The Godfather of Football

When the Premier League teams set off a huge wave of bargain hunting in the transfer market of European football, Tottenham Hotspur, after selling four star players, also worked hard to find replacements in the transfer market.

Soon, Tottenham Hotspur posted a message on its official website that the team introduced the 18-year-old Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois from the Belgian Genk team. The 1.99-meter-tall Belgian goalkeeper has only played one game for Genk so far, and he replaced the main goalkeeper when he was injured. However, Tottenham Hotspur introduced him to Theobald and said that Courtois has the ability to become a top goalkeeper in the future.

Although Tottenham Hotspur officials did not disclose the transfer amount of Courtois, it was revealed that the goalkeeper's value was very low, even less than one million euros, and Tottenham Hotspur's purpose of introducing Courtois was also to find a suitable young substitute for Cech.

But Ye Qiu denied this statement on the official website of Tottenham Hotspur. He said that Courtois was a goalkeeper that Tottenham Hotspur coaching staff finally decided to introduce after careful selection. Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper coach Frith Hoch also highly praised Courtois, believing that the Belgian has a perfect goalkeeper physique, and his reaction and goal line skills are quite good. With time, he will definitely have the opportunity to become a top goalkeeper.

In fact, when choosing a substitute goalkeeper, Ye Qiu had two choices. One was Ter Stegen, the youth training goalkeeper of Borussia Mönchengladbach in Germany. He was also 18 years old. Ter Stegen's ability was also very good, especially as a substitute goalkeeper, but Borussia Mönchengladbach rejected Tottenham Hotspur's contact.

So in the end, Tottenham Hotspur chose the young player Courtois of the Belgian Genk team. Frith Hoch was indeed very optimistic about this goalkeeper. He believed that Courtois' future was very bright and he even had the hope of challenging Cech.

Of course, this is not something that can be done in a short period of time. It depends on how much Courtois can learn from Frith Hoek. After all, Cech has benefited a lot from Frith Hoek. Frith Hoek has made a great contribution to the Czech becoming the world's number one goalkeeper.

In addition, Tottenham Hotspur also announced that it would introduce 21-year-old Spanish left-back Jordi Alba from Valencia for 3 million euros. This is a deal brokered by the famous Spanish agent Maloro.

Jordi Alba came from Barcelona's youth training camp La Masia, where he stayed from the age of ten to sixteen. La Masia eliminated him from La Masia on the grounds that he was too short and had poor physical fitness, which was also caused by the fierce competition in La Masia.

After leaving La Masia, Alba continued to train in a local amateur team called Cornella in Barcelona, ​​and was later valued by Valencia, who brought him to Valencia for 6,000 euros and loaned him to the Tarragona Club in the Spanish Second Division in 2008. During this process, Alba also entered the U19 and U21 Spanish national teams.

With his outstanding performance in the Spanish Second Division, Alba returned to Valencia and gradually gained a foothold in the second half of the 09/10 season, but his performance was not very ideal. However, considering his age and technical characteristics, Alba was still quite optimistic. Because of this, Tottenham Hotspur was willing to spend 3 million euros in transfer fees to introduce this Spanish rookie to fill the gap left by Coentrao.

In Ye Qiu's opinion, the defense of the new season has been improved after being supplemented by Nastasic and Varane. Nastasic's defensive ability and his left-footed ability to play on the left make Nastasic a good choice if the team's left side is to take a defensive stance.

Therefore, the substitute of Marcelo on the left side is mainly focused on the ability to assist, so Alba was introduced.

After Marca and Real Madrid announced the news that Raul would leave the team, Tottenham Hotspur also accelerated the discussion with Raul on personal treatment. After all, Raul's personal annual salary in Real Madrid is as high as 6.5 million euros after tax. If it is placed in the Premier League, it will indeed affect Tottenham Hotspur's internal salary structure.

In the final analysis, when Raul came to Tottenham Hotspur, Ye Qiu had no way to promise Raul a starting position, but after selling Falcao, the team's center forward was left with Cavani. Raul would get more opportunities after joining the team, and Ye Qiu himself was also optimistic about Raul. He always felt that Raul's ability was very good, not just in scoring goals.

In the end, Raul reached an agreement with Tottenham Hotspur through his agent and agent Maloro. The two parties finally reached an agreement to transfer to Tottenham Hotspur at a price of 6 million euros before tax, according to the new tax rate introduced by the Premier League, that is, 3 million euros after tax. At the same time, Tottenham Hotspur obtained half of Raul's image rights, and half of all commercial operation income went to Raul.

During the negotiation process, Tottenham Hotspur gave Raul and his agent team a business operation plan. According to this plan, during the contract period, Tottenham Hotspur expects Raul's annual commercial operation income to be around 5 million to 8 million euros. After all, Raul has accumulated considerable influence in Real Madrid over the years.

