Giant’s illness has a proper name

Valen­cia is an estrange team. They never have calm. We can com­pare its recent his­tory with a roller­coaster. They have been twice La Liga win­ners (01/02 and 03/04) just some years ago and this sea­son they have been on the verge to be rel­e­gated. They are always hav­ing inter­nal prob­lems with its direc­tion staff, some­thing that is a big prob­lem when you have behind ones of the most pas­sion­ate sup­port­ers all over the coun­try but, at the same time, prob­a­bly the most demand­ing ones. They don’t need so much to start com­plain­ing but this year they have rea­sons to do it. 

We open this week news­pa­pers and we see Koe­man, for­mer Valen­cia coach, say­ing: “Joaquín had a 30 Euros per­for­mance” (remem­ber Joaquín was bought for 30 mil­lions). He also says that “it was a mis­take com­ing to Valen­cia”. I agree. He is so bad to train los ches. He arrived here with Valen­cia in fourth posi­tion and left it bor­der­ing rel­e­ga­tion. As you know, his first deci­sion was putting aside Albelda, Angulo y Cañizares, a curi­ous way of doing things.  

Although Koe­man has been a prob­lem for Valen­cia, the main one is its chair­man and, at the same time, owner. It is true that El Larguero, the main radio sport pro­gram (with great influ­ences in this coun­try), has launched a cam­paign against Juan Soler. But the prob­lem is that he deserved it. He has destroyed a team pre­pared to win La Liga, dis­miss­ing employ­ees when he was angry, sign­ing estranges play­ers for too much money (Banega, Fer­nan­des…) and tak­ing unbe­liev­able deci­sions as the one of the three cap­tains, that every­body think was his idea. 

The city of Valen­cia doesn’t deserve this man. Now is not the pres­i­dent (he has del­e­gated this func­tion in Agustin Mor­era who, at least, seems to be a more log­i­cal per­son), but he still have the real power, so we can say Valen­cia FC is still in dan­ger. Marcelino (sen­sa­tional for­mer Racing’s man­ager), for exam­ple, said “no” to Valen­cia because of its strange future project. After Albelda, Angulo and Cañizares prob­a­bly this sum­mer will leave the club Silva, Joaquín and Villa. Too much tal­ent lost, I think. 

For the best of the city of Valen­cia, but also for the best o Span­ish foot­ball (that def­i­nitely needs Valen­cia again at the top) we hope Soler leave the club soon, so we can see again Valen­cia where its sup­port­ers deserve to be.   

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