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The Spanish Football Thread

Ah Peter Lim owns Valencia and he also has a 50% stake in Salford. The Neville appointments make more sense now. As much as I rate Gary as a pundit his appointment looked a bit left field for a huge Spanish club.
 
I will miss him on MNF - now we have to listen to the other daft scouse droning on. No not Lawrenson or Thompson......
 
Quite an amusing take on it by the Guardian's Fiver:

When The Fiver heard Valencia manager Nuno was now taking his meals in local Chinese restaurant Du Wan Pal rather than the club canteen, it was not surprised. Nuno, after all, was the 12th manager to steer the ship since Rafa Benítez in 2004 and has left the club stumbling around La Liga’s nether regions with only Voro and The Wrong Neville Brother in charge.

Despite Mr 20% – yep – Jorge Mendes being on speed-dial at Valencia, owner Peter Lim was determined to appoint the club’s next coach himself. That’s the same Lim who owns 50% of the Gary Neville-co-owned Salford City, who has invested in the Gary Neville-co-owned Hotel Football and who has pumped money into a £200m regeneration project in Manchester that Gary Neville is involved in. It seemed only a matter of time before The Right Neville Brother was installed into the Mestalla’s silla caliente until the end of the season.

The Right Neville Brother, possibly after discovering Valencia will play Barcelona on Saturday, has found one or two things that he just can’t shift and will start work at the club on Sunday. His first task will be rejecting the infantile but tempting urge to sack his own brother for the sheer hell of it. Phil, the second best full-back at United during Gary’s era there, and the second best football pundit in the Neville family, now has a job title that formally makes him his brother’s No2, which should at least give ambulance-chasing psychoanalysts some hope of getting some Phil shilling in the future. Still, if Gary’n’Phil’s transformative work together at Salford City is anything to go by, the Mestalla khazis should be getting a lick of paint any day now, while a new pie shop is a certainty.

Gary Neville, whose managerial experience consists solely of being Mr Roy’s sidekick and appointing a pair of spectacularly menacing coaches at Salford City, will be giving up his role at Sky. Valencia’s gain will be punditry’s loss, and a legion of armchair fans will be forever bemoaning the fact that Lim did not rob TV’s ranks of Michael Owen, Jamie Redknapp, or Andy Townsend – who, for The Fiver Clive, may well have done the Valencia job too well. Gary Neville’s former partner in shiny suited, post-match, electro-blackboard pointing, Jamie Carragher, has entered an extended period of mourning and is as distraught as he was the day Pegguy Arphexad left Anfield for Coventry.

Perhaps it’s a surprise that Gary Neville hasn’t gone into management before now. He’s certainly had offers but he once revealed that he believed former players, with no real management experience, charged into top jobs too fast for their own good. “I see a lot of people rush into coaching too quickly,” he parped. “In two years they are finished. There are a lot of crazy owners out there.” Over to you Peter Lim.
 
The mess at Real Madrid continues.

Playing Cadiz right now in the Copa Del Rey with Cheryshev in the starting lineup.

Problem is he is ineligible because of a suspension from last seasons Copa Del Rey.

RM might get thrown out of the cup according to media reports.
 
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