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Eliminated from the UEFA Cup, the blow to Metz was not as severe as outsiders thought, and it was not even as big as the impact of the 0-4 loss to Zenit in the first leg on the Metz players. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 InfoBecause the whole Metz team has realised that they have completed all their tasks this season - they are currently 12th and relegation is worry-free, but there is no point in qualifying for Europe, the UEFA Cup is eliminated and the only glory that can be pursued is gone.

There are three rounds left in the league, on May 4, May 10 and May 17.

But as everyone knows, the season has ended early. Fernandez began to give more opportunities to the young players of the second team, and in the league on the fourth day, Pjanic replaced Chu Zhongtian to get the chance to start, and Chu Zhongtian only replaced Proman in the 77th minute, as a midfielder, escorting Pjanic.

Metz played 1-1 away at Sochaux and Pjanic scored his first goal for the first team to help the team equalise and take a point.

In the 37th round of the league on May 10, Chu Zhongtian still did not appear in the starting list. Pjanic continued to start. The explanation given by Fernandes was that he would start Chu Zhongtian in the final round of the league.

He didn't say it explicitly, but everyone knew that this was tantamount to deliberately giving Chu Zhongtian a chance to say goodbye to Mace, the so-called "last game in Metz".

In fact, since the elimination of the UEFA Cup, there has been a lot of media coverage of many players in the Metz squad being looked upon by other clubs.

For domestic and foreign teams, Metz, which is not financially strong, is a big supermarket, and they have cultivated a lot of excellent players in recent years, as long as there is a suitable price, they can definitely buy it. Let's see how Franck Ribery left the team.

Although it will definitely cost a lot of money, as long as it is a problem that can be solved by spending money in this world, it is not a problem.

Chu Zhongtian and Ibisevic are the most popular figures in the Metz team, and Menez was also the original, but he was injured and had to undergo surgery, which made the teams that were previously interested in him retreat and were in a wait-and-see state for the time being.

Chu Zhongtian has received invitations from many teams, including Lyon, Paris Saint-Germain, and Marseille in Ligue 1. But Chu Zhongtian didn't look at it at all, and in response to these transfer rumors, he said in an interview with reporters: "If I want to leave Metz, I will definitely not join the French team, on the one hand, I am eager to change to a new environment, and on the other hand, I can't be an enemy of Mez." ”

Even if the Ligue 1 team offered him high conditions, he wouldn't go.

As for the teams from other countries, he needs to pick slowly.

According to the regular procedure, these teams interested in him should make an offer to the Metz club, and the Metz club will decide which teams they allow to talk to Chu Zhongtian through the offers of each team, and then Chu Zhongtian will have private contact with the opposing team, and the opposing team will issue a personal contract, and Chu Zhongtian's agent will strive for a better contract with the opposing club according to the interests of the players. The transfer contract is officially valid.

If there are multiple teams that give Chu Zhongtian the same personal treatment, it is not the hardware, but the software.

There are many aspects to this software, and it depends on who is more attractive to the players. The team's desire for championships, the team's fame, the team's financial situation, the team's geographical location, the team's popularity, whether the team's management is brain-dead, the team's manager's personal character, whether the team's tactics suit him, and the team's dressing room environment...... There are many, of course, there are no teams that meet all the requirements, but the main ones are as long as the players themselves can see the right eye.

To put it simply, as long as you see it pleasing to the eye.

Transfer is a very complex science, and it is not necessary for anyone who offers a high price to go, nor is it because of their fame that they have an absolute advantage.

There are many aspects to consider as a smart player, because every transfer is an adventure. When you move from a familiar environment to an unfamiliar environment, all previous relationships are abandoned, and you re-establish your network in a new environment, you may easily meet one or two friends, but you may also be slow to integrate into their small circle, and be excluded and marginalized.

At the same time, you get used to the tactics of your previous coach, which may be useless with the new manager, and you not only have to deal with new relationships, but you also have to work hard to adapt to the new tactical system. You were at the heart of the team in the past, but not necessarily in the new team. If it's a big team, there are a lot of big names here, everyone is the number one star in the team before you, you are inconspicuous here, no one listens to you, and the head coach will not take you as the core to formulate tactics, because there is a mature system here, you are an outsider, why should a newcomer be the core as soon as he comes up?

Not only do you have to adapt to new relationships and new tactical systems, but you also have to adapt to new living environments. When you go to play in a foreign country, you have to learn the language, right? How can you communicate with your teammates if you don't understand the language? Everyone else is discussing it with great interest, but you can't intervene because you don't understand, you can only sit in the corner, silent, and over time you will naturally become more marginalized. In addition to learning a new language, the eating habits, work and rest habits, and national character of a foreign country may be different from the current place. All of this needs to be re-adapted.

