Chapter Seventy-Seven: This Will Be a Serious Challenge
Opportunity?
Wu Sanshi was stunned for a moment, and then understood in an instant.
Luis Garcia is injured, so isn't there a shortage of strikers in the first team? At this point, first-team manager Ernesto Valverde's choice was much simpler.
Who is this Valverde? It was Valverde who later became the coach of Barcelona, and the 43-year-old Valverde at this time was also considered to have played a little bit of fame in Europe, leading the Spaniards to the final of the League Cup last season, although he lost to Sevilla 1:3 in the end, but his reputation has flown up.
Ball Santa Cruyff once said last year: "If I were a Espanyol fan, I would go to the stadium every game because Valverde's football is fluid and always attacking." He is Spain's most prominent manager and will be the most promising manager. β
Admired by Cruyff, Valverde's future is promising.
And this season, Valverde has made small changes to the Espanyol team. Espanyol finished 11th in La Liga last season and reached the final of the UEFA Cup before losing to Sevilla on penalties. The team has a good result, so consistency was also the theme of the team's transfer market last summer.
The club has only bought three players: Serbian and Montenegro talented midfielder Lola, Argentine left-back Clemente and Real Madrid who went on to play for Osasuna. The rest of the players are free to join, with the most famous being Bilbao goalkeeper Laforente. In addition, the Spaniard's contract extension with De la Pena is, to some extent, an important "signing".
Among the departing players, last season's top scorer in the UEFA Cup Pantiani moved to Osasuna, and goalkeeper IreΓ§os in the UEFA Cup final went to Bilbao for 4 million euros. Overall, the RCD Espanyol squad has not changed much. The club's investment is not high, and it has to do with the fact that they want to rebuild the Montjuic stadium.
However, what made Valverde unhappy was that the team's results in the first half of the season were one place lower than last year!
The reason is simple, because there is another leading scorer, Pantatini, missing. The new signings carried Pantatini's guns, and the team's attacking power was not good, and the number of goals scored in the first half of the season actually ranked sixth from the bottom of the league.
Now that Luis Garcia is wounded, Valverde must be looking for a gun.
Wu Sanshi is ready-made, it depends on whether Valverde can really take a fancy to it. The club has already said that it will adjust a B team player to enter the first team, and Wu Sanshi is naturally full of opportunities.
In fact, in this Spanish team, there are eight foreign players such as Kameni, Clemente, Zabaletta, Chica, Fredson, Honatas, Moja and Lola, but among the eight players, only Zabaleta and Honatas do not have EU passports, and everyone else does, so in fact, there are 2 non-European places.
"Sanshi, I think you'll receive an appointment tomorrow."
"Too early, right?" Wu Sanshi himself is not sure, there is a chance, but he said that he must be able to go? He's not really that whimsical, the winter transfer window isn't over, and Valverde can buy someone.
In the end, Espanyol drew 0-0 at home to Zaragoza and no player scored.
Speaking at a press conference after the game, Valverde said: "We are short of a consistent scorer, now that Luis is injured, the preliminary check will give him at least three months of rest and we need to find a new replacement in the transfer market. β
The signal released by Valverde was indeed similar to what Wu Sanshi had imagined. This means that the club said that it would adjust the players of the B team to the first team, which does not seem to be what Valverde meant, in fact, Valverde and the club have differences.
Subsequently, Wu Sanshi did not receive a notice from the club to promote him to the first team. Valverde, for his part, is already starting to look for guns in the transfer market.
Valverde was not silent at a meeting of Espanyol's top management on Monday afternoon, "I don't think a kid under 17 will help us in any way. There are Baldo, Collo, and Hornassan in the team, but none of them can carry the team, so why should I risk choosing a child? He may be playing well in La B but that stems from the poor level of the league in La B B. β
"Ernesto, I've made it very clear, because we're going to rebuild the stadium, so I don't have any money to buy the players, unless you sell them first and get enough to buy them." The club's president's response is also very clear, he just has no money, you can buy people if you want to, then you can sell them first.
"Heh, the injury is so serious, if we sell people again, does Mr. Chairman think we won't go to the second division after this season?" Valverde sneered.
The Espanyol president was silent for a moment, stared at Valverde and said: "If the team is in the second division because they can't bring in a player, then I have nothing to say. Now it's not that we don't have someone to pick for you, it's that you don't want to choose. The Spaniard's youth training is outstanding, that's not unclear to you. That's the end of the discussion. β
These words are equivalent to cutting off Valverde's desire to buy someone in the transfer market.
Valverde didn't fight anymore, after all, he was just a working boy, and the boss was the most clattering, and it was useless for him to jump around.
Although his emaciated face was full of unhappiness, he still didn't say anything. After leaving the conference room, he shook his head vigorously and muttered, "Wu Sanshi, Wu Sanshi,"
"Hehe......"
"Why don't I believe it?"
Which striker in the team went to La B B and couldn't mix well? The club's hierarchy still takes it for granted.
Well, it's not that he personally doesn't like Wu Sanshi, but he feels that Wu Sanshi is not the player he wants at the moment, it's as simple as that.
"It's okay, anyway, I knew this result last summer, so why bother with myself?"
Valverde was a little disheartened, thinking that after reaching the final of the UEFA Cup last season, the club would increase its investment this season and reload, but now he has to fight for relegation, and even qualifying for next season's League Cup seems to be out of luck......
On Tuesday morning, after two hours of early training at the training ground, Bhutto belatedly appeared in front of him.
"Takeshi,"
"Come here."
"Boss."
"Pack up and start training with the first team today, from now on you don't belong to the B team."
"You're going to continue to wear the number 24 shirt, but it's Espanyol, not Espanyol B."
"Congratulations, lad."
Really went......
There was no joy on Wu Sanshi's face, because he also watched Valverde's press conference.
It's going to be quite a serious challenge.