Coaching legend

"Eight million dollars, George, are you crazy?"

When George left Brazil with great satisfaction, Evan couldn't help but express his thoughts.

Kaka gave George good news the next day. Kaka is willing to move to Blackburn, so the remaining problem now is to apply for a labor certificate for Kaka. Of course, since Kaká only played half a season in the Brazilian League, he is not qualified to obtain a labor certificate.

Then George can only apply for the "special genius clause" for Kaka.

But Evan thinks George’s $8 million is a bit expensive. Eight million dollars, that's five million pounds. Blackburn's current transfer fee is not very sufficient. When Campbell was signed, the signing fee was already very high.

Although the value of current players has soared, the bubble in the football market has begun to burst. Five million pounds to buy a 19-year-old young player is rare even in European football.

For Kaká, he only has half a season of experience in the Brazilian League. Evan is not very optimistic.

"Evan, don't question my vision. Haven't you also seen some of his game videos and think he's pretty good?"

Before coming to Brazil, Evan had read some information about Kaká.

At that time, Evan also recognized that Kaka had good talent.

"I think he's good, but eight million dollars is always..."

"If we don't win him now, we won't have any chance in two years."

If it weren't for this opportunity, Blackburn would have won the Champions League. If teams like Manchester United and Milan enter the transfer process, Blackburn will not have any advantage to compete with them. Even now, Kaka is still a player who has just debuted.

Giant clubs like Manchester United and Milan haven't paid much attention to Kaká yet.

It's only mid-July, and George has already won two heavyweights. Campbell and Kaka both make George quite satisfied.

Campbell will be able to play the main role when he comes, and can immediately improve the strength of Blackburn's defense. As for Kaká, although it is impossible to become the main midfielder of Blackburn immediately. But with Kaka in the team, George can make another change to Blackburn's tactics.

Therefore, the transfer of the two people cost George a lot of transfer fees. But George still thinks it's worth it.

Blackburn have moved quickly this season. In other words, George has always been quick in the transfer market. George doesn't like the kind of procrastinating transfers. Just like Arsenal, they drag their feet when buying players.

They even delayed buying players until the last few days of the transfer period.

Although this can save some transfer fees, because the new players arrived late, they also started training with the team late.

George obviously didn't like this. George is unwilling to have the team's training affected for millions of pounds. It is George's consistent idea to make transfers as quickly as possible.

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Although Campbell's move to Blackburn had a great impact.

Not only in British football, but also in European football, it is a matter of great influence. Blackburn itself is very strong and was the Premier League champion last season. And if there was no misjudgment, no one can say where it would have been in the Champions League last season.

Now that a strong player like Campbell has been added, everyone in European football can see Blackburn's ambitions.

But this transfer only lasted a short time, and bigger transfer news hit European football. The entire European football world was shocked.

That is the current European midfield master and French king, Zidane, known as "Zi Zu", who transferred from Juventus to Real Madrid for a world record price of 75 million euros. When this transfer came out, everyone in European football was shocked.

Florentino made another big move that stunned everyone.

Last summer, just after Florentino became Real Madrid president, he introduced Figo from rival Barcelona. Not long after the transfer market started this summer, Zidane, the best midfielder in the world, was introduced.

So courageous. So courageous.

In today's European football, who can have the courage of Florentino.

However, although Juventus lost Zidane, they definitely did not make a loss-making deal. 75 million euros, what is the price? It wasn't until Ronaldinho nearly ten years later that he broke this transfer price.

They used the money from selling Zidane, plus some money from the club, to buy Thuram, Buffon and Nedved.

Although the fame of any of them cannot be compared with Zidane, the three of them are all truly world-class players. Using Zidane alone for three world-class superstars, this deal is a good deal no matter how you look at it.

Zidane's transfer was truly a transfer that everyone was happy with.

Real Madrid got a king like Zidane, who is also recognized as the king of superstars who is closest to the king among the current stars. It not only further enhances Real Madrid's logo, but also brings Real Madrid's strength to a new level.

For Zidane, going from Juventus to Real Madrid is a leap in his career. Although Juventus is also a European giant, when talking about Europe's number one giant, people still say Real Madrid.

I don’t know how many players in European football are crying and shouting to join Real Madrid.

