CEO announces ‘he does not regret’ letting star join Chelsea in big summer move!
Villarreal CEO Fernando Roig Negueroles has come out and admitted that he does not regret letting Filip Jorgensen leave the club and making the move to CHELSEA, although he has admitted that the move probably came to early for the player.
CHELSEA have high hopes for Jorgensen and consider the Denmark Under-21 international as a potential No.1 in the future after making the decision to get a transfer deal done foe the big man.
However – he has not yet made his Premier League debut as he is sitting behind Robert Sanchez as the clubs number two and Jorgensen will have to be patient for regular minutes under Enzo Maresca.
Negueroles has now come out and revealed that he does not regret letting the stopper making the move to Chelsea – he told Spanish publication AS: ‘We didn’t expect to sell Jorgensen so soon, especially as soon as this year.
‘We were aware of his enormous potential and we thought he would leave, but not now.
‘Honestly, and I have made this clear to him and to those around him, I think Jorgensen was hasty [with his departure].
‘He had room for improvement and growth here, but the move was the player’s will.’
‘We didn’t intend to make that sale, but it happened this way because he is a great goalkeeper for the present and the future and with qualities that can make him one of the most important goalkeepers in Europe,’ he continued.
‘I don’t regret his departure. These are football situations.’
However – Negueroles feels the shot-stopper’s ‘growth and development’ would have been aided by staying put at Villarreal, and claimed that the stopper made a mistake from making a move to CHELSEA so early in his career: ‘The truth is that we didn’t want to sell either Alex [Sorloth] or Filip. We knew that we had to make a sale, but we didn’t foresee those,’
‘In the end it happened because both players wanted to leave and the offers were attractive enough to accept.
‘In both cases we followed the player’s wishes, but we wouldn’t have sold.
‘We knew that we would have to make a sale this summer, but not those two.’
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