Castro responds to Monchi: “The bottle is empty”

the goodbye of Monchi as sports director of Seville It was not without controversy due to the veiled accusations made by the man from San Fernando about the loss of autonomy in the daily life of the club, which is why he decided to leave. And this Monday the president, jose castrowas against them in the act in which the Seville would like to honor Nemanja Gudelj for its renewal until 2026.

The supreme president wants to respond to some of the affirmations of Monchihe doesn’t seem to want to leave the Seville. “Monchi is not just a professional, he has done a lot and is good for the entity, and we want and hope he stays. The one who left was him, the one who told us he wanted to leave was him, five or six days after the title. I told him to wait a week, to reconsider after a difficult period, and he was clear. He told us he was tired and we thought he was going to San Fernando to rest, and that didn’t add to the contract. I don’t have to pay anything. But if there is a team behind him (Aston Villa) and they want to take him, the club has to implement the contract and those clauses as that good professional”, explained the president.

Castro have declined the duties of Monchi changed and responded with a simile used by the executive in his farewell speech, a bottle of water on the lectern. “I’m used to my job being to move the bottle to where I think it belongs, but if I can just move the bottle here I’m not Monchi, I’m half Monchi,” he said.

The answer of Castro He was frank: “The club worked as before. Monchi, as general director of sports, was the one who prescribed the players for buying and selling. As before, and then the CEOs, the management committee and the council decides on mergers or sales. 99% of the things he prescribes for us we always do. Following a simile Monchi made with the water bottle, if it is spilled, the club executives have to take the bottle so that the water does not leak and put it upright again”, he stated graphically.

However, the president insisted that Monchi has always had an “open door” and has rejected the Seville came to destroy the relationship with the former sports director. “There is no time to destroy any kind of relationship, we worked comfortably throughout the year. We had our differences, of course, as always. The bad thing is that we don’t talk about it when things go wrong. When something is important, the one is hurt, it is logical that there are different opinions and moments of tension. There is no break in the relationship, five or six days after winning the cup, he told us that he wants to leave. The time is right has been difficult, strong, for everyone and he wants to leave”.