Chapter 65: Remorse makes my bowels green
Just when Soros was full of ambition to win Zhang Xu, Zhang Xu's consecutive wonderful performances not only conquered the Blade fans, but also attracted the attention of many clubs. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In order to make a comprehensive and accurate evaluation of Zhang Xu, a number of clubs arranged their own scouts to come to Sheffield United to get a close understanding of Zhang Xu's actual situation and game status.
Among these clubs, there are Championship, Ligue 1, Scottish Premiership, etc., and even Premier League and Bundesliga teams.
If there is anyone who is the most active, it is probably the Crystal Palace team in the Championship. Originally, they were the closest to Zhang Xu, but they gave up the competition for Zhang Xu because they couldn't meet Zhang Xu's requirements for the main players.
But now it seems that Zhang Xu is indeed a rare baby!
In the three months since joining Sheffield United, he has become the absolute main force of the team, and his ability is the best in League One, even in the Championship is a very good player, if you count the perverted physical fitness, no Championship team will refuse such an excellent player.
It's just that the ability is outstanding, but Zhang Xu's potential is too great. From an amateur player, it took less than a year to grow to the point where he can gain a foothold in the Championship, such a growth rate, it is conceivable that he will become a superstar in the top league in the near future, even if it is not at the level of Messi and Ronaldo, but it will definitely not be worse.
In addition, Zhang Xu has been the main player in League One for a long time, and has shown strong ability, and after contributing assists and goals to the team many times, his fame has become completely popular in China, and there are hundreds of thousands of fans! With such a huge Chinese market, no matter which club it is, it is impossible to ignore it easily.
So, now Crystal Palace regrets that its bowels are green.
As the 2011-2012 season draws to a close, Crystal Palace were the first to ask Sheffield United for an offer.
However, Zhang Xu has become the star of Sheffield United, the absolute main force, neither the club chairman nor the head coach Wilson has the idea of selling Zhang Xu, let alone to a team that is likely to be the opponent next season.
As a result, Sheffield United directly replied to Crystal Palace that Zhang Xu was not for sale.
After receiving the reply, Crystal Palace did not give up because of this, they no longer asked for a price, but sent scouts to observe Zhang Xu's performance up close, and directly offered Sheffield United £1 million.
From 500,000 euros to 1 million pounds, Zhang Xu only took less than three months! Of course, the £1 million is not the real value of Zhang Xu.
Sheffield United have once again dismissed Crystal Palace's offer and once again made a statement of their attitude.
Crystal Palace are keenly aware that Sheffield United's dismissal this time is not as crisp as the first, and there seems to be hope.
However, this time Palace are not in a hurry to make a bid, and he intends to whet Sheffield United's appetite.
How Crystal Palace whets Sheffield United's appetite, we won't say for the time being. Other clubs that have taken advantage of Zhang Xu have also begun to take action.
On April 8, the day after Sheffield United's 3-1 home win over visiting Bonemouth, head coach Wilson sat in his office chair with a tangled face, and the desk in front of him was filled with various quotations.
On March 20, Crystal Palace in the Championship offered 1 million pounds to buy Zhang Xu;
On March 24, Birmingham in the Championship offered 800,000 pounds to buy Zhang Xu;
On March 27, Charlton Athletic in League One offered 800,000 pounds to buy Zhang Xu;
On March 31, Bolton in the Championship offered 1 million pounds to buy Zhang Xu;
On April 4, Lille in the French league offered 1 million euros to buy Zhang Xu;
On April 4, Bundesliga Frankfurt offered 1 million euros to buy Zhang Xu;
On April 6, Dortmund of the Bundesliga offered 1 million euros to buy Zhang Xu;
On April 7, Celtic of the Scottish Premier League offered 1 million euros to buy Zhang Xu;
At half past eight this morning, the club received another offer, which turned out to be Deportivo La Coruna, which is still in La Coruna, in La Liga, for 1.2 million euros to buy Zhang Xu.
The teams in La Liga? What if you're a former Super Deportivo? How could my disciple still go to the second tier league to work hard? Wilson scoffed at A Coruña's offer.
However, so many offers did give Wilson a headache. From this point of view, Zhang Xu's performance has attracted too much attention, and his own small League One, oh no, will soon be a football club in the Championship, and it is very likely that he will not be able to retain this future superstar.
In fact, if you want to forcibly keep Zhang Xu, it is not impossible, but the chairman of the club will definitely not agree. Why? Quite simply, at the beginning of the season, in order to ensure the normal operation of the club, the chairman of the club took out a loan of 38 million pounds!
