Pretty frustrating to watch Valencia struggle so much due to a terrible owner. Their social media team tries to highlight the fact that they use their academy players more than almost any other top division team in Europe but it's only due to Lim refusing to spend any money.
Amunt!
Valencia should be proud of promoting from the cantera, but the club is definitely being mismanaged. It wouldn’t take a huge outlay to make them more competitive either if they scout well. Imagine if they’d only spent the 21 million it took for Sporting Lisbon to get a guy like Gyokeres. Sure they need more than just him, but a goalscorer like that for Valencia is probably the difference between mid table and a European place. Also, with the stadium and being in Europe the investment probably largely pays for itself.
I don't mind finishing behind Real and being eliminated by PSG, as we can't match those teams at this point in our history.
But finishing a whole season behind Girona is a historical disgrace.
So glad I prioritized birdwatching instead of the match today.
Actually, we have to give Girona some credit because irrespective of us they’re still having a very strong season. You’re still right though. It’d be OK if we didn’t have the talent, but we do. I’m not even a fan of some of our highest profile players, but we should still be performing better. I have a feeling we either won’t/can’t get rid of the players we should, but I hope we can at least bring in a couple of players we need.
Also, agreed on Xavi. Managerial merry-go-round has changed a bit in the last couple of weeks and now I’m definitely more in the camp of “take a chance and bring him in”. It’s not as though there aren’t still some interesting managers out there, though a couple of weeks ago it seemed as though there were destined for elsewhere. I think my biggest gripe are his selections and refusal to give guys minutes because they weren’t “his signings” even if they perform.