It was the club that released him. It's very telling that he went to the Argus with a please come and get me article in August but was still ignored by the club and not one other club in Europe wants him.
Oscar has now been here 2 months & Vicente has resorted to getting his agent to drop huge hints via the Argus. If Oscar was impressed, then surely he would have sent for him by now?
Why hasn't any other club offered him a deal?
Gus refused to handle the retained list so 'we' is the club (Burke & Bloom)letting him go, along with Dicker & Painter.
Spanish Dave was offered a contract by the club, but then withdrawn, and then offered again, so a totally different scenario.
I agree. The club released him as we no longer wanted him. His agent (source close to the former Valencia star) is getting desperate to find a club for him. Naylor is just finding something to fill his daily pages.
Players don't have to be the life & soul of the party to be anti social. There are plenty of Spanish speaking players he could converse with but seemed withdrawn and reluctant to join in with fans.
It was the other players who were giving him banter. I spoke to him when Calde was near him so that he could translate. Read other Nsc'ers version of the evening. I don't think anyone got drunk.
He seemed a miserable so and so at the sponsors dinner, sitting apart from the other players, getting the hump when the opposition scored against his team on the tv screens and was teased about it. My first hand account.
The Argus now running an article on it which includes this -
A source close to the former Valencia star told The Argus: "It is a good moment for Brighton to try to sign again Vicente.
"I think they are looking for a number 10 and Vicente has to decide now among one of the offers that he...