Raúl Martín Presa, president of Rayo Vallecano, began the presentation of his new coach Andoni Iraola by giving a farewell message to the former coach: “I would like to thank Paco Jémez and his coaching staff for the years they have been here and for trying until the end, as well as wishing them all the luck in the world. “
Although his speech about Paco Jémez was not going to stop there. After being asked about the non-existent dismissal of the Canarian coach by the club, the president did not hesitate: “I just said goodbye to him, here at a press conference. Before signing with Iraola, I called his representative to tell him that he was not continuing,” but he also wanted to throw a dart at the already former Rayo coach: “I couldn't say goodbye to him in person because he was on vacation and he ran away “.
But the moment in which Martín Presa was going to dispatch himself against Jémez was when he was asked about his words in ‘El Larguero’ in which he affirmed that he and Martín Presa could not continue working together: “Paco Jémez does not continue due to a sports situation, because if it were for other types of situations, he would not have continued seven months ago.”
And that term of ‘sports situation’ also wanted to clarify: “We had problems with the management of the final minutes. After analyzing the season, we could not manage a 90 minute against Las Palmas, an 86 minute with Cádiz, another with Extremadura, with Fuenlabrada, Alcorcón …”. It seemed that Martín Presa had the speech prepared.
“This cost us last year to go to the Second Division, in the last 10 minutes we lost 13 points and this year it has been the same. They are mistakes that we have had for two years and that we had talked to him about”, concluded Rayista president. It seems that the departure of a coach as mediatic as Jémez still has a tail in Vallecas.