Chapter 5: The Quest for Manolas
The whole month of June is the most important preparation period for Nan Xiao before the new season, and he doesn't want to waste these golden hours that should be used for vacation, so when other coaches and players are enjoying the holidays, he still puts most of his energy into work every day, and the most important part of this month's work is the recruitment of the new season, because he doesn't want to wait until all the players have returned to the club to report before negotiating, so even if the players come to the club, It will also delay a lot of time to run in the squad before the season. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
So Nan Xiao called his assistant Amy to his home and gave him a list, the list was the names of the players he wanted to introduce, and Amy's job was to find out the current whereabouts of these players in the shortest possible time, although most of them were on vacation all over the world, but Nan Xiao didn't care about it, and he knew that not only him, Shen Chao and Chen Mingshuo must be working hard now, so he didn't have any reason to stop!
At noon the next day, You Lu and one of her best friends from college boarded a flight to Miami, USA, and Nan Xiao gave her a clear mission, that is, to persuade Aguero to join the club, and in order to achieve this goal, Nan Xiao gave her a great degree of freedom, which means that she can bomb unscrupulously at any cost, whether it is a sky-high weekly salary or a bonus, as long as it can make Argentines interested.
"Lulu, did you get off the plane?" Nan Xiao saw that You Lu had sent a message to him, so he immediately sent a voice message and asked.
"Well, just got off the plane, you sent me Amy's WeChat ID, I have to ask him to help me get in touch with Aguero." You Lu quickly replied.
Since Amy always had to communicate with Nan Xiao and the three of them last season, she also installed the WeChat function for convenience, and she also taught herself Chinese when she was in college, although it stumbled, but there was no big problem with reading and writing.
In another continent, Yulu is about to negotiate with Aguero, and Nan Xiao is not idle here, just now Amy sent a message to say that she has also found out about Manolas's itinerary, the Roma central defender has not gone on vacation yet, but returned to his home in Greece after the season, I heard the news that a good friend's bar of his has recently opened, and he has been helping so he has not yet set a vacation time.
"Amy, come with me to Greece this time!" Nan Xiao said to his assistant on WeChat.
In addition to the negotiation between Aguero and Manolas, Nan Xiao and You Lu personally acted on it, and there were several players who did not need to be negotiated, Nan Xiao sent the relevant staff of the club to talk, including Camacho, a 26-year-old midfielder of La Liga Malaga, and Jonathan, a young central defender of Bundesliga Bayer Leverkusen. Tower, Ajax's Wirtman and Barcelona's Roberto; So the negotiations between these six players are basically at the same time, but there are light and heavy, such as Camacho and Roberto, both of whom are Nanxiao's second choice in the midfield and right-back positions, if their staff can't successfully negotiate with them, then Nanxiao will finish the negotiations with Manolas before personally going to negotiate with the No. 1 candidate for the position, "Shakhtar" Schalke 04's Bentaleb and Bayer Leverkusen's star Henrichs.
The day after Yulu arrived in Miami, Nan Xiao and Amy also boarded a flight to Athens, Greece, and their goal this time was to take down Manolas, the main central defender of Roma! In recent years, with the gradual decline of Milan and the two heroes, the influence of Serie A has begun to become weaker and weaker, at the beginning of the decline of the French league has gradually changed the title of "Europe's top five leagues" to "Europe's four major leagues", and at the same time, the Bundesliga, which was far behind Serie A, has also been "King of the South" Bayern Munich and "Bumblebee" in recent years Borussia Dortmund's rise has begun to overtake the Apennines, so Nan Xiao can use this to persuade players to join their team.
Manolas was born in Athens, Greece, and Nanxiao was no stranger to the city, and although he had not been there in person, he knew a lot about its history and events.
The city of Athens has a recorded history of more than 3,000 years and is known as the "cradle of Western civilization"; At the same time, the city of Athens is also the birthplace of European philosophy, where a large number of historical greats such as Socrates and Plato were born; The city of Athens still retains many historical sites and a large number of works of art, the most famous of which is undoubtedly the Parthenon on the Acropolis, which is also considered a symbol of Western culture.
Athens is also the birthplace of the modern Olympic Games, a historic city that hosted the first and twenty-eighth Summer Olympic Games in 1896 and 2004. Nan Xiao was also very impressed by the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, although he was only 10 years old at the time, but he can still clearly remember that on August 28, 2004, in the men's 110-meter hurdles final of the Athens Olympic Games, "Asian Flyer" Liu Xiang broke the Olympic record with a time of 12.91 seconds, and tied the previous world record set by British player Colin Jackson, won the Olympic gold medal in one fell swoop, and became the first men's Olympic champion in Chinese track and field. It has created a myth for Chinese and even Asian people in the men's 110m hurdles event.
In terms of football, Nan Xiao's deepest memory belongs to the Greek mythology of the same year as Liu Xiang's creation of the myth in the Athens Olympics!
At the 2004 European Championship in Portugal, Greece, who were competing in the tournament for the first time, were considered underdogs when they reached the finals, but it was this team that played a myth to the world that was difficult to replicate, defeating the giants in the highest European arena with many strong teams, and finally won the European championship at that time.
At that time, the head coach of the Greek team was the German Rehhagel, he is an experienced coach, in this European Cup, Rehhagel to the world to vividly show his extraordinary tactical skills, the team in the knockout round without conceding a goal feat is to create an unprecedented record, the Greek myth of 2004 will forever remember in history, this is a well-deserved great myth.