Orange Trophy: Valencia 2 Atalanta 1
The club finalizes the sale of the Portuguese to the Premier as a first step to incorporate the reinforcements that the Italian wants in the midfield and attack, where Maxi’s departure is also being worked on
Valencianism has learned to contain its emotions, resigned and hoping that each emotional setback is only due to a very good reason, hoping that Genaro Gattuso Build a team that brings back the nice days. The curtain was opened in Mestalla against Atalanta in an Orange Trophy that was bitter before it started. Goncalo Guedes I was going to see him from the stands because the club is finalizing its sale to a Premier League team. He posed in the official photo of the presentation, but his agent, Jorge Mendes, has been trying to find a place for him for days and everything indicates that he will take flight shortly. This was confirmed by Gattuso himself after the match. “The sports director called me this afternoon to tell me that an English club has already made an offer and it’s a lot of money. That’s it. We have to accept it to improve the team,” said the coach.
Not for knowing that the sale of the Portuguese is an imperative need for the finances of an impoverished club, his particular leverage affects less. He has been the most differential footballer of the last year and the top scorer in the League together with Carlos Soler, without shooting penalties. His shadow is very long in a team that also intends to get rid of Maxi Gomez,(in talks with Fenerbahçe) or loan Marcos André to make room for Keita Balde. Hugo Hard He wanted to reaffirm his position by scoring the first two goals of the season at Mestalla. The first, after a change of game from Guillamón to the race of Gayà in the band that served him the pass that the Madrilenian sent heel to the bottom of the Atalanta net. The second, after Ederson’s equalizer for the Italians, heading a cross from Foulquier.
Without losing sight of the warm friendship and the facilities offered by the cheerful teams of Gasperini against an overmotivated rival, Gattuso showed what life can be like without Guedes. And not so many clouds are perceived. The two newcomers Castillejo Y Linen, threatened from the shores, looking for area and association with Hugo Duro. The Brazilian was denied the goal, but he made it clear that the left winger has an owner… at least for now. And it is that the exit of Guedes can activate the return of Bryan Gil to Valencia through a new transfer that the man from Cádiz sees with good eyes.
The activation of sales returns the gaze to Gayà and, above all, to Carlos Soler. Gattuso continues to sigh for midfielders of all kinds, which makes the Valencians tremble for the exit if the market is activated and offers arrive that have not yet appeared. Although the winger seems closer to staying, he fears for the continuity of Soler, reliable along with Yunus and Guillamón, in the 25 days left on the market. The stands, which responded at half throttle in this premiere, cross their fingers and the coach, too. “They are an example in the locker room, how they train, talk in the locker room and play. It is easy to train these types of players. They are the strength of our locker room,” he clarified.
What the Italian expects is that reinforcements arrive. “I have no promises, but the club knows very well that we have to complete the team. I’m not talking about positions, but we’re going to sign two or three players. We have to sign a pivot, a defender, a striker, that’s a question of money.” assured.
The one he sees far away is Arthur Melo. “He has a prohibitive salary. He is a very big player, but we don’t have financial possibilities,” he admitted.
Gattuso will have to settle for the club’s economic possibilities, but for now he is happy with the team’s performance. “The team is incredible, they are playing very different football and it is not easy. But they are doing very good things, they have understood everything we want in just three months”.
According to the criteria of
Know more