"We've only taken three points from the last 30 and the players know that we are not doing things right. The opponents can win by playing better than you but not because they run more."
They were typical, run-of-the-mill comments from a player reluctantly facing the microphones.
Yet, it had been a far from normal morning at Racing, one of Argentina's most popular clubs and one of its most troubled.
The team had arrived to find threatening messages daubed in the street leading to the training ground. The most sinister read: "There are going to be bullets for everyone".
When the team came out to start practice, a group of around 15 men belonging to the club's hardcore group of fans demanded to speak to the players.
"The supporters made us aware of their worries and their anger about the situation the team is in," he said. "And we asked for their support."
"A Racing player publicly judged that the threats were 'normal'," said La Nacion newspaper in an editorial.
"The impunity has reached such a degree that it seems they (the fans) are convinced that there are now no moral or institutional brakes on their behaviour."
Argentine football suffers from chronic violence often blamed on organised supporters' groups called 'barras bravas'.
"I'm shocked at the connections that the barras have with power," he said in an interview with the sports daily Ole.
"The European solution in Argentina is impractical. In Europe, the hooligans are concentrated in marginal groups with no relation to the system. Here, they are connected to a surprising extent."
A day before the threats to Racing's squad, more violence broke out.
