Peter Lim's work at Valencia LaLiga Five years since takeover

It's been five years since the Peter Lim era began at Valencia.

Although he didn't arrive at Mestalla for the first time until October 2014, Lim's work really started during the previous summer transfer window.

A total of 52 players have been signed by the club in the last five years, with a variety of different operations.

There were major moves for the likes of Alvaro Negredo, Goncalo Guedes and Geoffrey Kondogbia that saw Valencia part with significant amounts of money.

There have been swaps (Jasper Cillessen-Neto), loans without an option to buy (Filipe Augusto, Andreas Pereira), loans with obligations to buy (Jeison Murillo, Negredo) and players whose rights were still held by the club (Rodrigo Moreno, Andre Gomes).

Champions League and dramas

Valencia have managed to qualify for the Champions League in three of the five seasons that Lim has been at the helm for. They finished fourth under Nuno Espirito Santo in 2014/15 and fourth under Marcelino in 2017/18 and 2018/19.

Los Che finished a lowly 12th on the other two occasions after hugely disappointing campaigns in 2015/16 and 2016/17.

52 signings, 16 loans

Out of the 16 loan signings that Valencia have made under Peter Lim, only seven have ended up staying at the club on a permanent basis. Los Che have spent more than 450 million euros on signings under Lim and received over 300 million euros from player sales.

Nicolas Otamendi (45 million euros), Joao Cancelo (40.4 million euros), Shkodran Mustafi (40 million euros), Andre Gomes (35 million euros), Neto (35 million euros) and Paco Alcacer (30 million euros) have all pulled in large sums of money.

Approaches to signings

Lim likes to interfere with transfers and this has caused conflict recently with Marcelino and sporting director Mateu Alemany.

The coaches have signed their own targets in the past.

Nuno was a big fan of both Enzo Perez and Negredo while Marcelino was given Kondogbia, Kevin Gameiro and Maxi Gomez from his wish list.

Lim's interference damaged the club during his second and third seasons at Mestalla and Alemany has since taken charge of operations - until this summer when it almost fell apart due to Lim's constant butting in.