In August 2018,
Peter Lim
was photographed with a
smiling
Gonçalo Guedes
in an iconic image for Valencianism.
For the first time, the owner was rolling up his sleeves to achieve the signing of a 21-year-old footballer who had dazzled the Mestalla stands in the season in which
PSG
loaned him.
With the help of
Jorge Mendes
, Guedes' agent, he negotiated with the sheikh the payment of the
40 million euros
that made the Portuguese the most expensive signing of the club.
However, since then, only a few sparks have been seen and today it is going through its darkest stage, with no place in 11 and with its attitude in question.
Guedes dazzled on his landing.
It was a stiletto in the left band that only faltered due to the rupture of the fifth metatarsal of his left foot.
Still, he played 33 league games, scored five goals and gave 11 assists.
Impossible to doubt its projection.
It was a diamond that Emery could not find a place for in his PSG
.
No one was surprised that he was a key piece of Fernando Costa's Portuguese team at the
World Cup in Russia
.
But it was signing his contract and getting problems.
Two hernias in the pubis
forced him to undergo surgery and it took him two months to recover and another two to regain confidence in his speed tip.
The numbers were not so striking on aggregate, but the Portuguese made a final stretch of the campaign in which he sustained the team's attack.
He ended up playing 25 games, scoring another five goals in the League, and three vital goals in the Europa League against Krasnodar and Villarreal, and was proclaimed King's Cup champion.
The two clear chances he missed in the final are still remembered.
Guedes was recovering shine, although he was still a very anarchic player for the disciplined
Marcelino
, who kept trying to polish him.
Bend his whip involving him in containment work was something that the Portuguese did not like, but the Asturian's departure did not free him.
With
Albert Celades
it was not understood either.
The lesions reappeared.
This time an
ankle injury
, with an error in the medical diagnosis, cost him four months to recover and made him surly.
By the time it was ready, the confinement arrived and the beginning of the decline of the Valencian team, which ended up outside Europe and with its main players transferred.
Sports and economic devaluation
Guedes was called to take the flag, but he has not done so, to the point that he lost the title in Valencia and in Portugal, where he has not been called up in the last six games.
"He is an important player, he has been and must continue to be,"
says Javi Gracia, who has already sent him to the stands due to laziness in training and his passivity in games.
Tying the boot with the ball at stake in Valdebebas or the lack of intensity that he showed in a training exercise the day after the ridicule against Madrid raised the same crowd that every season hopes to see the best Guedes again.
Cheryshev
and
Vallejo
have won the place, not only because it is not decisive, but because it prevents players like
Gayà
from being so.
The captain puts on the brakes when he shares the band.
He knows that he must make an effort in defensive tasks because he will not be able to count on the Portuguese.
Their arrivals to the bottom line become impossible due to the risk involved.
Its sporting irrelevance entails a
devaluation
that becomes a serious problem for a club that must sell footballers worth 30 million before June 30.
When Valencia still owes PSG 20 million, according to Transfermarkt,
the Portuguese is worth 15 million
, two less than the French paid to Benfica in 2017.
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