Official: Vicente Guaita extends stay at Valencia

This is nothing new, basically the contract was already signed and Guaita was staying in Valenica, but this is just the official announcement.

Vicente Guaita contract has been extended to the year 2015, which means he is going to be in Valencia for 4 more years. He will have some additional competition next season in Diego Alves who came from Almeria, although his contract is still not officially presented.

Anyways this summer Moya is set to leave, Renan as well and there is still the discussion of whether Cezar should stay in the club or not.

At the official presentation of Guaita's renewal was Valencia president Manuel Llorente and Mayor María José Catalá. Llorente heaped praise upon Guaita as expected and encouraged him to continue working hard.

It was an emotional day for Vicente Guaita as he cried several times during the ceremony, but I guess its understandable, as he is signing for the one of the best teams in the world, certainly the best team in Spain and who wouldn't get emotional for such an honor.

Kevin Gameiro transfer to be resolved very soon

Last day of the championship on Sunday and the 50th goal of Kevin Gameiro in the colors of FC Lorient in the league, his 22nd of the season. This new realization was not enough to dethrone Lorient striker Moussa Sow, who, at the same time, scored a hat trick (his third this season) against Stade Rennais.

With the French league officially over Kevin Gameiro future at Lorient is set to be resolved in two weeks. Kevin Gameiro wants to transfer to Valencia CF and has told Lorient president about his decision and expects to know about his future in two weeks time, so that he is at ease in the summer.

The problem with the transfer is obviosly the transfer fee. The club want to sell Gameiro, Valencia want to buy him and the player himself wants to join Valencia, but the problem is that Lorient want to get between 10-12 million euros for him, while Valencia are willing to give between 6-7 million euros.

He is a first class striker and Lorient want to sell him, otherwise they would loose him next year for free, so Valencia president must make all efforts to sign him and yet not break the bank, so its a fine balance to keep.

Hopefully Valencia fans would see him at the Mestalla next season as he is one of the best strikers right now in Europe. In fact 11 clubs offered to buy Gameiro, but he reportedly refused all 11 clubs just to come to Valencia.

David Albelda to stay with Valencia

David Albelda had a meeting with Valencia CF president Manuel Llorente last week where they talked about increasing Albelda's contract by one year. Valencia president Llorente put a proposal on the table and its said that Albelda will become from one of the most paid footballers at the club right now to one of the least paid players if he accepts the new proposed contract. In fact the new salary is said to be bellow 1 million euros.

David Albelda has looked at the proposal and talked with his family about it and seems like he is going to accept the new contract in order to continue with Valencia. He has reportedly also had offers from other clubs in Spain, but his wish is to stay at Valencia and finish his career there.

I fully expect Albelda to sign one more year for Valencia CF, but this is football and anything is possible, so until its not official its merely speculations. 

Valencia Mestalla promoted to segunda B

Today Valencia Mestalla won by two goals to zero against Alcobendas Sport and got promoted to segunda B division.

The victory was achieved before the president of Valencia Manuel Llorente, first team coach Unai Emery and technical secretary Braulio Vasquez.

This is a milestone for the Valencia youth team as it reversed the trends of recent years of going down and from this season started going up and hopefully the trend can continue.

Valencia Mestalla won on aggregate 3-0, the first match played at the mini Mestalla, VCF Mestalla won 1-0 and now they won 2-0.

VCF Mestalla scored the first goal in the 70th minute of the match through Minano and this basically guaranteed them a promotion, but Carles Salvador put the nail in the coffin in the 90th minute when he scored the second goal for Mestalla.

Technical Details:
Alcobendas (0): Oliver, Gustavo, Nacho González, Álex, Jorge, Municio, Carlos Bartolomé, Dani Martínez, Ismael, Prieto and Gonzalo Rico.

Valencia Mestalla (2): Saúl, Ximo Navarro, Pardo, Borja, Robert, Miñano, Portu, Montoro, Paco Alcácer, Isco and Cristian.

Valencia CF player ratings 2010/11 season

Here are the player ratings for the 2010/11 season. All the ratings are final. The points show the average player rating and accumulative points are the number of games played/rating per match.

note: Not all matches have been rated, so the results should not be taken as a 100% representation of how the players performed.

You can also download the ratings in Microsoft Excel HERE

Player	Points	Accumulative points
Cezar Sanchez	7	105
Sofiane Feghuoli	7	7
Isco Alocron	6.75	13.5
Pablo Hernandez	6.537	176.5
Vicente Rodriguez	6.4615	84
Vicente Guaita	6.2045	136.5
Miguel Angel Moya	6.125	24.5
Tino Costa	6.0833	146
Joaquin Sanchez	6.0769	158
David Albelda	6.0714	85
Ever Banega	6.0652	139.5
Jordi Alba	6.0556	109
Miguel Brito	6.0455	133
Paco Alcacer	6	6
Roberto Soldado	5.9286	207.5
Juan Mata	5.9091	195
Mehmet Topal	5.9	147.5
Bruno Saltor	5.6944	102.5
Chori Dominguez	5.6818	62.5
Jonas Gonclaves	5.625	67.5
Manuel Fernandes	5.5909	61.5
Jeremy Mathiey	5.5167	165.5
Angel Dealbert	5.5	82.5
Hedwiges Maduro	5.4688	87.5
Ricardo Costa	5.3571	150
David Navarro	5.325	106.5
Aritz Aduriz	5.2679	147.5
Marius Stankevicious	5.25	105

Soldado voted best player of the season

Roberto Soldado was voted this season's best player by you the fans. With 47 votes Soldado easily surpassed Mata who was following him for much of the time, but at the end Soldado votes spiked up and ended up getting 20 votes or 42%.

He beat competition from the likes of Juan Mata, Tino Costa, Joaquin Sanchez, Pablo, etc...

Roberto Soldado had a bad start to the season getting injured in the preseason and missing the first several matches. He slowly started coming to the first team, but at that time Aritz Aduriz was the first choice striker and was scoring goals and working very hard, earning him best player of the first half of the season awarded by me


Soldado exploded the last 3 months of the season and managed to score most of his goals, including a quadruple (4goals) against his former team Getafe and continued his goalscoring form until the last match.

Valencia CF interested in Yohan Cabaye

Valencia CF are reportedly interested in Lille's Yohan Cabaye. It seems that the Valencia technical secretariat along with the coach have decided that Ever Banega may leave and that they might want to sell him if a good offer comes along so they are lining up possible replacements for him and high on that list in French international Yohan Cabaye who plays for Lille. Lille just won its first French title in more than 4 decades and Yohan Cabaye has been one of the most standard players.

Valencia is hoping that the French connection and still current teammate Adil Rami is going to be enough to convince the player to switch to Valencia.

The biggest problem for Valencia though would be his price as he is currently valued at 10 million euros and since Lille just won the French title his price is unlikely to go down.