Santi Cañizares never said anything and in the presentation of his biography he showed it. Valencia’s historic goalkeeper assured that since Peter Lim arrived at the club the entity has been in “absolute decline” and gave the example of the dismissal of Mateu Alemany, now at Barcelona, when he was the general manager of the club and corrected the club march.
“It is a decision that is the bloodiest I have heard in football. After one title and two classifications, the coach (Marcelino García Toral) and the architect of the project will be charged. How confident you can be if when things are done right you mow down your heads?” said Cañizares, who also criticized the dismissal of Fabián Ayala as a member of the technical secretariat after signings such as Nico Otamendi or Mustafi.
“I think the club could have survived without selling, with another kind of action within the sports society. Since Lim arrived, it has been in absolute decline,” said Cañizares.
“It was a very bad decision to sell and have inexperienced shareholders. For Lim this is his first experience. From the first moment I did not believe in the project, the figures of (Amadeo) Salvo and Aurelio (Martínez) I wasn’t attracted, I didn’t believe in them. Unfortunately, I wasn’t wrong. I’m unlucky because when I think something positive, sometimes it comes true, sometimes it doesn’t, but I don’t make a mistake with the negative,” he lamented.
With a foreword by Iker Casillas and an epilogue by Fabián Ayala, the book examines Cañizares’ professional career inside and outside football, and the former goalkeeper reveals which chapter he wants to change.
“It’s the Champions League final against Bayern. I grew up in the Madrid youth academy, I was obsessed with winning here. I won it in my last year in Madrid and although I didn’t play in the final, I did play six of the eleven games and I didn’t expect to fight it when I came to Valencia”, he admitted.
“I would have liked Valencia to write their name in gold letters, they did it in silver letters which is not bad. We were very close but there was an ‘asshole’ who was Oliver Kahn who never left us and I’ve told him so once in a while,” he said jokingly.
Source: La Verdad
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