Ferran Soriano gave explanations to Florentino Pérez

Ferran Soriano, CEO of Manchester City, has generated controversy among Madrid fans for his words about the Champions League that Real Madrid blamed on luck and not football. Some statements made in the Dr. Football podcast that have put Real Madrid on a war footing against Ferran Soriano.

Now the CEO would have called Florentino Perez to clarify those statements. That is what they assured in El Chiringuito where they explained that Ferran Soriano would have told Florentino Pérez that those words had been taken out of context.

The Chiringuito reproduced the statements of Ferran Soriano about the fate of Real Madrid in the Champions League. “Because you have to make a difference between the short and the medium term. Luck exists in the short term, the super short term. I could say that when we lost in Madrid with two goals in two minutes in the 90th minute, it was bad luck. But that’s bad luck at a certain point in time. If you look at five years of work, 10 years of work… luck pays off. It’s not about luck, it’s about hard work and intelligence. You have to have the patience and the mental strength to accept bad luck when it comes (and I’ve seen a lot of bad luck) knowing that if I keep working hard, good luck will come,” said Ferran Soriano.

“The Champions League is a trophy that we want, we know that it is subject to a bit of luck and we are not obsessed. People talk today about the success that Real Madrid have had in recent years, and I think it would be fair to say that they had a little luck. Perhaps I could say that they deserved to lose against PSG, Chelsea, us or Liverpool. But people don’t remember that in the 90s and 80s Madrid had a fantastic team, one of the best in history, with Butragueño and other players, and they couldn’t win it. They were knocked out every year by AC Milan. So they had some luck now, but they also had a lot of bad luck for years… We’re patient, it’s not an obsession, we’ll win it at the right time.” , concluded F.said Soriano.

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