Kearney training base in London, England.

For European giants, a perfect training base is the foundation for the team to achieve good results. After all, compared to limited game days, everyone has to spend more time on the training base. In a sense, the training base is the home of the players. The more comfortable the home feels, the more laughter and joy the players will have in their daily lives, and the team's record will become better and better.[]

Natural tranquility and undisturbance are essential elements of all professional team training bases. Chelsea's previous training ground was approaching London Heathrow Airport, and "the players' conversations were often interrupted by the sound of planes taking off and landing." In order to change this situation, Abu took over the "Blue Army" and spent a lot of money to establish a Colbaum training base in Kent, southeast of Greater London. The planned Colbaum training base will have 15 football fields and an indoor football field for winter training, which is luxurious just in line with Abu's appetite.

Compared with London giants, Liverpool's Melwood base has a long history. It has been 60 years since its completion in the 1950s, witnessing the rise and fall of the "Red Army". However, due to its long age, the facilities of the Melwood base are among the last four giants. As for Manchester United's Carrington base, since its opening in 1995, it has witnessed the era when the "Red Devils" dominate the Premier League. It is worth mentioning that when entering the Carrington training base, you must go through the training base of Manchester City. It is said that during training, players with outstanding feet often accidentally kick the ball to the opponent's field. Sun Jihai accidentally kicked the ball away during training, and was sent by head coach Keegan to Manchester United's Carrington to pick up the ball.

Although Arsenal has never been very active in the transfer market and has rarely made great efforts, when it comes to training bases, the Kerny base of the Gunners is a leader among the giants. The Kerny training base was established in 2000 and was built in the lush Hertfordshire. In addition, the Kerny training base is only 45 minutes away from the Emirates Stadium, the new stadium Arsenal will open next season. It is currently the best training ground in the UK. There are a total of ten standard stadiums, each equipped with underground drainage facilities and an automated spray system.

Because of the advanced Kearney training base, England has used it as a base for preparing for important games many times. Speaking of Kearney training base, we also have to thank Real Madrid for using Real Madrid to acquire Anelka's 23 million pounds, half of which was used to build the Kearney base and the other half to acquire Henry. As a result, Arsenal has greatly sublimated.

In the head coach's office at Kearney training base, Arcena Wenger's face was as bad as he was. 2005

The 2006 Premier League season has been held for 17 rounds, and Arsenal is now ranked eighth in the league. This can really be said to be a hellish situation for the London giants who won the championship with an unbeaten golden body a season ago.

This season, with Arsenal's away game continuing to sluggishly, Manchester United and Liverpool's ups and downs, after the seventeenth round of the league, defending champion Chelsea has already led Manchester United, which ranked second, by nine points, and 20 points ahead of Arsenal. It seems that the suspense of the championship is over early. Among the top few leagues at the beginning of the season, there are mid- and lower-level teams like Charlton, and the newly promoted Vigan once occupied the second place in the standings, which surprised experts. People are full of expectations for the birth of a new Premier League pattern.

However, this means a great shame for Arsenal. Before the league was halfway through, it was thrown out by Chelsea's "city rival" that had never been taken seriously before. Chelsea's points were almost twice that of Arsenal, which made pride as much as Wenger.

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London is very cold these days. When people wake up in the morning, they always find a silvery white area - there is no snow, and there is white frost everywhere. London has a lot of rain in winter, which is also the characteristic of temperate oceanic climate. But these days are not bad, and you can basically see the sun. The sun is always not high, it is still a little dark at 8 am, and the moon is getting high at around 3 pm. By four o'clock, the sky is basically dark.

The temperature of the air conditioner was too high. Wenger turned off the air conditioner and opened the windows to let the cold wind blow in. He shivered and became more energetic.

Arsenal's recent situation has worried him.

There were a few sheets of paper on the desk, with the names of Chelsea, Manchester United, Tottenham, and Manchester City, next to the names of these clubs.

Wenger is worried about the team's weak attacks. Now Arsenal is only ranked eighth in the Premier League, which is directly related to the sudden outbreak of Arsenal's weak attacks this season. The statistics on this piece of paper illustrate these situations.

Leader Chelsea scored 37 goals in 17 games; Manchester United, ranked second, scored 31 goals in 17 games; Tottenham, ranked fourth, also scored 25 goals; and even Manchester City, ranked seventh, scored 24 goals.

Among the top four teams, only Liverpool scored 21 goals, which is one less goal than Arsenal, but Liverpool conceded 11 goals, which is six less than Arsenal.

Arsenal's defense should be criticized, but, ultimately, it is Arsenal's attackers who should be held accountable. While Henry was trapped in a goal drought, other Arsenal's attackers were unable to stand up.

