Scandal at Rayo, meeting in the dressing room! Andrei Rațiu does not leave the house: “It is part of football”

After the final whistle, Rayo's players gathered in front of the fans and celebrated together, singing “La Vida Pirata”. But in the locker room, according to the daily Marca, Andrei Rațiu and his teammates were put in a meeting.

The reason? The exit of Ivan Balliu, who in the 55th minute, at the score of 0-2, argued with coach Inigo Perez on the bench, after being replaced by Andrei Rațiu. Perez left the stadium at the end, and at the press conference, the club told reporters that he had a health problem.

Ivan Balliu challenged coach Inigo Perez at the pre-match conference

The Marca newspaper claims, however, that it was the quarrel with Balliu that would have led him to leave! And he suspects that the whole conflict has its origins in the pre-party press conference. Then, Rațiu's competitor in the position reminded Íñigo, in front of the press, that he is ready to play on Thursday and Sunday: “I am ready, I tell the coach right here, to play on Thursday and Sunday.”

After the meeting in the locker room, Marca journalists asked Rațiu what the problem was and what was discussed behind closed doors, but the Romanian defender did not want to leave the house. “We celebrated, we met and that's all. It's part of football,” Rațiu said, without giving further explanations.

Andrei Rațiu, at the end of the match with Lech Poznan / Photo: Imago

Raul Martin Presa, Rayo's president: “It's intolerable”

Rayo's president, Raul Martin Presa, went live on “Marca” radio, but said he didn't know what happened on the bench: “I can't add anything more because I was in the stands, and that's what the sports director and the medical staff are for.”

However, when asked about the players' public protests against their coaches, the case of Vinicius in El Clasico, he was adamant: “I find it completely intolerable for a footballer to protest angrily against a change“.