Chapter 264 You Know, the Little Lion Is My Brother, Zlatan Is Very Strong

The contract renewal issue between Kroos and Bayern has long been known to everyone in the industry.

And it is not the news from Bayern this season.

As early as last season, before the Bundesliga ended, the news that Bayern executives and Kroos's agency team were in a contract renewal deadlock had spread in the industry.

A talented midfielder like Kroos, who became famous at a young age and had already obtained a starting position in a giant club early on, has never lacked the attention of the four major league clubs.

But last season, the only giant team that really took action to take Kroos away from Bayern Munich was Manchester United.

Other giant teams are waiting and watching, after all, there are similar news about the unsuccessful contract renewal between talented players and their parent teams every year.

The most common is the contradiction of not being able to reach an agreement on salary, which is very realistic, but with the size of Bayern. In the end, there is no problem in giving Kroos a new contract that matches his worth.

At least in the summer window last year, most of the giant teams did not think that Bayern's executives would be stupid.

A player like Kroos, if he stays, will be the core of Bayern's midfield for the next 10 years. Moreover, Kroos is not a greedy person. He will be paid as much as he is worth.

Maybe Kroos himself thought so at the time. He has already proven his worth. He does not think that he is asking for too much by asking for a normal contract extension.

As a result, the Bayern executives slapped Kroos in the face with their arrogant attitude and a contract with an annual salary of only 6 million after the contract extension!

Kroos is also a straight man from East Germany. How could he bear this anger? He immediately rejected the contract extension offered by Bayern.

To be honest, if Manchester United's executives were not too stingy last summer, Sir Alex Ferguson would have brought Kroos to Old Trafford.

With this commotion, the communication between Kroos and Bayern executives was completely broken.

In the 2013-2014 season, Kroos continued to be the main player of the team in Bayern Munich. Gotze could not squeeze him into the starting position at all, and he had to rotate to the wing more often.

But even as a starting main force, he helped Bayern Munich win the Bundesliga, German Cup and Champions League treble this season.

Kroos only waited for the somewhat humiliating 6.5 million contract extension from Bayern's top management...

As the main midfielder of the Bundesliga's top giants and the core player of the treble giants, he is only worth another 500,000 for one more year of good play?

So it's no wonder that Kroos and Bayern's top management broke up, no one can stand it.

Originally, Kroos and his agent discussed that he would reveal his determination to leave Bayern Munich completely one week after the end of this season.

But now Li Ang has invited him on behalf of Mourinho, or on behalf of Chelsea.

Before announcing his intention to leave the team, Kroos felt that he could talk to Li Ang first.

As a result, the day after Kroos and Leon had a phone call, Chelsea's negotiation team and Mourinho arrived directly in Munich...

This was a sudden and vigorous attack, and Leon was also forcibly brought by Mourinho. It can be said that both public and private affairs were involved, and Kroos was somewhat confused.

After all, in his impression, Mourinho would be more or less an old-fashioned, conservative, and traditional coach who abides by the rules.

As a result, Mourinho in reality is so decisive and action-oriented, and his enthusiastic attitude also makes Kroos feel full of respect.

Just as Leon said to him in a text message before.

What made him angry was that the Bayern executives did not respect him at all, but here at Chelsea, money and respect are enough!

Mourinho's envy of Kroos was obviously not a temporary idea. When he left Real Madrid and returned to Chelsea, Mourinho had actually thought about Kroos.

However, after receiving industry news that Heynckes would 100% not let Kroos leave the team, Mourinho temporarily gave up the idea of ​​recruiting Kroos.

Now that Heynckes has retired and is no longer the head coach of Bayern, the conflict between Kroos and Bayern's top management has intensified.

For Mourinho, this summer window is of course a good time to make a move to get someone.

There are very few young midfielders of Kroos' level on the market now.

In addition, Abramovich gave Mourinho a green light on the transfer fee in this summer window.

So after letting Li Ang play in the front battle and successfully contact Kroos, Mourinho couldn't wait a moment and directly brought the negotiation team to Munich in person.

He was determined to get Kroos, he had plenty of sincerity, and he had already planned the tactical position of Kroos.

In addition, with Li Ang persuading him, he didn't believe that Kroos could resist the temptation of partnering with Li Ang to win the triple crown again!

