“The board values ​​me and I feel very safe”

The Real coach breaks into top form in the final stretch of his fifth season. “I’m full.” The proclamation of principles that launches Imanol Sheriff it is proportional to the winning spirit, full of hunger, that he continues to exhibit, without fissures.

The look from the fifth position of the ranking that selects the coaches with the most games in history allows Imanol to say “very happy, proud and that’s it”. The one from Orio assures that “the present and the future sustain me, thanks to the great squad that I have”. The technician affirms that it is due to a “management that values ​​me” and with which “I feel very safe working”. The project continues to go from strength to strength, “it gets more and more complicated”, Alguacil adds, “but we don’t stop”, he warns, recalling that “we work our asses off”.

the desire of Imanol Sheriff is to fulfill the contract that binds him to Real until 2023, as reported by MD on Thursday. The energy is “the same” as always. “When they have gone wrong, you have respected me and I have always been proud of my work”, comments an Imanol who insists on the most resounding message that he can spread: “I am at my best”.

“A great week”

Imanol’s enthusiastic statement comes in a week of “impressive training sessions, great from the players”. The quality that he has seen in Zubieta makes him optimistic for tomorrow’s visit to Elche. “If we continue with this game, we will be close to winning.” The victory will strengthen with greater emphasis the good position of Real in the race for Europe. “I’m always on the lookout because you have to analyze everything,” says Imanol, underlining that “24 points are outrageous – those that remain at stake – and the advantage is useless if we don’t win” against Elche. Imanol is confident of victory based on the thesis of the accumulation of matches: “Removing the blows we have received, from when we played every three days, the team is competing very well and is becoming worthy of winning”.

Elche “is going to make it extremely difficult for us”, he warns Imanol. “Whenever they lose, they do so by little and they are very competitive, committed in all their lines, very vertical, stepping on an area with a lot of people”, so “we will have to play with our best version”.

Imanol anticipates that Merino “is ready”, believes that the goal of Isaac Espanyol was “great news” and revealed with a sense of humor that Sorloth “Sometimes I tell him: how bland you are.” He says that “I ask for aggressiveness at certain times, but I am happy with his work”