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Sevilla may call off Borja Valero move
Thursday 17th June 2010, 11:25AM BST.
Sevilla’s president has claimed the club have called off their efforts to sign Albion midfielder Borja Valero.
Jose Maria Del Nido insists the Spanish club would not pay the Baggies’ asking price for the 25-year-old, but sources in Spain today told the Express & Star a deal could still happen.
His comments could be viewed at the Hawthorns as an attempt to drive down the fee for Albion’s record signing by threatening to pull the plug on negotiations.
But Del Nido insisted Sevilla have turned their attentions to other targets, including Atalanta midfielder Tiberio Guarente.
The Sevilla supremo said: “We’ve ruled out him joining the organisation because the owner of his rights, West Bromwich Albion, has asked for 8million euros and Sevilla has offered 4million.
“We respect the price put on him by West Bromwich Albion, but although in football you can never say never, when you ask me I answer honestly and say that we have ruled out the signing and we are already looking at other horizons.
“And if these negotiations are closed we will not look back.”
But sources close to the Spanish club insist they are still keen to sign Valero and suspect the president’s comments are designed to pressurise Albion into lowering their demands.
Sevilla had hoped to land the player for the four million euro figure – around £3.3million – included as an ‘option figure’ when he joined Mallorca on loan last summer.
But Mallorca were unable to find the money to make the move permanent and the Baggies believe Valero’s eye-catching season back in Spain has increased his market value.
They rejected Sevilla’s initial offer last week and insisted they will welcome Valero back into the Hawthorns fold if they cannot sell him on their terms, despite his difficult first season in the Premier League following his £4.7million move from Mallorca.
They have remained tight-lipped on their own valuation, but the eight million euro figure alleged by Del Nido represents around £6.5million.
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Cue summer long game of hardball between JP and the Sevilla president, with Valero moving to Sevilla on deadline day for £5-6m, more than we paid for him…..
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JP won’t be beaten in any negotiations we know that for sure.
It’s a win win for us really, either make a profit or have a Champions League quality midfielder in our squad for next season.
Simples.
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Do your stuff JP. We’ve seen it all before. Sevilla will complain about this and complain about that then cough up near deadline day. It doesn’t matter if he comes back to West Brom as I think he’ll be better second time round
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Ray, you forgot ‘Squeak’.
As long as Valero comes back on July 3rd we can get him fit and into our system. If Sevilla don’t come back in, tough, he can play against Chelsea if he shows what he can do. But what a start for us. I was looking at the fixtures and early on it’s going to be hard going. As Rudyard Kipling said, “If you can keep your head when all around are losing theirs….” etc., then you ain’t got a clue what’s going on.
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2 Ray,
What if he has another season in the Premier League like the last one he had? All the time he’s taking up a chunk of your wage budget. Sell him for £5m and buy a decent full back.
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hes a poor player would not buy him for £500,000,i would rip there hand off
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no6 if he,s only worth £500.00 we could swap him for seb and keough
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6 Hale the expert
How many times have you seen him play in person?
5 Soggy_wolf
I suppose that’s the risk you take. In fairness, my personal opinion is he wasn’t poor last time out, he just wasn’t allowed to play in a role that would best suit him. He had no protection and was being asked to put tackles in which clearly isn’t his game. I thought his touch and passing were exceptional at times.
The other point to consider is he’s just been one of the best players in La Liga, so even if his stock has gone down in our eyes, it certainly hasn’t over there, and we should be looking to get at least our money back by that rationale.
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this story is abit like shadrag ` boring` aye boing boing
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tough start to the season on paper but we are more than capable of going to the top 4 and getting somthing,with the 6 points we already have we only need to find 8 wins and a couple of draws to be safe,then we can move on to the second half of the season and start looking for a top 6 finish,aye boing boing
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Totally agree with Warren! RDM will play him in a way that suits his style. I really think he’s worth a gamble in the Premier League, even if he doesn’t do well over here this time he will retain his reputation in Spain and we can sell him for closer to what those poverty stricken, champions league playing spanish clubs want to pay, so we lose nothing! As for our commentors from Dingle Town F.C thanks, but no thanks, I’ll take your advice with a pinch of salt, especially No 6. His knowledge of our players is astounding! . . . Astoundingly bad! He is right about one thing though, he wouldn’t buy him for £500,000!!!
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I had to post on here as E&S have closed the fuxtures list debate, hmmm I wonder why?
If as it seems you put the same story across ALL the Midlands club pages on here, then it seems a little unfair to close it so quickly as people like me miss their chance to put their two penneth in. Surely they must have realised that many fans would want to post their opimion? Never mind there’s always a way round it though (If this is printed anyway).
Right then.
No name calling, no slagging off the opposition (Sir Terrie Baggie),no predictions just simply…..
The best of luck to ALL our Midlands teams for the coming Prem season. Let’s show these Cockneys, Mancs and Scousers what a derby REALLY IS LIKE!!! It’s been MUCH too long since our part of the country was so well represented in the top flight.
