Quique Wins … We All Lose
By: Cesar | May 29th, 2007
After my tirade yesterday, Real Madrid rag and supposed Spanish sports daily AS is reporting today that Valencia president Juan Soler will confirm coach Quique Sanchez Flores for next season. UGGH!!!
Tribalfootball.com is also reporting that should Flores stay, sporting director Amedeo Carboni is gone. That’s good news but Flores staying? Uggh …
But wait, there’s more. It’s been revealed Carboni could already have been shown the door if Sevilla sports chief Monchi had not rejected an offer from Soler a month ago. So Soler’s (in picture, right, shaking hands with Flores) been negotiating with Monchi, one of the brightest minds in Spanish football?
Ok, that’s a smart decision. But he said no. So now what?
To top all of that off, it’s maletín season in Spain.
For all of you that don’t know, a maletín is … ‘a suitcase stuffed with cash and secretly handed to teams with nothing to play for so that, well, they do have something to play for; a third-party payment offering incentive to the otherwise motivation-free. No one in Spain openly admits they exist, but they might as well; worse still, hardly anyone sees anything wrong with them – so long, they say, as they’re being paid to win.’
(Thanks, Sid Lowe of the Guardian Unlimited …)
Why is this important? Because with all of the drama surrounding Carboni and Flores, Villa and the Mestalla, captain David Albelda decided to add more juice to the soap opera that is Valencia by making insensitive comments about Basque teams. Again, I turn to Sid Lowe, who says it so much better than I could: The greatest suspicions of all, though, surrounded Real Sociedad’s trip to Osasuna. Back on the final day of 2001, with their fans cheering every opposition attack, already-safe la Real were beaten 1-0 by Osasuna, thus sending the mighty Real Oviedo down to the Second Division instead. This weekend, with Osasuna virtually safe and la Real in desperate trouble, it seemed to be payback time, the right moment to return that bastardly Basque favour, with la Real president Miguel Fuentes insisting that the 1-0 defeat was one of the best moments of his playing career, Osasuna’s fans cheering for la Real and Valencia’s David Albelda declaring: “We all know what Basque teams are like; it’s obvious what the score will be for this one.“
Albelda inserted his foot into his mouth when Osasuna won 2-0, goals by David Lopez and Nekounam.
As The Mestalla Turns. Tune in to see what happens next … it’s never boring, is it?
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Personally if I was you I’d rather Quique stay than Carboni, although getting rid of both would be the best. Quique did a decent job considering your injuries, I just don’t like his ultra-negative style of football, even by Valencia standards.
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Nolan, you can’t be serious? You’d rather have Quique over Carboni. A Coach who is not accountable to anything. When anything goes wrong it is never his fault. A Coach who seeks to undermine the work of Carboni at any cost, the most recent of which Quique said just last week that Sneijder was not needed, and yet the very next day he completely does an about face and says that Sneijder would be welcome if he came? Who do you think prompted the about face? Jesus? It was almost certainly Soler who most likely nudged Quique with a cattle prod and told him to recant and stop being such an ass for a change.
If you may not know, Quique used to work in the press before he coached Getafe, so he has a boat load of colleagues willing to blindly fight for his cause. I don’t really buy the above story because the press towards Carboni this year has been on the whole unequivocally negative whereas Quique’s shit not only smells like roses but he shits intact flower beds as well according to those in the 4th estate. Such one-sidedness is not only unfair but is completely unrealistic to the truth, whatever that may be.
Sorry, to me Carboni, though not ideal, has not done a horrible enough job to merit termination. Quique, on the other hand, has. Valencia did as well this season not because of Quique’s coaching ability, but because of the talent the team has at its disposal. Don’t mean this to sound like a rant, but I just don’t understand why Carboni is villified whereas Quique comes across as a decent coach. Can’t understand it nor do I think it is understandable.
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yes,we all lose…but amunt valencia ALWAYS!!! we have the best football players of the world!!!!
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