Chapter 138 The Past and Present Life of the Chaqiu King
In this Hamburg youth team, there are not many people who can really be called famous.
The u23 youth team is basically a group of mediocre players, at least none of them worthy of Pan Yi's attention.
But there are two in the U18 youth team who are pretty good.
One is Jonathan Tower, the current captain of the German U17 national team.
This future player was also selected as a central defender for the German adult national team. He is 195cm tall and has excellent ability to read the game on the court.
The only problem is that he is only 16 years old this year, which is a bit too mature. Compared with the current main center back combination of Kjaer and Rudiger in Pan Yi's mind, there is still a bit of a gap.
At most, it can only be used as an emergency, and there is no rush to promote him to the first team.
The other one is a midfielder that Pan Yi was familiar with in his previous life.
That was Calhanoglu, the Turkish star who later became known as the "Chalhanoglu" in the Bundesliga.
Although he is only 18 years old this year, he already represented Karlsruhe in 16 appearances in the Bundesliga last season.
Although Karlsruhe eventually ranked third from bottom in the Bundesliga 2 and was relegated, Calhanoglu's performance still attracted the attention of many teams, and he eventually switched to Hamburg's youth training system.
Hamburg originally wanted to rent Calhanoglu back to Karlsruhe for another season this season, but Pan Yi decided to promote him to the first team in advance.
The main reason is that Hamburg often played in a 343 or 442 formation last season. Coupled with the changes in players in the summer window, there is no one in the team who can seriously play as an attacking midfielder except De Bruyne.
Calhanoglu's best position is precisely the attacking midfielder, so it is very appropriate to use him as De Bruyne's substitute.
And the reason why Calhanoglu has gained a reputation in the Bundesliga is not actually how accurate his passing is, but mainly because he has a unique skill of taking free kicks.
He can score 6 free kicks in one season!
Even in m2012, when he was only 18 years old, his free kick value had already reached as high as 15.
So Pan Yi puts him in the first team and lets him play sometimes, which may have special effects.
So, he is also a little devil, why is Pan Yi not ready to vigorously cultivate Calhanoglu and let him quickly grow into a world-class star, but is just going to let him be De Bruyne's substitute?
First of all, no matter how strong the "King of Chaqiu" is, he can't be better than "Teacher Ding".
In Pan Yi's previous life, De Bruyne was the brains and midfield commander of Manchester City. He was a top star who would be called "the world's best midfielder" by countless fans. He was often selected for various annual awards.
Awesome characters in the lineup.
Although Calhanoglu also plays for strong teams such as Bayer Leverkusen, AC Milan, and Inter Milan, after all, he is only a star between the first-rate and the second-rate, and is still not as good as a "superstar".
A lot of grades.
In other words, his potential is limited, at least not as high as De Bruyne.
Now that Hamburg already has De Bruyne in the team, why bother to train Calhanoglu?
Isn’t this the same as losing the watermelon and picking up the goose feathers?
Secondly, Pan Yi felt a little dissatisfied: Calhanoglu's character was really not that good.
Just last year, Calhanoglu's father signed a contract with Trabzonspor Football Club on behalf of Calhanoglu and accepted a signing fee of 100,000 euros.
But then, Calhanoglu renewed his contract with Karlsruhe, making his contract with Trabzonspor a dead letter.
This contract dispute lasted for several years, and finally in 2017, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the judgment made by FIFA in 2016: Calhanoglu was suspended for 4 months and fined Trabzonspor 100,000.
Euro.
At the end of the season, Calhanoglu helped Hamburg avoid relegation and announced his intention to stay in Hamburg longer.
However, in the summer window, Leverkusen provided Calhanoglu with more money and the No. 10 jersey, so Calhanoglu changed his mobile phone number in order to join Leverkusen.
, and even told the doctor that he had a mental problem and could no longer train with Hamburg.
In the end, through various manipulations of pretending to be injured and stopping training, Calhanoglu left Hamburg and transferred to Bayer Leverkusen.
However, after Calhanoglu completed the physical examination to join Leverkusen, his mental condition began to feel good again and he could train and compete normally...
At that time, he got along well with South Korean forward Son Heung-min, who had also moved to Bayer Leverkusen at the time, and showed his excellent ability to handle set pieces, helping the team to compete in the Champions League for several seasons;
But when Son Heung-min switched to the Premier League team Tottenham in 2015, Calhanoglu publicly criticized the South Korean striker for not thinking about his roots - but it was obvious that this was just "laughing at fifty steps" and was unconvincing.
words.
Then there are his outrageous moves after transferring to AC Milan.
When negotiating a contract extension with the team, he opened his mouth wide and offered a condition that far exceeded the salary cap set by the team. The team considered him to be lacking in sincerity, and eventually the negotiations broke down and broke up.
He moved to rival Inter Milan on a free agency basis.
After leaving the team, he also made remarks similar to that of AC Milan's players, which made many AC Milan fans deeply dissatisfied with him.
In the first Milan derby after the defection, Inter Milan was awarded a penalty kick. The penalty kick was originally taken by Argentine forward Lautaro Martinez, but Calhanoglu stole the ball from the former and automatically
Please take care of it.
The key point is that after scoring the goal, he staged the famous scene of "sliding on his knees and kowtowing". He also went to AC Milan fans to celebrate and even made provocative actions, which made all AC Milan fans hate him.
In fact, in addition to AC Milan fans, many Inter Milan fans are also very critical or even dissatisfied with their actions, because most of the latter's fans respect players who understand gratitude and value friendship, but Calhanoglu's actions
But it's disgusting.
When Milan won the championship this season, many Milan players even cursed Calhanoglu during the championship celebration...
It is precisely because of these various incidents, especially the fact that Pan Yi now has deep feelings for AC Milan, that he really doesn't like Calhanoglu.
Therefore, allowing this Turk to enter the first team as a substitute is considered to be very generous to Pan Yi.
Of course, another point is that most of those bad things happened in Pan Yi's previous life, and the current Calhanoglu is still a child!
No matter what, he shouldn't be responsible for things he hasn't done yet, right?
Maybe in this life, the Chaqiu King will be a little more restrained under Pan Yi, and there is a certain chance that he will become a good boy?
Will the butterfly effect after his time travel affect such a character?
This also gave Pan Yi a certain degree of curiosity, which may be one of his motives for using Calhanoglu.
After the recruitment and recruitment work is almost completed, Pan Yi can focus on various training and pre-season warm-up games!