"Your current level can only be to go to the second division to train."

Messi's transfer was completed, and Lister breathed a sigh of relief, Messi has always been the player that Lister pays the most attention to, and now he has finally come to Barcelona. No matter how famous he is in PSV Eindhoven, he is only a young star. Even if you win the Champions League in Eindhoven, it is not as good as winning the league championship in Real Madrid and Barcelona. There is no way, the current European football scene is the genius of these giants. The only way for a player to truly become a superstar of this era is to join a European giant. Now joining Barcelona is the beginning of his journey to superstardom.

There weren't any big things in '07, and there weren't any big competitions going on. But the difference is that this year has also been the most changing year in European football. The UEFA president has changed, and the time has come for Platini. The powerful and unbeatable Dream II two years ago disintegrated and died in his own infighting, and Ronaldinho, who was in European football for the first two years, also fell. From being the hope of becoming the king of the ball to now being criticized by the Barcelona media, Ronaldinho's fall is simply beyond people's imagination. No one would have imagined that a top superstar like Ronaldinho would fall so easily.

Chelsea, who crushed all opponents and won the Premier League title for two consecutive seasons, also fell, and also died of infighting. The infighting between Mourinho and Shevchenko, with Mendes and Pini behind them. Zahavi's game, and the infighting between Mourinho and the Chelsea hierarchy. All kinds of negative news are on Mourinho, and Chelsea, the upstart who dominated the Premier League, has also fallen.

Of course, Rist breathed a sigh of relief and came to France. It's not that Lister has anything else to do. It's Lister doing Arsenal a favor. Arsene Wenger sold Reyes, who had not been comfortable in the Premier League, this summer and felt he was missing some wide players. It stands to reason that Arsenal are not short of wide players, Cristiano. Ronaldo, Robin van Persie, Reyes, Ljungberg are all good wingers, as well as talented players like Theo Walcott.

But this season is different. Arsene Wenger began to transform Cristiano. Ronaldo became Arsenal's regular striker, completely following the path of Thierry Henry. After Henry left, Cristiano. Ronaldo became Arsenal's centre-forward.

And the transformation is very good. Cristiano. Ronaldo is fast, physical, good at shooting and good at heading. Built in Thierry Henry's model, he can shoot from distance, he can tackle counter-attacks on his own, and he can head the ball in the box. He scored 26 goals for Arsenal in all competitions this season, and became Arsenal's top scorer from Figo.

Arsene Wenger remodeled Cristiano. Ronaldo is not the same as Alex Ferguson in history. Arsene Wenger's Cristiano. Ronaldo is really going to be a centre-forward. He also knows how to stand in the penalty area. How to get rid of the defensive shots of the centre-backs and so on. Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger are both top managers, and the same player can transform them with completely different results.

Then Ljungberg left Arsenal, Reyes returned to Spain and Van Persie gradually became a striker, heading towards Bergkamp. As for Walcott, he is still too young. As a result, Arsenal are suddenly missing wide players.

Arsene Wenger at this time was the most short of money. Fortunately, the veteran Ljungberg was cleared and Reyes was sold, not only with some transfer fees, but also to free up salary space. Previously, Lister had already brought Arsene Wenger a wide player. That's Kalou, who is doing well at Feyenoord at the moment. With only one year left on his contract, Arsene Wenger only spent £6 million to get Kalou as a strong reinforcement. However, this was not enough, so Wenger is ready to bring in another wide player. He had his eye on Nasri in Marseille.

Now Jerome. Anderson was squeezed out of Arsenal. Arsenal was taken by three agent predators, Lister, Carvajal and Mendes. Carvajal has Cesca Fabregas and Mendes has Cristiano. Ronaldo, Ristel has two Ivorian players, Kalou and Eboue. And at present, Arsenal's main midfielder Baptista is also inextricably linked with Lister.

When Rist arrived in Marseille, he found that the staff had come to pick him up. The staff was very embarrassed to tell Lister that the sporting director of Marseille was going to come and pick up Lister in person. However, it was temporarily blocked by a player.

Reestae nodded, then followed the staff member to Marseille sporting director Jose. Anigo's office doorway. Just at the door Lister heard José. Anigo's impatient voice.

