{"id":352581,"date":"2011-03-31T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/31\/i-didnt-want-to-leave-valencia-but-had-to-because-of-the-debt-manchester-city-midfielder-david-silva\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T11:15:00","slug":"i-didnt-want-to-leave-valencia-but-had-to-because-of-the-debt-manchester-city-midfielder-david-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/i-didnt-want-to-leave-valencia-but-had-to-because-of-the-debt-manchester-city-midfielder-david-silva\/","title":{"rendered":"I didn&#8217;t want to leave Valencia but had to because of the debt &#8211; Manchester City midfielder David Silva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Adithya Ananth<\/h3>\n<h4>31 Mar 2011 12:15:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"62.704918032787\">\n<div readability=\"15.375\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Silva,Manchester City(Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3c27bac9113846_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>David Silva,Manchester City(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"24.306688417618\"><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/spain\/10425\/david-silva\">David Silva<\/a> has revealed that he would not have left <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/spain\/126\/valencia\">Valencia<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/109\/manchester-city\">Manchester City<\/a>, had his former employers been in a financially stable position.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish club were widely thought to be on the brink of a meltdown due to mounting debts and were forced to sell their stars to reduce the burden that had weighed down the club.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Silva&#8217;s \u00a327 million move to Eastlands, David Villa was sold to Barcelona for a fee believed to be in the region of \u00a335m.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup winning midfielder has conceded that he was forced to leave the Mestalla due to the club&#8217;s financial predicament and would not otherwise have sought a move away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why did I leave Valencia? Because the club needed me to,&#8221; Silva said, according to <em>The Telegraph<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was happy there and wouldn&#8217;t have left, but the situation the club was in demanded it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a big injection of money and it was good for them. My life has always gone step by step. It was time to take the next one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;City showed a great interest and I wanted to settle it quickly. It was a very interesting offer, a good club, and I didn&#8217;t have to think too much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3c27bac9113846_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/03\/31\/2419574\/i-didnt-want-to-leave-valencia-but-had-to-because-of-the\" title=\"I didn't want to leave Valencia but had to because of the debt - Manchester City midfielder David Silva\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I didn&#8217;t want to leave Valencia but had to because of the debt &#8211; Manchester City midfielder David Silva<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Adithya Ananth 31 Mar 2011 12:15:00 David Silva,Manchester City(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players David Silva has revealed that he would not have left Valencia for Manchester City , had his former employers been in a financially stable position. The Spanish club were widely thought to be on the brink of a meltdown due to mounting debts and were forced to sell their stars to reduce the burden that had weighed down the club. Prior to Silva&#8217;s \u00a327 million move to Eastlands, David Villa was sold to Barcelona for a fee believed to be in the region of \u00a335m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I didn&#039;t want to leave Valencia but had to because of the debt - Manchester City midfielder David Silva - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/i-didnt-want-to-leave-valencia-but-had-to-because-of-the-debt-manchester-city-midfielder-david-silva\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"I didn&#039;t want to leave Valencia but had to because of the debt - Manchester City midfielder David Silva - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Adithya Ananth 31 Mar 2011 12:15:00 David Silva,Manchester City(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players David Silva has revealed that he would not have left Valencia for Manchester City , had his former employers been in a financially stable position. 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