Cañizares, about entrepreneurs who buy football teams: “What they want is to go to Bernabéu and sit down with Florentino”

Within the Select Valencia CF Legends Club there is a clear number one in the goal: Santiago Cañizares. The Puertollano has been the guardian of Mestalla for ten years. With him under Palos, the Ché club lived the best years in its history that killed two competitions, a UEFA Cup, a Copa del Rey, a Spanish Super Cup, one from Europe and coming in two finals of the Champions League. There is nothing. ‘Cañete’ also defended the colors of Real Madrid, Elche, Mérida and Celta de Vigo. Because he was always a striking and eccentric man, he made the leap to the media after his withdrawal in 2008. The employee of the COPE chain and has also commented Liga meetings for several years.

Recently it died as a guest in the podcast of economist Gustavo Martínez in which he spoke about various football -related issues. For example, how the salaries of the players have evolved. Ensures that there is a “constant inflation”. He exposes him with the example of Zubizarreta: «He won twice as much as Arconada or Miguel Ángel. Then the keepers of my generation earn more money. I won the triple that he in Valencia. Was I better? No, it’s inflation ».

However, the ex -managing ensures that “the elite are paid”, but that “is not the entire mountain of oregano.” “Many First Divison players, if they are not in good teams, have salaries that would surprise us how low they are,” he says. For Cañizares the players who play in lower categories or who do not belong to the big clubs of Spain or Europe, have to think about their lives after football. This makes his son Luca, also a football player and now in Portugal.

About entrepreneurs who buy clubs

In an interviewer, he asks if football clubs are lucrative for someone who wants to eat and invent. “I think it’s not profitable,” says Cañizares. “They are an illusion, a very interesting worldwide management and very attractive, but it is difficult for a businessman to win money through football,” he explains.

Then that Van Puertollano exposes the only thing to possess a football club is useful: “You should have a huge ability to buy a club in the second division and cheaply, rise to the first division and know how you can get away there.” However, it influences that there is a series of interests that show us a situation like this: “If it is in the first division, that investor would like to sit in the Bernabéu box with Florentino Pérez or with Laporta in Camp Nou.”

«Nobody wants to come out of football when it is finished. Certainly because nothing happens to that investor if he does not earn money because he certainly has other companies, “Cañizares is uncovered.