Chapter 144: Selling Captain
Media reporters felt that Wan Sheng was arrogant, and they felt that this young Chinese was so arrogant because he led two teams to win the Premier League title in a row.
This result is indeed very good, and it is even speechless, but it can't be so arrogant!
It's not enough to lead Manchester City to win the title once, but you still want to win it a second time, and it's to defend it!?
It's unbelievable!
But before they could make a big report, something even more unreasonable happened.
On the third day of the league season, it was revealed that Manchester City had begun talks with Portsmouth over the transfer of captain Distin.
Manchester City has just won the league title, and they are going to sell the captain!?
Many people said they couldn't understand it.
But this is not a grapevine, but it has been confirmed by interviews with officials of both clubs, that is, the two clubs have indeed started transfer negotiations about Distin, and Distin's agent Periros has also confirmed the authenticity of the news.
"Sylvain needs a better environment. He's 30 years old and needs to start thinking about the years leading up to his retirement and I don't think City are the right fit for him anymore. ”
Perros's words are vague and it's hard to know what he's trying to say, but the media still believe that Manchester City should try to keep the Frenchman, who has been the backbone of Manchester City's defense for several seasons, and his partnership with Dunn has been very calm in the back, even if the younger Copelle Ferreira is doing well, he is still difficult to replace Distin.
It's a pity that the thoughts of the media can't influence the negotiations between Manchester City Club and Portsmouth, so there is a saying that "Manchester City is going to fall apart!" ”
'It's like Derby County last season'
After Wan Sheng left Derby County last season, the Derby County squad was divided in half, and stars such as Van der Vaart, Ribery and Morris, as well as Leto Ziegler, Leiton Baines and Ivan Crewe, all left one after another. As a result, defending champions Derby County were relegated this season, and they became the fastest rising and sinking team in Premier League history.
This made Premier League history, and many years later, when fans talk about previous Premier League titles, they will inevitably mention the name of Derby County, but also the history of this rapid decline.
Derby's relegation has also been a huge disappointment for the US GSC consortium. They originally wanted to use Derbyshire's influence to open up the English market and enter the whole of Europe, but they got this result, an English second-tier club, for them, is completely a chicken rib, so they can only let Derby County fend for themselves.
This may be good news for Chairman Peirce, as he no longer has to be constrained by the consortium. He has the absolute right to dominate the club, and at the same time, he does not have access to financial support from the consortium.
It's hard to guess what the future holds for Derby, who are out of the spotlight of the media.
The media used the disintegration of Derby County to describe Manchester City, just to show that Manchester City is also about to follow in the footsteps of Derby County, and is about to fall apart, those hostile and win-winning media. This point of view has been greatly reported, as evidenced by Distin's transfer.
Distin captained Manchester City for two and a half years. Whether Keegan is coached or Wansheng is coached, he is the absolute main force of the team's defense, and after Manchester City won the championship, he actually sold Distin immediately, isn't this about to fall apart?
There is really a lot of market for this view. Some Manchester City fans were deceived into believing it, so they gathered in front of the club to ask for an explanation, which caused a lot of problems for club manager Bill Nix.
He could only come forward to explain that Distin was a normal transfer and that there would be no problems with the team.
Bill Nix made the 'heavyweight' guarantee. "Wansheng must continue to stay in the team to coach!"
This guarantee is reassuring to the fans.
In the eyes of Manchester City fans, Wan Sheng is the biggest contributor to the team's championship, as long as Wan Sheng does not leave, it doesn't matter if others leave, not to mention, Distin is not actually an indispensable figure in the team, Dunn and Kopelle Ferreira can take his place.
In the vigorous report, Wan Sheng didn't have any ideas.
Distin's transfer was actually a bit unexpected, he didn't expect Distin to want to leave so soon, but considering Distin's current situation, leaving is actually the best option for him.
