Man behøver ikke være enig med Marcelo i hans konklusjoner, men man må bli imponert i måten han svarer på spørsmål på på pressekonferanser.
Husk at mht hvor forståelig det er, en ting er at Marcelos ord skal gjennom en tolk, i tillegg er det en journalist som sikkert sliter med å få skrevet fort nok...
Other managers would not have stood by Casilla - why are you backing him?
I don’t support Kiko, I support the team. If supporting Kiko is supporting the team, I support Kiko. If I support Kiko, but damage the team, I will not support Kiko. When one manager takes a decision on an important position he analyses a lot of situations. It’s not just about if we have one player in his position who can play there instead. Leeds have one player - Meslier. Honestly, a long time, I didn’t say one young player like him with his level of resources. You also verified this against Arsenal. It’s not just knowing we have a player in good condition like Meslier which make you take the decision to switch them. That’s important.
I want to add I do not ignore Kiko’s mistakes. They are evident. Also, it’s true the consequence of his mistakes are linked with our results, but I give importance to Kiko, in the same matches, and previous, kept confidence in himself. He continues giving the right answers in every situation in the game. Other goalkeepers, when they fail aerially, in the next situation they are between the posts. Other keepers when they give a good pass, after they start to play long. Other keepers when they make mistakes, they lose the confidence of his team-mates. After you have team-mates, when they realise he made mistakes, they don’t give him the ball anymore. Kiko keep the confidence in himself, he keep the confidence of his team-mates. He lost the confidence expressed in the press and media. Something we know. The opinion in the press, we know who writes. That point is professional who is giving this opinion. That is ready and prepared to give an opinion. After you have other media, like Twitter for example, which doesn’t tell you who writes this. We know who writes, but we don’t know if they are prepared to give an opinion. It’s natural any person can given an opinion and this is good. All the opinions, we can listen and evaluate, but we can listen to all this, but not evaluate because we analyse the quality of the people who write. It’s not the same of one professional opinion with others. Another dimension, but in these times we live in, the only fact one opinion is published and the only fact a lot of people have the same thoughts, that makes this opinion, that has an impact, we should consider this peculiarity in this time right now. Always the opinion has value. If it was support for information. You know the opinion of a professional who researches is more important than a professional who does not research. Everybody can give an opinion, but we have to give the right value to one opinion or another opinion.
In this moment, with bad results, I try to make a difference between explanation, justification and excuses. Three different ways of describing reality. I have 10 informations. Ten comparative informations that are very important. Everybody can access this information. Of course, we are more forced to acquire this information because we are paid to work in this. This information describes the last match of Leeds in one very clear way. Obviously, I don’t want to take away giving you information or transmit analysis or transmit information or research about our job. Football is a game we can analyse, interpret it. Analyse football doesn’t become football when science is not accessible. Everybody in the world talks about football, the first thing they talk about. Could be convenient to add the analysis in football.
Importance of Kiko playing with confidence and ambitiously?
Imagine I have already explained this question and taken five minutes and we know I took 25 minutes on Augustin. If I answer your question, after we are going to be impressed I talked twice about something I already said. Know that you are asking the same question. I understand, maybe you want the question in a different way and I will briefly add another thing.
I have to respect the team is above everything. Sometimes, when you support one player of our family, ‘family’. Even though we do everything to look like that, we are not a family. Sometimes support someone who is weak is big for the other players, ‘family’. Like a reassurance when the rest of the players have a bad moments. There are a lot of opinions around our team, we need to psychological support. I think the opposite. I don’t ignore psychology. I use it to find solutions. Talking with professionals, but not doing the job of them. What I say is someone in the bad moment, we need to block this unsafe feeling, give him confidence in this moment. The attitude people have with components of the team is real for the rest of the team. When one or two siblings make a mistake, the sibling who doesn’t make a mistake has two possibilities or because he feels fear he doesn’t make the same mistake as his brother or he improves his own resources because he knows the parents support his brother, he knows if he makes a mistake he gets the support of his parent. First solution is not face the problem, second is acquire a confidence. Two you have to be in a good position to solve this problem. That is linked with individuals and groups. I tell you that know which are the conclusions you talk about. When you explain one situation a lot the people who listen to this, take it two ways. They reject who explains it. In my country I am very rejected. Every time I explain something everybody talks about this, saying it is like I am selling a product. For this reason, I feel ashamed trying to explain what I think because what i explain is only going to be useful to confirm I am selling a product. There is only way to avoid this, win every match, but I don’t win every match. I know in Argentina, in the world as well, you receive support only if you win and as almost every manager is a loser, they feel alone.