Chapter 132: Zhang? Who's that?
When the European transfer market was surging, Zhang Tiehan was staying at home in Munich every day, watching TV, playing games, chatting on the Internet, and becoming a new century otaku again. Some teammates asked him to go on vacation with him, but Zhang Tiehan finally thought about it and refused, mainly because his teammates were dragging their families, but Lola has always been busy recently.
There was no one to accompany him......
So Zhang Tiehan was bored at home for a week, but he felt very good, since he came here, he has been very busy, very busy, has been working hard for his football career, there is no time to be idle at all, now he is free, and he is very happy to live a lazy life at home for a while.
Especially now that it's time to open your mouth with food and stretch out your hands with clothes, it's just wonderful.
The only pity is that there is always a big fly flying over and buzzing twice, Zhang Tiehan felt very weak, he looked up, and wanted to describe Zhang Dabao as suspected of unfilial piety, but he really wanted to use more vicious language to describe two sentences, "I need to rest!" ”
Zhang Tiehan muttered repeatedly.
Zhang Dabao said, "No, Tie Man, you are a man, how can you not work?" My restaurant is busy, there have been a lot of customers lately, and I can teach you how to cook, and I recently learned a new dish! ”
"......" Zhang Tiehan felt powerless.
He really doesn't want to help out in restaurants, and he's a little star at the moment, right? It's not good to go there and be recognized...... Ahem...... The main thing is that he is quite comfortable at home, and in his opinion, he does not earn nearly 20,000 pounds a week when he does not work, so why should he work as an unpaid waiter and cook.
He was sure that as long as he went, Zhang Dabao would definitely go to drink with a few of his old friends, and then he would be left alone to run the restaurant.
That's tragic......
"Daddy, it's time for you to get a waiter to help." Zhang Tiehan said.
"We are an authentic Chinese restaurant!" When Zhang Dabao heard this, his voice immediately increased a lot. "Those Munich people don't know how to cook Chinese food! Even if they are taught, they will not burn well! Tie Man, it took me ten years to get your cooking skills to catch up with me, and now I have taught Zhenren, Zhenren can help ......"
Now Zhang Zhenren should be very idle. His vacation is also coming, but Zhang Tiehan still has a lot of things in England, the most important thing is whether he will stay at Wigan Athletic next season, he can't handle it himself, he can only teach his cousin, so Zhang Tiehan also signed a simple agent contract with Zhang Zhenren, entrusting Zhang Zhenren to deal with these things.
Zhang Zhenren is just a student, but he has helped him a lot, and his brother has settled the accounts. It is impossible to always ask Zhang Zhenren to help him, and he should sign a contract.
In this way, Zhang Zhenren has really become Zhang Tiehan's agent, and he can use this capacity to contact the club, contact some people in the football world, and so on.
Obviously, Zhang Zhenren's interest in Zhang Tiehan's agent's work is much, much greater than being a waiter in the visit.
In his words, 'this job is very challenging, and the income is high', and even if the two sign a contract, the temporary agency fee is only 5% of Zhang Tiehan's income. But just Zhang Tiehan's salary share is nearly 1,000 pounds a week. Not to mention that you can receive advertisements or something in the future.
When Zhang Tiehan's salary increases, his share will also increase a lot.
Even now, it has caught up with the salary of the average German white-collar class, and on the other hand, he works as a waiter in Zhang Dabao's restaurant...... Regardless of how the job is, it can be said that there is no salary at all.
Zhang Zhenren did not hesitate to refuse Zhang Dabao's invitation to work in the restaurant during the holidays.
Zhang Zhenren went to England, and Zhang Tiehan stayed at home and didn't go out. didn't go to the restaurant at all, Zhang Dabao's restaurant had no one to help, in his opinion, it was all because of Zhang Tiehan, and now he looked at Zhang Tiehan with a sad look in his eyes.
Such a big man. Especially the strong man who is 1.9 meters tall and looks even burder than himself, his eyes exude grievance...... Well, Zhang Tiehan is powerless to complain, he is really powerless to this cheap father, and Zhang Dabao's excuse really makes him unable to refute it.
It's like going to volunteer work.
"Okay, okay, I'll promise to help you for a few days......" Zhang Tiehan could only agree.
Zhang Dabao immediately smiled happily and urged, "Okay, let's hurry up now, the restaurant is about to open!" ”
Zhang Tiehan had no choice but to go to the restaurant early, the restaurant's business was good in the morning, many nearby residents came here to buy breakfast, breakfast was simple soy milk fritters and burritos, Zhang Dabao alone was really too busy.
