MADRID, 2 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Sevilla’s sports director, Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo, ‘Monchi’, acknowledged this Wednesday that the club is experiencing “a complicated moment” due to its current sports situation, he accepted that he is being criticized because he has done “merit” for it, but made it clear that he is going to resign because that “would be cowardly”.
“It is a complicated moment, not on a personal level because that is now more than secondary, but after more than 20 years as sports director, we are in an ugly situation, although with the maximum strength and enthusiasm to reverse it. There is no need to lick our wounds and yes to admit mistakes, which have been many, to make real self-criticism, behind closed doors, and to look for solutions. Talk less and do more,” Monchi admitted in statements to the media in Manchester (England), where they play against City, collected on the club’s website.
The man from Cadiz knows that he has “earned criticism” and that “the culprit should not be sought elsewhere.” “People don’t want to listen to us but for us to do things that change this situation. It’s frustrating for a Sevilla player to see the qualifying situation and I understand that people have Monchi in their sights. When we won he was also in the photo and now I have to admit that, if there is criticism, it is that I have made merits for it,” he stressed.
In this sense, he does not hide that he may have had “a lack of success in decision-making”, but that he maintains “the will, the illusion, the desire to do things and improve intact”. “Perhaps I even have that internal revenge of trying to turn the situation around”, pointed out a Monchi “one hundred percent motivated” and who hopes that “enlightenment” returns so that the success also arrives, which is what people tell you going to buy”.
The Sevilla sports director recalled that the club “has grown based on the fact that each one had a criterion and has put it on the table” and considered himself “a complicated guy” because of a “difficult genius”. “You have to raise your voice from time to time, always in a constructive way, that’s what happens now and before. I haven’t thought about leaving, on the contrary, just threatening with that would be cowardly and I can be many things, but not a coward.” “, he stressed.
“I have always shown my face, sometimes they have broken me and others not, but I only think of trying to recover inspiration, that line to, together with all the people of the club, turn around the difficult situation, which requires the best of us and the absolute concentration on the objective. We have had to do without a successful coach and the situation is not good. There are no hot cloths and we have made a mistake, we are going to look for the version of the past, in which we were right”, he added.
The manager also defended his silence since the dismissal of Julen Lopetegui, although he believes that “it hasn’t been that long” and that he has continued to work, “which is the important thing”, and that he has not been on “vacation”.
“It was a personal decision because when you talk so much, there comes a time when I get tired of listening to myself and I imagine the fan does too. Sometimes, if you can’t convey what you want and you don’t see yourself and you get confused in the message, it is better to stop, see things with perspective and here we are again”, he admitted.
“THIS SQUAD HAS MORE FOOTBALL AND PERFORMANCE THAN TO BE 18th”
Monchi also referred to next Sunday’s derby to which Betis arrives “in a magnificent moment” and doing things very well”. “But we are Sevilla and we will go looking for a victory. The group itself knows what the game means and we have to face it with the necessary concentration, knowing that we represent a very important part of the city”, he declared.
As for the squad and its current imbalance, according to coach Jorge Sampaoli, he clarified that “there are players who don’t have a spare because there are several injured” and that what was going to be an “inconvenience” with the break for the World Cup, now it will come “very well” because it will give them “time” to sit down “everyone” and “assess all the possibilities”.
“Obviously, this squad has more football, more performance and more football repertoire than it is offering, we do not have a squad to be the eighteenth. It can be improved and we are going to study everything that we believe can be improved without prejudice. There are a series of parameters that we have to put in the shaker, but we will try to make those efforts that allow us everything without being afraid”, admitted the exporter, who confessed that, “seeing the results”, they have done “bad things” in planning during the summer.
