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“Pep (Guardiola) is a coach admired all over the world, what he did in the game speaks for himself. The good luck he’s had is amazing and I like the taste of football he plays.”
“I know I’m going to have to paint hard to side with me, but that’s what I’m here to do. I’ll do everything I can to have an effect and help the team make money.”
With Aymeric Laporte five months away from the current season due to injury and Guardiola appears to lose confidence in a John Stones-Nicolas Otamendi partnership, midfielder Fernandinho has played as a makeshift central defender.
Ake was a young player in Chelsea and had loan terms at Reading, Watford and Bournemouth before, although he all joined the Cherries for 20 million pounds in 2017. Chelsea would have had a shopping option but decided not to exercise it.
Meanwhile, the first signing of the city of the summer, Torres, claims to have been expelled by Valencia.
The 20-year-old, who signed for a down payment of 20.9 million pounds, said there were other people at the club “determined to damage” his symbol and that he did not have a smart date with Captain Dani Parejo, who spoke slightly. for him.
“Valencia has given me everything and trained me since I was seven,” he said in an interview with Marca.
“I had a rough time there and that’s why I ended up going, but I have to stress that I’m very grateful to Valencia and that I will help you.
“The challenge is that there are other people inside the club and some hounds who are determined to damage my image.
“I don’t need to go wrong because I’m a Valencia fan.
I’m sorry if I someone off, it was never my intention, but what happened forced me to take a different path than I had dreamed of.
Torres had entered the last year of his contract and warned that the fact that the club had responded to one of his demands, as well as his poor courtship with Parejo, left him with few selections to leave.
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He says he asked to be captain, one of Valencia’s most sensible workers and also for owner Peter Lim to participate in the negotiations to make him feel loved.
“I started thinking about it last summer after the European Under-19 Championship. The club told me they didn’t count on me,” he added.
“What worse they even put me on the market and introduced me to groups in Spain.
“I looked for myself to stay and advanced the situations to do so. They weren’t beyond the club’s media.
“I know they are not in the same position as the big European clubs, but I was able to carry out this task and I sought to be treated as such.
“The club fits me.”
About Parejo, Torres added: “He’s a player, but I’ve never had a date with him.
“When I joined the first team at 17, it was several weeks before he said me an “undeniable ” hello. He’s not a smart captain to me.
“The worst came after (the manager) Marcellin left when Lee Kang-in and I were guilty in the locker room and stopped talking to us for weeks.”