Eray Comert has already landed on Peanuts to close his signing for Valencia. The Swiss central defender, who has a closed agreement with the club Mestalla from this weekend, it will pass medical examination and will sign a ccontract until 2026. Valencia will pay an amount less than a million euros for the transfer of the defender, who was a free agent since January 1, after the footballer refused to renew with the Swiss club, with which he had a contractual relationship until June 30 of this year. For this reason, the 23 year old footballer He stopped being part of the starting team in November and the calls, in December.
In his first words (in English), the player has assured that he is happy to collect in a club like Valencia. “I’m happy to get to LaLiga and Valencia. This afternoon I hope everything is signed. Of course I have spoken with Alderete from the team.”
The central will reinforce the defense of the Valencian team and will become the first reinforcement of the winter market, as coach José Bordalás had been demanding for weeks. The technician from Alicante knows trade, which was Alderete’s teammate at Basel, after the matches Europe League of the 2019-20 season they played Getafe and the Swiss club.
This season, Comert has played 19 games (1,524 minutes) between all competitions despite the fact that at this moment he has not played for almost three months (since November 4 when he played the 90 minutes of a game of Conference League).
The Valencia hopes to make official the hiring of the Swiss soccer player in the next few hours, so that he can put himself under the orders of Bordalás already next Thursday -the squad has three days off as there is no day on the weekend-. Once he is registered in LaLiga, Comert could already debut with Valencia in the next match of Cup against Cádiz (Wednesday, February 2, 9:00 p.m., in Mestalla). In fact, his arrival could not be more opportune, since Omar Alderete was injured in the match against Atlético and, with Paulista trying to avoid the operating room, there was only Diakhaby as central defender of the first team, in addition to Hugo Hard who is playing as a central midfielder as his main position this season.
