04/25/2024 1:16 p.m.Updated on 04/25/2024 1:53 p.m.
Peace has not existed in San Lorenzo for a long time. On the contrary: the controversy is growing more and more. After Rubén Darío Insua gave an interview on ESPN’s Team F this Wednesday, the club’s president, Marcelo Moretti, came out to discuss his statements. “The relationship was not always like this. It is strange, suspicious, that they gave it so much repercussion. It seems that he was more comfortable with Matías Lammens“, he began by saying through the same channel.
Through an extensive talk in which, during the first part, the only interlocutor was Mariano Closs, the club owner was furious at the talk that the former detainee had on the evening program and assured that it was a functional move to the previous leadership. “It wasn’t the time. We had lost the day before,” he said.
And he was lapidary: “Insua told a lot of lies. I never told him about the 15 million, that’s a lie. Ortigoza came with me to the meeting and at the football level you have to listen to him“. He also denied another of his versions. “He spoke with all the players who came. I found it strange that Insua says that she didn’t ask the players. Batalla left before we took office, Rafa (Pérez) became intimate before we arrived, we brought Remedi to replace Elías… We retained the 14 players he asked me for. The only ones he didn’t talk to were Cuello and Hernández, who were bets,” she said.
Rubén Darío Insua on ESPN
At the same time, Moretti argued that when they took over they put him “up to date” because Gallego “was owed three months” and they also tripled his salary: “What he says seems suspicious to me. Insua lack of truth. We wanted to support it, but the results did not help. We did it as far as we could. “When we saw that the football idea was not reaching the team, we made the decision.”
On Wednesday, the former DT insisted that what the president told him when he fired him was that the decision was made by the CD. “The commission, since the match with Boca, wanted to make another decision. Orti and I tried to keep him in office. We wanted to respect the word, but the results rule. “I didn’t see a sporting future with Insua: they won four games out of 18, they didn’t win away and they lost the classics,” Moretti responded.
The benching of Leandro Romagnoli and the condition to continue
Once the departure of RDI was confirmed, Leandro Romagnoli took the reins on an interim basis. He coached in the goalless draw against Central Córdoba and, after not reaching an agreement with any coach, the leadership decided to confirm him in office. His official debut was in the Copa Libertadores against Liverpool in Uruguay, where San Lorenzo lost on the hour mark and was complicated in the group.
“We are doing things well at an institutional level. We have to improve football… I apologize to the fans who went to Uruguay. With Romagnoli we can give joy to the fans,” said Moretti, who signed him for a one-year contract. to the DT. At the same time, he added: “Pipi told me that if he doesn’t win five games, he’ll step aside.”
Pipi, on the bench against Liverpool. (AFP)
Marcelo Moretti pointed out Matías Lammens
After his statements about the coach, the president of the Boedo club directly targeted Matías Lammens for his management. “He is a person who cannot understand that we won the elections,” he said. And he shot at Insua again: “He and Lammens did not complain… Matías Lammens and Marcelo Tinelli did a lot of damage to the club. “Let Insua tell her friend Lammens to put in the 30 million that he took from the club.”
At that moment, Leo Gabes, one of the journalists who make up the ESPN F12 team, asked Moretti about his participation in the previous management. “I was a member and official. The members do not have much influence,” he excused himself. Seconds later, the panelist He once again insisted with his intervention on the arrival of the brothers Ángel and Óscar Romero, discussing the amount of the contract. “He was shorter than five others,” the authority slipped, although the chronicler insisted that he was not true.
Finally, he attacked Insua again. “If you have so much Sanlorencism, would you have the honesty to accept the offer and not sue the club,” he concluded.
