Peter Lim turned off the investment tap 515 days ago, when he signed Thierry Correia for 12 million euros, and today marks a year since the last reinforcement approved by the owner of Valencia: Alessandro Florenzi, who arrived on loan without cost or purchase option from Roma. Since then, the locker room door has only turned out from: Rodrigo, Ferran, Parejo, Coquelin, Kondogbia …
Anil Murthy and Miguel Ángel Corona try against the clock to incorporate a midfielder into Gracia and thus avoid being in evidence as happened in summer, when the Navarrese coach was also promised reinforcements and no one arrived. For that reason, that search, Murthy did not travel to Seville, although nothing has been advanced in recent days. They have knocked on several doors (Winks, Torreira …), but they do it with an empty wallet. One of the routes that they keep open today is that of Florentino Lluís (21 years old), on loan from Benfica to Monaco.
Lim only allows repeating an operation like Florenzi's -concession without paying for it- and 72 hours after the market closes, the only new face that Gracia has seen is that of Piccini, recovered after leaving Atalanta in the summer. Valencia, two points behind the decline, has been failing for a year in how many operations it has tried. It must be remembered that on February 2, 2020, Garay was injured for a long time and since then, with market expansion therefore included, the club has been unable to find a replacement for him.
Lim, whom the pandemic has detracted from other areas of his business, has been at Valencia for six seasons. In this time he invested around 500 million in transfers and raised about 430 from transfers. But in the summer he made it clear that his only concern was making cash.