Quique Sánchez Flores’ time at Sevilla has been short but intense. The Madrid-born coach arrived in the Andalusian city with the difficult task of saving a team that was in a deep institutional crisis and flirting with relegation. Despite achieving the desired salvation based on results, Sevilla’s sporting director decided that Quique would not be on the bench at the Sánchez-Pizjuán next season.
The now former Sevilla coach spoke to ‘El Partidazo de Cope‘ to analyze his short adventure in Nervión. Quique affirms that he is leaving the club satisfied with having achieved the objective: “I am leaving with my duty fulfilled. I am leaving very light, with the feeling that I have taken a lot of weight off my shoulders. The moment I signed for Sevilla I took on an enormous responsibility.”
The coach values the responsibility that a professional has when being at a club as important as Sevilla: “I feel an enormous weight on my shoulders, because I know what Sevilla’s history is like. I have lived in this city. I feel many souls in Sevilla. Many people who saw me on the street or in the hotel, and hugged me or cried. That, even if it’s six months… is a very big responsibility in a very short time. A place with little room for reaction, and in a very impersonal place, because you go to a rescue plan, and a rescue plan denaturalizes everyone,” he acknowledges.
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“Ramos loves Sevilla very much”
Regarding Sergio Ramos, Quique sees ‘El Camero’ further away than close to the Andalusian city: “I’m not sure. He loves Sevilla very much, I think there is a part of his body that asks him to stay, but I think he doesn’t want to be part of a catastrophic scenario. Either he intuits that things will be done very well, or if not… He has to intuit that things are going to go well.”
The coach was asked about the club’s future. Quique explains that Sevilla’s leadership will have to make difficult decisions for the good of the team: “Clubs, when they have a goring like this year’s, in the end it’s a warning. I am convinced that the fate of the directors is very different from what we have experienced this year. And they want to prepare another ideology that has nothing to do with this one. Now, they are subject to some conditions: wage bill… that will lead them to make difficult decisions,” he concluded.
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