Super Marshal

When the whole of Spain was immersed in the atmosphere of winning the World Cup and the uprising of the eighteen princes in La Liga, Gao Han returned to Manchester, England from South Africa and began to preside over Manchester City's summer transfer.

But for everything that happens in Spain, he can receive the news immediately and control it remotely.

As early as February, Gao Han had made it clear that Manchester City would focus on improving the thickness of the bench this summer and would not make any large-scale signings. This also set a tone for this summer's transfer market.

And everyone knows that Gao Han always does what he says.

Martin Petrov finally refused to renew his contract with the club. He said that he could not agree to the conditions offered by the club, so he finally chose not to renew his contract with the club and went to Bolton Wanderers on a free transfer.

This also made him the first person to leave Manchester City this summer.

The second person to leave the team was Brazilian forward Jo. This center came to Manchester City in 2008 with a transfer fee of 19 million euros, but only played for half a year before being loaned to Everton. Fulton performed well and Gao Han decided to keep him.

Judging from last season's performance, Ruo failed to meet Gao Han's requirements. On the contrary, another young player Sturridge performed even better and was a local player, so Gao Han decided to send Ruo away.

Everton was originally interested in the Brazilian center, but the Toffees were unable to meet Manchester City's transfer fee requirements, so in the end they went to Galatasaray in Turkey for a transfer fee of 10 million euros.

After sending away Petrov and Jo one after another, Manchester City only has five players left on the front line in the new season: Cristiano Ronaldo, Benzema, Sanchez, Sturridge and Adam Johnson. According to Gao Han's three forwards The playing style is definitely not enough, so striker signings are also on the agenda.

In terms of midfielder, Stephen Ireland was sent to the transfer market by Gao Han early, and the midfielder was also offered by many Premier League teams including Tottenham Hotspur, Everton, Aston Villa and so on. team's attention.

Among them, Aston Villa is also interested in Manchester City's former captain Richard Dunn. This central defender has outstanding strength, but does not meet Gao Han's requirements for a defender, so he is forced to leave the team.

Tottenham Hotspur are also interested in Manchester City's Croatian right back Kolluka. Redknapp hopes to introduce this defender to strengthen the team's right attack and defense.

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"Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur are very sincere, but they don't have much money."

In the conference room at the City Stadium, Manchester City chairman Mubarak, general manager Paul Futrey and chief scout David Harrison, as well as Gao Han, who had just returned to Manchester from South Africa, were discussing the signing targets for the new season.

For this summer's transfer, Gao Han has only initially given two or three candidates, and has arranged for the club to start operations early. However, for other positions, signings still need to be based on the situation in the transfer market and adapt accordingly.

In particular, what Manchester City is considering now is substitute players. Not every player can calm down, be a substitute with peace of mind, and guard the water cooler, so the signing plan may be adjusted at any time.

But after listening to Paul Futre's words, Gao Han felt a little strange, "Why is there no money?"

Logically speaking, the distribution of broadcast rights in the Premier League is quite balanced. Each team has received a large amount of money. How could there be no money?

Of course Paul Futrey knew why Gao Han asked this, and he smiled helplessly.

"Actually, the overall income of the Premier League has indeed increased very rapidly in recent years, but player salaries have increased even faster. I still remember that a weekly salary of 100,000 pounds was already a sky-high price, but now it is easily a weekly salary of hundreds of thousands of pounds. , coupled with the fact that the club had money in the past few years and recruited heavily, the overall strength has improved, but the investment is not small and the operating pressure is also great."

"Among the four strong teams, Manchester United and Arsenal have the strongest business operations and the highest match-day income. However, the former is trapped by the debts of the Glazer family, and the latter has reduced its operations for the new stadium. As a result, Chelsea began to tighten their money supply due to the subprime mortgage crisis and European debt crisis."

"If a wealthy team is like this, think about it, what else can other teams do?"

Gao Han understood what Paul Futrey meant.

The income gap between Premier League teams is mainly concentrated in three areas: match days, Champions League and commercial development. But now several wealthy teams have encountered their own problems. Manchester City burned so much last year, and it is impossible to burn again this year. As for Liverpool, they have long lost the confidence of many giants, so other teams in the Premier League have to live a hard life.

This is how the professional league is, there must be meat to eat at the top and soup at the bottom.

The same situation will definitely happen to La Liga in the future. Even if this broadcast rights reform is really successful, Chinatown must continue to insist on three lines of progress, especially in terms of commercial development, North America and Asia. Especially in the Chinese market, we must increase our efforts.

"So what are they going to do?"

Paul Futrey chuckled and said, "Lease first and then buy out."

"They are so beautiful." Gao Han chuckled. This was simply a show of a white wolf with empty hands.

"However, if they are willing to trade someone, they can consider it."

"Substitution?" Paul Futrey felt a little curious.