"But, Mr. Anigo. I think I'm ......"

"It's either the second division. Or stay in the youth team. I still have something to do, you go out. ”

Rist shrugged and looked at the staff next to him with some confusion. Because Rist found Anigo very impatient with the player, and didn't know what player was so unpopular. Anigo is not a very bad-tempered person, how can he not give this player face.

"Bang-"

One player opened the door in frustration. After seeing Rist and the staff, he was stunned for a moment. Although his face was very ugly, he still nodded to Rist and the staff. Then left the place.

It's a big man with a height of 1.9 meters, a little taller than Lister. Rist has a good impression of him, and he is definitely a rare player in football to be so polite in the face of his own frustration. Just looking at this kind of cultivation is enough for Lister to look at. If a player can maintain such an attitude, as long as the talent is not too bad, then he will definitely be able to play.

"Who is this?"

"One of our Academy players is called Ma Deshi. Benatia. He didn't develop in our academy so we loaned him out to the second division. But he wanted to go on loan to the First Division, so he came to Mr. Anigo. ”

"Oh!"

Ma Dexi. Benatia. There are some impressions of this player, Rist, who came to this plane in late 2013. In the summer of that year, Roma brought in a defender for 13.5 million euros, which was a very high transfer fee for Serie A, which was already very sluggish at the time. And also a centre-back. It is surprising that Rome can spend 13.5 million euros.

Therefore, Rist also briefly checked the defender. In fact, Rist hasn't paid attention to Serie A for a long time since "Phonegate". Therefore, some stars in Serie A are unfamiliar, and they only paid attention to Madhey when they transferred to the market. Benatia. Only to find out that he was already performing very well when he was in Udinese, and at one time he was playing with Milan's Thiago. Silva and Juventus' Barzagli are tied for a back three in Serie A. And more importantly, after the transfer to Rome, although Lister did not finish the 1314 season, his performance in the first half of the season was still very good.

At that time, when the best transfer in Serie A was selected, Madhi. Benatia's name is also prominently listed. It's on par with Kaka, which comes for free. It's just that Rist is not very familiar with this player after all, so he has long forgotten about him. They didn't recognize him when they first met, and if it weren't for the staff member saying his name, Rist wouldn't have remembered the man at all.

Now that I think about it, it's really this player. What Lister didn't know was that the history of Madhi. Benatia was so good at Roma that he became a big hit in the transfer market in the summer of '14. For his value in European football, it is also believed that he can exceed 30 million euros, and this is because he is in Rome. If it were at some other club, it might be worth more than 40 million.

There are many giants interested in him, including giants like Barcelona and Bayern. Think he can improve their backline. He was a very popular centre-back in European football in the summer of '14.

"Oops, Riester. Sorry, sorry. ”

While Rist was still thinking about Benatia, Jose. Agni walked out. After seeing Lister. I apologized to Rist very warmly.

"Nothing. Jose. ”

Rist and Anigo knew each other. There are still a lot of players in Marseille now, such as the Koné brothers who play in Marseille and Gervinho who also play in Marseille. Because of his control of Ivory Coast's player resources, Rister is getting better and better in Ligue 1.

Rist came this time for Nasri's business. But although he was talking to Anigo about the possibility of Nasri moving to Arsenal, he was thinking about Madhi. Benatia thing. Good centre-backs are becoming scarcer and scarcer in the future of European football, so much so that the price of a good centre-back is sky-high. Like Chelsea's David. Louis. It's not really the top central defender, but it's worth 50 million.

As long as the later central defenders are well operated, it is easy to sell more than 30 million. Sell 40 million, 50 million, that's the ability. Although Rist didn't know about Benatia, he knew from the way Anigo treated him just now that he was a player who was not taken seriously at all.

So after a brief conversation with Lister. Immediately returned to his branch. Then Rist began to investigate the matter of Benatia.

The more I read his profile, the more amused Rister became. I don't know if Benatia offended Anigo in his last life. Anyway, Anigo is not optimistic about Benatia at all. Benatia can be said to have a good background, because he is a player from the famous Clay Fontaine academy in France, although he is not the top talent of the Clay Fontaine academy, but he is also a qualified graduate.

