"We are pleased to announce that the team has reached an agreement with Italian club Empoli on the transfer of Italian striker Antonio Di Natale. The team has signed a five-year contract with this efficient Italian striker..."
"Sporting de Gijon has agreed with Palermo to sign Italian international Fabio Grosso. In the next five years, the Italian international left-back will play for Sporting Gijon..."
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While Leon was still in Zagreb, Grosso had successfully passed his physical examination in Gijon, and the club also announced the joining of Di Natale and Grosso on its official website.
The joining of these two Italian players immediately aroused strong interest from the Gijon media.
About ten days ago, the club announced the joining of Ribery and Pepe. Among them was a Frenchman named Frank Ribery. The media in Gijon could not find any information about the Frenchman. Until finally, there was
I haven't figured out the origin of Ribery. He is a guy who plays for a low-level French league team. This has also caused a heated discussion in Gijon. Obviously, everyone is very 'curious' about this low-level league player.
How to attract Li Ang's attention, because as far as they know, coach Li Ang likes this Frenchman very much.
Some other media in Spain, especially those who have old grievances with Leon, also reported this matter. Of course, it was not a good thing... The words were also full of suspicion and ridicule towards Ribery, and the target was naturally
Pointed directly at Li Ang.
At this time, the media in Gijon are on Li Ang's side. This does not mean that they are optimistic about Ribery, but the views of the Gijon people are also very clear. Ribery joined for free, and Sporting Gijon did not spend a day.
What's the point of comparing transfer fees?
Now, the joining of Di Natale and Grosso immediately aroused the interest of the media. This time, they quickly found the information of these two Italian players.
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Antonio Di Natale plays for Italian Serie A club Empoli. However, this team has now been relegated to Serie B. In Serie A last season, Di Natale played 33 times.
, scoring five goals for the team. In the Serie A last season, Di Natale played 27 times and scored 13 goals for Empoli.
In the tight-defensive Serie A, he scored a total of 18 goals for the team in two seasons. This statistic can be said to be quite outstanding.
Therefore, the media and fans in Gijon are relatively recognizing and looking forward to this signing. Moreover, "Voice of Gijon", which has a good relationship with Sporting Gijon, has also found out Di Natale's transfer fee: it is only a mere 30
Thousands of euros!
Obviously, Sporting Gijon got a more practical player from the relegated Empoli at the minimum cost. Moreover, the media also inquired that Sporting Gijon defeated the Serie A powerhouse Udinese.
Got Di Natale's.
The joining of Fabio Grosso excited the fans and media in Gijon. Apart from that, Grosso is an Italian international. Although he is only a marginal Italian international, he is also an Italian international!
The joining of the Italian international player who was in his prime years made Gijon fans forget about Jeffrey who moved to Porto.
According to "Voice of Gijon", Coach Li Ang personally went to Italy to negotiate with the other club to win these two Italian players. It can be seen that these two players are also highly valued and liked by Coach Li Ang.
Coach Li Ang has not returned to Gijon yet. According to rumors, he is still 'traveling' around Europe to recruit people. The media and fans are very interested in what other players this respected and meritorious coach of the team will bring?!
The Spanish media are still paying attention to Li Ang. They noticed that none of the players Li Ang signed are Spanish players. This is different from many small and medium-sized Spanish players. Teams in La Liga, as well as small and medium-sized teams in La Liga
, when recruiting players, they are basically local Spanish players, and players from other leagues are rarely introduced. On the one hand, these players need to adapt to the new league when they join the Spanish league, and their future performance is uncertain.
The other thing is that they know more about and pay more attention to local Spanish players. Unless they have a very efficient scouting system, they rarely go to countries other than Spain to introduce players.
Let’s take a look at the four players introduced by Sporting Gijon’s coach Leon. Frank Ribery plays for the French low-level league, and Antonio Di Natale and Fabio Grosso play for the Serie A.
As for the team, Pepe, a Brazilian, plays for Porto in the Portuguese Super League.
