QThere are just a few days to open the winter market Y Jose Bordalás wants more … is in full ‘campaign’ to make the executives of the club see as also that it reaches Peter Lim, Valencia’s largest shareholder, requests to reinforce the squad. For try to make the qualitative leap. And the truth is that you can take advantage of a basic argument. With Lim at Valencia there have always been market movements in January. To the good and to the bad.
Comes a new reinforcement window and the technician is asking to reinforce his squad. Because He was left half last summer and considers that it is fair. It has been seen as soon as there have been two very specific casualties. But then there is Lim’s decision. Disconnected from the project in recent years. Since that Copa del Rey everything changed. It is as if with a title won he had already fulfilled and since then everything has worked under minimums.
LIM SIGNINGS IN WINTER: FROM MORE TO LESS
- 2015: Enzo Perez (25 million: Benfica)
- 2016: Cheryshev (ces. Real Madrid) and Siqueira (ce. Atlético de Madrid)
- 2017: Orellana (3 million: Celta) and Zaza (2 loan + 16 buy: Juve)
- 2018: Coquelin (12 million: Arsenal) and Vietto (Ces. Atlético de Madrid)
- 2019: Nephew (5 million, Alavés) and Roncaglia (Ces. Celta de Vigo)
- 2020: Florenzi (ces. Rome)
- 2021: Olive (ces. Cagliari), Ferro (ces. Benfica) and Cutrone (ces. Wolves)
Because, with the winter market there are many examples. The early years of the Lim era, Valencia spent more than 60 million euros between transfers and assignments from January 2015 to January 2018. Enzo Perez (25 million in January 2015), Zaza (16 + 2 loan in January 2017), Orellana (January 3, 2017), Coquelin (12, in January 2018), Nephew (January 5, 2019) in addition to assignments of Cheryshev, Siqueira …
Lim: from 63 kilos in winter to make a fist
But in in recent years it has been noted that Lim clenched his fist. Yes He admitted that they would bring players but with very specific conditions, which will not cost a transfer. All assignments, punctual reinforcements. A resigned an expensive operation but with many limitations. It was that of Florenzi (nothing was paid for the transfer but the average token was 3 kilos) … until reaching the market of the last year where the limitations were even greater. In the middle of the economic crisis,Lim turned off the tap even more in January 2021. And he only admitted, due to the critical sporting circumstances that were experienced with the team flirting with the lower zone, that a player came at zero cost. Assignments. More numbers than quality … because not one of the three played. Ferro, Oliva and Cutrone. It barely cost him two million his assignments.