He is a player born in '87. In terms of the development of football, a large number of masters came out in 72, and 76 was another peak period. After these two times, although there are some years that are also good, they are still not as good as '72 and '76. Back in '87, it's another peak of stardom.

Such as Messi, Cesc Fabregas, Cavani, Suarez, Joe Hart, Hamsik, Vidal, Higuain, these are all stars born in the 87 generation. And 87 years is a very special year for French football, because after the golden generation in France, the most famous and loudest are the four little swans.

Among the four French little swans, Ben Arfa and Benatia are classmates of Clairefontaine, Nasri and Benatia are classmates of the Marseille academy, and even the two are roommates. As for Benzema and Mane, they are also because they are of the same age and have a good relationship with Benatia. But it's useless to have a good relationship, the four of them are now popular, and they are praised by French football as the flag-bearers of French football in the future.

But Benatia was different. His roommate, Nasri, has been outstanding at Marseille and has already caught Arsene Wenger's attention. But Benatia was constantly banished.

On March 5, 2006, before Marseille's visit to the Parc des Princes against Paris Saint-Germain, Marseille president Pepp Molde called on fans to boycott the match due to dissatisfaction with the number of seats and safety issues, and he also made the decision to let Marseille's reserve team play against Saint-Germain, which gave many youngsters the opportunity to show themselves on the Ligue 1 stage. The lads in the reserves had an excellent run of form in this game, which ended in a draw with Saint-Germain. Unfortunately, Benatia was unable to play in the game and was left in Marseille by the team's sporting director, José Anigo. Anigo explained to the French team; "We don't think the player is capable of playing at this level yet."

In 2006, then-Saint-Etienne coach Elie Baupp wanted to sign Benatia on loan, but Anigo responded that the defender could only be loaned to Ligue 2. Anigo told Bopp that Benatia's level should not play in Ligue 1, he should play in the French second division.

This is the tragic Benatia. Some people already think that Benatia's strength is good, just like Popp admires Benatia. But Anigo doesn't think so. Anigo believes that Benatia is not strong enough and can only play in the second division. But it's not easy to go on loan because if you're lucky, you can get a chance. Sometimes it's bad luck and the club that takes out the loan doesn't want to bother developing the player, so you have to sit on the bench.

Benatia is twenty years old but has only played a few games in Tours in the second division last season. Anigo is also a very capable sports director, but it is so unfair to Benatia that he is not given the slightest chance at all. And they always hit him, thinking that he doesn't have the strength to play Ligue 1 at all. I regret signing a three-year professional contract with him two years ago, and I can't wait to get rid of him.

After reading it, Lister could only smile bitterly. Benatia is also a bit of a back, and he has encountered such a sports director who is not optimistic about him. Rist also got his hands on some footage of his training and last season's games. It's still young overall, so it's a bit reckless. But the attitude of the game is serious, the ability to grab is strong, the ball is fierce, and the ability to mark people is also good. And no matter what kind of opponent you face in the whole game, you can maintain your seriousness for 90 minutes.

Judging from this, it should be said that the ability is not too bad, and I don't know why Anigo can't look down on him whether he is dead or alive. Lister doesn't know Benatia's history, but it's just a shame that such a good centre-back is a good one. What Rist didn't know was that what happened to Benatia in history was the beginning of sorrow. He continued to be ignored at Marseille and then went on loan to a side in the second division. After going out on loan next season, the club didn't give him a chance to play at all. He was injured in January of next year, but Marseille didn't care about him at all after the injury. In the end, he had no choice but to transfer freely to the French second division when his contract expired and began his life of struggle. He started in the French second division and went to Udinese, and then did well to join Roma. At the age of twenty-seven, he was favored by European football giants, and his worth rose to 30 million euros.

But this period of Marseille's history also made Benatia abandon the French national team and join the Moroccan national team instead. It is precisely because of Anigo's contempt and suppression that France has lost a top central defender who should have belonged to them.

"It's a waste, it's a waste. Jose is simply a bad player, and since you don't value him, don't blame me for taking him. ”

Such a good player fell from the sky, if he didn't pick it up, it would not be an act of being struck by lightning. Anyway, the money is sent to me, and if you don't pick it up, you're stupid.