Chapter 177: The transformation of the team in the new season

Seeing that Joe Hart and Kasper Schmeichel have both agreed to join Birmingham, Alex McLeish's heart fell to the ground, and the goalkeeper's problem was finally solved.

Next, Alex McLeish should consider the issue of bringing in a defender, McLeish hopes to bring in a capable central defender, but there are powerful central defenders in the transfer market, but the Birmingham team can't afford to spend it, and the central defenders they can bring in are not strong enough, which makes McLeish anxious.

At this time, one person came into the eye of McLeish, and that was Arsenal's Swiss centre-back Senderos. Senderos has been in a very bad situation recently, he is no longer the core of Arsenal's defense, and now he is in a very awkward situation.

At this time last year, Senderos joined the Rossoneri on loan, which they had planned to buy first. However, Sendros suffered injuries last season, and his performance on the pitch was very poor after the injury, and in the end, in the face of the scarcity of defenders in the Rossoneri, Sendros still did not get a chance, and he was squeezed on the bench by the 41-year-old Maldini and the 39-year-old Favali.

At the end of the season, the Rossoneri abandoned the idea of buying Sendros and returned him to Arsenal. Arsenal are very desperate to get Senderos away, but few teams are now interested in Senderos, and Sendros seems to be rotting in their hands after that.

At this time, McLeish fell in love with Senderos, and he thought that Senderos's strength was still there, but he was unlucky and had too many injuries, which led to the decline of Senderos's strength.

However, McLeish now believes that Senderos still has the quality and experience of the big clubs, and his arrival will definitely give Birmingham City something he wants.

So, McLeish wants Sendros to come to the team, but he doesn't look like buying Senderos, because Senderos's situation is clear now, and he doesn't want to buy a useless person back.

Therefore, McLeish proposed the idea of loan Senderos to the Arsenal team, and the Arsenal team was excited, and they immediately promoted Senderos to the Birmingham team, hoping that the Birmingham team could buy Sendros, and the Arsenal team offered an extremely low price.

However, McLeish still refused, McLeish still only wanted to loan Senderos, but the Arsenal side was a little reluctant, they wanted Birmingham to be the pick-up man and take Senderos. If it's just a loan, they might as well let Sendros rot in their hands.

After seeing Arsenal's tough attitude, McLeish immediately came up with the idea of renting and buying, and if Senderos is doing well this season, then next season, Birmingham will buy Senderos for less than five million pounds.

McLeish also said that if Arsenal could not accede to the request, Birmingham would have to give up.

After learning the details of the Birmingham team, the Arsenal team had to agree to the Birmingham team's request to loan Senderos to the Birmingham team for free this season, and Sendros's salary was paid by the Birmingham team.

Senderos himself is aware of his current awkward position, and it is natural that Senderos is very much in agreement to join Birmingham, and Birmingham's official website soon announced that he has signed Swiss international Senderos on loan from Arsenal.

After taking Sendros again, McLeish set his sights on the full-back position, and there are still many full-backs in the transfer market at this time. Perhaps it was because Dongfang Chen's performance last season was very good, which made the Asian players of McLeish's team have more expectations.

So, at this time, McLeish took a fancy to two players, both of whom are Chinese players, both of whom play in England, they are Sun Jihai, a Chinese player from Sheffield United, and Zheng Zhi, a Chinese player from Charlton.

Sun Jihai was very good in the Championship last season, especially after returning from injury, he showed a very good quality to help Sheffield United finish third in the Championship and enter the promotion play-offs as desired.

However, in the second round of the promotion play-offs, he lost to Burnley and missed promotion and remained in the Championship.

Alex McLeish sees Sheffield United's Son Jihai as having Premier League standards, and he hopes to bring in Son Jihai, who is now 32 years old, but McLeish believes that Sun Jihai should be able to maintain his form for about two years.

He immediately made an offer to Sheffield United in the hope of bringing in Sun Jihai.

However, the reply received was much to the disappointment of McLeish, Sheffield United had already loaned Sun Jihai to China's Chengdu Sheffield United, and the Birmingham side were late.

Chengdu Sheffield United is a satellite club of Sheffield United, and it was very easy for Sheffield United to loan Sun Jihai to Chengdu Sheffield United.

In fact, after the promotion play-offs, Sheffield United has loaned Sun Jihai to Chengdu Sheffield United. If Sheffield United is promoted by then, Sun Jihai can still stay at Sheffield United and return to the Premier League.

It's late! McLeish regretted it, and he had already told Dongfang Chen that he would have stabilized Sun Jihai in private, so that Sun Jihai would not be a player in their Birmingham team?

