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Chapter 201 Recruiting for the Champions League

According to common sense, after finally having a good performance in a Champions League level, what follows is definitely not a more brilliant rise, but a fall apart. The Champions League is like a stage to show their strength to the giants, and the club also price them for sale based on their performance. Therefore, the Champions League is both a happiness and a distress for small teams. Those small teams who have seen their destiny early will generously say that as long as the buyer can give them a price that satisfies them, the stars in the team will choose whatever they want.

Therefore, Eduardo's departure is considered a signal of the opening of the "Hoffenheim Supermarket". In the eyes of other European teams, Hoffenheim is about to fall apart.

But Dietma Hope, who has not appeared for a long time, came forward to interview with the media and said that his team would not sell people for money. "We have our plan, which is a long-term plan. We have our own business strategy, and we will not sell people for money. Hoffenheim is in good business and our finances are healthier than most European clubs. Since they don't have to sell people for money, why do we do this?"

Then the team's general Salihovic also came forward and said that he would not leave Hoffenheim. The rumors about his transfer were nonsense. He still had two years of contract with the club, and he was looking forward to the club's renewal. He didn't want to go anywhere except Hoffenheim.

When it comes to loyalty, no one in Hoffenheim can compare to Salihovic.

Chu Zhongtian is the team's tactical core and flag. He must pay attention to establishing a good relationship with Salihovic. Because Salihovic has a very high prestige in the team. Last season, he couldn't stand Eduardo's free and casual style and bombarded Eduardo. Eduardo didn't even dare to say anything, which caused the team's rectification. It can be seen that he is important in the team.

Salihovic came out for an interview and made this conversation, which was actually to soothe people's hearts. He knew that after the team performed well last season, people would be in a state of fluctuation. It was normal and it was impossible not to happen. The important thing is how to solve it after it appears. Salihovic cannot prevent others from transferring, but he can use this statement to ease the anxiety-watching atmosphere in the locker room.

The news that Chu Zhongtian did not successfully renew his contract with the team caused some commotion in the locker room, because in their opinion, Chu Zhongtian was the most likely to leave the team, after all, his performance last season was really good.

Later, Chu Zhongtian explained to his teammates the reason why there was no renewal in the locker room, and everyone's understanding was obtained. Chu Zhongtian was also for everyone's good and for the team's good. In fact, many players had the same idea as him, hoping that the club could pay for the club to buy powerful players and strengthen the team's strength so that they could go further in games like the Champions League. You should know that the effect of buying powerful players was immediate. Last season, the team bought players such as Van Nystruei, Metzeld, Simonic, Sana and Kolarov, and the team achieved good results in the Champions League.

However, many people do not have the qualifications of Chu Zhongtian to make such requests like the club. Generally, those who make such requests must be the absolute core of a team, the number one star, the person the club never wants to lose, so they can agree to such requests. Otherwise, anyone will say to the club: "If you want me to renew your contract, how much money do you have to spend every year to buy new players and enhance the team's strength." What do you think the result is? The club will tell the player to "go well and don't give it away."

If the contract renewal fails, few players will think it is Chu Zhongtian’s problem.

The impact of Chu Zhongtian's unsuccessful contract renewal gradually disappeared in the locker room.

※※Rangnick is looking for players in the transfer market that meet Chu Zhongtian's suggestions, and first of all, he must be fast.

There are many fast players, and modern football has increasingly high requirements for physical fitness, and speed is also a kind of physical fitness.

Bundesliga teams have the habit of finding good seedlings from Eastern Europe, and Rangnik is no exception. He set his sights on the Czech Football League One, and his goal is to play for the left winger of the Slavs of Prague. This young man who is currently in the limelight in the Czech football world is known as "Nedved's successor". He is fast, has excellent ball control, and has the ability to cross. His breakthrough ability under high-intensity confrontation is indeed as Nedved's style. Like Nedved, his strong body will help him. He can send very accurate crosses in high-speed marching. His only problem is that his shooting skills are not mature enough and his scoring ability is weak. However, this is enough for Rangnik.

You can practice your scoring ability slowly, but speed is talent and you can't practice it.

Hoffenheim has contacted the Slavs Prague Club. The Slavs Prague Club also knows that it is destined to be unable to retain Hlosek. During this period, many European clubs have revealed in the media that they are interested in this young player who is under the age of 21.

But Hoffenheim is the first club to offer a offer.

Hoffenheim reported two million euros.

The price was rejected by the Slavs Club in Prague, who thought it was too low to accept it.

After some bargaining, Hoffenheim finally bought Hrosek for 5 million euros.

Hlosek also hopes to join a team like Hoffenheim. After all, this team was very glorious in the first two seasons. Last season, they defeated Manchester United and Inter Milan in the Champions League, which made European football impressive. Hlosek knows all these. Hoffenheim's young but energetic style of play is also very popular.

In fact, the most important factor is the qualification to participate in the Champions League. Hoffenheim has obtained the qualification to participate in the Champions League, which means that he can fully demonstrate his abilities on the best stage in Europe.

