The sports director of Seville, Monchirevealed a strange anecdote in the process of one of the signings that gave the most value to the Andalusian club, the French Clement Lengletwhere he invested 4.5 million and was later sold to FC Barcelona for 36 million.
In a statement for the portal ‘La Bolsa del Deporte’, the man from San Fernando recounted how he noticed a player who played for a club in the French second division, which raised doubts from his own president.
“You look at France, you see good teams, everyone has potential and you see Lenglet in the second division. Pepe Castro, the president, came to ask me about the signing. ‘Don’t others see? ‘, he told me . I told him that For me it was great and in the first training sessions we already saw its potential”, the Sevilla executive says as an anecdote.
“I ask my team many times if they believe that the talent they see is real, because sports directors sin by wanting to invent, we have to be sure of everything before carrying out an operation”, added of the man from Cádiz, who also reflected in the same interview about the pressure to endure and the responsibility of having the right investment: “Now that we live in a bad moment, you have to learn to live with it. Now when I walk in my morning dogs, people He doesn’t tell me good morning, he tells me to sign a striker, or bring a midfielder. You have to live with pressure from people, from the press, from the coach himself, from the board of directors.Trying to survive the pressure is one of the hardest things not to make decisions that you will later regret.
Identify mistakes that define improvisation
However, Monchi also admits that he makes mistakes and points to improvisation as one of the dangers to be avoided. “There is something more dangerous (than pressure): improvisation. When you leave your roadmap, when I look back on my career, the common denominator of a mistake is improvisation. When I have to do things that I didn’t believe in, because of pressure, because of lack of time… make your mistakes, correct, keep growing, but don’t improvise, because it will lead you to failure for sure,” he commented.
Source: La Verdad
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