Chapter 153 Exciting News

After Tangning's transfer was basically finalized, Wan Sheng seemed to be reassured. After the flanks are added, the team's lineup framework is basically complete, and it's enough to add some corners and corners.

So he waved his hand and began to clear people.

The joining of Bergkamp and Ozil has made the frontcourt no worries, so the two veterans of Andy Cole and Robbie Fowler are basically useless.

Andy Cole is getting older, his contract will end at the end of July, and he can transfer freely without renewing it. Robbie Fowler still needs to think about it, because Fowler is in good shape and is still a little bit for the team. But in the end Wansheng decided to sell him. In the frontcourt, there are Anelka, Darren Bent, Bergkamp, ​​and Ozil, David Silva, Ivan Crewe and others who can supplement the forward position. Robbie- Fowler is difficult to have the opportunity to play in the new season.

Manchester City and Robbie Fowler's agent ended, and then the agent conveyed the meaning of Wansheng.

Robbie Fowler understands that professional football is what it is. He is older and the team has better options. He has to leave.

The Manchester City club still treats Robbie Fowler very favorably. They did not negotiate prices with other clubs. Instead, the two sides freely terminated the contract. Robbie Fowler could leave on a free transfer, and he could also get a high-priced contract when he arrived at the new club.

After the termination of the contract, where Robbie Fowler goes, it has nothing to do with the Manchester City club.

In fact, Robbie Fowler breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the club say he was about to terminate his contract. He had been thinking about leaving over the summer because he also knew there was no place for him, especially after hearing about Bergkamp. With the addition of Ozil, considering that Bergkamp is more famous than himself, and the coach Wan Sheng is very good at important young players, even if he stays, he will not have much playing time in the new season.

So he considered whether to leave. But there is still some hesitation, after all, he has been at Manchester City for a few seasons and has a lot of affection for it.

When Manchester City decided to terminate the contract with him, Robbie Fowler let out a long breath, and he was not worried about leaving home. Because Liverpool have always wanted him back at Anfield. Compared with returning to Anfield, it is completely acceptable to leave Manchester City, not to mention, he can also get a satisfactory contract after a free transfer to Liverpool.

After deciding to terminate the contracts with Andy Cole and Robbie Fowler, Wansheng Qingren's pace continues, and the Championship team Gillingham wants to loan a striker. Wansheng recommended the teenager Miller in the past.

"This is the talented striker we focus on training. It's just that Manchester City has no place for him for the time being."

He said so.

Gillingham was once an opponent of Derby County. Wansheng knew this club very well, and their coaches Peloso and Wansheng were also familiar, so Gillingham chose Miller, and the loan contract was negotiated very smoothly. In the end, the two sides agreed to loan Miller for a year, and Gillingham was responsible for paying Miller's salary and giving Manchester City a loan fee of 300,000 euros. The only condition is that Gillingham has Miller's first loan and purchase rights.

Wan Sheng agreed to Gillingham's request. The most important thing is Miller. His potential is really low, and he is not a very hard-working player. It can be said that his will is not firm, and there is no special place. With the Manchester City first team training for a year, the improvement is not obvious. No wonder there is no Miller's name in the memory of the previous life.

Miller can only be said to be a qualified striker, not outstanding at all, but in the British Championship, Miller can still play a good strength.

Wan Sheng solved the three forwards, the old and the young, in one breath, which many people couldn't understand.

Although Andy Cole, Robbie Fowler and Miller are not players in their prime, and they are unlikely to sell for high prices, their performance is actually not bad, even if they can't play the main force in Manchester City, add Bench depth is okay.

The newly added 'Ice Prince' Bergkamp is too old to be the main force. Ozil is a young player with little experience. Even if he has potential, it will take some time to grow up. Then Manchester City will have a new season. Could it be Anelka and Darren Bent partnering a double striker?

What a joke!

So many people don't understand it.

In fact, Wansheng's idea is very simple. His team does not have an absolute main force. In the second forward position, Bergkamp, ​​David Silva, Ozil and others can be competent. More importantly Yes, in the team's tactics, players are not in fixed positions, and there is no concept of the so-called 'shadow striker' or 'second striker'.

Even if the formation is still 442, if it is really played, the second striker is likely to be more backward than the midfielder. Therefore, in this position, as long as players who are integrated into the tactical system can be competent, even if there is an absolute main force, it is meaningless.

