Green Journey

Chapter 438 Newcomer, signing target!
The next day, Chu Zheng got up early to open the door, and after driving Chang Wei, Lai Fu, and Ba Wan to the yard to sneak around by himself, he drove straight to the training base with his bag on his back.

We won against Liverpool, and today is still New Year's Day. It stands to reason that we should have a happy holiday.

But the Manchester City players failed to get a holiday from Guardiola.

Because two days later, on January 1, Manchester City will usher in the 3th round of the Premier League.

I don't even have enough time to prepare for the battle, and I still want to take a vacation, and I want to fart!
Half an hour later, Chu Zheng walked out of the open-air parking lot of the base, but instead of going straight to the locker room as usual, he waited at the entrance of the parking lot.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Chu Zheng waited for a little carrot head.

Looking at the naturally curly cut boy riding on the bicycle, Chu Zheng smiled and said, "Phil, you're late!"

"Sorry, boss!" Foden smiled, a little embarrassed, but he didn't explain, being late is always late.

"I forgive you, put the car away and follow me!" After saying that, Chu Zheng turned around and left, Foden quickly locked the car and trotted to follow.

A few days ago, Foden was promoted to the first team and was also the first Manchester City echelon player promoted by Guardiola.

Chu Zheng knows Foden very well because they often practice together.

In terms of Foden's current personal skills, it doesn't make much sense to stay in the U18 to play in the English Youth Super League.

In fact, Foden's two friends Sancho and Dias are also very good, but it is a pity that Manchester City does not lack offensive players in the frontcourt.

Although Foden's body is not very good, he is very flexible. His close-range ball control ability, dribbling ability in the penalty area, and passing ability have reached the average level of the first team, especially his spirituality on the court. He is a very rare talent. .

As for the reason why this kid called him as soon as he was promoted, Chu Zheng also knew clearly in his heart that he was looking for a backer.

Although there is no clear division of camps in the Manchester City team, there are still some small circles in private.

For example, the English circle headed by Sterling, the South American player circle headed by Aguero, and the Spanish circle headed by David Silva.

Usually, although everyone has a good relationship and talks and laughs, they don't have much contact in private, and they all play in their own circles.

As for Chu Zheng, he and De Bruyne are actually in the same circle, specializing in taking in those orphaned players.

For example, Ishinacho from Nigeria, Bravo from Chile, and Kolarov from Serbia. These people are all very close to Chu Zheng and De Bruyne. Recently, Yaya Toure has also spontaneously approached.

In fact, even if Foden doesn't look for him, he can easily integrate into Sterling's England circle.

After a while, Chu Zheng took Foden to the locker room and introduced him to De Bruyne and others.

Everyone gave Chu Zheng face, and their attitude towards Foden was very friendly, and some people even seemed a little too enthusiastic.

Seeing how everyone treated him, Foden finally understood Chu Zheng's status in Manchester City's dressing room.

Now he believed the rumors circulating in the youth training echelon that Guardiola loved Chu Zheng so much that he could even sell any other player for Chu Zheng.

He didn't believe it before, but now that he saw the attitude of the first-team bosses towards Chu Zheng, he believed it.

At the same time, Guardiola was talking to Begiristan in the office of Manchester City's sports director.

"Pep, you don't need to put such a lot of pressure on yourself. The club has enough patience and confidence in you. We can actually wait until this summer instead of being so hasty." Looking at Guardiola who was sitting on the opposite side with a sad face, Begiristain said with a smile.

Guardiola nodded, but said nothing, his attitude was already obvious.

Yes, the management of the Manchester City club did not set some hard goals for him this season, even if it is empty-handed, but Guardiola does not want to get nothing for a season.

Now that the season is over halfway, the team can bite Chelsea and not be left behind. Guardiola is very clear that this is not all due to him.

But if the defense is not strengthened, they will definitely have a hard time facing the intensive field of multi-line combat in the second half of the season.Now the facts are in front of his eyes, Kolarov, Zabaleta and other veterans in the team's defense line are no longer able to start.

As far as the current situation is concerned, Guardiola feels that if they can strengthen the defense in time, they still have hope for the championship.

Even in the Champions League, he is also confident that he will reach the semi-finals after the defense is strengthened.

Before the transfer window opened this winter, Guardio had already selected the three players he wanted through Manchester City scouts scattered all over the place.

One is Southampton's Dutch central defender Virgil van Dijk, the other is Tottenham's English full-back Kyle Walker, and the last is the goalkeeper, Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson who plays for the Portuguese Super League club Benfica.

But after several contacts with Southampton, Guardiola gave up Van Dijk.

There is no way, it is too expensive, the asking price is 8000 million, and a central defender is not satisfied with 5000 million, it is too greedy.

Manchester City is rich, but they are definitely not being taken advantage of. Southampton is clearly slaughtering them as pigs.

As for Kyle Walker and Ederson, the current signings are progressing smoothly. Both Tottenham and Benfica are willing to sell players, and the players themselves are willing to join Manchester City.

As for why he bought Ederson, in addition to the excellent players themselves, it was also Guardiola's preparation after being disappointed with Bravo.

In addition, Caballero's contract expires next year and he is expected to leave, so Manchester City needs a goalkeeper.

As for who is the master of Ederson and Bravo, it depends on the performance. Guardiola is not saying that he will give up Bravo completely.

But now there is a problem standing in front of Manchester City, and that is the obstacle of the Financial Fair Play Act.

Last summer, Manchester City had already spent more than 2 million pounds. It would be a bit too much to spend this winter window.

At that time, UEFA will have to hack them to death with the big knife of the Financial Fair Play Act.

But Guardiola can't wait, now Walker and Ederson are needed.

And these two players add up to more than 8000 million pounds, which is really not cheap.

"Then UEFA..." Guardiola looked at Begiristan.

"Don't worry about that, it's easy to deal with them!" Begiristan smiled confidently.

"Rent first and then buy!" Begiristan raised an eyebrow at Guardiola, with an expression that you understand.

Suddenly Guardiola slapped his head and smiled.

In recent years, under the pressure of UEFA's Financial Fair Play Act, many show operations have been born in the transfer market.

Rent-to-own is one such measure in response to the Financial Fair Play Act.

In fact, this is a delayed purchase in a different direction, so that a player can be allocated to two or more transfer periods to complete, cleverly avoiding being punished by UEFA, and at the same time, the player you like can be included in the bag as soon as possible .

In order to avoid UEFA's supervision and review, the loan parties will also set trigger conditions for future official transfers in the contract, but these conditions are all bonus points, such as the trigger condition that the league champion guarantees that he will not be relegated.

Although UEFA has adjusted the bill every year in recent years, there are policies above and countermeasures below.

It can be said that UEFA's Financial Fair Play Act has been clearly played by major clubs.

(End of this chapter)