Change on the bench Valencia is entrusted to Voro after the dismissal of Gracia
"The circumstances that have surrounded the team have never been the most appropriate to work with the ideal stability for the coaching staff and players." Nobody will miss Javi Gracia on the Mestalla bench. His footprint, like that of so many other coaches fired in recent years, will be very small but the words of his farewell statement contain an alarming truth. The change of coach cannot hide the fact that
Valencia is crumbling at times
without anyone taking care of supporting its walls, only dodging the rubble. The club begins the month of May with war on all fronts and
Peter Lim
, in his ivory tower, increasingly under siege.
The battles will be fought, and not in this order, on the sporting, social and economic level. That is to say, in all the flanks to which the Public Limited Companies Law condemned the clubs to handle themselves.
On Sunday against Valladolid,
Voro will have to overcome fear
.
It is the commission of the owner to which the Valencian players join who do not want to see their team fall from grace.
This Valencia dwarfed by its leaders by dint of laziness and ignorance is the worst in the last 30 years.
His numbers are similar to those of the 86 relegation and he needs to add at least one victory in the last four games against the Pucelanos, Sevilla, Eibar and Huesca.
A relegation would doom the club and its viability would be unsustainable, even more so if Meriton did not flee.
Impossible that a reconstruction could pass through his hands.
An example is its 'Youth Policy', which has condemned the subsidiary to the fifth division and let
Ferran Torres
escape
and will do the same with
Kang In Lee
.
The sports battle will be fought by the players alone, with the guidance of a Voro whose effect on the squad is a little less every day. Far is the memory of his ancestry over other changing rooms protected by other leaders. These place him at the feet of the horses. Just like a year ago.
But there are two skirmishes that will also be experienced in the coming days. The first is the
mobilization of Valencianism
, divided and anesthetized, if not deceived, in recent years. Most of them have had enough and on Saturday they will take to the streets to prove it. The Premier League fans have shown them the way with a show of force before the owners of their teams, most of them foreign conglomerates. They were forced to leave the
Super League
, their voice gained strength and they have raised it against those who have appropriated their feelings to turn them into mere customers of their business. The
assault on Old Trafford
is the exemplification that clubs cannot turn their backs on those who support them as part of their culture, their tradition, their legacy.
It is possible that Lim feels closer to the supporters who protested against the owners of Manchester United than to those who will ask him to leave the Mestalla on Saturday
Meriton never understood that, even though he benefited from it.
It was the pressure of a good part of the fans that opened the doors of Mestalla for Peter Lim, buying the story well put together by
Amadeo Salvo
.
Then, little by little, he has cornered them with some joy pills on the grass as he continued to make his way.
He managed that the few visits of the owner, the extravagant bets on the bench or the signings with friendly agents while the team competed and chained one of lime and another of sand did not hurt so much.
From years in the middle of the table to two Champions in a row, a semi-final of the Europa League and a Copa del Rey.
An oasis in the middle of a very mediocre five-year period in which 1,000 million have moved around Valencia in
player buying and selling
operations
.
Meanwhile, they continued to strike down any vestige of internal opposition in the offices, in the Sports City of Paterna and even in the shareholders' meetings, from where they
have expelled the minority,
allowing their gestures to be guided by pride and without understanding the society in which the club weaves its roots.
Peter Lim may feel closer to the hordes of supporters who protested Sunday against the Manchester United owners than to those who will ask him to leave Mestalla on Saturday in Valencia.
The survival of Valencia
This movement is not only a reflection of the discontent of the soccer mass for the future of the team.
It is also guided by a deep concern for the
club's survival
, which has brought together very disparate groups that no longer stun the "smoke screens" such as the removal of Gracia.
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and '
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'They have raised the carpets to reveal an agonizing economic situation that brings the club closer to the cause of dissolution. The imbalance in current management forces players to part with each season and pay their chips with promissory notes backed by a financial institution. Added to this is the drop in income, with and without a pandemic, the absence in European competitions, the salaries of senior executives that rise to 2.5 million and the commitments signed to return 50 million in loans to the maximum shareholder that has guaranteed with the federative rights of several footballers. Yes, oddly enough, Lim is the first who wants to get paid even if that means drowning his own club, with which no one knows if he has a relationship of affection or is it just another business.
In this battle the institutions look down from the hill, whom the Valencia owners have also challenged in breach of the ATE and the construction deadlines for the new stadium.
They have shown unconcern and launched a pulse before which the
Generalitat
and the
City Council
will have to respond in August by extending or ending an urban operation that can have a cascade of economic and legal consequences that put Peter Lim before a commercial judge.
Two years ago, Valencianism took to the streets together to celebrate its centenary with pride and, later, a new title.
On Saturday he will do it to claim the dignity he deserves.
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