Football's No. 1 Prodigal Son

The more you buy, the more you will be rewarded.

With its almost crazy buying, Manchester City has also attracted a lot of attention throughout the European continent.

Of course, in the eyes of many people, this is just a local tyrant who is messing around.

In the past few years, are there not many gamblers who buy crazy players and want to take a chance?

Let’s not talk about the distant past, isn’t Leeds United such a team?

Even in the eyes of many people, Manchester City’s future fate may be worse than Leeds United.

Even Fiona, who never paid attention to football, called Yang Luo: "Brother Luo, are you stimulated by something? How can you spend money like this? It's too wasteful..."

Yang Luo smiled: "What if I say I have plenty of money?"

Fiona said earnestly: "No matter how rich you are, it won't work. As the saying goes, a steady stream of money lasts a long time..."

Yang Luo sighed: "It's not that your brother doesn't want to save money, it's just that money comes too easily, and I feel uncomfortable if I don't spend it..."

Fiona: "..."

Amid these doubts, the winter transfer window gradually came to an end.

In a game before the end of the winter transfer window, with the outstanding performance of Ronaldinho and Anelka, Manchester City beat Fulham 4-1, which was considered to be a good name for Manchester City.

However, immediately afterwards, in the first game after the end of the winter transfer window, Manchester City unexpectedly lost to the relegation team West Bromwich 1-2 at home, which was surprising.

Kevin Keegan's tactical mistakes in this game also became the focus after the game.

Many reporters also squatted at the door of the club, wanting to ask the management about Kevin Keegan's opinion.

But they only surrounded Sandezi, who knew almost nothing about football.

At this time, Yang Luo and Bernstein had already flown to Barcelona.

Barcelona has been making a lot of noise these days.

Last summer, they invited the meritorious coach Van Gaal back to Barcelona to coach, but his performance in more than half a season is simply hard to describe.

Apart from quarreling with players and the media, he basically did nothing serious.

As a result, Barcelona's performance plummeted, and even ranked twelfth in the standings.

Naturally, this chef Van could only be dismissed gloriously.

But Yang Luo knew that this chef Van was really good, and he had some experience in using young people. He was the head coach that Manchester City needed more at present.

Although this guy has a bad temper, how many top head coaches have good tempers?

In fact, Yang Luo has two head coaches he likes, in addition to Van Gaal, there is also Ralf Rangnick.

Both of these head coaches are good at using young people, and Rangnick is better at building a team.

But Rangnick's ceiling is far lower than Van Gaal, so Yang Luo finally prefers the Dutchman.

Of course, the most ideal candidate is Wenger, but the difficulty of poaching Wenger is probably second only to that red-nosed old man.

And now that Van Gaal has just been fired, this is a good time to buy at the bottom.

In history, he will return to Ajax as a director in a while, and it will be difficult to start at that time.

So, they met Van Gaal in an apartment in Barcelona.

The famous coach now looks a little tired, and it is obvious that he is not very happy in Barcelona.

Think about it, it's strange that you can be happy if you are always complaining about everything.

And Bernstein is also an old acquaintance of Van Gaal. After the two met and chatted for a few words, he took the initiative to tell him the purpose of his visit.

Van Gaal was obviously stunned: "Manchester City? Head coach?"

When he heard the news at first, he thought he had heard it wrong.

You know, he had coached teams like Ajax, the Dutch national team, and Barcelona before. How could a small Manchester City invite him to coach?

Although he had just been fired, what level of team is Manchester City? You don't have the ability, right?

Moreover, if he accepted Manchester City's invitation, would he drop a level in the future?

Bernstein nodded: "Yes, we are here to invite you to be the head coach of our Manchester City next season."

Van Gaal was silent for a while, then raised his head: "Bernstein, I'm sorry, I want to take a few years off and don't want to be the head coach in the short term."

This is a more euphemistic statement.

If he and Bernstein were not old acquaintances, he would have asked them to get out.

At this time, Yang Luo said: "Mr. Van Gaal, I understand your feelings, but our team

There are a lot of talented players in the team now, and they lack a famous coach to guide them. Moreover, I also know that you are a person who loves talents as much as your life. Think about having talents of the level of Ronaldinho, Arjen Robben, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Kaka under your command. Wouldn't you be tempted? "

Van Gaal's eyes trembled. He certainly knew how scary these talents were.

At this moment, he admitted that he was tempted.

When he was in Barcelona, ​​he coveted Ronaldinho, but his poor relationship with the management made him have no chance to take him down.

Now that he has the opportunity to coach him, it is naturally a great temptation for him.

What's more, there is Robben, a talented player famous in the Netherlands, who has always been a person he is very optimistic about.

Yang Luo did not continue to speak, but just looked at him quietly.

A few minutes later, Van Gaal raised his head: "I want to know, if I go to coach, how much salary will you give me?"

Yang Luo said: "We are willing to give you the top salary. The basic annual salary is 3 million pounds, plus some bonus clauses, up to 4 million pounds. "

Van Gaal's hands trembled, this is really the top level in football!

You know, Ferguson and Wenger's annual salary is only 3.5 million pounds and 2.5 million pounds now!

He sighed in his heart. After all, he still has two daughters, and it is good to earn more dowry money for them!

So he asked: "What are the bonus clauses?"

Bernstein explained: "If you qualify for the Champions League, there will be a bonus of 1 million pounds. If you qualify for the League Cup, there will be a bonus of 500,000 pounds. "

Yang Luo added: "Of course, we will continue to recruit players in the summer window to build a strong team for you."

He paused, and then said: "Moreover, we will not interfere with your deployment, you have full control over the team."

Van Gaal's eyes flashed, and he finally made up his mind: "Okay, I am willing to coach Manchester City Club! "

So, several people reached a preliminary verbal agreement that Van Gaal would take over the team after the end of the season, with a contract period of three years.

Yang Luo breathed a sigh of relief, and now his own battleship finally found a captain of some weight!