"Brendan, what do you think of Tottenham's invitation?"

In the past two years, Rodgers has also been proud, and the English media has also touted him. Turning a small club like Southampton into what it is now a Premier League powerhouse is Rodgers' greatest achievement.

"They haven't done well in recent years? But the transfer market is good. ”

Tottenham Hotspur has a much bigger platform than Southampton. But Rodgers' biggest impression of Tottenham is that Tottenham are doing a good job. Especially selling players, Tottenham do the best.

Don't talk about the past, let's talk about the last few years, Tottenham have made a lot of good deals. For example, Evra, Carrick, Berbatov and they were sold to Manchester United, Hleb and Suarez were sold to Manchester City, Arshavin was sold to Barcelona and so on. Anyway, every transfer brings huge financial benefits to Tottenham, and their transfer fees are very high. A lot of people for Daniel. Levy's negotiating skills are quite admirable.

For a manager like Brendan Rodgers, though, such a club doesn't have much appeal. The best way for a team to produce results is to keep good players. Instead of constantly selling players. Only small teams will choose to keep selling players to balance their finances, and big clubs should of course put results first.

"But, Brendan. People Daniel. Levi said he was willing to give you £40 million in the summer. ”

"So-so."

Rodgers shook his head, not surprised by the £40 million transfer fee. Instead, he smiled and said: "Lister, if I gave a transfer fee of 40 million pounds ten years ago. That's just too much. But now 40 million pounds is nothing. Look at the change in the value of the players. How many 40 million pounds of players have come out in recent years. ”

"I don't see it, Brendan."

Rist smiled and said, "I don't think you seem to like Chelsea and Manchester City very much, they disrupt the market. Do you want to make a sugar daddy now, too? ”

"It's not."

Rogers likes the Southampton environment. Southampton in particular don't have that much else to do, and there are a lot of Academy players in the first team. However, since the smoke of the old patriarch of the Liebherr family, Southampton has also begun to see some changes. Rodgers can feel it as a coach. Rogers is also thinking about the future.

'Lister, what do you think of Tottenham?'

Although Rodgers teased Tottenham, he also knew that Tottenham were better than Southampton in every way. Southampton is the small club, while Tottenham is the big club in London. If it weren't for the fact that he has been pressed by several strong teams in the Premier League in turn over the years. Nor will it be the case now.

"Don't talk about anyone else. Let's talk about Daniel. Levy this person. This guy likes to be calculated, and it's hard to deal with such a person in the transfer market. Don't you see that players who transfer from Tottenham generally have high transfer fees? Typical Jewish businessman. ”

In this regard, Lister still admires Daniel. Levy's. He has been very calm in the transfer market, and even when the player has made it clear that he wants to move, he can hold his breath. All the way to the end of the transfer of players. The transfer fee will be very high.

"Of course he has a problem. The biggest problem is to focus on the small interests in the near future. I don't see the need for stability to build a team. But overall. He is also a more competent club president. Tottenham in general, there is no shortage of transfer fees, as long as you can be tough. Then the stability of the team can be guaranteed in a few years. ”

"Okay. Lister, you make me think. ”

Rogers nodded. Southampton, although small, also has Rodgers' heart. Although Tottenham has a lot of problems, he is a strong team in the Premier League and a big club in England, and his platform is very high. As a coach at Southampton, fame was limited to English football. But when you're Tottenham manager, the whole European football world knows you, that's the difference.

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Rist acted as a messenger between Tottenham and Brendan Rodgers. Coach transfers are much more complicated than player transfers. The most complicated thing for a player is his contract, especially the player's salary. As long as this is solved, the rest is the minutiae.

But coaching is different. Each coach has his own coaching style and his own team building ideas. If he wants to coach a club, he has to get the approval of the club's hierarchy. The club's top management also has to go in the same direction as the head coach so that they can agree. So during this time, Lister was busy with this matter.

However, this winter break is definitely not peaceful. When Suarez moved to Manchester City, everyone was surprised. But Suarez is not alone in the surprise this winter.

On January 17, 2011, Chelsea, who had been relatively low-key all these years, made a move. The Premier League is rich, and Chelsea is even richer. Chelsea's move was to poach Atletico's new prince, Sergio Aguero.

Following Suarez's transfer, another sensational transfer in European football in the winter has come out. Chelsea brought in Sergio Aguero for £36 million. Rister is clear about the purpose of this transfer. Didier Drogba is getting older and Chelsea are starting to stock up on good strikers. Aguero is one of the very good young strikers in recent years, and there are many giants who want to bring him in.

