Marcelo Gallardo keeps his guard up to River: he points out but also looks sideways at those inside

Although this time he did not resort to that phrase which has already gone down in history and which is a symbol of its management, Marcello Gallardo raised his fists again. The River manager made it clear that he still has – or still has – the high guard. This was shown at the press conference held this Tuesday at noon at Ezeiza’s RiverCamp, prior to the presentation of the three reinforcements who recently arrived at the Núñez club. Did you target strangers and even insiders?

“We are far from thinking that it is all over or that by failing to reach that goal, people start speculating with other things or false comments about extra-football ideas. There is no crisis here and they will not find it. My tenure has been built over many years and does not depend on the bad results we have had. We have built something more solid “The River manager attacked at the start of a press conference that had generated much anticipation in the previous one after Gallardo left the field of Vélez without speaking after his team’s equalizer, which had also happened after the defeats with Hurricane and Godoy Cruz, all for the Professional League.

Referring to these issues, the Doll went to the crossroads against the journalistic versions on a proposal of the referees on the levels of request from the coach and on the ways of addressing the players in matches when things do not go as they hoped. And he replied: “The River fan does not let himself be carried away by internal or external issues. When they want to make believe that something comes from within. I don’t waste time with rumors. There is nothing in question here. And we have to push ourselves to improve. Imagine if Maidana, Pinola, Enzo Pérez, Casco, if they did not accept to be requested, they would clearly look for other comforts, other places to be more relaxed ”.

And before the end he talked about those who “don’t want his tenure,” which he didn’t personify. “It must be a lot of people,” he said, with a sly laugh and quickly added, “I have nothing against that, but I sit here to tell you that no matter how hard you try to destabilize me, it won’t happen because I’ll be here until ‘last day of my contract “.

Who or who is trying to destabilize Gallardo? Was the message only external? external “enemies” (like when you went to Maurizio Macriformer President of the Nation; Daniele Angeli, former president of Boca and vice president of the AFA; Y Claudio Tapia, boss of the AFA, in January 2018, giving rise to the sentence of the high guard) were more clear. One area of ​​journalism was not the only one targeted. Also, the referees. He said of them: “Some punctual things surprise me. There are cameras and tools. Therefore, they have to be far less wrong. I understand that they bragged about a lot of training, but they are failing, and not just against us. Everyone has suffered “.

And from the intersection with Nicola Lamolinawhich earned him expulsion, he said: “I regret it, but it wasn’t that bad either. It would have been worse if she had said something louder. Who didn’t say idiot or asshole once. I am capricious. And sometimes I have these answers that don’t make me proud and don’t define me as I am and sometimes I’m wrong “.

Gallardo also returned – incessantly – to question the Argentine football organization on the calendar, which made him have five fewer players who left their national teams at the start of the tournament. And the leaders of the other clubs were marked by the court. He came to the defense of his colleagues by proposing it “When a manager is fired, the person responsible for choosing that manager should leave as well.”. He said it to mark that important moment in building a team, which he got at River because he won from the start, although he also stressed that “there was a conviction”.

Gallardo repeated that word more than once. “Conviction is easy to go along with when you win, but when you lose it fades. And when that happens, everyone stops believing it. And what was good yesterday is not so good today and we all change. Could it have been a message to the leaders themselves, which you may have seen dubious in recent months? He remembers that, with just ten parties under his leadership, Rodolfo D’Onofrio proposed him to renew until the end of his first term.