Valencia set to return to training without news of Rafa Mir

Valencia are back at work on Monday afternoon after having the weekend off and will return to Paterna with the question of whether or not Rafa Mir, who is under investigation as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of sexual assault following a complaint from a woman last week, will attend the session. The 27-year-old, who is at Valencia on loan from Sevilla, was released from training on Thursday and Friday while the club analysed in depth what the Valencia attacker's situation would be after spending two nights in jail.

The club has not yet made an official decision after four days in which Mir has not been in Paterna, but confirms that it will communicate it when it is taken. Mir was provisionally released with precautionary measures last Thursday after neither of the parties requested pre-trial detention and after having to make a statement before the head of the Llíria investigating court, before which he defended that they were consensual relations.

The player's passport has been withdrawn, he has been banned from leaving the country, he has a 500-metre restraining order and an order to stay away from the complainant and another woman who denounced his friend and also footballer Pablo Jara, as well as being obliged to attend weekly to sign in court. On Wednesday, the complainant confirmed her statement that she was assaulted by Mir after locking her in a bathroom at his home, while the player from Murcia assured that the relations were consensual.

The second woman has also denounced Mir's friend, the footballer Pablo Jara, who was also arrested and who, like the Valencia player, was provisionally released after giving his statement and, likewise, he did so with precautionary measures. Apart from the unknown Rafa Mir, Baraja will not be able to count on the players called up with their national teams or the striker Hugo Duro, injured last Friday in the right soleus and who will be out of action for several weeks.