The salary contract treatment was the first part that the two sides agreed on.

Kroos's agent had originally cautiously proposed an annual salary of at least 10 million euros.

As a result, Chelsea's negotiating team offered a weekly salary of 175,000 pounds after tax, not counting bonuses.

Converted to Euros, that is close to 11.5 million Euros after tax!

This generosity immediately made Kroos's agent no longer have any thoughts of rejecting Chelsea's invitation.

Chelsea's biggest weakness now is that it is not considered a traditional giant.

With the mentality of being responsible for Kroos, his agent also wanted Kroos to wait for invitations from other European giants.

But he really couldn't say this sentence now.

There is no way, Chelsea gave too much...

After the contact that day, at least in terms of salary and benefits, Chelsea fully showed its respect and sincerity.

Chelsea's negotiation team stayed in Munich and had to communicate and discuss further with Kroos's agent.

Mourinho returned to London with expectations, and he had other sales and signings to personally check.

Li Ang stayed in Munich for another day, and then boarded the plane back to China.

He was going back to participate in this summer's business activities and meet-and-greet with domestic fans.

After repeated communication and analysis with his family and agent, Kroos finally gave his reply to Chelsea on the fourth day after parting with Li Ang.

As long as Chelsea and Bayern Munich reach an agreement on the official transfer level, there will be no problem on his side!

This news made Mourinho very happy, but the two sides only reached a preliminary intention and did not sign any contract privately.

In theory, Kroos and Chelsea are not really together now.

First of all, Bayern must agree to discuss this transfer, and Chelsea will have the possibility to defeat other covetous giants and completely take Kroos into its pocket.

So while cleaning up the redundant players in the interior, Mourinho is also urging the transfer department to negotiate Kroos' transfer conditions with Bayern as soon as possible.

According to common sense, Chelsea can try to lower the price for players like Kroos who only have the last year of their contract with their parent team.

But in order to avoid more trouble, Chelsea finally gave Bayern Munich a very sincere first offer.

In early June, the transfer rumors of Chelsea offering to Bayern for Toni Kroos were suddenly exposed by major sports media.

Then, Real Madrid offered 30 million euros and Manchester United offered 30 million euros for Kroos's transfer news.

Bayern officials immediately refuted the rumors to appease their fans and did not admit that other teams had made offers to Kroos.

"At present, our contract renewal progress is normal, and both parties are actively communicating and contacting..."

Bayern's official Twitter tried hard to prove that the contract renewal between the club and Kroos is going smoothly.

But the major sports media who knew the inside information sneered and continued to increase their efforts to expose the connection between Kroos and other giants.

Kroos' transfer rumors seemed to have opened the prelude to the exciting transfer war in this summer window.

Rooney, Suarez, Diego Costa, Thomas Muller, Ronaldo...

The names of football stars appeared in sports newspapers one after another.

Various vivid transfer insider information attracted the attention of fans, and the popularity of these news even overshadowed the upcoming Brazil World Cup.

Finally, on June 10, two days before the opening of the Brazil World Cup, the first major transfer news of this summer window was announced!

Chelsea and Bayern Munich reached an agreement to introduce young German midfielder Toni Kroos from Bayern Munich.

According to Bild, the transfer fee agreed by Chelsea and Bayern was finally set at 35 million euros, not in installments, but paid in one lump sum.

It exceeded the 30 million euro offer made by Real Madrid and Manchester United to Bayern Munich as previously reported by other media.

If you look at the market price, Chelsea is completely picking up a big bargain.

After all, he is the double midfield core of Bayern Munich and the current German national team.

In a normal transfer, Chelsea would not even think about opening negotiations with Bayern if they did not pay more than 50 million euros.

But there is no way, who let Kroos and Bayern only have one year left on their contract?

And everyone in the industry knows that Kroos has fallen out with Bayern's top management.

In this case, Chelsea did not overly lower the price and offered a transfer fee of 35 million euros, which is actually quite sincere.

It's just that the timing of the two sides' choice to announce this transfer is a bit strange.

Generally speaking, this kind of transfer will also be announced after the World Cup.

Finally, German media jumped out to break the news, saying that Bayern's top management now wants to have a final communication with Kroos, but Kroos himself can no longer be contacted.

