Gennaro Gattuso follows the same path as Cesare Prandelli. The two Italian technicians who managed Valencia under Peter Lim’s government have decided to leave after unsuccessfully calling for reinforcements. Prandelli resigned in 2016 and Gattuso six years later. The Calabrian coach handed in his resignation on Monday following a meeting in the sporting city of Paterna with the club’s president, Layhoon Chan; the technical director, Miguel Ángel Corona; and company director Javier Solís. The match, which started at noon, hardly caused a stir because the coach had worked with the team with apparent normality in the morning and the club had announced on Sunday evening that despite the defeat in Valladolid, no scenario for a change on the bench had been considered Descent. Gattuso left Paterna after 7 p.m. and diverted his vehicle off the main driveway leading to the sports town in order to fool the media.
The Italian’s departure caught Layhoon Chan flat-footed, who rushed to tell biggest shareholder Peter Lim of the manager’s decision, despite presumably Singapore’s Gattuso agent Jorge Mendes already knowing about the technician’s request exit. The parties have agreed on an agreed exit, at the request of the Italian coach, which will see the coach step down from his second year of contract, which ended in June 2024.
Last Thursday, following Copa del Rey elimination at the hands of Athletic Club in the Copa del Rey quarter-finals, Gattuso had declared that he would not step down from managing the team, not even due to the team’s harsh context. which at the time was three points from relegation, still over the club’s delay in absorbing the reinforcements they had been calling for since the last transfer market closed. Four days later, however, he leaves the team dejected over the Valladolid defeat as the team are just a point away from relegation and believing that the assets he requested would not arrive 29 hours before the winter transfer was completed Window Gattuso feels like Prandelli cheated by Peter Lim.
Last Friday, during a face-to-face meeting with the squad in the sports city’s main dressing room, Gattuso had asked the players if they believed in him because he needed their commitment to carry out the season against the proximity of the drop, according to Deportes Cope Valencia. A day later, the manager denied this information in the press room, although he had said ahead of the Cup game against Athletic without being asked that if he was not sure if the team believed in him, the best thing would be for the property to trigger the change. He only looked strong to continue when the players were with him. All these sentences explain that Gattuso is not only disappointed with the club but also with the performance of the players.
The side went into the World Cup break with a stunning win over Betis in Mestalla, but since the league’s return, Valencia have been unable to win in the league: one draw and three defeats. Their triumphs boil down to the cup against smaller rivals like La Nucía and Sporting de Gijón. Mestalla exploded on Thursday after the cup defeat against Gattuso and the squad. Confused, insecure and full of doubts, the coach had given up his game model of making constant tactical changes on the field to set the team apart with no results. The situation was alarming because the players didn’t react. With one game remaining in the first round, the team scores 20 out of a possible 54 points.
The departure of Gattuso, who on Sunday evening saw a group of ultras, members of Yomus, waiting for him at Manises airport – he was being interrogated by their leader, Ramón Castro, a well-known fascist with a criminal record – translates into a new one project that fails. Peter Lim has fired his tenth manager since taking control of the Mestalla club in 2014. In that order, Lim has defeated Juan Antonio Pizzi, Nuno Espírito Santo, Gary Neville, Pako Ayestarán, Cesare Prandelli, Marcelino García Toral, Albert Celades, Javi Gracia, José Bordalás and Gennaro Gattuso, playing with Voro as a wild card every time he needed one technician for five transition periods. Precisely Voro will take over the team temporarily while the club moves in the market to find Gattuso’s replacement. Jorge Mendes, Lim’s advisor, has already got to work.
The collection of victims includes a general manager, Mateu Alemany; four sporting directors, Francisco Joaquín Rufete, José Ramón Alesanco, Suso García Pitarch and César Sánchez, and three technical secretaries, Vicente Rodríguez, Jorge López and Pablo Longoria. Numerous office workers have also lost their jobs since 2014. During that time, three presidents have succeeded one another: Amadeo Salvo, Layhoon Chan and Anil Murthy.
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