They are tired of playing at two o’clock in the afternoon

Alfonso Díaz, Business Director of Majorcathe club has stated complained to LaLiga for playing three consecutive games (Girona, Real Madrid and Almería) at 2:00 pmalthough he clarified that the visit to the Santiago Bernabeú stadium next Sunday “comes as a rebound due to a ‘Champions’ adjustment”.

The Real Madrid-Majorca was originally scheduled for Saturday, September 10 at 9:00 pm, but LaLiga moved it to the following day at 2:00 pm, after UEFA announced the schedule for the group stage of champions league, to give Carlo Ancelotti’s team more rest.

The great injured is Majorcaas Díaz admitted in a press conference he offered accompanied by the club’s director of football, Pablo Ortells.

“A week ago we warned LaLiga on several occasions that the game against Girona at two o’clock in the afternoon at the beginning of September with the expected high temperatures are detrimental to all, fans, clubs and players. We were ignored and they stood their ground. He is new Almeria There are still days left and we don’t know what the weather forecast will be, but if it’s like last Sunday, we will request a time change, no doubt,” explained Diaz.

Intense heat and high humidity during the ninety minutes of Mallorca-Girona on Saturday affected many fans and some voiced their grievances on social media.

To this question is added the lack of bars Only two catered to the needs of the nearly 14,000 people in the stadium, leading to long queues. “I spoke to the presidents of the supporters’ clubs to give them relevant explanations,” said the Business Director.

“The club works so that’s it health and well-being everyone in the field is insured. Unfortunately, on Saturday those events did not happen. There was a failure in the food and beverage service because we took a international operator to take all of that, but they had 40 casualties on the restoration staff. Steps have been taken to prevent this from happening again, because without fans there is no football,” he specified.

According to Díaz, the club asked for ambulances, enough water, “but the game it had to be played, unfortunately, under those circumstances. In any case, the club defends all the people who were part of this event, because this situation is not good for the show.”

Asked about the relationship that Mallorca maintains with the body led by Javier Tebas, Díaz replied that they are “very good.” “It’s always like this. When there are things we don’t like, we say. There were situations (those three games at two o’clock in the afternoon) where our requests were not met, although we tried, and we have forwarded our complaints. Clubs are sovereign, but there are rules that must be met. The power to set the schedules rests with LaLiga”, settled.

Regarding the agreement reached with the Consell de Mallorca to provide a grant of 1.8 million euros in the club, which has generated a political battle between supporters and opponents of this financial aid to a private sports entity, Díaz stressed that they are “in the middle of a political situation that has nothing to do” with the club.

“On this issue, as on others, we have been working for several months. without much noise. The agreement reached with Real Club Deportivo Mallorca is upheld. We don’t know how everything will end, but it can definitely be done to maintain this commitment,” he stressed.

Pablo Ortells, for his part, responded to a question about the balance he was doing in the recently concluded market transfer.

He said that the last two reinforcements, the Serbian Matija Nastasic and the Zimbabwean Tino Kadewere, were at the disposal of the coach (Javier aguirre) for the game against Real Madrid, once the bureaucratic problems that prevented both of them from making their debut against Girona have been resolved.

He also referred to the Kosovar striker Vedat Muriqi: “Everyone was happy when the last winter market came. We wanted it to continue and we tried from the first moment, even the club he belongs to (Lazio) have (financial) expectations that we cannot meet. It looked like he was going to sign for the other club and in the end he didn’t. In that process it changes expectations and now we have it. Just enjoy it.”