Chapter 237: Conversation and Expectation
Zhang Tiehan is not a Roman, but now he is a member of the Roma team, and his cousin is the best player in the team, scoring the most goals, and giving the team the most hope of victory.
There's a lot of pressure on his shoulders, it's hard to be happy, and he wants the team to get better and better, but the news he's been getting lately has been disappointment.
After Delvicchio's injury, the media broke other negative news, which was about the last opponent, Palermo, and the focus was still on Roma's economic problems.
When Palermo was still in the third division, the owner of the team was Sensi, and as soon as Palermo was promoted to the second division, Sensi threw this "hot potato" to Zamparini.
What the old Sensi didn't expect was that a few years later, Palermo, who was not favored by him, became a strong opponent for his qualification for the Champions Cup, and what surprised Sensi even more was that he unknowingly owed Zamparini a debt of 8 million euros!
"Milan Sport" revealed the financial insiders of the two clubs: Zamparini holds Roma's 8 million euros in debt!
In order to stabilize the morale of the army, the Roman public spread the rumor that "the Club of Rome has never had any debt relationship with Palermo." Nearly €8 million in debt was signed by Roma 2000 itself and was paid off in June 2004. ”
In fact, Roma not only paid off the debt dispute with Palermo, but also reduced the debt with Elario from 130 million euros to 32 million euros in the last 9 months, and in the club's latest financial statements (released in December last year), due to the expiration of the contract, the 54 million euros owed by the sponsor were also reduced to 20 million, and the arrears of wages were only 15 million euros for two months, and the net assets of 34 million were all virtuous circles.
Just when everything was waiting to be rebuilt, the casual words of the boss of Livorno. And let Rome not stop: Spinelli once revealed a plan to buy Rome while walking in the countryside. The rain was about to come and the wind was all over the building, and as soon as the word came out, the stock price of Rome immediately fell by 2.94 percent.
In order to stop the plummeting stock market, Roma immediately stood up to refute the rumors: "As the controlling shareholder of AS Roma, Roma 2000 has not received any definite news. That is, there were no requests for acquisition. Nor has there been any notification from the Club of Rome regarding the transfer of shares. ”
Spinelli was also "cooperative", and he quickly clarified: "I have never had any intention of Roma, and there is no contract to buy Roma, and my statement has been misinterpreted. I have a good relationship with the management in Rome and the Sensi family. ”
What kind of relationship is good?
A few days ago, Spinelli, who temporarily owns Mutu, predicted that "Cassano will go to Juventus next season", which was just denied by the two clubs.
In order to let more people know that their financial resources have improved, Rosella asked the media to help hype it up at a press conference: Petroitalia, which owns Sensi and holds a 51% stake in Rome, said it wants to "complete the most important contracts in the shortest possible time, and allocate 35 million euros for the renewal of contracts with Totti, Zhang, Cassano and Montella".
Almost at the same time. For its part, the AS Roma club also stated that "there is no agreement to transfer players, and there are no financial obstacles to renewing the contracts of the most representative players of the first team in order to guarantee the technical content of the team." ”
Stabilizing the old players is only the first step, and the transfer market this summer has already begun to brew for the club. Bonnani, which Vicenza shares with Roma, is likely to be bought out by Roma and the player himself was delighted to learn of the news: "I hope that my wish will come true. I just wanted to sign with Roma right away. I'm going to remove the pebbles from my shoes to show that I belong to Serie A. I'm going to play with Totti, Montella, Zhang and Cassano. ”
Agent Marino also came forward to confirm. "He always leaves priority to Rome, I told Bardini about it."
That being the case, there is more information inside Roma, and the players are discussing what is likely to be a private agreement between Sensi and Spinelli Sr., and there are indeed more problems in Roma's economy.
After winning a league game, there was some impetuousness in the team. Many people are even thinking about staying next season, because they know very well that Roma will solve the economic problems first, and they can only do it by selling players in Guò, and they want to have a good economic situation. At least more than 40 million euros in income, such as Zhang Tiehan, Cassano and others have the possibility of being sold, not to mention ordinary players.
At this moment, what Drinel has to do is to stabilize the morale of the army.
