Chapter 10 Leto Ziegler

After Wansheng asked the club to submit a transfer application, they called Diamares. Together, the two analyzed what position the team lacked, and analyzed the player information provided by scouts to study the next goals.

With a million pounds more in his transfer budget, he can do a lot more.

Soon three transfer applications were answered.

The results were unexpected.

Wan Sheng was lying on the chair, dumbfounded when he heard Diamares' words, "You said that Wigan Athletic agreed directly? Are they fools?"

"You mean..." Diamares didn't understand, he looked at the information in his hand before saying, "You mean Leighton Baines?"

Wan Sheng nodded, sitting up straight and staring at Diamares.

Diamares didn't understand Wan Sheng's situation even more. He carefully looked at the Leighton Baines information in his hand, and after reading it for a long time, he replied, "They did agree. It's not surprising, right? The club, according to your request, specially quoted a price of 300,000 pounds."

"It's only 300,000 pounds! It's worth it!" Wan Sheng jumped up and laughed happily.

"300,000 pounds! Wansheng, are you okay? That's 300,000 pounds, enough to buy a decent defender..." Diamares muttered.

Wan Sheng asked in surprise, "Is 300,000 pounds a lot? Even Nico Herzig is worth a million pounds!"

"No, no! Wansheng! How can these two be compared!" Diamares said seriously, "Nico is a player who has proven himself in League One. He has also participated in the Premier League with the team. He is our The main defender... I mean when Gregory was coaching, in short Nico is still very strong and famous, and the Baines you want has only signed with Wigan Athletic for less than half a year. He even only played a few league games."

Wan Sheng nodded, he somewhat understood.

In his view, Leighton Baines is undoubtedly a genius, because he knows what will happen in the future, and Baines can win the 'Rookie of the Year' award next season. But now Baines has only just entered the Wigan Athletic first team. There is no special performance at all. In the eyes of others, he can only be regarded as a backup full-back for Wigan Athletic, and he is still very young. If Europe catches a lot of such players, even Derby County Club can find him. Promote one or two players from the youth team. Then let them come off the bench. As long as he can play stably and not make too many mistakes, there is not much difference between Layton Baines's performance.

For a young player who has not proven himself, the transfer price of 300,000 pounds is really not low.

But in any case, buying next year's England Rookie of the Year for only £300,000 is definitely a bargain, especially when Leighton Baines is still a full-back, after he came to Derby County. Just a little training is enough to become the main full-back.

Diamares then talked about the other two transfers.

"The Sparta Prague club refused outright. They believed that Thomas Hubschmann still has a lot of room for improvement. The price of 700,000 pounds is not worthy of Huberschmann's performance..." Diamares said.

This news surprised Wan Sheng.

In his memory, there is no name of Thomas Hubschman at all. In terms of his 'fan qualifications', such a player who has never heard of the name will never be a future big star, that is, a small player. For the blue-collar workers of the team, the transfer fee of 700,000 pounds is definitely a lot. I didn’t expect that Sparta Prague would directly refuse.

"The attitude of the Swiss Grasshopper Club is a bit strange. They seem to want to agree, but they did not reply directly, just let the team wait?"

"Wait? What do you mean?" Wan Sheng asked.

Diamares shook his head, "I don't know, maybe there is something, or they are discussing whether this transaction is worth it?"

Wan Sheng also didn't understand.

However, he can get the most outstanding of the three, Layton Bynes, he is already very satisfied. He bought an excellent full-back for only 300,000 pounds, which means that he still has nearly 1.5 million pounds in his hand. to buy other players.

Use this money to buy another full-back?

Wan Sheng thought about it and suddenly felt that instead of re-selecting the target, it would be better to continue to attack Thomas Hubschman and Leto Ziegler. He only needs to win one of the two, which is enough to make the backcourt flank stable, and then start again. Choosing a target is also very troublesome.

Among the two, Thomas Hubschmann is more difficult to win. The Sparta Prague Club obviously has a lot of appetite. Since they clearly refused, it means that they are not satisfied with the transfer fee of 700,000 pounds.

Wansheng asked the club to re-offer an offer of 800,000 pounds, which is his bottom line, and he himself went to Switzerland to see what the attitude of the Zurich Grasshopper Club was.

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The Zurich Grasshoppers felt very strange, they received a transfer application from the League One team Derby County, the content of the transfer application is 200,000 pounds to buy their teenager Leto Ziegler.

It’s not surprising that other clubs want to buy their players. A club in a small league like them is originally to cultivate players and sell players to support development, but it’s strange that the goal of submitting the transfer is Ziegler.

Ziegler has not played a few times for the Zurich Grasshoppers until now. They didn't realize that there was anything special about Ziegler. The only advantage of this young man was that he was young. He was not yet eighteen years old. Because he is young and also a player trained by the Zurich Grasshoppers, they will give Ziegler a chance to play and let him adapt to the atmosphere of the professional league.

That's all.

So how did the Derby County club from League One know about Ziegler? How could they be optimistic about Ziegler and want to spend £200,000 on him? Is it to supplement the youth team's lineup?

The Zurich Grasshoppers couldn't figure it out, but they quickly realized that the deal was a good one.

