The most difficult of Hydward's several targets is naturally Shakhtar Donetsk's captain Srna.

So before Tom goes to the miners, it is natural to get acquainted with the current chairman of the miners, Akmetov. Akhmetov is a billionaire in Russia comparable to Abu, but unlike Abu, he invests in football on the principle of "never invest in foreign teams", and sees the club as the only one in his heart on the first day he took over in 1999. After becoming a glorious "miner", Akhmetov opened a new academy for the team, purchased modern equipment, and with a big swing of a $400 million Donbass arena rose from the ground, under his painstaking management, Shakhtar Donetsk broke the monopoly of Dynamo Kiev in the country and became the best club in Ukraine in a century.

This is a well-known Ukrainian giant. But that's all there is to it, Akhmetov is not satisfied with domestic results, and sees the Champions League as the ultimate goal, but it is clear that the league here lacks the basic attraction of the stars, and the Shakhtar chairman has never hidden his love for the stars, but he also reluctantly said: "If Ukraine can be a European league like England or Spain, then I can make an offer for Ronaldo." "In these circumstances, the club has had to look to South America, especially young talents with great potential and who want to make it to Europe. As a result, the South American players, especially the Brazilian players, began to pour out in the Shakhtar team, and the number of Brazilian players reached 13 in the highest season, more than half of the total number of players in the team.

With excellent players and excellent coaches, Romanian veteran coach Mirkeluscu has been in charge of Shakhtar Donetsk since May 04, and it has been 7 full seasons now, during which he has won 5 league titles, 3 Ukrainian cups, 4 Ukrainian Super Cups and 1 Europa League title. In 05, the team only brought the 20-year-old Fernandinho to the Shakhtars for 8 million, and now he is the well-deserved core of the minkhtars, in recent years, Manchester City, Chelsea, Barcelona, Real Madrid have been chasing the Brazilian star tightly, and the value at this time will not be less than 30 million euros, which is a very terrible figure before the world football has no inflation, if Edward is the coach of these giants, he will definitely pay this money without hesitation. Fernandinho was followed by the future Blues' "true thigh" Willian, Liverpool fell in love with Willian at a glance, and even the captain of the Reds, Steven Gerrard, personally recruited him, but the player himself did not seem to have any interest in the down-and-out giants who could not play in the Champions League.

In addition to these prestige that have already shocked Europe, there are Douglas Costa, Shakhtar's top scorer Luis Adriano and King Alex Teixeira, and the relatively cheap goods have also made Hydward's salivation.

It's a real club.

The core of the miners is worth nearly 30 million euros, so what is the price of the miners' captain Srna? Tom thinks Hydward is crazy, if you go to Google, this is a player who has a Google entry that says: Darioserna is a Croatian international who currently plays for Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine and is the absolute heart of the team.

The next line reads: This player is a typical wide player who can play in four positions on two wings. Nesrna played at right-back for Shakhtar, but as a typical wide attacker, he was extremely concealed and attacking at right-back.

In '06, he was selected for the Croatian national team, and in '09 Bilic wore the Croatian national team captain's armband on Srna's arm. Also this year, the 27-year-old Srna ushered in the peak of his career, he won the championship trophy three times in the Donbass Arena, although he was swept 6-1 by the Spanish giant Barcelona in the Champions League, but he received an offer from Barcelona the day after the game, and Chelsea, Manchester City, Inter, Juventus ...... All of them are top clubs in Europe, and he was even once called the best right-back in Europe, the most dangerous right-sided attacker in Europe.

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"That's in the past...... I don't mention it, do you still remember him? Hydward calmly threw out his doubts.

Tom was speechless for a moment.

In 09, the captain of the national team and club missed the best time to log in to the European giants, time passed in a hurry, and Srna, who chose to stay, suddenly found that the giants around him seemed to disappear overnight, and his injuries increased that year, and his form declined slightly, and the club that chased him became Lazio, Benfica, Galatasaray, and in the next year, not to mention Lazio, even Henan Jianye was gone. It is clear that he has been forgotten by the snobbish world of European football.

And more obviously, Shakhtar has struggled to perform well in Europe since the Europa League in 09, and even the Europa League, which they are good at, has become the Sevilla Cup......

"Don't think of him too scary, Srna has never been in the top five leagues, and he is 30 or 31 years old, besides, ......" Hydward cheered for Tom who was about to leave, and won this player whose strength is far greater than his fame, Portsmouth doesn't mind paying some price, just like the forward line stuffed Klose, the defense line can't just count on a group of children to fight the world, even if it is the 92nd class, isn't there Cantona with it?

Tom clearly likes this kind of difficult transfer, so after reading a few press releases, he, like Hydward, found that the transfer was far less difficult than he thought.

Ukraine is a country with continuous civil strife and conflict, and a series of dirty incidents have occurred in the country around the rights of pro-Russian and pro-American factions, and just last week the Ukrainian prime minister was thrown into the trash can in public, and the local conflict in the Crimea region is becoming more and more serious, and there is a clamoring for independence, which may turn into a war at any time. The country is like this, and the people are naturally living in dire straits. Shakhtar's home turf of Donbass suffered four bomb attacks last year, and the team had to relocate its home stadium three times to the city dozens of kilometers away.

The war is on the line, and Shakhtar have shown remarkable resilience in the past two years in response to an increasingly erosive situation, slowing down the pace of the club's expansion and giving the green light to transfer players.

Fernandinho, Willian and Douglas Costa hooked up with a group of big clubs and the miners also acquiesced. If a player gives respect to the club, then the club gives back to the player with respect.

If possible, Hydward is trying to get a couple of extra Brazilian players from Shakhtar, Portsmouth's Ricciardo, who still remembers this guy's football. Some people say that Brazilian players don't like heavy training because it prevents them from eating, drinking, and having fun, but that's not true, and it's a great belief that Brazilians are proud of their football; Some people say that Brazilians are afraid of the cold, which is also a paradox, the winter in Ukraine is minus ten degrees Celsius, but William only wears sports pants and no gloves, and just goes out to train, he has always felt that he can see a mixture of coveted traits in top Brazilians, which is unique in the world.

Of course, the first priority is still Srna.