After the training, Drinel gathered everyone and said, "I know there are some rumors out there, some are true, some are exaggerated, and I don't know what the situation is, but at least for three months, you are all part of Rome. ”
"We are almost in the last four of the league, we have reached the set goal for this season, we have also reached the last 16 of the Champions League, the first leg of the game with Manchester United is over, our results are still very good, even if some of you want to leave, but first of all, you have to have a good table, so that you can sign a bigger contract and go to a better team......"
In this way, whether you want to leave or stay, everyone agrees with it in your heart.
After talking to the players and appeasing the hearts of the lower army, Drinel specially called Zhang Tiehan, and he wanted to have some conversations with Zhang Tiehan.
Zhang Tiehan had the same idea.
In recent times, the pressure on him has not been small, for him, in fact, everything is good, he has a lot of goals, his appearance is better than perfect, he is the focus of media attention, his fame is growing...... Wait, wait.
In short, Zhang Tiehan himself is very smooth.
But his mood is always a little heavy, the reason is the team's problems, after all, Zhang Tiehan is also a mortal, he will also think about his own question of going and staying, three months later, as soon as the league ends, will he stay in Rome or choose to leave?
Will the club think about their own transfer in advance?
Not to mention the club, there are also many teams that have contacted Zhang Tiehan privately, such as Liverpool and AC Milan, both of which have privately contacted Zhang Tiehan and want him to join in the summer.
This is not allowed in the rules of European football, of course, the rules are dead, people are alive, Zhang Tiehan has a mobile phone, and others have no right to listen to his calls, this kind of thing is very common in European football.
In short, Zhang Tiehan will also consider some problems, and the team's problems have also brought him a lot of troubles.
Coming to Drinel's office, the two sat opposite each other, and Drinel pondered for a while before speaking, "Zhang, I hope you don't have too much pressure on you, I hope you can relax your mind." ”
"Oh?" Zhang Tiehan raised his head.
"You heard what I told you just now."
Zhang Tiehan nodded.
"But I'd like to say this to you alone, do you know why?"
Zhang Tiehan looked over suspiciously.
"Because you and Francisco, you two, are the most important people in the team, and even more important than you, if the team doesn't have you, I can't think of anything else to try to get the team to fight for, the Champions League?" League matches? None of the current Rome is possible. ”
"It's okay, the team still has you, and your goals can always give the team hope, but at the same time, I think you must be under a lot of pressure."
"I just want to tell you, don't be under too much pressure, you can win the game, and it's okay if you can't win, after all, the strength of the team is there, and you can't win if you want to."
Drinel kept talking.
Zhang Tiehan didn't quite understand, and asked, "Sir, I know all this, but why are you telling me this?" ”
"I see that a lot of times you have a very strong desire to win, very urgently, and that's good, a player who has the heart to win so that he can be more successful, just like you are now. However, it's hard for you to accept failure, and I don't want you to sink because of a failure in the future, you know? ”
Zhang Tiehan nodded, he probably understood what Drinel meant, "I won't." ”
"I hope so." "I don't know what will happen to the club in three months, who will be sold, or even if I will be able to stay with the team, but that's three months, isn't it? I hope you'll continue to work hard to make the team better, can you do that? ”
Zhang Tiehan nodded firmly, "Of course, sir." ”
The conversation is over.
Zhang Tiehan shook his head after walking out of the office door, he knew what Drinel was looking for him, one was to give him some psychological guidance to calm his mind, and the other was to hope that he would not think too much about things and work hard to compete.
He's sure he can do that.
As for what Drinel said, but 'pursue victory too much, as long as you work hard' and the like, Zhang Tiehan just listened.
His mind wasn't so fragile that he would collapse because of a failure.
Pursue the victory, he will definitely do it, especially in some games, such as the game against Manchester United, he will definitely try his best to pursue the victory, this opportunity is missed, and it becomes difficult to have it.
But there is one thing that Drinel said to Zhang Tiehan's heart.
It will be three months before you want to transfer and leave, after all, there are still three months, and there are still a lot of games in between, and as for what will happen in three months, it will not be too late to talk about it then.
Now all he needs to do is train hard and compete.
Although Zhang Tiehan felt that what Drinel said was all 'nonsense', after the conversation, he did feel much more comfortable, at least some things he didn't need to carry, and some things he didn't need to think about, which made him feel better again, and at the same time began to look forward to the next game, especially the second leg with Manchester United. (To be continued......)