And it is said that these four players were all hand-picked by Li Ang. To be precise, Li Ang even negotiated with the opposing club or personally invited the players.
Therefore, the media and fans are very interested and want to know why the Chinese head coach values these players and how he poached these players?
Especially that guy named Frank Ribery, where did coach Li Ang know such a thing?! Well...
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Having secured Modric's transfer, Li Ang is in a happy mood.
He bid farewell to the enthusiastic Modric family and prepared to leave Croatia.
After booking a ticket for his next trip the next morning, Li Ang lay in the hotel where he was staying and began to settle accounts.
He is calculating the cost of acquiring players so far.
Grosso is one and a half million euros.
Di Natale is three hundred thousand euros.
Modric is worth 800,000 euros.
Ribery is on a free transfer.
Pepe was a player exchange, which did not cost a penny and brought the club 750,000 euros in revenue.
In this case, the current cost of bringing in these four players is 1.9 million euros!
1.9 million euros!
Li Ang clicked his tongue, feeling a little distressed. The budget given to him by the club was three million euros: the budget originally agreed upon was two and a half million euros. Later, after the team was promoted to the First Division, Li Ang and Benita
, and worked hard to get half a million euros - this is quite not easy. Although entering La Liga, TV broadcast revenue and advertising revenue will increase a lot, but these come from La Liga
The income will not arrive until one season later, so Sporting Gijon is still strapped for funds.
Of the 3 million euros in signing funds, 1.9 million euros have been spent, and only 1.1 million euros are left. This makes Li Ang heartbroken, because according to his plan, the team still needs to count.
To make up for the shortcomings in this position, there are only about one million euros of funds, which is definitely not enough.
The team must speed up the process of purging and selling existing players.
Li Ang then called and communicated with the club's general manager Benita. The final result was that Li Ang provided the club with a list of up to twelve players. According to Li Ang's wishes, these twelve players
All are for sale.
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Collecting transfer funds by selling players takes time.
Therefore, Li Ang's current goal is still to only choose cheap players, especially those who can transfer freely.
This time, he needs to introduce players at the central defender position.
The team's main center back Yago last season was loaned by Sporting Gijon from Celta Vigo. After the end of the season, Yago's loan ended and he returned to Celta. Sporting Gijon asked Celta to fully introduce this player.
It is possible that the latter directly offered 1.8 million euros. As soon as Li Ang heard this lion's big mouth, he directly closed the communication channel with Celta. 1.8 million, you are going crazy thinking about money!
Yago's performance can only be said to be quite satisfactory. In the eyes of Li Ang, who is familiar with the future and has a system to assist him, such a central defender is not in Li Ang's long-term plan.
Celta Vigo's Lions opened their doors widely, which also made Li Ang determined to introduce a reliable player at the center back position.
He has closed negotiations with Celta, but he knows nothing about it. Celta is still waiting for Sporting Gijon to continue negotiations, and they are still waiting to kill Sporting Gijon. Anyway, Ya
Godou is the hero of Sporting Gijon's promotion. It stands to reason that Sporting Gijon will definitely try their best to introduce this player. In the central defender position, if possible, the team will generally try to maintain stability...and then,
No more, Celta did not receive any response from Sporting Gijon.
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The destination of Li Ang's trip is Qatar.
His target is former Real Madrid captain Hierro.
Li Ang's most intuitive impression of Hierro was during the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup, where he witnessed the loneliness of the iron-blooded captain at the Gwangju Stadium in South Korea.
On June 22, 2002, a World Cup quarter-final that had nothing to do with football was held at the Gwangju Stadium in South Korea. The Koreans "shamelessly" made history, and Spain was "helplessly" eliminated. This is Hierro representing the country.
The last game of the team. This veteran of the national team who participated in four World Cups did not lose to his age or his opponents on the court, but he lost to the referee and the black whistle.
At that time, the team encountered huge difficulties. The successive controversial penalties made the Spanish players' mentality unbalanced, and the situation was very unfavorable to Spain. It was under such circumstances that the game came to a penalty shootout. As the captain, Hierro was the first to take the penalty spot.
