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Perez to stands firm on Galactico recruitment policy
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-09-21 10:30

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez says the resignation of Jose Antonio Camacho will not make him rethink his Galactico recruitment policy.

 "We have tried to put together a team that wins, that entertains and that is admired by hundreds of millions of people all over the world and that is what we are going to continue to do," Perez told Radio Marca on Monday.

 Camacho quit his post earlier in the day, saying he felt incapable of getting the most out of the club's expensively assembled squad.

 Perez said that coaching a team that included some of the most high-profile players in world football such as David Beckham, Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane was a tricky task, but said that the players were not to blame for the team's poor early-season form. "A squad as talented as Real Madrid's is always very difficult to manage," he said. "For that reason the job of a coach is to get the maximum out of the players, who are excellent professionals and not the spoilt children that some people claim.

 "I'm going to talk to them to encourage them and to tell them that are millions of people around the world who follow what they do and that's why they need to push themselves to the limit. But it would be wrong to lay the blame at the door of the players."

 Perez claimed that Real had a duty to entertain their fans, whom he claimed would not accept a more pragmatic approach to the game.

 "With all due respect to a team like Bayer Leverkusen, if Real played the way they did then no one would turn up at the ground," he said."

 Leverkusen produced a stylish performance to crush Real 3-0 in their opening Champions League game last week.



 
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