238、Summer
On June 6, it has been a week since Ajax won the Champions League title.
Amid the uproar and amazement, the club held a press conference and announced the peaceful termination of the contract with the meritorious coach Marco Van Basten. White Swan gave his own explanation, eliminating the doubts that the outside world believed that he was very dissatisfied with the club's selling of its main players, which in turn caused fierce conflicts.
In order to prove that the relationship between the two parties has not broken down, he also accepted the position of technical consultant provided by John Jacque, and he could receive a non-orthodox and less economic income from the club every month.
In addition to the head coach, their personality captain Luis Suarez also said goodbye to the fans, and this summer is destined to be a season of separation.
Although the transfer window will not officially open until July, Long Shute already knows where many teammates are going, and those players who have clarified their destination will also say hello to him in advance.
Dutch main goalkeeper Stegrenberg transferred to the Serie A veteran team Roma, while right forward Dezeu went to the Russian Super League to make gold at almost the same price.
South Korean young player Shi Hyun-jun still failed to conquer the club after a season of loan and finally chose to leave freely.
The main defender Oleg chose to retire at the age of 31. He has reached the peak with Barcelona and Ajax, and may want to enjoy life like Van Basten. He became a registered economist, opened a new energy company with several like-minded friends, and became a corporate executive. Such a strange transformation surprised everyone...
Within just ten days, Ajax, who had just won the Champions League championship, suddenly left four absolute main players (not including Long Shute himself for the time being). In addition, Emmanurson, who switched to Milan during the winter break, Long Shute had fewer and fewer comrades around him.
Just like many dark horse teams that have suddenly risen, this Ajax is about to be dismembered by other league clubs, and their championship lineup has fallen apart...
When old people left, there were naturally new players. Ajax quickly announced that he had signed the second best player in the Eredivisie last season, Luke De Jong, and many young people who performed well in the league, began to rebuild the team according to the ideas of Cruyff and De Bol.
It is obvious that Long Shute is no longer in their team building concept. Now the only question they are considering is... which club has a higher offer.
2011 is not a traditional competition year. There are no high-profile World Cup and European Cup. The Asian Cup has ended as early as the Chinese New Year, and the African Cup and Olympics are next year. Therefore, this summer, only one football event in the Copa America will be staged.
Since there is no major competition that will have a great impact on the player's value, although the transfer window has not been completely opened, the senior management and coaches of each club have already started their respective recruitment work. Every day, they hear countless true and false rumors and news. Fans frequently go up and down trees. In the surprise of buying big brands and the anger of leaving the team, their network traffic is flying like a flying...
Long Shute, who was recovering from injuries in the Netherlands, has contacted staff from no less than 50 clubs in the past few days. Except for some small teams that are obviously insincere, he almost refused everyone.
He didn't even force the club to have the UEFA Champions League qualification for next season - if it really doesn't work, the UEFA Champions League qualification is also possible.
Teams including Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal, Bayern, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Lyon, Marseille, Malaga, Sevilla, Schalke, Leverkusen, Dortmund, etc. have expressed his interest to him to varying degrees, and are all strong teams ranked high in major leagues.
Of course, it is common for a club to express interest to capable players, and this does not mean that they will definitely choose to offer.
But even so, Long Shute has many choices. He is now like the club, just waiting for those buyers to make a formal offer after careful consideration.
The first offer is coming soon.
"It's rumored that Arsenal officially seeks to buy Ajax captain Long Shute! The transfer fee is about 10 million pounds (about 11.8 million euros)!"
The domestic Arsenal fans were naturally excited and began to imagine that the Chinese captain led his arsenal to China a month later and met with fans from the East, but Long Shute was a little amused and crying.
Less than 12 million euros... Do you really treat Ajax's executives as beggars?
Even if Borgkamp is close to you, it is impossible to reduce the price so much?
Ajax Chairman John Jake directly tore off the fax sent by Wenger and said in an interview with the media:
"Ajax is by no means a lifestyle supermarket that European giants can buy whenever they want, and Ajax's meritorious players are by no means simple food that is about to expire."
Van Basten, who was on vacation, criticized Arsenal for being disrespectful to Ajax and the players:
"In my eyes, Longshut is even better than Fabregas and Nasri combined. May I ask Mr. Wenger, how much are these two players worth?"
The new head coach De Pole also pretended to make a statement:
"Longhe Club's new contract has only been fulfilled for a year. He is only twenty-one years old and his career has just begun. Ajax is the best place for him to grow and improve. He is also a non-sale product for the club."
Ajax has never had any "non-sale products". The meaning of these people is nothing more than that the other party's bid is too low...
Wenger's bid is more than just too low?
The player he wants to pursue is not just Ajax's vice captain, the Eredivisie MVP, the Golden Boot assisting king, the best player in the Champions League final and the best 11 people in the Champions League. 10 million pounds is tantamount to sending beggars...
Just as Arsenal's offer was ridiculed by the whole world, other competitors took action.
Liverpool and Manchester United, the enemy, offered 15 million pounds (about 18 million euros) together. Liverpool also played Suarez as a gay card to lure Longshute.
The two major tyrants of Chelsea and Manchester City also threw out a check of 20 million, but the unit of the old tyrant was euro, while the new tyrant used pounds - the gap between the two was about 3.7 million euros.
Arsenal gritted his teeth and raised his quotation: from 12 million a few days ago to 20.2 million pounds, equivalent to about 24 million euros, which is 300,000 more than Manchester City...
This offer has far exceeded Wenger's record of signings in recent years. Arsenal's insistence on quotation has made fans even more excited, who believe they have seen the club's ambition to compete for the championship.
Then two news suddenly came out...
Their core attacker, one of the four little swans in France, and the legendary successor of Zidane, Nasri, was poached by Manchester City in order to pursue a higher salary...
Their captain Fabregas even broke up with the club, and even if he paid out of his own pocket, he would transfer to Barcelona!
Their ambitions disappeared at this moment!
I originally thought these giants would continue to bid next, but unexpectedly, neither Chelsea nor Manchester City had any voice at this time.
So tabloids began to dig deeper into the reasons.
What are the bosses of the Middle East and Russia who are not optimistic about Chinese players...
What team's Japanese and Korean players showdown to the head coach: I'm not him...
Some European sponsors don’t like Chinese players, thinking that this will make customers feel that their products are inferior street stalls…
They even dug out which players and coaches are publicly mocking China's dark history...
After Long Shute read these reports, he even felt a sense of crisis:
Chapter completed!