Kevin Gameiro and Rodrigo Moreno are the last players who appealed to Barcelona from a championship, essential strikers for Valencia who, in six months, will receive the leader again with his future in suspense. The January market has placed them in the shop window just when the owner of his club is seduced by cash. The Frenchman could send a carambola with Edinson Cavani to the PSG and Rodrigo is separated from the Camp Nou the 60 million that Peter Lim wants for his transfer and that Barça tries to haggle. Recovered from the injury, the forward will return to the field while the difficult operation remains latent.

If realized, it would be the sixth Valencianist who emigrates in that Mediterranean corridor established between the two clubs over the last decade. Barça is the best customer of the current champion of the Copa del Rey: 174 million euros has entered the Mestalla coffers.

Following the wake opened in the 80s with Robert Fernández and expanded with the sale of Gerard López in 2000 for 21 million euros, in the summer of 2010 Valencia transferred to David Villa for 40 million euros. Two seasons later Jordi Alba would follow in his footsteps, although with a minor benefit (14). Surprising was the purchase of Jeremy Mathieu , whose role in Valencia had not been so important. For the French they paid 20 million.

Double sale in 2016

With the arrival at the property of Lim there was a double sale in the summer of 2016: André Gomes (35 million that ended up being 38 when adding achievements by objectives) and Paco Alcácer (30), whose return could be very close, more if Specify the departure of Rodrigo.

Then came the transfer of the Jeison Murillo plant , with a purchase option of 25 million that was never executed, and the strange accounting operation that led Neto to Camp Nou for 30 million, but brought the purchase of Jasper Cillessen for the same amount .

Will Rodrigo be next? «I can guarantee that you are in the call, that you have trained well and that it is another option to play. He really wants to. That is what I can guarantee. Then we'll see, ” Albert Celades simply acknowledged, reluctant to talk about his departure and the interest he could generate in incorporating players like Alcácer or Dani Ceballos .

With respect to today's duel, Valencia has been 12 seasons without beating Barça in Mestalla. The last joy, on February 18, 2007, was resolved with so many by Miguel Ángel Angulo and David Silva (2-1) Since then, seven draws and five losses.

The hard low of Parejo

“We will try to keep the streak of the first round at home, but it is a very difficult team, with a lot of quality and technical precision. If they only had two or three virtues, it would be easier to minimize them, but they have so many qualities ... », argued Celades, who loses by penalty for this meeting the team's brain: Dani Parejo .

"It is very difficult to replace a unique and essential player, so he has played every game and every minute," confessed the coach, who will have to use Geoffrey Kondogbia , Francis Coquelin and Carlos Soler to break the statistics he says that without its captain, Valencia has not won for seven years.

The casualties, by sanction or injury, are subtracting options to the Catalan coach, who can not count for Denis Cheryshev , injured in Mallorca, or Cillessen for this match, which on Thursday already lost the Cup against Logroñés for some inconvenience during the heating.

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