After selling Lehmann and Rosicky to two Premier League teams respectively, Dick planned to leave the UK and go elsewhere - to be honest, the departure of Lehmann and Rosicky had a small impact on Dortmund, but it could
Solved by internal tapping of potential - Weidenfeller is a pretty good goalkeeper. What he lacks is just training opportunities. This season, Dick plans to correct Weidenfeller, if he does not expect to achieve great results in the Champions League.
If so, it would be enough for Weidenfeller to play in the league. If he could train a reliable goalkeeper, it would be much more cost-effective than buying a goalkeeper.
As for Rosicky's position, Dick plans to let Klinger take the position. The young German teenager performed very well in the few opportunities he played last season. Compared with Rosicky, he is not far behind in terms of technology and overall outlook.
However, he is a full-time defensive midfielder, and his strengths are in organizing attacks from a deep position. If he is used to replace Rosicky in this position, although his strength will be reduced a lot, it will benefit from cultivating young players and saving money.
From a different perspective, it couldn’t be more appropriate.
What's more, there is Ricken. Ricken was sometimes placed in this position last season. As a rotation player, he is qualified enough.
On the contrary, the departure of Rivaldo and Okocha means that players need to be compensated. Next season Dick does not plan to use a double attacking midfielder tactic. However, there are not enough forwards in the team. If Kavinaji also leaves, even if they
Gomez was transferred to the first team for good training. There are only three forwards in the team, Olic, Everton and Gomez. The front line is in urgent need of supplementary capabilities.
Dick has already thought about the tactics for next season. If there is no attacking midfielder, wingers can be used. The three forward tactics are equally effective and can better tap the potential of the team. But in this case, at least
A player with outstanding strength on the wing, Dortmund currently lacks someone with breakthrough ability in the frontcourt. Although Everton has good speed and skills, he needs space. Bring in a player who can dribble the ball and break through.
Players are the top priority.
Dick already had this candidate in his mind - Andrei Arshavin, who would be called the Tsar in the future. The Russian had not yet become famous. At the age of 21, he had just played two games with Zenit.
Although the main players performed well in the previous season, they did not attract much attention from the European continent.
Young, capable, not famous, the team does not have much financial resources, and he personally does not have a high salary - all of these meet Dick's requirements.
At present, Zenit St. Petersburg has not yet received Gazprom as a backing company. Although many Russian teams are relatively wealthy, basically all Moscow teams are rich. As a team located in St. Petersburg, Zenit is now only a Russian team.
Although the ordinary team finished third last season, its ranking dropped to tenth last season. It performed well this season, but it is still far behind the league championship.
It is obviously much easier to poach people in such a team.
Dick quickly flew directly from London to St. Petersburg.
What he didn't expect was that when he landed at the St. Petersburg airport and turned on his cell phone, Zorc called.
"Di, I've been calling you for a long time, why is your cell phone turned off?" Zorc said anxiously on the other end of the phone.
"What's wrong? Is there something urgent?"
Dick knew that Zorc would not call him if there was nothing urgent, so he did not think that Zorc was blaming him, but asked instead.
"Chelsea has made an offer to Kvinaghi! The offer is 20 million pounds!" Zorc's voice on the other end of the phone almost shouted: "So we want to ask you whether to sell Kvinaghi..."
"Twenty million pounds? That's thirty million euros?" Dick was also shocked by this figure. It's not that he thought the price was very expensive - in fact, it was indeed very expensive. You must know that in history, although Chelsea smashed the price this season,
They paid hundreds of millions of euros, but in fact they bought a lot of people. Crespo was their most valuable signing this summer, but it was only 18 million pounds, which is about 26 million euros. Now it’s all in one go
Just making an offer of 20 million pounds for Kavernagy... I can only say that it was probably Abramovich himself who made the move. If it was Kenyon, he would not be so irrational.
"It seems that Abramovich is really fascinated by the title of Champions League champion... Michael, don't worry, we can delay for a while and reply to them. If you want 40 million euros, take it." Dick
After thinking about it for a while, I said.
"...Won't it scare them away?" Zorc hesitated.
"Don't worry...this is definitely not Kenyon's handiwork, but the personal handiwork of their Russian boss. Although they have spent a lot of money now, they are actually very calm. Kenyon is a very knowledgeable person.
He would not spend so much money rashly. Since it is not Kenyon, then it must be their Russian boss. For this rich man, since he is willing to spend 30 million euros to buy Kavernagy, then he does not care how much more
Pay a thousand... Just reply like this, emphasizing how good Cavinagi is. He scored nearly 30 goals in all competitions last season, and only scored less than Ruud Ruud in the Champions League.
