Pepper: “We need to fix the signatures”

The coach of UD Las PalmasFrancisco Javier García Pimienta, assured that his team will “stand out more” in the First Division than in the Second, because of the game they play, and individually because of the qualities of their players, and he is “really looking forward to ” start of an “exciting” season.

The Catalan coach gave an interview on the club’s official radio on Monday, after the first pre-season training session, where he was brimming with optimism about the “exciting” campaign that awaits them with the Spanish giants football; showing himself to be “convinced” that they would “do well”, as that was the way his players sent it to him.

After tasting the climb, Pepper He spent ten days on vacation in New York -where he even met the fans of UD Las Palmas, as he revealed-, and ended his break in the Costa Brava, but always kept a “direct thread” with Luis Helguerasports director of the entity to plan the new season.

“We have to hit the mark with the signings that come, that contribute something different,” Pimienta has openly acknowledged, although he is “calm” because he has the “thick of the squad, 65 or 70 percent”, with whom they will . start the competition.

Pimienta believes that they have succeeded with the arrival of striker Cristian Herrera and midfielder Javi Muñoz.

At first, returning to the club where he was formed, he considered that he would provide “a lot of solutions in three attacking positions”, and he highlighted that he scored ten goals in a team like Ibiza, which ended upon relegation from the Second Division to the First Federation.

In the case of Javi Muñoz, he appreciates that he has been playing “for many years at the highest level” and, in addition to “great company”, he will also give them “legs” in midfield.

Although many of the players in the current squad, with the exception of Jonathan Viera and Sandro Ramírez, have no experience in the First Division, Pimienta is convinced that they will have a good season, which will also be his debut as a coach in the top flight. .

“You have to be realistic, but without giving up on anything, and we have to leave each game knowing how to compete and have given everything. We will face rivals with bigger budgets and better quality, and will have games where we have to suffer and small details will not fall on our side, but we must keep the style and identity that brought us here”, he explained. Pimienta.

Although he said he knows that the rivals they will face “if you make a mistake, they will not forgive you”, he is convinced that UD Las Palmas will be the “protagonist” in many matches, taking the initiative in the game , as it is seen he trained his footballers to “adapt and perform better” in the First Division “due to their technical capacity”.