In the end, it was Chelsea who succeeded. The reason for Chelsea's success is simple: it's not that Chelsea are charismatic. Compared with the giants of Real Madrid, Barcelona and Manchester United, Chelsea is still a notch below in terms of attractiveness. But it doesn't matter if the charm is bad, as long as there is one thing that can make up for the so-called charm gap. That's the banknotes.

Chelsea are willing to give Aguero a weekly salary of 170,000 pounds, and this is what impresses Aguero. Aguero is only 22 years old, and he can get a weekly salary of 170,000 pounds, and he has already begun to enter the ranks of the top salaries in European football.

"See, that's the big deal."

It's been a bit of a quiet look at Chelsea in recent years. All the limelight has been taken away by Manchester City and now by Paris Saint-Germain. But if Chelsea doesn't make a move, Naruto will make a move. Hold the best young talent in European football in recent years.

"Yes. La Liga is fortunate to have Real Madrid and Barcelona, otherwise it would not have been an opponent if it was poached like this by the group of nouveau riche in the Premier League. ”

Carvajal nodded. In recent years, the Premier League has relied on their strong financial resources to poach people in La Liga. Look at Spain's outstanding local players in recent years, Torres and Villa, they have all gone to the Premier League. Now even players like Aguero are joining the Premier League. It can be said that small and medium-sized clubs in Spain have no ability to resist in the face of poaching in the Premier League. Or that the current La Liga players are simply impossible to refuse in the face of the seduction of Premier League clubs.

It's all about money. Among the small and medium-sized clubs in La Liga, their top players have a salary of only about one million euros. But as soon as they move to a small and medium-sized club in the Premier League, the salary immediately becomes two or three million pounds. With such a salary gap, of course, Spanish players are swarming into the Premier League.

"That's right, Ginnes. Recently Real Madrid and Villarreal's Diego. López contact, do you know about this? ”

Sergio Aguero moved to Chelsea, but Rist didn't care much. Chelsea have money, and even if they don't buy Aguero, they will buy other stars. This matter has little to do with Lister.

Rist is more focused on a small transfer. Real Madrid has been in frequent contact with Villarreal recently, and wants to bring in Villarreal's goalkeeper Diego. Lopez. This is a goalkeeper who used to come through the Real Madrid Academy. However, the price is not high, that is, millions of euros, and it was originally a very inconspicuous transfer. But compared to Aguero's transfer, this is the culmination of the transfer that Rist is looking forward to.

"I've heard that. The second half of the season for Real Madrid is going to be interesting. ”

"Mourinho is going to fight Casillas face to face?"

Rist was very happy because this was a complete break between Mourinho and Casillas. Like Carvajal, while dealing with Casillas, he still left a friendship with Casillas. After all, Carvajal and Casillas have known each other for more than a decade, and Carvajal brought the teenage Casillas to the best goalkeeper in world football. Although he hated Casillas's "betrayal" very much in his heart, he still retained the feelings of the year.

But Rist is not. In Lister's eyes, what if you are the world's number one goalkeeper? What's my business. In Lister's eyes, Casillas is just a tool, a tool against Mourinho. Of course, dealing with Mourinho is not the ultimate goal, the ultimate goal is to deal a blow to Mendes.

So the more fierce the fight between Mourinho and Casillas, the happier Rist became. When the two are inseparable, Rist will have to look at Real Madrid's results this season. Let's see how Mourinho and Casillas are both defeated.

"Florentino has talked to them several times, but there is no way."

Carvajal sneered: "Mourinho is too strong, Mendes is too powerful. As long as Mourinho doesn't do well this season, Florentino will definitely not keep him. Jose Mourinho left Real Madrid and the following players don't know how many will stay. ”

"Genes, I think we're going to pull our hands out of here."

Rist and Carvajal have been a real driver of the conflict between Mourinho and Casillas in the past two years. For a year and a half, Casillas and Mourinho had a stir and the media followed. If it weren't for Rist and Carvajal behind the scenes, how could the news be so accurate and the turmoil so big.

But now Mourinho and Casillas are obviously a real falling out, and at this time, it is not only redundant, if it is known, it is not against Real Madrid. Anyway, now that the media itself is paying attention to this matter, let him go with the flow.

"That's what I thought, too." (To be continued......)