In the entire team lineup, there is no shortage of Distin, if it were not for the impact of injuries at the beginning of the season, Dunn's strength and condition would be better than him, in addition, Kopele Ferreira has also grown, plus Ricardo Costa and Sun Jihai, who are fully qualified to be substitutes in various positions in the backfield, Distin's playing time next season is not guaranteed.
After winning the championship with the team, Distin will definitely get a big contract at other clubs, and at the same time, it can also bring resentful transfer fees to the club, which is actually a win-win transfer.
Since the players themselves asked to go, and they were not the people necessary for the team, Wansheng would not be retained.
Professional football is like that, there are always people leaving and people coming, and he still felt a little sorry for Distin's departure, but in the end he agreed.
Then the two clubs began to negotiate.
Portsmouth is still very sincere in asking for Distin, they want to prepare for the new season, supplement the team's defense, the French will be very popular with them, with Distin, they don't have to worry about the back, so they are willing to spend a lot of money to buy Distin.
They made an initial offer of £5 million, which is quite good for a player who is about to turn 30.
Manchester City FC will certainly not sell their captain so easily, so the two sides began a series of bargains over transfer fees.
Manchester City is still quite confident, because the team has just won the league championship, Distin, as an important member of the championship, is also the core of the team's defense, which is definitely the core of the team's defense, which is definitely what many clubs are vying for, especially the upcoming World Cup in Germany, Distin is also a member of the French national team, in this case, he will have an extra halo on him.
In short, Distin is not worried about selling at all.
There will be a lot of rises.
Portsmouth also understands this truth if Distin is doing well in the world. The price is likely to rise sharply, and they don't dare to bet on it, so they are ruthless and directly offer a high price of 7.5 million pounds, which is enough to buy a young defender who is among the best in the world.
Faced with this offer, Manchester City has absolutely no reason to refuse.
So the two sides reached an agreement on the third day of the discussion. Portsmouth can then negotiate a contract with Distin.
As Distin thought, he moved to Portsmouth, one of Portsmouth's biggest stars, Portsmouth signed him directly for three years and offered a large contract with a weekly salary of more than 65,000 pounds, which can ensure that he will play for Portsmouth until the age of 33, when he is about to retire.
Both Distin and agent Peros were happy with the contract, and the transfer went smoothly.
On the fourth day, Manchester City FC and Portsmouth FC announced the news of the Distin transfer on their official websites.
The news caused a media uproar.
The media didn't expect Distin's transfer to proceed so quickly. While they were still making a lot of noise about his transfer, the move had already been finalised.
Even Manchester City's media have voiced dissatisfaction, believing that the team has just won the title and should not be sold in a hurry.
Although 7.5 million pounds is indeed very high, if the price is high and it is sold, it is really like other media said, Manchester City will face falling apart!
At this time, a piece of grapevine said. Manchester City's full-back Musampa is also ready to leave.
Then there were more voices in the media to denounce it
The transfer news about Manchester City in the media is not all negative. Wright Phillips, who recently played for Chelsea, has expressed his frustration with the team because he rarely gets playing time.
It's unbelievable that a £26 million heavyweight full-back can't get playing time.
Wright Jr. also failed to enter the England national team and could not participate in the World Cup in Germany with the team.
It was the latter point that made Wright Jr. unhappy with his situation at Chelsea. As a result, his agent said Wright Jr. wanted to return to Manchester City to play for his parent club.
Little Wright is actually very painful
It's been a real pain in the air for him this season, he's a player who belongs to Manchester City, and he's even labelled as Manchester City. But he wanted to play on a bigger stage, so he decided to go to Chelsea.
Then Manchester City won the league title! ‘
Looking at those former teammates, standing on the stage of winning the league title, and thinking about the situation of sitting on the bench at Chelsea now, Wright Jr. felt very painful.
But manager Jose Mourinho didn't give him much of a chance to show at all, he just had to wait, wait, wait, he didn't know what next season would bring, but he knew that if he could return to Manchester City, he would have more playing time.
