Malaga continues its training sessions, with all the precautions typical of these times of COVID-19- The first striking fact of the day this Saturday was the talk that the sports director, Manolo Gaspar, kept with Adrián González, the team captain and that lasted more than 15 minutes on foot from the field and this same Saturday. Obviously it is not known what they talked about.
But it is striking under the circumstances. As it is known, the club has already communicated to several players in the squad that their salary must be lowered between 80% and 90%. Either that, or find a way out. In this list, in addition to Adrián, there are other players whose earnings the club considers that it cannot assume.
In this context, we rescued a few words from Luis Hernández in Ser Deportivos de la Cadena Ser de Málaga for his interest. “I have a four-year contract at the club and I am delighted here. Malaga is my home, not only in my last statements but from day one. Hopefully I can fulfill the contract. It is clear that we are in a delicate situation, we all know it. Let's hope that things will progress in these weeks, that the situation will surely improve. With the work of the people in charge, their hands will be raised. I am delighted, Malaga is my home and I hope I can continue here ”,
The center-back acknowledges that Gaspar has also spoken with him. “He has spoken to me and the situation at the club is not what we all want. It is an atypical club in professional football, intervened and LaLiga is very much on top. Steps are being taken that perhaps should have been taken less drastically in the past. They are doing in a clear line and in that way we hope that LaLiga is more permissive. Nor can you go from white to black overnight. I don't like to comment on personal issues. Let's see what the template can do to help. What excites all of us Malaguistas is that there is an interesting project to be able to return to Primera ”.
Reflection of last year. “When there is a group of players who unite in adversity, the objectives are achieved. It has been a very tough season for all Malaguistas but above all from within it has been difficult to compete in the conditions we have competed in. Then after the coronavirus we were very harmed, there have been injuries, calls with 10 professional files. The summary is that, when there is a group of players committed to a coaching staff who row in the same situation, they are able to achieve the objectives ”.
Your injury: “I am recovered. I have taken the opportunity to heal everything. There have been many games that I have missed. The situations that arise when you play Wednesday and Sunday, and with the situation that the team was in, surely we make decisions that in a normal circumstance … must be analyzed in context. We made the decision to play that game because we thought it was the best. Thanks to everyone's hard work, we managed to save the season, there were times when it was very uphill ”.
Current situation. “Probably the exact knowledge of LaLiga is not even 100%, there are teams playing the playoffs, a start to the season on September 12 that in my opinion is going to be in the air. There is a lot of uncertainty and this will advance day by day. optimistic, I trust the management that the people at the helm are doing and the goal of any Malaguista is to see a team that can fight to give Malaga back where it deserves “.
Salary cut. “We are talking about hypothetical situations, there is a lot of uncertainty in the air. Things are not clear on the part of the club or LaLiga and every day things are going to happen. We are fully aware that there must be a restructuring in the club, but as in the rest of the teams it is happening. Each footballer will have to make the decision individually and must be totally respectable. There is a person, a family and they will have to make a personal decision ”.
What would you accept if you had to go? “I can't ask myself what I would accept because my thought is to stay. From there, whatever my agent has with the club, we will see how it progresses. I don't like talking about hypotheses. It is a very complicated situation, especially changing from day to day. We see it with the judicial processes, every day there is new news. The most important thing is to have stability and the club has been in continuous instability for two or three years. It is very difficult to get the most out of when you talk about everything except the sports field on a day-to-day basis. What we all want is for the extra-sports to be resolved as soon as possible, that the foundations of a Malaga for the future are laid ”.
Medical part
On the other hand, Dani Pacheco and Diego González worked separately, in La Rosaleda with the physical retrainer Manu Gestoso. The Pizarreño, with good sensations, continues the process of recovering from the heel pain from which he was operated on his left heel, still in the joint strengthening phase, in the gym. The defender, on the other hand, has pain in the hamstrings in his left leg and did preventive work.