Football's No. 1 Prodigal Son

After all this, it was mid-July.

On July 12, 2004, Manchester City had its first training session of the new season.

After a summer of changes, the current first-team players of Manchester City are as follows.

Goalkeepers: Van der Sar, Cech, Weaver, Schmeichel.

Defense: Sun Jihai, Maicon, Stam, Uifalusi, Distin, Lescott, Kompany, Evra and Niklas Jensen.

Midfielders: Makelele, Dacourt, Essien, Xabi Alonso, Barton.

Frontcourt: Cristiano Ronaldo, Wright-Phillips, Ronaldinho, Kaka, Robben, Milner.

Forward: Fernando Torres and Luca Toni.

Of course, the lovely Eto'o has been relegated to the reserve team, competing with Mario Gomez for the main striker.

Now the first team has 26 people, plus Fabregas, Messi and others who can play in the first team, this lineup should be relatively ample.

Van Gaal also gave great affirmation to Yang Luo's work in the summer transfer window. It is a great blessing for their head coach to have such a boss.

Yang Luo can finally breathe a sigh of relief and prepare to watch the show.

Although the transfer window will not end for another 50 days, he has nothing to do.

On the other hand, other teams are still buying goods there crazily.

After the official announcement of Drogba, Abramovich finally started his shopping mode.

First, they bought Mourinho's old subordinates Ricardo Carvalho and Paulo Ferreira in Porto, and then they made a strong offer of 20 million pounds for Joaquin of Real Betis.

Today, Chelsea has only one good player on the right, Grunsjær, and he also intends to leave the team.

In Mourinho's tactics, the two flanks are very important, so Abramovich must help Mourinho get a strong winger.

But now Robben and Ronaldo are in Manchester City's hands, and Figo, a right-winger, is simply not available, so he can only buy this Spanish genius.

This time Joaquin actually agreed to Chelsea's purchase, so the two sides quickly reached an agreement.

Yang Luo was a little surprised when he saw the news, after all, Joaquin didn't have this attitude half a year ago...

Of course, it may be that Manchester United's purchase half a year ago made him change his mentality.

Who could have thought of such a thing?

Liverpool, after finalizing Benítez as head coach, also prepared to equip the Spanish coach with some capable players.

However, they not only have limited financial resources, but also limited appeal after losing the Champions League qualification. They only bought Spanish winger Luis Garcia.

But their biggest headache is not this, but how to keep the striker Michael Owen.

Now their contract renewal negotiations are not going well, and Real Madrid is eyeing the English striker...

Manchester United bought Argentine left-back Heinze and iron-blooded fighter Alan Smith.

In general, these clubs have been affected more or less due to the appearance of Yang Luo.

Only Arsenal was not affected by Manchester City. They just made some minor repairs to the lineup, got a Van Persie and a Flamini, and didn't even spend 5 million euros in total.

Yang Luo sighed, it's really not easy for the professor, how can he compete with our local tyrants in the future?

Barcelona also made a move and snatched Deco, the best midfielder in the Champions League last year.

However, they still couldn't forget Eto'o when it came to the selection of strikers.

But Yang Luo's attitude was very clear: either add money or forget it!

So Laporta had no choice but to make another offer: 25 million euros.

Although this offer was much higher than before, Yang Luo still didn't even look at it: "Not enough!"

Eto'o's agent Jose Mesales was anxious now, and he took the initiative to find Yang Luo: "Mr. Yang, it's boring for you to do this, right?"

Yang Luo smiled: "Why didn't you think of this day when you contacted Barcelona privately?"

Jose Mesales' face changed: "Mr. Yang, you can't say this, we haven't contacted Barcelona privately!"

Yang Luo's face turned cold: "You know whether you have contacted or not! Don't think others are fools!"

Jose Mesales' face changed and he didn't say anything.

Yang Luo glanced at him and said, "Instead of begging me, why not go find Laporta and ask him to raise the offer!"

Jose Mesales glanced at him but said nothing.

Three days later, Laporta submitted another offer.

This time the offer was raised to 30 million euros.

In fact, Laporta did not want to raise the offer, but Jose Mesales had told him that if he did not solve the problem quickly, it would be a dead end.

And Laporta did not want to ruin his reputation. If Eto'o was banned by Yang Luo for four years this time, who would dare to contact him privately in the future?

So, for future transactions, he must handle this Eto'o transaction well.

But Yang Luo's attitude remained unchanged: "Not for sale!"

Laporta was a little annoyed: "Mr. Yang, how much do you want?"

Yang Luo smiled: "Mr. Laporta, I don't want much. I spent 25 million pounds to buy Torres, so my price for Eto'o is 25.01 million pounds."

Laporta was almost angry and laughed: "Mr. Yang, what do you mean?"

Yang Luo took it for granted: "Originally, I didn't need to passively replace the main striker. It was you who messed it up, so I had to replace the main striker. So you have to bear this cost. And you made me bear the risk of changing the main striker, so the 10,000 pounds is my mental damage compensation."

Laporta was speechless for a while.

Yang Luo smiled: "You can think about it first, anyway, I'm not in a hurry. Torres has trained well with our first team, and Eto'o has slowly adapted in the reserve team. You still have time."

After saying this, Yang Luo clearly felt that Laporta's breathing on the phone was much heavier.

After a while, Laporta said, "I'll think about it and give you an answer tomorrow."

After that, he hung up the phone.

Bernstein was trying to hold back his laughter the whole time, and only at this moment could he help but laugh and say, "You are really a talent."

Yang Luo shrugged, "I'm just telling the truth."

The situation now is that whoever gets anxious first will lose.

And Yang Luo is not anxious anyway.

Sure enough, early the next morning, Yang Luo received a call from Laporta: "Okay, I promise you, 25.01 million pounds!"