Thebes returns to defend Lim

The president of Liga, Javier Tebasis one of the few supporters left peter lim and returned to defend the largest shareholder of Valencia and assured that he was saddened by his bad image among the club’s followers. So far everything is normal in the common discourse of thebes which, on the other hand, this time left open the option of a possible investor exit

“I feel sorry for the detachment that accompanies it peter lim And let’s see if that one day can be fixed, what with Peter Lim leaving? Well, it should be with him, but I want it to be in other ways,” he said during question time at the opening of the ISDE Sports Convention (ISC) in 2023.

Thebes insisted on leaving that possible exit open but would not blame all of the club’s ills on its biggest shareholder. “I wish Valencia CF save the sports situation you’re in, with or without Peter Lim. Look at the Sevillea, they don’t have Peter Lim and sportingly he’s down,” he recalled.

“Let’s have perspective, we have to analyze what happened to Valencia just the year of covid Stop playing the Champions League, then stop playing it and earn €70M, with the lack of ticket offices, the lack of sponsors, the break… Two issues of more than 120 million less combined -with a budget of 180 million and that is difficult to raise in two days”, the manager pointed out comparing it to the situation experienced by the boat, he said he is still paying.

“After two years of the pandemic, the relatively large teams, such as Valencia, They have struggled more than the smaller ones because the reliance on ‘ticketing’ is greater than other clubs. The pandemic has done a lot of damage to Valencia”, he insisted.

Tebas affirmed, however, that the relationship of Valencia fans to lime It was “a roller coaster”.

“When he arrived, there were 26,000 who applauded that he had reached the Mestalla and thanked him for coming to save us,” he recalled. Thebes, who also stressed that when he won the Cup with the Marcelino in 2019 nobody remembered Lim.