Valencia do a u-turn on their best player.

Valencia have performed a u-turn over the decision to sell their best player, David Villa. The Spanish Football club now look like they have taken down the ‘for sale’ sign that had attracted the interest of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea and Liverpool. It seems that Valencia want to try and keep their most dangerous weapon regardless of the financial problems that have forced the club to sell off a number of main assets.

Villa was on the verge of going to Real Madrid for roughly £45 million however Valencia have pulled out of the deal at the last minute, which will come as a welcome relief to a number of the club’s fans. Villa would have probably not wanted a move but accepted it as an eventuality so the news could well please him.

It will also mean some revitalised hope for Liverpool, the only English club that Villa has said he would join, who were not able to match the financial power of any of the clubs that were set to be interested in Villa. The Merseyside club can now sit back and reassess the situation before deciding if they want to be the first club that goes back to Valencia and asks if they want to have a change of mind again.

Villa’s agent said: “Valencia have changed their minds and they are telling us they don't want to sell the player after, as everyone knows, having talks with three of the four top clubs. They have put us through a situation that is, sadly, very unpleasant because this is no good for anyone.”

Villa is one of the most highly rated strikers in Europe and forms Spain’s strike force with Fernando Torres, which basically propelled the country to European glory last summer. If Valencia want to have any hope of being able to get through their current problems and push out on the other side then this is the precise player that they need to keep.

Villa seems to love Valencia as a club and it is where he made his name as one of the best attacking players in the world. There is nothing the other clubs can do if Valencia want to box him back up again and you would have thought that if all parties were happy with the way things were going then a deal would have already been struck by now.

The failure to secure this deal may be down to the player’s own dissatisfaction. He may have a specific club in mind that he wants to join and it may not necessairly be Real Madrid or Barcelona. This makes things very difficult when the clubs that are trying to sign someone are not the actual clubs that the player may want to join. Therefore it is pointless trying to do a deal over a player who will turn out unhappy and will not justify the millions that would ultimate changes hands on his sale.

No doubt the clubs will keep nagging away to try and sign him but the decision to keep him now looks set in stone and unless the player throws his weight around to get a move it seems that him and Valencia are both happy.