Chapter 447: The Choice of the Front Line (Big Chapter Asking for a Monthly Pass)

Leon was pondering, his mind was thinking and analyzing quickly, and finally, Leon's eyes were temporarily locked on a young player of the Argentine giants River Plate. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

He had his eye on River Plate's young goalscorer Maxi Lopez.

The 20-year-old Maxi López has already made his mark in the Argentine league and his performances have caught the attention of many European giants, including Barcelona, AC Milan and Chelsea. Lopez is 1.88m tall, but he is delicate and good at handling the ball and making the ball, and if he can successfully bring in Lopez, his arrival will not only find a replacement for the front line, but also find a new style of play for Sporting Gijon. In addition, and on top of that, Maxi López just got an Italian passport at the beginning of December, that is, at the beginning of the month, so he is not counted as a non-EU player.

Leon believes that a striker like Lopez can improve the attacking power of Sporting Gijón in the front court by a notch. Even in some games, he could field a front three of Di Natale, Diego Milito and Maxi Lopez.

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Leon certainly knew that, according to his memory, Lopez had gone to Barcelona this winter. But Leon still feels that his team still has the strength to compete, not to mention anything else, Leon thinks that he is now famous for his ability to promote and 'transfer' young players, which should be attractive to young Maxi Lopez.

Of course, Barcelona are giants, and the attraction of giants to players is undoubted, and few people can refuse an invitation from a giant, and the player's personal will plays a crucial role in the transfer. Lopez can choose the team he likes, and if he wants to go to the big clubs, this puts Sporting Gijón at a disadvantage in the competition with Barcelona from the start.

In fact, Leon really wants to tell Lopez that going to a wealthy club at this time may not be a good choice, but a sweet trap...... Leon is well aware of Lopez's experience after joining Barcelona, with the River Plate star starting a long wandering years after a season and a half on the bench at Barcelona. He was loaned to Mallorca and a year later moved to the snow-covered Eastern European continent by Russian side Moscow FC for €2 million...... Then there was the stumbling of the whole career.

Leon knew this, but he couldn't say, why? Because he wouldn't believe Lopez when he said it, and if he didn't say it, he would think that Leon was a, or at least he would think that it was a trick to persuade him to join Sporting Gijón.

Leon still wanted to fight for it, and Sporting Gijón joined the battle for Maxi Lopez, however, the result was not ideal, and in the battle for Maxi Lopez, Leon and Sporting Gijón lost to Rijkaard and Barcelona, and the attraction of giants like Barcelona is incomparable to that of Sporting Gijon.

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Leon, who has lost Maxi Lopez, can only wish the good luck of the talented striker, who has been hailed by Barcelona as Larsson's successor, and if the gears of fate have not changed, the future of the Argentine River Plate genius can be said to be bleak.

It was at this time that Banderas reported to him the news from Anelka, and to Leon's surprise, Anelka was not averse to playing at Sporting Gijón.

"Did his brother say he would like to come to Sporting Gijón?" asked Leon.

"Yes. "His brother Claude Anelka patted his chest and said he could persuade Anelka to agree to come to Sporting Gijón. ”

Leon was silent.

"His brother's words aren't very reliable. Banderas said that the player's personal will is the most important thing, and even if it is his brother's words, the player will not necessarily follow the advice.

"No, Claude Anelka's words, Anelka will definitely listen. Leon said, he knew Anelka's agent brother too well.

Anelka's older brother, Claude Anelka, was one of his two agents and the one who had the greatest influence on Anelka, to be exact.

Perhaps because of the family conditions when he was a child, Anelka's brother was very fond of money, and Claude hoped that after he became an agent, he could help the two make more money.

Claude has only one goal as an agent - to help his younger brother get a higher salary and help himself get more share, and for this purpose, Anelka began to make a constant transfer, as long as the club's salary does not satisfy him, or there is no absolute main position, or the club is difficult to become a springboard for professional advancement, he will arrange a transfer for Anelka.

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Anelka was born in the French club Paris Saint-Germain, but he had a better chance of going to Arsenal, so he immediately switched to Arsenal, and then he won the Premier League Young Player of the Year in 1999. At that time, Anelka was just a football-obsessed genius. Due to his outstanding performance in Highbury for three years, he was only 20 years old and was favored by the Galaxy Battleship. However, Anelka in his youth was a young man who only knew how to play and go home to play.

Like many geniuses, they will pour their talents into one aspect, and they will often be helpless in front of the things that ordinary people are accustomed to, and they will seem so helpless in the face of complex professional contracts and personal career plans. That's when Anelka's Claude brother appeared like a guardian angel.

Following the admonition of his parents that he must be his own brother when he goes into battle, Anelka obeyed his brother's words and began to deviate from the club and slack off. Publicly claiming that he wants to leave the team, he votes, but ignores the extremely cruel competition for positions and insufficient growth space after leaving Arsenal and the professor to transfer to a giant club like Real Madrid.

On August 20, 1999, Anelka traveled to Real Madrid for £23 million. Professor Ane, who bought him from Paris Saint-Germain for 22.5 million euros, wanted to cry without tears. The club's director at the time, David Dane, described Anelka as a "bastard who does all the bad and unethical things". Since then, Anelka has embarked on a path of no return for a young genius to transform into a demon of the world.

