MADRID, 12 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of Levante, Quico Catalán, was very hurt after the defeat against Real Madrid (6-0), which confirmed his team’s relegation to Second Division and assured that they are leaving “in the most painful way”, but he blurted out that they will return to the highest category of Spanish football.
“It has been a very difficult year for everyone and in the end relegation has taken place on a very complicated day, the players have suffered unspeakably. We are going to the Second Division in the most painful way but we will return. First, we apologize to our people and give them Thank you for the support,” he said in statements to Movistar, collected by Europa Press.
“Many thought that we were not going to last that long and in the end – with 10 days to go – we have fallen. Tomorrow we have to start working and see that it has been a series of situations that have led us to this situation,” added Catalán. .
Asked about the mistakes, the Granota president was sincere. “I don’t know what we have done wrong, we started the year with the incorporation of Mustafi and Soldier and we understood that a base squad that had been together for years with a high performance was being reinforced, last year in the Cup semifinals… But at the best thing was the moment to change something else and I don’t know, honestly at this moment I wouldn’t know how to tell you, but we haven’t been well from the beginning. In the end we have seen ourselves doomed to this situation”, he admitted.
“The dismissal of Paco López? I don’t know, when that decision was made it was understood that it was what had to be done and it was done. I don’t know if it was wrong, but it wasn’t pleasant for anyone, I don’t know if it was that decision (the guilty of the decline), or the change that was not the right one, but right now is not the time nor do I have the head to draw such conclusions so clearly. What is clear is that we have made a mistake and I am ultimately responsible. Now we have to work hard to return to the First Division,” added Catalán.
“We have to go back to the First Division and we have to work but first we have to correct and analyze everything well. We have to reorient the project to compete at the highest level in the Second Division, we have to try to achieve what we did six years ago, go down and go up,” he concluded. the president of Levante.