“Here I can go out on the street without anyone asking me for a striker”

He Aston Villa are fighting for top positions in Premier League and receiving praise from the British press. And in two positions of the highest responsibility in sports they also receive recognition Unai Emery and Monchi. This, in an interview with DAZNreflects on his work in Birmingham and compares it with his work in Sevillewhere he was more than a sports director.

“There’s a series of factors here that kind of cut me off from the front row… they even took me out of the picture. It’s possible that I need it. At all levels in Sevilleexceed the figure of a sports director, due to many circumstances. 35 years at the club. Being a die-hard fan of Sevilla, and closely related to events that are not just sports, has made my exposure too many times, and I recognize it. But when you board a moving train it is very difficult to get off,” he commented.

“That figure is gradually being created and it is difficult to destroy it. Here, the circumstances are obviously different, because I don’t have that position. There is a parapet in front of me, which is Unai, ‘the boss’, and that allows me that “focus more on what my daily work is, more concrete my role, with the same demands, the same nerves, with the same responsibility, because it is clear that my demands are the greatest there , that still hasn’t changed,” he added.

“I enjoy the victories and suffer the defeats both, because I am very demanding of myself, and as a challenge that came to England is, when you enter the maelstrom, you try to achieve the most things, but within the aspect of sports. Which is another series of circumstances that I handled in SevilleHere, obviously, I don’t have to do it, and that allows me more peace of mind,” he pointed out and explained: “Here I can go out on the street without anyone telling me that I have to sign a striker, although that is changing. I said that a year ago, but now they know me better… but nothing to do with what I experienced in Seville, or in Rome, where the level of needs on a daily basis is also very high. great,” he explained.

“Here I found a place where I can work happily, with a high level of demand, set by Unai, but I also set it and the owner sets it, but from a more secondary perspective. For for better and for worse, It Fortunately, because things, in general, are always in order, people recognized that work, which in the end, has the name of. Monchi, but he has a lot of people behind him,” highlighted the San Fernandowho was replaced at Sevilla by Víctor Orta.