Unai
Simon He has had a very irregular season with Athletic. The Murgia goalkeeper has alternated good performances with large errors that have cost important points in the 2020-21 League. “We have to seek the maximum performance of the players, it is evidence that competitiveness increases performance. Soccer players improve a very high percentage when they have more competition. It is the experience we have in our trajectory, which is already quite long ”, he said. Marcelino without naming the Athletic goalkeeper at any time in an interview with the program 'Hey, how is it going' from Popular Radio.
Joseba
Etxeberria He has decided to put an end to his time as Bilbao Athletic coach after playing the promotion playoff for the last two seasons but not achieving the goal of clinching a place in Second. Now it sounds Iñaki
Tejada as your substitute. Marcelino knows the Bilbao coach very well. He coincided with him at Sporting. “I know of the human and professional capacity of Iñaki, but it is not my task to decide the Bilbao Athletic coach. I am a coach of the first team. The decision to appoint the coaches of the quarry corresponds to the sports management, but he is an extraordinary professional and an extraordinary person. He is very capable, but I repeat that it is not my job. I have enough with my plot. The club will make the decision it deems best ”, said the Villaviciosa.
Marcelino He has also reiterated that he does not have much decision-making capacity regarding possible signings when asked about Javi
Martinez: “It's a club theme. If anyone knows Javi They are the people who are in Athletic, have lived with him and know of his human and professional capacity. We have a better chance of concretizing an accurate answer when we live with the footballers ”.
About Moncayola He has indicated that he has not analyzed him sufficiently, “but if the club asks me for an opinion, we will do the detailed analysis to be accurate in the reflection”.
The Asturian has recognized that Black pudding Y SancetThey, among other young people, have earned having minutes next season, but at the same time added that they must continue working as they have been doing to continue their progression. “Yes, they have earned having minutes, but they shouldn't stop at that, they have to progress and try harder, and with this I don't mean that they don't make an effort. But playing in the first team means working to the maximum every day so that the capacities have a continuous performance. They have to put the highest ambition ”, he added.