In addition, Wansheng also has an idea, that is to try a new formation in the new season, the old 442 can play a good power, but it is not the most suitable for team tactics, he wants to try a single striker or even no striker , If the team can adapt to the stage of no striker, then the tactical system is truly complete, and then it can maximize the tactical advantage.

However, the current team still has an unstable factor to solve.

Thinking of this unstable factor, Wan Sheng also frowned slightly, that was Anelka's problem.

Anelka is a very good player. After a year of training, his ability is not much worse than Henry, and he is at the peak of his career, but his character is a serious problem. Sheng doesn't mind selling him, but it's not easy to find a striker with the same strength as Anelka in the transfer market. It will cost a lot of money, even 20 million pounds may not be able to buy it, after all, a famous star You can't buy it with just money, especially the kind of strong, famous forwards, whose worth is even more impressive. It is not easy to convince them to join Manchester City.

So Anelka is still very important.

In the middle of last season, Anelka proposed a high salary. At that time, Wansheng refused directly. Now is the time to think about it.

Now Anelka's salary is also the highest in the team, but the weekly salary is only 10,000 pounds higher than the second-highest salary Dunn, which is still within an acceptable range. At the same time, Anelka and Morris are two people. , is also the most famous and important player in the team, and signed a big contract for them. Renewing contracts is also a routine.

Wan Sheng revealed the meaning to Bea Knicks.

Bi-Knicks is very refreshing, but the problem is money. If Anelka and Morris are renewed at the same time, the annual salary of each is expected to increase by 1 million pounds, and the annual salary expenditure is expected to be nearly 350 higher. £10,000 (the club's budget includes tax). Then at least an extra £5 million in the budget would be enough. The £5m must be deducted from the summer transfer fee.

5 million pounds, in exchange for stabilizing the two most important players, the deal was worth it. After buying Tangning, the team didn't need to add any more heavyweight players, so Wan Sheng agreed.

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Anelka, his brother Claude and his agent Eric Manasse are also discussing whether to stay at Manchester City.

Claude insists that Anelka should go to a more prestigious club, based on his performance last season. A number of clubs have expressed interest in Anelka. Also willing to come up with a high price to let him join, including Inter Milan and Chelsea. Chelsea is better, Inter Milan is much more attractive than Manchester City, especially with the current Italian 'Phonegate' scandal, Juventus and AC Milan are almost certain to face severe penalties, and even rumors that they will both Relegated', Inter Milan has become almost undisputed champions of Serie A next season.

to Inter Milan. It is equivalent to entering a giant, and at the same time can follow the team to win the league championship. Inter Milan also promised to provide Anelka with a larger contract, which is very tempting to Anelka.

But Eric Manasse was against Anelka leaving.

"Remember Phillips last season? He thinks Chelsea is good, Chelsea is strong and has many stars, and he offers him a big contract, but now it is difficult for him to even play, and Manchester City won the championship last season. He does nothing there. Didn't get it."

"Everything is going in a good direction at Manchester City now. The Chinese coach is very capable and uses you very much. You should stay at Manchester City. If you want to transfer, you have to wait until this time next year."

"Nicolas, it's hard for you to play in the French national team!"

The last sentence moved Anelka, because the national team coach Domenech did not pay attention to him. This is mainly because he performed too little in the league, and he has not participated in European competitions in recent years. In addition, the striker has to compete with Henry. , it is difficult for him to have a chance to play in the French national team.

If you move to Inter Milan and are treated by Wright Phillips, what if you get a bigger contract?

So it is more stable to stay in Manchester City, at least he is the absolute main force, and Manchester City can participate in the European war next year, there are still many performance opportunities, maybe his career can usher in the second peak?

He was looking forward to it.

But the contract is still very important... In the end, the three agreed that if Manchester City gave Anelka a raise, Anelka would stay, otherwise he would choose to leave and go to Inter Milan.

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This happened when Manchester City notified Claude to discuss Anelka's new contract. The two sides almost hit it off without any delay.

Claude is a profiteer, and his asking price is still a bit high. He even offered Anelka a salary contract with the same treatment as Wansheng, but this is impossible. Manchester City only has one Wansheng and one head coach. , his salary is the highest, and everyone has no objection. If Anelka's salary is higher, other players will definitely not be satisfied, because it is much higher than the average salary of the team.

