Soldado all but certain to feature on Euro 2012

Yesterday Barcelona's doctor reported that Villa is not ready to play for Spain, which was followed by David Villa himself on twitter saying that he tried to be ready, but ultimately is not 100% fit to play for Spain.

This will all but cement Soldado's place in Spain's squad for Euro 2012 and would also probably mean that Torres will also be called to the squad as Villa is gone. So with two slots open chances are looking great and only if Del Bosque decided to bring back Pedro from Barcelona and pick Negredo over Soldado will Soldado not feature.

So far Roberto Soldado has trained for few days with Spain, alongside Jordi Alba.

Espanyol wants Chori Dominguez

Espanyol is interested in Chori Dominguez as they look to strengthen their squad for the coming season. They lack most in the attack and so they have identified Chori Dominguez as the perfect reinforcement.

While I know most would cheer at this idea, it is said that Pellegrino is a fan of his compatriot Chori and is looking to integrate him into the Valencia CF squad.

Fenerbahce to buy Mehmet Topal?

Spanish website Superdeporte reports that Turkish club Fenerbahce has a 7 million offer ready for Valencia CF defensive midfielder Mehmet Topal and is their prime target to get this summer.

Mehmet Topal didn't play too many matches this season and his quality dropped down a bit from last season, and the fact that he is from Turkey means that he wouldn't be too opposed to leave Valencia CF.

Turkish offer for Tino Costa

Spanish radio station "Nou" claims that as of now an unnamed Turkish club has offered 6 million euros for Tino Costa. This is probably true, as radio station Nou have been pretty accurate in all of their reports.

Tino Costa has said that he will be looking for offers as he was not pleased this year with his playing time, although I wish he'd actually his performances and how bad they were this years, instead of blaming everyone else for his weakness and bad play.

Anyways he is probably going to reject any offer coming from Turkey as he is hoping to get an offer from France from Lille, Sochaux or Montepellier.

Valencia CF offers Maduro a contract extension

Superdeporte reports that Valencia CF have offered Hedwiges Maduro a two years contract extension. Maduro is right now in Holland working with his national team and has said that he wants to continue somewhere where he'll get more playing time so he doesn't loose his chances for playing for Holland.

Hedwiges Maduro is going to make a decision in at most two weeks and we'll see what his decision will be, but don't be surprised if he decides to leave, although so far no team has shown interest for him.

Valencia CF players 2011/12 season ratings

Here are the ratings for all players over the season. Note that I failed to watch and/or rate the players at all matches, so this year the ratings aren't as telling for the players performance as last year. Also remember that some players have played only one or few games, so high score with few games doesn't mean anything.

Still though its a pretty good measurement and I will be taking these ratings, statistical data, other ratings and deep analysis to come up with the best player this season.

I've also put up a poll to gauge the public opinion on who is the best player and so far the poll results are very equal.

Valencia CF - USA tourney

Valencia CF will have a tour of the USA that will be held from 25.05 to 01.06 this year. Valencia CF is going to play two friendlies on this tour against Portland and Houston Dynamo.

Valencia CF sporting director Braulio Vazquez said that this trip is very important and with it Valencia CF will be expanding its market to the USA and later to Asia expanding both these markets.

Host of Valencia CF in the USA will be former Valencia CF player Mario Kempes who now works for the sports network ESPN.

Players traveling to the USA tourney:

•  D. Alves
•  Guaita
•  Barragán
•  Miguel
•  Joel
•  Dealbert
•  Victor Ruiz
•  Pardo
•  Mathieu
•  Albelda
•  Portu
•  Tino Costa
•  Dalmau
•  Pablo
•  Carles Gil
•  Piatti
•  Parejo
•  Jonas
•  Aduriz