Chapter 7: Closed Doors!
The front court and the midfield have goals, and whether the trade can be successful or not is the job of the transfer department.
Wan Sheng only thinks about the team's backcourt in the end.
In the current Atletico Madrid lineup, there are not many places that need to be changed in the backfield, and last season, Atletico Madrid's defense became a big problem, which is also the reason why the team failed to play well, so at the end of May and the beginning of June, Hill Jr. has completed the introduction of the backfield.
Although the club's financial situation is terrible, there is no doubt that Hill Jr. is really thinking about the club, and he still frees up some funds to complete the recruitment.
The 12 million euro left-sided star Filipe Luis Kasmirski is still very strong.
He was once a target for Barcelona, but with Deportivo president Mandoiro insisting on a €20 million transfer fee, the Red and Blues eventually switched to Inter defender Maxwell, who is worth just €5 million.
Last season was a nightmare for Filipe, on January 23 this year, in the match between Deportivo La Coruna and Athletic Bilbao, Filipe assisted up the front, and after the cross was blocked, Bodipo got the ball on the way, and Felipe cut in again to score in the six-yard box, but then Felipe collided with the attacking Athletic Bilbao goalkeeper Ilesos.
The collision was severe, and Felipe suffered a severe ankle fracture in his right leg.
At that time, Felipe's right ankle was completely deformed, almost an open fracture, and he was immediately carried on a stretcher, and the players and coaches who witnessed the tragedy held their heads in their hands in disbelief.
A simple test later revealed that Felipe had a fractured ankle in his right leg and was dislocated.
Felipe was then rushed to the USP hospital in the A Coruña region for treatment.
After the game, the media broke the news that Felipe is likely to say goodbye to the field and that he will retire early.
However, less than four months later, Felipe made a miraculous recovery, but unfortunately he missed out on the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Deportivo La Coruna did not dare to use a player with such a serious injury, so they decisively chose to put Felipe up for sale, and Atletico Madrid gambled to bring Filipe to the Vicente Calderón Stadium for 1,200 euros.
After seeing Felipe's experience, Wan Sheng was also a little worried about his injury, but after checking the Football Training Master system, he was surprised, because Felipe's 'physical fitness' did not show any hidden dangers, that is, he had fully recovered, and his personal ability attribute data was still very high.
With 12 million euros to buy such a quality defender, the deal is well worth it.
In addition, Atletico Madrid spent 18 million euros to bring defender Godin from Villarreal.
Godin was an excellent defender trained by Uruguay's Cerro club, joined the national team in 2006 and was noticed in the 2007 Copa Libertadores.
In 2007, Godin came to the Iberian Peninsula to join the Yellow Submarine, and with his own efforts, he won the favor of head coach Manuel Pellegrini, and gradually got a stable start.
The talented defender, who is only a year older than Suarez, entered the Uruguayan national team early, and with his excellent performance, Godin has also become a target of attention for the giants.
At the beginning of June, before the start of the World Cup, Atletico Madrid had already poached Godin for 18 million euros, but with half of Godin's ownership going to his agent, Paco Casal, the Yellow Submarine will only receive 9 million euros.
In Wansheng's view, the deal is also very valuable.
With Godin and Felipe, the team's backline is already quite good.
In addition, the team also bought Roberto, who plays for Benfica, as a backup goalkeeper, and the deal also reached 8.5 million euros.
Two high-priced defenders, a good substitute goalkeeper, and the team's backline is still very good.
Wansheng does not plan to start the transformation of the guard line.
In fact, before the deal with Atletico Madrid was reached, Wan Sheng also studied the lineup of Atletico Madrid, considered the transformation of the back line, and thought about bringing his proud disciple Alfred from Italy to Spain.
With Alfred's reverence for himself, Wansheng believes that as long as he speaks, Alfred will definitely choose to come to Atletico Madrid.
But alas, he can't do that.
Alfred is still in Fiorentina, with a two-year contract, Fiorentina will definitely not sell their main defenders, so that Alfred for himself, the club and the fans are unhappy, and it will affect the entire career in the near future, which is not what Wansheng wants to see.
