OFFSEASON
PRESS: “How do you feel that the Board has decided to put you in a hole at the end of the season with building a new stadium with the addition of the earlier in the year of youth and training facilities?”
ADAM RYAN: “I think its fine. I mean we needed a new stadium. Although I would of liked it to be double of what we have, but I guess we can work with that. Should at least be able to now have a higher payroll. Some fans I know are upset that they didn’t name the stadium after someone, but just Alcorcon stadium which is kind of sad since it doesn’t really make our team stand out. Still will take two years to build so hopefully that’s all it takes and their isn’t a delay.”
PRESS: “How does it feel that finally Spain has become the best league to play in? Does it come at the expense of you losing to Barcelona in the finals of the Champs league?”
ADAM RYAN: “I don’t think with us losing. We are the best team overall in the world so its not that uncommon that we shouldn’t be first. I think it says a lot. Sure we would of liked to win the Champs league as well, but it wasn’t in the cards. Maybe next year though we can win it all if we make it back. It was tough losing our first finals. Still was bitter-sweet to end the season with that lost, but with us going undefeated in the league.”
PRESS: “You let go Iago and Lisitsa after their contracts ran out. They were the oldest guys on your team at 32 and 31. We know they were bench players, but you also sold four players with three of them being starters. How big will that affect your team going into the new year? Plus is this cause of the 31 million dollar loan your Board took out to help pay off?”
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ADAM RYAN: “Well means we won’t go perfect in the season. We definitely took a hit in the midfield though so now we are really short there. Cristian Bagnoli (26 year old ST) was sold since we wasn’t getting much playing time, and we wanted to free up space for Torres to get more playing time. With the three starters we sold helped us stay well in the black and yes I would like to pay off the loan in a year so we can go back to making a profit. I don’t like that we have to pay money for over 10 years on something we can pay off. Jean-baptiste Georges was a defender we could get rid of and doesn’t really hurt since he was cover for the first team. I really wanted to keep Yaya Sanogo (27 year old AMR/ST), but the Board felt close to 30 million was too good of an offer to turn down. Last was Rodney Genes (23 year old MC/AML) who probably hurt the worst. His salary was only at 5,000 a week but was in his last year of his contract. He would only resign with our team for the lowest at 185K and wanted to be one of the highest paid person on our team. We didn’t want to spend close to 500K between him and Careca so we decided to let him go for 20 million. Cristian Aragon (26 year old M/AMC/AML) would be sold by the board after Inter paid for the 35 million release clause for him.”
PRESS: “You did go out and sign four new players though. They are quite young and do you feel that anyone will be able to fill in the shoes of the departed?”
ADAM RYAN: “I don’t think they can come right in away and replace anyone. I do feel in like two years they will be fine and we won’t have to worry about them being the weakest links. Although they will have to be plugged into our team often this year. Mazinho and David are the two most ready to play. Jose looks to be cover for the midfield if we have any injuries. Gibson if a person we can ease along since we have the two best strikers in the world.”
PRESS: “With all the money you made from transfers last year do you feel like you can spend some money on a top of the line midfielder or another good defender for cover since all the people you have signed this year have been on free transfers.”
ADAM RYAN: “I like our team. Sure the new guys are a little young and raw, but we have ability to not really rush them along this year. I don’t think we need to buy another defender, but if it comes down to it we might have too. Right now I am not looking for anyone and I don’t really want to spend any money really on players cause I would like to see what this team can do. Next year hopefully after we pay off the loan we can look at how our team did and if we need someone then we will spend some cash to get them. As of now I feel we are fine with what we have. Also if we do need to pick up anyone we will do so in the January transfer window.”
PRESS: “Back to the losing of the players. Georges, Genes, and Sanogo all were on the Best XI last year with an average of 38 games. Plus you lost your second leading score in Sanogo (130 goals in 227 games) so do you feel you will have to be changing up your formation this year to help ease in the new players?”
ADAM RYAN: “I don’t think so. We have 8 other players who have played over 100 games for our club, or well Careca will be there after nine more, so we should be fine. Actually we won’t be changing our formation. If anything we might move back to our 4-2-2-2 formation, but not starting a new formation from scatch. It should be an interesting year. Also we still have Vera and Careca so once people start to figure out how to slow them down we will be in trouble. Until then we have to be favorites in the league.”