Espanyol meets with Quique Sánchez Flores

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  • The parakeet team visits a Getafe run by the Madrid coach, Chen Yansheng’s first big bet.

  • He arrived in 2016 and was fired in April 2018 with the team fifth down the tail and a hurt locker room.

Quique Sánchez Flores (Madrid, 56 years old) he crossed paths again this Sunday on the Espanyol path. The former blue and white coach directs a Getafe who replaced Míchel with another director with a merengue past. It will be a fight against the past, one afternoon before a coach who had a volcanic outlet of the perico club on April 20, 2018.

That Friday evening events rushed forward. The team had completed a new ridiculous 48 hours earlier against the Eibar (0-1) now Chen Yansheng patience ran out. That technician who dazzled him in 2016 ahead of his own Michel and of Paco Jemez I already had the credit exhausted.

Unkept promises

Quique was chosen by the Chinese businessman to pilot a dream: to play the Champions within three years. The project excited the coach and the team competed at a good level in its first season, which ended eighth, with reinforcements like Diego López, David López, Jurado, Álvaro Vázquez and Baptistao.

Everything went wrong in the second grade. It is true that promises were not fulfilled and the squad was not reinforced as Quique wanted, but his attitude to the adversity it was not the most appropriate either. Anchored in a repetitive and tiresome speech, with constant allusions to the frustration, anxiety and disappointment, he was unable to lift a block that was fifth in line with a point in the last 15 before being fired together with the sports director Jordi Lardín.

“Maybe we don’t give for more”

His statements after falling in Getafe days before his departure felt like thunder in the locker room. That “Maybe we don’t give for more”, similar to the “is what there is” that sentenced Koeman recently, it was the beginning of the end. Five days later, the leadership fired Quique and gave the witness to David gallego, then in the end, which closed the season with a very good note.

“Espanyol is a team that I have inside. I have people, not just players, who have been close to me. They were two very important years”

Quique Sánchez Flores / Getafe Coach

It is true that permanence was not in danger, but the wear and tear was already unbearable. The decision may have been late. In January, Quique was about to go to the Stoke City. By then, he proclaimed his commitment to the club, but only had two victories in the next 15 games.

Once his contract was liquidated, it was time to charge harshly against the club for “a project ghost“That he did not correspond with what he was promised, but no one would end up missing him. Among his best decisions stands out the debut of homegrown players as Marc Roca, Melendo or Aaron Martin, although he also let escape Joan Jordan, which now triumphs at Sevilla.

“Big heart”

“Espanyol is a team that I have inside. I have people, not just players, who have been close to me. They were two very important years,” Quique said this Saturday. The Shanghai Shenhua of China and the Watford, in which he had already been in the 2015-16 season, were his next experiences.

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Now try to lift the bottom of the league. “Need a big heart and a hungry mentality to beat Espanyol. The dynamics They only change with victories. What justifies the training are the triumphs because one trains to compete and to win & rdquor ;, added the technician in one of his classic reflections.



Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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