Juventus is the beneficiary of this transfer. A reconstruction was quickly completed, and Nedved, Thuram, and Buffon became the most important main players of Juventus in the future.

However, with the arrival of Buffon, one person's position has become quite awkward.

He is Juventus' former main goalkeeper Van der Sar.

Van der Sar absolutely does not think that Juventus bought Buffon to buy a substitute player for himself. What is Buffon's worth? When he came to Juventus, the transfer fee exceeded more than 40 million US dollars. It is the highest transfer fee in the history of goalkeeper transfers.

And Buffon is Italy's number one goalkeeper.

How could such a player be a substitute for himself? Van der Sar understands that his days at Juventus have entered the countdown.

But Van der Sar is not afraid, he has confidence in himself.

Van der Sar is considered to be a teenager. Van der Sar played for the Ajax adult team for the first time in the 1990-91 season. Soon, at the age of 21, he helped Ajax beat Torino to win the UEFA Cup in 1992. And in the 1994-95 season, he won the UEFA Champions League with Ajax.

This was Van der Sar's heyday.

Later, Van der Sar transferred to Juventus and became the main goalkeeper of Juventus.

In the Dutch national team, Van der Sar has been the main goalkeeper since he was first selected for the national team at the age of 24.

This experience made Van der Sar feel that even if he left Juventus, there should be a giant club that would offer him an olive branch. But he was wrong. Since Buffon's transfer, his agent has been busy for a long time, but found that European giants basically had no desire to buy Van der Sar.

It's not that Van der Sar is not strong enough, but that these European giants already have their own goalkeepers. They will not take the risk to buy Van der Sar, who is already 31 years old.

This made Van der Sar very frustrated.

At this time, the only club that contacted Van der Sar was from the Premier League, a team called Fulham.

This is a team that has just been promoted. However, their boss has some ambitions and wants to do a big job in the new season. So he contacted Van der Sar and was willing to buy Van der Sar for 5 million pounds.

Van der Sar was dismissive at first.

Fulham, what club, I have never heard of it. Not to mention that foreign players like Van der Sar look down on Fulham, even English locals like George look down on Fulham.

As the first football club in London, Fulham's history is longer than Arsenal, Chelsea, and West Ham United. Unfortunately, their honor roll is empty. If you have to find one, it is that they entered the FA Cup final nearly 30 years ago and lost.

Van der Sar felt humiliated at first.

After all, Van der Sar is a goalkeeper who has won the UEFA Cup and the Champions League. He is also the main goalkeeper of Juventus and the Dutch national team. Is he really going to this newly promoted Premier League team? But after waiting for a while, no other clubs were interested in him.

Or even if some clubs were interested, they backed off when they saw the 5 million pounds thrown by Fulham.

They will not compete with the nouveau riche from the Premier League for money. And Van der Sar is already 31 years old, who knows what his future state will be like.

Van der Sar has almost accepted his fate. I didn't expect myself to fall to this point.

But Van der Sar is a cheerful person. Since things have come to this, there is no point in thinking about it. He handed over his transfer to his agent, and then played with his wife Anne-Marie and children at home.

Van der Sar's favorite thing to do is to be with his son and daughter.

At this time, the mobile phone in his arms rang. Van der Sar picked it up and saw that it was his agent calling. It seems that the negotiations with Fulham are almost over. England? Premier League club? Fulham?

Van der Sar shook his head. He had never thought about returning to the Premier League before.

"Rob, why is the negotiation over?"

I have already thought it through. So Van der Sar asked casually.

"Edwin, I have terminated the negotiations with Fulham."

"Huh?" Van der Sar was stunned. Van der Sar remembered that his agent said that Fulham's contract was not bad a few days ago. He said that as long as some of the terms were changed, there would be no big problem. How could the negotiations be terminated a few days later?

"Another club contacted me."

"Who?"

"Blackburn in the Premier League. George Levy called me personally."

"George Levy?" Van der Sar was stunned. Van der Sar played for Juventus for the past two seasons. He was familiar with the name George. This young coach, who was only one year older than him, was now well-known in European football.

He had excellent results but a bad temper.

However, Van der Sar knew that Blackburn was a strong team in the Premier League and the champion of the Premier League last season. They were actually interested in him? Compared to Blackburn, what kind of club was Fulham?

"Yes, Edwin. George Levy called me and said that he hoped you could transfer to Blackburn."