Jasper Cillessen is going through a difficult period at Valencia. marca reports on Tuesday that coach José Bordalás spoke extensively with the goalkeeper on Monday about the current situation in the Mestalla. According to the Spanish newspaper, Cillessen has “entered into a negative spiral that he cannot break” after being injured again in preparation for the new season.
Cillessen has faced several injuries since moving from Barcelona to Valencia in the summer of 2019. Last season, the 32-year-old keeper was out of action for three months due to a muscle injury and shortly after his return a knee injury threw a spanner in the works. To make matters worse, he was left out of the final European Championship selection of the Dutch by then national coach Frank de Boer due to a corona infection. Under the new national coach Louis van Gaal, Cillessen is not in the picture as an international for the time being.
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The goalkeeper will start the new season at Valencia in July with good courage.
In preparation for the 2020/21 season, Cillessen was given another chance from Bordalás in practice matches and according to Sport The smile was finally back with the Dutch goalkeeper. Cillessen, however, suffered a new muscle injury and had to rehabilitate for several weeks. Meanwhile, his twenty-year-old competitor Giorgi Mamardashvili seized his chance under the bar at Valencia. There is now nothing left for the former closing post of Ajax and Barcelona but a place on the reserve bench. He has not played in LaLiga once this season.
marca The future looks bleak for Cillessen, who is fixed at Valencia until mid-2023. However, Bordalás still seems to see sufficient perspective in the collaboration with the Dutchman, so that there was extensive talk between the two gentlemen on Monday. The long conversation was planned to prevent Cillessen from ‘collapsing’ in the short term, it sounds from Spain.
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