Mata offer to be presented tomorrow

Valencia regional newspaper Las Provincias claims that Juan Manuel Mata, the father and agent of Spanish international Juan Mata (21), will tomorrow present Valencia an offer of Barcelona.

Mata will tomorrow meet with Valencia offials to disccus the player's contract renewal and to analyse the offer of Barcelona. The agent would inform the club, on behalf of Barcelona, about a bid of 18 million euro°.

Asked about the rumours linking Mata with a move to Barcelona, Valencia sport director Fernando Gómez said yesterday in an interview with Valencia regional radio station Punto Radio that the club doesn't plan to let the Spanish winger go: "Mata is one of those players we cannot let go, he should stay with the team for some more years. And I think he will stay at Valencia. But we will listen to everybody and who knows someone will come with a scandalously scandalous offer.

The renewal talks are the responsibility of the board but I want to make clear that he already received an important pay rise. Like his contract stated, his initial salary of 600 000 euro plus incentives was raised from the moment he had played fifty games with us, something that happned last season. Now we will talk about raising the contract again a little, and I actually think that would be a logical thing after his recent performances."

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Silva prefers to stay

Asked about the situation of Valencia left winger and Spanish international David Silva (22), Silva's agent Julio Llorente has said to journalists yesterday that the player wants to stay but suggested that Silva would like to see his contract renewed:

"He wants to stay with Valencia. We'll see what will happen but his first option is to stay here. If there would appear other options, we will look at them but at his moment he's very comfortable at this club.

If in the next days something would come up that could change this plan, we'll analyze it and make a decision. David wants to stay and he has a contract. A lot of clubs have shown interest for him, so he wants Valencia to take that into account and show him what he's worth to them, which is normal.

It's logical that other clubs are looking at him since he has played two very good seasons, he played very well at the European championship, which of course leads to offers. But we haven't really looked at them because Valencia has his transfer rights and if they don't say anything to us, he's a Valencia player for the next five years."

Valencia regional radio station LP Punto Radio claims that Valencia has received formal offers from Barcelona, Atlético Madrid and AS Roma but that the club has rejected to start talks and made clear that they don't want to sell the left winger.

Valencia president Vicente Soriano confirmed the wish of the club to journalists: "We're gonna tell his agents that we want Silva to stay with us. I don't think there will be any problems but we're going to talk. Let's see what the result will be." Today a new meeting between the club and the player's agents was scheduled.

Asked about the rumours linking Silva with a move to Barcelona (read more here), Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain has admitted to journalists today that Silva could be an option: "It's a good and interesting player, but not only for us, but also for foreign teams. There are no negotiations ongoing cause Valencia is still thinking about its position and no talks have been started."

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Meeting with Silva cancelled

Valencia regional radio station LP Punto Radio claims that a new meeting between Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain and the agents of Valencia left winger and Spanish international David Silva (22), Amadeo Rangel and Julio Llorente, that was scheduled for later this week, has been cancelled (read more here).

The arrival of Juan Villonga as new Valencia CEO (read more here) has made the agents decide that they first want to talk with with the new Valencia official before holding further negotiations with other clubs.

Catalan sports paper Sport claims that Villalonga wants to offer Silva a tempting renewal, which would make the investment for Barcelona to sign the winger even bigger: not only should they pay Valencia a very high fee, they should also offer the player more than he can receive in Valencia.

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Meeting with Silva this week

Valencia regional sports paper Super Deporte claims that, after the board survived the vote of no confidence, Barcelona will now soon pick up the talks on the transfer of Valencia left winger and Spanish international David Silva (22).

The Spaniard, who is currently on holiday, has told his agent Amadeo Rengel that he doesn't want to hear anything about rumours and only wants to be informed of formal offers that have been made.

Silva is not planning to play things hard and will only look at offers coming in if Valencia decides to sell him. With the buyout clause being 90 million euro°, it is expected that Valencia will not be willing to negotiate for a transfer price lower than 35 million euro°.

Valencia regional radio station LP Punto Radio claims that Barcelona sports director Txiki Begiristain will meet later this week with Amadeo Rangel and Julio Llorente, the agents of Silva.

Catalan sports paper Sport claims that Silva is the main alternative in case the transfer of Zenit attacker Arshavin fails. But with the transfer price of the Spanish winger having seriously risen after his good performances at the European championship last month, Barcelona could also be looking at other options on the list.

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