Leto Ziegler is just an ordinary young player in the team. It is hard to say whether he can perform well in the future, but even if he can perform steadily, it will take a long time to really grow up. The risk during this time is from them. Guess what, if Ziegler continues to perform well, this Swiss-born full-back. In two or three years, he will definitely be able to sell for a high price of millions of euros, but if his performance is average, that is a very ordinary player in his country, and his worth is only so much. During the period they are to pay Ziegler salary. He has to take risks such as injury and illness for him, and he has to give him playing time so that he can grow up slowly. The combination of this series is definitely not as good as selling him to other teams for 200,000 pounds.

As soon as the Zurich Grasshoppers sorted out these relationships, they wanted to agree to the transfer, but immediately they found an embarrassing problem - the club's contract with Leto Ziegler, or the contract of the ordinary youth team. There are no guarantees on this apprenticeship contract. And with the contract expiring just a month away, they haven't had time to renew Leto Ziegler.

So they immediately talked to Ziegler about a contract extension.

Leto Ziegler is just seventeen years old. He doesn't even have an agent. When he was in the youth team, his father helped him negotiate the contract. When he heard that the club wanted to renew his contract, Ziegler was still very happy. But his father, Love Ziegler, got the news of a League One team buying Ziegler through some channels of the club.

Love Ziegler thought for a moment. I know what the club plans to do.

They just want to renew their son's contract and then sell him to this League One team. Instead, it's better to directly sign with that League One team!

So the negotiation could not go on.

At this time, Wansheng came to Zurich. He was not in the mood to appreciate the beauty of this famous European city, so he went directly to the Zurich Grasshopper Club and explained his purpose. The Zurich Grasshopper Club was responsible for receiving him. A staff member, When Wan Sheng asked about Ziegler's transfer, the staff member hesitated, and did not say whether he agreed or disagreed, but just let Wan Sheng wait for the news.

wait for news?

What does it mean?

Wan Sheng was a little unclear, so he thought that something was wrong with the Zurich Grasshopper Club, and then agreed to wait here for two days. He still took it out in two days. This was considered a trip to Zurich. stayed in a small hotel.

On this night, Love Ziegler found Wansheng.

When Wansheng opened the door, he saw a middle-aged man with a beard. He was wondering when he heard the middle-aged man say, "You are the head coach of that League One team? So young?"

Wan Sheng nodded, "League team? You mean Derby County? I'm the head coach of Derby County."

"That's right!"

The bearded middle-aged man said happily, walked into the room and talked to Wansheng about his son Leto Ziegler, and said that Wansheng should not be in a hurry. After a month, he would bring Leto with him. - Ziegler went to Derby County to sign.

Wan Sheng's mind went numb.

He was surprised by the attitude of the Zurich Grasshopper Club. It turned out that they only had a symbolic apprenticeship contract with Leto Ziegler, and this contract was about to expire!

This is really good news.

The better news is that the bearded middle-aged man, Leto Ziegler's father, seems eager to recommend his son to him...but it's normal to think about it, even if Derby County has always been a second-tier team in England, But how can it be better than the Swiss national league, what's more, Leto Ziegler is not very valued in Zurich Grasshopper, otherwise he will not have only one apprentice contract now.

Furthermore, I still went to Switzerland with sincerity, and I can also express the importance I attach to Leto Ziegler, which is much better than the attitude of the Zurich Grasshopper Club in Switzerland.

Wansheng was a little happy.

But thinking about how he still rejected what the bearded middle-aged man said, seeing that the other party was a little anxious, he immediately said, "I will discuss with the Zurich Grasshopper Club and take Leto away as soon as possible!"

Hearing this, the middle-aged man with a beard felt relieved.

Wansheng has a reason for doing this. It's good to sign Leto Ziegler for free, but that would offend the Zurich Grasshoppers. It's not good to offend people for no reason. More importantly, Leto Ziegler There's still a month left in the contract, that's a month!

If something happens this month, Leto Ziegler will not be able to join Derby County, it is definitely a small loss, the most important thing is to finalize the transfer as soon as possible, compared with paying a small transfer fee. A piece of cake.

Next, Wansheng went to the Zurich Grasshopper Club to discuss.

Wan Sheng said frankly that he knew the reason and also told the other side the attitude of the bearded middle-aged man Loew Ziegler. The Zurich Grasshopper Club was a little embarrassed to hear it, but Wan Sheng expressed his willingness to pay some transfer fee instead. , take away Ziegler from formal channels.

Now the Zurich Grasshopper Club is satisfied.

They feel that the Chinese people in front of them are like messengers in heaven. They can actually sign players for free and come to negotiate with them on transfers... The Chinese are indeed a friendly nation.

Of course, there is no need to discuss whether the specific Chinese are a nationality or not. The point is that the two sides reach an agreement on the transfer issue in a friendly and peaceful atmosphere.

Wansheng did not mention whether the apprenticeship contract between Leto Ziegler and the Zurich Grasshopper Club met the transfer requirements, and the Zurich Grasshopper Club was also happy not to mention that they made a big concession on the transfer price. Sheng only spent 80,000 pounds to finalize the transfer of Leto Ziegler.

After Wansheng returned to Derby County, he concluded that he could really save money.

Leighton Baines, Leto Ziegler, two future full-backs, plus future superstar Frank Ribery, he added three wide players to the team, but it only cost him to £700,000.

There are still more than 1.4 million pounds of transfer funds that can be used now! (To be continued ~^~)