Like many professional teams at home, Alkmaar's home exterior walls are surrounded by huge posters of players.

There are Costa Rica goalkeeper Brown, Dutch local rookie Mach, Denmark midfielder Paulson, and Australian left-wing Holman...

At this moment, Alkmaar's staff are changing the latest player posters and hanging the posters of two newly joined players. They are local player Berens, who joined Helenfin for 1.5 million euros, from Bursa Sports, Turkey, and the American striker Artidore who once played for Villarre in La Liga.

However, the location around the stadium is limited, and some players' posters have to be removed.

The 26-year-old Italian center Graziano Pelle stood in the distance, watching his poster slowly being removed by the club staff and replaced with Artidore.

This is as if his position in the club is now, it is useless.

He was born in the Lecce youth training camp in Italy, but he has been wandering all his career. He was loaned to Catania, Crotone, Cesena and other Serie B teams. Because of his outstanding performance in the World Youth Championship and European Youth Championship, he was valued by Van Gaal, the coach of Alkmaar, and came to the Netherlands at a high price of 6 million euros.

That was the most glorious moment in his life so far.

At the age of 22, he is at a critical stage in his career development and is favored by world-class coach Van Gaal, and his future is unlimited.

At the beginning, everyone in the team was full of expectations for him, hoping that he could replace the Dutch center Kowellmans who transferred to Eindhoven and stoked the banner of Alkmaar's offense. Kowellmans had just scored twenty-two league goals in the previous season, but Pelle only scored three goals in his first season and only scored one in the league.

Such a huge gap is obviously unacceptable, especially since Pelle is still under the high price of 6 million euros, but Van Gaal is still full of confidence in him and continues to keep him in the team, hoping that he can adjust as soon as possible.

In the second season, Pelle's performance did improve. He scored only three goals in the 20 league games, two more than last season, which made everyone feel desperate. However, Alkmaar won the championship in the Eredivisie this season, and Van Gaal also retreated after the end of this season and left Alkmaar.

Van Gaal's successor is his disciple Ronald Koeman, who is the same attitude towards Pelle as Van Gaal. They often say that Pelle should be the kind of striker who can serve as the team's attack point, rather than a goal-scoring shooter.

"Think about it, what would you do if you were Ibrahimovic and Van Persie?"

Compare yourself with top strikers like Ibrahimovic and Van Persie?

Pelle felt flattered.

But the good times didn't last long. Koeman only took advantage of Alkmaar for five months and left the team just after December. Dutch coach Edvocate replaced Alkmaar's coach position, but his request was completely different from Van Gaal and Koeman. He had no confidence in the player left by Pelle, the former, and Pelle was completely thrown into the cold palace.

Edvocart only took him in Alkmaar for half a year. Last summer, his former assistant Villebeck took over as coach, but his impression of Pelle was exactly the same as Edvocart, who completely became a substitute.

However, it was precisely during the bench career that Pelle thought more. He gradually learned how to play in his own way. He tried to understand everything Van Gaal and Koeman taught him. He scored six goals in 18 league games last season, which was his best season since joining Alkmaar.

And it was more of the result when the substitute came on the bench. There were three consecutive rounds of substitutes and the substitute scored twice in a short period of time. This made Pelle excited and surprised his progress, but it was not helpful to his position in Alkmaar.

Velbeck didn't trust him at all, so he introduced Artidore from the Bursa Sports this summer.

This transfer basically sentenced Pelle's four-year Alkmaar career to end.

But where to go after leaving Alkmaar?

The agent Calvino is not famous, but he has strong operating capabilities in the Netherlands. He has helped Pelle contact many teams, but he is discouraged. The only thing that is interested in him is Parma in Serie A, but can he have a place in this team?

Pelle is deeply suspicious because Parma has gathered Serie A stars such as Crespo, Palladino, Okaca, and Giovenco. What's more, Pelle has left Italian football for many years, and Parma head coach Colomba is unable to protect himself, let alone give Pelle a chance. Is it appropriate to join Parma at this time?

But in fact, Pelle had no choice but to look forward to it optimistically, and maybe there would be a turning point in Parma in the future.

Thinking of this, Pelle couldn't help but sigh, turned around and sat back into the car, preparing to set off home.

But at this moment, his cell phone suddenly rang, and the caller ID was a strange phone number.

Pelle immediately answered the phone and a strange voice came from it.

"Hello, Pelle, I am the technical director of Chinatown, and my name is Carlos Cantalero." The person on the other side of the phone introduced himself fluently in English.

Chinatown? Carlos Cantalero?

