The president of CD Tenerife, Paulino Riveroit assured Thursday that the club’s management model is “very complex” and “unparalleled in Spain”, as ownership intervention here causes “interferences” and “controversies”.
This is because Rivero interprets that there will be interference between the club’s financial partner and largest shareholder, Jose Manuel Garridoand technical management. But Garrido himself last June on TV Canaria rejected that theory: “CD Tenerife by department, by consensus, there is a sports commission, they make the decisions, of course they have different opinions, this is not communist Russia.”
The president of the Number 1 group and shareholder of CD Tenerife, In the middle of Achiassured in June in ‘El Espejo Canario’ with Francisco Chavanel, that José Miguel Garrido, also a shareholder of the club, “knows more about football than anyone” so he understands that they are not in a position to give him lesson.
He indicated that since he left the front line of the club’s management, he has promised not to make statements “until the club is in the First Division.” However, he considers that the stability of the club is not in danger: “Everyone knows what they are supposed to do and no one should give lessons to Garrido“.
He does not believe that the Cabildo of Tenerife will make any offer to acquire Garrido’s shares, “and it remains to be seen if he wants to sell them.” Remember that The majority of the club’s shares are in the hands of businessmen from Tenerife and he will not be surprised if Rayco García, also a shareholder in the club, is interested in increasing his holdings.
Rivero. This September in an interview with Radio Club Tenerife, Paulino Rivero stressed that “the problem” with the blue and white entity “It has nothing to do with who the owners are.“but with the management model chosen by the unions, which They gave the sports area to the largest shareholder, José Miguel Garrido.
He emphasized that attention should be focused on the sports field and said that “the sensations” sent by the team of Óscar Cano in The first three days of the championship have been positiveexcept for the “terrible” game against Eldense.
Now, he said to manage that it exists “a lot of noise” around CD Tenerife because of “some issues around the club that have not been positive at all, some messages, actions, public expressions that have not gone well.”
However, he assured that the board of directors “is working without any problemsin a normal way and without internal differences”.
What does not convince the president of CD Tenerife is “the model chosen by the shareholderswhich from the beginning I found very difficult to manage”.
He recalled that the three teams that rose to the First Division last season, Espanyol, Valladolid and Leganés, had their own owners. Chinese, Brazilian and American groupsbut in all of them the day-to-day management is entrusted to administrators and house employees.
In Tenerife, Rivero continued, chosen by the union of the majority shareholders a management model in which the sports powers deposited them in Garrido.
Source: La Verdad
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