Vacation

By: Cesar | June 29th, 2009

Finally, the lads can rest.

Nearly a month after Our Beloved’s last competitive match, VCF’s six (sorry, 5 … Raul Albiol is now a Madridista) international players are back from South Africa and the 2009 Confederations Cup, ready to commence their vacations.

Congrats, Juan Mata, David Villa, David Silva, Carlos Marchena and Pablo Hernandez. Rest up. The pre-season’s right around the corner.

Who will be with us is anyone’s guess.

Four of the best clubs in the world are flirting with Villa. Manchester United, Chelsea, Barcelona and Real Madrid would love our striker’s services. And Villa’s flattered. Wouldn’t you be?

So who knows what’ll happen there.

Then there’s Liverpool striker Fernando Torres, who fancies himself a sporting director, as he’s urging current ‘Pool boss and former VCF coach Rafa Benitez to sign our entire roster.

Go for it. Just pay us what they’re worth.

Some Barca fan hacked onto David Villa’s official web site and pleaded for El Guaje to come to the ‘world’s best club.’

I don’t think Villa can play for Brazil as he’s from Spain …

Anyways, it’s the silly season and Albiol’s transfer was just the beginning of it.

There’s word that former Mallorca striker and current Fenerbahce player Dani Guiza wants to play for VCF.

The former Spanish Pichichi wants to play in Spain again. Should Villa leave, could he be an option?

“I would like to return to play in Spain,” Guiza said in Spanish newspaper AS.

“I’ll see if my mate Marchena can give me a little hand to play at Valencia.”

Guiza was speaking after coming off the bench and scoring two late goals to help Spain finish their Confederations Cup campaign with a 3-2 win over South Africa.

That was only Guiza’s second appearance in the tournament, but he made sure he made the most of the opportunity to impress both coach Vicente del Bosque and any watching La Liga scouts.

“I work hard to have minutes and I’ve had the fortune to score two goals,” he added. “It’s not easy to get into the national team, and I must thank the coach.”

I dunno … I haven’t seen him play in Turkey this season but all reports are that he was a dud overseas. Still, his numbers in La Liga don’t lie. His 27 goals in the 2007-08 Spanish season earned him top scorer accolades.

I’m sure he could be useful should he desire a switch. I’d still be more comfortable with a younger, hungrier option … like Negredo. But what do I know?

Oh … Panathinaikos want Carlos Marchena. Really?

Transfer rumors really do my head in … like, really. So I’ll stop there.

I’ll end this with a little diatribe against the VCF board.

I know I’ve railed against Raul Albiol time and again during his Albi-own-gol era with our team.

Still, Albiol wore his heart on his sleeve and LOVED VCF. He was a Valencianista through and through. Now that he’s at Real Madrid, one has to wonder what the VCF board is thinking by selling guys that WANT to be here (Albiol) instead of guys that are selling their maiden head to the highest bidder (Villa).

Look, I don’t profess to have any inside knowledge of the inner workings of the club. So I’m not sure if Villa’s mad at the club for not selling him to Madrid or not. I can only interpret his alleged statements to the press and his non-quotes during the Confederations Cup.

One thing that’s apparent is that he’s not happy with the entire transfer saga. I’m with him there.

But I feel like if he really wanted to stay here, he could have just upped and said, ‘I want to stay with VCF.’

Period. Point blank. We’re done and there’s nothing more to talk about.

Instead, we have this wrangling, this eye-lash batting and flirting with clubs all over Europe. We have his non-statements and his apparent resentment over not being sold to Madrid.

I could be wrong. But I think VCF would be better off sticking with talented, young guys that want to be here rather than superstars that would rather move on.

Ok, I’m off my soap box now.

Great to see the United States do so well before caving and losing, 3-2 yesterday.

Tim Howard. How much can we buy him for???

AMUNT!