MADRID, 26 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Villarreal’s new coach, Quique Setién, thanked an “exceptional club” for betting on him to occupy a bench that now makes him “the envy” of many other coaches and that allows him to end a period of more than two years without training in search of being the person he could not be at FC Barcelona.
“I want to thank the president because they have given me the opportunity to come to this exceptional club, which the most important thing is that I think it identifies with my way of being and doing things. I couldn’t have gone to a better place and I am very happy right now and with a huge illusion”, said Setién in his presentation press conference.
The Cantabrian confessed that he did not “very much want” to return to training since he had been “out of the ring for two years”. “I had received some offers that I rejected because I wanted to get to a place that was really for my way of understanding football and life,” he admitted.
Now, he arrives at a “family club, close and that brings together a series of very important values” for him, and where he has found “an extraordinary group of players, committed and of a very high level”. “I want to transfer all the knowledge of these more than 40 years to them and enjoy them and make the club grow, which has been created practically from scratch and that 25 years later is still in the front line and is a reference. I think I am now the envy of many coaches”, emphasized the man from Santander.
For Setién, this call from the Roig family has been “something unexpected”. “I didn’t expect that Villarreal needed a coach either because Emery was handling everything very well. It took me five seconds to change a behavior during two years of relaxation and enjoying other kinds of things because I was a bit disconnected and waiting for the moment, if not It would have happened in the circumstances that I wanted, I would not have returned to training,” he warned.
“I return to training very happy. There are many moments that I have thought that I was well and 40 years old, but I had that ‘bug’. I was in a period of deceleration that took me a while and now I have to accelerate, but in two days I will to be like a motorcycle. We will squeeze it and enjoy it again, “he added about it.
The Cantabrian returns to the bench after passing through FC Barcelona, ??from which he was dismissed eight months after his appointment as Ernesto Valverde’s replacement and where he found “different circumstances” to those he had experienced in his career.
“It was an extraordinary experience that I hope to benefit from, but it was not me and I could not be. I am sure that circumstances change on all sides and I can assure you that from the experiences one comes out reinforced and I will know how to behave to be the same as another time”, stressed the ex-technician also from Betis, Las Palmas and Racing, among others.
Regarding his goals at Villarreal, he recalled that the club has been “very close” to achieving “everything” and that it has experienced “enormous moments”. “I am tremendously ambitious and you know how I like to achieve things, I hope to collaborate to continue achieving these objectives. This compromises me a bit, but this team has extraordinary players and we are going to work so that everyone individually grows and from certain nuances that we are going to incorporate”, he pointed out.
In this sense, he did not hide that they have “differences” with Emery, but that there are “many things that are going to be used”. “The important thing is that the players have seen my teams play and I am sure that their level will help them to understand things the first time. They will adapt very soon, we are not going to need three months”, highlighted Setién, who does not see “it is convenient to change many things” for his debut this Thursday against Hapoel Beer-Sheva in the Conference League and that he would have preferred to “continue” without stopping for the World Cup because the “team was playing relatively well”.