As Christmas is coming and the schedule is halfway through, Arsenal scorers seem to be still hibernating, Wenger is also anxious. He decided to introduce a scorer in the winter transfer market. The most direct requirement is to "can fight when you come."

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The goal was pushed open, and Arsenal's assistant coach Pat Rice came in. When the Arsenal game situation was unfavorable, fans in front of the TV would always see Wenger complaining with their assistants. This "listener" was Rice, Arsenal's assistant coach. Rice was an Arsenal man in his player age and also served as the Gunners captain. He has played for Arsenal in different positions for more than 40 years. In fact, Rice's job is not just about listening. He plays an important role in daily training, and he will also give Wenger advice in tactics, substitutions and selection of players.

At this time, there were only two people who could go directly into Wenger's office without knocking on the door. One was Arsenal's chief scout, the respected Steve Lovelli, and the other was Pat Les.

"Arsena." Pat Les shook the documents in his hand, "Marseille's reply."

"What do they say?" Wenger stopped what he was doing and asked. After watching the game video and analysis report sent by Gremandy, he became interested in this young Chinese scorer called Zhang Yang. The efficiency of scoring thirteen goals in seven games is also strange in Ligue 1, which frequently scored genius. Of course, it will attract Wenger's attention. Gremandy also strongly suggested in the report that this is a genius scorer that Arsenal must not miss! Scouts will use their own words carefully in the reports provided by their individuals. Comments like this are rare.

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After watching the video of Zhang Yang's game compiled by Gremandy, Wenger communicated with the chief scout Steve Lovelli. Then the chief scout of Arsenal rushed to France in person to watch the match between Marseille and Strasbourg. Zhang Yang's hat trick moved Steve Lovelli, who was not interested in Zhang Yang before. After he returned to London, the word used in the report submitted to Wenger was "A young man who can be trained." Although this comment was not as good as that of Gremandy's comment to Zhang Yang, considering the boss-level identity of this gentleman in Arsenal's scouting system, it would be nice to have such comments after watching only one game.

Afterwards, Wenger also carefully studied all the game videos and data analysis about Zhang Yang. He had a deeper understanding of Zhang Yang's situation, and Wenger was also interested in this young man.

To be precise, Zhang Yang moved Wenger.

Afterwards, they tentatively made a quote to the Marseille team. Of course, the process in between is not that simple. It takes a lot of procedures and investigation to make a quote for a player.

Although it is tentative, both Wenger himself, Steve Lovelli or Greymandy believe that this quotation can completely satisfy the Marseille team.

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"Refuse." Pat Rice shrugged, which was a good expression of his emotions, and he was a little surprised, "They rejected our offer."

"Oh?" Wenger was also a little surprised. He signaled Pat Rice to sit down, then he clicked on the document with the words "zhang" on it, looked at it twice, and shook his head. The Marseille team was too much. The offer given by Arsenal club was 3.5 million euros, which is a relatively high offer for Arsenal. For a player who was an amateur player and only played professional games with less than double digits, this was a sky-high price.

"They also said-" Pat Rice's expression was a bit weird.

"What else do you say?" Wenger became interested. Something particularly interesting must have happened that could make Rice's expression like this.

"They said that Zhang is their non-sale product. They don't sell it no matter how much they pay."

"Uh--"When hearing Pat Rice say this, Wenger's expression is equally wonderful. What changes his face is not the phrase "not selling products". This word has been used up now. To be honest, even if you buy a team who sits on the bench, that team will say that someone is their non-selling products. This is a skill and means of negotiation. What surprised Wenger and even funny is the latter sentence, "No matter how much you pay," this is a further annotation to the previous "not selling products".

From this supplement, Wenger truly felt the attitude of the Marseille team. The Masai people seemed to really attach great importance to this Chinese young man. The saying "not selling" was obviously not a bargaining casual talk.

Tsk tsk. The Arsenal head coach tsk. He found it very interesting. Obviously, this is due to the work of Marseille head coach Fernandez. According to Wenger's understanding, Marseille chairman Diouf will definitely not set any obstacles for this transfer transaction. He is a person who does not understand football and does not understand football, but actually only wants to make money. Only Fernandez is qualified and can say no to this transfer.

This at least shows that Fernandez attaches importance to his No. 27 player. In Fernandez's planning blueprint, this young Chinese man is very important.

If Wenger is recognized as good at discovering young players in international football, then in France, Fernandez's reputation in identifying people is not inferior to Wenger.

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Pat Rice thought Wenger would continue to ask about Zhang Yang, but when he saw Wenger just opened his notebook, wrote a few words on a page of paper, closed the notebook, and then he reached the next topic.

"How is the situation in Monaco?" Wenger asked.

In addition to tentatively making an offer to Marseille about Zhang Yang, Arsenal also asked the Monaco Club to buy Adebayo, and this is the reason why he should never put eggs in a basket.

