Valencia have hit a new rock bottom under owner Peter Lim and finally look like relegation candidates.
The six-time LaLiga winners hit the bottom of the table with a 3-2 defeat to Las Palmas on Monday night and are heading for the second division after years of near misses.
Supporters protested the hugely-unpopular Lim post-match and one arrest was made when a group gathered outside Mestalla.
The Singaporean billionaire has been in power for over a decade and has overseen the club go from one of the biggest in Europe to one of the most embarrassing.
And club legend Sanit Cañizares has had enough.
“Peter Lim is incapable and arrogant. He has spent five years without giving any explanations, without coming to Valencia, he has zero empathy,” the former Spain goalkeeper told Marca.
“Valencia has already lost its status and now we will see if it can stay in the first division. What we have had here is terrible management except for the two years of Mateu Alemany.”
He then turned his aim at LaLiga president Javier Tebas for allowing such a disaster.
He continued: “All this is supported by guys like Tebas, who support Peter Lim and who, despite the decline of recent years, think it is healthy for Peter Lim to continue here, politicians who have given him the freedom to build the stadium, who fail to comply with the conditions and the banks that have granted him two other loans. Politicians and banks have bowed down to Peter Lim.
“Maybe selling is not the solution because the next player may also be disastrous, although doing worse is almost impossible. The only thing that has hurt Peter Lim is when the news reaches Singapore. What happens here doesn’t matter to him.
“It makes me angry that he has to lose the team for us to realise how we manage it. The problem and the sickness is there and it has spread tremendously.
“It is urgent that the authorities and the president of La Liga put pressure on him to leave. I have been denouncing this situation since the club was put up for sale and it has been hard for me because I was seen as anti-Valencia, I bit the hand that fed me… Valencia continues to fall freely and as long as this guy is here and the sickness does not settle down, the club has no bottom.”
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