Speaking to Spanish daily A S, he said, "We have a four-year contract signed with Monaco and it will be upheld. According to many sources, none of these investments bore any fruit, leaving them with a large debt. The situation has worsened for Valdes to so much extent that he had to put his beach-house at Gava up for sale, even ever its construction was completed. Knowing the portfolio of players Monaco has on its pay slip, Valdes was keen on moving to the club where he could have been offered a large chunk of money in terms of salary, which would have come as an aid to his debt-ridden family.
Monaco is one of those places on Earth where they have no income tax, and thrived as a tax haven for Valdes to make quick money as well. His agent, Jorge Berlanga has already declared that quite a few European clubs have expressed their desire to sign the Mexican goalkeeper. New User posted their first comment. Log in. Football Ligue 1 News. What's perhaps a bit odd there is that Valdes played for United's first team after that, appearing in the final two games of the season.
The decision to ostracise him came later or was at least applied later, a retrospective punishment that Valdes did not anticipate until he walked into the dressing room and found that his name had been removed from his locker. Valdes now occupies a different dressing room, and only when there's no one else there. There is no sign of Van Gaal softening and no shot at redemption. This has become entrenched now. No games, no training, no contact at all; the punishment severe and pointed.
It has come to this: one of the best goalkeepers in the world training alone with an academy coach, and teammates kept away from him as if he had some horrible contagious disease.
Whatever way you look at it, even without engaging with the moral rights or wrongs, it feels like a terrible waste and maybe counterproductive. It is certainly no solution.
Nor can it be comfortable for Valdes' teammates. One of them spoke to the Al Primer Toque radio show this week. What I have to do is stay out of it, support Victor in the hard times, be professional, and that's it. Mata was speaking at Spain's training camp Las Rozas, northwest of Madrid. This week is international week, but the only sign of Valdes at Spain's HQ is the huge picture that covers the wall in the foyer between the dressing rooms and the path that leads to the players' residence, punctured only by a handful of fuse boxes, in which he appears celebrating the World Cup win with the rest of his teammates.
Until that injury, his presence here had been guaranteed; after it, most expected it to be guaranteed again. Van Gaal's treatment of him has destroyed those expectations. Spain coach Vicente del Bosque admitted that he had thought about calling Valdes up for the last squad, as a way of supporting him and keeping him integrated, giving him the chance to train properly and because, put simply, he thinks the goalkeeper is probably still good enough.
Certainly, he wanted to cling to the possibility that Spain can call him up again. But a goalkeeper who is not playing, not even training, is a goalkeeper who is hard to call upon, however much you want to.
Valdes' absence here is felt. He may be forgotten in England, where his status is not the same, and even that tweet passed with remarkably little comment, despite its almost longing and lonely nature, but in Spain his situation saddens and surprises.
There have been few questions in Manchester but in Madrid it was inevitable that Mata would be asked. I expect and I hope, because I really like him and we've shared a lot, that things go right for him -- whether that's at Manchester United or somewhere else.
He has the ability to compete again and demonstrate that he is a great goalkeeper. It's very, very unfortunate. The moment the injury happened, the recovery, everything But I trust that this is not the end. I trust that the end will be Victor competing again and feeling like a footballer once more. Skip to main content Skip to navigation.
Lowe: Valdes' sad situation at Man Utd. PSG's Diallo released amid probe into attack. Rampant Russia crush Cyprus in WC qualifier. North Macedonia rout Armenia to boost World Cup hopes. According to Colin Young of the Daily Mirror , Valdes has been given a strict regimen that will ensure he stays apart from other senior players.
Young outlined the extent to which Van Gaal has reportedly gone to keep Valdes away from the first-team squad:. It often means the year-old must train by himself in the afternoons if the first team have morning sessions, and vice versa if the bulk of the squad are doing their work after lunch. The former Barcelona man seemed destined to leave the club this summer as a result, but a move to Besiktas fell through late in the window, meaning Valdes now finds himself in limbo at Old Trafford.
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