Viera’s tactical failure when he launched his ‘minced meat operation’ at UD Las Palmas

Depriving yourself of a moment of joy after a victory is a bad idea. No one said less than the captain of UD Las Palmas, Jonathan Vierathat challenging the director of the company where you work when he makes profits in the organization and planning is crazy: only one can win and he is the one who is not well advised, that is, in this case, the most charismatic player of UD Las Palms.

Viera now has a free hand to organize his professional future outside of Spain, he said. His friend and boss until a few weeks ago, the coach of UD Las Palmas, Xavi García Pimientasaid Friday in a press conference that his relationship with Viera was strictly “professional” with a “coach-player” logic, and assured that “absolutely nothing happened” at Villarreal when he informed him that he would be alternative.

This alleged confrontation between the Catalan coach and the Gran Canaria player, reported by some media and denied by the island’s locker room, overshadowed the week in which the UD Las Palmas will host Rayo Vallecano this Sundaywith the possibility of achieving a third consecutive victory in LaLiga EA Sports, and even Pimienta himself said that “although it may not be like this”, they are on the verge of a match.

The coach of the yellow team tried to avoid the barrage of questions about the ‘Viera case’, in some cases choosing very short answers who only doubt a relationship that seems to be falling apart.

After all, he wasn’t even sure Jonathan Viera would be called up for next Sunday’s game. “My relationship with Jonathan Viera is a professional, coach and player who seek the best for the club,” he assured with a serious face, later adding that it was a “cordial” relationship because the two were “in the same boat.”

Pimienta reiterated that Viera “deserves to choose his future” when asked what is best for the footballer and for the group.

Furthermore, asked about the suspension of training on Monday, he limited himself to answering that He is “most responsible for the first team.”” and it is considered “appropriate” that they should not practice that day.

The Catalan coach’s renewal until 2025, which the club announced definitively the next day, is another of the main topics of his appearance new media. “I am very happy, the club has always trusted me and the project, I noticed it; that possibility was raised, and it is to celebrate. I don’t like any kind of distractions to achieve permanent and we are on the right track,” explained the Barcelona coach after extending the contract he had already signed for another year.

Pimienta emphasized that he still left Sergi Cardona, a player whose contract will expire in 2024 and who is being targeted by Atlético de Madrid, because he is “in a great level“, while making sure that the club did not receive an order not to put him if the player from Girona did not renew.