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Welcome, David. Nice to have you on. Obviously you worked at Almeera with Darwin Nunez. I believe you arrived at the club around October, November time, no?

So Darwin had been there at the club for a few months already.

What was your, were you aware of him when you came to the club and what was your first

impression of him? No I didn't know about the the squad that the team had we have to learn it there really quick because we jump to the club in just three days.

But of course in the first couple of trainings we can recognize the potential that that will

have and he is already of course.

Yeah what what stood out for you about him on the training sessions?

Well he showed a big potential, big spring, big intensity, high peace, and of course with his body high you know because he's very tall guy and it was a really big

surprise for us that he could do this change of peace in short space and short time.

Yeah, he's someone who's technically quite good on the ball.

Was that something that you noticed straight away?

Well, he improved a lot.

He improved different movements because also when we arrived he was always asking the ball in the

space and we try also a little bit to promote that he can back a little bit

and to be combative with the number 10 and with the number 8.

Yeah at the time when you arrived he was still kind of settling in but

was there any difficulty in terms of settling in at the time was there

something you needed to work on in terms of that?

Well, we were with all the players, you know, we were trying to make a special report for every one of them,

and then we analysed with our model of game with points

particularly every player has to make potential you know and then one of the

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