PSG midfielder Soler: I wanted long-term Valencia contract, but they... | OneFootball

PSG midfielder Carlos Soler has taken aim at former club Valencia.

The Spain international was sold by VCF in August to the Parisians.

He recalled, "I told the club that I didn't want to go out for free because I owed a lot of things to Valencia. And so I let both Layhoon (Chan, chairman) and (coach Rino) Gattuso know. That's how it came, at the end of the market, that PSG opportunity and well, we reached an agreement and I left.

"In the end I was asking for a long-term contract because I wanted to bind myself to practically everything. From 25 to 33, 34 or 35 years old, linking myself with Valencia all my life.

"But the club has a philosophy and does not want to make contracts longer than X years. I thought otherwise and the club never came close to what I asked for. They didn't offer it to me. I don't have anything to reproach them for either, it's their decision, if they didn't consider it that way, then that's it."

Soler added: "My agents and I took a strategy of talking to the club and looking for conditions both for the duration of the contract and economics.

"We were having a few difficult years and you don't need to point everything to money. There are a lot of people, and those things that also bother me, that focus everything on money and wasn't not like that."