Chapter 51 Can the Chinese play football?
On January 17, Wu Jie’s visa and passport were finally processed, which was very fast.
After that, there was no trouble. In this era, when non-European players go to play in the four major leagues, the main source of problems is actually the players' home teams and football associations.
Maradona is an example. Barcelona wanted to buy this Argentine genius three years ago, but the "Argentina Youth Club" felt that the transfer fee was too small and refused to let him go. Two years later, Barcelona gave the club enough money, and this time
It's the Argentine Football Association's turn again and they won't let him go. If Barcelona wants Maradona, they have to satisfy the Argentine Football Association.
Although the Chinese Football Association is no better than a pig or a dog, many people don't know that most of the time, the Chinese Football Association is a little better than the Argentine Football Association, and the Brazilian Football Association is also fully capable of competing with the Chinese Football Association for the second-to-last position.
Wu Jie's transfer was not blocked by the Football Association and the Sports Ministry, and Bayern could easily help him complete a series of transfer procedures in Germany.
A week later, just days before the Bundesliga winter transfer window was about to close, Bayern's "Press Office" released a news to the German media that they had successfully introduced the talented forward Jie Wu from China.
Soon, a spokesman for Bayern Club also officially announced the news to the media and fans.
At this time, Wu Jie had just boarded the plane to West Germany, and the media in West Germany had already begun to report the news that members of the Chinese national team had joined the Bundesliga giants.
So I would like to ask, will West Germany turn against the Rabbit?
Why do you need to ask this? Is there any country in Europe that does not oppose this?
Before Wu Jie even set foot on German soil, the West German media reported the news with various attention-grabbing headlines.
"Bayern Munich should buy a panda!"
This is the headline published by the "Frankfurter Review", and you can basically see the argument from these few words.
They didn't report much, but they were all questions.
Do Chinese people know how to play football?
How good is this Chinese person?
Does he speak German or English?
Why doesn't Bayern buy a panda from China?
The panda can at least be a mascot. Will this Chinese person be a mascot?
"Commodity or Genius?"
This is the title published by "Kicker". They believe that Wu Jie is a "commodity" for Bayern to enter Asia, because the Chinese team has never become a world player, and Wu Jie has never shown his talent in world events.
The Asian-level competition is not enough to prove anything, but if Bayern just wants to get a ticket to Asia, it may be a good deal.
Now everyone knows that Uli Hoeness, who retired due to injury, is very profitable. This may be another operation by him to improve Bayern's economic situation.
"Chinese Football? Chinese Genius?"
"Süddeutsche Zeitung" is a local newspaper in Munich. Their reports are relatively gentle. At least they know that the Chinese team has just won the Asian championship and defeated the South Korean team led by Bundesliga star Cha Bum-geun.
Wu Jie scored 18 goals in the Asian Cup and won the Golden Boot and Best Player. The information was also written in the report.
This gave Bayern fans a preliminary understanding of Wu Jie. Of course they knew who Cha Bum-gen was. He was one of the top twenty stars in the Bundesliga.
If this Chinese genius is better than Cha Bum-geun, then it would be worth bringing in the team.
But what makes "Süddeutsche Zeitung" and Bayern fans question is: Is he really such a genius? How much did Bayern spend on this talent?
Whether these West German media are disparaging, satirical, or slightly more objective reports, they are basically not optimistic about Chinese players, and Bayern fans do not think this deal is helpful to the team.
Unless the team just wants to buy a Chinese talent and train it in the reserve team, and then use this product to develop the Asian market, then they won't have any objections.
But soon the media revealed a piece of news that made Bayern fans concerned again: It is said that the Chinese transfer fee exceeded one million marks?
"What, one million marks? This must be fake news, right?"
"Of course it's fake news. How could the board of directors agree to such a stupid deal?"
"One million marks is enough to buy Cha Bum-gen, but we don't need players of this level."
"Do you know what position this Chinese guy plays?"
"I read reports that he won the Golden Boot of the Asian Cup, so he should be a forward."
"If he is a forward, then this news must be false. We will not spend another million marks to buy a 17-year-old Chinese forward when we already have Rummenigge and Hoeness."
The West German media and Bayern fans who were discussing Wu Jie didn't know that the person involved finally arrived in Munich after taking dozens of hours of flight.
On January 26, local time, Wu Jie finally arrived in Munich.
