By The Skin of Our Teeth
By: Javier | November 10th, 2009
A petition had been sent to the Vatican to begin the process of recognizing all Valencia CF fans as saints.
Its to be expected of course seeing how much suffering we are forced to endure week in and week out.
My blood pressure is high and my finger nails are non-existant.
Valencia will surely be the death of me.
Todays Copa performance was just one more stressing moment in my life as a Valencia follower.
Once again our backups have shown why they are backups.
2-2 in Mestalla against a lower division team is simply not an acceptable result. unless your Real Madrid..;)
This Dr Jekyll and Mr hide performance really needs to end.
At first Valencia stormed the field and scored 2 goals in 15 minutes.
This is what should be expected of thistype of pairing.. but in character fashion our backups continue to allow opposing teams to get back into the game.
By the final whistle 2-2.
The defence looked lost. The midfield had no control of the middle either.
And in my honest opinion. Cesar has no competition for #1 keeper. That much is obvious now.
On the bright side.
Valencia have qualified for the next round of play.
And the undefeated streak continues.
Lets just assume this was another instance of Valencia playing to the level of their opponents.
Next up.
Los Che travel north to Pamplona to face Osasuna November 22nd.
Osasuna are currently in 10th place.
If last weeks Valencia squad show up this match should be another 3 points in the win category.
Playing in Pamplona is never an easy tast however and we should expect alot of attacking football.
The defence will have to be on and that means no Alexis in the back line.
No experimenting.
Emery is sure to play it safe for this one and we shoudl expect the best out of a team that has an excellent away record.
Villa Silva Mata and Pablo are all healthy and have in the last few weeks proven their attacking prowess.
Our only worry is the central midfield.
Personally a Marchena and Banega matching is ideal. The only question mark being above Banega’s head as the last couple of weeks have shown his current lack of energy.
My prediction.
Osasuna 0-1 Valencia
AMUNT VALENCIA
Javier De Roque
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Hahaha kudos for wannabe platini ! But i have to correct so many wrongs in one sentence
Best lovers are obviously the Chinese, best cooks are Somalians, best cars are made in Russia and an off road, if its not a Kia than im not interested! DUH!! Damn these French have a mixed up world image 
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Mates, just look at this photo:
xD Manny, baby!
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Fenerbahce interested in Zigic by the way – exchange with Güiza regarded as possible.
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Fernandes will be ready for lille match….FINALLY!!!!
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I have now officially switched from Firefox to Chrome.
Chrome > Firefox
*Orgasm*Posted from
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LOL Kyle… I switched last week… and yeah Chrome is >>>>
:-BPosted from
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We from the old continent have had Chrome since the day they launched it mate, its awesome for sure
I got a good movie Manny should play in, Zoolander 2! He fits perfectly:
http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/wp-content/2008/04/zoolander_blog240×303.jpg
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Yeah. You guys are a little late to jump on the Chrome bandwagon. There are still a few plugins/apps that don’t work on Chrome though. So keep Firefox handy.
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if chrome was as good as you chavalitos say…it would work on a mac.fact.
enry now wants the game replayed as well as the irish.forget it and move on say i.
shit happens,stevan seagal for example.Posted from
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Bob, the answer to your first statements is in your third.
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Hi Have a look at this before you make plans of who you want to buy next. This an online translation, but you get the meaning, All the goodies have to be sold to survive.
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http://www.as.com/futbol/articulo/futbol-milagro-valencia-vivo/dasftb/20091114dasdaiftb_61/Tes&sl=es&tl=enPosted from
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I will translate that and put it on my site. It basically says, We are fucked as a club. We are BEYOND FUCKED. Everyone will be sold, but only for the price we want. We will sell, but not for below market value, and we won’t bring in any new players.
This is why everyone needs to shut up with all their transfer rumors. That stuff is all bullshit. We will only get FREE PLAYERS from now on.
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@Johnnie Walker what was a joke? best cooks are Somalians? I am Somali but I live in Yemen and I always say we are the best at many things and you know what? cooking includes.
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@KYLE, Hi thanks for putting it like that because a lot of guys on here have got to get their head out of the sand so that our ‘posts’have some reality to read.
Despite any of the Spanish papers I read, the subject of who controls Valencia seems to be skirted round. As far as I understood,when the Amplification started, Soler and Soriano did not contribute,SO, their shares would have been reduced by 9/10ths. The shares that were bought amounted to quite a small percentage, maybe a sixth, I cant remember.A group, I presume of business men
lets call it Foundation then raised a bank loan to buy the rest of the shares supposedly to sell on to business firms etc. I have never read of this being done so back to my question,’who has the power’ not llorente he is only appointed….Mystery….Adios AlmendrasPosted from
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Russians are a bunch of spineless, overpaid brats who can’t handle defeat.
