He Valencia it has no direction. That is the conclusion that is reached after observing the facts that have plunged the club into a sports crisis that in the opinion of many exceeds the specific chapter of the dismissal, this week, of its coach. Albert Celades and the resignation of the sports director, César Sánchez. Because the tone, dismissal of coaches and sports directors, has been a constant since the magnate Peter Lim bought the institution at the end of 2014. A fact: in just over five years, Valencia has had seven technicians. Pizzi, Nuno, Gary Neville, Pako Ayestarán, Cesare Prandelli, Marcelino and Celades. Now we will have to add Voro.
“There is no management, only chaotic decisions and when something goes well it is destroyed.” It says Hector
Esteban, former sports editor-in-chief of the newspaper The Provinces and good connoisseur of the situation of Valencia. Remember that the owner struck Marcelino and his sports director, Mateu Alemany, when the club had won the Copa del Rey and had qualified for the Champions. “That’s Peter Lim; He can’t stand others doing things right, “he adds with a disturbing warning:” If nobody remedies it, the club can end up on the fringes. “
TRAINERS CRUSHER
There are already seven technicians that Valencia has had in little more than five years of permanent crisis
The perception of this journalist is general in all the experts consulted. The gaming crisis has been the trigger for the dismissal of Celades; But the problem, as everyone points out, comes from afar. The journalist Cayetano Ros concludes that Valencia is a “Persian market”. “Peter Lim uses Valencia as a platform for buying and selling players without thinking about the consequences; sometimes fueling the divorce between the club and the fans, as was the sale of Paco Alcacer to Barcelona ”. He criticizes that the Singapore businessman uses the club “in the form of a feudal lord; he treats people without respect and does not tolerate being opposed to them; there is the list of dismissed coaches to verify it ”. He also remembers the gesture against the fans, which he demanded to silence about his protests against President Anil Murphy, last November in Mestalla. “There is no respect neither towards the workers nor towards the hobby; and people are very fed up, this can explode ”.
Added to the sports crisis is the financial crisis, which is the same or worse. Lim provided liquidity to face part of the large debt when he bought the club, refinanced 256 million euros with Bankia and has carried out a capital increase to obtain another 100 million with which to irrigate the institution’s impoverished accounts with liquidity. But the accounts do not come out, and if it is not classified for the Champions this year, the sale of good players is predicted. “Lack of continuity in the sports and financial project; There is a lack of stability that the fans, who are the best of the club, need ”. Hector Esteban is pessimistic: “Steps are being taken for the club to disappear.”
