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PAULA LERÍN
Santi Canizares He never bites his tongue. The Spanish international and Valencia goalkeeper between 1998 and 2008 has once again been very critical of everything that surrounds the Mestalla club and this time he has also directed his criticism towards the former coach – and former teammate – Ruben Baraja. For Cañizares, ‘Pipo’ is a submissive.
“When I leave Valencia in 2008 it is because Soler doesn’t swallow meand just from my look I already knew that I thought I was useless. That’s why reaches an agreement with Koemanso that he would get us out of the way Angulo, Albelda and me, but Baraja not because he was the one who ate with the president. Baraja, a submissive, that’s why Peter Lim had him there for almost two years,” he said in an interview in the ABC newspaper.
This is how tough the legendary goalkeeper was with another historical one like Barajawho arrived at Valencia in a difficult situation and managed to save the team from relegation in 2022/23. After last season in which the team even dreamed of Europe, in the last days of 2024 he was dismissed by Valencia due to the serious situation of the team, which is penultimate.
“I always try to anticipate what is going to happen: When everyone They cheered Lim, I was the hand-biting son of a bitchor that he fed me. I kept saying that Amadeo lied and lied, but then he was God and I just wanted to screw with Valencianism,” he also recalled.
When asked what is happening at Valencia CF for a club with so much history and relevance in world football to go through this unusual situation, Cañizares was, once again, very clear: “Well, you surround yourself with professionals who are pitiful, like (Michelangelo) Crown, the current sports director, who would never have imagined being where he is. Or like so (Javier) Solis, the general director, who all he does is try to put the Valencian press to sleep because he has no more capacity than that.”
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“Then we have a president, Lay Hoon, who knows nothing of soccer because she has no past in soccer, not even as a fan, and only transfers initiatives to Peter Lim to approve them or not. The club is lost. Everything depends on the annual results and that Peter Lim’s accounts squared so that I don’t have to put in more money,” he noted.
