Chapter 057: An Old Friend Calls
Just do what you say, this is the German way of doing things.
For a whole day, Michael Baker's phone was on the phone almost most of the time, and he was helping Yang Fan contact the club.
Because of the German team, he has the deepest connections in Germany, so Michael Beck focuses on the German team.
Considering factors such as Yang Fan's current strength and experience, Michael Beck first focused on the Bundesliga team. He also called Yang Fan in advance to ask for his opinion, Yang Fan has no opinion on this, now for him, being able to play in the first team is the most important thing, as for the Bundesliga or the Bundesliga, or the Greek league, this is not the most important.
Moreover, there are also many names of teams that Yang Fan is familiar with in the German Second Division, and he is still looking forward to this.
Karlsruhe, Munich 1860, Kaiserslautern, Cologne, etc., are all in the Bundesliga.
Yang Fan trained with the team at the Rigberton training base in the afternoon, so he didn't know which teams Michael Baker had contacted for him and what the results were.
In fact, Mr. Agent at this time also had a headache, because he was in too much of a hurry, and it was not easy for him to find a team suitable for Yang Fan in a short period of time.
Even if some teams are more suitable for Yang Fan, the manager and head coach of that team have not watched Yang Fan's game, and it is impossible to nod just by virtue of a few words from his Baker. Of course, Baker's energy is naturally not weak, and the people he recommends, if these clubs really need to strengthen the strength of the front, they will indeed not be dismissive, at least they will give Yang Fan a chance to try.
However, in the evening, there was no good progress, only the two teams of Unterhachen and Rostock showed a strong interest in Beck's recommendation form, and gave the player recommended by Beck the opportunity to go to Germany for a trial.
The reaction of other teams has been relatively muted, mainly because the winter break of the Bundesliga teams started relatively early, and before the transfer window came, many teams had already begun to fill in some positions in the team, at this time, the winter break is coming to an end, and many teams that plan to bring in reinforcements in the winter have basically completed the winter supplement.
There are some teams that don't plan to bring in reinforcements in the winter at all, because these teams are more cautious in the winter and they never buy and sell personnel in the winter at all.
In addition to his agent, Beck is also a scout for Bayern Munich and Dortmund, but it is obvious that these two teams are unlikely to look at the current Yang Fan. So Baker never had the idea of recommending Yang Fan to Bayern Munich and Dortmund.
Baker rubbed his temples, a little headache, it's already the middle of January, and the winter transfer is coming to an end in less than two weeks. It is not easy for him to help Yang Fan find a suitable team. Is it to play for another half season in the youth league at Newcastle and wait until the summer?
No, Baker shook his head resolutely, he was very optimistic about Yang Fan's potential, and playing a real professional game as soon as possible was very helpful to Yang Fan, even if it was half a year, it couldn't be wasted!
At this time, the mobile phone rang, and Mr. Agent looked at the phone with an unexpected expression. It was his old friend Klaus Augenthaler calling.
Klaus Augenthaler, a famous figure in German football, was the captain of Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich for seven years from 1984 to 1991, which is enough to show the importance and status of this man to German football and world football. He was also one of Germany's success in the 1990 World Cup. Ogenthaler is now the head coach of Bundesliga side VfL Wolfsburg.
Michael Baker frowned and thought about it, not guessing what Augenthaler meant, so he simply didn't think about it and pressed the answer button.
"Hello, Klaus. Michael Baker yelled into the phone, "You have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Hall, tell me something, my old friend." ”
"Hello Michael, are you in Germany now?" Klaus Augenthaler's voice was a little hoarse.
"I'm in Newcastle, England. Baker replied, "Say, old friend, if I can help, I'll do my best." ”
"Do you have any good players on hand right now?" said Ogenthaler.
Beck was stunned, his mind was like a calculated computer, and he was recalling the Bundesliga standings before the winter break, with Wolfsburg finishing 12th in the league, which was not very good, but it was not that bad. But, wait, Baker got a little bit of it. Wolfsburg have 19 points, and the team has won four, drawn seven and lost six in 17 league games, which is really worse than the points and record, and what is worse is that Wolfsburg is only four points above the relegation zone. After the start of the winter break, if they continue to sink, Wolfsburg will not be able to play in the Bundesliga next season.