So there are a lot of players who played well in the previous team, and their performance plummeted after they went abroad, which is a sign of a failed transfer.

One of the most typical and famous examples is the Mendieta (gaika_mendieta) of Valencia Football Club in Spain. When he was captain and midfield commander at Valencia, he led Valencia to two consecutive European Cup finals, winning world fame without lifting the trophy. At that time he was one of the best midfielders in the world, and with his performances in the Champions League and the European Championships, he attracted the attention of many of Europe's biggest clubs, and Valencia knew they could no longer keep the Basque, so he moved to Lazio for a whopping £30 million.

But that's when a tragedy began.

At that time, Lazio had only been a season away from spending a lot of money on building a luxury squad to win the league title, and the excessive investment must have caused the team's financial imbalance. Cragnotti's own Cirio Foods company was also in crisis, going bankrupt at the end of 2002 after failing to repay a billion euros in bonds, and the financially strapped Cragnotti was already planning to sell the team's star players, who sold the team's flag, Nesta, in 2002.

These were all things that happened not long after Mendieta joined Lazio, just before his arrival, another hero of the team, Nedved (pavel_nedved), had just been joined by Juventus for £38 million.

The team's financial environment is unstable, and Craniotti is tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall all day long, and he has no heart to estimate the normal development of the team.

Coupled with the fact that the tactical system did not suit Mendieta, he was very unaccustomed to living in Italy and did not understand the language...... and so on, Mendieta eventually fell.

Since then, he has traveled to many places, and there are occasional times when he has regained his strength, but he has completely slipped into the abyss due to injury.

Finally, the talented player who led Valencia to a 4-1 defeat of Barcelona in the Champions League ended his career in exile after the 2007-2008 season.

This is a classic example of an unsuccessful transfer.

Chu Zhongtian didn't want to be the next Mendieta.

So personal treatment is not what he values the most.

The reputation of the team doesn't matter, he must choose the team that suits him best. He's twenty-four years old and his career is about to enter its prime, so this transfer is crucial. If you take the wrong step, you may be wasting your time and youth doing nothing. Will he fight again when he reaches the age of twenty? He didn't want that.

He has to be cautious when it comes to transfers.

※※※ It's just that he quickly became entangled in the mood of which club to go to.

On May 10, in the 37th round of the league, Metz lost 1:2 to Lorient at their home stadium. Pjanic followed on from his previous goal and scored again in this game, this time from a brilliant free-kick.

Then, Lian Sa was suspended to make way for the national team competition. The final round of the league is on May 17, and this day is the day when Chu Zhongtian and the fans of Metz say goodbye.

On the morning of May 12, Chu Zhongtian sat up from the bed and glanced at his head on the bedside table, half past six.

It was a Monday and the team had half a day of training, which was scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m.

In the case that there is only one round left in the league, the team does not do anything like two practices a day, and there is a training session every half a day, either in the morning or in the afternoon, and after the training, there is nothing to do, everyone can do whatever they want, no one cares.

Chu Zhongtian did it himself, made breakfast, and finished breakfast at the dining table with his upper body. Then he rested for an hour before calling Belmont and using his car to go to the Holy Mountain Fortion training base.

He arrived at the training base a little early, there was no one yet, he sat in the dressing room, not in a hurry to change clothes, just chatting casually with the few team-mates he had.

Ibisevic pushed the door in and saw Chu Zhongtian, who was sitting in the locker room talking and laughing with his companions, which was a little strange.

He asked loudly, "Chu, have you watched the news in the morning?" ”

Chu Zhongtian shook his head.

Since the smashing, looting and burning incident, the French media have been swarming to hack China, and Chu Zhongtian has no good impression of the French news. Not only do you not read the TV news, but you also don't read the newspapers at all. Although he bought an LCD TV at home, it was used for nothing other than to play the game footage.

"Well......" Ibisevic was silent for a moment, and then said, "Chu, there is an earthquake in your homeland." ”

Chu Zhongtian raised his head to look at him, was stunned for a moment, and then took out his mobile phone and began to call home.

Call his father's mobile phone first, he knows that his father has been in China with his mother during this time.

It didn't get through for a long time, but after a while, it reminded him that "the network is busy".

Chu Zhongtian took it down and called his mother's mobile phone again, but he was still "busy with the Internet".

Now he was a little flustered, and he asked Ibisevic: "Do you know where China is?" ”

Ibisevic spread his hands: "I don't remember, I just saw it by chance on the TV news, I only remember China, where is it...... It's not a good name, I didn't hear it clearly. I'm sorry, Chu. Hope your hometown is okay. ”

Chu Zhongtian nodded: "Thank you for telling me the news, Ibi." ”

Then he started calling home. This time, it worked, but no one answered.

