Valencia has its Sports City closed. The club had taken measures to avoid Covid-19 infections, but it still could not prevent Gayà, Mangala, Garay, the delegate and a doctor from being infected (and is awaiting the result of more tests, where it is almost certain there will be more positives). Now an exhaustive disinfection will be carried out in the Paterna facilities, where the headquarters of the technical secretary of César Sánchez is located, who has sent his assistants home, but with duties.
Soccer has been paralyzed but not the work of the 13 scouting coordinated by César Sánchez. The technical secretariat will take advantage of the crisis to update its reports. It should be borne in mind that the previous sports management (Mateu Alemany and Pablo Longoria) was abandoned in October and César did not land until January 20. His end of the market was frantic, with the arrival of Florenzi and the possible transfer of Rodrigo. Later, on February 1, Garay was injured. Celades asked for a central defender and the club accepted him, but at no cost. So they had to start looking after a deadline for a central that, by the regulations, would not be in the plans (reports) of Valencia in another market situation.
So it is now that César and his team, whose right hand is Miguel Ángel Corona, have (forcibly) found a gap to filter their reports and begin to determine the profile of possible reinforcements, a task that at this point has more advanced other clubs whose sports leaders have been working since last summer. Valencia, all told, had a high volume of work in their files (Longoria left all his reports made for the club). But now the profiles must be specified to César's criteria.
César coordinates a technical secretariat made up of 13 people
The 13 scouting work with the same tool, one application in which they have videos of matches and footballers from different countries and in which, in turn, they write the relevant reports. César, who divides the work by competitions and demarcations, has access to all the reports and is doing screens. In Valencia, pending the renewal of Ferran, only Garay (who was promised to expand), Florenzi and Costa ended their contract in June.