756 This is like a team going to the Premier League!
The time is getting closer to July.
Everyone in the world has focused their attention on the top league. On one side, they are amazed by Paris Saint-Germain's wealthy players, while on the other hand, they regret that Manchester City, the wealthy players in the past two seasons, did not invest in the transfer market again this time.
Instead of investing, Ireland was sent to Aston Villa.
In addition, Manchester City also officially announced that Trippier, Stones, Adam Lallana, and goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, who is on loan in Belgium, have been sold to Leeds United of the English Championship.
This once again sparked controversy over the links between the two clubs.
Many people have even questioned it, thinking that Gao Shen was taking advantage of his authority to give and receive privately.
But soon, Manchester City chairman Mubarak publicly clarified that the deal was agreed to by the Manchester City management and Leeds United also paid the transfer fee. The transfer fee for the four players exceeded 5 million pounds.
This immediately triggered a carnival among the Yorkshire media and fans.
In the words of the Yorkshire Post: This looks like a team that is going to hit the Premier League!
Leeds United fans also became excited. After all, these players are carefully selected by Manchester City. Although they paid expensive transfer fees, they can buy them. This in itself is Manchester City's special care for Leeds United. .
Only Leeds United and Manchester City themselves knew that these four transfers indeed exceeded 5 million pounds, but they could be paid in installments.
This also allows Leeds United to still have room to make mistakes in the transfer market after introducing four players.
The next one is Congolese winger Bolasie from English League One team Plymouth.
This player played for Plymouth in League One last season.
Knock on the blackboard, knowledge point: it's Plymouth, not Portsmouth.
The former is in Devonshire in southwest England, and the latter is in Hampshire in southeast England. They are not the same place.
After Plymouth were relegated from the third tier, Leeds United easily signed Bolasie for £100,000.
But this transfer also caused trouble for Leeds United.
Keith Millen, the head coach of the English Championship Bristol City team, publicly accused Leeds United of signing violations in the media because they had previously reached a verbal agreement with Bolasie and Plymouth also acquiesced in the transfer.
"After Leeds United intervened, Bolasie broke our agreement!"
Bristol City also said it would not rule out the possibility of complaining to the Football Association.
Leeds United quickly counterattacked, stating that the club was recruiting through formal channels and had not violated any rules. As for what Keith Millen said about reaching an agreement with Bolasie, Leeds United said it was not aware of it.
Bolasie also quickly clarified in the Yorkshire Post that he had not reached any agreement with Bristol City.
"They did contact me. I only expressed my willingness to join, but never signed an agreement."
In the end, Bristol City did not sue Leeds United to the FA, and the matter became obvious.
It can only be said that Bristol City's actions and efficiency in signings were indeed too slow, and they were intercepted by Leeds United.
This was not big news to begin with, but now it involves Gao Shen, and it immediately became the focus of speculation by major media outlets.
Who would have thought that the number one coach in current football would go to the third level to copy a relegated team.
Especially this Bolasie, what is his background that can make Gao Shen so aggressive?
It turned out that the Congolese winger only scored seven goals in the English League One last season, but the 22-year-old African player is indeed fast and physically strong.
To put it simply, it doesn't seem to be a big deal.
Aren't there a lot of fast players in our British Empire?
The key is that he has British nationality but not a local household registration.
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While the British media was hyping up the situation, Leeds United took action quietly again.
The signing this time is Ryan Bertrand, a young player from the Chelsea youth team first team.
Speaking of which, this 21-year-old left back can be regarded as a victim of Chelsea's chaotic youth training system in recent years.
In the early years, he was loaned to Bournemouth and Oldham in the English League One and his performance was pretty good. Later, he stayed in Norwich City in the English Championship for a year and a half, and his overall strength was significantly improved.
In the 2009-10 season, Reading, who was loaned to the English Championship, played the main role and helped Reading reach ninth place in the league. He is a veritable main player in the English Championship.
Last season, Bertrand was loaned to Nottingham Forest and his performance was still good. However, after being recalled to Chelsea during the winter break, he only played 33 minutes in the entire second half. Even in the reserve team, his playing time was very low.
It's not regular either, only appearing eight times.
Continuous loan spells, plus half a year of wasted time, resulted in Bertrand struggling to wait for an opportunity at Chelsea, and his worth was always fluctuating around one million pounds.
Leeds United successfully persuaded Chelsea to release him this time, and the transfer fee was one million pounds.
At present, in addition to Ashley Cole, the Chelsea team also has Zhirkov and Van Aanholt, a Dutch defender who is ranked ahead of Bertrand. This makes the Blues decide to let Bertrand go.
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After signing Bertrand, another transfer that Leeds United had been working on for a long time finally bore fruit.
The White Rose announced the signing of 21-year-old French midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin from Southampton for £1.5 million.