Rummenigge wanted to talk to Kroos's agent again, but Hoeness, who intervened in the negotiations at the last moment, used a tough attitude to tear the two sides apart.

There was no hope of negotiation, and both sides also said very strongly that they would not back down, so it was not surprising to reach such a result.

Li Ang, who learned about these news in China, couldn't help but shake his head repeatedly, and didn't understand why Bayern's top management was so tough.

If it was really because of Kroos's "East German" identity that he suffered discrimination from the top management in Bayern, it would be ridiculous.

However, after Kroos officially transferred to Chelsea, Li Ang no longer had any interest in knowing these so-called insider information in Bayern.

After calling Kroos to welcome him as soon as possible, Li Ang looked at the World Cup schedule and accelerated the progress of summer business activities.

Finally, before the start of the World Cup quarter-finals, Li Ang completed all his business schedules this summer and flew to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The tickets were naturally bought in advance by the agency team.

Li Ang watched the World Cup quarter-finals between France and Germany and Argentina and Belgium on July 4 and July 5.

Neither game was particularly exciting. At this stage of the World Cup, conservative defense and counterattack scenes far outnumbered unrestrained offensive scenes.

But it must be said that the atmosphere was still very warm and appropriate.

Three days later, the semi-finals of the Brazil World Cup officially started.

Li Ang did not pay attention to the match between Argentina and the Netherlands. He witnessed the historic moment when the German tank slaughtered the Brazilian national team 8-2.

The score of this game was different from the 7-1 that impressed him in his memory.

But the game scene was still almost the same as the process in his memory.

Li Ang could only express his deep sympathy for the Brazilian team's experience.

After the game, he also sent a comforting text message to his current club teammates.

On July 13, Li Ang watched the final of this World Cup in the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.

This time, without Gotze's amazing shot in overtime, the German team and Argentina tied 1-1 in the regular game time.

In the overtime stage, neither team scored again.

In the penalty shootout stage, the German tank once again crushed the World Cup dream of this generation of Argentine players.

The result of the penalty shootout was 5-3.

Messi didn't even wait until the fifth time to take the penalty kick, and could only watch his opponents celebrating wildly in the Malakala Stadium with a broken heart.

Bayern players have won so many games this season.

The club has won a lot of honors, and the national team has also won the World Cup that countless players dream of.

Li Ang stood among the 100,000 fans at the scene and witnessed the German team's dream come true.

He admitted that he was envious, even if it was only for a moment, but such envy was still clearly in his mind.

So that night, he boarded a plane to London, England.

Even though Mourinho gave him enough time off, he still returned to the Cobham training base in advance and resumed training with his young teammates early.

Starting from July 17, Chelsea has arranged friendly matches with teams in the lower leagues of England.

These friendly matches are purely for players such as Maguire, Salah and Ake who have returned from loan to the team to improve their running-in and cooperation with the team's original young players.

Li Ang played very little in these friendly matches. He mostly sat on the bench and communicated with Ibrahimovic and Terry with his mouth covered, looking like a real team boss.

On July 22, Chelsea was once again linked to Paris Saint-Germain, with almost no media reports before.

Sky Sports and L'Equipe broke the news at almost the same time that Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain were planning three transfers between the two teams.

Just as countless fans were speculating about how the two teams would conduct player transfers, the official announcement was released the next day!

Thiago Silva, who was still recovering from a thigh muscle strain during the World Cup, transferred to Chelsea.

David Luiz and Oscar from Chelsea transferred to Paris Saint-Germain together.

According to L'Equipe's exclusive report, the transfer fee of Thiago Silva, the captain of the Brazilian national team who is about to turn 30, reached 30 million euros.

The total cost of Paris Saint-Germain to introduce David Luiz and Oscar is about 80 million euros.

Chelsea paid a premium for Silva, but Chelsea fans expressed satisfaction with the deal.

Paris Saint-Germain did not suffer a loss, as they sold Silva, who was about to turn 30, at a relatively high price and brought in David Luiz and Oscar at market price.

In general, the two clubs got what they needed.

Thiago Silva, who had arrived in London that afternoon, also excitedly said in an interview with the British media:

"You know, the little lion is my brother, and Zlatan is a very strong guy. I am very happy to be able to partner with them again! I am ready to play for Mourinho. See you in the new season, we will definitely surprise everyone!"