Chapter 572: Arsenal's new center forward

"That's him!!" Wenger tapped the table.

Assistant coach Steve Boulder, who sat across from him, was taken aback, thinking Arsene Wenger had made up his mind to accept United's £16 million offer.

Only then did he see Arsene Wenger hand him a piece of information, and he looked twice to make sure that Wenger had not taken it wrong.

In the photo column on the profile is a handsome guy wearing the white home shirt of Arsenal's sworn rival Tottenham Hotspur, looking at him, he should not be very old, blonde and blue-eyed, as if he is a native of the United Kingdom.

Sure enough, in the age column, it was shown that his birth was 1993, July 28, which means that he had just celebrated his 21st birthday.

Born in Wassenstao, England, under the jurisdiction of London, Steve Boulder remembers.

is very tall, the height of 1.88 meters is tall enough even if he plays a center, Li Zihan is only 1.8 meters, but he is not a center in the traditional sense.

Not yet 22 years old, he was a member of Tottenham's academy but was not given a chance at Tottenham, and since 2001 he has been loaned to Leiton East, Millwall, Norwich and Leicester City

It can be seen from this loan profile that this player is not heavily used by the team, among which Leyton Orient is a League One team, and the others are Championship teams.

It wasn't until last season that he returned to Tottenham from a three-year loan spell, and in March he scored in a 5-1 win over Sunderland, a 3-3 draw with West Ham United and a 3-1 win over Fulham, becoming the first player since Bale to score in three consecutive league games.

Of course, this is just his small highlight, and his number in the future competitions is very average.

It is worth mentioning that this player has an English household register, in addition to being born in England and playing for Tottenham's academy, he has also played for the youth teams of the Under-17, Under-19, Under-20 and Under-21 levels.

Steve Boulder was a little surprised, although such a player is good, but now there are a lot of Premier League players, I haven't seen anything special about him. Why did Arsene Wenger take a fancy to him?

With Steve Boulder's bewildered gaze, Wenger pointed to the bottom of the material. Boulder followed Wenger's finger movements to the bottom of the page.

"This player is a talented player, and his tireless running and pragmatic autumn breeze make his efficiency effective. At the same time, he has excellent skills, although he is an Englishman, he often uses his skills to dribble past people and break into the opponent's penalty area. He is 1.88 meters tall, but he weighs only nearly 70 kilograms, but this is not his shortcoming, on the contrary, his physical condition is very good. ”

"I have a strong sense of coexistence and cooperation, and at the same time I am very fast. His frontal impact is very good, even better than Olivier [Giroud], and his personal style likes to create a threat from set-pieces, likes to break through, shoots from distance, and has a certain ability to tackle up front. The weakness is the ability to play and the lack of game experience, and the player has only played a few Premier League games so far, all of which have been substitutes. ”

'Personally, we should sign the Tottenham Academy graduate. His ability and talent are good, and the price of £3.5 million is not expensive, and it can also be a good temporary replacement for the vacancy that Olivier has left. Perhaps, this youngster will be able to surprise us, and I have a strong hunch about that! ”

Steve Boulder knew that this was a comment and reference written by a general scout after looking at a player, and it was clear from this passage that Boulder was advocating for the signing of this player.

Boulder looked at the signature below the comment, and it said Gilles Grimandi!!

Boulder was a little surprised, and Grimandi was familiar to everyone. He spent five years at Arsenal before accepting Arsene Wenger's offer to work as a scout for Arsenal after retiring as a player.

The Frenchman has now been with Arsenal for nine years and is one of the witnesses to the rise and fall of the Arsenal dynasty.

The key point is that Grimandi has done a great job and the players he has recommended for signing have all proven themselves in the end.

For example, Sagna, Koscielny, and even when he was in France, he built Ribery and Tulalang for Wenger, but Wenger did not sign them, and he himself did not expect that the two would be so tall later.

As a Frenchman, he has a very good relationship with Arsene Wenger, Thierry Henry, Pire, Patrick Vieira.

To Boulder's surprise, Grimandi was Arsenal's resident scout in France, and he gave an information report on an English player who had been playing in England for a long time.

Moreover, Grimandi was so concise and direct that he had never seen such a word of comment in his report, including Sagna and Koscielny, or even Ribery and Tulalang.

He usually sums up the report with a few words such as "fast", "strong overall view", "build yì sign", "don't waste time on him", "this must be a surprise", "start quickly" and so on.

Such a simple report is incomprehensible to others, but Arsene Wenger can read it very clearly.

So Boulder was amazed, and it was so unusual.

Arsene Wenger clearly saw Boulder's surprise, explaining: "I sent him to investigate, Sanogo was recommended by him, but it turns out that Giles is likely to be out of sight this time. Of course, Sanogo is still young, and the jury is still undecided, after all, we didn't spend a penny on the transfer fee. I noticed the player after he scored in three consecutive league games last season. Then let Gilles follow the scouts, along with scouts from Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Liverpool. It's just that the scouts withdrew after more than a month of investigation, and Giles stayed and finally gave me this. ”

Arsene Wenger pointed to the materials in Boulder's hand.

"We're going to sign him! Give up Welbeck, I don't want to be teased by those guys at Manchester United after making a lot of money, the point is that I don't want Manchester United to make this money, more than 1,600 pounds, whoever wants to give out, let's buy an affordable one. This is our assertion and is only a temporary replacement for the vacancy in which Olivier was injured. It is not known how many games a bought player can play in a season, so it is not worth the sixteen million pounds! Arsene Wenger said.

