Coaching legend

After hanging up the phone call with Wenger, George smiled slightly.

George had never thought of competing with Wenger for Henry, although Henry was very strong and George wanted to have Henry. But George knew that Henry would definitely choose Arsenal instead of Blackburn. After all, Arsenal is an English giant and has won the Premier League championship for two consecutive years. It is much more attractive than Blackburn.

Add to that the factor of Wenger, who is Henry's mentor. Wenger trained Henry in Monaco and let Henry enter the first team.

All these factors add up, and Blackburn now has no advantage at all. If there is an advantage, it is that the transfer fee George currently has is higher than Wenger.

But George will never go to Juventus for a cheap price. George has no major conflict with Wenger, and he can't buy Henry anyway, so there is no need to fight with Wenger. Just make a small deal with Wenger.

Juventus is indeed waiting for Blackburn and Arsenal to continue to raise the price. Now that Arsenal and Blackburn are both interested in Henry, Juventus will have to raise the price. But Blackburn soon withdrew from Henry's pursuit.

Henry's only pursuer was Wenger's Arsenal.

Finally, Juventus agreed to Arsenal's offer of 10.5 million pounds for Henry, and Henry boarded a plane to London.

At the same time, Blackburn's negotiators had already flown to Madrid, Spain.

…………

"How much is Chelsea willing to pay?" George basically had everything about the new season's lineup in his mind.

Although he failed to get Hamann and Sorin, he didn't care.

"Four million pounds." Evan told George beside him.

George shook his head. "Four million pounds is too little. Although Edu was a substitute last season, he scored eight goals. His performance was good enough, how could he only be worth four million pounds? At least six million pounds, let them consider it."

The club that is interested in Gudjohnsen is Chelsea. Gudjohnsen also made it clear that he hopes to leave Blackburn. He is very dissatisfied with being a substitute for Klose.

If it is other players, Gudjohnsen can still figure it out. But Gudjohnsen couldn't understand why Klose was the main player. In terms of goal efficiency, Klose was even worse than Gudjohnsen. After playing as the main player for a season, Klose only scored nine goals. Only one more than Gudjohnsen, and his playing time was almost four times that of Gudjohnsen.

With more than four times the playing time, the number of goals scored was almost the same.

Therefore, Gudjohnsen felt that George was too nepotistic. He favored his own direct line Klose and looked down on himself. So after the season, he submitted a transfer application to George.

When Gudjohnsen entered the transfer market, many clubs were interested in him. Being able to score eight Premier League goals in a limited substitute time is enough to show Gudjohnsen's strength. And the most active one for Gudjohnsen is Chelsea.

Chelsea made the most failed deal last year, which was to buy Chris Sutton from Blackburn. It was a natural disaster, and Chelsea had no choice.

Sutton, who was bought for more than 10 million pounds, performed bravely at the beginning. He scored five goals in the first six games and was the most popular center forward in the Premier League at that time. Unfortunately, he was injured in training not long after and has not stood up since he lay down.

The injury has been repeated. According to the doctor, it will take another half a year to fully recover. And who knows what his condition will be like after half a year, and whether his injury will recur.

Therefore, Vialli's eyes fell on Blackburn again. This time he took a fancy to Gudjohnsen who was dissatisfied with sitting on the bench.

"How did the talks with Villa and West Ham United go? What are their respective attitudes?"

"Villa is unwilling to sell Southgate, and even more unwilling to sell it to us."

"Do we have any conflicts with Villa?"

"They said they are unwilling to sell players to direct competitors."

"Shit, Villa is worthy of saying that it is a direct competitor with us. Our competitors are only Manchester United and Arsenal, Villa is nothing." George looked down on Villa with contempt. Villa has a glorious history, with seven top league titles, seven FA Cup titles, five English League Cup titles, and one European Cup title. There are few clubs in England that can match such a glorious record.

But the recent results are just barely ok. In the future, Villa will only occasionally show up and will be a foil. George's Blackburn is a team with great ideals. Villa dares to say that it is a direct competitor with itself!

"What does West Ham United mean?"

"They didn't refuse directly, but they just kept emphasizing that Ferdinand is an important player in their club." Evan said with a smile.

