Quique Setién has addressed the media today at Luis del Sol Training Centre. The gaffer has analysed the upcoming game against RC Deportivo.

Arrival of Seedorf to RC Deportivo: “We have many doubts, as I guess everyone has, even the new coach. He needs to know his players in a short time and propose a way of playing. We expect new things or surprises compared to what Deportivo has done in the last months. What is not going to change is the players they have, whom we all know well. Maybe this situation can affect them. They were expecting more from the team and now they are in a situation with several manager changes, and that’s not easy for the players. We’ll see. What we expect is game in which they are going to give their best. Every time a new manager arrives, there’s a change in the motivation, the will to do things, to please the new manager. There’s a stimulation, but we shouldn’t get affected by that. We perfectly know what we have to do. Let’s see if we can take advantage of their moment of weakness to get a victory and keep adding points. What I’m really worried about is for Seedorf to get a shirt and play. I’d be really concerned if that happened because we all knew him as a player. He was a footballer, and I guess that he still has it in him. He was amazing.”

A game to take a leap in the table: “Of course. Today is the same like it was when we went to other stadiums with the same excitement and motivation we have now. We have prepared this game well, we’ve worked hard, trying to control all we can. We still have one training left tomorrow. We know what is at stake. I don’t want anybody to think that we are going to there to spend the day or, like I heard, that we have no ambition. I think it’s ridiculous that some say we have no ambition. There’ no one who is more ambitions than the players or myself. After 20 years as a professional, it’s an asset you acquire, even from birth, so imagine after 20 years playing every other Sunday. We are perfectly conscious. We want it because we see it there. Everything that happens before is just words. The reality is what happens later on the pitch. They also play. We’ll have a team in front with their own motivation, they want to win. They are in a difficult situation. Their future depends on this game. They are going to go with everything. I know it, and so do we. Then, football is 11 against 11 and you have to prove that you are better.”

Feddal: “I spoke to him and sent him a message. These situations need to be accepted, there’s no other way. You have to be mentally really strong because there are all words now. The hard part comes when you have to start working in the gym, hours with the physios, the pain. You overcome that. It’s time, a lot of time. He knows what football is. He said it, I love the sentence he said. It’s much harder to play in Segunda B and not get paid or not having anything to eat. That’s much harder than this. He is smart enough to overcome this, and we’d all love to have the spirit he has.”

Loren Morón: “Loren has taken a step to know that he has the conditions to become a good footballer. What he did the other day is just a circumstance, that goes no further than scoring two goals, just that, in game. He has done it many times in different division. Everybody is surprised, at a national level, that a 24-year-old player suddenly shows up and scored two goals. This is just the start. The main thing is not to arrive, but to stay and have the ability to be consistent, to focus on what he needs to focus on. As long as his head works as it should, he’ll continue to take steps forward. Sometimes small steps, sometimes bigger ones. Loren has not done anything yet. He needs to show many things to prove that he can be a top division player. He has to prove it every day. It’s useless to show it one day or two, it’s about consistency. He has heard me say that I want a player for 38 games and 90 minutes every game. I don’t care about six minutes in two plays or two goals if there’s nothing behind it.”

Possible signings to replace Feddal: “The market is very limited. They have to be unemployed players or players playing in Spain. We don’t have many options. We need a team that would make it easy to release a player who is not playing.”