In fact, N'Golo Kante's situation is usually rare, and professional coaches like Ranieri generally have their own scouting networks, and few talented players can escape their eyes. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is even rarer for the likes of Riyad Mahrez and N'Golo Kante to come to China, and if Zhang Sheng was not a reborn person, he would not have known that there were these two buried talents. So when David Mills saw the two players he had followed in an AFC Champions League match, he even suspected that he had opened the world to watch the game in the wrong way, and he looked at the starting line-ups of both sides again and again before confirming that Mahrez and Kante in this game were indeed the Mahrez and Kante that he had previously scouted.

Of course, although this coincidence gave David Mills a big shock, he was more concerned about the current strength of Mahrez and Kante, through this game, he found that Mahrez and Kante developed very well in this Chinese team, Mahrez's breakthrough is still as sharp as ever, and he also learned to pass the ball at a reasonable time, Kante in addition to maintaining his defensive and sweeping advantages in the midfield, and even in the passing organization has made some progress.

In David Mills' opinion, the head coach of this team has developed them very well.

After this game, David Mills added the Dragons to Leicester City's observation range, and Leicester's coaching and management team began to analyse the various backgrounds and strengths of the Dragons.

First of all, they investigated the background and organizational structure of the investors of the Dragon Club, and when they saw that the total assets of the parent company of the Dragon Club, the Dragon Group, reached nearly 52 billion yuan, and the growth of the group was on a straight upward trend, they knew that it was not so easy to buy players from the Dragon Club.

Because this is a club that is not short of money, and they are looking for results, not how much money they can make by investing in the club, just look at their number one star, who caused a big stir in China by spending 10 million euros at the beginning of the season to buy Brazilian star Pato, because it is the most expensive star in the history of Chinese football.

To be honest, even Leicester City themselves have never bought such an expensive player, and now it is difficult to take food from the Dragon Club.

However, David Mills is only a technical officer after all, rarely involved in the specific purchase and sale of players, and his task is to provide the team with potential new stars, as long as the issue of player price is not too outrageous, it will not affect him much.

David Mills then sent out his own scouting report to the club, with Riyad Mahrez and N'Golo Kante both highlighted in red.

Steve Walsh, who received the report from David Mills, was very strange. This time David Mills was targeting Japanese players, why did he go to investigate and send a scouting report from two French players, could it be that David Mills sent the wrong one?

But soon Steve Walsh found out that things were not so simple, because he also found the previous information of Mahrez and Kante on his wyscout platform, from which it was shown that both players had a period of being observed, and their potential was not bad, but when they both went to China, there was no news of the two of them on the wyscout platform, after all, the Chinese Super League is not famous now.

Chinese football ranks very low in the world, and the investment of the Chinese Super League clubs is not very large, coupled with the news about various match-fixing, gambling, black balls and other news about Chinese football that have popped up from time to time over the years, so that the wyscout platform to collect information from the Chinese football league feels that the gains outweigh the losses, in their opinion, who knows whether the information they have collected is fake, not to mention that China's long distance also makes the cost of collecting information very high.

So after Riyad Mahrez and N'Golo Kante arrived in China, there was no information about their follow-up matches on the Wyscout platform.

However, the fact that the two players he fancied were taken away by a Chinese club still made Steve Walsh find it a very interesting thing, so Steve Walsh did not categorically refuse David Mills' request to continue the scouting, and asked him to find a few part-time scouts in China to continue to observe the two players.

The investigation of the Dragon Club went a step further, and Leicester City began to dig up the personnel information of various positions in the club, and soon they found that this club is not so simple.

The first is that the resume of their head coach is intriguing.

Zhang Sheng, the head coach of Longteng Club, is obviously not the kind of low-level local coach in backward football countries, he received training and edification in Brazilian football when he was a player, has a bachelor's degree in sports, and later has the experience of studying in Germany, and more importantly, he also has a German A-level coaching qualification certificate, which is not so easy to get.

And they know Zhang Sheng's achievements when he coached in Germany through the German network, and it is clear that this is a young coach with great potential, and his coaching results are among the best among European coaches of the same age.

After examining Zhang Sheng's coaching performance back in China, they found that under his leadership, the Longteng Club is moving forward in a mode of one jump a year, and it is obvious that Zhang Sheng's coaching has passed the test of time, not a flash in the pan.

Leicester City's information gatherers then started to look at the rest of the Dragons, and this time they were amazed.

From the information they gathered, they saw that at least three players had come to play in Europe from Longteng Club, and Xu Mingyu, who played in Sporting Lisbon B, was forgotten, after all, it was a second-tier league outside of Europe's top five leagues.

But Qin Minghao and Li Yun are not simple, the club they play for is the class leader of the Austrian Football League, and this season's excellent performance of the two of them also helped the team reach the semi-finals of the Europa League, which is a high-level event that Leicester City itself does not dare to hope for now, which proves that Longteng Club has its own excellent system in the cultivation of players.

However, what makes Leicester City feel more relieved is that the Dragon Club is not the kind of club that is deadly buckled, and they generally do not insist on interfering with players who intend to leave, which can be seen from their annual transfer situation - there are always more players transferred out than players bought.

At the same time, Leicester City also sees the big development strategy of the Dragon Club, that is, they like to establish ties with European clubs, and they have successively established certain player buying and selling channels and club exchange channels with RB Leipzig, Red Bull Salzburg, Sporting Lisbon and Porto.