So the two sides began to argue, and Anelka finally got a big contract with an annual salary of 4.3 million pounds.

This is not as much as the salary of Wansheng, but it has reached an average weekly salary of 83,000 euros, which is almost close to Ruud van Nistelrooy's 84,500 pounds in Manchester City, enough to squeeze into the top 15 weekly salary of professional players.

At this point, Claude was satisfied.

Anelka is also very satisfied with the new contract. Although the salary is not as good as that of Henry, Ronaldinho and others, this contract is undoubtedly the top one. The only one who is better than him is the one who just signed for Chelsea. Ballack, Lampard, John Terry, Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand and Liverpool's Steven Gerrard.

Bi-Knicks, who was negotiating the contract with Claude, gritted his teeth. Claude is indeed a vampire. The way he is negotiating the contract is like selling his own brother. Fortunately, the contract is properly negotiated, so there is no need to worry about it. what.

These have nothing to do with Wansheng.

In any case, Anelka's new contract is still within the range of Manchester City, and Anelka's performance is not much worse than Henry's. He is still acceptable to get this contract.

The other is Morris.

Compared with the vampire-like behavior of Anelka's agent, Morris is much better. His current agent is Kevin Tagore. After serving as Wansheng's agent, he has already shown a star in the industry. , and relying on the relationship of Wansheng, he has also signed several stars one after another. Morris and Alfred, Bolton Wright and Ferdinand who are also playing for Derby County are all his players.

Kevin Tagore is an old acquaintance for Manchester City. He is Wansheng's agent. Bi-Knicks is very polite to him. At the same time, the contract negotiation is very simple. However, Kevin Tagore will also try his best for his players. To fight for interests, Morris is the team's 'second' star. The reason for this 'second' is that his performance is not worse than Anelka, and he is more important than Anelka in the team , It is only because he has only shown his prominence in the past two years, and his fame is naturally not as good as that of Anelka, who is a successful teenager. However, in terms of negotiating a new contract, he still has to compare with Anelka. In the final contract, the annual salary also reached 3.8 million pounds, and the average weekly salary has reached the level of 73,000 pounds.

This means Morris has also entered the top salary bracket of professional football players.

Manchester City and Anelka and Maurice continued their appointments, and they were well received by the media and fans. The performance of the two and the role of the team are useless to question. One is the leading scorer, the other is the core midfielder, the two Complete the renewal, Manchester City will not make any major changes.

At this time, Wan Sheng still has a transfer fee of nearly 15 million pounds, and the team has nothing more than needs. He considers giving a few young people and some outstanding players a salary increase to stabilize the morale of the army. After all, Arnell Card and Morris have both received big contracts. David Silva, Darren Bent and others who performed well last season will definitely get a raise, especially if the team is doing so well, the outside world wants to get these young talents There are too many clubs, which is also a very distressing problem. If they are not given a salary increase, the players will definitely have other ideas in their minds.

Therefore, this process of raising the salary is still necessary. In this way, the transfer funds in Wansheng’s hands have shrunk to less than 10 million pounds, and it is very difficult to buy famous and outstanding players.

Fortunately, Wansheng did not plan to buy any big-name players.

After this series of salary increases, the original team of the team has basically stabilized. He only needs to supplement the depth of the bench or find some potential young players to join.

The only place the team needs to be supplemented is the back line.

However, the main defensive four-man combination already exists, and there are also good-strength 'Wan Jinyou' Sun Jihai and Ricardo Costa to supplement the lineup. The only problem is the need to supplement the depth of the bench. In this regard, Wansheng still gives priority to young players, because Young players have enough patience and reason to be cultivated on the bench, and the transfer fee is much less.

He thinks of a great German defender, his name is Boateng.

So Wansheng approached the club's scouts and asked them to look up Boateng's details and recent performances.

At the same time, Wansheng received exciting news.

His paper, "The Link Between Human Movement and Physical Recovery," received a certain amount of attention when it was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

This emphasis is still radiating.

In today's "British Medical Journal", the leading British medical expert Richard Smith spoke highly of this professional paper. His original words in the interview were, "This is at least 20 years ahead of the current level of sports medicine. , is a theoretical breakthrough in the application of sports medicine to medical treatment, and it can be applied to practice if it goes deeper.