In this way, this old friend of mine is not having a good time.
"Klaus, what position do you need?" Baker asked.
"Attacking players! preferably strikers, the team now needs a guy who can score goals. Augenthaler said. He does have a headache now, the team's veteran Klimowitz was originally a and relatively stable scoring point, however, this season fell into a goal drought, another veteran Ogendorp, more than half of the season, has not broken the goal drought, now only the team's scoring champion is German center Mike Hank, his goal count is only eight goals, and another Argentine goalscorer Juan Mensegues prefers to move more on the wing, playing wingers is a good hand, but does not have the ability to score the final blow. Substitute striker Rama was even more ill-fated, injured at the beginning of the season, and not long after recovering from the injury, he was injured again.
So, Augenthaler is really worried about the team's offensive ability right now!
Originally, the team has been working on the transfer of Danish center Tomasson from Stuttgart to Wolfsburg, but today, the transfer was announced, and Tomasson announced that he would respect his contract with Stuttgart, and he did not plan to go to Wolfsburg, which is in the relegation zone, but hoped to do his part for Stuttgart's European qualification.
Tomasson's announcement to stay in Stuttgart was terrible for Organthaler, who had previously seen the Dane as Wolfsburg's savior, and now that the winter transfer market is still more than a week away, he has to start looking again for a player who can score for Wolfsburg in the already scarce transfer market. That's easier said than done.
Why is it difficult to have a big transfer and a good player when transferring in the winter, it is because any player who is not in the current club will not seek a transfer in the winter transfer market, because the risk of transferring to a new team in the winter is really big, unlike the summer transfer after the summer training camp can allow them to run in with the new team and new teammates, and the players introduced in the winter transfer are required to come to fight! The manager doesn't give the new players too much time and opportunity to adapt, and if they don't play a game or two, they will be sent to the cold. In fact, many players are even adapting to new tactics and new teammates at this time. The bad performance they have come to the new team is not because of the quality of the team, but because of the adaptation. Therefore, the players will not choose to transfer in the winter.
For example, the Danish striker Tomasson mentioned above chose to stay in Stuttgart in search of opportunities and gave up on moving to Wolfsburg, more for this reason.
That's why Organthaler is in such a hurry, if he can't find a suitable striker in the transfer market, Wolfsburg in the second half of the season will be really dangerous.
Michael Baker listened to his old friend talk about the current situation in Wolfsburg on the phone, and he kept silent, just when Augenthaler couldn't help but ask, Baker suddenly spoke, "Klaus, I do have a good young man in my hands now, but I don't know if you dare to use it?"
"What's his name, which team does he play for?" Augenthaler quickly asked, he and Baker are old friends, and they still trust this old friend, since Baker said that he is a good young man, then it should be okay.
"Premier League Newcastle United. Baker laughs and says, "I'm in Newcastle right now. It's to deal with his transfer. ”
"It's amazing. "What are the technical characteristics of this guy? You know, what I need is a scorer, preferably the kind of scoring point you can rely on in the box!"
"A point-grabbing shooter. "He's got a good sense of where to hit the ball, he's got a decisive shot, he's a nice little guy." ”
"Yes, you say 'little guy', how old is this guy?" Augenthaler heard Beck say this, and became even more anxious, isn't Wolfsburg in need of such a scorer now?
"Eighteen years old. Baker said, telling his age, followed by saying, 'I'm very optimistic about this kid, he just scored a hat-trick against Arsenal and Chelsea. ”
"Oh God. Ogenthaler exclaimed, "Old friend, you're so interesting! I want this kid, I'm going to condemn him! Well, by the way, what's his name? How come I haven't heard of a genius kid who has scored a hat-trick against Arsenal and Chelsea recently." ”
"His name is Yang, and he's a great Chinese guy. Baker said.
"Chinese striker?" Augenthaler was stunned, how could it be? I had never heard of such a powerful character in China.
"By the way, he plays for Newcastle's Under-19s," Baker said quickly.
Then there was a long silence on the other end of the line