The transfer took more than a month to negotiate, and the process was quite difficult.
On the one hand, Southampton had just been promoted from the English League One to the English Championship and were planning to keep Schneiderlin to show off his talents. On the other hand, the Saints sold their young player Chamberlain to Arsenal and gained a thousand taels.
One and a half million pounds.
But it was precisely because of this that Schneiderlin wanted to leave.
One of the important reasons why this French midfielder joined the Saints was that he believed that the Saints could return to the Premier League. But who would have thought that Southampton would be relegated to League One in the first season he joined.
He has also been working hard at Southampton in the past two years, but the departure of core midfielder Adam Lallana has led to Southampton's weak frontcourt attack. Last season, he only ranked fourth in English League One, and finally ended up in the play-offs.
A thrilling victory over Huddersfield, and a narrow escape into the Championship.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the English Championship, Chamberlain was immediately sold at a high price, which caused panic among the Saints.
More importantly, after selling Chamberlain, the Saints did not show any ambition to recruit players.
There was originally news that the Saints wanted to buy back Adam Lallana from Manchester City, but it turned out that the English midfielder was persuaded by Gao Shen and went to Leeds United, which caused Schneiderlin to lose confidence in the team's promotion to the Premier League.
So, when Leeds United made an offer, Schneiderlin's heart skipped a beat. After all, everyone in the industry knew that this was a sophisticated team and the favorite to win the championship in the new season.
Southampton repeatedly rejected Leeds United's offer for Schneiderlin. In the end, Schneiderlin put pressure on Southampton through his agent and finally persuaded the Saints to agree to the offer. After long negotiations, the two parties switched.
Membership fees were eventually locked at £1.5 million.
This is a considerable premium for Schneiderlin, who is currently worth only 1.15 million pounds.
After signing Schneiderlin, Leeds United soon officially announced that it would acquire Belgian center Christian Benteke from Standard Liege in Belgium for a transfer fee of one million euros.
The 20-year-old center was loaned to Mechelen last summer as part of the transfer of Cameroon forward Alois Noon to Standard Liege. He made 19 appearances in the Belgian League, playing 1,331 minutes.
Scored four goals, average performance.
But Leeds United attaches great importance to this deal.
Gao Shen personally went to Belgium to negotiate Benteke.
At that time, Gao Shen was rushing to Belgium to meet with Courtois and persuade the Belgian goalkeeper to join Leeds United. He then went to Standard Liege and successfully signed Benteke from Standard Liege.
One million euros is not cheap for a center who can't even play football at Standard Liege.
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As the training camp for the new season approaches, and as famous players join one after another, Gao Shen can increasingly feel his confidence in Leeds United.
Especially as the transfer operation deepened, he came into close contact with the front line of transfer negotiations, and he began to have a deeper understanding and idea of many things.
For example, center.
Gao Shen considered many centers in total, such as Jay Rodriguez from Burnley, Carlos Bacca from Barranquilla Youth in Colombia, Jackson Martinez who played for Jaguares in Mexico, and Standard List.
Japan’s Benteke et al.
These centers all meet the requirements of Leeds United and have relatively strong personal abilities.
At first, Gao Shen was most interested in Jackson Martinez.
Why?
Because he is twenty-four years old, in his prime, and his ability and physical fitness are very good. As long as the team organizes offensive tactics around him, I believe he can quickly show his worth.
When the time comes to resell it, it will all be money.
But when Gao Shen went south to London and had a meal with Bernstein, chairman of the Football Association, he found that special terms were not so easy to get, and Paulinho was the easiest to get because he was a Brazilian player after all.
Both Mane and Salah are problematic. Even Bernstein can only promise to help as much as possible. Whether it will succeed or not is hard to say.
Under this circumstance, if Gao Shen introduces Jackson Martinez again, the labor certificate will be very problematic.
Jackson Martinez entered the national team in 2009, but starting from September 2009, he missed the opportunity to play for the national team due to ankle surgery, which resulted in insufficient playing time.
This is especially true for Bacca, who has yet to play for the national team.
In this case, Gao Shen can only choose one between Jay Rodriguez and Benteke.
As for a talented center like Lucas, the cost of transferring to Chelsea this summer is as high as 16 million pounds, which is simply not within the reach of Leeds United.
After communicating with Burnley, Gao Shen finally chose Benteke, who was worth less.
Benteke's current performance is indeed not as good as Jay Rodriguez. After all, the latter has played a full season in the British Championship and scored 14 goals. His performance is better and he is more adaptable to the British Championship.
But Burnley's asking price was beyond Leeds United's affordability, so Gao Shen had no choice but to compromise.
Fortunately, Benteke looks rough, but in fact his footwork is quite delicate, but his shooting is a bit...
After all, he is the man who can make Teacher Zhan Jun break his defense!