£38 million! That's not a small number!
It's a huge mountain that weighs on the hearts of everyone at Sheffield United, especially the club president, who is going to do whatever he can to make money now.
Today, these quotations on Wilson's desk are exactly what the chairman of the club has brought to Wilson for purpose, and the meaning is self-evident.
And that's where Wilson gets the most headache. After Zhang Xu played the main force, Wilson no longer worried about the instability of the defense for the first time, but now, in order to ensure the club's capital chain continues, he has to sell the most comfortable player in Wilson's hands, which makes Wilson feel like he is cutting his heart.
Well, since it's going to be sold, let's sell it for a high price! Otherwise, I'm sorry for the special genius clause used by the club for Zhang Xu!
After making up his mind, Wilson was much more relaxed, and he no longer bothered about Zhang Xu's problem, anyway, there was still a long time before the transfer market opened, which was enough for Zhang Xu to play all the games before the end of the season.
After happily signing "rejection" behind all the quotations, Wilson threw the quotations back on the table in a good mood.
Hmph, let's grab it slowly! I'm not going to sell my baby zhang to you so easily!
Of course, Wilson's dismissal did not extinguish the idea of many clubs competing for Zhang Xu, but became more and more eager with Zhang Xu's performance.
On April 9, 2012, Sheffield United challenged Rochdale away, Zhang Xu made his debut again, and his performance was very outstanding, not only blocking all Rochdale's attacks with a solid defense, but also assisting his teammates twice, and scoring a goal himself.
The goal was scored by Zhang Xu with his head, and when Michael took a corner kick, he cut forward at high speed from the edge of the penalty area, and then jumped high and pressed all the players to the top of the football, and the football flew into the net at once, and the opponent's goalkeeper only had time to raise his hands.
This goal once again demonstrated Zhang Xu's outstanding sense of grabbing points, superhuman bounce ability and strong desire to attack.
Everyone who saw this goal had to applaud Zhang Xu's outstanding performance. The scouts of the major clubs also recorded Zhang Xu's extremely dazzling moment, and sent back detailed information about Zhang Xu to their respective clubs.
In the end, Sheffield United beat their opponents 5-0 to claim all three points again.
On April 14, Sheffield United hosted Leyton East.
Zhang Xu continued the legend, he used his unbreakable defense to make Leyton East's attacking players helpless, and they could only look at the goal of Sheffield United with regret and sigh.
In the end, Sheffield United won 2-0.
On 21 April, Sheffield United travelled to Milton Keys.
Milton Keys have been in good form this season, currently sitting fifth in the standings, and if nothing else, they could qualify for the play-offs.
Therefore, this game is very important for Milton Case, and the whole team has a strong desire to win.
In this way, it brought huge pressure to the Sheffield United team that challenged away, especially Zhang Xu, the opponent's stormy attack, so that he had to give up the desire to attack and devote himself to defense.
With Zhang Xu's efforts, Sheffield United withstood Milton Keys's crazy attack, and the two sides finally drew 0:0.
After this game, Sheffield United reached 93 points in the league and finished in second place. He is two points behind Charlton Athletic in first place and six points behind Sheffield Wednesday in third place. With only two games left in the league, Sheffield United have all but secured a place in the Championship.
However, if Sheffield United are winless in the final two rounds and Sheffield Wednesday win two in a row, then both teams will have the same league points, and it will be difficult to predict who will advance directly.
Therefore, the next 45th round of the league is particularly important.
However, at this critical time, the unexpected happened.
On April 24th, a news report shocked all Blade fans!
"A number of clubs are asking for a high price, and China Zhang is about to leave Sheffield United! 》
This is a news published in the Sheffield Sports Bulletin, which claims that according to Sheffield United officials, from March to April, a total of more than a dozen clubs sent offers to China Zhang.
The report also claimed that the club's chairman and the team's head coach, Mr. Wilson, had reached an agreement to sell China Zhang at a high price this summer in order to obtain the corresponding funds to repay the high loan.
As soon as this report was published, it immediately caused a strong reaction from Blades fans.
If you talk about who is in the most stable state of the team now, who plays the biggest role in the team, and who can help the team at a critical time, then it must be "Warcraft" Zhang.
In this case, the club even wants to sell the "Warcraft" zhang, isn't this dismantling its own platform?
Although the fans didn't believe it, they couldn't help but believe what the report said, so countless Blades fans came to the gate of the club to verify the authenticity of the report.