Undoubtedly one of the faces who have made noise in the past two years in the field of football in Spain is Jose Luis Mendiliber. The Basque technician took over Seville in the middle of the 2022-2023 season which was in the relegation places in La Liga and finally “saved” it and conquered with it the Europa League but the start of the following season did not go so well, resulting in his removal from the team’s bench.
This fact was addressed by the coach of Olympiakos in statements he gave to “Mundo Deportivo”, commenting on the difficult times he went through at the start of the season.
“I felt that I was not judged correctly. Of the eight games I sat on the bench this year, in the first three we had a lot of absences. In the five games we played from September 1 onwards we didn’t do badly. I felt a little bit like they didn’t trust me.”Medilibar first pointed out and continued:
“It is also true that Sevilla and the previous sporting administration (led by Monchi) were the ones who took me and made me win my first European tournament.
Then there was a change in the management part that was not good for me. He didn’t understand me very well, nor did he want to wait for things to improve. They didn’t even remember what we had done in the previous three months.
The current sporting administration of Sevilla did not trust us. If I meet Victor Horta on the street? I’ll say hello, because we’re human But I’m not going to say anything to him.
Everything that happened during that period. The coaches know that we can sign or do a contract for one, two or three years and we don’t know when we can leave.
In recent times, however, several coaches have passed from the bench, but the sporting director is always the same, isn’t he? That’s what it’s worth.”
Source: Sport Fm
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