{"id":3131,"date":"2026-09-13T20:49:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=3131"},"modified":"2026-09-13T20:49:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:49:30","slug":"valencia-have-identified-a-priority-manager-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=3131","title":{"rendered":"Valencia have identified a priority manager target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Incoming <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/valencia-143\">Valencia<\/a> sporting director Braulio V\u00e1zquez already has a name in mind to take up the managerial reins at the club for the remainder of the campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>That\u2019s according to COPE, who point towards Ernesto Valverde as the tactician in question.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It has of course been a day of major change at Mestalla to date on Sunday. After a five-game winless streak to open the season left Valencia bottom of the <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/laliga-10\/fixtures\">La Liga<\/a> table, Los Che\u2019s board sprang into action.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>All of manager Carlos Corber\u00e1n and his staff, and CEO Ron Gourlay and his team of directors, were fired with immediate effect this afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A new sporting director, in turn, has already been appointed, after Peter Lim and co. managed to lure Braulio V\u00e1zquez away from La Liga rivals Osasuna.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>And as alluded to above, V\u00e1zquez, for his part, has since set his sights firmly on a potential replacement for the outbound Corber\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As per a report from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/partidazocope\/status\/2099173563265691995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">COPE<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u2018Ernesto Valverde is Braulio V\u00e1zquez\u2019s favourite to take the bench at Valencia.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Former Barcelona headmaster Valverde has for his part been out of work since bringing a close to his latest stint with Athletic Club this past summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/valencia-have-identified-a-priority-manager-target-43454245\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incoming Valencia sporting director Braulio V\u00e1zquez already has a name in mind to take up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F434542453Fdate2026-09-13.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}