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Emery staying on as Valencia coach
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| 2008-07-14 14:40:49 |  |
MADRID (AFP) - Valencia's new sporting director Xabier Azkargorta said Monday that Unai Emery would remain as the Spanish club's coach.
He was reacting to a report in sports daily Marca which said Valencia had offered Spanish coach Luis Aragones, who earlier this month joined Turkish club Fenerbahce after leading Spain to victory in Euro 2008, a two-year contract. "Obviously Unai was surprised to see this front-page report, as was I, but Unai is our coach and we intend on working with him," Azkargorta told a news conference after being appointed sporting director and meeting with Emery. The report in Marca, which did not cite sources, said an agreement between Valencia's new executive director Juan Villalonga and Aragones could be reached "over the coming hours" and Emery, appointed in May, would be fired. Aragones, who is approaching his 70th birthday, signed a two-year contract with Fenerbahce but the newspaper said he could leave at any time without paying a penalty. Azkargorta coached Espanyol, Sevilla, Valladolid and Tenerife, as well as the national teams of Chile and Bolivia in the past. Valencia, the winners of the Spanish league in 2002 and 2004, finished in 10th place last season in La Liga, 34 points behind the winners Real Madrid but will take part in the UEFA Cup next season since they won the Spanish Cup. The club had four coaches last year: Quique Sanchez Flores, Oscar Fernandez, Ronald Koeman and Salvador Gonzalez "Voro". |
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Tontodonati July 14th, 2008 14:52
Even coaches break contract!gunner_eagle July 14th, 2008 15:57
This would be really a crazy thing to happen. I doubt it, to be honest.chakal July 14th, 2008 16:41
is good for La Liga, not so good for the turksCrusader1987 July 14th, 2008 18:02
For allowing Aragones to break the contract with no consequences, Fenerbache deserve to lose this guy. How can you be that stupid?gunner_eagle July 15th, 2008 01:40
Marca really did some bullshit with this news. Probably an off-the-record talk with someone who wanted Aragones at Valencia was turned into news.Even if it's true, it is an hopeless attempt for Valencia. Aragones would never allow his name to be associated with such a bad behavior. Valencia should have moved earlier if they wanted him, but whole Spain was sleeping! I think noone in Spain believed that Aragones will make the spanish side champions. They were waiting for him to be eliminated and then the Raul-questionings would have started. It was thought to be his last time coaching a team :)) Only Fenerbahçe reacted in time and got him before (!) the final match.... actually, in a broader sense they did not really react in time: They should have hired Aragones when he was 50 or so :))
indsc4 July 16th, 2008 20:23
The Spanish media speculate everything. They are the kings of abrasive reporting.