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The Robbery of Guardado

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Updated: January 5, 2012

Valencia is ahead of Sevilla and Villarreal, their next opponents, and now are taking Guardado for free.

“If we could renew Guardado, without any doubt we would. We have tried many times but up until now but we haven’t found the approval of Mario Ordiales, his representative. But we haven’t lost hope that it will end here. They have told me that Valencia are behind him but somebody else told me Sevilla could be his possible destination.” These are words of Augusto César Lendoiro, president of Deportivo de la Coruña from November 17, 2011 to let the fans know that Guardado made the decision to leave.

After the media made more speculation on Guardado’s possible move to Valencia on the 28th of October, Lendoiro responded to this by saying that he thinks Guardado will more likely make a move to Sevilla. Why? Because during the summer transfer window, Deportivo were negotiating with Sevilla to sign the Mexican midfielder, but what Lendoiro didn’t know, was that Guardado had already agreed to join Valencia verbally.

It is done.

Now, without a contract for the coming season and less than six months for his connections with the club to end, the player is now free and legal action is put in effect for Valencia. It can be said that Valencia beat Sevilla, who were set to pay for Guardado, and are now left without him. It seems that Sevilla has reached an agreement with Atletico de Madrid for the Spaniard Jose Antonio Reyes, and have resigned their attempts to sign Guardado.

The same happened with Villarreal, after selling Cazorla for 19 million euros, they were set to sign Guardado, but not even that amount of money could convince the Mexican to go for Villarreal instead of Valencia.

Coincidentally, Sevilla and Villarreal are Valencia’s next opponents.

  • moe

    rather beat them on the field, guardado is good but im afraid he will be the next vicente and be left more on the treatment table then the pitch.
    he is good when he is good though! 

    • http://www.valenciacf.com/es/ElEquipo/ Giel

      Yeah, I agree! But when he’s fit, he’s a great winger for every Liga-team. And his salary cost will be quite low, I heard, so it isn’t a big investment like Piatti was for example. I’d say to go for him.
       
      And we will beat Sevilla later today! ¡Amunt!

  • checheche

    its worth the gamle, piatti has been shit anyways

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  • Cile

    The best thing about Sevilla match tonight is that Valencia Ultras are supposedly preparing a fiery reception for that cheat Emir Spahić.
    Anyway I like the idea of Guardado, as far as I know he’s a bit like Jordi Alba and can play anywhere on the left side.

  • Los Che 4ever

    sign him!!! and use Piatti central instead of left

  • Valencia

    we dont need guardado

  • Stanley

    Allegedly, Valencia are also about to “steal” Mladen Petric on a free this summer too.
    http://www.superdeporte.es/valencia/2012/01/05/sport-bild-asegura-mladen-petric-acerca-valencia/149548.html

    • Cile

      DON’T!!! Seriously, he’s no better than Aduriz and is even 1 year older than him. Valencia’d gain nothing with this transfer…

      • http://www.valenciacf.com/es/ElEquipo/ Giel

        Yeah, I’m also not fond of Petric. I’d rather take a look at Lille’s Ludovic Obraniak. A decent player who’ll become a free agent and is ready to pick up now for the summer. Left winger who could also play in the middle and right. His contract isn’t that expensive. I would go for him.

        • Cile

          Thing is, he’ll leave for Bordeaux in January if Lille gets a replacement in time.

  • Nikche

    I’d keep track of the young Kabiru Akinsola that plays for Cadiz. He really impressed me when we played them. He could be quite good in the future, maybe even for Valencia. I can’t say for sure since i only watched him twice.

  • Lobster

    Guardado’s agent denies everything. A clip from http://www.deportivo-la-coruna.com/n-news.php?cid=4104&ctg=1
    … Mario Ordiales, who in December said to be on negotiations with Valencia, is now denying everything, as he told to Mexican Radio Record FM, “Since a while ago there are a lot of versions about a lot of things. The true is that this is not the time for this; in February I will travel to La Coruña and will talk to the club first, I still have a pending meeting with Depor’s president and later will define Andrés’ next contract. I am surprised with the latest versions, but the only sure thing is that there’s nothing with anyone.”

    • Jafar

      There is no deal yet that is true and everyone knows that but that doesn’t mean we are not intending to get him.
      I still think that we are going for him in the summer and from now until then there is a lot of time. Plus we could make a deal with him in the winter which he would no have known about until he lands in Spain.
      Still uncertain but it does no look like he will go anywhere else and he does prefer to stay in Spain, also his agent wanted him to go to Sevilla instead of us and probably still does. I do hope we get him eventually.