"Today there is no offer for Rodrigo ." That's how blunt was the general director of Valencia, Mateu Alemany , when assessing the future of the scorer. "He has returned to training today at his own request, I see him very happy and he will be available to the coach for the first league game," he insisted. What has changed since last Tuesday when the player withdrew from training, picked up his box office and said goodbye to his teammates? The answer was given by the director general: "There was a verbal pre-agreement that has not materialized."

Alemany was not in that pact, but he negotiated it and agreed the maximum shareholder to Peter Lim . Rodrigo, for a "strategic club issue", in the words of the leader, was going to be transferred to Atlético for 60 million euros, half of its clause, and 20% of the surplus value of a future transfer. The player, meanwhile, doubled his salary and accepted the exit.

But that operation bashed from Singapore with the intermediation of Jorge Mendes , has been blocked because Atlético fails to close the exit of Correa to Milan for 55 million and obtain sufficient funding to present Alemany, in charge of finalizing the transfer, an offer for written.

That is why Rodrigo could start on Saturday against Real Sociedad in Mestalla, which does not mean that he does not change equipment before the market closes.

Alemany has acknowledged that in the plans transmitted by Lim at the two meetings in Singapore it was clear that the

Exit of an important player for economic needs. "We all assume them because we know what the situation of Valencia is and it is up to the board and the maximum shareholder to make those decisions. As it was to invest in Guedes last season," Alemany explained.

Valencia is prepared to, according to the general director, go to the market in the case of Rodrigo's departure "for an important player. The goal is what it was, to be in the Champions League because it triggers our income, and the exit of a player amount requires the arrival of a higher level player, "he said.

The question of what percentage of Rodrigo's sale would have the sports management available to sign the international relay and who would execute that signing, because Alemany confirmed that, although all the incorporations of this market have been executed by himself, the owner is intervening in the operations.

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