Arshavin who? Brecko had him in his pocket both games; it shows he’s playing in premiership.Posted from
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atleast we are out of the SAD and the control lies with the shareholders(fans hopefully) as no one has the majority.. llorente said he wants the control back with the fans and we have reverted back to 2004 prior format.. and on the transfer market I totally agree with you almendras.. my only wish is our cantera has a little more diversity.. no doubt from the sounds at the club the canteranos will have more chances.. maybe one day we can cheer our own messi..
and llorente keeps saying we need to sell players but it’s not going to be villa,silva,pablo or mata.. then who? surely not albelda or marchena.. we will get peanuts.. i can only think manalele, banega, joaquin(i am ok with his sale.. honest),maduro??..
and frankly after investing 55 million i dunno if we will get that much at the moment and manalele and banega in few years time if played regularly and no injuries will be superstars..
we are in a viscious circle
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Interesting part is, Goal.com reports Llorente as saying that Valencia won’t consider selling its best players.
Of course, its Goal.com and the actual quote seems to be more along the lines of ‘we don’t want to unsettle the team by considering the sale of players mid-season’. So he might just have been talking about not wanting to go into all that right now.
It would be good if somebody can find Llorente’s original statement and translate it. Kyle?
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@Nithin:
http://www.superdeporte.es/valencia/2009/11/21/llorente-ahora-pienso-vender-villa-silva/78602.html
Llorente: “Ahora no pienso en vender ni a Villa y ni a Silva” –> “Right now I do not consider to sell neither Villa nor Silva”
Once again Llorente names the Champions League as goal for this season.
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Valencia will NOT sell anyone in January. Period. That is what Llorente means.
However, players could/probably will leave in the summer.
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Valencia CEO Javier Gomez: “It’s a miracle Valencia is still alive.”
AS: Looking at the budget for this year, it seems you will have to give some players up, right?
Gómez: There is something in the budget that calls for “asset sales”, which will account for about €44 million. Assets may or may not be players. If we are talking about footballers, then we could sell one for €44 million, or four players for €12 million each, or three players for €10 million and one for €14 million. Let’s see what the market says. If we sell, it will be for the price we want.
AS: At the General Meeting, Valencia presented a debt of €510 million. But club will have to spend another €180 million to finish the new stadium, so this will basically be a debt of €690 million. In the best case scenario, the Mestalla ground could be sold for maybe €350 million, plus the Capital Increase brought in €92 million; the debt would then be between €240-250 million. Are these numbers correct?
Gómez: That is more or less the situation and what we told the share holders at the meeting.
Read the entire story at http://loco4losche.com/
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Sevilla won at Tenerife 2-1 despite a rare Tenerife goal. Deportivo won 2-1 against Atletico through an injury time penalty after Atletico had taken the lead as early as the 3rd minute.
Neither result going our way. We will have to win tomorrow to continue in 4th and keep in touch with Sevilla.
Atletico meanwhile continue in the relegation zone. Some rotter luck they’ve had this season, except against us.
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@nithin Well is you concede as many as atletico does so far this season its not just luck rather then absolutely terrible overall defending. We had our share off bad defending the last few years but 24 in 11 matches is just really pathetic…
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I dunno…but i dont feel that Atletico will go down…they’ll probably end up somewhere midtable. The same goes for Villarreal.
Now when will Depor and Sevilla slip?
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i wanted x depro and 1x tenerifi. but it is ok. with this result athletiko seems cant fight for chl, so now depor must lose points. isnt realistic that thy play like this all the season. so i cant value much them. for us we must win against osasouna. paly again good defense and be lethal in atack.
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@Fayez Villarreal gonna be ok i think, they are not doing all that bad just a lot of bad luck and some key players out wich hurts but i see them recovering pretty soon. Besides the club is still stable so the focus is on the pitch.
Atletico i dont know.. They play with full guns out and still dont cut i. Furthermore they have plenty off distractions off the pitch and the club is a total mess and the constant internal hemorrhaging doesnt boost performance either.
Sure a with a squad like this they shouldnt go down, then again they did manage to get relegated in 2000 with a squad wich i consider had much more quality then their current one…
As for Depor i think they will slip a bit in the sencond half off the season, though if we win we are ahead of them already. Catching Sevilla won’t happen i think. Actually i think Sevilla is gonna catch Real instead…
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Real escape yet again with an undeserved 1-0. Racing had a perfectly valid equalizer disallowed for offside, because some other Racing player, who wasn’t involved in the goal, was in an offside position.
I hate that team.
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