The situation of Gabri Veiga, the pearl of Celta’s youth academy and a fashionable player in LaLiga, was the focus yesterday for a large part of the working breakfast that President Carlos Mouriño held with the media to review the current situation of the club five months after the celebration of his hundred years of life. The leader summed up the state of things bluntly: “We do not want to sell under any circumstances, but they are going to buy it from us and we can do absolutely nothing.” Mouriño explained that Celta’s hands are tied. and it will be the footballer who decides his future among the numerous suitors and succulent economic proposals that he already has on the table. “We know of some offers and we know that we cannot pay what other teams pay him. We cannot raise false expectations, ”he explained. “It depends on him, but what they are offering him is irresistible,” he predicted.
The celestial president placed special emphasis on ensuring that the player will only leave after paying his release clause (40 million euros since his contract was modified to sign him with the first team). At that time, Celta unsuccessfully tried the possibility of extending his clause. “We made use of a clause that we had [de pasar la ficha del filial al primer equipo y subir la cláusula de 20 a 40 millones] And at that time we asked if there was a way to make some kind of improvement, but it is complicated because the salary is linked to the clause and with the offers it has, it is impossible ”, he pointed out. Mouriño added that the offer they could make him would be “disparage the player” and specified that it would not “be good for Celta and Celticism”.
Mouriño reported that the negotiations for its renewal were carried out by the club directly with its representatives. “The players delegate their representatives and it is difficult for a player to deal directly with the club. Whenever we do something, we do it jointly and the contracts are signed by two people”, he explained. “The hatching [de Veiga] It was so fast that neither he had time to assimilate it nor to think that this possibility of renewal could be real”. Mouriño defended the “Celticism” of the young talent from Porriño and was proud that he is an exponent of the success of the sky-blue quarry that will always “have the doors open to return.”
When it came to having specific suitors, Mouriño was cautious. The president stated that he is not aware of any offer from Newcastle and revealed that Real Madrid, with which the player is also related, has not contacted Celta. He did confirm, without giving names, that he was aware of interest in at least four of the top ten classified in the Premier League. “We would be misleading if we said that we see possibilities for him to stay. I have been an employee and I have looked for my opportunities. When they have offered me something better if it suited me I have left. We cannot criticize the boy who does the same as we do, it is logical, ”he concluded.
They are going to decide their future”, he settled, although he confirmed that “there was a concern” from the captain to leave, but the club considered that “it was not the time to talk about it.” Mouriño acknowledged that he would be “saddened by the departure of a youth player like him”, but clarified that Mallo “has every right to decide his future”. The celestial president explained on the other hand, that Celta has not yet started planning for the next season. Luis Campos and Carvalhal will meet to evaluate and agree on the needs of the campus and present them to the board. The exits will be decided (although some may not materialize) before the entrances.
“Sweet and beautiful” moment
Carlos Mouriño celebrated the great moment that Celta is experiencing both in the recognition it has received from abroad and in a sporting manner, which the leader attributed to a large extent to the quality of the squad designed by Luis Campos and the good work carried out by Carlos Carvalhal, with the one who said he was “very happy”. “We are in a very sweet, very beautiful moment. We don’t want to dream, but we have the possibility to do it. When we take risks, things can go well or badly, but we keep trying to improve. The inclusion of a person like Campos in our management team is yielding good results”, he highlighted. “We have a solid Celta. The team has changed its mentality. He is no longer afraid. Now we have players and we have a team, there is an ambition to take a little more leap and place ourselves somewhere ”, he pointed out.
Celtic Fortuna is born
The Celtic president announced that the club has formalized the procedures for Celta B to be renamed Celta Fortuna in homage to the team that gave rise to the current club a century ago. Mouriño guaranteed that he will be in the Riazor box on Sunday while he celebrated the good health of the lower categories, which have contributed 36 players to national categories. “The effort we have made for the quarry is obvious,” he said. The leader, in fact, finds it “impossible to speak ill” of the work that is being done in the lower categories starting with “the game, the determination and the results” of the subsidiary with a “usable litter” for the first team, the good Juvenil march, aiming for the title, and Celta C Gran Peña, “in the fight to enter the play-off”.
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Carlos Mouriño was “tremendously satisfied” with the progress of the club’s star project in Mos. “All the permits are on time and we have many operators who want to join the project. We are about to sign with the best in the world”, stressed Mouriño. “That dream came together to make it real and that it will put us at the level of the best that there can be in Europe and to satisfy the demands of the fans regarding the club,” added the leader, who especially values the implications that the project will affect the economic health of Celta. “It will help us to continue competing with the teams in our category,” he explained.
Miguel, close to renovating
Carlos Mouriño revealed that he sees the renewal of Miguel Rodríguez, one of Celta’s emerging pearls, whose current contract expires in June of next year, “very close”. “The bases of the agreement are established,” announced the president who took it for granted that there will be no problem in arranging the contract extension of the striker from Redondo
The Celta president expressed his joy at the return of Iago Aspas to the Spanish team. “He is our banner and he will remain so for many years. It will take a long time for him to emerge a player like him, with his crucial goals and his harmony with the fans. The selection is the award it deserves, there is no discussion there, ”he observed.
‘The Negreira Case’
Regarding the case of corruption that affects Barcelona, the Celtic president was in favor of “investigating it to the end, with all the consequences, whatever happens”, but he personally believes that “there will be no sporting consequences unless a relationship is proven between accounts and payment.
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