He waited until the ringtone was automatically cut off before putting down his phone.

He knows that China is very big, and there are many places in the earthquake zone, not necessarily Chengdu, Sichuan. It could all be just a coincidence, such as the fact that the mobile phone signal was not very good at that time, and there was no one at home at the same time...... He decided to wait a little longer and then fight.

It only took a minute for him to pick up his phone again.

Continue to call, the mobile phone is still busy, and the call to home is still not answered.

He didn't reach his parents until the start of training. The ominous thoughts in his heart grew thicker and thicker, as if a thick fog had enveloped him, making him unable to distinguish things, and he was in a state of confusion and anxiety.

He also seemed distracted during training, and Fernandez noticed his situation and called him aside to ask why. After hearing about Chu Zhongtian's concerns, Fernandez decided to give Chu Zhongtian a holiday.

"You go and contact your parents first, Chu. Make this matter clear, you don't have to participate in today's training. Also, hope your parents are okay. ”

Chu Zhongtian thanked the head coach and did not insist on continuing training, and left the training base in a hurry without greeting his teammates.

Since he couldn't contact his parents, he rushed home to look for news on the Internet.

In Belmont's car, he finally got through to his father's phone, and when he heard his father's voice coming from the other end, half of his heart was relieved, and the other half that was not put down was worried about his mother.

So his first words were: "Dad? You okay? How's my mom? ”

After hearing my father say, "I'm fine, she's fine, the two of us are very good, don't worry." ”

His whole heart was completely grounded.

He doesn't know if the earthquake really happened in Chengdu, he doesn't know what it looks like there, he doesn't know if his house was damaged and collapsed in the earthquake, he doesn't care, as long as he knows that his parents are okay, it is better than anything else.

His heart, which had been beating wildly, quieted down.

Later, in the connection with his parents, he learned the specific situation. There was a big earthquake somewhere in Sichuan, and Chengdu felt it strongly. At that time, Chu Zuosheng was surfing the Internet at home, but he heard a creaking sound, he thought it was a strong wind at first, but when he turned his face, he saw the telephone pole outside the window shaking, and then he realized that there was an earthquake.

So I ran down in shorts, tank top, and slippers.

At that time, Zhou Xiaoxiang was at school and had just started her first class.

At the time of the earthquake, neither of the two could contact each other, and all communication was cut off at that time. Later, Telecom's telephone was the first to be restored, and Unicom was also unblocked, and the mobile was seriously damaged, but there was also a signal in Chengdu.

Chu Zuosheng couldn't get through to his wife's phone, so he decided to go to school to find her. At the risk of a second aftershock, he ran upstairs to get his clothes and key wallet, closed the door and went straight to school.

After finding his wife in the school playground, he started calling his son. But I couldn't get through it after a long time. Because of the continuous aftershocks, I didn't dare to go home, so I could only wait in the playground of the school. Until dark, there were rumors that there would be aftershocks of magnitude 6 or higher at 3 a.m., so I didn't dare to go home, so I found a restaurant outside that was still open for dinner, and continued to take refuge in the school playground.

During this period, the two of them kept taking turns to call Chu Zhongtian on their mobile phones, and they didn't get through until now. As for the specific situation at home, I heard Chu Zuosheng say that the wall above a few doors cracked a few cracks, and the brick wall could be seen. The trellis on which the pots were set was toppling, the pots were broken, some wall skins were dropped, everything else was fine, there was no big damage.

After listening to his father's story, Chu Zhongtian understood what was going on.

However, at this time, he and his parents did not know what kind of earthquake it was, nor did they know how wide the earthquake was and how big the subsequent impact was.

It wasn't until Chu Zhongtian returned home and turned on the computer to log in to the network that he found that the problem was very serious.

At 2:28 p.m. on 12 May, an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale struck Wenchuan County, about 90 kilometres away from Chengdu (Note 1). The tremors were felt as far away as Japan, so you can see how strong the earthquake was.

At present, it is known that there are cases of house collapse in Wenchuan and Mianyang.

However, the earthquake has just happened, and now there are a lot of rumors, Chu Zhongtian is not gullible, just browsed quickly, and by the way, he made up for the various earthquake common sense that he didn't care about before. His parents were fine, and he was basically not very worried, and now he is starting to worry about his hometown of Sichuan.

At this time, Xu Xiaodi called.

"Xiao Chu, Wenchuan earthquake! Are your parents okay? Xu Xiaodi's first sentence made Chu Zhongtian feel that he didn't miss anyone.

