Malaga setting up a final offer for Joaquin

There are conflicting reports coming from Spanish media about the situation with Joaquin. Some report that Malga is very close to signing Joaquin, while others report that Malaga are willing to wait 6 months to a year to purchase Joaquin.

There are also reports that Joaquin was seen meeting with the Sheik, the new owner of Malaga if you didn't know and eating lunch together. Joaquin was reportedly with his manager and the Sheik was with staff from the club.

Based on an educated guess I'm fairly certain this is what is happening: Joaquin Sanchez has reached a deal with Malaga so now the ball is between Malaga and Valencia, but this so far is known, the new stuff is that Malaga aren't willing to offer more than 5 million euros. So what they have in mind is to make one final offer for Joaquin that is going to be around 5.5 million euros, but as always the final sum is based on clauses like the number of times Joaquin plays, how many assists, goals ans stuff like that.

Previous offers were 3.5 million euros in cash and then 1.5 million in clauses. Right now Malaga is likely to offer 4.5 million euros cash and 1 million in clauses. If the offer is refused by Valencia CF, then Malaga is probably going to wait 6 months and try and sign Joaquin in the winter transfer for probably much lower transfer fee or wait until next summer and get him for free.

Official: Daniel Parejo joins Valencia CF

As I've reported 2 days ago here Daniel Parejo was officially cleared by Real Madrid and is now officially a Valencia CF player. He is still not yet officially represented and there is a deliberation now whether to be a presentation in the next days just on the official Valencia CF website or in person, when Parejo returns from the U21 tournament.

Daniel Parejo was purchased from Getafe for 6 million euros and a loan deal involving our goalkeeper Miguel Angel Moya, but wait here comes the bad part about this - Real Madrid have attached a 2 year buy-back clause on Parejo.

Valencia CF had agreed the transfer of Daniel Parejo for less than 6 million euros, but actually increased the payment to try and prevent Real Madrid snatching him out, because the current clause says that they must pay triple his current transfer fee to buy him back. This would mean if Real Madrid want to buy-back Parejo they would need to pay 18 million euros.

Real Madrid stood strong in their buy-back clause and Valencia crumbled in the negotiations, which I think were absolutely poorly planned. First of all I don't value Parejo at 6 million euros, second of all I don't like Valencia CF players having buy-back clause's and third I don't think Getafe's evaluation for the player of about 10 million euros at the beginning of the negotiations  should have been accepted by Valencia CF.

And I know I've been overly critical in my last 2-3 articles about Valencia CF business, but I feel that Valencia CF staff can't be taking these situations lightly and doing any mistakes when we are talking about such important topics.

This season could make or brake Valencia CF and if we don't do ourselves some justice this summer its going to be a long and tough season in which not everything will go our way. I think the 2 year buy-back clause should have been avoided, could have been avoided and even if it couldn't be avoided we should have looked at cheaper and better midfield options.

Official: Valencia CF 2011/12 dress revealed

Valencia CF late last night at the hotel Torres de Serrano revealed the new dress made by Joma for the 2011/12 season. The new dress was presented by Adil Rami. The new dress is the replica of the year 1979 when Valencia CF won the King cup.

The new 2011 dress is called "Senyera" and while it has a lot of history to it and its with the colors of the Valencia region, its looks plain and pretty bad, its not terrible, but I think it should have been modernized or just outright design new dress, don't borrow a design 40- years old

Not to look like I'm against the region colors, I'm not, but the dress design is pretty bad and this is what happens when you take a dress that was worn more than 40 ago and bring it to the new age, it looks old, it looks plain, it looks boring. I'm sure the dress could have been modernized a little bit, especially after we were spoiled with some amazing looking dresses in the last couple of years.


My question is to Joma and Valencia: Who will buy this new dress, its not only supposed to be something to wear at games, its supposed to have selling properties, you know to get Valencia CF out of the financial situation it is.

I think the dress design is a huge mistake and I wouldn't even be surprised if Valencia changed the design mid season after low amount of shirts sold.

Don't get me wrong, the new shirt is not terrible but it could have been much, much better.

Adil Rami official Valencia CF presentation

Today French international Adil Rami was officially presented as a new Valencia CF player and basically the first reinforcement this summer, although his contract has been achieved since the winter transfer market.

