Rosario, Argentina, inside the farm of Marcelo Bielsa.

George Lee and Bielsa continued to talk into the evening, Caspar and Walsh left after dinner, and George Lee was left at home by Bielsa, a bit of a candle talk.

After dinner, the two returned to Bielsa's study.

After brewing coffee from both sides of South America, we started talking again.

This time, it was George Lee who said more, and then Bielsa listened.

"I didn't think he had the ability to drop back as the striker I was at the top of last season, but I had the ability to drop back and I needed him to play in midfield, so this summer I wanted to buy a striker who could play the ball and could run."

'My two wide players don't have enough finishing skills, so they don't have enough for some tough games.

'I'm wondering if I should have higher requirements for the centre-backs under my tactical requirements.

"High pressing, front-court pressing, then once I fail to create offside, then my central defender needs to have a certain ability to chase back, then do I need a central defender who turns quickly and starts quickly, then this has to sacrifice some height, then my set-piece defense is a problem."

'Not only that, but my centre-back also needs to be able to play the ball, which is not easy to find in the transfer market.

After saying this, George Li picked up the coffee thirstily and took a sip.

Bielsa looked at him with a smile.

"You're still young and have a long time to practice this."

"It's really not good, you just train yourself, you don't leave the team anyway, you have a lot of time to develop the players you need."

"Maybe when I coach a club in the future, I'll ask you to buy it, remember to give me a cheaper price when the time comes."

George Lee laughed when he saw Bielsa joking with him.

"That's not good, my teacher told me that any business must be discussed, one yard to one yard."

"Ferguson is such a bad old man."

"To be honest, my coaching philosophy is different from his, you and I should be a little bit closer to Michels."

"It's true that the Rinus-Michels philosophy has influenced a lot of people, Sachi, Van Gaal, etc., and you and me who are sitting here now, it's just a pity ......"

Rinus Michels died of a heart attack on March 3 of this year at the age of 77.

"I'm going to go to the Netherlands for training in the new season, and I think I'm going to give him a bouquet of flowers."

"Bring me a bouquet, we haven't played against each other, but I respect him."

George Lee picked up the coffee cup and gestured to Bersa.

Then, the two continued to discuss tactical concepts.

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The next morning, Casper and Walsh arrived at the farm, but saw George Lee only at the door, not Bielsa.

"Marcelo just fell asleep, we won't communicate today, let's go to Rosario to have fun."

"You guys talked all night?" Casper looked at George Lee in surprise.

George Li nodded, but from his face, he didn't look like he hadn't slept all night, but looked very excited.

"I have bad news for you here, and Stephen has good news for you, which one do you want to hear first?" Casper asked him to make a choice.

And George Lee directly skipped the choice because he knew what the good news was.

'A transfer for Scott Parker, Chelsea agreed?'

Stephen Walsh jumped out of the cab of the pickup truck and nodded at George Lee and said.

"That's right, 7 million pounds, it's done."

It was Walsh who recommended George Lee to Scott Parker, the 2004 Premier League PFA Young Player of the Year winner who spent almost all of his season and a half at Chelsea on the bench.

In January 2004, Parker joined Ranieri's Chelsea for £10 million. As it turned out, Parker's choice was a big mistake. The old-fashioned "tinkerer" Ranieri did not trust Parker, and the arrival of Mourinho did not change the fate of Parker's iron bench. Last season, Parker was crushed to the bench by Claude Makelele, making just four league appearances, and the former Premier League's best newcomer was gone.

Parker, who dreamed of playing in the 2006 World Cup, finally decided to leave Chelsea, and despite Mourinho's desire for him to stay as a replacement for Claude Makelele, Parker was still thinking about leaving.

It just so happened that Chelsea's scout Walsh switched to Leeds United, and Walsh recommended the homegrown midfielder to George Lee, and it just so happened that the conditions he gave were also suitable.

George Lee told Parker's agent that he would not directly give the team's main position, but what he could give was to put Parker, Davis and Graveson in a competitive position, with De Jong being at the bottom. Fortunately, Leeds United also need to fight on multiple fronts this season, and George Lee decided to rotate players appropriately after a large number of injuries in the second half of last season, so the thickness of the team's squad should be strengthened, and the strength of the substitutes in each position should not be much worse than the main team.

After thinking about it for a while, Parker agreed. After all, on Chelsea's side, there is a clear substitute, and Leeds United are here to compete for the post, and there are European games to play, which is more suitable than Newcastle United, who are also interested in him.

George Lee has also decided to go one step further in the League Cup and FA Cup this season, and last season in order to go all out in the league, these two domestic cup competitions were almost completely abandoned by Lee Lee, and this season Leeds United must win in all competitions.