If the two parties agree on a half-share split, Raul can get an annual salary equal to that of Real Madrid, and this is just a conservative estimate. Of course, it is certain that Raul will cut his salary to join. After all, Real Madrid also has a share of commercial income. It's just that Tottenham Hotspur has lowered Raul's salary on the one hand, and subsidized business operations on the other.

And from Raul, Tottenham Hotspur has also adopted a floating salary structure. If Raul performs well in the team, or the team can continue to make gains in the Premier League and Champions League this season, Raul will The salary can be up to 3.5 million euros after tax.

After going to London and signing a professional contract with Tottenham Hotspur, Raul returned to Madrid and attended the farewell party prepared for him by Real Madrid. What no one expected was that Raul stayed until the departure. At that time, it was recognized by all fans. There were even thousands of Real Madrid fans waiting at the Bernabeu Stadium to retain Raul. Even the King of Spain personally called Raul to say goodbye to him.

At this farewell meeting, Raul expressed his gratitude to Real Madrid to everyone. Although Florentino once again suffered from the infamy of driving away meritorious stars, he still gave Raul high praise. , and when Raul finally explained why he wanted to leave Real Madrid, he repeatedly stated that no one forced him or put pressure on him.

"The reason why I chose to leave is because I feel that I am still a professional player and my physical condition can still allow me to maintain my condition and continue playing on the football field, so I chose to leave Real Madrid, but what I want to say Yes, I have deep love and respect for Real Madrid. As long as there is need, Raul will always listen to Real Madrid’s call!”

Raul's farewell party attracted the participation of many famous players from Real Madrid, including Pirie, Butragueno, Valdano and other club legends. Although Del Bosque, Hierro, Redondo and others were all because of their relationship with Flo Lentino's contradiction did not appear at the Bernabeu, but they still conveyed their support and affirmation to Raul through the phone and the media.

"In my impression, Raul has never been anyone's burden or trouble. He chose to leave the Bernabeu. This is a very brave decision. I firmly believe that he can show his strength at Tottenham Hotspur!"

Compared to Del Bosque's mild remarks, Hierro seems to be a little sympathetic.

"I absolutely believe that Raul can succeed at Tottenham Hotspur. He will make everyone who underestimated him regret it. At the same time, I also want to say that losing Raul will not only lose the fans of Real Madrid, but also all the fans of Real Madrid." Spanish fans, those who have attacked Raul will definitely regret it!”

Redondo also said in an interview that Raul's departure proved the loss of Real Madrid's traditional spirit. He believed that no one in the current Real Madrid team can take over the flag left by Raul, even if it is Neither Casillas can.

"Hierro was able to control the locker room by relying on his personal charm and appeal, which convinced everyone. But Raul was different. The way Raul convinced everyone that he was captain was his tolerance and leading by example. This has won him the respect and love of all his teammates, but after Raul, who can take over the banner of Real Madrid captain?”

Di Stefano, the honorary chairman of Real Madrid who is over 80 years old, is currently ill and hospitalized. Raul went to the hospital to visit this idol, but Di Stefano only whispered to Raul from beginning to end. But no one knew what was said, and when Raul left, Di Stefano cried in front of the media cameras.

Obviously, Di Stefano was disappointed by Raul's departure, but both he and Raul refused to publish the words they whispered to each other. Perhaps this will become a secret between the two people.

After attending the farewell party at the Bernabeu Stadium, Raul went directly from Madrid to London. His agent has started to find a house for him in London. At the same time, Tottenham Hotspur also stated that Raul himself refused to appear. Ceremony, he hopes to use a game performance to greet Tottenham Hotspur fans.

Therefore, after arriving in London, Raul directly participated in Tottenham Hotspur's training session.

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On the morning before Tottenham Hotspur traveled to the Netherlands to participate in the Amsterdam Invitational Tournament, Tottenham Hotspur made an exception and released Theobald's closure, allowing all Tottenham Hotspur members and fans to come to the training base , watching the team's morning training session, and everyone knew that Raul was going to make his debut.

Because of this, on this morning, an hour before the team training, hundreds of fans poured into Theobald's training base. This was because Theobald controlled the number of fans, and there were dozens of fans at the same time. The media reporters all arrived at Theobald Training Base early to prepare.

According to information released by Tottenham Hotspur’s official website, in the past two days, Tottenham Hotspur sold 150,000 Raul home and away jerseys in its fan stores and online stores in London. order, but unlike his No. 7 jersey at Real Madrid, Raul chose No. 24, just behind Beckham, who wore No. 23.

As early as when Tottenham Hotspur announced the jersey numbers for the new season, Raul smiled and explained the reason why he chose No. 24 during an interview. "When I was communicating with Mr. Ye Qiu, our boss, he joked that the homophony of my name in Chinese is very similar to the number two, and my good friend David chose No. 23, so I chose No. 24."

"You know, he went to Spain before, which was my territory, so he had to give in to me, and now I'm in England, his territory, so I have to give in to him, because I'm worried that he will take this opportunity to retaliate against me!" After saying this, Raul's face showed a bright and heartfelt smile that was rare in the past few years.

