The Valencia has high hopes pinned on Marcos André and the moment in which the Brazilian striker multiplies his role in the team by way of his first start is closer and closer. In fact, if the second yellow Maxi Gómez in the clash against Athñetic, will start at the Nuevo Mirandilla de Cádiz. And, if not, the same too.
In a war economy like that of Valencia (you only need to see the spending cap assigned by the League), paying a transfer for a player is a luxury. Any transfer by any player. Just remember that in the summer of 2020 there were no signings, that three transfers arrived in winter and that of the six incorporations this summer, four have arrived under the transfer formula and none of them with a mandatory purchase option.
The other two players, Dimitri Foulquier and André, They arrived transferred but without a doubt the operation of the forward is the most important. He is the star signing of Valencia this season. If on the side, Valencia committed the payment of 2.5 million euros to Granada For the striker, he almost quadrupled that figure and signed an agreement with Valladolid for 8.5 million euros for 90% of his rights and was awarded a five-season contract.
In addition, his arrival marked the player’s first purchase by the Mestalla club in more than 700 days and with its registration in the League, when occupying a foreign position, the entity lost a good part of its negotiating capacity in the departure of Kang In Lee, to whom it ended up giving away to Mallorca. But there was a rush to have Marcos André.
Endorsed by José Bordalás, the forward entered the coach’s plans from the beginning, although for the moment always as a substitute. A few days after arriving, he was already playing 22 minutes in the victory against him. Alaves and has not stopped participating in any of the following matches. In fact, in the last one, last Saturday against Athletic, he launched his scoring account with Valencia in the extension and rescued a point for his new team.
Against Cádiz, he will be the substitute for Maxi Gomez if he must finally serve a penalty game but he could also start on the left if Denis Cheryshev it is not yet recovered.
It is assumed that as soon as your performance is normal, Maxi will continue as headline, because his past performance supports him (more the one he had at Celta than at Valencia) but above all because the club needs to revalue it to be able to sell it. And if there is no surprise, there Marcos André will become his great reference, perhaps already with a Spanish passport (he arrived in Spain to sign for the Celta subsidiary in the first months of 2015). But for now he must continue climbing steps.
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