2023-06-09 12:22:19
Pere Guardiolapresident of the Board of Directors of the Gironaevaluated the season very positively in the media, in the meeting that took place in Mas Solàfrom Santa Coloma de Farners.
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“It is very positive, we must be proud and happy with how we finished the course. Obviously, we had the objective, because it was put in our hands, to qualify for Europa, but in the end it could not be despite fighting until the last moment. The primary challenge was to save ourselves and we have more than achieved that.”
DIFFERENT FEELINGS
“I wouldn’t call it a disappointment, not going to Europe. It’s true that it was an opportunity we had in front of us, but we couldn’t make it come true. It’s not a disappointment, we have to be happy and proud of the season we’ve had. And most of all, the way we’ve done it: the game we’ve played and the football we’ve been able to show everywhere. We’re a team that really does everything to the best of its ability, and it’s good. And the football and the goals have been achieved in the way we expected.”
THE BEST VIRTUE
“To have achieved the goals by playing football that we are proud of, approaching each game in a way that we want to be dominant. We wanted to win by playing our football and we have not had any fear during the season, on any field that we have gone or against any rival of those who have passed through Montilivi. We have always faced the games like this and it is what should make us feel the most proud. We do not play terrible football, it is football to go for them and the level in the where we move is very difficult. We have a good squad, but it is doubly rewarding to see how it behaves.”
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“This is the danger. Our experience, short but beginning to be important, says that the second years are the most complicated. Historically, it has happened to us; and we must prevent it from happening to us again. Therefore, the objective is again to save us. And when you come from a season in which you have done very well football-wise and where it seems that you have been able to enjoy it, without having those nerves that we had at other times, because they have been positive to try put ourselves in Europe and not the alas, alas if we lose and are placed down, next year, more than ever, we have to hit the ground running. Girona’s goal is permanence, still that Míchel’s goal is another. I quique jail he will make a strong squad, the best possible and the most competitive ever so that the coach has the highest goal, but from another point of view we have to go step by step.”
EUROPA
“The issue is not whether we are interested in going there or not, the issue is whether you can achieve it, why not? Every season you have to place some maximums and until the last day we had the opportunity to qualify . If we had achieved that, we would have been delighted, and we would have built a squad capable of competing. We were all for it. The theory that if you play in Europe you will not be relegated is not an exact science either. Why? Maybe if you go to Europe you can attract players from more talent that will come because we are there, because they can convince themselves better. But we are where we are, calm, happy, with 49 points and we have played great football. Let’s keep going.”
SELLER CLUB
“I am a supporter of the philosophy that if we can keep good players and not sell and continue to grow with ours, the better. But sometimes needs force you to sell. On the other hand, this is not an exact science either, that must be sold to grow; we are in the same situation as before. Yes and no. We must sell if we sell well, because that helps us to reinvest and be able to take that other step we need. Clubs like Girona must buy cheap and sell expensive, we have to give it this turn. Because sell to sell, if we can keep it and we don’t have an important offer…”.
REVALUATION OF FOOTBALL PLAYERS
“The most appropriate thing would be for the majority of footballers to be owned and not have to be sold until something important comes along, and to continue along that line. We have to have both visions. Selfishly, if we can do that it will mean that every year we are a bit better because the squad will be better, you are not after anyone relevant… And there are also footballers who need two or three years to really show that they are of great value. We only had one year what are we at First Divisionand it is true that last year we did very well, but we got into the play-off in the last match of League thanks to many things, but mostly to Juan Carlos. I a Eibar it went as it went, that the stars focused on us and we qualified for the final and we went up. And now we’ve had a great year, but a crucial sale isn’t made with just that. People have to prove, one, two and three years that they are reliable and not a one-day flower. Then, if we receive a considerable offer and we accept it because the price is right, the destination is the right one and we already have the replacement for that footballer, we will do it; but if not, keep quiet and continue. The biggest asset we have is the players.”
TEMPLATE TYPE
“We have to reduce transfers, it would be good for us to have fewer. We already said it in the years a second. But what happens? That the size of the club and the budgets also mark these things for you. That is why I repeat that it is necessary to keep footballers who we know will have outstanding market value in two or three years and to have less and less loaned out, although having a couple or three also shows, as is the case this year with Castellanos and Riquelme, that if we get it right with the environment and this way of doing things, with the coach we have and the temperament the club has, it helps that this kind of young talent from big teams, who may not yet are ready to compete with their clubs, they can come here and take advantage of us. What we must try to do is not to have ten footballers on loan: if we have two very good ones who give us a magnificent performance, we are fine, because under normal conditions we would not be able to have them.”
SECOND CLUB OF CATALONIA
“We have been taking steps since the beginning. What happens around us affects us positively or negatively, depending on what we do and what others do. And this happens in all areas, also in football. The “next year, there will be two Catalan teams in the League, that’s a reality. But we have to have our way, we also don’t have to look too much at what the rest do and stop doing. Girona wants to grow and, obviously, we must take advantage of the fact that we are now in a privileged position because in all areas, in one way or another, we are doing things very well. Collaborations or initiatives, whether social, such as the agreement with Open Armsor l’equip Genuinealso helps show that we want to be in the territory.”
EXPANSION
“We started out being very Girona and the feeling, more and more, is that on a Catalan scale we generate empathy in places other than the province of Girona. It is clear to us that we have to scratch and sympathize more and more every day, because all this it will empower later.”
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