Eduardo Herrera can finally say he’s a Rangers player. The striker has confirmed a three-year contract with the club on Tuesday, and after all the delay due to paperwork, he’s able to play for the Ibrox side.
It’s hard for a 28-year-old leaving Central America to play in Europe, and that’s the main subject of the player’s interview with Mexican newspaper Record today. Herrera transfer has received a lot of attention, partly because Rangers manager Pedro Caixinha is well known in Mexico.
Asked if at some point of his career he doubted he could get to the Old Continent, Herrera revealed: “Dreams are always latent, but I would lie if I said no, because I did think that each day it would be more difficult because of age and for everything, because normally the players will go younger.
“But life gives surprises, it’s good there are these opportunities and I am very happy to be able to take advantage of it, now it is up to me to do it in the best way and I am confident that things will go well. There is a great commitment to respond to the trust that Pedro and the club are placing in me, and with the confidence to do it in the best way.”
Regarding Pedro Caixinha, who was his manager at Santos Laguna between 2013 and 2014, the striker talked about how crucial he was for the Rangers transfer to happen.
“No doubt Pedro is an important factor, he knows me from the year I was at Santos, and from that time I was very happy and with a very good image of how he works, and I imagine that he was left with a good image of me, and that makes a commitment and the desire to do things very well.
“He called me at the end of the last tournament and asked if I was interested in going there and I said yes. They began the negotiations with Pumas, an institution to which I’m thankful for because they gave me the opportunity.”
Herrera even gave a few details of his contract, which has an option to be extended. In Mexico it’s believed that Rangers will be paying around £1.5m to take the player to the Scottish Premiership.
“It’s three years. It was agreed to an amount stipulated with Pumas to buy me, I signed for that period, and based on performance and other things, we’ll see if there’s a contract renewal.”
And like every footballer who’s moving to the UK, he couldn’t avoid saying what he’s most afraid of: “It is a beautiful city. The only issue is that, at first, what you have to get used to is the weather that is colder and it rains a lot.”
It’s not been a bad few days in Glasgow, just wait until Eduardo Herrera meets January February.
