Jasper Cillessen has been living an odyssey since arriving at Valencia in the summer of 2019. The Dutchman, the second most expensive signing in the club's history in accounting terms (35 millions) has only played, due to different circumstances, the 42% of possible matches (40 of 95)
Bordalás decides this week if, facing the return of the League in Pamplona, taking advantage of the trip with his Mamardashvili team, awards title gallons to Cillessen or he maintains his bet on the young Georgian, who went from being a reinforcement for the subsidiary to one of the sensations in the league start. Mamardashvili, with his good work, took advantage of the opportunity offered by the soleus injury suffered by Cillessen in July, the sixth since he is in Valencia.
Cillessen, the player who assumes the most percentage of staff cost from the dressing room (about 13 million per year), missed 35 of 55 games through injury that he has not come to play with Valencia. In addition, at this time, he was infected with coronavirus in an outbreak that occurred at the farewell meal of Gameiro and Mangala and that left him at the gates of the last European Championship.
The accumulation of misfortunes in the form of injuries has weighed down Cillessen's black and white stage, although his performance under sticks is valued in the club and hence Bordalás wanted him to remain. His reappearance last year was key so that Valencia did not go through more trouble than it did. In his ten games he contributed 36 stops to add 16 points (of the 43 total) and achieve five victories (the half that Valencia achieved in 38 days).
Cillessen was in the market due to its high annual cost and several clubs were interested in his situation. But Valencia only contemplated a transfer for an amount not less than 17 million, since the opposite would have meant losses. In addition Bordalás, from the first day of planning, said that sportingly he wanted to be able to have a goalkeeper of the conditions and benefits of Cillessen.