President of Celta on Santi Mina: “He had problems, but he is still a domestic player”

Carlos Mourinhothe president of Celta, admitted in his performance this Monday that The club is negotiating the termination of the contract year that Santi Mina still has left and stated that the entity has no personal problems with him.

Celta is thus trying to settle with the player who was sentenced to four years in prison in the first instance for the crime of sexual abuse committed in the city of Mojácar in Almeria in 2017. «We are dealing with it, but we have to see what possibilities we have, what he wants. Remember that the one who always has to sign off on what you want to do is the player. The club can propose. We want to do one thing, but we need your approval. You can’t do anything without the player’s approval. We are trying to negotiate with him”, Carlos Mouriño commented on the performance in which he reflected on the current situation at the club.

The president of Celta also expressed the feelings that the entity has about the player’s situation and assured that they “have no problem with him”. “If there is an agreement, we will sign it. Santi Mina has had problems, but he is still a local playerthat apart from that, which is 100% reprehensible, we don’t have any problems with that. It was difficult to take the measures we took, which hurt the club, but they were taken.”

If the contract is not terminated before 03.07. Santi Mina could do the pre-season with Celta from that day, as he did last season after demanding its establishment. The Vigo man trained every day at Mos before Al Shabab left Saudi Arabia on loan.

Separated from the team and sent back

Santiago Mina Lorenzo (Vigo, 1995) has a contract with Celta until June 20, 2024. The player thus has a year ahead of his professional relationship with the celestial entity and a very controversial legal present.

Mina was sentenced on May 4, 2022 four years in prison for the criminal offense of sexual abuse of a woman. The events took place on June 18, 2017 in Mojácar. The verdict acquitted him of charges of sexual assault, and his friend and football player David Goldar was acquitted of criminal responsibility.

Celtic President Carlos Mourinho, was pronounced immediately upon learning of the final verdict. “From Celta, we want to express our strong condemnation of the events that happened today with a player from the first team,” said the club’s largest shareholder without naming the youth team. “We extremely respect the rights of the parties in court proceedings, but Celta’s values ​​are above all else and we will defend them as we have always done,” he said. The club is also open disciplinary file barely an hour after the sentence was announced. Mina was thus separated from the activities of the first team, although the footballer himself requested to return to training with his teammates. “Through the burofax, he demands that RC Celta be immediately involved in the team’s training sessions, so in this case it is the club is forced to assume the presence of the player from this moment on, he will be preparing at the scheduled times with his teammates,” Celta said in a press release.

So Mina returned to work at the club’s sports facilities. That’s how he worked until August when he went on loan to Al Shabab from Saudi Arabia.