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Murthy assures that he was not fired but resigned for the Superdeporte audios

It was after discussing it with his wife that he made the decision to leave. “We already discussed that it was time for him to resign and move on because it is not a life”, assured. In addition, he wanted to make it clear that he left the club and the first team in very good manners. “Most of them sent me messages to thank me for my friendship, acknowledging that I was close to them when the league was tough. I was there every day. I was very close to the agents, the players and the captains. I had a good relationship with everyone. them,” he explains.

Valencia CF came forward at the time after his departure and said that “The board wishes to clarify that the content of the leaked conversations between Anil Murthy and various third parties are personal opinions of Anil Murthy and not of Valencia CF. Valencia CF distances itself from its opinions. Something that Murthy, in this case, does not want to comment on, although he admitted that he had made known to the club his “personal views” on the matter. If he does about his situation in the city.

“On the streets, people in cars yell all kinds of insults at you. When you cross the street, they yell at you. In restaurants, people come up to you (and say), ‘Hey, go home, what’s up?’ are you doing here?’ It is daily harassment. It was like a nightmare. It got exponentially worse this year… You couldn’t live”, explains about what happened after the exclusive of this newspaper.

“You can’t walk the streets. I was afraid to go to the supermarket because people are coming… it’s not that I’m afraid for my life. It’s just that IFeeling anxiety is not a pleasant life to lead. So many years of living this life, it was enough. We couldn’t go out to eat anywhere. We go to a restaurant, people harass you, even in big name restaurants, you hide in a private room somewhere.”continues Anil Murthy.

However, that situation did not come from now, but from a long time ago, and that did not make him consider leaving Valencia CF until now, when after ‘Los audios de Anil’ he decided to take the step. “When I start a project… I really like to finish it. We went through COVID-19, lowering the debt and we were close to fixing things to start building again. And we were arriving. It is not an easy decision for me because for me they are unfinished business. But then you ask yourself, can I be effective? Or am I making it worse? reports.

As for ‘Los audios de Anil’, he continues to argue, as he did from the start, that “they were a total violation of all ethical standards and a hacking job. A lot of them (the recordings) were actually rearranged, some words were taken from somewhere else and put in. But some of them are really accurate, except they’re not complete… Context removed. I’d say it’s sabotage. But it is nothing very unusual in Spain.”commented the former president of the Mestalla club.

“It’s not the first time, it won’t be the last time. Controversy is what sells. The real people who run this business know this is all nonsense.”continues one of Peter Lim’s trusted men, with whom by the way he assures that he has not yet spoken.

The ‘amateur’ Peter Lim

“When the time is right, we will talk about everything, but a lot of changes are taking place… The focus at the moment is to support the team. I think When things calm down, I hope to have the opportunity to speak with him.”Anil Murthy concludes.

Nor does Peter Lim come off well in ‘Los audios de Anil’. Murthy says on the matter now that comments about the owner he called “hobbyist” were misunderstood and were taken out of context, while the comments about Carlos Soler and José Gaya were edited.

“They (the businessmen) asked me: ‘Is Peter Lim still committed to the club?’ I say that Peter Lim is a fan. In Spanish… it’s not my mother tongue, but I can speak it… that’s where you have to be careful. When you say fan, it means ‘amateur’. A fan you still say ‘amateur’. You say ‘an amateur’, it means amateur. So I should have used the word fanatic. I said Peter Lim ‘he’s a football fan’. I should have said Peter Lim ‘is a fan’…”, tried to clarify, while insisting that he had been “loyal” to Lim.

As for his criticism of the cities of Liverpool and Newcastle, Anil Murthy continues his defense by taking refuge in audio manipulations. “The way things come together, you can also hear in the audios, how it’s been cut and rearranged. Why would I suddenly become such a controversial character? Have I lost my mind? For more than five years I’ve been speaking in public, my topics of conversation are all the same,” signed in this regard.

Divided fans and club management

Para Anil Murthy, the criticism of the fans of Meriton’s management in all this time has been a minority. He believes that the fans were in two camps, a “minority” group actively campaigning for Lim’s departure and the rest who wanted to see the team win.

“Most are tired of these constant battles. Between the ownership, the management, this group, the lawsuits, the new stadium… I think most of the fans just want to watch football and want to win. Communication with this group could have been better”, he stresses, while clarifying that “communication works better when you are winning. When you’re not winning… no one wants to know your logic behind why you’re selling players, because revenue dropped, (or if) you need to balance the books. They look at you and say, ‘Do you think I’m really interested? So who are you going to sign now?” Murthy said.

“So I think the communication, could it be improved? One hundred percent should have improved. How to improve it? I do not know yet”admits the former manager of Valencia CF.

Nor does it get too wet in the issues regarding the management of the club in which it could have been improved by also alluding to a confidentiality agreement. “It was an extremely challenging environment. And every day is a new problem. And you do everything you can to navigate. Could you have made different decisions? Probably. Would it have turned out differently? I have no idea, I really have no idea.”indicated the former leader of the Mestalla club.

New life in Singapore

Anil Murthy’s intention is now to stay in Singapore to spend time with his family. “For the last 13 years, I’ve only been here three years… And I think it’s time for us to come home.”, he added. And it is that before starting again a new job destination considers that it is important that first “get back on track” your credibility.

“When I meet people…people who have known me for a long time, they say, ‘Anil, it’s important to you, before you go back to work you must clear your name. I think it’s important that people know the truthAnil Murthy concluded.

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