Adil Rami signed for some fans, there was a lot of reporters, of course Valencia CF technical secretary Braulio Vazquez was there and he went through a sort of fast medical, which is more of a ceremonial thing that anything, as he has previously gone through extensive medical tests.

He spoke shortly to the media and had this to say:""I am very happy to be in Valencia. For me it is an honor to be in this club. Amunt Valencia."

Adil Rami has had a great season with Lille with whom the won the French league and French cup and has played all of Lille's matches, except few when he was injured.

Tomorrow Adil Rami and Joma will have a big reveal in which the new Valencia CF dress will be revealed and Adil Rami will be the model obviously. The new dress is expected to be in the colors of the region Valencia.

Valencia CF transfers speculation

There has been a lot of news the past couple of days in the transfers department and the biggest news has definitely been Kevin Gameiro doing a 180 degree flip and joining PSG, instead of Valencia CF.

But as I've said this is probably a good thing in disguise and Valencia CF staff will now focus their attention on signing two defenders. Since our piggy bank has all of a sudden increased by 10 million euros we didn't spend on a forward, we can now spend 10 million more on defense. Valencia is looking at signing a right back and another central defender to accompany Adil Rami.
Valencia CF will not look to buy another striker as the current 3 strikers are deemed sufficient by the technical staff and coaching staff.

Juan Mata has once again been linked to a move away from Valencia CF, this time with a move to Liverpool, but as you'd imagine this is not true at all. Juan Mata has said he is happy at Valencia and wants to stay and the club want to keep him as well. In fact I know for a fact that the club is trying to build a team around him, because right now he is our best player.

Then there is the situation with Joaquin Sanchez and his transfer to Malaga which reportedly is closer and closer and Malaga has increased its offer from 2 million euros to 3 million to now 5 million euros for the winger. I think Valencia CF will still push for 7 million and hopefully we'll be able to get 7 million, but whatever the case Joaquin is very, very close to going to Malaga.

The deal with Getafe about Daniel Parejo is sealed and done. The wait was on Real Madrid to officially confirm they won't exercise their option to buy-back the player and the deal could go through. I have reasons to believe that Real Madrid have given it the go and we are now waiting for just an official statement from Valencia CF that they've signed Daniel Parejo.

Gameiro disses Valencia, goes to PSG

Valencia CF president Manuel Llorente and Lorient president Loyce Fery had a long and tough negotiation yesterday in London, but actually managed to reach an agreement for the transfer of Kevin Gameiro.
Manuel Llorente gave and increased the bet to 10 million euros, at what point Loyce accepted the transfer fee.

But in an unbelievable turn of events Kevin Gameiro dissed Valencia CF and had chosen to accept the offer from French PSG.

Kevin Gameiro had decided with the "guidance" of French national team coach, more like bribery or something, where he essentially threatened Gameiro to go to PSG or he will be dropped from the national squad and from the upcoming European Championchip and of course Gameiro broke and accepted the PSG deal. He should have called Laurent Blanc bluff and moved forward to join Valencia, just as he declined offers from a ton of other clubs.

Lets just say that the Valencia delegation was visibly disappointed and confused by this move by Kevin Gameiro. After tough negotiations, putting aside a lt of other transfers and even paying 10 million euros to bring him, this has been one of the most bizarre happenings in the newer history of Valencia.

Valencia CF loosing Kevin Gameiro

Well its almost certain that Valencia CF is going to loose Kevin Gameiro, as Valencia and Lorient are unable to come to an agreement over the transfer price. Even though Gameiro has been very vocal about coming to Valencia, Lorient president isn't budding one bit and keeps his firm position.

The fact that Llorente came out public and said that Valencia CF won't pay 12 million euros to bring Gameiro just sort of seals the fate of this transfer.

There are two other options but they are probably bad for every party involved and one is to use the Uefa legislation that allows a player to buy out his contract and the other one is to basically wait out a year and get Gameiro for free.

Both of those options are bad because if Valencia used that Uefa legislation it would damage its reputation and this fares bad for our sponsors, fans and how other clubs would view Valencia.

The option of waiting out 1 year is also pretty bad, especially from the players perspective and even from Valencia's side as who knows what will happen in one year, maybe Gameiro will become bad, maybe we would find cheaper but better forwards, etc...