his teammate Héctor Moreno.
Monterrey believes that there will be more proposals than Espanyol for a footballer who has been consolidated in the Mexican League (215 games) and in the Mexican team, where he has accumulated 20 games and is one of the leaders. The operation with the parakeet club is not closed because, according to Monterrey, since September, when the player was able to reach Barcelona on loan, negotiations have not been resumed. Despite this, the club’s environment ensures that it will invest in this winter market, while the player is also quite clear today where he wants to play.
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Montes, who was already in Girona for two weeks with Mexico before the World Cup, has refused to talk about his future in his last appearances, but at the end of September he did talk about the possibility of leaving Monterrey. The center-back hopes that the club will keep its promise and let him leave. ““I am grateful to Espanyol for their past interest, the door is still open, like any door”, commented the player, without positioning itself publicly. Monterrey assures that it has not spoken to the footballer again, that he has not yet expressed his desire to go to a specific club and that they have not offered a renewal to a central defender whose contract expires in December 2026 and who recently renewed .