EI Valencia has long been willing to negotiate the renewals of Kang-in Lee (ends in 2022), Gayà (2023), Gabriel Paulista (2022) and Daniel Wass (2022). The club wants to avoid, especially in the case of the Korean, another Ferran case, that is, that I reached the last year of my contract without renewing; he also intends to adapt Gayà's salary to his role in the team; while his intention with the Brazilian and the Danish is to negotiate an extension with the 'Piqué or Ter Stegen formula', that is, more years in exchange for readjusting his salary to the times of pandemic.
But, for the moment, none of the footballers are in a hurry to renew. In fact, they have all frozen the negotiations. Their positions have a point in common: the uncertainty of the club.
By age and expectations, Kang-in Lee's situation is the one that worries the most within Valencia. In his case, the aforementioned uncertainty surrounding the project and his personal projection is added. The commercial area knows the value of the Kang-in brand in Asia, although the Korean feels that with Gracia he is not having continuity either.
Kang-in is seen today with Gracia as with Marcelino and Celades. In addition, money is not his priority today, since he has signed succulent advertising contracts. Therefore, the Korean has no intention of sitting down to negotiate. And so the times accelerate as happened with Ferran Torres.
Gayà, Gabriel and Wass are not in a hurry either. They see themselves with a contract in force and prefer to wait to see what direction the project takes. Valencia lives in sports uncertainty and in full social tension. The players see that Gracia asked to leave, that Kondogbia wants to leave, that eight teammates left and no one signed up in the summer. Therefore, they prefer to wait.
Valencia, everything is said, will not wait forever nor will it extend the relationship until the effective date of its current contracts. The club will put the players up for sale if it does not see the will to negotiate or if the answer is negative to an offer that is considered no longer going to improve.