Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 580 Europe Chapter 2003 Storm (End)

"I think our goalkeeper's position is still a little bit worse." He met with Mourinho in private: "Given is a good goalkeeper, but his height is a bit short. It may not be a big deal now, but it may become a goalkeeper in the future." The bottleneck that restricts us to achieve better results, besides, he is not young anymore, at 27 years old, he does not need a lot of games to accumulate experience, but he can definitely become a good substitute goalkeeper."

"Don't mess around." Mourinho warned Pei Wei: "Given's prestige among the players is second only to Shearer... You are new to Newcastle, so it's best not to touch him easily. "

"I know this very well..." Pei Wei showed a mysterious smile on his face: "I don't plan to move him now, I just plan to invest in the future... For Newcastle now, Ji Wen is enough as the main goalkeeper Yes, but for Newcastle in the future, Given is not the best candidate for the main goalkeeper."

"Then who are you going to invest in?" Mourinho understood what Pei Wei's plan was.

"A very outstanding young man, you will definitely like him in the future, very, very much." Pei Wei laughed.

"Peter Cech, the main goalkeeper of Rennes in Ligue 21, has just turned 1.9 years old. He is 17 meters 2000 meters tall and weighs [-] kilograms. He has a large defensive area. What is even more rare is that he has a keen response despite such a huge height. , good at penalty kicks, became a professional player at the age of [-], and led the Czech youth team to win the European Youth Championship in [-]." Pei Wei took a document and said to Mourinho: "I have been paying attention to this goalkeeper for a long time. If it wasn't for the fact that the Chinese league doesn't allow the use of foreign goalkeepers, then I planned to bring Xiaofei to Yunjia Tianyu the year when Xiaofei had an accident, but it would be nice to be able to bring him to Newcastle now... quite promising A goalkeeper, if we have him, we won't have to worry about the goalkeeper's position for at least ten years."

"Judging from these materials, he is indeed a young goalkeeper with great prospects." Mourinho nodded: "As for the real situation, I haven't watched his game, so I can't make a judgment... I think , if Newcastle’s goalkeeper was Shay Given, you would have bought him to Newcastle a long time ago.”

"That's right." Pei Wei said proudly, "Giwen is indeed a good goalkeeper, but compared to Petr Cech, his future development and potential are not as good... In modern football, the height of a goalkeeper is absolutely The taller the better, not to mention that this guy has the same reaction as a short goalkeeper except for his height, and when Buffon gets old, there will only be two or three goalkeepers in the world who can compare with him!"

"Are you really that sure?" Mourinho asked with some doubts.

"Don't worry, I haven't misjudged the player yet. When you pay more attention to his game, you will know how rare he is." Pei Wei said with certainty, just kidding, after a few years, There is a saying in the European football circle that "the best goalkeeper in the world in the past ten years is Buffon, and in the next ten years, the best goalkeeper in the world is Petr Cech". In terms of strength and evaluation, he is similar to "Saint" Casillas, who became the main goalkeeper of Real Madrid at the age of 19. Although Cesar in Brazil and Frey in France are also super-class goalkeepers, they are in all aspects. In terms of overall level, it is still worse than Cech.

As for Italy, which has always been the birthplace of first-class goalkeepers, it may be that Buffon, a monster, is too good. As a result, within ten years after Buffon's birth, Italy did not produce a super-level goalkeeper. Most of the goalkeepers are also controlled by foreign goalkeepers. For example, the Milan duo and Roma chose the second-generation main goalkeepers of the Brazilian national team Dida, Cesar and substitute goalkeeper Doni, while the French goalkeeper Frey guarded the goal of Florence. Good goalkeepers like Ameria and Petezoli can only play in the mid-lower teams like Livorno and Regina. No wonder some Italian fans later lamented: "Zoff has Zenga, Zenga After Canada there is Pagliuca, after Pagliuca there is Peruzzi, after Peruzzi there is Toldo, after Toldo there is Buffon, after Buffon, who will guard the gate of the Italian national team?"

After calming down, Pei Wei brought his thoughts back to reality—he doesn't need to worry about who will guard the gate of the Italian national team. You must know that the goalkeeper's state can be maintained for a long time. Maybe before Buffon gets old, A new monster will emerge in Italy, just as Zenga quickly took over after Zoff retired.