Generally speaking, the agent does not participate in the distribution of players' wages and bonuses, but in terms of commercial income such as advertising and operation, he can get 10%~15% commission. This is also the reason why many agents continue to encourage their players to transfer.

At Real Madrid, Anelka has not been able to perform well, and he has also created rights and wrongs on and off the field, as former Spanish national team coach Javier Clemente commented, "The money used to buy Anelka is more valuable when used for charity." ”

After a sluggish season, Anelka was sold back to the French Ligue 1 by Real Madrid for £20 million.

On his return to Paris Saint-Germain, Anelka went on loan to Liverpool, Manchester City, Fenerbahce and returned to the Premier League on loan until the end of the season before joining Liverpool on loan for £13 million.

Now, the conflict between Anelka and Manchester City manager Keegan has become irreconcilable and is in the process of making a transfer.

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In Leon's memory, Anelka's more than ten years of career has played for 9 clubs, and his cumulative transfer fee ranks first among all players in world football, among which Claude, as an agent, "has made great contributions".

Leon knows Anelka's agent, Claude Anelka, too well. Sporting Gijón is only a small club, although it is now ranked in the top four in La Liga, but, in the eyes of outsiders, Sporting Gijón is still just a dark horse with excellent performance, and he will not be too optimistic about the prospects of Sporting Gijón, so Leon will not be naïve to think that Claude Anelka will see that he Leon has the ability to lead Sporting Gijón to create a future and let his younger brother Anelka come to defect.

Obviously, being able to make Claude Anelka pat his chest and say words of assurance must be motivated by interests.

Claude Anelka clearly treats Sporting Gijón as a fat sheep and wants to slaughter it.

Anelka is indeed a star of extraordinary strength, and if Sporting Gijón had money, Leon would not mind letting Anelka's greedy brother make some money to facilitate the transfer, but the problem is that Sporting Gijón has no money.

Therefore, Anelka's greedy agent brother has miscalculated this time and is destined to disappoint him.

Therefore, Leon didn't pay much attention to Claude Anelka's overtures, and he arranged for Banderas to continue to communicate with the other side, and he didn't bother to pay attention to it.

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Instead of thinking about Lopez, who was out of his way, and not 'nostalgic' and 'unreliable' Anelka, Leon once again set his sights on the Apennine Peninsula, this time with his eye on the 34-year-old veteran of the Italian team - Enrico Chiesa. Leon has a deep impression of this celebrity, Chiesa is one of the veterans who are as famous as Di Natale in Serie A, and was a fringe international of the Italian national team when he was young, why not the main striker of the Italian national team? This is not because Chiesa is not strong enough, but because his competitors are too strong, at that time, the Italian national team was full of strong players, including Del Piero, Baggio, Inzaghi, Totti, Vieri, and in the face of these top stars of this era, the talented Chiesa could only sigh.

Chiesa is a typical second striker who can score, with excellent footwork, technique and footwork, he is the most similar to Baggio in the Italian No. 9 and a half, and compared to Baggio, who has been seriously injured repeatedly, he may still have a certain advantage in terms of speed; and the slight difference with Baggio's preference for retreating to get the ball is that Chiesa can and is willing to play at the front of the formation, which is why the same zone 442, he can be reused and Baggio has repeatedly hit the wall in the giants. During the Parma period, Crespo and Crespo complemented each other perfectly, both of them were able to pull space and play for each other, and at the same time they could use each other's space to pull and play the ball to score. In the purple lily also showed excellent form, but a serious injury not only made him miss the 2002 World Cup, but also made his subsequent level have dropped significantly, but after getting old, there is still a residual power, if you can come to Sporting Gijón, it can be said that it can be said that Di Natale is the perfect substitute.

On the one hand, Chiesa has good strength and experience, and because he is 34 years old, Chiesa does not strongly demand the main position, and his technical characteristics are very similar to Di Natale.

It can be said that no matter from which point of view, Chiesa is currently the most suitable striker for Sporting Gijón, and Leon, who has made up his mind, offered 500,000 euros to Siena in Serie A to buy Chiesa, and Leon asked the club to offer 500,000 euros, which is definitely not a contempt for Chiesa, this is because Siena signed Chiesa from Parma in the summer of 2003 when he was a free transfer, without paying a penny for the transfer fee, and now Chiesa is thirty-four years old, and the value of 500,000 is not too little, of course, not much。

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Sporting Gijón was quick to get a response, and Siena rejected the offer.

Because on the one hand, Siena does not want to let Chiesa go, and on the other hand, there are many teams that are pursuing Chiesa at the same time, and now the closest to the Italian veteran is the Italian team Udinese. Leon snatched Di Natale from Udinese in the summer, which had a big impact on Udinese.

Therefore, now Udinese has set their sights on Chiesa, who has similar characteristics to Di Natale but is much older, and this time, they are also offering 500,000 euros for Chiesa.

Siena does not want to let Chiesa go, but, in the face of Udinese's purchase, they find that they may not be able to keep Chiesa, because compared to a relegation team like Siena, Udinese is stronger, and Chiesa will definitely be willing to go to Udinese.

It's just that Siena is a little hesitant about the transfer fee of 500,000 euros, and they still want more.

At this time, Sporting Gijón from La Liga joined the competition for Chiesa, a 34-year-old veteran who looked outdated, and suddenly became a sweetheart this winter......

Siena is more happy that Sporting Gijón suddenly joined the battle for Chiesa, and there is one more buyer, which can raise the price......

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