This development strategy of the Longteng Club has given Leicester City a certain confidence, after all, they will start playing in the Premier League next season, and the Premier League will not be weaker than the German Second Division, Austrian A, and Portuguese Super League.

Based on this judgment, Leicester City felt that they could still save it, and Steve Walsh began to let David Mills focus on Longteng Club, and let his own Wyscout platform start collecting information about the Chinese professional football league.

Because through the investigation of the Dragon Club, Steve Walsh also found a big gold mine - the Chinese professional football market, obviously this is an extremely broad market, and affected by national policies, this market is just in the stage of a big eruption, once the country's football market begins to embark on the right track of scientific development, the benefits contained in it are immeasurable.

As David Mills observes, and further information is gathered on the Wyscout platform, Leicester City are increasingly taking the identities of Riyad Mahrez and N'Golo Kante seriously, and the two of them are getting better and better.

The fact that they have been able to make rapid progress in such a low-level league shows that the talent of these two players is absolutely top-notch. Because according to football theory, the low-level league environment has a great negative effect on the growth of players, and Mahrez and Kante can make great progress in such a low-level league, which shows that the two of them have more room for improvement after reaching a high-level league.

Especially after the Longteng Club continued to be promoted in the AFC Champions League, continued to improve its ranking in the Chinese Super League, and even ranked at the top of the Chinese Super League during the interval, Leicester City's coaching staff and scouting staff agreed that it was necessary for the club to apply to each other for purchase.

First of all, David Mills secretly approached Riyad Mahrez and N'Golo Kante himself, approaching them with the idea of wanting them to play in the Premier League.

In fact, according to FIFA regulations, such a practice is illegal, and once it is found, it is possible to be fined or even disqualified for a period of time, because FIFA's transfer rules clearly stipulate that "if a club wants to sign a player with a contract, it must first notify the club to which it belongs." The victim club can appeal to FIFA against the victim's sneaky direct contact with a player, bypassing the opposing club. ”

However, there is a big loophole in this provision, which is that the club making the complaint must produce conclusive evidence that the buyer has a direct connection with the player without notifying the club.

It's a pity that as long as you want to buy a player, the buyer has a hundred ways to make the other party helpless.

For example, the buyer can not come forward and let the player's relatives convey the intention to buy, or through the player's club teammates, and through the player's national team teammates.

The most famous example in China is the transfer of Liu Jian, a player from Qingdao Zhongneng, who was once very hot, to Guangzhou Evergrande.

Liu Jian's transfer has experienced a series of problems such as "the club's private contact with players", "yin and yang contracts", and "forged contracts", although this matter ended with Liu Jian's free transfer to Guangzhou Evergrande, and Qingdao Zhongneng was scolded by the outside world. As the parties, Guangzhou Evergrande, Qingdao Zhongneng, and even the arbiter Chinese Football Association, in the process of handling disputes, none of them are flawless and innocent. Through this dispute, we can only sigh that Chinese football is like singing in the opera: there are no good people in Hongtong County.

Although Evergrande is strict in its words, to some extent, Qingdao Zhongneng is the real victim. Guangzhou Evergrande's most criticized thing is that they secretly bypassed the opposing club and secretly contacted the players directly, and they were the initiators of this gourd monk's indiscriminate judgment of the gourd case.

Of course, while everyone complains that the broker system in the domestic transfer market is not perfect, foreign countries are not White Lotus.

Even in European football, which has a very mature transfer market and has a history of several decades, such things are not uncommon.

Not to mention the transfers of ordinary players who are not concerned, in the transfer of those well-known stars, there are endless cases of private contact.

For example, the very famous Fabregas transfer drama, there are Arsenal, Barcelona, Chelsea, Real Madrid and other familiar names before and after it, among which Real Madrid's secret contact with Fabregas was revealed by himself to Sky Sports.

As far as the algorithm Bregas directly exposed the matter, how to transfer is not how to operate.

And even more bizarre things can't be said, for example, Bayern Munich gave Deisler 20 million marks in order to introduce Hertha Berlin, but Hertha Berlin, who has long held a grudge, caught it through the media. At the instigation of Bayern, Deisler gave a reason for making people spray rice, saying that he was responsible for the money borrowed by Bayern and then returned it.

As long as the person with a normal IQ will not believe such a reason, but once the person concerned insists on this statement, you will have nothing to do with him.

Of course, not every club is in a strong position, and there are many cases of private contact and then used by players to raise their value.

The most famous example of this is the transfer farce of Borussia Dortmund's player Kele.

The contract is about to expire Kyle has been refusing to renew his contract with Dortmund, and the thirsty Bayern contacted him privately, initialed the contract with him, and gave a deposit, and finally Dortmund, who was shocked to hear the news, came up with a more generous contract, and Kyle also successfully signed his name on it, and after the incident, Kyle and Bayern broke the contract and returned the deposit, and Kyle's price increase was "planned".

This time, it was Bayern Munich who suffered.

So this kind of private contact is really nothing to make a fuss about, of course, such rules are poked in front of the Chinese who are good at exploiting loopholes, and Chinese clubs are using this method to poach people in Brazil, so that the Brazilian giants who are forced to appeal to FIFA claim that the Chinese Super League team abducted their players.

That's exactly what David Mills did.