"Our current goalkeeper position is not bad, but Harper is just a suitable substitute. As for the third goalkeeper, he is just a backup candidate in case of emergency. Shay is 27 years old, which is not too old for a goalkeeper. , but it also means that it is impossible to make great progress. In the future, our goal will definitely not be just to enter the Champions League every year. After all positions are strengthened, the goalkeeper position may become a short board in our lineup... In fact, I think Ji Wen is a very good backup goalkeeper, look, stable, quiet, popular, and he is not too young, he does not need a lot of games to maintain the state... and after Cech comes next year, the two of them can be absolutely fine To start a healthy competition, they are not troublesome characters. Shay is known as a good guy, and Cech, a young man, also has a humility that is different from ordinary people. As long as there is healthy competition in a team, there will be no problems. "

"Your plan is to buy Petr Cech this year, but don't bring him in and let him practice in Ligue [-] for another year?" Mourinho said thoughtfully: "Then I don't have any problem. You can let him practice more. One year will give me enough time to observe his performance, and Ji Wen can also feel a certain amount of pressure, after all, he has been the main goalkeeper for seven years and needs a sense of urgency."

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Negotiations with Rennes went smoothly. Rennes itself is not a strong team, and they are not even ranked in Ligue 700. Now Ligue [-] has almost replaced Ajax's role as a blood transfusion for the four major league clubs. I don't know how many stars have gone out of Ligue [-], and naturally they don't care about Cech. What's more, Pei Wei offered extremely generous conditions, a transfer fee of [-] million pounds, and it was not an immediate transfer, but a year later. Yes, after getting so much transfer fee, you can use Cech for free for one year, and you only need to pay the salary-this kind of good thing is not often encountered.

However, after the transfer news spread, Newcastle caused a burst of ridicule. For a goalkeeper, buying it at a price close to 1000 million euros is simply a sky-high price, let alone a 21-year-old with only A young man with a year of experience in the Czech League and Ligue 2000, and then he bought a 29-year-old midfielder at a price of more than [-] million euros. Except for Lucio and Nie Fei, none of the other players have proven themselves in the World Cup It is a great honor for the star to fall to Newcastle for the title of "being taken advantage of" by Chelsea in history.

Although Chelsea bought a lot of players this year, they are all relatively well-known players. The three players who spent the most money, Veron, Crespo, and Duff, are all famous. Veron was once the best in the world. As a midfielder, Crespo has always been a super striker in the world. Although Duff may be less famous in the world, he is also the leading winger in England. Like Newcastle, he is either a young rookie or not well-known. Powerful, although the transfer expenditure of 720 million pounds is a little less than Chelsea's 850 million pounds, it seems to be much worse in terms of cost performance.

"Laugh, laugh, laugh to your heart's content, whoever laughs last will laugh the best." Pei Wei sneered in his heart. In fact, the players that Chelsea bought this year are Duff and Joe Cole. In addition to being worthy of their worth, the other big investments were absolute failures. Mutu, Veron, Crespo and Gremi basically did not play much role during their time at Chelsea. At that time, he couldn't bring back a penny of the transfer fee. At least Pei Wei believes that even if the players he bought now are useless in the future, he can still recover a little cost by transferring them out.

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This season's Premier League, with the strong joining of two rich men from Russia and China, immediately compared Serie A and La Liga in terms of money burning.

Chelsea, with a transfer cost of 850 million pounds, and Newcastle, with a transfer cost of 720 million pounds. Compared with these two upstarts, the three old traditional teams are much shabby. Manchester United bought Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo, Brazil international Kleberson, Cameroon international Djemba and American international Howard only spent a total of 390 million pounds, while the transfer of Beckham and Veron has cashed out more than 4000 million pounds for the Red Devils. It seems that after Kenyon left, Sir Alex Ferguson did not lose his ability to make money, while Professor Wenger was cash-strapped. The club's plan to build a new stadium made the professor only tighten his money. Apart from Lehmann, the professor actually had no money, so he could only ask the Chinese club Yunjia Tianyu to extend Adriano's loan period for one year. After getting Pei Wei's consent, Jiang Hao agreed. Request, but Pei Wei will naturally not let the professor go like this. Arsenal and Newcastle have secretly signed an agreement. If Sun Chenghai wants to transfer in the future, then Newcastle has the right of first refusal.Another strong team, Liverpool, only spent 230 million pounds to buy Leeds United's Australian star Kewell and Fulham's Irish right-back Finland.

After this series of storms is over, the new season of the Premier League is bound to be much more exciting than last season.

PS: Update on the 380th vote, good morning everyone...

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