The gesture was calculated and the times measured. A notice to sailors and a message for insiders and outsiders. The way to show what Oviedo thinks about the current worrying situation, with the team without winning for a month and relegated to six points. Given this scenario, and just before the duel against Leganés this Saturday, Pachuca wanted to publicly support the work of Álvaro Cervera, the blue coach.
The president of Oviedo, Martín Peláez, went to El Requexón yesterday before training and met with the coach in his office in the sports city. Then, in an unusual image, since the blue manager usually works in the Tartiere offices, Peláez accompanied Cervera from the locker room to the training field in an image sought to convey unity around the figure of the coach.
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Both were talking amicably, demonstrating good harmony. Before the tour, the president of Oviedo and Jesús Martínez’s trusted man, once again stressed to the blue coach Pachuca’s confidence that he can reverse the current situation. Peláez is on a day-to-day basis the person closest to Cervera and one of those who bet on his arrival, later endorsed by the owner of Oviedo.
The ownership gesture comes after the results crisis and after a week in which Cervera has been more tense than usual on a day-to-day basis, according to what they point out from the Oviedo dressing room itself. Hence the support shown. Last week Peláez invited him to dinner, before the match against Tenerife and just after Jesús Martínez’s stay in Oviedo, who also supported the work of the Guinean coach, although he acknowledged that the team has offensive problems. During that visit, Martínez briefly saw Cervera and also showed him his confidence.
But now, after the private support of days ago, Peláez decided to stage that union that he is looking for around the coach, a movement that they were aware of from Mexico. The president, after being with the coach, also covered the squad and spoke with various players. Last week, in turn, he had also had a meeting with the captains. Pachuca wanted to make it clear that Cervera is the head of the ship to avoid possible noise around the figure of the coach, common in the world of football when victories are scarce. The Guinean is the first coach appointed by the Jesús Martínez conglomerate, which inherited Bolo and a practically closed squad.
Pachuca signed Cervera with the aim of saving the team, which was in decline, and in Mexico they continue to maintain that same thought. In June, with the theoretical salvation in hand if everything goes according to plan, both parties, club and coach, would sit down to talk about the future and a theoretical renovation. Now the panorama of Oviedo focuses on two fronts: unity and salvation.