Guede: “The first objective is to conquer people again”

Pablo Guede visited the SER Deportivos Málaga gathering at the Cenachero seafood restaurant on Monday, reviewed how his first months at the helm of Málaga have been and showed some traces of what he hopes the team will be for next season. “It doesn’t matter how much money you have, but trying to do better with that money. But my first objective, which I would set before saying anything, should be to conquer people again. Málaga is a club with a future”, he asserted.

Balance of the season: “You have to take a break and look forward. It suffered, I had a regular time, but luckily we were able to maintain the category. I knew it wasn’t easy, the schedule wasn’t easy at all. That’s why I focused a lot on game by game and week by week. We had no room for error.”

Do many things have to be changed for next season?: “I don’t know if a lot or a few things have to be changed, but I do have to change. It is time to analyze, not to repeat the mistakes that were made. In all moments of crisis there are opportunities and it is a beautiful opportunity to reverse what happened this season. It is an opportunity and opportunities must be seized”.

He is still on the Málaga bench next season: “Yes, I will continue. It’s not mine, but it cost me a lot to get here, it cost me a lot, a lot of sacrifice, a lot of work. And for my part there is no possibility of leaving, another thing is if they kick me out”.

The club worse than expected?: “From the outside many times many things are appreciated that are not real. When I arrived, I saw many better things and some worse things. I found the club barbaric, in terms of facilities and organization. What the club is, I found it very good. He took several steps forward from where I had left off. I saw it very neat. Of the team many times one has a feeling from the outside that when it arrives it is different”.

Did you regret coming at some point?: “Repent, no. It never crossed my mind, but having a bad time to the point that my wife comes and leaves my two daughters alone in Mexico, yes. There were times when I did have a bad time.”

A very bad wardrobe: “I’m not going to go into that. I would be unable to do it publicly and what I had to say I said to their faces. I don’t want to get into wardrobe issues. You who are journalists will have noticed or have seen that many players come out criticizing, talking. I never answered any of them. I’m not interested in that game. I have a way, which is to be frontal, say things to the face and from there, let each one do what they want. It is a decision I made when I wanted to be a coach. I’m not going to go in there, I’m not interested.”

Template: “Málaga, organized as it is, with the issue of the administrator, with the order that the club has and how it is, I think it has and can continue to take steps forward. So bad things were not done. We will have to analyze what happened after that. When you do it all wrong, you end up going down. Of course there were many things wrong. The template was not bad. I was super happy with how I found the club. It is a club with a future”.

Aspirations for the next season: “It doesn’t matter how much money you have, but trying to do better with that money. But my first objective, which I would set before saying anything, should be to conquer people again. That can’t be missed. I got tired of saying it since I came. Malaga is all of us. I feel indebted and before talking about sporting goals it is to conquer the people, convince them, and people are conquered on the green. From there, forward. Football puts you where you deserve.”

Responsibility for what is expected of Guede: “I didn’t want to realize it because when I arrived it was so strong that I preferred to put it aside because it was going to be more complicated. But give me that pressure, I like it. The worst times are when the best of me comes out. My coaching career was like this. Is there. It’s very clear to me”.

Message to the people: “I know a way, work. Now, with a preseason, with an armed squad, I will be able to do what one thinks and that is as a coach. From then on, we’ll see.”