Jurgen Klopp is the one chosen by Raul as coach of Real Madrid in case Enrique Riquelme will win this Sunday’s elections. The news turned all the sports newsrooms and all the football talk shows yesterday afternoon. Through a statement, Enrique Riquelme’s candidacy explained that, if he won the elections, the sports director of the project, Raúl González Blanco, would contact the prestigious German coach on Monday the 8th “to personally explain the sports project to him and show him the willingness for him to lead it from the bench.”
The wording of the statement, which was also published in English, was scrupulously measured and agreed upon by both parties. Klopp’s agent, Marc Kosickevalidated the text in writing. The main concern shown by both parties was, on the side of Riquelmeconvey a neat and real message about the situation: of the interest in signing him and the announcement of starting conversations after the hypothetical electoral victory; and on the part of Kloppmake it clear that he did not want to be part of the electoral ‘circus’ and that there was no prior or closed commitment with the candidacy.
In this way the releaseoriginally written in English and then translated into Spanish, precisely to give more confidence to the German coach and finally published in both languages so that there was no doubt that the pact had been respected. The surprise of the candidacy, which has all these conversations in writing, has been the use that is being given to Marc Kosicke’s statements to a German journalist in which he comes to say what was already included in the statement and that is fed up with the pressure of the press for this matter, which in no case is to deny everything that had been agreed upon and authorized to be made public.
Enrique Riquelme during the campaign for the presidency of Real Madrid.
The agent has reportedly already contacted Florian Plettenberg so that their statements are qualified so that erroneous conclusions are not drawn.
From Riquelme’s candidacy They explain that the appointmentas long as the elections are won, that’s it concerted and that it will be at that moment when the proposal will be discussed and negotiated calmly and in detail. Grateful for Klopp’s proactive attitude, and knowing that the German highly values the presence of legends such as Del Bosque, Iker, Hierro and Raúl himself (a stellar figure in Germany since his time at Schalke 04), the members of Riquelme’s team are confident that they can convince him to join them. That’s why the surprise and disbelief at these words from Kosicke in a tone of denial.
It is known to all that The issue of denials is part of the electoral game and that the value of a denial (Figo’s ‘no’, Beckham’s ‘never, never, never’, etc.) is usually a dead letter. But it’s still annoying. Especially when everything has been agreed upon beforehand.