Higuaín Or De La Red To Tempt Villa

Valencia would be willing to negotiate over David Villa if Real Madrid raise their offer to €45m or include either Gonzalo Higuaín or Rubén De la Red in the deal.

Los Che have turned down a bid of €40m according to AS and believe that the fans would respond angrily if he was allowed to leave, but behind the scenes they are waiting for a bigger offer.

Bernd Schuster has told Madrid that it is either Villa or nobody and president Ramón Calderón is determined to please his coach after the Cristiano Ronaldo saga rocked the relationship between them.

While Valencia's vice-president of sports, Fernando Gómez Colomer, was stated as claiming there had been no formal offer, he did claim that the dor was open after unoffiical talks between the two presidents.

That statement gave an insight into the coaching staff's belief that they could use the Villa money to bring in players to truly bolster the squad and have asked the hierarchy to enquire about Higuaín and De la Red.

Should either or both players be included in the offer from Madrid then Valencia would be willing to talk and a deal could be done by the end of the week.

Whether Madrid's offer of €40m was official or not is unconfirmed, but AS believe that it was made during Madrid's Spanish Super Cup encounter with Valencia at the weekend.

Now that Los Che know Madrid's opening price, they are weighing up what to counter with and will ask for the players to be included after being asured that the fee will not rise.