George knows that when a club emphasizes how important a player is, it actually means that we need a lot of money, a lot of money. As long as the transfer fee is enough, they will not stop it. If they really don't want to sell the player, then they can directly refuse and tell them that it is not for sale.

"Okay, Evan. Tell Richard to talk. You must talk it over, don't be afraid of the price. We have plenty of transfer fees."

George knew that Ferdinand was not cheap. He broke the transfer record twice. First, he joined Leeds United for 18 million pounds, breaking the transfer fee record in the UK at that time. Two years later, he transferred to Manchester United for a high price of 30 million pounds.

Although Ferdinand's value was 18 million pounds two years later, even the current value is not cheap.

Ferdinand is now the best young defender in England and participated in the World Cup in 1998. Although he was not able to play, everyone recognized Ferdinand's strength.

But even if it costs some money, George is willing to buy Ferdinand. This is a world-class defender and one of the best defenders in world football in the next ten years. It is absolutely worth spending about 10 million pounds to buy him now.

…………

In early July, Blackburn made frequent moves in the transfer market.

At the beginning, there were some small moves. First, some substitute players from last season were cleaned up. Including Ian Pearce, Jeff Kenna, and Jason Wilcox, three people were dealt with by George. Although they are all substitutes, they are still young and have been trained in the Premier League.

Therefore, although the three are all substitutes, they also brought George a transfer fee of 4 million pounds.

The next player to be cleared was a more surprising player. It was Gudjohnsen, a player in his early twenties. Gudjohnsen came to Blackburn last summer and performed very well in Blackburn. Many people think that George got Gudjohnsen for free, which is too cost-effective.

Unexpectedly, Gudjohnsen was sold to Chelsea by George after just one season. The value reached 5.7 million pounds.

Then Blackburn began to announce the players they bought. Chinese player Sun Jihai came to Blackburn from Crystal Palace for 800,000 pounds. Then Blackburn bought back Manchester United's Henning Berg for 3 million pounds.

The English media reacted coldly to Sun Jihai. Or in their opinion, a Chinese player is not worth their fuss.

However, many media gave high praise to Blackburn's repurchase of Henning Berg. Berg is quite capable and was a meritorious player for Blackburn. He also contributed to Manchester United's Champions League last season.

More importantly, Henning Berg is only 30 years old this year and is very experienced. For the current Blackburn defense, Henning Berg's return is definitely very beneficial.

Of course, in addition to these two transfers, there are two more transfers. Didier Drogba was introduced from the French Le Mans team for 100,000 pounds, and then the young player Scott Parker was introduced from the newly relegated Charlton for 170,000 pounds.

These two transfers are so small that all the media don't care. When even a Chinese player's value has reached 800,000 pounds, two transfers of 100,000 pounds are inconspicuous.

Parker is an English citizen, there is no problem. Drogba's nationality is much easier to get than Essien's. Drogba not only has an uncle in France. And Drogba has been in France since he was five years old and has been in France for 16 years.

Both Ivory Coast and France recognize dual citizenship, so Drogba can easily get French citizenship. Drogba is still a young boy now, although he is 21 years old. But his strength is incomparable to that of the later Warcraft.

However, Blackburn's actions did not stop. After Sun Jihai and Berg, Blackburn announced that they had signed the "Golden Left Foot" Davor Suker from Real Madrid for 3.5 million pounds. This player who claims to be able to play the violin with his left foot is the top scorer in the French World Cup.

In fact, the closest to Davor Suker is Wenger's Arsenal, but as a condition for George to give up the offer for Henry, Arsenal also gave up the pursuit of Davor Suker.

George's original plan did not include Davor Suker, but after failing to buy Hamann, George remembered this Croatian star. Davor Suker has been the top striker of Real Madrid in recent years, but with the strong rise of Raul, Real Madrid is ready to let Davor Suker leave.

Davor Suker is 31 years old this year, which is not too old for a technical player.

At the most important time, Davor Suker is a player who has seen the world. Not only has he won the league championship and the Champions League championship with Real Madrid, but he also led Croatia to third place in the World Cup. Such players are what Blackburn lacks the most now.

However, when everyone was amazed at Blackburn's acquisition of Davor Suker, even more shocking transfer news appeared in Blackburn. It surprised all the media.