"Thank you for your concern, Brother Xu. They are all fine, Chengdu is not in the earthquake zone, but the tremors are felt. ”

"That's good! Damn, I felt the earthquake in Shanghai, and this earthquake was terrible! Xu Xiaodi's tone of voice still carried a little fear. , my legs went weak when I heard the house creaking...... I didn't expect myself to be so useless...... Hi, forget it, don't talk about this. I just care about your parents, I can't get through to their mobile phones, I heard that there is a major earthquake of magnitude 6 or above at 3 o'clock in the morning? You tell your parents to be careful, but you can't do it, and don't go back tonight......"

"Hi, Brother Xu...... The people in this world who can predict the time and magnitude of the earthquake so accurately have not yet been born......" Chu Zhongtian did not believe in this kind of so-called "prediction" after fully understanding the common sense of earthquakes. "I'm going to tell my parents that they will leave Chengdu tomorrow and go to Los Angeles for a vacation, and help me take care of the hotel's business by the way......"

Mom has promised her father to retire early, but she insists on finishing this semester, because she is in the third year of high school, and she has to take them to take the college entrance examination and spend the whole high school life anyway before she can let go. Now that there is an earthquake, Chu Zhongtian doesn't care so much...... Since it is such a big earthquake, with such a wide range of impacts and so many people involved, who knows if this year's college entrance examination in Sichuan will be examined?

At this time, nothing else is important except human life.

"I have one more thing, Brother Xu."

"Well, you say."

"There was an earthquake this time, and there are definitely supplies in many places. I plan to pay out of my own pocket to buy some urgently needed tents, medicines, water and food and other supplies to deliver to the disaster area. Can you help me with this in China? ”

Xu Xiaodi smiled when he heard it: "It's a good idea, I'll help you do it." How much money do you want to donate at the beginning? ”

"Of course, the more the merrier."

"This ...... There has to be a limit, there's no upper limit, should I use all your money to buy supplies? Xu Xiaodi was very embarrassed.

Chu Zhongtian felt that he didn't think about it. He thought about it for a while and said to Xu Xiaodi: "Donate first...... 500,000 worth of supplies, and then we'll see the situation. "There has just been an earthquake and many of the conditions are still unclear, but in a few days the situation will definitely be clear, and the affected areas will definitely need support at that time. He suddenly remembered one more thing: "In addition, if you can, it is best for you to send these supplies to the disaster area in person...... No problem, Brother Xu? ”

"That's not a problem, our agent team is here to help you do things, and you can tell me if you have something."

Xu Xiaodi agreed.

After hanging up the phone call from Xu Xiaodi, Chu Zhongtian called his mother again, trying to persuade her to take refuge in Los Angeles. As a result, he was scolded back by his mother: "Chengdu is not in the earthquake zone, the government has said it, but there is an earthquake, there is no danger, why should I run?" I'm leaving, what about my forty-eight student dolls? Now is the most critical time to review the college entrance examination, and the homeroom teacher has run away? Wouldn't I be ashamed to say it? ”

Chu Zhongtian was speechless when he was scolded, even if he made a lot of money, he was still a little afraid of his mother.

In the end, my father took the phone and said to Chu Zhongtian: "I don't think it's okay too, I'll go back to sleep with your mother in a while, it's raining outside...... If your mother wants to stay in Chengdu, I'll stay with her. You don't have to worry about it, just play your ball. It's not a big deal...... I'm telling you, it's like flying......"

Chu Zhongtian has no problem with his parents, and can only tell them to pay attention to safety, if it really can't work, leave Chengdu, come to France or go to Los Angeles.

After ending the call, Chu Zhongtian was still a little worried.

The sudden earthquake caught him off guard, and he was only in France, not experiencing the horror of the earthquake. It is said that it rained in Chengdu at night, and those compatriots in the earthquake-stricken area will have a good night?

※※※ (Note 1) Regarding the magnitude of the earthquake, the Sichuan Earthquake Station originally reported a magnitude of 8, which was later revised to a magnitude of 7.8, and then a magnitude of 7.8 was uniformly used throughout the country, and it was later revised to a magnitude of 8. For the sake of authenticity, the 7.8 level was used in the official version at the time.

Author's Note: When I wrote "The Godfather of Champions", I was reluctant to mention the Wenchuan earthquake because it had just been earthquake, and I really didn't want to recall everything that happened, everything I saw, and everything I heard at that time. But it's been two years since the Wenchuan earthquake, and I think I, or anyone else, can face this disaster with a normal mentality. So, out of real consideration, I moved this catastrophe to the world of this book as well. Some things cannot be avoided by blindly running away, and in the face of such a disaster, facing it squarely and striving for a better one is the right attitude.

I hope everyone is healthy, I hope everyone is happy, and I hope that there will be fewer disasters in this world.

(To be continued)