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If the humility is a gift, don Gregorio Manzano is a portrait of the humility. Do to take for the holder. The technician jaenés realizes that, despite the big trajectory of Real Majorca this period, a difficult stretch stays ahead. If the value of a history can measure itself for the grade of emotion of a voice, for the conviction of a few words, for the feeling that they detach … one he warns concerning seconds how serious the club vermilion is for Apple tree, the union that the daily struggle has generated, and the illusion that there grant the results, which this time grant him the permission to dream. To dream being a realist. I like seeing when two trainers are greeted and embrace each other before a meeting. Since to speak with Apple tree is like receiving this hug. And speaking about soccer, which is not small.

Another victory more at home and joined to points with the Seville. Does it see the strong group to fight with the Andalusian set for a Champions League position?

– right now we are in a good moment, although it will depend on the rest of the Championship. After the defeat before the Seville the team has recovered and has extracted six points in the last two days; that means that we have got up after this important defeat that we had at home and, therefore, it is necessary to say that yes, that the team is strong.

For Majorca they have still to spend Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Athletic. Will it be possible to keep on speaking about Ono Estadi like a small fort at the end of the period?

– let’s hope to be able to keep on saying that our stadium is the base of our excellent period and classification. These teams always have a level over the rest and it will be difficult, but the local factor till now is coming to us enough good and let’s hope that before these four teams, at least, we could add points and resist those that we have left to ourselves out of house in some days that were propitious to have added up.

True it is that it would not come badly to improve the records to domicile. Does it change the mentality of the team out of house?

– not, mysteriously not, what happens is that there have been circumstances that in any parties us have not been favorable and have prevented us from adding points. Frequently I have repeated it was the alignment of the same team that was winning at home and the circumstances have not happened. In the end also it is necessary to admit that if we should do so much fully out as at home, so we would not be speaking about Majorca, but about Real Madrid or about the Barcelona. The truth is that we have to fit to what we are and to the team that we have, so from this point of view it is necessary to be a realist and to not look for other explanations.

Our stadium is the base of our excellent period, and before the big ones we hope to add up to resist what we leave ourselves out

If we had done so much fully out as at home, we would not be speaking about Majorca; it is necessary to be a realist and to not look for other explanations

How does it see the visit to Getafe of this Saturday?

– since there are always complicated visits. The Getafe takes six days without winning and this does that the teams conspire together to break these negative dynamics that sometimes happen in the Championship. We go in a good moment, and that in the rival, who does not spend it well, it provokes a top force to try to go out of this situation. It will not be a comfortable visit not easily, but we her are going to fight. We were already in Getafe in the party back of Cup, which we manage to gain although it was not sufficient to spend the quarter finals qualifying round, and this experience must serve to us it to think of repeating.

In pre-season, with the debate about the politics of signings of the club, it was difficult to imagine Majorca like that, very much less at this point of the Championship. How does it work so that the players keep on believing in his possibilities?

– our beginning of period was a little difficult; first because the change of property was not carried out till the end of August, and therefore we did not have the team shaped even later enclosed of the first League day against the Xerez, without being able to realize in pre-season either any connection or conjunction of the players of the staff. Then, in the course of the Championship this property that it brought in had to leave for diverse problems and, in these moments, the club is in the creditors’ contest.

The team has overcome all these events with a lot of professionalism, with a big fortitude and with a big union. The players have wanted to demonstrate that, across his work, they are they those who extract the team pass, and they are doing it to thousand marvels. I the only thing for that I have asked them there is this illusion that it is necessary to have every Sunday when a team jumps to the field to win, this necessary union during the whole week so that the group does not collapse and, especially, so that we are an ambitious team inside our possibilities. I am super satisfied and proudly of them, that is true.

With the change of property, we did not have the team shaped up to begun the League; the group has overcome the problems with a lot of professionalism

The only thing for that I have asked them there is the illusion of every Sunday, this union that makes us self-seekers inside our possibilities

Has he surprised any player pleasantly at individual level?

– very well, in particular those who are of last year are known, and the positive thing is well that they keep on doing it. And those who have come, each one has contributed inside the level for that we were waiting. They are players with a few qualities that we believed that they could give to us. In some case we speak about return, like Borja Valero, who already knew the house and it made debut with me it does two periods in the First Division, and his level keeps on being good, enclosed better after his step along the English League. I already had Julio Álvarez in the Racing of Santander years ago; Rubén is a player that we were following for time and finally we manage to bring. Anyway, I believe that all the players are fulfilling the expectations that we deposit in them before bringing them and are very proud of all; of those who have come and of those who were already the past period.

They support another struggle with the Sports one and the Athletic of Bilbao: would he sign to finish fifthly or sixth, or on having been there above, the ambition is different?

– we have gone so far as to overcome the punctuation that mathematically to today, according to the last years, gives the permanence, which was the principal target, a realistic target. Since now this week we have to prepare our head to support this classification that we have. We take from the day 1 up to 25 in European positions, it means that we have supported a regularity more than notable; now well, if we continue this regularity in the last third of the Championship to dream of a square of ‘Champions‘ would be possible, although only if some of the teams that are in this area, be called Valencia or Seville, they were failing and lose little force for being in European competitions. If in the end we obtain an European square, already of UEFA it would be a happiness for all, and if in the end out of ‘Champions‘ it would be the biggest achievement obtained by a team with so scarce means along a championship as difficult as Spanish.

Villarreal and Athletic are they too much far from this battle, truth?

– they are relatively far, but there are two teams capable of chaining three, four, five consecutive victories and of getting hooked up quickly by the head positions. With the Villarreal we have ‘goal average’ gather and the Athletic one of Madrid is our next visit here at home. I do not discard them so that they could fight for these European positions, although relatively they are distant, because into one league of three points in three Sundays it can change everything.

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