Fortunately, there is Zhang Tiehan.
Many people knew Zhang Tiehan, so they all greeted Zhang Tiehan, Zhang Tiehan responded with a smile, and there were still many people who knew that Zhang Tiehan was playing well in England now, so they joked, "Dabao! Your son is a big football player, and you asked him to help out at the restaurant. ”
"yes, I can watch Iron Guy play!"
"That's amazing! He scored three goals against Arsenal a while ago! ”
This is still some people who don't understand the ball, there are a few fans in the nearby neighborhood, and there is a professional player on Franz Josef Street, who has checked Zhang Tiehan's information, and they know that Zhang Tiehan is the top scorer in League One this season, and he also led the team to win the League Cup and the league championship, and the future is almost bright.
They came over to buy a breakfast and then asked to take a photo with Zhang Tiehan.
Others have learned the same thing...... Soon the restaurant was turned into a photo studio, and a number of reporters rushed over to hear the news, and these Munich local reporters also asked sensitive questions such as 'will you return to Germany next season', 'what do you think of Stuttgart', 'do you like Bayern' and so on.
In short, the restaurant is in a mess.
Zhang Tiehan was very helpless, but he could only leave early and return home as an otaku.
Now he has a valid excuse, he is in the restaurant, and the business of the restaurant is better, but there are too many people to run normally.
When Zhang Dabao came back in the evening, his expression was even more annoyed.
"Why did you just go to football? If you don't play, you won't have so much trouble! He complained.
But at this time, Zhang Tiehan didn't pay attention to it at all, because his mother Jiang Chen also returned home, and she heard Zhang Dabao's voice. immediately rushed over and twisted his ears and took him away, and Jiang Chen's voice reprimanding Zhang Dabao could be heard next door, "You can!" Your restaurant should have closed a long time ago! What happened to Iron Man going to play football? That's not much better than opening a restaurant! ”
Zhang Dabao could only stop talking.
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While Zhang Tiehan was enjoying his holiday in Munich, Zhang Zhenren was very busy in England.
Wigan Athletic said that Zhang Tiehan was 'not for sale', but in fact, Nelson had convinced Jewell. So they have already started negotiations on Zhang Tiehan's transfer, which naturally have to inform Zhang Zhenren, so Zhang Zhenren has to run around and contact those clubs that are interested in Zhang Tiehan.
Among them are Chelsea and Liverpool in England, as well as Roma and Inter Milan in Italy and Stuttgart in Germany.
Zhang Zhenren went around Italy, Germany and England in a week, and got to know each club a little, and the negotiations about Zhang Tiehan also had some results.
Wigan Athletic are looking to sell Zhang Tiehan to Chelsea, who have the highest bid. The two have made some initial agreements, the only one being that Chelsea and Zhang Zhenren have not reached a deal on the treatment of Zhang Tiehan.
The other four clubs are also very sincere, in order to make the competition exist, Wigan Athletic did not interrupt the negotiations with them, in the end, everything still depends on Zhang Tiehan's choice.
If Zhang Tiehan is not willing to go to Chelsea, it will be useless to have any agreements between Wigan Athletic and Chelsea.
Zhang Zhenren also thinks Chelsea are very good.
He even met Abramovich in London, and the Russians promised him something. He also promised to give him a million pounds in private as a reward as long as the deal was completed. This is really heartwarming, but Zhang Zhenren has not been defeated by money, the biggest advantage of the old Zhang family is that he cares about family affection, and he told Zhang Tiehan about it.
Zhang Tiehan didn't seem to be anything.
This is the unspoken rule of the European football market in private, and every time a star transfers, the agent will definitely get some benefits. If it weren't for Zhang Zhenren, but other agents, they wouldn't have told him about it, at most they would have fought for a big contract for him.
Zhang Tiehan felt that Chelsea was a good choice.
First of all, Chelsea are not Premier League champions or anything like that. It's just a powerhouse in the Premier League, but they have money, and the teams with money in Europe will have results, modern football is so simple, and he has a good view of Chelsea, such as Terry, who lost to himself on the pitch and could exchange jerseys with himself, Terry is a good person, and it should be good to be able to play together.
In comparison, Liverpool has not been contacted, but the reputation of Liverpool in England is still very big, Zhang Tiehan also knows a little, giants have always been the favorite choice of players, but since the 90s, Liverpool has not won any championships.
No matter which club he goes to, Zhang Tiehan's first consideration is the championship.
In his opinion, Liverpool does not have the potential to be a champion, and it is still worse than Chelsea.
