Santa Cruz de Tenerife (EFE).- The new sports director of CD Tenerife, Mauro Pérez, assured this Tuesday in his presentation that the team’s coach, Luis Miguel Ramis, is the “first option” for next season and that his The relationship with the Catalan coach is “cordial, without any problem”.
Pérez and Ramis met at Albacete Balompié and the coach from Tarragona ended up being fired by the La Mancha club, to which is added the uncertainty created by Ramis about his future, which he will not decide until the team defines its objectives.
Mauro Pérez has stressed that the “most important thing” is for the team to reach 50 points “as soon as possible” -it has 42- and ensure its permanence in LaLiga SmartBank, but has revealed that as soon as his signing as sports director was announced, the Last Sunday, he called Ramis to speak with him, and he has already greeted him personally.
“He is our coach and he is the one we have to support until the end of the season. I have transmitted to the sports advisor -Juan Guerrero- that the first option has to be Luis Miguel Ramis, and with whom we must continue ”, he assured.
The island leader has set himself several objectives with his arrival in charge, such as “to make the team Tenerife”, so he does not rule out bringing back players from Tenerife who play for other teams, without mentioning their own names, in addition to “continuing to work to the maximum with the quarry”.
He has also made it clear that he shares the approach of the president, Paulino Rivero, to take the team to the First Division in the long term, but he believes that this objective can also be achieved “in the medium term”, and for this next season they should reach the last eight days “with options to play the promotion promotion”, because they need to “excite” the fans.
In this sense, he wants to build a team that “excites” with its football, and that is “everyone’s Tenerife, not Mauro Pérez’s”, although he is aware that they will remind him of the mistakes he may make when recruiting players.
The new blue and white sports director, after emphasizing that he fulfills “a dream” with his return home on the “best day” of his life and in a position of such “responsibility” but “exciting”, believes that this is not the time to talk about the particular cases of many footballers who will end their contract on June 30.
Yes, he has said that he knows the entire squad, in particular the Madrid winger Nacho Martínez, with whom he coincided at Rayo Vallecano, and has even revealed that he tried to sign four players from the current squad in his day for other clubs.
Mauro Pérez, who signs until 2026, has been accompanied in his presentation by Santiago Pozas, general director of CD Tenerife, and by Juan Guerrero, director responsible for the sports area, who, after admitting that there are “many free coaches” on the market, has stressed that Ramis is the “best” coach for Tenerife, so they will try to keep the coach from Tarragona in office “next season, and those to come”. EFE
