Aitor elizegi It is submitted for examination this Saturday at the Assembly of Compromisarios Members that will be held in the morning in San Mamés, before playing against Villarreal from 9:00 p.m. The Athletic president believes that the club is played much more at night, on the pitch, as stated in an interview with Radio Bilbao of the Ser string. “The project of Marcelino and of the players is well above the project of Elizegi and the illusion of all the fans is above Elizegi”, He stated. The president added that the result of the Assembly will not influence the match against Castellón: “I think we are very well surrounded by professionals who know how to abstract from what happens outside the ball.”
Elizegi He has stated that the partner has understood that the Ibaigane entity needs his support. “Many partners have understood that it is a special moment, this important support for me can leave the coronavirus stage behind. The accounts are a true reflection of a very tough, very complex season. It is the budget that takes us to June 2022. Now we must consolidate this path. The goal is for us to be strong in December 2022 ”, he said.
“The project of Marcelino and the players is far above the project of Elizegi”
The objective is that no player leaves again. At this point he has made a qualification. “By the way, they are not going to a rival club, they are going to England, Germany, Italy …”, he pointed out regarding the marches of Kepa, Laporte, Ander Herrera, Javi martinez or Llorente. “These are clause payments and player assets that many fans miss on the field. This crisis is temporary, it is not structural, we can overcome it. You have to have a capable staff, from which an asset should not come out in the future. We are more partners than at the beginning of the pandemic ”, he stated.
These statements are in contradiction with what is assured by the Board’s accountant, Jon Ander de las Fuentes, which he stated in an interview in The mail that Athletic needs to sell players. “Jon ander exposes solutions in the medium term, it is important that he expresses solutions, but the most important thing is what he has done in these three years, consolidating the contract of any important player or what the coaching staff and sports management demanded ”, he defended him your president.
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Elizegi has repeated in several moments of the interview in Radio Bilbao that the accounts that the board of directors will present to the Assembly do not have “exceptions” and he added that if the vote is negative, they will be reconsidered. He has also said that he does not care about his “future”. “What matters to me is that the budget helps Athletic. I am very proud of the work of the club’s professionals ”, he stated.
“This crisis is temporary, it is not structural, we can overcome it”
Elizegi He has also recognized that he was not up to the task when he was able to sign Fernando llorente At the request of the players themselves in the 2020 summer market: “It was the hardest time I have been on myself. I was not up to the task, I did not hit the table when it was needed. In what of Llorente I could have done a lot more than I did.
Two other painful moments in his time at the head of the club were the dismissal of Gaizka Garitano and the final two lost. “The finals was a personal illusion and the Gaizka I grieve a lot personally. But in these two matters he could do little more ”.
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