Coaching legend

"Is this person very strong?" Richard complained in his heart. According to the information, this player is just a young Chinese international, and he has only played in the English League One for half a season.

For such a player, it is really a waste of talent to let the head of the transfer department play.

"To supplement the lineup on the right side, and this person is all-round in the back. It is very useful. Anyway, it is the player I need." George explained to Richard. Then he quietly told Richard that Williams attached so much importance to him because he was interested in the Chinese market.

Richard nodded. When he came to China from the UK, Richard had already thought of this.

If it weren't for the Chinese market, why would Williams send Sam Kelly. Richard didn't have much contact with Sam Kelly. But he knew that this person was highly regarded by Williams. It is impossible to come to China for no reason.

Compared with flying from the UK to BJ, it is much faster to go from BJ to Dalian.

Compared with BJ, he is a little unfamiliar, but George is quite familiar with Dalian. In his previous life, he went to college in Dalian and found a job in Dalian. George has been in this city for almost ten years.

When he walked out of Zhoushuizi International Airport, George couldn't help but smile. Dalian, back to Dalian again. When he was a football fan, he went to watch the A-League.

Because the Dalian club was notified in advance, they had been waiting for George and his party in front of the airport.

They were well prepared and took George and his party directly to the Dalian club.

Dalian, after China's professionalization, was known as a football city. When Chinese football began to professionalize, Dalian Wanda Group took over the Dalian team at that time. After that, it created a series of brilliant achievements, not only winning the first league championship. After that, there was a series of brilliant achievements such as three consecutive league championships, a myth of 55 unbeaten games, and five years of unbeaten home games in the professional league.

And at this time, the Dalian Wanda team was not only the overlord of the Chinese league, but also a powerful team in Asia.

It was not until 1999 that the Dalian Wanda Group began to slowly leave the Chinese football scene. First, 30% of the shares of the Dalian Wanda Club were sold to Dalian Shide Group. It was also renamed Dalian Wanda Shide.

However, their performance declined rapidly this season, and they are now in the relegation zone. Xu Genbao, who led Dalian Wanda to win the league championship last season, was dismissed, and Northeast coach Li Yingfa came out to become the fire-fighting coach of Dalian Wanda Shide.

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"Welcome everyone." George and his team were greeted by Xu Ming, chairman of Shide Group, who had just taken over Dalian Football Club.

Although Shide Group only bought 30% of the shares of Dalian Wanda Football Club, it has begun to slowly take over Dalian Football Club. And Wanda Group has begun to leave Chinese football.

Therefore, it was Xu Ming of Shide Group who came to greet George.

At this time, Xu Ming was not a wealthy man with assets of tens of billions of RMB ten years later. Although he was a rich man, the current Shide Group was not the behemoth that it would be later. Although Shide Group is a star enterprise in Dalian, it is still not ranked nationwide.

Xu Ming also relied on investing in football to make the Shide brand known to people all over the country.

Therefore, Xu Ming is now just a local tycoon.

"Boss Xu, hello." George's fluent Chinese made Xu Ming stunned. But it was only a moment before he recovered.

"Your Chinese is really good." Xu Ming praised sincerely. There are many foreigners who can speak Chinese, but not many are as authentic as George.

"Thank you." George nodded, and then introduced several people who came with him. "This is Richard Flynn, who is in charge of the transfer department of our Blackburn Rovers, and this is Sam Kelly, who is in charge of the club's commercial development."

Xu Ming shook hands with them one by one.

"Let me introduce myself. I am George Levy, the head coach of Blackburn Rovers." Although the identities of several people have been informed in the fax to them. But George still introduced himself.

"Coach Levy, very young."

"Boss Xu, you are even younger." Xu Ming is several years younger than George, but he is already a wealthy man.

"Boss Xu, I'm not polite either. We are here for Sun Jihai of your club." After George sat down, he went straight to the point and stated his purpose.

Yes, George was attracted to Sun Jihai.

There are quite a few Chinese players who will go abroad in the future, including Yang Chen and Xie Hui who were amazing in Germany. Including Fan Zhiyi and Li Tie who are playing in the English football world, but when it comes to the banner of Chinese players going abroad, there is only one person who can represent it.

Only Sun Jihai has been the main force of Manchester City in the Premier League for several years. Later, Sun Jihai also had a place in the list of the best foreign players in the history of Manchester City Club.

Sun Jihai is an all-round player in the back, who can play as both left and right full-backs, as well as the defensive midfielder, and of course, even as a winger. He can be the main force in Manchester City for several years, which also shows his strength.