As a professional player, although he played for the Netherlands and was not successful, Pelle must have heard of this team and this name. The former is the top four team in La Liga, Gao Han's team, while the latter is Gao Han's right-hand man, and is known as the world's best coach who is good at cultivating and sculpting players.

"You...hello, Mr. Cantalero." Pelle replied excitedly.

Fortunately, he speaks English very well.

"I'm so glad you know me, this saves a lot of things." A hearty laugh came from the other side of the phone.

After laughing, Cantalero continued to ask: "I heard from your agent that Alkmaar has allowed you to find a team. I wonder if you are interested in coming to our Chinatown?"

"Chinatown?" Pelle was a little confused.

He is quite self-aware and knows clearly that he is just a substitute who can't even play in Alkmaar. How could he go to Chinatown? That's the fourth in La Liga and the team that wants to play in the Champions League.

"I know, it is definitely difficult to accept this question suddenly, but we do intend to invite you to play in Chinatown. You know, our team's number one center Mi Chu has decided to join Arsenal."

This news is one of the hottest news in recent times, second only to Gao Han coaching Paris Saint-Germain. Although it has not been officially recognized by the two teams, it has triggered the European transfer market.

That would be the highest transfer fee record ever.

"I...I don't understand very much." Pelle's voice was a little quick.

Cantalero hmmed, "Maybe you don't believe it, but we have been paying close attention to you since more than a year ago. Mr. Gao Han heard your name from Van Gaal and Ronald Koeman respectively. You know, they are friends and occasionally exchange some experiences. Both Dutch coaches highly respect you."

"Later, Mr. Gao Han personally studied your videos, and our technical team also closely followed your game and training a year ago, but it was not discovered by you. For example, you scored twice against Utrecht. The official information is twenty-six minutes. In fact, you only took seventeen minutes, and twenty-six minutes was the time for you to play on the bench."

When Pelle heard this, he no longer doubted Cantalero's remarks. If he had not learned about him in detail, it would be impossible to know the exact time.

"But...I still don't understand." Pelle was still worried.

"That's right, from a common sense, it's really hard to believe, but what we need is an attacking point like Diego Costa and Michu, not a scorer. We think you're very suitable. You're a player with great ideas and ideas, with fine feet and physical strength. We think you can succeed in La Liga."

Many of Cantalero's rhetoric are exactly the same as Van Gaal and Ronald Koeman, which made Pelle believe in Cantalero's statement in his heart. Moreover, he is now twenty-six years old and knows very well what his playing style is and what kind of tactics can exert all his energy.

"You know, Mr. Gao Han just called me personally, and he said..."

Cantalero deliberately paused, and Pelle was anxious to know, "What do you say?"

"He said that your experience in Alkmaar is not entirely a problem of your own strength. To a large extent, the turmoil in the club over the past two years has also affected your performance. You are a very good player. Going to Parma or returning to Serie A is not suitable for you. If you can play under a tactical framework that suits you, you will become an excellent attacker, enter the Italian national team, and become famous in European football."

"This..." Pelle was stunned again, "Is this really what Mr. Gao Han said?"

"It's true. If you need it, I can ask him to call you in person." Cantalero said.

"No, no, Mr. Cantalero, you misunderstood. I am not suspicious of you, just...I... just..."

Pelle was so excited that he was a little incoherent.

For him, let alone Gao Han, even Cantalero is an unattainable existence. What's more, Cantalero has no reason to lie to him, and there is no need to.

"Alkmaar has asked you to contact the team yourself, so we are now solemnly sending you an invitation, hoping that you can come to Chinatown to play football. Believe me, here you will get a space to play your best level. All of us, including Gao Han, me, and head coach Pochettino, will help you."

Pelle was breathing rapidly with excitement. He knew very well that countless professional players dreamed of getting guidance from Gao Han and Cantalero, and he was so lucky that he was simply like a roller coaster and could not calm down.

"How is it? Does it take some time to think about it?" Cantalero asked on the phone.

"No, Mr. Cantalero." Pelle shook his head almost without thinking, "No, I'm willing to join Chinatown."

"It's great, Pelle, believe me, this would be a very wise choice." Cantalero said with a smile.

Until Pelle hung up the phone, he felt dizzy and felt like he was dreaming.

But he quickly woke up and called his agent Calvino. But to his surprise, Calvino also knew about this. Cantalero called Calvino first and then got Pelle's mobile phone number.

This made Pelle believe it all.

He looked through the car window and looked at the exterior wall of the stadium in the distance. There was no poster for him, but at this moment he was full of expectations for the future and somewhat nervous.

"Am I really going to Chinatown?"
Chapter completed!