Chapter 12 The King of the Great North

Just before Marc Monti told Song Jong that he was going to be sold by the club, Inter Milan general manager Oricio was in a dispute with Hamburg general manager Croutzer over Song Jong's transfer.

"I can't accept a rent of 500,000 euros a year!" Croutzer said, shaking his head.

"I think you can sit across from me, at least it proves that Coach Fink is still interested in Song! He's a striker with a lot of potential! Oricio shamelessly put gold in the faces of his players.

In fact, Oricio didn't expect to get much on the loan, he raised such a high loan fee only because of the need for negotiations, and now it is not them who are anxious, but the other side of the negotiation.

Now Hamburg are short of a substitute striker, and now Hamburg's transfer budget is almost exhausted, and their current budget can no longer buy a qualified substitute striker, so they can only turn their attention to young players, and at this moment, Inter Milan sent them a man.

Hamburg's head coach Fink didn't pay much attention to Song's video when Kreutzer handed him the video, and in his opinion, it was already good to have a striker like Sun in that barren place of Asian football, how could another one pop up so quickly.

But when he saw Song Zhong's keen sense of smell in front of him, and added his fulcrum effect, he couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and said to Croixer: "Hurry up and go to Italy and try to win this Asian player!" ”

Kreutzer felt a little unbelievable about Fink's fierce reaction, but when they got 10 million euros from Son Heung-min this summer, they had already tasted the sweetness of Asian players, especially this Song Zhong is a Chinese player, and China is a huge market behind it!

After the battle between the two sports managers, the two reached a consensus: Song Jong will permanently transfer to Hamburg for a transfer fee of 500,000 euros, but Inter Milan has a two-year repurchase right for the amount of 5 million euros.

Kreuzer is very satisfied with this result, 500,000 euros to get a Chinese player can be said to be very cheap, good performance, Inter repurchase, can also get 5 million euros in return, even if the performance is not good, can sell Song Zhong back to China, he knows the popularity of China's domestic league, anyway, it is a business that makes money without losing money.

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When he learned that he was about to transfer to the Hamburg team, Song Zhong also searched the Internet for the information of the Hamburg team:

In 1887, a group of football-loving young men in Hamburg, Germany, formed the Hamburg Football Club, which was also the first sports organization in Germany to be called a football club. It didn't take long for Hamburg to become the flag of northern German football, with the great goalscorer Uwe Schiller being the most famous player in Hamburg's history, and then European Footballer Kevin Keegan also coming to Hamburg, taking the Hamburg team to unprecedented heights. In the 1976-1977 season, Hamburg won the European Cup Winners' Cup by beating Anderlecht in the final. In 1983, Hamburg defeated Italy's Juventus in the final, winning the European Cup for the first and only time in history. In the 90s, the Hamburg team began to decline. But sticking to the Bundesliga from start to finish also shows the strength of the team.

Hamburg have reached the finals of all three major European Cup competitions five times in their history, second only to Grand Slam winners Bayern Munich in Germany.

In China, Hamburg also has the title of the king of Peking University, of course, it is not as loud as the title of the Bundesliga hegemon Bayern Munich South King, after all, in the glory days of Hamburg, there was no broadcast of European football in China.

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Inter Milan's transfer this time is not to completely let Song Zhong stay in Germany, their ultimate goal is to let Song Zhong play, and return to Inter Milan to play, to help them open the Chinese market, in order to make Song Zhong feel that the team cares about him, so when negotiating, they also asked the Hamburg side to help the players in terms of life.

Hamburg's side is not stupid, they also want to greet Song Zhong, the god of wealth, and Croutzer is ready to travel to China next summer at the moment of the deal, after all, Hamburg's finances are not good.

Of course, the Germans won't be so nice to you, so they found an apartment for Song Zhong not far from the training base.

On the first night he came to Germany, Song Zhong lay on his bed, his eyes staring at the ceiling, perhaps he suddenly changed places, a little uncomfortable, he was a little insomnia.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Song Zhong pondered his situation in the Hamburg team.

One of the two current strikers in Hamburg is Lasoga, who moved from Hertha Berlin this year, and like him, he is also a young player and his main rival, but Lasoga has been playing in the professional league for many years, and even scored 13 goals in his first season in the Bundesliga, but injuries ruined him.

The other person is the Turkish rising star Calhanoglu, wearing the No. 9 jersey, he should be the best choice for the Hamburg team in the new season in the eyes of head coach Fink, but in the memory of Song Zhong's previous life, Calhanoglu played in the midfielder, but in the current team his position is forward, but now he should not cause any butterfly effect, so Calhanoglu is likely to play badly in the front, and then find his place in the midfield, so he still has a chance.

The biggest star in the Hamburg squad should be Dutchman Van der Vaart.

Van der Vaart is one of the prodigies of Dutch football. His attacking talent looks like a perfect fit for Spanish football, but Van der Vaart made a surprise move to Hamburg – a club that hasn't had notable success in the last 25 years.

Van der Vaart played his value in Hamburg and was coveted by many giants, at first he was able to resist the temptation of the giants, but finally transferred to La Liga giants Real Madrid in 2009, but his performance there was not good, and he was sent back to Hamburg by Real Madrid before the contract ended.

It is precisely because of Van der Vaart in the midfield that Song Zhong also feels good about his prospects in Hamburg, after all, there is a first-class midfielder behind him, which is very comfortable for his type of striker, and in addition to Van der Vaart, he may also have Calhanoglu, a future Bundesliga quasi-first-class midfielder, it can be said that the creativity of Hamburg's midfield can at least be ranked in the Bundesliga.