So after hearing that Scott Parker's transfer was approved, George Lee was also very happy. Because the team's previous substitute back Eric Barker proposed to leave, Lee already felt a bit of a pity, but now to add a stronger player, Lee George is obviously very happy.

But, now that Lee thinks about it, Chris Casper has another piece of bad news waiting for him.

"Chris, I can have bad news for you."

'Kuyt's transfer was unilaterally halted by the player's side and we met the opponent.

"I guessed it."

Previously, in the middle of the season, George Lee found Bill Rose to urge the transfer, wanting to settle the matter in advance to avoid long nights.

But at that time, Feyenoord just didn't agree and had to talk about it after the season. Because Kuyt is simply crazy in the Dutch league, although the defense of the Dutch league is not flattering, as long as the scouts go to inspect Kuyt, they will give a very high evaluation.

Running actively, able to pass and shoot, able to play all positions in the frontcourt, and with a good personality, not fighting or grabbing. This kind of player can be said to be what all coaches want, although you don't know how high his ceiling is, but you know that his lower limit will definitely not be low. You can buy the top scorer in the Eredivisie every year, but you can't buy all the Ruud van Nistelrooy.

"You can guess that?"

"Liverpool."

"God, you are, sure enough, nothing escapes your eyes in the Netherlands."

"No, I guess, Liverpool is aware of the lack of strikers, and they just won the Champions League this year, so they must be more attractive to players than us in the Europa League."

"So ......"

"So, I'm guessing Liverpool."

"So what's next?"

"Let's add a fire to them, Stephen." George Lee called Walsh.

Walsh was just about to get into the car and turn the pickup truck around when Lee called him back.

"George, what do you say?"

"Put out the news that Liverpool and we are pursuing Kuyt, and then reveal a little bit of the news that Ruud van Nistelrooy is leaving, and we'll muddy the water for Feyenoord."

When Casper saw George Lee say this, he didn't understand what bad brains he was doing.

"In that case, it will be more difficult for us to get Kuyt."

"First of all, it is very difficult for us to compete with Liverpool for Kuyt, and there is a high probability that we will not be able to compete with them. In that case, let's just give it to them, and we'll go find other strikers. It really didn't work, so we pulled Alan Smith to the front to play as a striker, and now we have enough depth in the midfield. ”

"That would make the transfer department withdraw its offer for Kuyt." Casper thought he wouldn't buy it anyway, so he just left it at that.

"No, continue to offer, every time Liverpool reports as much as I want, I will quote a similar one, it can be a little higher, anyway, he won't come, after all, the other party is a transfer called by the player."

"What about the rest?"

"Remember Kevin Davies from Bolton?"

"What! You really like the striker who can't score, our team's attack is not strong enough, you have to get another striker who can't score, who will score, Van der Sar? "When Casper heard the name Davis, his first impression was that he couldn't score, and the second impression was that he committed a lot of fouls.

"Not necessarily, I listened to Coach Bielsa yesterday, didn't he mention the need for a striker who can be used as a fulcrum, I think Davies is a good addition, and it should not be expensive." Walsh clearly disagrees with Casper's opinion, and as a scout he knows Davis.

"So we'll have two Davises."

"That's it, both sides of the transaction will follow up at the same time, and if you can, both of you can buy it." George Lee finally made a decision.

"Will there be too many players up front?" Casper asked.

"You can get rid of some of the things you don't use."

"Uh~" Casper is already thinking about Leeds United's starting line-up next season.

"What about the backfield?" Since the transfer was mentioned, Walsh continued to ask, thinking that since he came to Leeds United as the chief scout, he wanted to get into the groove as soon as possible.

"Vess Brown. Let me tell you directly, George has an obsession with Weiss Brown. Casper said it first, anyway, George Lee wants to bring in Weiss Brown for a year.

"I want Ferdinand more, can you get it?" George Lee made an unrealistic request to Walsh.

"Anton-Ferdinand?" Walsh knows what George Lee said about Leo Ferdinand, but who really can't buy it, Leo Ferdinand was bought by Manchester United for 30 million pounds, and now it is not said that Leeds United needs to buy back Ferdinand at this price, but it is also laughed at for buying it back for 30 million.

Of course, this kind of thing has not happened in later generations, such as Lukaku was sold to Everton by Chelsea for 35 million, and then went around several times, and was bought back by Chelsea for 115 million. For example, Pogba was let go by Manchester United for free, and then bought back for 105 million.

"Is it amazing?" George Lee followed Walsh's words and asked.

"Okay." Walsh didn't take it seriously.

"Chris, find some footage of Anton-Ferdinand and I'll take a look."

Then George Lee got into the co-pilot first, ready to leave for Rosario.