The goal was scored and the penalty was scored calmly, which stabilized the morale of the army. However, in the end, Spain was still blocked from the semi-finals. This was the closest to the dream of the World Cup, and also the most out of reach due to various reasons.
Regardless of whether he is in Real Madrid or the national team, Hierro is the team's unique captain. As a central defender, he is the absolute core of the defense. He has excellent header ability, is good at physical confrontation, and can grasp the time of the attack very accurately.
Having once played as a defensive midfielder, he also has good scheduling and passing awareness. The only drawback is that Hierro's turn is a bit slow. Especially towards the end of his career, it has always been a weakness that the opponent's forwards took advantage of, and it has also been criticized by some media and fans.
It is also worth mentioning that although he played as a defender, Hierro scored 29 goals for the national team and once occupied the top scorer list of the national team until he was later replaced by Raul and Villa.
Beyond that, his offensive ability is evident.
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Real Madrid once almost missed out on their legendary captain.
In 1989, Hierro was about to join Atletico Madrid, another team in Madrid, but then Real Madrid president Mendoza spent 30 million pesetas to snatch Hierro to Real Madrid. From then on, Hierro started his career at the Bernabeu.
A white legend. When Hierro joined Real Madrid, he said to the fans: "Since I was a kid, I would cry when seeing Real Madrid lose. Every time I cry, I think I have to train hard so that Real Madrid will never lose again."
The ball will make more people who like Real Madrid stop crying!" Hierro did it. During his 14 years at Real Madrid, he won 5 La Liga championships, 3 Champions League championships, 1 King's Cup championship, and 4 Spanish championships for the team.
Super Cup, 1 European Super Cup, 2 Toyota Cups. It has brought countless happiness to fans.
Sometimes honors are too dazzling and cover up many things that are more worthy of our attention. Hierro's love for Real Madrid is not only reflected in honors: for the benefit of the whole team, he took the initiative to retreat from the midfielder to the central defender position (
In the 1991/92 season, he scored 21 goals and became the second goalscorer in La Liga that year) without a single complaint; for the future of Real Madrid, he even bravely stood up and challenged the chairman: In 2003, in order to protect local Spanish players, Hierro and
At that time, President Florentino's "global superstar" policy created differences. With the arrival of Ronaldo, Figo, Zidane and Beckham, Florentino was regarded as a city hero in Madrid.
, Hierro disclosed his conflict with the chairman in order to protect the position of his compatriot Morientes. He said that players are not commodities and Real Madrid should introduce more suitable players instead of blindly pursuing commercial superstars. That season,
After Real Madrid won the league championship, Hierro called on the players not to participate in the celebrations and refused to be interviewed. But after all, his arm could not twist the thigh. Just 24 hours later, Florentino kicked Hierro out. The legendary captain of Real Madrid left like this.
Real Madrid, and Real Madrid missed the league title this season after Hierro left the team, let alone the Champions League trophy.
Even after being purged by Real Madrid, he never said a word to criticize his old club. Hierro's love for Real Madrid is like a river flowing into the sea, giving everything he has without reservation.
"I don't care about the attitude of the club. It is an honor for me to return to the Bernabeu. No matter what has happened in the past and what will happen in the future, my heart will not leave here. Real Madrid taught me that once you put on the jersey of this club, you must
Learn to give 100%. You are not allowed to relax for a second in Real Madrid. The club instills in you the creed of winning all trophies. Live for Real Madrid and die for Real Madrid." After retiring, Real Madrid is still Hierro's love.
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It is a pity not to be able to retire at his beloved club, but Hierro's selfless love for Real Madrid is extremely shocking.
Because of this, Li Ang is not very sure about inviting Hierro to join Sporting Gijon during this trip to Qatar. Because Hierro's love for Real Madrid is too deep, he is not very sure about persuading Hierro to return to La Liga.
Facing his beloved Real Madrid as an enemy. (To be continued.)
