Pedrinho on Gerson interest and Cruzeiro plans: “We want top players”

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·22 December 2025

Pedrinho on Gerson interest and Cruzeiro plans: “We want top players”

Majority shareholder of Cruzeiro’s SAF, businessman Pedro Lourenço spoke to Samuca TV and answered some questions about the club’s planning for 2026, which will be led by coach Tite. Names such as Gerson, currently at Zenit, Guilherme Bitello from Dinamo Moscow, and Vitão, defender from Internacional, were brought up.

Without giving too many details, Pedrinho spoke about the desire to have midfielder Gerson, 29 years old. According to the president, Cruzeiro is interested in the player, but the deal is difficult and leaks end up hindering the progress of negotiations.

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“People today find it easy to talk about things, sometimes you think about something and it’s already leaked. All these speculations and leaks do is hinder negotiations. The Gerson deal leaked. He’s a great player who would interest any team in Brazil, and Cruzeiro is no different. But there’s a big difference between being interested in Gerson and actually signing him. He was (bought) for a high price. We want to have great players, and he is a great player,” concluded the president.

Still on the topic of reinforcements, the director emphasized his confidence in the current squad, reinforced the importance of targeted adjustments, and assured that Cruzeiro will continue to follow a responsible investment strategy, especially in light of the challenge of the Libertadores.

“We need specific players. We already have a great squad, great athletes, and we need people to help. We have a well-assembled, solid team and we’re comfortable with that. We need to bring in one or two to help. The Libertadores is coming, which is tough, but we have a spectacular team and we’re happy. These are targeted players for the positions we need. We’re not going to sell players to buy or do anything crazy because we won’t do that, we’ll act within Cruzeiro’s reality.”

Pedro Lourenço also addressed the situation of Matheus Pereira and made it clear that the club wishes to keep the midfielder for a long period. The midfielder was one of the team’s standout players in the Brazilian Championship, earning individual awards at the end of the season, but his contract ends in the middle of next year, which could already allow him to sign a pre-contract with another team at the start of the year.

According to the owner of the SAF, talks for a renewal are underway, with the intention of a longer-term deal, and he reinforced that there is no interest in negotiating the player or any other important members of the squad.

“Matheus has a contract until the middle of the year, we’re always talking to him. He knows we’re interested, and we want to renew not for six months or a year, but for at least three or five years—I’ve already told him that. He’s in his moment and I hope that at the right time we renew and he stays for many years at Cruzeiro. We have no intention of letting him go or any other great player in the squad,” concluded Pedrinho.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.