“How long will it take learn spanish, one year?”. “Can I speak it in six months“Perfect, and when could you fly to Valencia?”.
So just summarize anil murthy the conversation he had with peter lim one morning of fall 2016 in which he received a mysterious call when he was about to go to bed. He had to get dressed and explain to his wife that he was going to a job interview. The Singaporean diplomat had worked ten years at the embassy in Parishe liked the football and had immediate availability to travel. Hired.
Indeed, Anil Murthy has a gift to learn languagesprobably driven by a supernatural chutzpah. The same one that he made guard down at a meal with five businessmen whom he was going to ask for collaboration in a solidarity event. One of them recorded the conversation full of confessions, opinions, secrets, sensitive information about the future of the players, the stadium and even their special relationship with some of the media. The filtering of those audios to the newspaper super sport has caused Lim to thumb down in Singapore.
murty landed in Valencia after the 2016-17 season initially disguised as responsible for digital and communication strategies, although with the ‘secret’ assignment to succeed Lay Hoon in a presidency to suit him, with little executive power. Murthy was in the shadow of sporting successes of the team (two classifications for Champions and a Cup) that monopolized the general director, Mateu Germanyand the coach, Marcelino Garcia Toral.
While, Murthy became popular with his ability to learn Spanish and the way he assumes customs typically Valencian, such as dressing the blusn fallero and plant one fails ‘to the tombe’ (the monument rises in one piece), among others. I know you have to give credit to his way of dealing with the ultrasalthough he will be better remembered for getting almost all the fans out of the last league game against Celta, and there were no radicals there.
But peter lim he didn’t like him overpowering that they assume Marcelino and Alemany when deciding to invest in signings and the budget increase. A wake-up call from Singapore was enough for Murthy stepped forward. And instead of defending the structure, increased the doubts of the maximum shareholder what i decided back to strategy sports based on player sales.
Murthy stayed as Lim’s only shield and he did not do it with an attitude of resignation but with that of a battering ram ready to topple any trace of the call double m In September 2019, with the Marcellin’s dismissalwere inaugurated three darker years of the recent history of Valencia, with a president who believed that the less loved he was in Valencia, the greater the reward he would receive in Singapore. And so it was, when at the next general meeting a salary increase of up to 500,000 euros per year approximately (a variable amount with diets, house, car and school for the children).
This is the only way to understand that the October 5, 2019 –Not even a month had passed since Marcelino’s dismissal- he would silence the Mestalla fans when the stands sang “Peter, go already” Y “Anil, scoundrel, get out of Mestalla”before the astonished gaze of Mateu Germany that I already had the days numbered.
That image is what defines I symbolize Murthy’s mandatewhich would have fulfilled five years next July 1. But within the management of it other milestones appear such as having expelled the clubs from the premises they had in the Mestalla stadium or multiplying by 400 the number of actions necessary to attend a general meeting of shareholders. He also canceled an initiative to support childhood cancer due to criticism from the former player Santi Caizareswho spearheaded the project.
The truth is Murthy showed his face in Valencia -he had to hire the services of a bodyguard-, but nor there has been no decisionsuch as firing him this May 30 that did not come directly from Singapore. Now Lim serves the head of another president for calm the fans and the politiciansbecause the maximum shareholder needs support their sports plans and those of the new stadium -a lot of money is played here-. But let no one forget that Murthy was nothing more than an employee elected and held as president for nearly five years by Peter Lim.
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