Therefore, joining Hoffenheim is a good choice. Hlosek is eager to make a appearance in a match like the Champions League and fight against those strong players.

Hlosek, who joined the team for five million, became Hoffenheim's first signing this season.

Both German media and Czech media believe that Hoffenheim is taking advantage. It is very cost-effective to buy the core main team of the Czech national team of five million. The Czech media even believes that transferring Hoffenheim is definitely a correct choice for Hoffenheim himself. He can get full training in that team, and Czech football will definitely benefit. The European media's reaction is relatively calm. After all, Hoffenheim is still young, and finding players from Eastern Europe is also a feature of the Bundesliga team.

※※※After Hlosek came, Rangnick did not stop looking for wing players. This time he turned his sights to Inter Milan.

Inter Milan has two players who are very interested. One is the young Jonathan Biabiany, who has been the fastest wing player in the Serie A field, can play as a right winger, right forward and forward position. The other is Ricardo Quaresma, who is frustrated in Inter Milan and still can't find any feeling when he is loaned to Chelsea.

The test of Viabiyani was soon over. Inter Milan changed its head coach, and the new head coach Benitez was unwilling to take action against Viabiyani. Biabiyani himself did not want to leave Inter Milan. He had been loaned out for three years. After returning to Inter Milan this season, he hoped to succeed in Meazza. Before that, he would not go anywhere.

So Quaresma became the target of Rangnik's key strategy.

Speaking of Quaresma, Chu Zhongtian had heard of his name very early, and he became famous at a young age. He played the main player at Sporting Lisbon at the age of seventeen. At that time, Ronaldo was a talented player trained by Sporting Lisbon youth training. Ronaldo was a little immature at that time, while Quaresma was the core player of the team.

Then in 2003 he joined a giant team like Barcelona. He scored goals in his first game and performed very well with Ronaldinho, who joined the team. Everyone thought this would be the beginning of a wonderful story.

But his performance in the giants was not satisfactory. Because of the conflict with head coach Rijcard, he was sold to Portugal's Porto as a bonus and used as a bargaining chip for Barcelona to introduce Deco. Unexpectedly, when he returned to China, he found a new feeling. Under the careful training of the Dutch coach Adrian, he shined in Porto, helping Porto win the domestic league championship for consecutive seasons. He was also elected as a domestic footballer in Portugal for two consecutive years.

With such a phoenix-like performance, he was able to transfer to Inter Milan, where Mourinho, and he became the transfer bet for Inter Milan that season. He also had an outstanding performance in the first game and scored a goal. Everyone thought that he could finally prove himself again in Inter Milan, but he once again showed the problem of opening high and closing low, and he was completely unable to find his form in Inter Milan.

In his first season, he won the Golden Tarit Award for the "best parallel player" of an Italian radio station. In his second season, he was only slightly inferior to the first place Merlo. In the second half of the season, he was loaned to Chelsea by Inter Milan, but he still couldn't find form at Chelsea.

Inter Milan won the triple crown last season, but it has nothing to do with him.

This summer, his departure is a foregone conclusion.

It is said that Besiktas is very interested in him. Besiktas has liked to buy players who are inclined in mainstream European football in recent years to support and play their remaining energy. For example, Roberto Carlos, Guti, etc., but Quaresma is only 26 years old. If you go to Besiktas at such a young age, you will still feel unwilling to accept it?

Rangnick believes that if he always thinks about it from a technical perspective, Quaresma is the type of player he needs. He has not found his place in Barcelona or Inter Milan, which means that he is not the kind of player suitable for giant teams. The competition is too fierce and the pressure is too great, and no one will take him seriously, so he cannot perform at his level. Why can he succeed in Porto? It is because Adrian plays him as the core and loves him as much as he loves children.

To be honest, Quaresma was originally a child who had not grown up. Although he was twenty-six years old, his mental age seemed to be only eighteen years old. As a gypsy, he was free and casual.

Rangnick felt that this was not a problem. He could give Quaresma the attention he needed, and he could treat Quaresma like he was pampering his children. These were not a problem. Anyway, he was a youth team coach at the beginning, and he had his own experience in how to treat these extremely talented but flawed players.

The key is that Quaresma himself wants to leave Inter Milan and is also very interested in joining Hoffenheim. Although both Besiktas and Hoffenheim can participate in the Champions League, it is obvious that Hoffenheim is the mainstream circle in the Bundesliga, which belongs to the top five European leagues, and Besiktas is far from that. Joining Besiktas will always give him a feeling of losing the price... Inter Milan also hopes to get rid of Quaresma's burden. All three parties have this intention, so it will be much easier to negotiate.

Soon, Hoffenheim finalized the transfer deal. Quaresma transferred from Inter Milan to Hoffenheim with a transfer fee of 7.5 million euros. In July, Hoffenheim scored two transfers in a flash. It can be seen that Hoffenheim's ambitions are not intended to be any supermarket. Their goal is to go further in the Champions League.

After signing Quaresma, Rangnick told the media that this was just the beginning, "Hoffenheim will not be a player supermarket as some people say, we will continue to move forward."

