Atlético's best-known franchise abroad has always been, in recent years, Atlético San Luis. Like Atlético Kolkata in India, it was the Potosí team, its most recognized subsidiary, to which the rojiblanco club arrived in 2017, with the purchase of 61% of its majority shareholding. From his hand he grew economically and sportingly, with 2019 as the year of his greatest achievement: the promotion to the First Mexican.
Two years later, however, the Potosí team lives the opposite. The return to the top flight was not the dream. San Luis linked four bad tournaments. You must now pay a fine of 120 million pesos (six euros) for finishing in last place in the quotient table and descending to Second. A sports crisis that can lead to a major one. Atlético is considering leaving the franchise.
The club has two options
The newspaper Record reported last Tuesday that the rojiblanco club would have already priced it and that it would be looking for a buyer. “He is in talks with Jeff Luhnow and the 37.7 million is the price he is considering for sale,” pointed out the Mexican newspaper. A decision that, as Diario AS has learned, Atleti, which has seen its income cut significantly due to the crisis caused by the COVID pandemic around the world, must take within eleven days. Deadline is June 10. You have two options: either leave San Luis Potosí or buy it and then sell it. China, Azerbaijan, Thailand, Mexico or Canada they are countries where the rojiblancos international projects are maintained.