Such a versatile player is very good as a versatile substitute. With Sun Jihai's characteristics, it is no problem for him to play 20 to 30 games in the club in a year.

In fact, Sun Jihai transferred to Crystal Palace at that time, but the contract between Dalian and Crystal Palace was more like a lease contract, and Dalian took back Sun Jihai this summer. Therefore, Dalian had no choice but to buy Sun Jihai.

"Sun Jihai?" Xu Ming paused and said with difficulty: "I won't hide it from you. Our club is facing a heavy task of relegation now. So we need Sun Jihai now."

Xu Ming is a man with lofty goals. Of course, this does not mean that he has great ambitions in football. In fact, Xu Ming is definitely not as interested in football as Jack Walker, Moratti, Abramovich and others.

Xu Ming is a businessman, just like Glazer, the owner of Manchester United. They all have other purposes for investing in football. Glazer hopes to make Manchester United a money-making machine and profit from it. Xu Ming invested in football for the development of Shide Group in China.

At a time when the national football atmosphere is very strong, investing in football is the best time to make the company famous.

Therefore, Xu Ming is very eager to cooperate with Blackburn. After receiving the fax from Blackburn Rovers, Xu Ming also briefly learned about Blackburn Rovers' development. He knew that Blackburn Rovers' performance this season was very good.

As a far-sighted businessman, Xu Ming knew the benefits of cooperating with foreign countries, especially European clubs.

But now that the Dalian team is struggling on the edge of relegation, they thought of buying back Sun Jihai.

"Boss Xu, I also understand the situation of your club. The poor performance of the Dalian team this season is just an accident. As long as you cheer up in the remaining games, relegation will not be a problem for you. I believe that Sun Jihai will not have much impact."

After speaking, George winked at Sam Kelly. Sam Kelly understood what George meant and took out a series of conditions that Blackburn Rovers wanted to cooperate with the Dalian team.

Williams is definitely a very competent club chairman. George just said a few words to him, and he found all the information he could find. Then he did a lot of homework and sent Sam Kelly.

After Sam Kelly came to China, he learned more about the current situation of the Dalian team and Chinese football. Although there will be a lot of omissions in a short time. But Sam Kelly has been in contact with Williams, and the two have been discussing the terms of cooperation.

Sam Kelly's various cooperation terms made Xu Ming's eyes light up.

Blackburn wants to enter the Chinese market, and Xu Ming also wants to form an alliance with the Premier League club. Therefore, Blackburn's various cooperation terms are completely all-round cooperation.

George just watched Sam Kelly and Xu Ming talk about some specific issues. Seeing Xu Ming's enthusiastic look, George knew that there should be no problem with Sun Jihai. Compared with Sun Jihai, being able to cooperate with Blackburn, a Premier League club, is more attractive.

However, it seems that the negotiations between them will not be completed in a day or two, so George coughed lightly. Xu Ming saw George and smiled apologetically. "Coach Levy, I don't think there will be a big problem with Sun Jihai. I just don't know how much you can pay?"

"Our idea is to pay Crystal Palace 500,000 pounds and compensate Dalian team 300,000 pounds."

Xu Ming nodded. "Okay, I think Blackburn can talk to Sun Jihai alone."

"Thank you, Boss Xu."

George was indeed very happy to be able to deal with Sun Jihai. In this way, George has an all-purpose substitute in the midfield and backcourt, and he doesn't have to worry about not having enough people.

And Sun Jihai's strength is not bad, and he is more than enough to be a main player in the current Premier League mid-stream team.

George has no interest in how the two clubs will cooperate, and he doesn't quite understand it. As for business operations, George only knows how to sell jerseys. But selling jerseys in China, George believes that is the worst option. Although the number of Chinese fans is huge, there are definitely very few who can buy genuine jerseys.

But George certainly knows that this kind of cooperation is certainly not as simple as selling jerseys.

Therefore, George left the negotiation place, leaving only Sam Kelly and Xu Ming to continue the negotiation.

Xu Ming was very considerate and gave George a guide to take George to have a good time in Dalian. But George politely refused. As for Dalian, George can find a place almost with his eyes closed.

Richard also needs to discuss Sun Jihai's contract with Sun Jihai's agent Xu Hongtao, so George takes Miranda to visit Dalian.

There are only two chapters today.

I will be busy until tomorrow, as long as the leader leaves. I will make up for all the missed chapters in the past few days.