Two...that’s it.”
At this point, Dick smiled slightly: "And I can almost guess why Abramovich couldn't help but buy players himself..."
Zorc hung up the phone with some doubts, while Dick smiled slightly.
In fact, Dick's guess was not wrong.
After news came out from Manchester United that they had signed Borussia Dortmund's core midfielder Rosicky for 25 million euros, Abramovich became a little angry.
Because before this, Rosicky was also Chelsea's target. Chelsea head coach Ranieri said, "If I choose Rosicky and Veron, then I want Rosicky. Of course, Veron will be fine without Rosicky."
After having such instructions, Kenyon was ready to discuss Rosicky's transfer. However, at this time, news came from Manchester that Borussia Dortmund had reached an agreement with Manchester United, and Rosicky would be paid for two
Moved to Manchester United for 15 million euros...
It would be fine if the money was not as much as the other party's offer. Now Kenyon had a sufficient budget, but the other party made the offer first.
Since becoming Chelsea head coach, Abramovich, who has only stolen people from others, immediately became angry - he began to feel that Kenyon's cautious approach may not be wrong, but since there is a simpler way, why not
Do it?
After asking about the players who performed well in Dortmund last season, he immediately focused on Kavinaghi - very simply, Cavinaji was the most eye-catching young forward in the Champions League last season.
He scored ten goals in the cup, and basically all of them were quite important. He often scored key goals. At his age, having such a performance is indeed commendable.
In addition, Ranieri once said that he needed a better striker, so Abramovich directly passed over Kenyon and asked Chelsea to submit such an offer to Dortmund.
With a happy mood, Dick directly found a hotel in St. Petersburg and stayed there. He did not need to do the next details. Instead, Dortmund's transfer staff sent a transfer invitation to Zenit.
, expressed their hope to introduce their main player, Andrei Arshavin, at a price of three million euros.
Zenit chose to reject such an offer. Although they have little money now, they are not willing to sell a young main player for three million euros.
But soon, news that Dortmund was interested in Arshavin appeared in the media, and at the same time, Dortmund's offer increased to four million euros.
Now Zenit can't stand it anymore. Although Arshavin himself denied that he had any contact with Dortmund in an interview, and said that he loves Zenit and is unwilling to transfer easily, he also said in a subtle way
, I have great interest in playing in the four major leagues. After all, for a young player like him, if he can play under Dick, who is famous for being able to train young players, he may be able to progress even more.
quick.
Dick really had no contact with Arshavin privately. From the news of later generations, he could know that Arshavin was a very calm-minded player and paid great attention to his own image. Even if he wanted to play under him again, he would not be able to make it public.
They said I want to leave, paralyzing Zenit, you guys let me go quickly, and so on, so instead of having private contact, it is better to be more candid.
After these three years of achievements, after cultivating outstanding young players such as Vicente, Torres, and Cavinagy, whether it is "I will win a championship under Dick" or "Dick can make me better."
"Strong" is a huge attraction. Dick has this confidence. As long as his name is known, not only every player will cry and shout to join, at least for most players, they will be excited!
He has such confidence now.
Sure enough, under such circumstances, Zenit became passive - they were definitely not willing to let Arshavin go. However, firstly, the price offered by Dortmund had reached their bottom line, and secondly, they were now
It is true that he does not have the strength to challenge the Russian championship. The third reason is for Arshavin's own development. It seems that it would be more appropriate to let him go...
A few days later, Zenit finally agreed to Dortmund's third offer of 5 million euros. Generally speaking, Russian players are not worth too much, and 5 million euros is already a quite top figure——
After all, the Russian national team has not performed very well in recent competitions, which naturally affects the value of Russian players.
The subsequent salary discussion with Arshavin also went quite smoothly. You must know that Arshavin's current annual salary at Zenit is only 350,000 euros. In Dortmund, he will receive an annual salary of 800,000 euros. At the same time,
K told him that he was very optimistic about Arshavin's performance in Dortmund's new tactics in the new season.
"I'm very familiar with you and know your technical characteristics, so you don't need to worry that you won't have a place under me... Of course, this doesn't mean that you must be the main player. I will only let you play if your condition is qualified."
, Do you understand?" Dick said to Arshavin.
"Sir, I know this very well! I will use my own performance to prove that your vision is correct!" Arshavin said to Dick with great determination.
