About Sergio Mart\u00ednez
\u201cThe plan is for him to be on the bench tomorrow, so from there you can more or less see the plan. He has trained with the first team for two days, nothing more. Before the club signed him, it was clear he wouldn\u2019t be directly part of the first team. We have also analyzed and given our opinion that he could potentially make it here one day. He is a boy with potential, who has some experience in the Second Division and at the start of the league with Racing. He has potential, he needs to work, and only he can determine his path. The quality and intensity here are different, but he is here. Tomorrow, he will be there, along with Rivas, who has been with us since the first match, and also Cestero. We’ll see if he plays or not, but being here with us is already a step forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez Situation
\u201cNo one knows him better than Simeone, no one knows the club better than Simeone, and I don\u2019t see that I have anything to say about this situation. What I usually say is that when a player is not satisfied, by September 1, you must either be satisfied or not play until January 1. That\u2019s why my feeling is that from yesterday, from yesterday, and at least until December 31, he will be an important player for his club.\u201d
\nAsencio
\n \u201cI spoke with him when I arrived. We talked about things from the past. Since I arrived, I haven\u2019t spoken about situations outside Valdebebas because in Valdebebas, he is an exemplary professional. When he was well, no one trained more or better than him. Now that he has been injured for weeks, he is the first to arrive, the last to leave, showing extreme dedication to his recovery. But a Real Madrid player is a Real Madrid player 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 12 months a year. Everything you do outside your professional area continues to reflect on Real Madrid, continues to affect the prestige of a club that is untouchable. I am not happy. Everyone makes mistakes, but accumulated mistakes are something different.\u201d
\n Will you count on him once he recovers?
\n \u201cThe club has opened a case, and as a coach, while the case is open, I see him as a Real Madrid player. He is injured and will continue to be injured for at least a couple more weeks. This helps me stay out of the issue you mentioned. It\u2019s not up for discussion. I think what best defines my reaction to all this is that he is a Real Madrid player, a Real Madrid player 24 hours a day.\u201d
\nTchouameni
\n \u201cI don\u2019t know if he will even be ready for the match against Inter because next Tuesday, in midfield, we will certainly have a problem with the suspensions of G\u00fcler, Bernardo Silva, and Camavinga. Practically, Valverde will be the only first-team player available. We’ll talk about this tomorrow after the match, but until the Betis match, let me stay optimistic and happy because, as you know, we are going to have a significant problem to solve. Let\u2019s focus on Betis and forget about the rest for now.\u201d
\nThe situation with Ceballos
\n \u201cWe spoke for three minutes on the phone. I told him I wasn\u2019t counting on him, and often when the coach doesn\u2019t count on players, they cling to their contracts and want to stay. This often becomes a prolonged issue, but in this case, things were very simple because the player told me, \u2018If you\u2019re not counting on me, then I\u2019d rather be free to decide my future.\u2019 And within a couple of days, the player and the club reached the conclusion of terminating the contract, and he was free to decide his future.\u201d
\nDo you think this will be a high-point league and highly competitive until the end?