Wright Jr. had trained under Wan Sheng for a while, and he was sure that the Chinese still valued him.
But it is not easy for Wright Jr. to return to Manchester City, which requires Chelsea to be willing to sell, and Manchester City is willing to spend a lot of money to buy, and he is no longer sure whether his performance can impress the Chinese.
However, Wright Jr. asked his agent to release this signal still had an effect, at least many media began to analyze the possibility of Wright Jr. returning to Manchester City, and there were also Manchester City media looking forward to Wright Jr.'s return.
Now that Musampa is also rumored to leave, Manchester City's frontfield wing must need manpower, and last season's wing was Manchester City's weak point, and after the arrival of Ivan Crewe, the problem has not been completely solved, and the return of Wright Jr. will definitely make up for this.
What's more, Wright Jr. is a player who has been labelled as Manchester City, and City fans believe he should have returned to play for Manchester City in the first place.
But at this time, Wansheng didn't consider Little Wright's problem at all!
He is happy with the transfer fee for the team.
Manchester City won the league title this season, including championship bonuses, TV broadcast shares, etc., and the club's earnings have risen significantly, and the club's chairman Waddell has offered 24 million pounds for him to supplement the squad in the transfer market.
Combined with the £7.5 million spent on the sale of Distin, the amount of money that Wansheng can use now reaches £31.5 million.
That's a lot of money, enough to buy one of the world's top heavyweights!
If it was last summer, he wouldn't hesitate at all, and he would have made a big deal to buy Aguero, Sanchez, Turan and other future demons, as long as he bought one or two more, the current team's lineup would definitely be very gorgeous.
Of course, there are no ifs.
But now with a transfer fee of more than £30 million, it is still enough to do a lot of things, at least adding a good full-back is not a problem.
As the media said, the team's wings are a real problem.
Musampa's departure is not fake news, his agent has communicated with Manchester City FC, if Musampa leaves, the team can only use Sinclair and Ivan Crewe as the main full-back, Ivan Crewe is slightly better, compared to the championship team, and next season's Champions League, Sinclair's ability is a little poor, not to mention, two positions are two players, not enough at all, so the team must supplement more capable full-back players.
Wright Phillips Jr. is a good choice!
If Wright Jr.'s value is cheaper, Wansheng will not hesitate to let him return, but it is a pity that Chelsea will not spend 2,600 pounds last year to buy and sell it back to Manchester City this year, so they will really become a big wrongdoer and become the laughing stock of Europe and even the world.
Chelsea wouldn't do that and they certainly don't want to sell their players to rivals, so Wright's return is not a big consideration.
But other candidates, Wan Sheng didn't expect it for a while.
So he instructed the team's scouts to collect data on the outstanding full-backs of various European teams and make a table.
It only took a morning for a form to be placed in front of Wan Sheng, who carefully reviewed the information of each player, excluding those who were extremely expensive, old, not very good, and not suitable for the team's tactics, and then there were only a few names left.
Stuart Downing.
Wan Sheng has his eye on the Middlesbrough player.
In the past two seasons, Wansheng's team has played against Middlesbrough many times, and Middlesbrough manager McClaren is an old friend of his, so he knows a certain amount about Middlesbrough's excellent players.
Downing is one of Middlesbrough's best players and was part of England's World Cup campaign in Germany.
Compared with Wayne Rooney, Glenn Johnson and other young stars in England, Downing is a bit inconspicuous and does not play much time in the national team, but in fact, he is only 22 years old now, and has become the main full-back of Middlesbrough, and his performance in the league is also quite stable, he is definitely one of the best young people in English football.
Downing is Middlesbrough's baby, and it's not easy to get him.
But considering the imminent departure of Middlesbrough boss McClaren, Manchester City are not without opportunities.
So Wan Sheng let Bee Nix start to test Middlesbrough's attitude
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