Gao Han nodded immediately, "If you don't have money, you can use someone to exchange for it. This is normal."

Paul Futrey and David Harrison looked at each other, and they were both a little surprised. Could it be that Gao Han was really targeting one of them? Or is it just a joke?

"Who do you want to replace?"

"Aston Villa... that's James Milner."

"It's him!" Paul Futrey suddenly realized.

This player is the main midfielder of Aston Villa. He performs very well and is the creator of the youngest age appearance record in the Premier League. He is a typical English player, but he is good with his feet, has solid basic skills, and can be competent in many different positions. Position, he is a very hard-working all-rounder.

"This season we will attack on multiple fronts in the Champions League, League and two cup competitions. Milton will get a lot of opportunities after joining the team. If Aston Villa is willing to change, then he will be replaced."

"What about Tottenham Hotspur?" Paul Futrey asked again.

Last season Tottenham Hotspur almost reached the top four of the league and entered the Champions League, but in the end they could only participate in the Europa League. This has to be said to be a big regret, and after losing a lot of revenue , the North London team also had to start tightening money.

Corluca is a player that Redknapp has always wanted, as is Stephen Ireland, but Redknapp also wants Real Madrid's Van der Vaart, so his pursuit of Ireland is not strong.

"Gareth Bale."

"Gareth Bale?" Paul Futre hissed, frowning and thinking for a moment, "That young player who performed well in the second half of last season?"

"Yes, that's him. He has played against us and formed two wings with Aaron Lennon. He is fast, has strong impact, and his crosses from the left are quite reliable. I think it is good."

David Harrison laughed bitterly after hearing this, "But he seems to be a defender."

Gareth Bale was born in the Southampton youth training camp. Like other Saints youth training camps, he has solid basic skills. He switched to Tottenham Hotspur in 2007, but was seriously injured and was out for a long time. , after returning from injury, he appeared more often as a substitute, but every time he came off the bench, Tottenham lost, so many people called him a disaster star.

He is good friends with Walcott who plays for Arsenal. The two once played for Southampton together, but he obviously did not have the luck of the little tiger and met Wenger.

At Tottenham Hotspur, Gareth Bale never got a chance, even last season, but then with left-back Hector participating in the African Cup of Nations, Gareth Bale got the start Qualification, and he was playing as a left winger. He performed well and gradually gained a foothold.

This is why Gareth Bale and Aaron Lennon formed the devil's wings against Manchester City later.

Corluca's transfer valuation is about 10 million euros, and Gareth Bale should be about the same amount now. It's really doable to change one for the other.

"What about full-backs? Is there any difference to me?" Gao Han asked with a smile.

Everyone smiled helplessly.

This man really never cares about player positions, and is especially good at changing player positions.

"Can he do it?" Paul Futrey asked with concern.

The Portuguese are often worried about England's youth training players, fearing that they will not be able to integrate into the cold team and their investment will be in vain.

"Don't worry, this player is not bad." Gao Han chuckled, "Oh, by the way, there is another one. We can add some more money. You talk to Tottenham Hotspur. The one who was sitting in the game with us before The tall center on the bench is called..."

Gao Han didn't have much impression of the tall center. He just glanced at the bench that time and paid close attention. He thought it was very good. He was not old, only seventeen years old, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

"Yes, the name is Harry Kane. It seems that he can't play at Tottenham Hotspur. Put it in and exchange one for two. We can add some money."

Paul Futrey smiled bitterly. Is Tottenham poaching Manchester City players now, or is Manchester City poaching Tottenham Hotspur's corners? Why does it feel like Gao Han has been planning this for a long time?

But Gao Han was really wronged.

In fact, if Tottenham Hotspur hadn't taken the initiative to come to the door, he really wouldn't have considered poaching these two players, but they were both substitutes. Gao Han preferred to poach such more shaping young players. Cultivation and training.

And he has seen it with a keen eye. These two players are indeed the best among the young generation in the UK.

Of course, if it were another team, Gao Han would also dig it out. As for any Premier League team, except for Manchester City, which is ridiculed as an international team, which one does not have one or two outstanding young players?

After Stephen Ireland and Richard Dunn left the team, Harry Kane, Gareth Bale and James Milner were introduced to fill the vacancies in the team's local players and youth training, and to strengthen the team's bench. Kill two birds with one stone.

What's more, it doesn't cost much.

"By the way, have you finished the two players I asked you about last time?" Gao Han asked with concern.

When initially formulating the summer transfer plan, Gao Han gave Paul Futre two people, one was a left central defender who he had selected for more than half a year, and the other was a player he planned to use as a card player. Card's substitutes, these two players were appointed by him by name, and they have a lot to do with it.

"Don't worry, I won't dare to be careless about what you told me. I've already contacted you."

With that said, Paul Futrey handed over two pieces of materials to Gao Han.

"Take a look, if there's no problem, then sign it."