\u201cI think Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid will also be there, also a contender. Even if they don\u2019t openly say so, they surely think and feel they can. The way they have signed players, the way they have invested in this stability, which seems eternal\u2014always the same coach, always the same mentality, always the same way of thinking and organizing\u2014it is a significant strength in today\u2019s football, where things constantly change. For me, they are also contenders. Then there are these teams at the top, and in this case also in the Champions League, in European competitions like Betis. All those teams are strong, and we\u2019ll see tomorrow how strong Betis and the Basque teams are; they\u2019re all very tough. For me, this is not an easy league at all. You can have some results that might give you the idea it\u2019s easy, like us scoring four against M\u00e1laga or Barcelona scoring five against Elche, but there\u2019s pressure here that doesn\u2019t exist in other leagues\u2014the pressure to always win. In some leagues, champions don\u2019t have to win every time. Champions in France or Germany, for example, have the comfort of knowing they will be champions. Here, it\u2019s tough. Here, there\u2019s this pressure week after week, where any result other than a win is not good. And this pressure weighs heavily on teams playing in a league with these characteristics.\u201d
\nRelationship with Pellegrini
\u201cI never reproach anything because we cannot go back in time. This is my philosophy, but obviously, in the past, and such a long past in football, there are moments, words, things one says or does, and then in the end, you feel bad, you feel you were wrong. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t reproach, but obviously, I\u2019ve had some words, some very stupid comments with him that I\u2019m not proud of. Later, and now surely if he hears me, he will laugh, I paid him back well. The championship he won in the Premier League with Manchester City, I gave it to him. Because two games before the end, if Liverpool had drawn with Chelsea, they would have been champions, but we won, and he became champion. I paid him back well. And then we met a few times, and he showed me something\u2014he showed me what a great gentleman he is. In a friendly match, a Betis-Roma friendly in Rome, due to a referee who deeply loved Betis, we ended up with seven players on the field, and he told his players, \u2018Let\u2019s not crush them,\u2019 and we let the match finish as it was, 3-1. He was a true gentleman because they could have scored eight, but they didn\u2019t. For me, he is a great coach, an example as a coach and as a person. I like him a lot. Tomorrow, I will give him a hug before and after the match.\u201d <\/p>\n
About Sergio Mart\u00ednez
\u201cThe plan is for him to be on the bench tomorrow, so from there you can more or less see the plan. He has trained with the first team for two days, nothing more. Before the club signed him, it was clear he wouldn\u2019t be directly part of the first team. We have also analyzed and given our opinion that he could potentially make it here one day. He is a boy with potential, who has some experience in the Second Division and at the start of the league with Racing. He has potential, he needs to work, and only he can determine his path. The quality and intensity here are different, but he is here. Tomorrow, he will be there, along with Rivas, who has been with us since the first match, and also Cestero. We’ll see if he plays or not, but being here with us is already a step forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez Situation
\u201cNo one knows him better than Simeone, no one knows the club better than Simeone, and I don\u2019t see that I have anything to say about this situation. What I usually say is that when a player is not satisfied, by September 1, you must either be satisfied or not play until January 1. That\u2019s why my feeling is that from yesterday, from yesterday, and at least until December 31, he will be an important player for his club.\u201d
\nAsencio
\n \u201cI spoke with him when I arrived. We talked about things from the past. Since I arrived, I haven\u2019t spoken about situations outside Valdebebas because in Valdebebas, he is an exemplary professional. When he was well, no one trained more or better than him. Now that he has been injured for weeks, he is the first to arrive, the last to leave, showing extreme dedication to his recovery. But a Real Madrid player is a Real Madrid player 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 12 months a year. Everything you do outside your professional area continues to reflect on Real Madrid, continues to affect the prestige of a club that is untouchable. I am not happy. Everyone makes mistakes, but accumulated mistakes are something different.\u201d
\n Will you count on him once he recovers?
\n \u201cThe club has opened a case, and as a coach, while the case is open, I see him as a Real Madrid player. He is injured and will continue to be injured for at least a couple more weeks. This helps me stay out of the issue you mentioned. It\u2019s not up for discussion. I think what best defines my reaction to all this is that he is a Real Madrid player, a Real Madrid player 24 hours a day.\u201d
\nTchouameni
\n \u201cI don\u2019t know if he will even be ready for the match against Inter because next Tuesday, in midfield, we will certainly have a problem with the suspensions of G\u00fcler, Bernardo Silva, and Camavinga. Practically, Valverde will be the only first-team player available. We’ll talk about this tomorrow after the match, but until the Betis match, let me stay optimistic and happy because, as you know, we are going to have a significant problem to solve. Let\u2019s focus on Betis and forget about the rest for now.\u201d
\nThe situation with Ceballos
\n \u201cWe spoke for three minutes on the phone. I told him I wasn\u2019t counting on him, and often when the coach doesn\u2019t count on players, they cling to their contracts and want to stay. This often becomes a prolonged issue, but in this case, things were very simple because the player told me, \u2018If you\u2019re not counting on me, then I\u2019d rather be free to decide my future.\u2019 And within a couple of days, the player and the club reached the conclusion of terminating the contract, and he was free to decide his future.\u201d
\nDo you think this will be a high-point league and highly competitive until the end?
