A few days before the end of the year, it is logical that a club is already in the process of shaping an upcoming sporting project. In this case the 2023-24 season. And much about it in Valencia is unknown. It has been leaked from the unit that two cases have already been analyzed with owner Peter Lim: in the first and second tier. It’s the minimum required at this point… although it’s close to continuing in first class. And you need to start creating the next project.
But it is a true reflection of the loss of unfettered capacity since Valencia was adopted by Meriton in the summer of 2020 that costs had to be cut drastically. Although the sports team is the one that eats up the most land in the budget, they have limited themselves to reducing only that item, which has led to the results of the game. A clear loss of competence accompanied these suffering years.
Well, you may have found a fitting name for a faithful reflection of this management: Kangin Lee. Today a Mallorca player who will face ‘his’ Valencia. The one who took care of him and trained him until he surprisingly passed out through the back door. And he is the indirect hero of this whole story. as management.
In elite football you have to make decisions on a day-to-day basis. And some are strict. But this lets you see the trend of an entity. And Kangin’s case shows what a club this is.
The South Korean has evolved over the years in such a way that it commands a high value for vermilion unit. He is a player with a minimum value of 15 million euros. But the fact remains that he arrived in Palma free. Zero cost. No future option for anything by a black and white unit.
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Kangin’s departure is slated for summer 2021. A strange departure to say the least. Occupying a non-EU spot, Valencia covered the quota of foreign players and had one left (Alderete, Marcos Andre, Maxi Gomez and Kangin)… They shot themselves in their own foot. He had no choice but to let it out. With that agitated movement Valencia were left without the strength to negotiate a sale. And he was to be let out without any compensation, under duress, with a letter of liberty and a diamond that was left only halfway polished because they would never be able to get a piece of it ever again.
These two seasons mean the definite settlement of Kangin. Especially currently where he has become a confirmed player for the elite, so there are already offers and songs from important clubs. There is a winner in all of this here. Mallorca. He took a player without paying a single euro, without a future clause and would get a net cut when he sold it.
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Kangin left Valencia with a market value of around 10 million euros when he was not yet settled. Today in Mallorca it costs 15 kilos. It has increased by 50%. It sounds a bit off, but you have to get to the bottom, not the form.
Given all those Valencia players who have moved on in recent years, the unit’s policy of eliminating costs without stirring its pulse is losing its value. Even at the top. Ferran (up from 50 to 30), Parejo (up from 20 to 7), Kondogbia (up from 17.5 to 18), Coquelin (up from 14.5 to 5), Rodrigo (up from 35 to 9), Neto (up from 18 to 2.5) , NETO (from 18 to 2.5), Solar (from 50 to 30)… These are testimonial data but they mark a trend.
Kangin was a franchise player. And in which you can see the current management of an entity like Valencia that chose to ease its economic crisis with only one objective: the balance to get rid of player salaries without paying attention to other resources or methods of income. That’s why today’s Valencia is so tied by threads.