Now that the team is stable at the back, he doesn't need to do that anymore.
After the lineup and list are all considered, Wansheng intends to act, it is impossible to rely on the club's transfer department for everything, and Atletico Madrid is not so attractive.
In order to ensure that he can get the players he needs, Wansheng decided to act on his own.
"Deng Kai, help me book a ticket to South Africa!"
"Okay, are you going to South Africa to watch?" Deng Kai asked, "Now the knockout rounds have begun." ”
"I'm scouting the players."
"Investigation?"
"Now the geniuses are in South Africa, and I'm going to get in touch with them privately." Wan Sheng smiled.
Deng Kai understood, "No problem, tonight?" ”
“OK!”
According to UEFA's terms, the buyer is not allowed to contact the player privately before the two clubs have reached an agreement, otherwise they will face a fine, but most clubs ignore this rule, and if the opposing club does not let go and cannot contact the player, will it not delay the transfer process?
Wansheng intends to do the same.
As long as you can buy the players you want, no matter if the process meets the regulations!
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This time I went to South Africa to watch the World Cup, and the main goal of Wansheng was Suarez.
Ozil, Silva and Morris can also be seen in South Africa, but Wan Sheng can contact the three directly, and they are very familiar with each other, so they don't need to make a special trip.
Suarez is different.
Wan Sheng is not familiar with the Eredivisie, and can only contact Suarez's agent, if he wants to persuade Suarez to choose to join Atletico Madrid, of course, it is better to have an interview.
When Wansheng arrived in Johannesburg, he found that things were not as simple as he imagined.
It's not like it was a few years ago.
South Africa is a chaotic country, and Wan Sheng's reputation goes without saying, for the sake of safety, he came with a few bodyguards, even if the itinerary is secret, it is known by many media.
When Wansheng arrived at Johannesburg International Airport, there was already quite a few media waiting there.
Wan Sheng walked out of the airport with a wry smile and was directly surrounded by many reporters.
It was impossible to come to Suarez 'secretly' this time, so Wan Sheng simply walked out generously and accepted an interview with media reporters.
Wan Sheng's return to European football after two years was already explosive news, and the media reporters did not expect that they would be able to interview Wan Sheng in South Africa, so they asked all kinds of questions.
In the beginning, it was mostly against Atletico Madrid.
Some Spanish media directly asked Wan Sheng's goal of coming here, and Wan Sheng responded with a smile, "I'm here to inspect the players." ”
There is no comment on who to examine.
When it was found difficult to make some transfer moves from Atletico Madrid in Wansheng's mouth, the questions of the media reporters quickly shifted to the World Cup in South Africa.
A reporter from the "Sun" directly asked which team Wansheng was optimistic about.
Wan Sheng smiled and said, "Two years ago, when I was in China, the European Cup was being held, and someone asked me so, I only said three words, Spain, and then Spain really won the championship, I was also surprised, I really guessed casually at that time." Now let me guess, I still think that Spain can win the championship, after all, Spain is one of the strongest teams. No, I think they are the most powerful, Barcelona have swept Europe in the last two years, and with this team, it is not difficult for Bosque to lead Spain to the championship......"
The Spanish media listened with a smile on their faces.
They didn't expect Wansheng to be so optimistic about Spain, and it's no wonder that this young Chinese would choose to coach at Atletico Madrid, he must be very much an admirer of Spanish football, and the Catalan media even think that Wansheng admires Barcelona.
So some Catalan media asked directly, but Wan Sheng's answer made their faces darken, "Barcelona? No, if I wanted to go to Barcelona, I went two years ago. The main reason why I choose to come to Atletico Madrid now is that Barcelona have been doing so well lately, so I coach a Spanish team just to beat them and let them know that they can sweep Europe, not because they are too strong, but because they are ...... I'm not here, hehe! ”
Wan Sheng laughed wildly, making all the reporters around him look stupid.
