Chapter 786 79 Night Visit to Hugo 2

Just last season, at the end of 2009, Arsenal led by Wenger broke a record. In the last round of the Champions League group stage, the average age of the 18-man list submitted by Arsenal to UEFA was only 20.3 years old, setting a record for the lowest average age in the Champions League.

This record sounds proud, but it is actually embarrassing. As Wenger himself said, it is difficult to win the championship with young people. When Arsenal won the championship undefeated, many players were in their prime, not children of 16 or 17 years old. Alan Hansen's classic saying "You can't expect a bunch of children to win any championship!" is actually correct. Since Alan Hansen's remarks were made, only Chelsea's average age of winning the championship in the 2004/05 season was lower than Manchester United's in the 95/96 season (24 years old), and this was the result of Abramovich spending a lot of money to recruit various young talents from all over the world.

Alan Hansen's words are a general rule. Ferguson's Manchester United is just an individual exception. How could Wenger not know? !

This season is not over yet, and many Arsenal players are going to be poached again. The team's core captain Fabregas has been tempted by Barcelona and wants to return to Barcelona. Why? Because he can't see any hope for Arsenal. Now even the head coach Wenger has left, Fabregas may be more eager to leave.

Yes, this Fabregas, of course, appeared on Wenger's list of signings, but this deal is not easy to reach. After all, the player's will is very important, especially for a star like Fabregas who has been famous in the world football in the past two years. Fabregas made his debut in Barcelona, ​​and now he is awesome. Guardiola's call has come again, so he will naturally be more inclined to return home in glory.

The two chatted about the transfer market. Hugo said, "Arsene, the transfer list you provided may be difficult to complete!"

"Think about whether you are too harsh on your old club!" Hugo joked, "Arsenal may not let him go so easily, and Fabregas is also facing competition from Barcelona. It's not that we don't want to get him, but it's difficult to get him. After all, he debuted from Barcelona. As for the financial problem, they can definitely compete with us!"

Barcelona, ​​like Real Madrid, is a member-based club with no shortage of money. Catalonia supports Barcelona. As for Real Madrid, haha, there is no need to say much behind the scenes. The fight between the two clubs is originally a political factor, not simple. Money is not a problem, so the old man dares to spend money, and Barcelona actually dares to spend money.

"Time is a bit tight. I am definitely willing to choose familiar players for signings. My current idea is that we need to sign players in these positions. Vucinic has left the striker line. I need a striker. I think Robin is very suitable. He is very capable and will be the best competitor of Suarez!" Wenger said.

At present, Wenger needs to strengthen the striker line first. Vucinic has left and Toni is getting older. It is not enough to rely on Suarez alone. Wenger feels that he needs to add a competitor for Suarez. Robin Van Persie, his former disciple, is the best choice. Trapani is not short of money anyway.

Wenger's target in the midfield is Fabregas. He knows Fabregas inside and out. Fabregas can reach his current status at a young age because of Wenger's full training. Wenger is confident that Fabregas can give up Barcelona and switch to Trapani, but Hugo is not convinced by Wenger's persuasiveness.

You should know that last season Wenger's last words to Fabregas were, "You will definitely regret going to Barcelona!" What kind of words are these? This is a helpless statement, without any real persuasiveness. Fabregas is still flirting with Barcelona.

Defender Wenger wants to get rid of Peruso and Lerotale and introduce Sagna, another Arsenal player, the main defender on the right, with excellent assist ability.

There are also several Arsenal players such as Diaby and Nasri in the list. They are either the main players of Arsenal or the young talents that Wenger used to reserve. Hugo feels that Wenger is moving his home in Arsenal. Haha, it's not easy.

The two people have been chatting for almost an hour. Wenger gradually gave up some of his goals. He said to Hugo: "This is just a preliminary list! I will go to Mr. Seli to discuss it tomorrow! We can choose some that can be started. We make a choice together. It doesn't necessarily have to be the players on the list!"

Hugo nodded with satisfaction. Although he felt puzzled about Wenger's visit to him, he was still happy to solve such a thing.

The mood became happier and the two chatted about everything. Of course, Wenger, a football dog, couldn't live without football. Wenger asked some questions about Bielsa's tactical thinking, and then exchanged some of his own tactical ideas with Hugo. This was actually the main purpose of Wenger's visit to Hugo. He didn't know that Kenyon and Seli had been scolded by Hugo.

He liked to talk about tactical issues with bosses who knew football. Hugo knew football very well. Hugo warned Wenger, "There is no doubt that we chose you because we appreciate your football style and your beautiful football, but in Italy, coaches who can't defend usually don't easily win championships. Last season we were in a mess and almost lost all four major titles. This is why Mr. Bielsa left!"

"Look, Mr. Bielsa stayed with the team for three years!" Hugo counted on his fingers for Wenger. "But in three years, he only won one league championship! I say clearly, I hope the team can play well, but the championship is also our pursuit, Arsène, you should understand what I mean! You have been in European football for so many years, you should know that you need to find a point of convergence between ideals and reality!”

Wenger nodded. He understood what Hugo meant. In fact, he asked Bielsa about his tactics because he wanted to learn from them. He watched a lot of videos and knew that every game in the league was very important to Trapani. It was difficult. Other teams were accustomed to defending in front of Trapani, and their defensive counterattacks were very slippery.

Bielsa's team encountered a lot of difficulties last season. Every team felt like they were fighting against Trapani like chicken blood. It is natural that Trapani's poor results are due to a major defensive operation. .

It wasn't until eleven o'clock in the evening that Wenger "reluctantly" said goodbye to Hugo. Hugo still hadn't figured out why Wenger came to see him this night. His curiosity was very strong. So when Wenger was about to get in the car, Hugo asked uncertainly: "Arsena, did you forget something and didn't tell me today?!"

"No!" Wenger looked stunned, "I have nothing to say to you!"

"Oh, okay!" Hugo waved his hand, "Goodbye, welcome to come again next time!"

"Okay, I'll come back next time! How about next Friday?! Oh, no, I promised my daughter to stay with her! How about Saturday, my friend, are you free on Saturday?!" Wenger stood The man beside the car calculated.

Um, Hugo is speechless, he wants to come again? ! Hugo agreed with a grimace. After hugging his son and saying goodbye to Wenger, Hugo returned to the room. Julia was also curious: "What does Mr. Wenger want from you?!"

"It's okay for him to come to me! He just chatted with me! I don't know, maybe it has something to do with the transfer list. Come and negotiate with me?! He didn't say it clearly!" Hugo said depressedly.

"Is it really okay?!" Julia was deeply doubtful. In her opinion, her husband and Wenger had not really developed into the stage of friends. If they were really friends, Hugo and the others would not have been chatting together for so long!

Later, as the number of Wenger's visits increased, Hugo and Julia finally found out that Wenger was a talkative person who just liked to chat with his boss!