Up The Midlands.
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That should have been opinion (it’s been a long day at work).
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I reckon by the time the dingles visit the shrine before christmas we will already have 30 points on the board,aye boing boing
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12, Whatever do you mean my friend,sending the dingles down the RDM way in STYLEEEEEEEE OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS AYE BOING BOING
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Sir Terry.
I don’t think the E&S will print my previous reply to you. I don’t know why though. It wasn’t that harsh imo, just to the point, oh well never mind. I’ll try again.
There is a famous saying….
Give them enough rope and they’ll hang themselves. It may be quite apt for you.
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Back on to Valero,it reminds me of a guy at a boot sale walking away after being told the price of what he wants,hoping the seller will say ‘ok mate,you can have it cheap,please don’t go’.Problem is,the seller is JP,so the Sevilla Chairman had better just keep walking,’cause he’s going home empty handed.Bluffing cuts no ice round here,pay up or go whistle up yer Barcelona.
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i just heard the 5 live commentator at the end of the french game,he said they where,outplayed,outrun,outpassed,outclassed,
outscored,i thought thats wot they will be sayin bout dings when we send um down,aye boing boing
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16, there is also another famous saying my friend made by a very famous man,it goes like this
can he fix it, yes he can, aye boing boing
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IM SO lookin forward to the new season,im fed up with stupid pundits when a ball has not been kicked yet.so we gonna go down heard it and done it before,we now have a different set up mentality and style..chelsea so what arsenal so what liverpool so what if we get nowt then we get nowt its the biger picture that we need to look at yer we yo yo great escape ,we have moved on each time we have gone up and down we have been better each time for it,this is time now for the blackcountry and the midlands to show the prem and the world what paaion and fight means.the mighty can fall write us off thats fine but il tell you this we can prove doubters wrong bring it on let the game begine,..CMON ALL MIDLAND FANS LETS SHOW THE PREM OUR CLUBS HAVE AND EARNED THE RIGHT TO BEE IN THE BEST LEAGUE IN THE WORLD
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On this story. As someone has already said, you don’t play hardball with JP. I think he’d rather take a loss than be had over. I’m right behind him, if we get a reputation as a soft touch we’ll never get a decent price for a player again. The older fans will remember the bad old days, the likes of Burrows, Goodman, Palmer etc. If a club came in and offered a few coloured beads and a bit of wampum, our board would deliver the player gift wrapped.
Note to the Sevilla Chairman. Have a word with Woy Hodgson, play hardball with JP and you get a sore nose.
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5 Soggy.
You obviously know a lot about fullbacks. Who would you recommend Ward, Elokobi, Hill, Friend, Zubar, Stearman? Thanks but no thanks for your informed opinion.
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12 Bully Fan.
I’m not just agreeing with you because of your admiration of me. To be honest I’m a little embarrassed about the adulation I get from your side.
However I do agree with your sentiments. We are all going to want our own teams to win the local derbies and end up as Midlands top dogs but I also want the five Midlands teams to do well when they play teams from other areas. I’ve had enough of our great area being ridiculed and ignored in the media.
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20 WBA 78.
Brilliant post. What’s the saying ‘what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.’ We’ve had many obituaries over the last few years when we’ve been relegated and each time we’ve bounced back. As Chumbawumba would put it ‘I get knocked down but I get up again.’ Perhaps the Baggies ought to run out to this song as it seems to sum us up.
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Sir Terry.
As you are bored by this subject, I’d like to point out to you the continuing Wolverhampton success story.
They just can’t stop winning things.
Voted worst fans in the Country.
Voted one of the worst Cities in the World.
Now it’s been voted as the City with the tightest inhabitants.
Hope all of these triumphs don’t go to their heads.
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25 TRBH, i know i heard it on the radio,i thought to myself we never going to catch them at this rate,they will soon need a new trophy room,aye boing boing
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(5)
Like E/Blake, Hof and all the others who didn’t play for wooluphs last season, took chunks off
their wage budget. I see what you mean.
(6)
You have plenty of experience of poor players being a dingle, haven’t you.
(12)
Dead right, Doing that did me out of a field day.
I agree with your post as long as we bash wolves
birmingham and villa.
~~~~BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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27 JTH.
Ok fair enough, your a baggies fan so it’s quite obvious that’s what you’d want. In the same as me being a Wolves fan would want the same too.
One thing though, you forgot someone… Stoke.
I work with several Stoke fans and they seem to think they are Real Madrid! Time to bring them back down to earth I think.
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19.
Famous Man!???? Bob The Builder?
That well known animated cartoon character?
PMSL!!!!!!
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BF
I didn’t foreget Stoke as they are our bogey team,
but maybe next season could be our time.
~~~~BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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You mean, being a dingle you’d want ALBION to win all the local derbies!. Thanks pal.
~~~~BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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You know what I mean Jack, but just in case there’s any doubt…….
I want WOLVES to win all the local derbies.
imo there’s no such thing as a bogey team, everyone is beatable in football.
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