I think telling the player straight that he can leave is far more better than freezing him out of 1st team, demoted him to reserve team and even cleared out his locker in 1st team without his acknowledgement. It is also better than taking away a player’s jersey number without formally informing him in advance.
His treatment of values was shocking, of course a fair few eat up the BS that lvg spewed to justify it, even though it made no logical sense what so ever.
The time line.
Lvg brings Valdez’s in to get fit.
Utd offer Valdez a contract.
Valdez plays for the unders in a few games.
Valdez comes on for the injured de gea for the last two games.
So far nothing seems out of the ordinary.
New season starts.
Valdez isn’t going on the tour. Lvg says it was a selection issue, and he already knows what Valdez can do so leaves him behind.
Valdez post a positive message about the up coming season on social media after a training session.
Lvg arrives to a presser in the us, throws Valdez under the bus. Says he’s being sold because he refused to play for the unders.
Now at this point it’s all logical, until lvg says it was the previous year the Valdez refused. So if Valdez refused, which we know he didn’t because he did play for them, then why was he chosen to finish out the pervious season as first choice? Lvg says it was to show him off to other clubs so as to sell him. Which raises two questions, who doesn’t already know what Valdez can do from his years at Barca, and 2nd if the point was to sell him and make him look good why throw him under the bus in such a public fashion? Why take every opportunity to bad mouth a players professionalism if you want to sell him? It makes no sense, it’s like trying to sell a car but putting a sticker on it that says “will cause you nothing but problems”.
The treatment that followed was nothing short of personal attacks, again and again. Very public humiliation, and for what? I suspect that it perhaps went back to their days at Barca together where lvg gave Valdez his big break, and then tried to scape goat him for Barca’s bad season. Lvg got sacked and Valdez went on to have a pretty lengthy career. Valdez himself will admit he’s a strong personality type and can be a bit of a dick. Maybe it was nothing more than a clash of personalities, but they way lvg just kept on at him looked very very personal. Like Valdez had slept with his wife or something.
In any case the whole thing just made lvg look unstable. Like the trump of the footballing world. A buffoon that talked too much poo in the press to look tough.