Castro speaking at the Marca Sport Weekend
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CASTRO: "WE ARE NOW MORE POWERFUL ECONOMICALLY AND OUR MODEL WILL NOT CHANGE"

14/11/2021
The president was in attendance on Sunday on the final day of the Marca Sport Weekend celebrated in Seville

The president José Castro took part together with the general business director, Jorge Paradela, in the last day of the Marca Sport Weekend which took place in the Andalusian capital over three days. He was questioned about various topics, highlighting the fight for La Liga, about which he said "The budgets say that we can't fight for La Liga. We want to be close, this year there are some big teams that are faltering and there is different competition. It is not the Real Madrid of the last two years and Barcelona are in a year of transition. Our goal is to return to the Champions League. If there are possibilities to go higher of course we want the title." Also, he insisted that "We are going to go for all that we can and are capable of." 

 

Also, he referred to the competitiveness of the league. "I hope for different champions and I hope that this is here to stay. When the television income is distributed in a different way, although the two big clubs are still ahead, now it is a question of management. Whoever manages their income better will achieve the best sporting achievements and if we are skilled from a sporting perspective, we will be high up. It would be extraordinary if the competitiveness would be like this for years, like in England where six teams can win the Premier League. He also spoke about the good work of Sevilla in terms of the transfer market. "We spent three years selling almost nobody. We had a 50 million euro offer for Koundé. Tell me another club that wouldn't have sold at this price. Now we are more powerfully economic and our model will not change. It is clear that we are doing it right. The results don't fool anybody"

"It is clear that we are doing it right. The results don't fool anybody.".

Castro has spent 26 years managing Sevilla from the board of directors. He knows where the club has come from and he knows what the route is to fight for the La Liga title so that it is not a flash in the pan. The key way is demanding everything from the employees, starting with the players. "I am very clear when I sign a player, I grab their arm and I tell them that this is for everybody. We are going to love you a lot and we are going to demand a lot more. Telling a player where he is and that we are really ambitious" he said. He told an anecdote about one of these players who he squeezed on the first day. "I grabbed Krychowiak's arm. A big and strong player and he said to me 'president you are hurting me.' I do the same with the director of marketing. With everybody." 

To finish he talked about the Sánchez-Pizjuán. "We have a stadium that we are adapting to create new sources of income. A lot has been invested in the stadium. It is more than 60 years old and we will continue adapting it to the present. We are going to do a study to see what we are interested in doing, creating a third tier or something bigger. Growing like we are, the possibility of a new stadium is something very real."