Compared with Arsenal's tentative offer for Zhang Yang, Arsenal attaches more importance to and is sincere in Adebayo. After all, Arsenal has been paying attention to Adebayo for a long time. Now in the office of Arsenal's chief scout Steve Lovelli and Wenger, there is a drawer of information about Adebayo. Arsenal's offer to Monaco for acquiring Adebayo is 6 million. For a 21-year-old young scorer, this offer is not low. Of course it is not high. However, considering that this is a offer proposed by Arsenal, given that Arsenal has always spent a small amount of money to dig up little demons to cultivate, this offer shows sincerity.

"They said that the Togolese have two years contract with the team, and the Togolese is a non-sale product for the team." When he said this, Pat Les laughed himself. Compared with the Marseille team's answer to the purchase of Zhang Yang, the Monaco team is much more sincere about the offer for the purchase of Adebayo. Although what the Monacos said seemed to have refused it in one go, the subtext is, yes, Adebayo is our player, he has a contract with us, and want to buy it? This, um? Hehe, your price is obviously not good.

This is what it means to bargain.

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Now, the multiple-choice question before Wenger is to continue talking to Marseille about Zhang Yang. To be precise, it is to continue to raise prices, hoping to make Fernandez feel that he can release people at this price, and then he can use the transfer income to buy more suitable players and finally release them. Therefore, the important thing is the consent of the head coach. In the eyes of Arsenals, including Wenger, as long as the club and the head coach agree, Zhang Yang himself will never have any problems. They are very confident about Arsenal's attractiveness as a giant club.

Another multiple-choice question is to continue bargaining with Monaco and seek Adebayo.

The difference between the two multiple-choice questions is that the continued purchase of Zhang Yang is unlikely to succeed. Wenger saw the Marseille head coach's firm attitude of not selling.

There are still some discussions on the transfer issue of Adebayo between Arsenal and Monaco, and the gap between the two sides should not be big, so the acquisition is likely to be successful.

If you want to buy Zhang Yang, you may be rejected; if you want to buy Adebayo, you may be successful.

And most importantly, compared to Zhang Yang's sudden outbreak in Ligue 1, the acquisition of Zhang Yang is extremely risky; Adebayo has richer experience, and his continuous outstanding performance is more worthy of reference, with a relatively stable side and a lower front line.

In addition, Zhang Yang's easily troubled personality also made Wenger dislike. In the history of Arsenal, among the players Wenger personally selected, except for one Anelka, there were not many of them who were headers. Even Anelka was later sold to Real Madrid by Wenger.

This choice seems not difficult for Wenger to make a choice...

However, Arsenal assistant coach Pat Riley seemed to be difficult to make a decision when he saw Wenger frowning.

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Marseille head coach Fernandez firmly told club chairman Diouf that Zhang Yang is a non-sale product of the team. He bluntly told the Chairman that Zhang Yang is one of the few players in the team who cannot move. These players are the core of his planned Marseille team. Do you want to sell these players? Yes, unless Fernandez is fired first!

However, first of the previous Monaco quotation and then to the current Arsenal quotation, which made Fernandez become vigilant. As his performance became more and more outstanding, more and more balls have noticed Zhang Yang, a young man who is very capable of scoring goals, and have taken action directly.

Fernandez suddenly felt that it was now an imminent matter to renew his contract with Zhang Yang as soon as possible.

Not to mention anything else, Arsenal's invitation is definitely a great surprise and temptation for a young player. If Zhang Yang is not properly handled, he will be poached. Now, the players' personal wishes are playing an increasingly important role in the transfer.

Fernandez knew that Zhang Yang had returned to China, and the kid returned home on holiday, saying goodbye to almost the entire team's players and coaches, and even screamed that he wanted to bring a gift back.

Fernandez called Zhang Yang's mobile phone number. He wanted to communicate well with his proud disciples and to reach an agreement as much as possible in the New Testament to prevent others from taking advantage of the situation.

"Shut down?" Fernandez put down the phone, a little confused. This kid, what should he do if he shuts down the phone?

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"Hahaha. This is what you understand. I haven't said that. Of course, you can get it out. I have no objection anyway." Zhang Yang laughed.

He is recording an exclusive interview program on Oriental TV.

I have to say that Oriental TV is still very well prepared. They have already listed more than a dozen pages of problems. This is a long time ago, not temporary.

He Ping just asked Zhang Yang a question: If he had not been "persecuted" by a domestic club, he would have been just a marginal player of a domestic Chinese Super League club, and would not have such achievements as he has now and has such a future worth looking forward to?

Zhang Yang replied with a smile.

He is not stupid. Zhang Yang is not afraid of some sensitive issues, but he doesn't want to get sick and worry about these messy things. Of course, if someone causes trouble for him, it's a different matter.

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Chapter completed!