Put Voro in your life and you can think about the future. At least for Mestalla it usually works. Once the victory against Valladolid has been achieved, Valencia is free from the sin of relegation, at least it is saved in sport, because the rift between Lim and the fans is another story. So the club, Lim's men (because the Singaporean tycoon does not yet have the will to leave) begin to plan the next course. And the first stop is the bench, from which Javi Gracia was thrown out a week ago, from which Voro will move away once the fire has been put down and in which Two names center the debate of pros and cons in the offices: Pepe Bordalás and Diego Martínez.
“We want a strong coach, a leader,” Anil Murthy commented last week. The president has gone from wanting a “civil servant coach”, which was what he said after Marcelino's dismissal, to “a leader” after the failures of the Celades and Gracia projects. What is meant by leader in Singapore? As pointed out from the club, a technician who gives the team identity, who takes advantage of the resources it has, with answers for the players and with whom the fans identify, which they think they would appease if they are presented with a draft. Let's say that they are manual arguments, of a self-help book, but that at the moment of truth they have to be accompanied by a relationship of sincerity in planning that without going any further was not had with Grace.
The names of Pepe Bordalás and Diego Martínez are, today, the best placed – not the only ones, because others like Robert Moreno have also been considered – among those who meet that profile in Corona's opinion. At the moment, Valencia has not made a decision, although Peter Lim is aware of the details of the Alicante and Galician. The reports have them and this time there will be no meeting of Murthy with Lim in Singapore, because the pandemic would delay it 21 days due to the quarantine that the Asian country requires of those who travel from Spain. So Lim, as always, has the last word and in Valencia they await his answer before the end of the League.
Murthy and Corona intend to have a new top coach in early June. They want to turn his figure into the first stone and image of the project, which will once again be low-profile as far as signings are concerned and in which there will be new departures, although to a lesser extent than last summer. They will talk about all this with their chosen ones for the bench, some technicians who, in the case of Bordalás and Martínez, have their own peculiarities when negotiating.
Bordalás has 520 games of experience (149 in the First Division with Getafe, which he led to the Europa League)
Bordalás, for example, a coach who was already in Murthy's shortlist, although he finally opted for Javi Gracia (among other reasons because Bordalás had a Europa League to play with Getafe in August), He has one more year of contract with Getafe. That is, either Bordalás reaches a termination agreement with Ángel Torres or Valencia, with Getafe. Obviously the situation in the classification of the azulón club does not give rise to talks until the end of the League. Bordalás has 520 games of experience (149 in the First Division with Getafe, which he led to the Europa League).
Diego Martínez has directed 311 games, 72 in First with Granada, which he qualified for Europe
Diego Martínez will not think about his future either until the end of the course. “There are no news, nor will there be any,” the Galician said in April about his renewal. His case is different from Bordalás because the contract ends. As AS has learned, the Nasrid leaders disconnect 12 days before the last day of their decision. He has not told them that he wants to continue or that he is going to leave. In his case, the experience on the benches is 311 games, 72 of them in First with Granada, which he also qualified for the Europa League.