Mister Legend

Chapter 528 Transfer Conflict and Resolution

The second day of the match against Burnley is Thanksgiving, a traditional western festival.This commemorative event was originally set up by the British Puritans who first landed in North America to thank the local Indians for their sincere help. Due to the spread of American culture, it has gradually become a worldwide festival.

After traveling back then, no matter in Spain or Italy, Li Moody would follow the occasion to have a big meal with everyone, which can be regarded as an effort to integrate into Western cultural life.Of course, the main purpose is to enjoy the appetite. Although the roast turkey is far less delicious than the stewed chicken with mushrooms in the hometown of Tianchao, it is good to change the taste occasionally.

But when he became the head coach of Arsenal and officially settled in London, he almost made a big mistake, which was related to this festival.

On Thanksgiving Day, Moody Li, who had nothing to do, suddenly wanted to post a message on his social media to congratulate everyone on the holiday, but Guinness, who came to his house as a guest, stopped him in time.Through the explanation of the agent, the Gunners coach realized that the British don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, and even dislike this festival. If Li Moody really sent out the blessings he just edited, he might immediately become a laughing stock of the outside world. The object of criticism made him break out in cold sweat.

After finally suppressing the shock with a meal of heavenly food plus kimchi country specialties (Lin Yuner's habit must be considered), the two men went to the study room after teasing the little angel for a while, and studied Arsenal's transfer in the winter window together. will operate.

As for the general direction of the Gunners lineup adjustment, Li Moody has already made a preliminary plan in his spare time outside of the preparations for the previous two weeks.This time I communicated with my agent, naturally not to solicit any opinions, but to ask the latter to contact the target player and his agent in private before the club does not come forward to test whether the other party intends to join The arsenal saves you from wasting time by quoting rashly when you get it.

However, after reading about twelve or three names handwritten on a piece of A4 paper, Guinness did not directly nod and agree as usual, but suggested to his partner very sincerely: "Li, You should know that Arsenal is not Turin, and Stan Kroenke is not Urbano Cairo. Although the two people have almost exactly the same desire for economic benefits, their trust in you is still quite different. .”

Seeing that Li Moody frowned slightly and was about to open his mouth to refute, this famous agent who still has a lot of influence in European football hastily explained: "In Italy, although you have the absolute right to transfer, but after all It is still necessary to cooperate with the marketing department, that is, Valentino Cairo is your little brother or a firm ally, so in those three years, you did not encounter any major obstacles, But this is by no means the norm for European clubs. I know that after you took over Arsenal, you basically stayed at the training base and rarely went to the club’s residence, but you still don’t know Gazidis and Mislinta. The level of the three executives, Te and Sanlei, right?"

Hearing these three names, the word "Chuan" between the eyebrows of the Gunners coach immediately became more obvious, because he also knew that those would be the three mountains that he could not avoid in the transfer work.

Ivan Gazidis, a South African born in Johannesburg, of Greek descent, is 56 years old and became the CEO of Arsenal Club at the end of 2008.Previously, as a founding member of Major League Soccer, he had achieved outstanding results in promoting the influence of football in the world, so he was favored by the Kroenke family and hired as the director of the arsenal.From the perspective of job responsibilities, Gazidis can naturally intervene in every decision-making of various departments of the club. Although he basically does not interfere too much, he also has great influence on whether the proposal can be passed.If such a person takes a stand against himself, it will definitely be a big trouble.

And Raul Sanllehi, the former director of the Barcelona club, was transferred to the football director of the Arsenal club in 2018 and is the head of the sports department.During Emery's coaching period, he was responsible for negotiating important transfer transactions and maintaining the club's relationship with international and domestic football public affairs. He was the direct supervisor of the team coach.Even if Li Mudi obtained the right to decide on the transfer when signing the contract, theoretically speaking, the opinion of the football director must be respected, so the communication with Sanllehi must be maintained at a relatively good level.

As for the most embarrassing thing for the team's head coach, there is no doubt that Arsenal's unique signing director Mislin Tate.The former Dortmund football director and chief scout has the reputation of "Diamond Eye". He was once famous all over the world for excavating Shinji Kagawa from the Japanese J2 League. In addition, the stars who joined him include Lewandowski, Aubameyang, Ousmane Dembele and others are said to be super players in the industry.

In 2017, because of a serious conflict with the then Hornets coach Tuchel, he angrily left Dortmund, who had played for 11 years, and came to Arsenal.However, due to the qualifications of the position, the German can only be temporarily assigned to the position of chief scout, but in order to compensate him, the Kroenke family came up with an inexplicable title of signing director.

In the Emery era, Mislintat was not only in charge of the scouting team, but also responsible for the first team and the recruitment of youth training players, which was equivalent to taking a large piece of power from the football director. Raul Sanllehi, who arrived in office in just a month, seemed quite helpless.

Although the relationship between the two people seems to be very complicated on the surface, the actual situation is beyond the knowledge of outsiders.And judging from the fact that Arsenal has successively introduced Aubameyang, Mkhitaryan and Papastathopoulos and many other players with Dortmund background, it is clear that Mislintat has gained greater trust from the club's top management. This should make Sanlei, who originally wanted to flex his muscles in the new environment, feel a little embarrassed.

In addition, there is actually a hidden boss in the club, that is Josh Kroenke, son of owner Stan Kroenke.The super-rich second generation was previously the president of two professional teams, the Denver Nuggets of the family business NBA team and the Colorado Avalanche of the NHL. Now he has become a director of Arsenal and sits in London on behalf of his family.

And just two months after the prince entered Highbury, the team's legendary coach Arsene Wenger was announced to be resigning at the end of the season. Who made this decision is no secret in the whole of the UK. The head of the club, who has cultivated his skills in the American business circle, will be an unpredictable variable.