He is traveling with Bayern assistant coach Kramer, transfer director Stefan, a Chinese translator who can speak German, and two Football Association and Sports Ministry officials who accompanied him to Germany.
These two officials came to confirm the completion of the transfer, and also to confirm whether Wu Jie would encounter any trouble in life or even politics.
China and the United States are in their honeymoon period, and their contacts with Europe have increased.
However, the arrogance of the entire West has not diminished at all, and their discrimination against the Chinese has become more felt by the Chinese as the two sides have contacts.
This is easy to understand. Originally, we had no contact with each other, but distance may create beauty.
Now that we have more contacts, the favorability level has not increased, but the dislike level has increased a lot.
These two officials will not leave until Wu Jie officially joins the team and the transfer fee is confirmed.
As for Wu Jie's salary issue, this is left to the embassy to supervise.
The male translator was a German major who was about to graduate from the university, and his salary would be reimbursed by Bayern.
Wu Jie does not speak German and has been pretending that he does not know English. Naturally, Bayern will provide him with a German translator.
In fact, his English proficiency is sufficient for daily communication. The English proficiency of West Germany is much better than that of East Germany. Half of the people in West Germany can communicate simply in English.
Most Bayern players can also speak some English. As long as Wu Jie knows English, he can barely cope in West Germany.
But he can't show these things, because it has only been less than a year since he took over this body. Even if his skills have improved so much, if he can even speak English, it will easily arouse suspicion.
Now his communication with Kramer and Stefan is through this college student named Liu Baoping.
"Wu, the winter transfer period is about to end. We will conduct a physical examination for you tomorrow, and then help you complete the registration for the league and the Champions League. Then you can become a member of the great Bayern!"
"It's great, I can't wait to join this great team and play!"
Wu Jie's response is in line with the mentality of today's young people. He also looks eager to try, which is very confusing.
Cramer secretly shook his head in his heart, although they had promised to give Wu Jie ample opportunities to play.
But that was a strategy to fool him first. Bayern had to first confirm that Wu Jie could adapt to the Bundesliga, otherwise how could they let him play right away.
We should at least take a look at Wu Jie's physical test before deciding how to arrange him.
This is very different from the previous promise, but they are Bayern who have played all over Europe!
If such a team is willing to train him, it is already very sincere.
The next day, Wu Jie's transfer information was disclosed by more West German media, and it was basically confirmed that the transfer fee must exceed one million marks, and may even reach two million marks.
This makes Bayern fans even more uneasy. They cannot accept that the team spends one million marks to buy a 17-year-old Chinese player.
If the transfer fee really reaches two million marks, it would be simply bad news.
"Hell, we already have Rummenigge and Hoeness, why would Hoffman spend so much money on a Chinese?"
"Can this Chinese play football? Are there any sports stars in China? Where is this damn country?"
"They don't seem to have participated in the Olympics. I haven't seen Chinese athletes from the Olympics."
"China should be in Asia! Who has a world map?"
"Wait, where is Asia?"
"Asshole, don't worry about where damn Asia and China are, we shouldn't sign foreign players at all, the great Bayern should be all German!"
"Well said, we don't need foreign aid, Stalin is a scumbag!"
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Following media reports, Bayern fans became increasingly dissatisfied with the team’s introduction of a Chinese player.
They don't think that the great Bayern has a place for Chinese people. Even if they really want to buy foreign players, they must be the top bidders in the European transfer market!
But now the team has bought a Chinese player and spent so much money. Has their board of directors been collectively kidnapped? Could it be Hamburg?
These Bayern fans are obviously very proud of their team, because they created a Champions League dynasty (three consecutive championships) in the 1970s. Having such a glorious history makes them very reluctant to buy a Chinese striker, even though some Munich media have reported
Despite his performance in Asia, he still cannot convince the proud German fans and proud Bayern fans.
But at this time, we can see the benefits of the Bundesliga, because even the Bundesliga, where two Asian players have successfully landed, is still very discriminatory against Asian players, especially Chinese players, from fans to the media.
What if he lands in the UK, which is even more discriminatory towards the Chinese?
The British media and fans probably sprayed it a week ago!
At this time, the camera moved to our Mr. Wu. Of course, he knew from the media the opposition of Bayern fans to him and the cynicism of the German media towards him.
But these will not make him worry at all, because this is due to his full confidence in his own strength.
Chapter completed!