The Spanish championship will restart after the mid-season stoppage for the World Cup and there is a situation that everyone is closely following: The risk of relegation that Sevilla is going through. The club that has been in the top flight for two decades and accumulated several international titles starts the second semester in danger. Coach Jorge Sampaoliwho will try to rearrange the ship, did not hide his concern for the moment the entity is experiencing and that led him to have a tense exchange with a journalist.
“If you allow me one more…”, the journalist asked him Tito González after making a first consultation related to the requirement that will have the duel on Friday against Celta in Vigo. “Why would you allow one more?”, the Argentine DT crossed it, making clear the bad weather. “If you allow me…”, explained the chronicler with a smile. “Ah, okay… You need a title, I’ll give it to you later”, He warned. “Yes? Ok…”, the man answered doubtfully. four sports.
“There is a very important meeting for Sevilla in which the current leaders can continue or change. Does that worry you? Are you interested in this matter or do you see it from afar?” González left him his question.
“No, honestly I am concerned about what concerns me today or what concerns me is the performance of the team. I am concerned about the club as the fan is concerned. The politicians, the promises, the discussions at this moment leave the club in a place of waste that does make me uncomfortable. The club is the most important. I think we should try to get out of the uncomfortable place we are in with a certain unity linked to popular sentiment for a jersey or a shield. That’s not happening. He is diverting attention at a very difficult sporting moment at the club, which also ends up being an opportunity. Also the fact of where we are perhaps makes the union a unique aspect to get out of that discomfort. That’s what I think,” replied Sampaoli.
That was the preamble to his counterattack: “Regarding what I told you about the headlines, it’s because you posted something that is not true because maybe you need that to happen to keep your job. Sometimes I understand it, but sometimes I also say that this constant need for information generates invented situations and I hope you improve the sources because you are very exposed to that”.
“I don’t know if you saw it or not, I have no interest in polemics with you, I only posted what happened in that training. That you spoke with the president and not with Monchi, simply ”, Tito returned.
The reference was to a report that came out a week ago on the program where González works in which they claimed that there was “tension in Seville.” The chronicle of the targeted journalist sentenced: “Monchi and Sampaoli have not even spoken to each other. President Pepe Castro had to be the one to mediate. They haven’t even looked at each other.” The argument warned of a problem with the manager due to the lack of reinforcements.
At the conference, Sampaoli did not keep his anger at these data: “But you related the link that I spoke with one person with anger with another. That is your fantasy. Beyond that you publish what you imagine or your fantasy, it generates a headline”. González tried to explain his position: “No, what I saw!”
“You did not see anger. You saw me talk to someone else. I can talk to one player and I would be mad at the other 22. I’m not telling you because I’m mad at you huh”, argued the Argentine DT. “No, me neither with you…”, he received from the other side as the temperature grew.
“I simply tell you that you need that and maybe your boss creates an obligation that maybe makes your fantasy generate a headline”, insisted the former driver of the Argentine team. And he added: “Honestly, at the moment the team is and the situation the club is in, this kind of thing doesn’t help because in reality there isn’t any kind of truth in what you are referring to. You generated that because I spoke with the president I would not have to speak with Monchi. It’s kind of weird what you imagined”.
Before passing the microphone to a colleague to continue the press conference, González tried to counteract: “Not only are you wrong to say this to me here. You better tell me outside if you want, not here, at a press conference that isn’t there for that. Now I say that you are wrong in telling me that and that I did not make it up. I have nothing more to talk about.”
“Yes, yes, you invented it”Sampa was forceful.
The 62-year-old Argentine returned to Sevilla in October this year to cover the departure of Julen Lopetegui. Among the different competencies he accumulated three wins, four draws and four losses in a team that was left out in the Champions League group stage – it will play the Europa League – but remains alive in the Copa del Rey.
However, the main concern is that add 11 points and today, when there are still 24 games to be played, it is among the three teams that would lose the category along with Elche (4) and Cadiz (11).
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