What does
Peter Lim
want to do
with Valencia?
Do you intend to sell your majority shareholding?
Why are you strangling the team without signings, weighing down
Javi Gracia's
recently released project
?
Why do you keep
Anil Murthy
in the presidency
, facing the fans?
These are questions to which Valencianism cannot find an answer.
Six years after buying the club, the Singaporean businessman continues to tread little
Mestalla
- soon it will be a year since his last visit - and conveys the feeling of
that his investment in soccer is in retirement without caring that his decisions could drag a centenary club to ruin, sporting and financially.
These are the keys to a (un) controlled blasting.
From the dismissal of Marcelino to the threat of resignation of Gracia
The first explosive charge placed it directly on the bench.
The dismissal of
Marcelino
, which was followed by
Mateu alemany
, left a champion Cup team adrift.
Albert celades
He was unable to lead a staff that, based on self-management, survived until January.
The outbreak of the pandemic hit her squarely and with the return of the competition the goal of being in Europe was not achieved.
The bite in the income of battered accounts (almost 400 million debt) forced hard adjustments.
Was elected
Javi grace
to lead a lower-profile team.
71 days later, the coach put his
charge available
.
Without any contact with Lim, he felt cheated by President Anil Murthy, who promised him reinforcements that did not arrive.
A
clause
that collects three million euros of penalty is the only reason why the Navarrese continues to lead the team.
Purge of Parejo, Kondogbia and the reserve of '10'
Marcelino's dismissal strained relations with a staff that put the president on the ropes.
They opposed the dismissal of the delegate and expelled the chief of medical services from the locker room.
The negotiation of salary cuts for the Covid and the treatment of the injured
Garay
it caused an insurmountable gap to open.
Two games from the end of the season, the purge was announced.
Coquelin
Y
Equal
they went to Villarreal,
Ferran
he went to City and the transfer of
Rodrigo
Al Leeds consummated the disappearance of the spine.
Not one euro of the 60 million raised was invested.
Even on the last day the possibility of the march of
Kondogbia
to Atlético, frustrated to
player anger.
«After having destroyed an ambitious project, you had to deceive your coach and finally me.
Thank you Anil Murthy », the French wrote on social networks.
They trust in a dressing room of young homegrown players without experience in the First Division where all eyes point to
Kang in lee
as a protected property.
The Korean, pending to sign the renovation, is the banner of the property in Asia and his presence on the club's social networks is constant.
In fact, the club had reserved for him a prize in the numbers that he had to postpone so as not to further disturb the locker room.
Parejo's departure released the number '10', requested by Carlos Soler, owner of all the lower categories.
The response of the club was that it was reserved for a player with more commercial projection.
This season it will be free.
Murthy gesture, Kempes criticism and punishment of the peñas
Valencianism received Lim under a canopy, he was disenchanted with the sporting ups and downs that his friendship with
Gary Neville
or
Jorge Mendes
but gave up again on the hits of
Marcelino
and the Cup in the Centennial year.
Right there the abyss began to open.
The stands got
next to the technician
and against the decisions of a disaffected owner.
He didn't even celebrate the Cup
in Seville and was purging all those who had any affinity with the Asturian coach.
The last ones, the delegate
Paco Camarasa
and the doctors.
Anil Murthy's mood didn't help either.
His gesture
sending silence to the stands
was interpreted as disrespect, as the demand of the
status of "official"
who will sit on the bench.
The fans began to direct their anger against his attitudes, which they consider despotic.
The dismissal of Camarasa in August filled the patience of the followers, who
they took to the street
, and of the shareholders, who encouraged in platforms where they were integrated
Kempes
Y
Canizares
in which the
march of meriton
and that a new sale takes place.
The peñas called for Murthy's resignation and the answer was
evict them from the premises
that they occupied for 25 years in Mestalla.
No institutional credibility for the new stadium
Meriton denies that he intends to sell Valencia, What's more, yesterday he bought in a judicial auction a package of 17,800 shares for 128,000 euros that belonged to the former president
Juan Soler
and that they assure him 0.49% more of the capital, with which he already dominates 83%.
Murthy insists that the belt is tightened only to adjust to fairplay and pursuing sustainability.
Rumors of offers like that of Andrea Radrizzani, the owner of Leeds, seem complicated by the
economic and urban tangle
that drags the club. Meriton's problem is also credibility with the institutions.
In six years they have not fulfilled the commitment to finish the new stadium in an urban operation whose advantages (with a capital requalification) are about to expire.
The Generalitat and the City Council have already announced that they will not extend the agreements if the works are not reactivated in 2021, something that Meriton does not plan.
He keeps thinking that this is not the time and he doesn't know what to do with a 70,000-seat stadium.
If the operation declines, the club, which owes the new Caixabank 132 million euros and starts with fixed expenses of more than 300 million each season, may end in dissolution.
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