That is, British media reporters are calmer, many of them know Wansheng very well, and reporters from other countries finally understand why this young Chinese is criticized by public opinion.
He's so arrogant that he doesn't know what to say!
The Catalan media felt very annoyed, and they were so angry that they wanted to quarrel with Wan Sheng, but Wan Sheng ignored them at all and pushed the crowd away.
After a night's rest in the hotel, Wan Sheng appeared the next day at the World Cup round of 16, where Germany and England were matched.
At the beginning of the game, almost no one noticed Wan Sheng, after all, there were too many fans in the audience, but soon a camera camera captured a figure wearing a sun hat, and some media immediately recognized Wan Sheng.
When the camera pointed over frequently, Wan Sheng waved his hand indifferently, but he didn't expect that during the intermission, a British reporter appeared beside him and asked for an interview with him on the spot.
Wan Sheng could only smile wryly for the interview.
Fortunately, the content of the reporter's interview was about the match between Germany and England, and the two teams stood at 2-1 in the first half, and England was blown a good goal, but when they were only one goal behind, there was still a chance to win.
Since it was a British reporter's interview, Wan Sheng naturally had to stand in England's point of view, he said, "England should strengthen their defense, there were too many chances for Germany in the first half, and they should wait for opportunities when the defense is stable." In the first half they were a bit aggressive. ”
After analyzing the game in two sentences, Wan Sheng refused to be interviewed on the grounds that he wanted to watch the game.
Then, in the second half, almost as he had it, England's defence was frequent, and Germany scored twice in five minutes to beat England 4-1 to advance to the quarter-finals.
The 'Three Lions' have been eliminated again!
After the game, England's sadness needless to say, there are still many media reports about Wan Sheng, and what he said at halftime almost reflected the second half of the game, which is still very accurate.
After that, some media immediately analyzed the reason why Wan Sheng appeared at the scene of the game in Germany and England - he was scouting the players!
Who exactly?
Maurice? Too likely.
But according to the analysis of "World Sports", Wan Sheng and Morris have a good personal relationship, and they also know Morris quite well, in fact, there is no need to examine anything at all, that is, this young Chinese is likely to have other goals.
Who will be the two teams of Germany and England?
Soon a series of possible names were analyzed by the media, and they found that there were too many possible candidates.
By this time, Wan Sheng had already met Pere Guardiola in his hotel room, who is the younger brother of Barcelona coach Josep Guardiola and Suarez's agent.
Josep Guardiola was quite surprised when he heard that Wan Sheng was interested in Suarez.
He knew all too well the meaning of the name 'Wan Sheng'.
In terms of coaching, Wan Sheng is one of the top managers in the world, and in terms of developing young players, or using players, Wan Sheng is recognized by the European media as the best, and almost all the players he has introduced can perform quite well.
So Josep Guardiola took the initiative to come to the hotel to meet Wansheng.
For a European agent, it is certainly a good thing to have a good relationship with a capable coach like Wansheng, but Josep is not very optimistic about Suarez's transfer, "Many clubs are interested in Luis now, but Ajax FC is not very willing to ......let Luiz leave"
Wansheng understood.
If Josep Guardiola comes up and talks directly about Suarez's contract, it must mean that there is no problem with the transfer, but the other party directly says so, which means that the Ajax club is not having a good time.
But if the player insists on leaving, no club can stop him.
The contact with Josep Guardiola was very successful, and Josep promised to tell Suarez the news, and what Suarez would do was a matter for the two to discuss.
Then Wansheng began to wait for news.
What Wan Sheng didn't expect was that this wait would be three days.
During this period, he watched another match between the United States and Ghana, but there was still no reply from Suarez, and it turned out that Wan Sheng took the initiative to call Josep to get a reply.
"I'm sorry, Wan Sheng, Luis has no interest in Atletico Madrid, even if he leaves Ajax now, he wants to join a real giant!"
Wan Sheng was a little stunned.
He hasn't been in charge of Derby County since seven years ago! (To be continued.) )