Forget it, now that it's too late, it can only be said that he has no chance with Sun Jihai, and McLeish immediately gave up Sun Jihai.

McLeish has a headache, who is it now? Zheng Zhi!

Zheng Zhi also performed very well in the Championship last season, and he is arguably the best player in Charlton's team.

Unfortunately, Charlton Athletic were relegated last season and they will play in League One. Zheng Zhi has made it clear that he will not stay in Charlton and will leave the Charlton team.

Charlton's head coach Pardew has repeatedly stated publicly that the club agrees to the transfer of Zheng Zhi and others.

There are still many teams that look at Zheng Zhi now, and West Bromwich Albion, which was relegated from the Premier League last season, has long been interested in Zheng Zhi, and they wanted to bring in Zheng Zhi last season.

There are also several teams in the Premier League who are very keen to bring in Zheng Zhi, especially the other two promoted teams, Wolves and Burnley.

Now Alex McLeish also has a fancy to Zheng Zhi, he has learned about Zheng Zhi from Dongfang Chen, Zheng Zhi can be said to be very comprehensive, can play almost any position except the goalkeeper.

Zheng Zhi has played as a central defender, a midfielder, and a striker in the Chinese national team, and his performance is very good.

McLeish immediately proposed the idea of bringing in Zheng Zhi to Charlton's team, but soon, another news that disappointed him came, Charlton had already shot Zheng Zhi, Zheng Zhi was no longer their players, Zheng Zhi was the one who joined the Celtics.

McLeish was shocked, he didn't expect such a thing to happen, and nothing else had been heard.

Charlton's head coach Pardu, told McLeish that the contract has now been signed, but it has not yet been publicly announced.

McLeish was disappointed again, he is really very optimistic about Zheng Zhi, and Zheng Zhi's strength is very good, it is more than enough to play in the Premier League, but unfortunately, the luck is not good.

It seems that this full-back position is really difficult to choose, and it was at this time that McLeish got the news from scouts that Tottenham Hotspur were selling French full-back Zim Bonda.

McLeish was excited, Zim Bonda's quality is very good, very good, and they immediately made an offer to Tottenham Hotspur for Zim Bonda, hoping to bring in the full-back.

Tottenham Hotspur agreed to Birmingham's request, and Birmingham spent £2 million to bring in French full-back Zim Bonda from Tottenham Hotspur.

The transformation of the back line is basically completed, and the next step is the transformation of the midfield, which is very important, which is related to the overall strength of the Birmingham team.

Now Macleish is actually spending a small amount of money, that is, nearly four million pounds, and he still has more than 26 million pounds in his hands, which can completely complete the task given to him by Yang Jiacheng.

At this time, McLeish got the news from the scouts that England midfielder Lee Bowyer had been granted a free transfer after his contract with West Ham United expired, and McLeish immediately stepped in and signed the England midfielder for free.

Then, McLeish made another move, bringing in Brazilian midfielder Emerson in the free market, who is ready to return to his roots, Emerson is thirty-three years old, and he has not been happy with the Rossoneri recently, the Rossoneri have abandoned him, and he is ready to return to his roots and join Santos.

But at this time, the Birmingham team found him, and McLeish showed his sincerity, and in the middle of the game Emerson agreed to join the Birmingham team.

Emerson may not be as good as he used to be, but he has experience, he has played in the Champions League final, won the league title, won the World Cup, and the Birmingham team needs that experience, they brought in Emerson, signed a one-plus-one contract with Emerson, and if Emerson can satisfy Birmingham this season, then Emerson will stay in Birmingham next season.

Lee Bowyer and Emerson are both getting older, and this is an investment in Birmingham's squad experience, and Birmingham will have to bring in some young quality midfielders.

After taking these two players, Alex McLeish brought in Barry Ferguson, who used to play with McLeish, from Scotland, and the Birmingham team spent £1.7 million to bring Barry Ferguson out of Rangers.

Not long after taking Barry Ferguson, McLeish brought in another player, a player that no one expected.

Birmingham announced on their official website that Birmingham have brought in young South Korean international midfielder Ji Sung-yong from South Korea's Seoul FC for £2.1 million!

This news surprised everyone, including Dongfang Chen.

Dongfang Chen didn't expect that McLeish would introduce South Korean player Ji Chengyong!

Ji Chengyong is now relatively popular, it is said that Manchester United's Alex Ferguson is very good at the South Korean midfielder, and during the winter break last season, Alex Ferguson personally sent an invitation to Seoul FC, hoping that Ji Chengyong can go to Manchester United for a trial.

However, Seoul FC refused at that time, so Ji Chengyong did not get involved with Manchester United, and now Ji Chengyong actually joined Birmingham, which is surprising.