Paco Jémez said goodbye to the Rayo fans this week after not renewing with the Rayo team. The coach reviewed the entire controversial end of LaLiga SmartBank and his difficult season on the Vallecas bench in 'El Larguero' of Cadena SER.
Without playoff: “It cannot be used as an excuse, we had a good enough squad to be among the top six but we were ready. Happy because the team fought a lot but not to achieve the goal …”.
Last day: “It has been a very complicated situation. With the passage of time things are different. I break a spear in favor of LaLiga who have done it at a spectacular level and with great care. I did not expect it. But when they have made a decision , which from my point of view was very clear that it was a mistake. When we saw that only Deportivo-Fuenlabrada was suspended, we all saw that it was a mistake and no one from the League perceived what was coming. The good decision would have been to suspend the match. LaLiga there has been wrong. The correct decision would have been to suspend the entire day, see how things were going and play when possible. “
Positive Fuenlabrada: “In this case, the important thing is that no one had an advantage over the other and for whatever reason there was. Fuenlabrada should not have left Madrid for any reason but for a health issue.”
War of communiqués: “It will bring a tail and there are teams that want to prosecute. Each team wants to bring the ember closer to their sardine and what they have not achieved in one way they want to do it on the other hand.”
“Raúl (Martín Presa) and I could not continue working together; it would have been a mistake. He knows it and I know it”
LaLiga protocols and actions: “Thanks to LaLiga, I felt safe because I knew that the safest place I could be was training. I felt more fear in the supermarket than going to play.”
Lightning output: “I am not asking to be fired from anywhere. I finished my contract and nobody has to tell me anything at all. My continuity at Rayo was totally unviable, as it has been. You don't have to be an engineer to know that I wasn't going to continue. Raúl and I could not continue working together and besides, it would have been a mistake. He knows it, I know it and everyone knows it. I wish him the best, although I would have liked to continue because I love Rayo. This year has cost personal happiness because every day there were problems. We created problems without any need. My relationship with Raúl was definitely broken and we did not speak to each other for five or six months. “
LaLiga start: “I would love for the League to start on a date, but those outbreaks … when you open your hand you know that these things can happen. I see things on TV and it makes me want to jump out the window. There are people with masks and doing things good but then there are brains making their lives more than normal. Hopefully football returns in its fullness, what we have seen so far was a substitute for football that we have pushed forward to finish the league. “