Gattuso’s wand to remove the “fear” of Valencia: more ball, big data and conversations “to the face”

The Italian debuts in Mestalla in the Orange Trophy against Atalanta to brighten up the game of a team with only two reinforcements and without closing sales

Gennaro Gattuso has been chewing all week on the challenge that awaits him tonight in Mestalla: teach your new Valencia against Atalanta in the Orange Trophy. It will be the first time he sits on the bench and, despite the ups and downs of the preseason and a market that is not heating up, his intention is that the change in style of a team that has hardly changed in names is appreciated. As if he had touched him with a wand, he pretends that no one sees his Valencia and Gattuso as a player except for one thing: the demand, intensity and faith.

It is not easy to achieve it in a team that has barely received reinforcements and that ended the season in a grip. It was verbalized by one of the only two incorporations, Sam Castillejo: When the master arrived, he found a team that was quite afraid to play. That was the priority, recovering the confidence of the players, banishing the five defenders and advancing to a 4-3-3, starting the game from behind, possession and speed on the wings as weapons of attack. All without stopping to look at the thousands of data that it collects even with drones in training. The examination of each player is continuous, shared and constructive. Always in the face, they slide from the locker room, where he has landed on the right foot. His voice has not been heard in public since June 9.

Since then, the difficulties it faces are the same and the silence about the market ends. The club has only been able to strengthen itself with Castillejo, whom Gattuso already had at Milan and who arrives free, and the Brazilian Samuel Lino, on loan from Atlético. The Italian sighs for the transfer of former Barcelona player Arthur Melo, but despite direct calls from him to the player, the agreement is delayed because, in addition, before it is necessary to make an economic gap. Valencia cannot register players, not even the renewal of Mamardashvili if you don’t lighten your template first. The first exit is that of the goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen, who although he heads to the Netherlands leaving barely a million in the box, saving his file already allows him to register the two reinforcements. The intention of the club is to seek accommodation also for Maxi Gmez oa Marcos Andr to make room among the non-community.

With Guedes, Soler but without Gay

Of the three players who seemed willing to part with Peter Lim, Guedes, Soler and Gay, none have left… for the moment. And that’s a relief. The Portuguese continues to shine in the preseason but no club has offered enough (20% of the transfer would go to PSG). Lim leaves that operation in the hands of jorge mendes until the last second. The club closed the year with 50 million losses that the largest shareholder does not want to cover and trusts the efforts of his friend. In the case of Soler, values ​​the role that Gattuso gives him and waits patiently for six months of being a free agent. There have been no clear offers and no firm renewal attempts, as in the case of Gay. The captain is now more aware that the Court of Arbitration for Sports grants him the injunction of the four-game sanction that Competition imposed on him for evaluating an arbitration last season and that would prevent him from playing until September 10.