Quique Setien apologises to Barcelona players over assistant's insulting behaviour

Barcelona boss Quique Setien has apologised to players for his assistant's behaviour during their 2-0 defeat to Real Madrid on Sunday. Setien's No 2 Eder Sarabia was pictured making insulting comments about the club players by Spanish television show Vamos. A lip reader claimed he criticised Antoine Griezmann for missing a chance and used foul langauge when talking about the players. Speaking on the case, Setien told Spanish publication El Periodico: "We apologised to everyone, we cannot behave like that. We don't like to see things like this, we have committed an error and we should try to avoid something like this happening again. This situation has affected me a lot, because I am concerned about the image of the club. We need to take care of that image, because we can be criticised for substitutions, tactics, etc, but not for our behaviour. It's true that you have to understand how people are at certain moments, we are not all the same. Eder has a great temperament, and in many situations it helps us phenomenally well. But he has to learn to control himself. He's trying to do that, he's trying to improve in this area because we have had situations like this before. They are becoming rarer, but it's something that we don't like to see. It's a bit of an embarrassment that this has become a news story and has provoked such a huge reaction."

Source: Sky Sports

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