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Olabe affirms that the current squad of the Real “is more prepared to compete than last year”. He came to say the term “better”, but preferred to stay with “more prepared”. During the transfer market closed two weeks ago, only Silva instead of Odegaard, apart from the return of the loaned ones, and left Diego
Llorente. He feels “very satisfied” with the squad of 26 players out there and that “group of emerging players” who come from behind, who are Pacheco, Gonzalez
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Navarrese. He admits that there is “a wide margin for improvement”, but that the squad is stronger because they are the same players with one more year playing together, which represents “a very important exponential leap”, due to the “experience of each and everyone together”. There are 16 homegrown players on the squad: “This generation in number and talent is extraordinary,” he adds.
This generation in number and talent is extraordinary
Olabe he knows that the Real is facing an “extraordinary season”, with the competition in five different competitions, which represents “a challenge”, although he celebrates thinking that “we are ready”. However, the intention of the club is that “everything becomes ordinary and that the only extraordinary thing is the absence of an audience, which is a shit.”
You don't want it to be an “amusement park”
The Real's football director is optimistic and announces that “we will be up to the task.” To illustrate his arguments, he is very graphic: “We don't want it to be an amusement park, go and take photos and that's it. We don't want to go to see the cliffs of the Adriatic, or eat pizza, or see the canals of Amsterdam, we want to compete ”, he asserts.
A “very demanding” group in the Europa League
La Real begins to compete in the Europa League on Thursday in Rijeka in a group that “I see very demanding.” “We have three league champions in front of us, teams that play well and want the ball,” he says. Olabe, referring to Rijeka, Naples and Az Alkmaar. “I would like not to be from the Real to enjoy it from outside,” he sentence. The sports chief says that Real has “a denser squad” than in previous years to undertake this “sequence of difficulty”, that, “if we face it maturely, the result will come.”
Titles are very difficult, but one wins them
Regarding the results in the League and the first position that the team occupies, the football director celebrates seeing that Real “continues to improve, having the same HR, with a block a little higher than last year, which they defend with more solvency and has a higher quality presence in the last third ”. He does not want it to be considered a failure that a title is not achieved: “Titles are very difficult, but you win them. Fighting for them has to make us feel super proud “