Chapter 7 Poaching
Yang Cheng never imagined that the first time he met Ribery would be like this.
This scarred star, who will compete in the World Cup in three years, has his head and face covered with dust at this moment.
Wearing a safety helmet, he raised a heavy impact drill and used his strength to destroy the ruined wall in front of him.
When Ribery turned his head and looked over, it really felt like Stallone was holding a machine gun in "First Blood".
Yang Cheng waited for him for a full 20 minutes before he saw the clean Ribery.
The scars on his face are as hideous as ever.
There was no high-spirited confidence that Yang Cheng was familiar with in his previous life, but a deep sense of depression.
During this period, football and life gave him a heavy blow.
Many times, choice is more important than hard work.
Ribery did the same, Koscielny did the same.
The whole conversation went very smoothly.
This is more like a unilateral invitation sent by Yang Cheng to Ribery.
As for Ribery, as long as there is a club willing to accept him and pay him a salary, he will go.
Scarface is very pragmatic about the salary he expects.
250 euros.
Monthly.
This is relatively low even in the English League Two.
Yang Cheng agreed.
In his mind, as long as Ribery works hard in training and playing, the club will evaluate the performance every season and then increase his salary as appropriate.
But there is no need to say all of this now.
We will wait until Ribery achieves results.
This is a means of managers.
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While Yang Cheng was traveling between Croatia and France, Lin Zhongqiu, who was in London, continued to follow up on the loan business with Elvino Company.
After the formalities were completed and the money arrived, in addition to immediately repaying the due debt, Lin Zhongqiu also followed Yang Cheng's instructions and frequently made moves in the transfer market.
As Yang Cheng said before, there are ways to play without money.
The first thing the Bayswater Chinese consider when signing up is those free transfer players in the transfer market.
The first thing Yang Cheng considers is the four relegated teams last season.
Cheltenham, Huddersfield, Mansfield and Northampton.
One of the important reasons why we focus on relegated teams is that many teams have so-called relegation clauses when signing contracts with players.
For teams in lower leagues, once they are relegated, it basically means falling apart.
For example, Cheltenham wide player Martin Devaney.
The 23-year-old Devaney is of Irish descent, proficient in both left and right feet, very fast, and good at both sides.
The Bayswater Chinese did not even need to pay a transfer fee for him and successfully signed him.
The 21-year-old Lee Williamson has dual nationality of Jamaica and England and is good at the center and right midfield.
Due to Mansfield's relegation, according to the relegation clause, his transfer fee was even as low as only 25,000 pounds.
17-year-old Alex Baptiste comes from the Mansfield youth training. He is an all-rounder and can play all positions in the defense.
After receiving the invitation from Bayswater Chinese, he rejected Mansfield's professional contract and switched to Bayswater Chinese.
The 20-year-old English high center forward Jonathan Steed came from the Huddersfield youth training. He is the young center Yang Cheng is most optimistic about. He has the characteristics of a typical English center forward.
He is 1.91 meters tall, tall and strong, with excellent skills. He can grab points and shoot. He has a certain ability to pick up and play the ball with his back.
In the English League Two last season, Steed had already established himself in the Huddersfield first team, playing 42 times, scoring 6 goals in 2568 minutes.
Not bad for a player who is only 20 years old.
The reason why Yang Cheng remembers him is because in his previous life in 2004, Steed followed Huddersfield to relegation, performed well in the fourth level league, and was selected for the England National Youth Team.
Subsequently, Blackburn signed the local center for a high price of 2 million pounds.
Unfortunately, Steed's subsequent development did not meet outside expectations.
Under Yang Cheng's instruction, Lin Zhongqiu came forward to negotiate with Huddersfield and convinced Jonathan Steed.
In the end, the Bayswater Chinese signed the young center from English League Two for £250,000.
Due to the club's limited funds and budget, the money will be paid in two installments, with the second installment of £150,000 being paid in the summer of 2004.
In addition to Steed, the Bayswater Chinese also poached 19-year-old Andy Holdsworth from the Huddersfield Youth Academy.
Although this player plays on the right, Yang Cheng feels that he is more suitable to develop in the middle of the midfield.
The Bayswater Chinese also signed 17-year-old central defender Luke Chambers on a free transfer from Northampton’s youth academy. He is capable of playing central defender and right wing. Defender.
In the transfer market, Yang Cheng also signed Northern Ireland left back Tony Capaldi on a free transfer from Birmingham.
The 22-year-old Capaldi came from the Birmingham youth academy, but he has never been taken seriously. Apart from renting out, there is no place for him in the team at all, so after his contract expired this year, he refused to join Birmingham. Renewal.
Many English second division teams, including Plymouth, are full of interest in this gem of a strong team's youth training.
But in the end it was the Bayswater Chinese who took the lead.
In addition to Yang Cheng personally convincing Tony Capaldi after returning from France, a very important reason is that in a low-level league, the financial crisis of the Bayswater Chinese did not cause Attention from the outside world.
In other words, Yang Cheng took action in time and eliminated it invisible.
This has resulted in the outside world having a good impression of the Chinese in Bayswater.
At the very least, foreign-funded operations are ambitious.
Another player available on a free transfer is Irish midfielder Martin Rowland from Brentford.
The 24-year-old Roland plays in the middle and is Brentford's midfield passer. His skills are very good, especially that pass.
