It must be mentioned here that before last year's World Cup Asian qualifiers, Toshlapna's Hong Fu, the Chinese national team went to Europe for training and competition, and one of the stops was two British first-class clubs, which attracted some local British scouts. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info at that time, the situation of the Chinese team's training and competition was quite good, although the opponent of the warm-up match was not strong, but the Chinese team's continuous performance still attracted a lot of scouts, some scouts therefore asked the German GD Sports Economic Company, which hosted China's training camp in Europe, about the possibility of buying Chinese players, but the Chinese Football Association in order not to affect the preparation for the top 10 matches, the instructions were all politely refused.

But the British's "thief heart does not die." After the qualifiers, the British side was still enthusiastic, and the British side opened a list of four people. That is, Fan Zhiyi, Hao Haidong, Gao Feng and Li Bing. However, at that time, Gao Feng's knee joint was seriously injured, Hao Haidong was a military member, Li Bing did not want to try out, and Fan Zhiyi was being reused in Prato, so he did not accept it, so the matter was delayed.

The turnaround came in May of this year. Crystal Palace, who were still in a fierce battle with Manchester United in the 89/90 season for the FA Cup title and finished third in the top league in the 90/91 season, were relegated in the 92/93 season, and their last game away to Arsenal ultimately led to the disaster, and it was the former team star Ian Ian who was trained by the Crystal Palace team to score the crucial goal. Wright, this has to feel the cruelty of fate. It was also the team's last game under the hands of Steve Koper, who was replaced by his assistant Johansen.

This helpless appointment did not expect to work wonders, and in the following 93/94 season, after the team lost a lot of stars, Johansen led Crystal Palace all the way to the Super League. However, this is already the last glory of the Crystal Palace team, the team's financial situation is not optimistic, the loan is more and more owed, and it is unable to repay, otherwise it will not be sold to Goodenberg in a few seasons. In order to alleviate the financial pressure on the team, only to stay in the Premier League, where the broadcast fee and commercial value are higher, but with the team's salary cap, there is a lack of appeal to many players, Johansen has to try to select players with higher practicality from Eastern Europe and Northern Europe, but there are also many small and medium-sized teams in the four major leagues in these regions, at this time, a scout mentioned to Johansen that he had seen Chinese players, and in the eyes of foreigners who did not know China at that time, how could a few football talents be selected among 1.3 billion people.

However, at this time, the Chinese professional league was still in its infancy, and there was no formal broadcast system, so it was very difficult to find a video of the Chinese players' games, and at this time, most Chinese players were reluctant to accept thankless trials, so even if Johansen was very interested in the proposal, he had to be cautious. Of course, this matter in history will not be over, and coincidentally, Fan Zhiyi received the call of the Crystal Palace again four years later, which cannot but be said to be fate.

And this time, it was a few small boxes of videotapes that changed history, and Johansen was very interested after watching Fan Zhiyi's videotapes, especially Fan Zhiyi's performance in the semi-finals and final of the Coppa Italia. Moreover, Fan Zhiyi participated in almost all the matches of the Chinese national team last year, and was completely free from the restrictions of labor terms.

"£600,000!" This is Crystal Palace's offer to Fan Zhiyi, which I am afraid that a qualified substitute cannot be bought in the Premier League, but Crystal Palace is now in financial difficulties, and this little money is saved by picking teeth.

This time, Chen Lin did not look for Fan Zhiyi, but Fan Zhiyi found Chen Lin.

It's just that unlike Frankfurt, where Yang Chen is going, the Crystal Palace is about to enter a dark period in history, and even Johansen's frugality has not been able to save the bankruptcy of the Crystal Palace until it is acquired by Goodenberg. This time, they were relegated again after only one season in the Premier League, and did not return to the Premier League until 03/04.

Chen Lin didn't know if it would change in the future, but he didn't want Fan Zhiyi to jump into that fire pit, he faced Fan Zhiyi with a deep face: "Zhiyi, aren't you happy in Prato?" Crystal Palace, despite being a Premier League team with a glorious history, has begun to decline, and may be relegated in the coming seasons. And Prato is the rising sun, carrying our hopes, don't you want to single-handedly promote him to the first division? ”

Fan Zhiyi listened to Chen Lin's words, was silent for a long time, and finally said in a low voice: "Mr. Chen, I am very grateful to you for bringing me to Italy, I have learned a lot here, but I am already 25 years old, look at those young people in the team, I know that I am not young anymore, this is an opportunity for me, I don't want to give up." ”

Hearing Fan Zhiyi's words, Chen Lin didn't know what to say, he had already said what he should say, but Fan Zhiyi's personality was very assertive, and it was easy for others to influence him. And like Yang Chen, Chen Lin promised Fan Zhiyi that as long as a high-level club takes a fancy to him, he will never make it difficult for him in the transfer fee.

So Chen Lin could only agree in the end, in history, Fan Zhiyi became the captain of the Crystal Palace team as a foreigner, and it seems that he is destined to go up and down with that team.

The two hard-working players ran away in vain, excluding the effort and cost invested in them, the transfer fee is nothing at all. This made Chen Lin feel very bad, and he also had to think about how to replenish the vacated positions after the two left.

After the departure of Pesoto, Yang Chen and Fan Zhiyi, Prato not to mention building a second team, even the main lineup has a gap. The first is the left-back, who broke up the golden partnership of Pesoto and Ma Minyu on the left, and it was a big loss to the attack and defense of Prato's left side; In terms of central defenders, although Materazzi can take the position of Fan Zhiyi, the team is facing multi-line battles in the new season, even if it is not too much to find two substitute defenders, you must know that the card eating rate of defenders is very high, and because there are more physical confrontations, it is second only to strikers who are injured;

Finally, after Yang Chen left, the problem of substitute strikers, Vieri and Inzaghi scored very efficiently, and the two complemented each other well, but Prato's current attack is a little too dependent on the play of these two strikers, if one of them is injured, or even both are absent, how can the team's goal efficiency be guaranteed?

Eventually, Chen Lin remembered the deal that he had given up, and the situation was very different from a year ago.