mourinho.

before you know it, flores has been sacked by valencia. saw it coming.

valencia have three players that cannot be allowed to leave the club at any price: david silva, david villa and joaquin sanchez.

the only way to prevent this from happening is to realise those ambitions- win.

i think in the short run, in order to keep them, i am prepared to make an extraordinary conciliatory gesture to mourinho, in the process sacrificing style for substance.

we are running out of time to produce something. i would say we do have the foundation to win something. we just need someone who can achieve it, someone who can turn potential champions into champions. this team can play a neat passing game. it can also be scintillating in attack. but we can worry about that much later. the priority is to get results.

what's the point of playing pretty and winning nothing, only to lose joaquin, silva and villa at the end of the season? then it would be impossible for us to play pretty next season; back to zero, or worse, negative. the difference between henry and villa, silva and joaquin is that the latter three are all close to, or in their prime. henry is no longer the same henry when he left arsenal. that's the difference; you cannot expect valencia to be suddenly rejuvenated with the sale of any of those three players. that would be sheer foolishness.

so for the sake of playing attractive football in the future, we might have to sacrifice it now.