Since joining Brentford for 60,000 pounds in 1998, his performance in the first two seasons has been quite outstanding. But in the past two seasons, Roland has gradually lost his main position due to injuries and fluctuations in form.
This summer, after his contract with Brentford expired, he chose a free transfer.
As a native Londoner, Roland is more inclined to join a London team.
Queens Park Rangers and the Bayswater Chinese both extended an olive branch to him. In the end, it was Yang Cheng who came forward and convinced Martin Rowland.
As a reward, the Bayswater Chinese also offered Martin Roland the team's maximum salary.
£4000 per month.
In addition to Martin Rowland and Steed, also receiving the team's maximum salary is Welsh veteran Steve Jenkins.
The 31-year-old Jenkins plays as a right back for Huddersfield Town.
After the team was relegated, the club chose to terminate his contract and let him move on a free transfer.
Jenkins, who came out of Swansea's youth training, is no longer young, but he has rich defensive experience and has a superb right-side passing kick.
This is what Yang Cheng values most.
The newly formed team has many young people. With an experienced veteran like Jenkins leading the team, Yang Cheng will be more assured.
But taking into account Jenkins' age, Yang Cheng signed 18-year-old Irish right back Kevin Fury from the youth training camp of the English second division relegation team Luton.
The deal cost the Bayswater Chinese £100,000.
In terms of central defender, Yang Cheng also signed 20-year-old Roger Johnson from the relegation team Wycombe for 100,000 pounds.
This tall and burly local central defender was Wycombe's main central defender last season and performed well.
Yang Cheng signed English forward Ricky Lambert from English second division Stockport for a transfer fee of 150,000 pounds.
The 21-year-old Lambert's performance at Stockport last season was not ideal. He played 32 times and only scored 2 goals. This made head coach Charlton Palme completely lose confidence in him. .
So, Ricky Lambert, who joined in 2002 for 450,000 pounds, was sold to the Chinese by Stockport for 150,000 pounds.
Shrewsbury, who are stuck in the fifth tier league, are also unable to escape the bad luck of being poached by Yang Cheng.
Yang Cheng personally went north, and in addition to persuading Stockport and Ricky Lambert, he also signed 16-year-old local goalkeeper Joe Hart from Shrewsbury.
This transfer transaction cost the Bayswater Chinese £50,000.
The important reason why it is so cheap is that Joe Hart has not played in the first team yet.
But according to England's youth training rules, once the Bayswater Chinese sell Joe Hart in the future, Shrewsbury will receive a considerable youth training fee.
Going south from the north of England, Yang Cheng came to Derbyshire.
As early as when Yang Cheng went to Croatia and France, Lin Zhongqiu had already been in contact with Derby County, but the other party always refused the Bayswater Chinese's price inquiry for midfielder Tom Huddlestone.
Huddlestone, who followed England U17 in the European Youth Championship in Portugal, also conveyed through his agent that he refused to join the English second team.
The reason is also very good.
Derby County is a second-tier English League One team, and Huddlestone is an international player for the England U17 youth team. Why should they go to the third-tier Bayswater Chinese to play football?
When England U17 finished the European Youth Championship in 4th place and returned to England, Yang Cheng came to Derby County again.
He first met with Derby County's senior management, and then met with Huddlestone, as well as the player's parents and agent.
Yang Cheng is very optimistic about this English midfielder.
Because in his tactics, he needs a midfielder like Huddlestone.
During the meeting, Yang Cheng introduced Huddlestone's situation in detail.
In England U17, he is not the main player, and in Derby County, he is also not the main player.
Instead of staying in Derbyshire, it is better to go to Bayswater Chinese.
"I am willing to give you the main position in the midfield!" Yang Cheng solemnly promised.
In addition, Yang Cheng also said that the Bayswater Chinese's goal this season is to upgrade, but what about Derby County?
Last season and the season before last, we were in danger of relegation.
Who can guarantee that they will successfully avoid relegation this season?
Yang Cheng also elaborated on his tactical positioning of Huddlestone and the role he will play in Bayswater Chinese, starting from the technical characteristics of the players.
This surprised Huddlestone and others.
All along, they thought Yang Cheng was the owner of the club.
I didn’t expect that he would have such attainments at the tactical level.
But even so, after an in-depth discussion, Huddlestone and others were still not persuaded by Yang Cheng, and just said tactfully that they still needed to think about it again.
Obviously, they still need to communicate with Derby County.
Yang Cheng knew it well.
This is to see Derby County's "sincerity".
Yang Cheng naturally had no objection.
Because he himself is also preparing with two hands or even multiple hands.
If Huddlestone cannot be signed, he will choose Leon Andreasen, a midfielder from Aarhus Club in the Danish League.
20-year-old Andreasen is a player for the Danish National Youth Team and can play as a midfielder and central defender.
Many fans may be unfamiliar with him, but he is definitely a ruthless person.
A few years later, when the future German coach Klopp first coached Mainz, he was able to shine, and Andreassen, who was on loan from Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga, played an important role. .
At the end of the season, Mainz failed to sign Andreasen as Klopp wanted.
As a result, Mainz was relegated in the following season.
The psychological price Yang Cheng set for Andreasen is about 1 million to 1.2 million euros.
After all, Huddlestone is a local player and has the advantage of having a household registration, so the price offered by Yang Cheng is 1 million pounds, which is 1.5 million euros.
But installment payment is required.
As for the outcome, Yang Cheng will wait and see.
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