Chapter 29: Anxious Transfer (1)
When the vast majority of people are still on vacation to repair a season's body and mind, the Villa team took the lead, Li Haolong believes that the early bird has food, the Chinese have always been synonymous with hard work in the eyes of foreigners, which is also where they ridicule the Chinese, thinking that our life lacks quality, will only be like cattle do not know hard work, will not enjoy life, but do not know that this has long been integrated into the Chinese blood of the good quality, purely the difference between Eastern and Western cultures. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Li Haolong is also quite sorry for starting work so early, and can only compensate these colleagues in terms of working environment and treatment, but they all know that this is the most critical first year of the team's Premier League, and they have not complained to Mr. President.
In the huge team responsible for the transfer, everyone has a copy of Li Haolong's proposed recruitment goals, and sent consultations to various clubs, Europeans are indeed very individual, they divide life and work very openly, and some clubs even postponed the inquiry on the grounds that they are on vacation, saying that everything will be discussed after July 1, but most of them still accepted the inquiry, after all, this is a business, and it is often tens of millions of funds.
The signing of Griezmann by World Records has also invisibly created higher expectations for the price in their hearts, and most people are willing to do business with Villa and hope to receive a more satisfactory offer from Villa, and everyone knows that they are behind the seemingly endless yuan. Of course, the Villa club is not willing to be the big boss, so at present, it is basically doing a see-saw on the price, and this performance has also disappointed the clubs, it turns out that the money is not stupid.
Virgil van Dijk, the number one target at the back, was injured in the knee by Vardy on 22 January, which cost him a season, and is currently recovering, having also suffered a knee injury in 2015 that forced him to withdraw from the Dutch team, which missed out on the following year's European Championships. Injury history aside, he is arguably the most versatile centre-back in the Premier League at the moment, standing at 193cm tall and weighing 92kg, with a natural good body, Van Dijk's most prominent skill is scrambling for the ball, and he has topped the Premier League list with 198 successful tackles since last season. In addition to his ferocious defence, the Netherlands international is also known for his ability to advance with the ball, his ability to control the ball and his speed are quite good, and he can often help the team get the ball to the feet of the midfielders, thanks to his good ability to split the ball, his passing average per game has improved across the board before the injury, from 40.8 in 2015 to 49.6, and the pass completion rate has increased from 83.1% to 84.8%. The passing distance has also been increased from 3.5 meters to 5.7 meters, a quality that Li Haolong needs in the form of a modern point defender --- an almost perfect central defender, although it seems that his injury history will be the biggest shortcoming at the moment. After consulting Dr. Wolfaert in detail, Dr. Li Haolong gave his opinion, if he took his old friend Dr. Welling's Okai therapy, he was confident that Van Dijk would maintain a good knee condition, but the Okai therapy originated from Germany has not yet been recognized by the mainstream in Europe, which uses the patient's own blood, through special treatment, and then extracts the anti-inflammatory growth factor in the blood and re-injects it back into the patient's joints. The treatment to produce non-steroidal anti-inflammatory antibodies to reduce chronic pain and delay degenerative arthritis sounds unthinkable, but he also has the support of many celebrities, including Kobe Bryant and Pope Paul II.
With the analysis of the old doctor, Li Haolong relieved himself to make an offer of 40 million to Van Dijk, but Southampton insisted on the offer of 50 million pounds, which is also the price of the scandal with Van Dijk last year, this price will be another record if established--- defender transfer record, the previous record was 47.5 million pounds last season from Everton to Manchester City John Stones, Li Haolong had no intention of setting two world records in a row, so he had to put it aside for the time being, and asked Koulibaly instead, As a result, the club that sold the small smoking gun Higuain for 90 million euros and scolded the small smoking gun as a traitor offered a sky-high price of 60 million pounds, and the black one B, Li Haolong shook his head and had to give up, but this is not Napoli against him, they were also at this price when Chelsea wanted to buy Koulibaly last year.
The only good news on the back line comes from Germany's Bayer Leverkusen, the first choice of right-back Everton's Coleman rejected Villa, or Walfath, under his recommendation, Leverkusen agreed to sell the 20-year-old Henrichs to the Villa team for 20 million pounds, mainly to avoid the embarrassing situation of having to sell to Bayern in the end, Lahm retired this season, Bayern set its sights on this new defensive star who can play left and right has already represented the national team, but the bid is only 15 million euros, Leverkusen didn't want to sell the player to a direct competitor, and was afraid that Henrich would be tempted by Bayern's harassment, so he happened to have a good offer and quickly agreed. Henrichs certainly has his own ambitions as a youngster, and Villa are a good option at the moment, as they are really short of man at right-back, and there is also his international team-mate Weigel, who did not think long before agreeing to the move.
The pursuit of midfielders is not too urgent, and the progress of the situation is almost unexpected, Chelsea rejected Li Haolong's very sincere offer of 60 million pounds, you must know that Kante transferred to Chelsea only spent 32 million pounds, but Chelsea is not short of money, the era of local tyrants at the beginning of the new millennium of the Premier League to burn money also stems from his boss Abu, not to mention Kante's own system, once you join the team, players who automatically upgrade a level are hard to find, fans describe Kante's defensive coverage area and say, 70% of the earth's surface area is covered by water, and the rest is covered by Kanter, which shows his terrifying strength. Another owner of Diawara's second choice at the back is Napoli, and you can imagine the result, the 19-year-old dared to make an offer of 40 million pounds without playing a full season, which made Li Haolong sigh softly and put it on hold again.
Compared with Napoli's black, RB Leipzig told directly: I'm sorry, there is no shortage of money! Following the rejection of two offers from Villa last year, favourite defender Orban, midfielder Keita and forward Forsberg are still out of the picture. However, it was not for nothing, Malaga's right-back Javier Antivoros and Bayer Leverkusen's Julian Brandt were also included in the bag, worth £12 million and £15 million respectively, and the two are not unknown, Javier Antivoros was selected as one of Spain's 11 hopefuls last year, and Vallejo was also included in these 11. Julian Brandt was described by Bayer Leverkusen Sporting manager Worrall as "the most talented player in Germany, of course, this is inevitably a boast, but he is really strong, and even capable of competing for the main left winger position, and the transfer fee of 15 million pounds is also a bit modest in this day and age, the German transfer market has always been very reserved, and the German player can be called a model of good quality and low price."