Mattos said that Athletico looked for coaches
Alexandre MattosBusiness CEO of Athleticocited the club’s management model to defend the coach’s permanence Wesley Carvalho and the board of fans’ criticisms of the team’s campaign in the Brasileirão.
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This Saturday (4), Furacão lost the second match in a row, against Palmeiras, and saw the Libertadores chances decrease.
“Do you really think we didn’t look for coaches? That we didn’t call the [Gabriel] Military and [Fernando] Stuttering? They ask for 12, 15 times more than what our coaches earn. They ask for six, seven assistants. This is not Athletico’s profile”, he said.
In the director’s view, the red-black fans’ criticism of the interim coach is unfair. For him, fans need to understand the club’s reality, that it will not be ‘irresponsible’ financially and that it needs SAF, with an outside investor, to make major signings.
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“Expectations are making it seem like this result is bad. Athletico is fighting with big teams, with chances of being in the Libertadores, with several problems and the analysis is always this, which is bad. What would be good then, fighting for the title? It would be amazing. That’s what we want, of course! You just have to understand reality. As the president [Mario Celso Petraglia] I said, we hit the limit [sem investimento]”, he added.
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Alexandre Mattos also pointed out that technicians Fernando Diniz It is Dorival Junior, Libertadores champions with Fluminense (2023) and Flamengo (2022), played at Athletico recently and had their work criticized by the fans.
“The last two Libertadores champions were at Athletico and were execrated there. Petraglia didn’t want to take Diniz away at all, he just became champion. Dorival ditto”, said Mattos, who continued defending the interim.
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“Evaluation is much more complex than results. Let’s understand the problems you had. Coach, you analyze. How does he find solutions? He has been playing without a right-back for a long time. The club made the option [pela venda de Khellven] and the need to make money, we are left without [pela lesão de Madson] and he had to find solutions”, he concluded.
