Alan
…unlucky Del - No chance 😉
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Did my best to transcribe a bit. All "quotes" are Julen.
"We need players of course. In May... we start talking about the financial problems. I came here with an idea... that we were able to save the team. I had the idea that we had a better project... to increase our performance. Unfortunately, this situation was bad news for me, of course. [We had a Plan B] but it's true that in this moment, we cannot act on this plan, too. We need players to balance the squad."
"We have to remember that we were in the bottom. We believed, we worked very hard. We achieved our aim. This was a wake up for all of us. Unfortunately, we have this situation. I am not a financial, of course, I am a coach. But I know that we need to improve this situation."
"I am not a financial advisor. This happens in May, and of course, you told of the issue. My responsibility is on the pitch, and finances are off the pitch."
"Always you will face difficulties. We had a plan, but in this moment we cannot do it, because we don't have new players."
"I repeat. I am only a coach. I ask myself, what can I do? And the answer is, work very hard, and ask this of the players. We have suffered a lot to achieve our aim [avoiding relegation]. We need to understand the level of the Premier League. Of course, as a coach, I would like more options. To incite competition, this is also good for the players."
Editor's note: EVEN BALLAGUE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE THE 'Z' IN JIMENEZ
"I want to highlight the demand of the Premier League, and what we must do to stay in it."
"I would like the players here to stay here. Of course, we need players!" (seemed a bit of snark here)
"[Hobbs and the recruitment team] have worked very very hard on this Plan B, but unfortunately we cannot do it right now. So what can we do? To fight, to work, to give the best of our energy."
"We are going to do our best, despite the situation we have in this moment. But we must understand the level of talent in the league at this level, so if we want to compete, we must maintain at this level."
*shout outs to Julen clearly forgetting the name "Molineux"*
"If you ask me yesterday about Raúl, I say he will stay here. Today he leaves, so, I don't know."
Stopping now. Ballague comes off as way overeager to make this an adversarial thing between Julen and the club. I mean he's literally just said "the players aren't stupid, they see what's going on". Like, jeez, man. Credit to Loppers, he's not biting at all. Lots of PR-speak but he's not throwing his mate a bone here.
"We need players of course. In May... we start talking about the financial problems. I came here with an idea... that we were able to save the team. I had the idea that we had a better project... to increase our performance. Unfortunately, this situation was bad news for me, of course. [We had a Plan B] but it's true that in this moment, we cannot act on this plan, too. We need players to balance the squad."
"We have to remember that we were in the bottom. We believed, we worked very hard. We achieved our aim. This was a wake up for all of us. Unfortunately, we have this situation. I am not a financial, of course, I am a coach. But I know that we need to improve this situation."
"I am not a financial advisor. This happens in May, and of course, you told of the issue. My responsibility is on the pitch, and finances are off the pitch."
"Always you will face difficulties. We had a plan, but in this moment we cannot do it, because we don't have new players."
"I repeat. I am only a coach. I ask myself, what can I do? And the answer is, work very hard, and ask this of the players. We have suffered a lot to achieve our aim [avoiding relegation]. We need to understand the level of the Premier League. Of course, as a coach, I would like more options. To incite competition, this is also good for the players."
Editor's note: EVEN BALLAGUE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE THE 'Z' IN JIMENEZ
"I want to highlight the demand of the Premier League, and what we must do to stay in it."
"I would like the players here to stay here. Of course, we need players!" (seemed a bit of snark here)
"[Hobbs and the recruitment team] have worked very very hard on this Plan B, but unfortunately we cannot do it right now. So what can we do? To fight, to work, to give the best of our energy."
"We are going to do our best, despite the situation we have in this moment. But we must understand the level of talent in the league at this level, so if we want to compete, we must maintain at this level."
*shout outs to Julen clearly forgetting the name "Molineux"*
"If you ask me yesterday about Raúl, I say he will stay here. Today he leaves, so, I don't know."
Stopping now. Ballague comes off as way overeager to make this an adversarial thing between Julen and the club. I mean he's literally just said "the players aren't stupid, they see what's going on". Like, jeez, man. Credit to Loppers, he's not biting at all. Lots of PR-speak but he's not throwing his mate a bone here.
