Eduardo Coudet did not want to pronounce on the conviction of Santi Mina: “I think the club has already spoken and I prefer not to talk about such a sensitive issue. I don’t want to talk about it. I’m not the one.”
Make a first balance of the season: “Numbers are always made at the end but the team has an identity, an idea. We have ratified many things on the football side. It’s not me saying it, the rival coaches say it. It’s what we have to maintain from here to the end. A football idea.
The absence of Santi Mina for the future leaves him with few options in attack: “You always try to get the best out of all the players. We are reduced. When we have difficulties, we have to adapt. We have to try to adapt in the best way and find ways to find solutions. The shortest squad in Europe, as you said, and without reinforcements in winter, it was more than evident that we were going to have difficulties”.
Now he only thinks about the match against Alavés: “We are going to look for mathematical salvation and the team has done it in a different way. It has not been easy to get there this way. The players have had to work a lot”.
And he wants them to give his players a joy, after a bad season at home: “I have spoken with the players. Above all because we did not play a good game against Getafe at home. We want to turn it around in front of our fans. Effectiveness is what left us in the position we are in. We have to sustain a lot of good things and for the next season to improve”.
Against Alavés, he expects a difficult match: “I think it will be a tough game and if it goes on too long, something similar to what happened in Granada could end up happening. It’s obvious that the only thing they can do is win and they’re going to hang on to it”.
On the future of Denis Suárez and his problems with the club, Coudet said: “There was a Denis when I had to arrive and what makes me happy is that now he is more complete. He is a boy who loves the club. And the club has never objected to me of any kind with him. Later, they will solve it “.