After carefully analyzing the current high-level chaos of the Arsenal club with Guines, Li Moody's head was about to die from pain. He was not good at dealing with people, just like a freshman who just graduated from school. Just stepping into a workplace comparable to Shura's hell, whoever would want to escape as soon as possible, or just untie the waistband of his trousers to give himself a break.

At this critical moment, it showed Guinness's old-fashioned methods. He also knew that the person in front of him was really not good at dealing with those intrigues, and his own identity was inconvenient to replace him, so he gave a sharp knife Cutting through the mess, a one-step solution.That is to find Josh Kroenke directly and obtain the support of this transfer plan from the other party. As for the operation of specific affairs, he does not participate in it. As long as the goal can be achieved, it does not matter who is the handler and how much money is spent in the end.

Although doing so will arouse Mislintat's disgust, it will not touch the fundamental interests of Gazidis and Sanlei. It can be regarded as the least offensive choice among all labor-saving strategies. Naturally, after a little consideration, Li Moody I readily accepted it.

So on Friday night, the British paparazzi were excited to discover that the Arsenal coach did not return home immediately after training, but went directly to a high-end hotel in the city center.Less than 5 minutes after Li Moody entered, Josh Kroenke, who has become a well-known figure in the British football world, also walked in the same door, and the media smelled the smell.

After squatting outside the restaurant for two and a half hours, the paparazzi's attempt to get some news from the two people who finished their dinner and walked out the door was declared bankrupt under the obstruction of a group of private security personnel.Since it is not clear what the content of the dinner exchange was, the subsequent reports were limited to some tabloids, and they were all unreliable guesses without any practical significance.

But the next day, when it was learned at the interim meeting that the team coach had submitted a lineup adjustment proposal, which had been basically approved by the team owner, the faces of the above-mentioned three giants of the club became a little ugly.It was just that when the meeting ended and everyone dispersed, other participants could clearly find that the club's CEO and football director had returned to their normal state, while only the signing director, Mislintat, still looked heavy.

Using the excuse of the team's preparations, Li Moody did not attend the meeting in person, but he also learned from Mertesacker, the director of youth training who was present at the time, the performance of several executives he focused on after the meeting.

Although the plan has been supported by the Kroenke family, before it enters the operational procedures, it still needs to be evaluated by multiple departments such as the team medical team and the scouting team. The first evaluation meeting will be on Saturday morning.In Mertesacker's description, the Gunners coach did feel the cooperation of Gazidis and Sanlieu, which shows that Guinez's judgment is indeed correct.

As for the always cold-faced Mislintat, Li Moody no longer cares about his feelings. If he wants to win the Premier League championship trophy from Manchester City and other strong opponents, he must act according to his own recruitment strategy.If someone gets in the way of someone's eyes during the process, I can only hope that the other party can be more magnanimous, otherwise there is nothing he can do except for a sentence that I can't take care of.

However, I feel uncomfortable, this world's top scout still has a commendable professional attitude (FM system evaluation is 18), and he still fulfilled his own tasks conscientiously in the investigation of target players and some negotiating work , worthy of the lucrative salary paid by the club.In the direct communication with Li Mudi afterwards, although the attitude was not very friendly, there was still a minimum of respect, and the impression left by the Gunners coach was good.

It's a pity that the relationship between the two of them only lasted until the summer of 2021. Mislintat, who wanted to take charge of the football affairs of a wealthy team, finally chose to change the environment again, but was poached by Inter Milan, who urgently needed talents in this area. It's what I wanted.

As for the position left by him, the title of director of signings was naturally canceled directly, and the position of chief scout was handed over to Arsenal veteran Martin Keown. During the peak period, he helped his home team to win many honors. The front and rear defensive iron guards became another team star who held an important position in the club, which made Arsenal's management begin to develop in the direction of "old friends" like AC Milan. down.

Of course, these are things for later, let us first pull the timeline back to the end of November 2020.

On the 28th, the Gunners sat at their home stadium, the Emirates Stadium, and ushered in the third league game in seven days. The No.15 matchup with Watford, the dark horse of the two seasons.

Nicknamed Bumblebee (the same name as Dortmund in Chinese), the visiting team, under the leadership of the Spaniard Javi Garcia, has been in the limelight since the start of the 2018-19 season with jaw-dropping performances. Focus.

Just because of the overall strength, the final ranking is only No. 11 in the standings, but this result is already the team's best end-of-season ranking since the establishment of the Premier League.

After a season of adjustments, the name of Xavi Garcia sounds very famous, but he himself does not have many bright spots in his coaching experience as a player or after retirement. There was a wonderful magic show.He led Watford, which almost no one is optimistic about, to appear in the No.2019 position in the standings after the last round of the 20-6 Premier League season. Obtained the place to directly participate in the Europa League group stage, which shocked everyone's eyes.

This summer, in addition to retaining the original core of former Manchester United midfielder Tom Cleverley, Argentine midfielder Roberto Pereira and Spanish winger Deulofeu, this team from the British Isles The team in the southeast has spent a lot of money to introduce a number of champions, aiming to gain something in both the league and the European war.

After the start of the new season, although their performance was not as impressive as the same period last year, the record of 6 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses in the first 8 rounds tied No. pain.

In the last round, Watford almost overturned Chelsea at home. A week ago, they narrowly lost to Tottenham in an away game. The team's state is indeed very good, and the media believes that there is a certain chance to create an upset at the Emirates Stadium. , Become the spoiler of the championship situation.

For this, Li Modi naturally did not dare to be careless, and used all his strength to deal with it.

(End of this chapter)