Chapter 394: Troubles

Evan's departure from Blackburn did not even cause any waves in the English football world.

Of course, it was not because Evan was a small figure in the English football world. If it was any other time, Evan's departure would have been reported by a lot of media. After all, he was the assistant coach of the team that had just won the Champions League. He was also an incredibly young head coach.

The Blackburn coaching staff is very young. Especially the three most important coaches, George, Evan, and Carl, are all very young. None of the three is over 40 years old, and Carl is the oldest. But he is only 37 years old this year.

So the combination of the three people is still quite popular with the media.

Therefore, Evan's departure must have attracted a lot of media attention.

But what time is it now?

Now the eyes of all the media in the world are focused on the distant East, on South Korea and Japan in East Asia. Who cares about a small assistant coach at this time?

The biggest thing in world football now is the World Cup.

However, the Blackburn media has not forgotten Evan, the great contributor.

Steven Yellen praised Evan in the Blackburn Evening News.

He even said that George and Evan's acquaintance in Germany was a "match made in heaven". Steven Yellen used his powerful imagination and his ability to write brilliantly to almost write that George and Evan's meeting was a myth arranged by God.

Anyway, if you read what Steven Yellen wrote, you would think he wrote a myth novel.

But Blackburn fans like it.

At this time, the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup began.

The opening match was between the defending champion France and Senegal. However, unlike history, Zidane was not injured in the warm-up match. He was still able to play.

Senegal is not weak, but facing the powerful France, it still failed to create a dark horse myth. Zidane is indeed worthy of being the most powerful midfielder of this era. His appearance made the French team not like in history.

Under Zidane's dispatch, the French team attacked fiercely.

The French team, with Henry, the top scorer in the Premier League, and Trezeguet, the top scorer in Serie A, did not give Senegal any chance at all. A 3-1 win defended their reputation as the defending champion.

This surprised George.

But George felt sad for Miku. In fact, this World Cup was almost Miku's last chance. George originally thought that once Zidane was injured, with Miku's current fame, he would definitely be the main force of the French national team before Zidane came back.

Unfortunately, history has changed. Zidane was not injured.

As long as Zidane was not injured, no one could really replace him with his status in the French national team.

It is estimated that after this competition, Miku was basically desperate for the national team. However, George had more expectations for the French team. With a healthy Zidane, assisted by Henry, Trezeguet, Vieira, and Makelele, even compared with the Brazilian team, they were equally matched.

There were some surprising matches in the first round of the World Cup. In the first game, Germany defeated Saudi Arabia with a score of 9-0.

Klose, who was highly expected by Germany, lived up to expectations. In his first World Cup match, he scored four goals by head and foot. He got off to a good start in the World Cup. He completed a beautiful big four.

Seeing Klose in such an amazing state, George was both happy and worried. He was not worried that Klose would leave Blackburn, but worried about what kind of salary he should give Klose after the World Cup.

Allen will definitely fight for a big contract for Klose. Klose's salary is not low now. The weekly salary is nearly 40,000 pounds, and the annual salary has reached 2 million pounds. It is 3 million euros in euros.

Except for those giants, Klose's salary is good. But this salary is still too low compared with his performance.

Because of the change in history, George watched some of the World Cup in Korea and Japan.

The England team, which was touted by the British media as the strongest team in history, was eliminated just after entering the knockout stage. The team that eliminated them was the French team that broke through the group stage. The French team was not eliminated in the group stage, but won three games in the group stage and easily broke through.

The French team is currently the most favored team. Brazil and Italy are also popular. But they can't compare with France at all.

France is strong, but it only defeated England with a small score of one to zero.

The powerful Henry and Trezeguet failed to break through the door of the England team.

Although the English media likes to brag, England's strength is really not very weak. Especially England's back line, it is definitely a world-class combination. Gary Neville, Campbell, Ferdinand, Daniel Morrison, this combination is the strongest defender combination in the world football.

It's a pity that Zidane is really excited to play England.

A free kick near the penalty area scored the only goal of the game. It also eliminated the "strongest England team in history".

