Julen Lopetegui`s farewell to Real Madrid was accompanied by an official communique from the club, containing a not-so-classive paragraph with a real slap across the face;an incoherent covert accusation of a dismissed coach that he is unable to pull out the best of a team considered by the leadership to be still top-level. The President Florentino Perez and the others from his administration refrained from pointing Lopetegui`s failure and the fact that the cup of patience had overflowed.
The hard paragraph speaks of the disproportion between the quality of the players, eight of which nominated for the Golden Ball - an unprecedented case in the history of the club, and the results obtained. The motives for Los Merence`s leadership to allow this so controversial note are not just related to the bad results and other circumstances from the poor management of the team to the great number of injuries, and with the failure to terminate the contract.
Negotiations on monet ary compensation for Julen Lopetegui, who had more than two and a half years of contract work at a net 6 million euro annual salary, proved to be difficult because of the difference in the interpretation of the corresponding amount during the period worked. Lopetegi was in office for four months, and the management considered it disproportionate to pay the entire amount due until the end of the contract. Naturally, this opinion faced the coach, who is of the opinion that the signed contracts are to be fulfilled, and the motive for the termination is dismissal, not mutual consent. (Wednesday`s news that the penalty is clear and will correspond to the mentor`s six-month pay is rather hasty. )
So to the rage of the leaders after Camp Nou`s mass on Sunday and the squabbling image of the pitch, the rage after falling to 9th in La Liga and the complications of the negotiations with the candidates for taking the coaching position added the problemwith Lopetegui`s default. This is precisely what caused the penalization of the gross communique and could explain the humiliating paragraph of Lopetegui. In order to solve the situation, EUR 18 million must be repaid and, according to the reading between the lines in the communique, the separation is due to bad work -something which, in the case of bringing things to court, may also be in favor of the club.
Time was pressing Real Madrid, and there was no choice but to close the Lopeteguipage and to be appointed Santiago Solari as a temporary senior coach. The former mentor of the 'whites' waited for the dismissal to become official and the communique to come out, then to follow the reactions before returning with a statement in which he conceded diplomatically with gratitude to Real Madrid for the opportunity and the players and the employees for hisin this short time support period. There were 14 official games with a balance of 6 wins, 6 losses and 2 draws and a goal difference of 21:20. Ther e was also a lost trophy - The Super Cup of Europe, which in the club predicted by soccer livescore is considered a sufficient argument in the thesis of the professional`s bad work and respectively the irregularity of paying the full penalty of 18 million euros.
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