Chapter 122 The Wind Rising (3)
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Since Robbie Keane scored 23 goals for Tottenham in the just-concluded O3O4 season, including 16 goals in the league, which was quite effective. Therefore, after George released the news that Robbie Keane was put on the shelves, many teams immediately moved and contacted Tottenham and made a transfer offer to Robbie Keane!
Among all the clubs chasing Robbie Keane, Liverpool and Newcastle United, two teams that won the League Cup next season, performed the most positive and sincerely. The Reds are because their star Michael Irving has not completed the contract renewal, and the Fengfeng boy has been frequently troubled by injuries over the years, making it difficult to ensure sufficient attendance. Therefore, for these two purposes, Liverpool naturally targeted Robbie Keane and regarded the captain of the Irish national team as Irving's best alternative!
In order to defeat other competitors, due to Hollier's big moves in the transfer market over the years, Liverpool, who is currently in a financial situation in the club, gritted his teeth and offered a quotation of yi5oo million US dollars for Robbie Keane. George's answer was also quite straightforward and neat. There was no way to go! If the pound was still the same!
You know, when Tottenham bought Robbie Keane from Leeds United, it spent a total of 70,000 pounds of real money and silver, which was due to the sale price given by the Leeds United financial crisis at that time. In the previous season, when Leeds United signed the Irishman from Inter Milan, the transfer fee was as high as 20,000 pounds of 70,000 pounds!
Although Robbie Keane's performance this season is not as eye-catching as Drogba and Luca Tony, and has been repeatedly pressed by George on the bench in Tottenham's competition with strong teams, as a striker who relies on running and consciousness to attack the city and village, he can score 16 league goals in his limited playing time, which itself proves the strength of the Irish. Therefore, the first quotation of yi5oo million US dollars offered by Liverpool is undoubtedly a big joke in George's eyes!
Although Robbie Keane is only 25 years old now, in fact, he won the attention of the outside world with his outstanding performance in Coventry as early as the yi999oo season. After joining Inter Milan, it shocked the entire European football world. In addition, he also defeated the best player winner of the World Cup in the Korean and Japanese World Cup two years ago. Oliver Kahn's goal guarded and his ability to fight tough battles has also been verified in actual combat. Therefore, the psychological price set by George for the Irish international is at least 20,000 US dollars, otherwise it will be free of talks!
After receiving the news that the initial offer was rejected by Tottenham, Liverpool became a little hesitant about whether to continue to raise prices. After all, Hollier, who has been in charge of the team coaching staff for the past six years, has been confirmed to leave after the end of the season, and Benitez, who is actively contacting Liverpool clubs, has not yet been in place, and the team's finances are not rich. Therefore, if Liverpool spends a lot of money to sign Robbie Keane and Benitez cannot use it, the losses will be something Liverpool can't afford.
Compared with Liverpool, Newcastle seems much more generous in this transfer. After all, Alan Shearer is now old, and Bellamy, Ameobi and Lualua on the front line also have various shortcomings and deficiencies, and it is difficult to bear the banner of Magpies offensive football. Moreover, although Shearer scored 22 goals in the league this season, there are as many as eight of them. In other words, in terms of goal efficiency alone, Shearer has long been no longer the level of a British striker.
Yes, who has been blaming Old Robson's Shepard, this time, seemed to have forgotten all the words he had said before and directly offered Robbie Keane a quotation of 80,000 US dollars. After receiving a reply from Tottenham that "very sincere, but has not met our psychological price yet", Shepard did not even think about it and directly exchanged the currency unit of the offer for pounds!
Using yi8oo pounds is about 250,000 US dollars to buy a pure shooter like Robbie Keane. In this increasingly depressed European transfer market, this is undoubtedly a very high offer. Not to mention that Shepard's offer has far exceeded George's psychological price. So, George sent someone to inform the Liverpool club of the transfer progress of Newcastle, and readily agreed to the offer.
Seeing Shepard actively operating Robbie Keane's transfer, she did not forget to throw dirty water on herself, saying that the deal was the result of her threatening the club, and secretly encouraged the players and himself to leave. Even if the gentle Robson was as gentle as Old Robson, he could not bear this treatment at this time, the old coach was furious and immediately threw the resignation letter on Shepard's face and announced his resignation as the Newcastle coach!
In addition, after learning that Newcastle had started contact with Robbie Keen himself, Liverpool, who was originally planning to observe the situation under Yi, was a little panicked. He quickly convened a high-level meeting to discuss the matter and contacted Benitez, who was leading the team to prepare for the League Cup final. Finally, after receiving a positive answer from Benitez and confirming that Irving had no intention of renewing the contract with the team, Liverpool executives also announced that they had officially joined the battle for Robbie Keen! The transfer offer issued by the Reds was also yi8oo ten thousand pounds!
At the same time, after learning that Robson had resigned from the Magpies, George immediately dialed Robson's phone number, contacted the mentor, and invited him to Tottenham to serve as youth training director. He clearly remembered that Robson, who had resigned from the head coaching job in his previous life, never accepted any coaching invitations from the team again. He was unemployed at home until the summer of O99 that he died suddenly due to ineffective cancer treatment.
In George's view, Robson's condition suddenly worsened after 4 years. On the one hand, it was because he was older and his recovery was greatly reduced, and on the other hand, it was also because he was idle. Therefore, if Robson was successfully invited to Tottenham and let him take charge of youth training in Tottenham, it might be able to change the fate of the old man!
"I hope I can change the fate of the old man this time so that he can stay in this world for more time. At least, I can't leave any regrets like the one between Sheva and Lobanovsky." After hanging up the phone, George's face became a little sad when he thought that the other party might not have much time in this world. For the mentor who brought him into the circle of professional coaches, he sincerely hoped that the other party would live a hundred years. Note: Shevchenko was the last proud disciple trained by Lobanovsky. However, when Sheva became famous and won the Big Ear Cup and the European Golden Globe Award, Lobanovsky had already passed away. Sheva could only take the trophy to Lobanovsky's cemetery to pay tribute to his mentor, which became the eternal regret in the heart of this Ukrainian nuclear warhead.
When George finalized Klose's transfer and confirmed that Robbie Keane would leave Tottenham this summer and began to operate several other signings that are of great significance to the club, the 2oo3o4 European Championship final finally officially kicked off at the Ao Going Schalke Stadium in Gelsenkirchen, under the expectation of fans!
Chapter completed!