\u201cI think Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid will also be there, also a contender. Even if they don\u2019t openly say so, they surely think and feel they can. The way they have signed players, the way they have invested in this stability, which seems eternal\u2014always the same coach, always the same mentality, always the same way of thinking and organizing\u2014it is a significant strength in today\u2019s football, where things constantly change. For me, they are also contenders. Then there are these teams at the top, and in this case also in the Champions League, in European competitions like Betis. All those teams are strong, and we\u2019ll see tomorrow how strong Betis and the Basque teams are; they\u2019re all very tough. For me, this is not an easy league at all. You can have some results that might give you the idea it\u2019s easy, like us scoring four against M\u00e1laga or Barcelona scoring five against Elche, but there\u2019s pressure here that doesn\u2019t exist in other leagues\u2014the pressure to always win. In some leagues, champions don\u2019t have to win every time. Champions in France or Germany, for example, have the comfort of knowing they will be champions. Here, it\u2019s tough. Here, there\u2019s this pressure week after week, where any result other than a win is not good. And this pressure weighs heavily on teams playing in a league with these characteristics.\u201d
\nRelationship with Pellegrini
\u201cI never reproach anything because we cannot go back in time. This is my philosophy, but obviously, in the past, and such a long past in football, there are moments, words, things one says or does, and then in the end, you feel bad, you feel you were wrong. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t reproach, but obviously, I\u2019ve had some words, some very stupid comments with him that I\u2019m not proud of. Later, and now surely if he hears me, he will laugh, I paid him back well. The championship he won in the Premier League with Manchester City, I gave it to him. Because two games before the end, if Liverpool had drawn with Chelsea, they would have been champions, but we won, and he became champion. I paid him back well. And then we met a few times, and he showed me something\u2014he showed me what a great gentleman he is. In a friendly match, a Betis-Roma friendly in Rome, due to a referee who deeply loved Betis, we ended up with seven players on the field, and he told his players, \u2018Let\u2019s not crush them,\u2019 and we let the match finish as it was, 3-1. He was a true gentleman because they could have scored eight, but they didn\u2019t. For me, he is a great coach, an example as a coach and as a person. I like him a lot. Tomorrow, I will give him a hug before and after the match.\u201d
\nHave you been able to speak with Xabi Alonso and Arbeloa?
\u201cI haven\u2019t spoken with Xabi Alonso, the last time we talked was when Roma played against Leverkusen. I speak with \u00c1lvaro very often, but it hasn\u2019t been through \u00c1lvaro that I\u2019ve had information, not entirely. It\u2019s an ethical matter because it\u2019s not easy for a former coach to talk about their previous situation, and I never would\u2014because I care about him so much\u2014I would never put him in that situation.\u201d
\nModric\u2019s words about him
\u201cWe wanted him so much, but that Tottenham under Daniel Levy was, if not impossible, almost impossible to negotiate with, and I have memories that make me laugh. He was in preseason in the United States with Tottenham, and Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel S\u00e1nchez would tell me: \u2018He\u2019s arriving at the airport to board the plane.\u2019 Five minutes later, he\u2019d say: \u2018No, we no longer have an agreement; he\u2019s returning to Tottenham\u2019s training camp hotel.\u2019 The next day, Mister, today yes, he\u2019s arriving at the airport. Ten minutes later, Mister, we don\u2019t have an agreement because Daniel Levy has changed the deal, and Real Madrid was almost saying, \u2018It\u2019s impossible.\u2019 But he was a player I wanted, he was a player I wanted. We had Xabi, Khedira, and \u00d6zil as our base, and Luka was a player I thought could help us take a step forward because he could play as a 10, as an 8, or as a 6. We stayed with these four high-level players in midfield, and I thought he was the right player. You all killed me for a few months. You chose Luka as the worst signing in Real Madrid\u2019s history, but then Luka shut everyone up. And there\u2019s the story.\u201d <\/p>\n
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