Quique Setien He is causing a lot of talk after attacking Dani Parejo and Raúl Albiol, who according to the coach said “atrocious things” in the trial between Villarreal and the coach for his dismissal. It is well known that the Cantabrian’s relationship with the locker room was not good, in fact it was one of the causes of his dismissal a few months after taking the reins of the yellow team.
And Dani Parejo himself, in an interview he gave to Radio Marca When Quique Setién was still his coach at Villarreal, he threw several darts that are better understood today. Regarding Unai Emery’s departure, he said this: «The change was a bit difficult. A drastic change. Realistically, situations like this happen because things don’t work. In this case he was the complete opposite. The coach decided to leave because he wanted to grow as a coach in another football, in another league, other customs… The club decided for him to come Quique Setién and at first it is difficult. They see football differently, they want you to behave differently on the field. Until you get used to it, you understand what the coach wants and the coach really knows you on a day-to-day basis and the coach already knows a little bit, everything is complicated. In that sense, the World Cup break was very good for us!
Even on Setién
And he delved into the relationship with Setién: «We had many games, we played on a Thursday and Unai’s departure was on a Tuesday. Quique arrived, the first day he greeted us all and told us a little about what he wanted, his way of understanding the game. He told us that we had little time to work on so many things that he wanted about how he wants his teams to play and that we had to do a lot on our part. It is true that he is aware that he arrived in a complicated situation, that we played every three days and in the end you cannot train tactical and game aspects having played games so close together with so little recovery time. It was a very complex situation for us.
«I think Setién understands the game the way he understands it, who wants to play his game because maybe he doesn’t understand another type of game or doesn’t know how to explain another type of game to us. At first it was hard, but in the end the results are what matter. If Quique arrives and we win 2-0, then at home to Mallorca, then in Bilbao and you are up there, the perspective is different. As he has explained, he understands us. What we were wearing four years doing things differently and the result has been good, “Well, changing this and the fact that at the beginning the results have not been the desired ones, creates doubts at a collective and individual level,” added Parejo, who according to Setién said at the trial that «they had had a disastrous preseason and that we were not training”, something that Albiol also commented to defend Villarreal’s position, which intends that the dismissal of the coach be appropriate to avoid paying the settlement.
