Chapter 230: Eventful

Li Yi and Bale, these two current offensive and defensive cores of Crystal Palace don't need to participate in that meaningless friendly match to waste their energy, what else is the news, is it that has made Friedman happier recently? Not really.

After a week of training with the squad to welcome back from international duty, Balzaretti + Modric welcomed back from their international service to Crystal Palace on 13 January 2008 for their 22nd round of league fixtures.

Because the offensive and defensive core of the team, Li Yi and Bale, not only were not hit by the FIFA virus, but because of last week's international break, they got a full week of rest, plus the opponents they faced were really not strong, plus the home advantage, well, based on the above good news, there is nothing to stop Crystal Palace from continuing its home winning streak! Even if Modric is not in good shape in this game, the whole court is almost invisible!

2-0, Li Yi and Bale each scored a goal, and in the first round of the league after a FIFA match day, Crystal Palace scored all 3 points!

And when the game on the Crystal Palace side just ended, the news from other stadiums made the Crystal Palace even happier!

In the top 4 of the league, except for Crystal Palace, which continues to be strong in this round of the league, the other 3 teams, more or less eroded by the FIFA virus, all failed to win the game, either draw or lose! In particular, Manchester United, Crystal Palace's current most favorable contender for the league title, due to the number of 13 internationals in the team, this time suffered from the FIFA virus and lost to Chelsea away!

In this way, unconsciously, Crystal Palace, who was not favored by anyone at all before this season, was so miraculously at the top of the standings after more than half of the league, not to mention, the gap with the second Red Devils Manchester United in the standings has also opened up to 9 points.

It's just that the good fortune of the Crystal Palace seems to end here! Again, because I didn't expect Crystal Palace to be so unexpected, when arranging the schedule before the season, the FA prepared a number of devilish fixtures for Crystal Palace, and after Crystal Palace won Portsmouth 2-0, they were very lucky to usher in their second wave of devilish fixtures this season!

One week later, on 19 January, Crystal Palace travelled to Tottenham. Although Tottenham at this time, because it was not expected to introduce Bale, the future king, its strength? Strength should not be underestimated!

And playing Tottenham is just the beginning of the Crystal Palace devil's schedule, after playing Tottenham, you can only rest for 3 days, and Crystal Palace will welcome the challenge of the Red Army Liverpool!

After playing Liverpool and resting for a week, we will face the challenge of Toffee Everton again!

In the coming week, the team will usher in Tottenham, Liverpool, Everton's group of devilish fixtures, these things are enough for Friedman to worry about! And the things that worry him about are far more than that.

Because, don't forget, it's already January, and the Premier League's winter transfer window has opened!

Unfortunately, due to the excellent performance in the first half of the season, almost the entire main squad of Crystal Palace has been interested by the surrounding powers!

Among them, the audience of Li Yi, Bale, and Modric is the most and the craziest!

This has to be put down, the Crystal Palace is secretive, and it is determined not to sell it, so forget it! It's a pity that Friedman, including Crystal Palace, underestimated the desire of those local tycoons for these 3 players!

Modric, when I bought it, it cost Crystal Palace a small 8 million! After signing him at this time, Crystal Palace wisely set a 35 million pound for Modric's liquidated damages, which is a very high price! However, this still can't stop the outside world from pursuing this metronome in the Crystal Palace midfield. Among them, in the summer, he changed blood, but suddenly found that he had the wrong starting point, and what the team lacked the most at present was Real Madrid, a midfield commander, who performed the most generous! Almost after Crystal Palace expressed that they would not sell Modric, Real Madrid did not hesitate to send a direct fax to Modric's office for liquidated damages.

After Real Madrid made a statement, several other teams that were also interested in Modric naturally kept up with their own pace! Big Milan, as well as Barcelona, who I didn't buy comfortably even if I bought it uselessly, plus Manchester United, also gave an offer of 35 million pounds for liquidated damages! In this way, even if Crystal Palace wants to make a difference, it can't!

Therefore, as a last resort, Friedman had to relay the news to Modric after finishing the morning training at noon.

Compared with Modric, Bale's pursuit has only increased! Since the contract renewal with Crystal Palace has not yet been completed, and in addition, at the time of purchase, Bale was worth a full 3 million cheaper than Modric, so Bale at this time, in fact, the liquidated damages are only 30 million pounds! After Carlos retired, there was no bright left-back! Bell's 30 million pounds liquidated damages are so cheap! Not to mention, compared with the traditional left-back, Bale is much better in terms of speed and assist ability! Even if it is compared with the assist of the peak Carlos, maybe Bale is not far behind!

So, if you can buy a left-back who may not be weaker than Carlos for only 30 million pounds, how cheap will it be?

No, absolutely not! Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United, Inter Milan, a lot of pursuit of Modric, plus Bayern in the Bundesliga, Arsenal in the same Premier League, Tottenham, just the invitation of the giant team, the invitation received by Bale is no less than 10 points. It can be said that Bale has really become the most popular left-back in Europe's top five leagues since this time, and there is no one!

And the above two people are like this, it is conceivable that as Li Yi, who is currently in the hottest state in Europe and has an EU household registration book, the attention he has received is really needless to say!

Of course, for Crystal Palace, on Li Yi's issue, their only good news is that when they renewed the contract before, they raised Li Yi's liquidated damages from 10 million to 60 million!

In 2008, £60 million! In this era when the inflated value of players is far from the future, to be honest, this price can already help Crystal Palace scare off most of the potential buyers!

However, it only scares off most, not all!

Due to Xiao Luo's strong performance, in the past two years with Barcelona, he has often fallen behind, and this time, Real Madrid is almost hysterical in the winter transfer window!

That is, the previous Bale, Modric, did not hesitate to smash the liquidated damages, and tried 2 times, and found that Crystal Palace's attitude was extremely tough, and he did not bargain with them at all. ――

“lee？ Do you have time? Can you talk a little bit? ”

Just finished lunch, sitting in the lounge Xiao Mi, hearing the voice of a teammate calling him, Li Yi instinctively opened his eyes and looked in the direction of the sound!

Seeing that the person who came was Modric, who usually had a good relationship with him, Li Yi immediately sat up, pointed to the sofa opposite him, and returned with a smile, "Of course, sit down!" ”

"Good!" He and Li Yi are not outsiders, and they are not used to standing and talking to people, Modric went to sit opposite Li Yi by himself, and then continued, "The coach is also looking for you at noon, right?" ”

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