Rodrigo Moreno talked to journalists in a Tuesday press conference after training, and confirmed that, following the completion of the sale of the club to Peter Lim, he is now a Valencia CF player as per the terms of his contract.

"My continuation clause at the club was stated in my contract,” explained the forward, who originally joined VCF on a loan deal. “From now on I'm a Valencia player for this and four more seasons -five in all."



Asked about the mood in the squad after the defeat against Barcelona, Rodrigo said: "We are calm, obviously everyone is aware that we had a great game, with an end result that we did not deserve, and we are coming off two bad results in the league. Now we have a cup game, we are looking forward to that, and we have to go game-by-game and move forward."



Rodrigo also commented that he is unfazed by a lack of goals from Valencia CF’s forwards: "It's normal, all strikers want to score goals and they are not coming, but the world is not going to stop because the forwards aren’t scoring,” he remarked.

“We’ll work on this and things will come naturally. If we worry about it, then nothing will happen. We all want to score but you have to be calm, this is part of the game.”



With Copa del Rey action this week against Rayo Vallecano and a favourable draw in theory, Rodrigo is eager for a good showing this year in the competition.

"Whether we are up against the favourites or not, every game will be difficult. We have had bad results against opponents who were lower down the table in La Liga, so we know that we have to do our bit to go through. We are focused on Thursday's game."



"If the manager feels he should rotate the squad, then that is fine. I do not think the problem is fatigue, we have time to recover, I don’t know what the manager has in mind, but we are prepared for what he sees fit."