But George was soon disturbed by other things.

After the World Cup quarter-finals, George received many offers.

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George was sulking in the office alone.

It was hard to get a vacation, George wanted to have some fun. Who could have thought that he would be busy so soon.

Looking at the pile of offers, George couldn't help but frown. Looking up, he couldn't find the familiar figure. In the past, George would discuss this kind of thing with Evan. Although Carl is very good at training players, this is not his strong point.

George is familiar with Evan next to him. Without Evan for a while, he always feels something is missing.

If it is an ordinary offer, George certainly doesn't care at all. After all, Blackburn now is not the Blackburn of three or four years ago.

Although it is still a small club, its reputation is different. It has won the Premier League championship for two consecutive seasons and a Champions League championship. Although the gap with some European giants is not small, ordinary strong teams can't compare with Blackburn.

Therefore, George will not care about the offers from those clubs.

But with Blackburn winning the Champions League, the offers to Blackburn this time are all from those European giants.

George can't ignore it.

There are only two that George cares about the most. One is Manchester United's offer for Ferdinand, and the other is Barcelona's offer for Pires.

Manchester United, Barcelona.

It seems that Ferguson is very dissatisfied with Manchester United's current central defender combination. Last season, the combination of Brown and Woodgate was beaten by many strong teams. It is absolutely impossible for Ferguson not to feel it.

Manchester United's offense is still very strong.

It's a pity that Manchester United's defense is too poor. Not to mention the central defender, the full-back is also weak. If the defense is not good, it is the material to be slaughtered.

Ferguson is very determined this time. The first offer is 18 million pounds.

In addition to Manchester United, there is Barcelona's offer for Pires.

Pires' performance in the Champions League is very good. Especially facing Real Madrid and Carlos, he beat Carlos throughout the game. This performance made Barcelona like it very much. Overmars, who spent a large transfer fee on Barcelona, ​​has performed poorly since he arrived at Barcelona.

The current Overmars doesn't look like the left winger who surpassed many people in England back then.

Therefore, Barcelona thought of changing someone. They thought of Pires.

Barcelona was not stingy. They directly offered 16 million pounds.

George was very distressed.

The most distressing thing was how to reply to them. According to George's idea, of course, they would reject them all. Ferdinand was the core of George's defense for the next ten years, and George didn't want to give up Pires. Pires is a genius, and George likes Pires very much.

Whether it is the wing or the middle, Pires does a very good job. How could George give up such a player?

Unfortunately, this kind of thing is not something George can decide. Although Blackburn's recent results are very good, the results of the past two seasons are completely better than Manchester United's Barcelona.

But in terms of attractiveness, George believes that Blackburn can't be compared with these two teams at all.

If the player wants to leave, George can't stop it.

It can be said that since the Bosman Act, the will of the players has become more and more important. Especially those stars, they play a big role in the transfer. The personal will of the players can often determine the success or failure of the transfer.

Therefore, George is having a headache now.

The headache is the attitude of these two players. Ferdinand is about to return to England, because the England team has been eliminated. But Pires is still following the French team, and George doesn't want to bother him for a while.

But George hasn't thought it through yet, and another offer that makes George headache has come.

This time it is from a club in Milan, Italy, not AC Milan, but Inter Milan. Their target surprised George. It turned out that they were not looking at Klose, Miku and other popular players.

The player that Inter Milan looked at was Makelele.

George always thought that all the players of Blackburn could be looked at, but Makelele was the least problematic. Because Makelele plays very plainly, not very dazzling at all. Among Blackburn, some players are very famous.

But Makelele...

I really didn't expect that Inter Milan actually looked at Makelele.

George thought about it and thought of Cooper. It should be Cooper who looked at Makelele. This head coach who is famous for defense must have seen the value of Makelele. I guess Cooper thought Di Biagio was too old and wanted to find someone to replace him.

So he chose Makelele.

George touched his forehead and felt a headache. He felt a headache when his grades were bad, and he also felt a headache when his grades were good.