Where you least expected, in Vallecasa place loved by Míchel and where Míchel is idolized, the fight broke out this Sunday. It happened after Rayo’s victory against Girona (2-1), when the coach of the Catalan team launched a unexpected verbal barrage against Raúl Martín Presa, president of the Madrid entity, whom he clearly and directly accused of ordering the Rayistas players to waste time to try to keep the score in their favor.
«I already know that these wastes of time are not something Inigo Perez (Rayo coach), it is on the part of the board, which marks these situations a little, which is very ugly, because Rayo is a team that plays with horrible values and there are things that turn out very badly —Míchel declared in DAZN—. It bothers me because I think the players and the coaching staff they have are amazing and they play football. Not everything goes, right? Not everything goes. They play football and they do things very well, they press very well, they play forward and for me, for the show, it is a pleasure to see Rayo.
Later, at the press conference before all the media, he concluded his serious accusation with a still categorical phrase: “I know (that the board orders to waste time) because they did it to me too.”
The Rayo coach seemed to corroborate Míchel’s words when he was asked about the loss of time: “It’s something that I don’t feel comfortable with. It is also true that for the coach it is something uncontrollable, but I agree with him that this scenario of stopping, noise, one more minute… I don’t feel comfortable».
Shortly after, several radio stations caught Martín Presa, president of Rayo, in the stadium parking lot, getting in his car and about to leave the field. He did not want to make statements explicitly, but he did say several juicy phrases to the journalists who asked him.
Raúl Martín Presa has refused to make public statements about Míchel’s words and the waste of time
He asked sardonically if the answer was in Catalan or Spanish@RadioMARCA pic.twitter.com/01b6Azj2xs
— Pablo Villa (@pvilla98) January 26, 2025
«I am not the protagonist of anything. I haven’t played, I hope. The protagonists are the players who have played a great game. It didn’t seem to me that Batalla (Rayo’s goalkeeper) lost time, I’ve only seen his goalkeeper waste time. I have nothing to talk about Míchel… Did he say it in Catalan or in Spanish? », the top leader of Rayo Vallecano responded ironically.
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