Now, with five players, Salihovic, Hlosek, Weiss, Hazawag and Quaresma, on the wing, there is enough reserve for wing players. Rangnik's next goal is to further increase the thickness of the bench.

In the position of the back midfielder, the depth is not enough, Wosa is not useful, and Zukulini is still too young. In fact, the team's back midfielder is only Chu Zhongtian and Sana. Once one of these two people has problems, it may lead to the team losing. Chu Zhongtian and Sana are both very important. At the same time, in order to avoid some injuries, they must also have their substitutes.

Last summer, Real Madrid's purge brought two high-level players to Hoffenheim, Metzeld and Van Nystruei. Although these two players are not the absolute main players in Hoffenheim, they contributed their strength, especially Van Nystruei, who scored eight goals in the league and four goals in the Champions League, which is definitely a first-class performance.

Therefore, Rangnick, who has tasted the sweetness, also targeted Real Madrid this season. Mourinho visited the Bernabeu and was fully responsible for the transfer. Therefore, there are many players within the team who do not meet his requirements and will definitely be included in the sale list by him, which depends on whether there is a suitable buyer.

Although not all Real Madrid players want to leave this giant team, the situation is too fast, and they are afraid that they will have to leave if they don’t want to leave. Besides, people move to death, trees move to live, look at Sneider and Robben are their role models. They left Real Madrid last season and joined Inter Milan and Bayern Munich one after another. As a result, the teams where they are both teams reached the Champions League final and walked casually at the Bernabeu Stadium. Moreover, both of them also play the core of their respective teams and play a very important role.

With Mourinho introducing Khdira, Mohamed Diyala and Gago were both on the roster. Now Real Madrid has too many high-level players in the midfield position, but there are only two people who can play. Xavi Alonso is definitely the main force that cannot be played. He is responsible for the team's rhythm and is the core. Another partner with him is likely to be Khdira, who was appointed to join by Mourinho. This German midfielder has gained fame because he successfully made people forget Barack who was absent due to injury in the World Cup.

Because of his outstanding robbery ability and adaptability to multiple positions, Lassena Diara may be able to occupy an important position in Mourinho's team. However, both Mohamed Diara and Gago have lost their space to survive.

Rangnick looks down on Mohammed Diyala because since the team's style is fast next season, the slow-paced Diyala obviously does not meet the team's requirements. His speed on the court is too slow and unable to keep up with the team's requirements will become a drag on the team.

Gago is very in line with his requirements. First of all, Gago cannot play in Real Madrid, and he himself has the intention to leave. Secondly, Real Madrid is willing to let Gago go. As long as the price is right, Florentino has long wanted to sell players like Gago and Higuain, such as former chairman Calderon, who were introduced by former chairman Calderon, but Higuain is in such a good state. He keeps scoring goals and has become the darling of the Bernabeu. Does he dare not touch Higuain but still dare not touch Gago? When he debuted in the third place, Gago is known for organizing offense, so he is helpful to the team in terms of offense. Fourth, in recent years at Real Madrid, he has practiced defensive skills, and his physical fitness and defensive ability have been greatly improved.

Fifth, Gago has the advantage of speed in youth and can keep up with Hoffenheim's fast football. Sixth, his spiritual will is worthy of praise. Real Madrid is a giant team and the competition is very fierce. In order to get the chance to play, Gago tries his best every game. He is one of the best runners in the team. No matter what kind of dilemma the team is in, he always runs constantly. This is very appreciated by Rangnick. He remembers that Chu Zhongtian and Sana are both such people, and they may get along well... The only thing to worry about is Gago's easily injured body. He has been fine in the first few years of joining Real Madrid. Since last season, he has experienced several injuries.

But if you are a rotation player, this is not a big problem. In Rangnick's mind, the team's starting midfielder is still Sana and Chu Zhongtian. Because of his offense and defense, Gago can be a substitute for Sana and Chu Zhongtian, and there will also be many opportunities to play.

Hoffenheim offered Real Madrid eight million euros for Gago, but was directly rejected by Real Madrid. Mourinho told the media that Gago was a very important substitute player in his plan and that he would not easily sell this Argentine midfielder.

So Hoffenheim increased the price to 10 million euros.

At the same time, Gago's agent also showed off to Mourinho that Gago was unwilling to stay in Real Madrid and that he hoped to go to a team that would give him a chance to play.

This time Mourinho gave in and said that he would not talk about it if there was no 20 million euros.

Real Madrid spent 20.5 million euros to buy Gago, but now they hope to lose less.

After some bargaining, the two sides finally reached an agreement for a price of 18 million euros, and Hoffenheim and Gago signed a four-year contract.

The Argentine two stars who joined Real Madrid together have now embarked on a different path. Higuain became Real Madrid's main striker with his outstanding performance, firmly suppressing Benzema on the bench, and was selected for the Argentine national team, scoring four goals in the South African World Cup. However, Gago, known as "Redondo II", has been ups and downs between the bench and the main force, not only losing the characteristics of becoming famous, but also losing the main position. Now he can only be forced to leave Hoffenheim and end his dream-like journey to a wealthy family.
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