Jose Bordalás already has ceased to be coach of the Valencia. The technician from Alicante knew that it was a matter of time before the club will notify you of your dismissal when he has just completed a year of contract and had another. He was the technical secretary, Miguel Ángel Corona, the one who called this Friday first thing in the morning to inform you of the club’s decisionafter meeting with Acting CEO Sean Baiwhich had arrived on Thursday from Singapore.
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION
After 1:30 p.m. this Friday, June 3, the club made the dismissal of Bordalás official with a brief statement:
Valencia CF announces that José Bordalás is ending his time as coach of the first team. The Club would like to thank him for all his work and dedication during his time as a Valencianista, in which the team qualified for the Copa del Rey final, and wishes him the best of luck in his career.
The Valencia you will have to pay one compensation of 700,000 euros to the technician, as it was agreed in the contract you signed in May 2021, and in which a window had been opened for a unilateral termination for either of the two parties with said penalty. Bordalás is now free to negotiate with another club, although the first division benches are covered at this time.
Peter Lim tried to keep it a secret that he was negotiating the signing of Gennaro Gattuso in Singapore, until he revealed it on Tuesday night Tutto Mercato. Hours later, the club itself confirmed this information to through the official radio, despite the fact that the coach of the first team had not received no communication by an executive Meriton about what was happening. Only the technical secretary, Michelangelo Crowncontacted the coach from Alicante on Monday, after the dismissal of president Anil Murthy became official, to confirm that he had not received any information about the Next steps of the largest shareholder.
Bordalás has lasted just one year in office, after being presented on May 27, 2021 as the “lead coach” on which the new project was to be built. The idea of dispensing with him former President Anil Murthy had fabricated, who met in Milan with Gattuso in April. What Murthy did not expect was Lim’s sudden dismissal of him after the filtering of the audios through Superdeporte in which he revealed opinions compromising and sensitive information about the club’s future plans.
Cup finalist and 9th in the League
Bordalás leaves Valencia after finishing in 9th position in LaLiga and how cup finalist He lost in the penalty shootout. The argument used by the club to justify the dismissal focused on some poor numbers for the level of the first team squad –there were no sales in the summer past-, have focused on the cup in the previous weeks which caused the team to disengage from European positions, the bad streaks of results (chained two streaks of 7 and 8 games without winning respectively) and also, the way in which publicly discussed the transfer policyespecially after the winter market.