But in fact, when Raul and Beckham, the two superstars of the past, met in front of the training building of Theobald's first team, the two said nothing, walked over directly, and hugged each other tightly, just like good friends.

According to the Times, there is no problem between Raul and Beckham. After Raul and his family came to London, Beckham invited them to visit Beckingham Palace and lent Raul a house in London temporarily, waiting for them to move out after they found a house.

From this series of actions, there is no problem between them.

Just when everyone was looking forward to whether something would happen in Raul's first Tottenham training session, they saw that after Raul entered Theobald, he greeted Beckham, Messi, Fabregas, David Silva, Ribery, Cavani and other Tottenham players, talked for a while near the training building, and Fabregas and others took a few photos with Raul on their mobile phones and posted them on Weibo to show off.

Then everyone entered the locker room, changed their clothes, and returned to the first team's training ground.

Soon, Ye Qiu and the coaching staff entered the training ground on time, and he did not introduce Raul in particular, but just asked everyone to train as usual, and the training items were not much different from usual.

In the second half of the morning training session, Ye Qiu arranged an internal competition, but this time the internal competition was not strictly divided into main players and substitutes. Raul was assigned to a group with Neymar, Messi, David Silva, Thiago Silva and others, and Raul served as the central striker of the frontcourt attack trident.

When Cavani played as a center forward, he used his active running and pulling in the frontcourt to disrupt the opponent's defense line. But when Ye Qiu arranged the group competition, he specially called Raul aside and kept explaining something in Raul's ear. This was also the only communication between the two in the whole training session.

Ye Qiu's intention was that Raul should not push too high, because he was not a strong center forward. He should retreat to become a supporting striker. His main task was to receive the pass from the midfield and support the two wings.

The reason why superstars are superstars is mainly because their technical characteristics are very mature and stable. Although Raul participated in the team training of Tottenham Hotspur for the first time, he still showed his superb footwork. Especially as a central supporting player, Raul had no shortage of opportunities to retreat with his back to the ball, but he rarely lost the ball under the defense of Kompany and Varane.

At first, no one noticed it, but as the competition progressed, everyone began to realize one thing, that is, after adapting at the beginning, Raul quickly proved himself to everyone.

When he was retreating to meet David Silva, Raul received the ball facing the attacker. When he saw Neymar had already reached the position, Raul pushed the ball with his left foot and sent it directly into the penalty area from outside the penalty area in a straight line. However, Neymar's running position was not smart enough this time. He was always pressed inside by Varane and could not receive Raul's wonderful pass.

If this scene was seen by the fans, they would definitely think that it was Raul's pass error, but in the eyes of some more professional reporters, Raul's pass was the best way to deal with it. Neymar only needed to receive the ball from the outside and shoot with his left foot. It was very convenient, and Varane could not stop it.

So the reporters were seen applauding, and the fans followed suit after seeing the reporters applauding.

After Neymar made a useless sprint, he made an apology gesture to Raul when he ran back, and the Spaniard also made a motion to run to the left towards him, and he should have been saying that he should have moved a little to the left just now, so that it would be easier to receive the ball and kick.

After all, Varane limited the chances of passing the ball to Neymar's feet, so if he wanted to receive the ball, he had to use his speed and running position to create space, rather than following Varane closely, which would make it impossible for him to escape Varane's defensive area.

Soon, Raul seemed to feel that passing the ball to Neymar was not enough, so he simply went for it himself. When he retreated to the midfield, Coutinho chose to cooperate with Messi, and the Argentine took the ball on the right and cut inside. At this time, Raul chose to directly attack the opponent's left goal post from the left side of the penalty area arc.

Messi quickly passed the ball with his left foot to the left side of the other side. Raul was not very fast, especially facing Varane who was defending him, but strangely, he cleverly blocked Varane with his body, making it difficult for the young French central defender to hinder Raul from receiving the ball. Moreover, Raul seemed to know Varane's idea very well. After catching up with the ball, he directly dribbled the ball to the right behind Varane with his left foot instead of shooting. This made Varane, who suddenly wanted to stop, lose his balance and fall on the grass.

After Raul dribbled to the right, Cech also reacted very quickly and attacked at the first time, but this was obviously expected by Raul. He took a step forward and poked the ball with his left toe. The ball went straight to the right post and hit the side net while Cech was moving.

The ball went in!

At this moment, Raul showed everyone his strength as a top superstar!

Even though he is 33 years old, he has never been a player who relies on youth, body and speed to make a living!

For a player like him who relies on consciousness and wisdom to survive on the court, the older he is and the more experienced he is, the more terrifying he is!

Ye Qiu's motherland once said that an old man who is still alive is a demon!

Raul, as long as he has not retired, as long as he continues to survive on the offensive line, he will still be the nightmare of all defenders!