After leaving the sullen Adele at the headquarters and letting her continue to work with Elizabeth and John Smith on the day-to-day affairs of the club and Trafalgar, George returned to the recruitment of Marotta and Paratici in London.

Let's start with Marotta. Although the Tottenham CEO made a major mistake in the previous action to introduce Gerrard, which once made Tottenham's public opinion handling extremely passive, George still gave him a lot of trust and asked him to negotiate the transfer of Swedish veteran Henrik Larsson with Barcelona!

That's right, former 2000-01 European Golden Boot winner and one of the greatest strikers in Swedish football history, Henrik Larsson, was George's replacement for the striker after sending off Villa. Although the Swede is now a 33-year-old veteran (note: Larsson was born on 20 September 1971, so he was not yet 34 years old at this time), in George's opinion, the issue of age will not have much of a negative impact on Larsson's performance at Tottenham. Because the Swedes belong to the kind of players who get older and more demonic, the excellent physical fitness and extremely self-disciplined life and rest brought by the mixed European and African background make Larsson's competitive state not decline significantly due to age, but become more and more dangerous with the accumulation of experience and the use of perfect technology!

You know, in George's previous life, Larsson, who is about to turn 35, was able to score more than double digits for Barcelona in one season, and also provided two crucial assists in the Champions League final in the 05-06 season, helping the Catalan army, which was one goal behind at the time, to complete the comeback and win the second Champions League title in the club's history. After that, he also went to Manchester United as a loan player for more than three months and scored three crucial goals, helping the Red Devils who were full of injuries at that time to survive the most difficult period, and even the always demanding lord was full of praise for the Swedes, and even wanted to keep Larsson at Old Trafford permanently!

With his excellent work ethic, good attitude to the game, all-round personal ability, and the characteristics of being content with the bench and plug and play, Larsson is undoubtedly an excellent super substitute in George's eyes!

In the face of the poaching of Tottenham, the new Champions League champion, the Barcelona management, who had just come out of the shadow of the Gaspart era and had not fully recovered (especially the poor financial situation has not been effectively alleviated), finally agreed to the other party's transfer offer of 3 million euros for Larsson, allowing Marotta to negotiate personal treatment with the player himself!

The reason why Barcelona agreed so readily to release him was that Begiristan, who was in charge of the transfer of players, concluded that the old Swedish gun would not help the team much, based on Larsson's performance of only three goals in 12 league appearances this season!

The Barcelona general manager will not know what a stupid decision he has made, let alone what an astonishing energy he will explode in the following season when he personally agrees to let Larsson go. Of course, if he could have foreseen this, then it is estimated that Larsson would not have been let go so easily.

In fact, the reason why Larsson did not perform well in the 04-05 season was mainly because he was in a transition period of the team's role and self-positioning. Before that, the Swede was the absolute mainstay of Glasgow Celtic and the heart of the team's attack, and everything had to revolve around him, but after arriving at Barcelona, Larsson became Eto'o's number one substitute, not only playing a significant reduction in playing time, but also playing around Ronaldinho as a role player. With the obvious change in roles within the team and the huge gap in status, Larsson cannot complete the transformation at once even if he is adaptable, so his performance in his first season at Barcelona is naturally not much better.

Larsson himself is interested in joining Tottenham. Although the Swede won a La Liga title in his first season with Barcelona, his goalscoring inefficiency has caused him to be criticised by Barcelona fans and the media. Under such circumstances, it is natural that the Swedes will not have any resistance to playing at Tottenham.

As for playing time, Larsson doesn't think it's an issue. Because according to his understanding and Marotta's introduction, Coach George Nelson likes rotation very much, plus Tottenham will face the League Cup, FA Cup, League and Champions Cup at the same time in the new season, and he will go to distant Japan to participate in the Club World Cup in the middle of the season, so even as a substitute for Drogba and Klose, he will not lack opportunities to play at all!

Not to mention, in the just-concluded 04-05 season, Villa, as Tottenham's third striker, scored a staggering 25 goals in all competitions. With the success story of Villa first, the worry in Larsson's heart was naturally reduced to a minimum!

In this way, Larsson, who was quite excited about his prospects at White Hart Lane, happily signed a two-year contract with an annual salary of £1.2 million, becoming Tottenham's third signing in the summer transfer market!

Paratici, meanwhile, has arrived in Monaco in the south of France, ready to poach the second dark horse in this season's Champions League!

Although George is also the boss behind Monaco, there is still some superficial work to be done, and it is not a good thing to let too many people know that Monaco and Tottenham are behind the same boss. So Paratici only thought that Monaco and Tottenham had a certain cooperative relationship, and he didn't know the actual situation here!

The reason George changed his mind about bringing in a right-back instead of the centre-back he had originally intended was because of a season summary report submitted by Tottenham Hotspur Lab a few days ago. The report clearly pointed out that among the two right-backs in the first team, although Phil Neville is only 28 years old as a substitute, the versatile defender is no longer suitable to continue to play as a right-back with relatively high physical and physical requirements.

George takes the advice of these medical experts at Tottenham Hotspur very seriously. After a season of operation, Tottenham Hotspur Labs have proven that they are worthy of George's big investment. So this time, George still chose to trust the opinions of these experts and decided to transfer Phil Neville from the right-back position!

In addition, the 29-year-old vice-captain Stephen Carr was also pointed out in the report that there is a high probability of a dip in form over the next two years. Therefore, the introduction of a young and promising right wing-back this summer is naturally on the agenda by George!

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