As for Inter Milan, Roma, Stuttgart, he was completely at a loss.
In this way, what choice to make, it is obvious, Chelsea can give the highest transfer fee, so that Wigan Athletic Club is satisfied enough, Chelsea can give a big contract, Zhang Tiehan will be very satisfied, Chelsea has a group of famous players, they are originally 'international team', as a German-Chinese, it is much better to go to Chelsea than to go to those pure 'English teams'.
Zhang Zhenren then began to negotiate with Chelsea.
The two sides had already finalized some agreements, only the last negotiation on personal salary package, but at this moment, there was a sensational news in Chelsea - Mourinho is coming!
Jose Mourinho!
At this time, most people are very unfamiliar with this name, as far as the information is concerned, he is only a middle-aged man around forty years old, and forty years old is very young in the coaching industry, but Mourinho's achievements in leading the team are highly regarded, and in two seasons, he brought six titles to Porto.
In the first season, the league champions, the Portuguese Cup, the UEFA Cup.
This past season, the league champions, the Portuguese Cup, the European Champions Cup!
Jose Mourinho left Porto to join Chelsea on the Treble-winning leg, signing a three-year contract with a whopping £5 million (US$9.5 million) a year, making him the highest-paid football coach in the world.
Under the watchful eyes of the whole world, Mourinho came to Chelsea and received the full trust of Roman Abramovich, who took over the power of the team, and the first thing was to start the transfer work, which naturally involved the transfer of Zhang Tiehan.
"Negotiations have already begun? Sheet? Who's that? Mourinho asked Kenyon.
Peter Kenyon was once Manchester United's chief executive but was poached by Roman Abramovich to join Chelsea in 2003 and his departure was once hugely controversial. At Chelsea FC, Kenyon is not only responsible for the club's transfer operations, but also his most important responsibilities are the marketing and management aspects that he is best at.
Following Ranieri's departure, Kenyon was temporarily in charge of transfers.
'Wigan Athletic players, great youngsters, he scored three goals at Stamford Bridge last season. Kenyon made a brief introduction.
He has a good impression of Zhang Tiehan, after all, there are not many players who can score three goals at Stamford Bridge, and there are really few in a century-old history.
Mourinho frowned.
He didn't know what to say about Zhang Tiehan, after Kenyan's introduction, he only had a vague understanding, and after checking some information, he found that the advantages of this player were obvious, but the disadvantages were equally obvious.
The technique is too rough......
Mourinho doesn't pay much attention to skills, his tactical concept lies in defense, Zhang Tiehan's defense is also good, but when he plays at Wigan Athletic, it is difficult for him to really dissolve into the team's tactical system, Mourinho saw this, and finally thought about it, he still said, "The striker my team needs is in the tactical system, a player with momentum, I fancy one, that is this season's French footballer, Marseille Drogba, if Zhang comes to my team, he can only be Drogba's substitute." ”
In terms of tactics and team building, Kenyon can't say much.
He's not good at these things either.
Abramovich gave Mourinho the most authority in this regard, and in this case, Kenyon also handed over all the transfer work to Mourinho, who is not optimistic about Zhang Tiehan, and they will not bother to bring in a player that the new coach does not like.
Chelsea have halted talks over a transfer for Zhang Tiehan.
"He's not a good fit for my team!" Faced with some well-informed journalists, Mourinho replied, "Zhang is very good, I have watched his game video, but his shortcomings are obvious, I think such a young man should have more room to develop, instead of coming directly to my team." Maybe in a few years, I will choose him, but not now! ”
The meaning is obvious, that is, Zhang Tiehan's strength is not in the eyes of Mourinho.
The English media has always been xenophobic, and Mourinho's airborne landing made them a little dissatisfied, but now Mourinho directly denied Zhang Tiehan, who defeated Chelsea and Arsenal, and looked arrogant, and immediately made them throw all their goodwill to the country of Java, and all that was left was anger and dissatisfaction.
"Arrogant Portuguese!"
"Mourinho should put on the king's hat and see how unsightly he is!"
"If Zhang can't get into Chelsea, is Mourinho going to build a 'Maradona team'? As the name suggests, a team made up of eleven Maradona. ”
The English media lashed out at Mourinho, but it did not affect the decision of Mourinho and Chelsea FC at all, and Chelsea's transfer talks for Zhang Tiehan were finally suspended.
At the same time, only four of the five clubs competing for Zhang Tiehan remained, and the most promising Chelsea dropped out of the race. (To be continued......)