Boulder nodded, and then said he was going to make the matter happen.

Looking at the name column above the information in his hand, "Harry Kane" Boulder remembered the name.

After playing his first league game against Crystal Palace, Arsene Wenger gave his team a day off. Although the season has only just begun, it has not been an easy time for the players, except for the warm-up games, followed by the Community Shield against Manchester City, then the UEFA Super Cup against Sevilla and finally the league game against Crystal Palace.

The players have yet to share the Community Shield and UEFA Super Cup with their friends and family, and Arsene Wenger has given his players more time to rest after several seasons of massive injuries. It seems that he clearly understands the relaxed way of training, and it is worth mentioning that the TCM and masseurs brought in from China and Thailand are now officially staying at Arsenal to relieve the physical fatigue of the players and reduce sports injuries and injuries.

The team was on holiday, but the club's staff didn't stop.

The transfer market is still in turmoil, among which there is a lot of news about Welbeck's transfer to Arsenal, and many media believe that Arsenal is already comfortable signing Welbeck.

Van Gaal also thinks so, despite Arsenal's bargaining again, he has always bitten 16 million pounds.

And without anyone knowing, Arsenal's transfer staff has quietly arrived at the territory of their leader Tottenham.

The negotiations with Tottenham Hotspur are still relatively smooth, and I heard that it was the sworn enemy Arsenal in the same city who came to ask for it. Buy players. Tottenham thought they had their eye on the main players in their camp, such as Lloris, Eriksen and Kyle Walker, and Tottenham general manager Levy almost didn't let Arsenal staff into the office.

But when I heard that it was Harry Kane, it changed.

For Tottenham Hotspur at the moment, Harry Kane has no place, and in the front line they have players such as Soldado and Adebayor.

So if Arsenal wants to ask for it. If Harry Kane is buying, Levy is still happy to exchange him for a large transfer fee.

Of course, at the beginning of the negotiations, Levy said that Harry Kane was not for sale by the team, that they would not sell the academy player, that the club and the player had feelings on both sides, and that Tottenham Hotspur boss Giovanni Pochenotti believed that Kane was the future of the team and that the club would not sell his future.

But in the face of the pound's offensive, Levy doesn't mind slapping himself in the face.

After Arsenal's transfer manager raised the price from Harry Kane's £3.5 million to £6 million, Levy was a little moved.

It's not bad for a substitute who has no place in the team and hasn't proven himself in the team for a while to be worth twice as much.

But with the mentality that one point can be earned, Levi took out his nirvana - "The lion opens his mouth!!" ”

Levy gives a fixed price, 10 million pounds!

Eventually, a tug-of-war began, and after half an hour, an agreement was reached on a price of £7.5 million.

Arsenal have paid £7.5 million to buy teenager Harry Kane, who will pay Tottenham another £500,000 after reaching 30 league goals during his time at Arsenal.

If it goes by the way, Arsenal will spend eight million pounds on Harry Kane, which is about 10.5 million euros.

An agreement was reached, and then it was time to negotiate the contract with the player himself.

The negotiations with Harry Kane were very smooth, even more so than the negotiations with the club. Harry Kane himself doesn't have a very deep relationship with the club, and although he came through the Tottenham Academy, he is not the kind of Tottenham fan who is die-hard Tottenham.

Kane, who has not been given the opportunity to play for a long time, naturally hopes to find another way. And Arsenal is a real powerhouse in the Premier League, and Arsenal's name means that there will be Champions League every season. It's not Kane at Black Arsenal, it's the fact that that's the case.

Arsenal also won the European Championship last season, and this season's strong recruitment has also proved that Arsenal have greater ambition and ambition. Arsenal's signings are all very targeted, basically improving their weak side, and in the current situation, the signings are very good, rather than spending more than 100 million pounds and buying seven gourd babies like Tottenham did last season

These are the most important reasons why Kane has agreed to join Arsenal, and he has also been given a chance to play due to Giroud's injury. Although the leading striker Li Zihan is also a contender for the striker, he rarely appears in the center position, and even when he appears in the center position, he plays a shadow striker and a nine-and-a-half role.

So his rivals are mainly Giroud, now that Giroud is injured, it is initially estimated that it will take a month and a half to recover, and it is not immediately possible to play and find his form, isn't this his Harry Kane's chance?

As for the black French center of '92, Sanogo Harry Kane selectively ignored the other side.

Harry Kane happily signed his name on his personal contract, and he didn't even communicate with his agent, but after initial contact with his agent and Arsenal, and knowing that the club had agreed to the other party's request to buy him, he decided directly.

Of course, Harry Kane's agent has no problem either, as Arsenal offer a higher salary than Tottenham and a higher bonus. Going to Arsenal at the same time is more conducive to Harry Kane's development and popularity, so he has no reason to object.

On 20 August, eleven days before the transfer window closed, Arsenal officially announced that they had signed Tottenham Academy striker Harry Kane to a five-year contract, and Harry Kane will play for Arsenal for at least the next five years.

When the news came out, the reporters were crazy, and they were still talking about the transfer of Welbeck with Manchester United two days ago, why did they suddenly announce the introduction of another striker now?

The imagination of this plot is simply too rich.

And at the press conference, Arsenal also said that because Manchester United's asking price was too high, Arsenal abandoned Welbeck's transfer operation.

The reporters are speechless, this is simply mending. You bring in a new replacement, forget it, and don't forget to say: "We would love to sign Welbeck, but Manchester United's price is too high for us to afford, and the deal is ruined." ”