Green Journey

Chapter 154 Anxious Mario, Calm Chu Zheng!
An hour later, Chu Zheng came to the Sheraton Hotel where Mario was staying.

"Chu, something went wrong!" Mario said anxiously when he saw Chu Zheng as soon as he entered the hotel room.

Chu Zheng frowned, and said, "What's the matter, Mario, did something happen?"

Knowing Mario for so long, it was the first time he saw this fat man showing such a flustered expression.

Chu Zheng realized the seriousness of the matter.

After sitting down on the sofa in the living room, Mario forcibly suppressed the irritability in his heart, and began to tell Chu Zheng what he had encountered during this period.

Since Chu Zheng returned to China, Mario has been busy in Europe for Chu Zheng's transfer.

During this time, Mario has been in contact with clubs such as Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain, Atletico Madrid and Juventus.

These clubs are very interested in Chu Zheng.

But just a few days ago, these clubs informed him one after another that after careful consideration, they planned to terminate their signing plan for Chu Zheng.

As a result, Mario was fooled by the successive bad news, and this fledgling rookie agent also exposed his lack of stability and maturity.

For this reason, Mario directly called his father Mino Raiola for help.

The two father and son had a long video chat, and through the analysis of the seasoned Raiola, Mario suddenly realized that the problem was that Chu Zheng's price premium and Wolfsburg's asking price were unrealistic.

After Chu Zheng won the double championship with the team, the German transfer network evaluated Chu Zheng's worth at 4500 million, which is already a premium.

But Wolfsburg is still not satisfied, asking for 6000 million euros.

Although the football transfer market is also asking for sky-high prices and paying back the money on the spot, the price of Wolfsburg still scares away many clubs.

With so much money, they can definitely buy a mature player who has proven himself in various major leagues and various tactical systems. Why do they have to buy a young player like Chu Zheng, who has an extremely high investment risk.

Although Chu Zheng is hailed as a Bundesliga supernova player by the European media, no one can guarantee that Chu Zheng will not be the next Nani or the next Pato.

"That is to say, no club has offered me an offer during this period?" After listening to Mario's story, Chu Zheng asked with a smile.

"What about Manchester City, don't they want to buy me? They gave up too?"

"Manchester City has no news. I contacted their sporting director and his reply was that they are negotiating!"

"Then I'll stay in Wolfsburg next season, it seems pretty good, I can play in the Champions League!" Chu Zheng joked.

"Hey! Chu, I'm talking to you about a very serious matter!" Mario said a little angrily.

"Calm down! Mario! Worrying won't solve our problems!" Chu Zheng waved his hand, with a calm smile still on his face.

"First of all, we need to figure out why Wolfsburg must pay 6000 million."

Chu Zheng's words awakened the dreamer. Mario was stunned when he heard the words. After a while, he suddenly opened his mouth and cursed: "Damn it! So it is like this!"

At this moment, Mario really figured it out.

Volkswagen Group has always wanted Chu Zheng's portrait rights, and used Chu Zheng's status as a Chinese player to help them increase their share of the Chinese auto market.

But Mario did not let go during the negotiations at the time, forcing Wolfsburg to compromise in order to stabilize the team's performance.

Now Wolfsburg obviously calculated Chu Zheng's potential commercial value into his net worth, and wanted to make more money.

……

Wolfsburg club.

At this time, Allofs, who had just attended the high-level meeting of the board of directors, sat in the office and frowned.

Things developed as he expected.

During this period of time, no club made any offer to Chu Zheng.

A Bundesliga supernova player, no one cares about it, which makes Allofs feel a little ridiculous.

At the meeting, Allofs clearly told every Wolfsburg director that if they continue to kill the asking price of 6000 million euros, then Chuzheng may fall into their hands.

Next season, De Bruyne, Hundt, Perisic and others will all leave.

It can be said that Wolfsburg's performance will decline.

Therefore, Chu Zheng's worth may decline next season.

At that time, let alone 6000 million, even 4000 million, they may not get it.

Allofs' analysis had something to say, and many board members nodded in favor.

But the final decision at the meeting was to wait and see.

This made Allofs feel very helpless, and now he only hopes that things will not really develop as he expected.

……

United Kingdom, Leicester City, Leicester City Training Base.

Leicester City chairman's office, club owner Vichai and incoming Leicester coach Ranieri and Leicester City sporting director and chief scout Steve Walsh are having a small meeting.

【Name: Chu Zheng】

【Nationality: Chinese】

[Positions: central defender, full back, defensive midfielder]

【…】

[Personal honors: Bundesliga Champion, German Cup Champion, Bundesliga Best Rookie of the Season, Europa League Assist Champion, Bundesliga Best Defender of the Season...]

[Worth: 4500 million]

Vichai silently looked at Chu Zheng's personal information that Walsh handed him.

In the end, Vichai's eyes stayed on Chu Zheng's worth, and he frowned directly.

After a long time, Vichai put down the folder in his hand, glanced at Ranieri and Steve Walsh on the opposite side, and said, "Are you sure you can buy this player for 4500 million euros?"

Hearing that Vichai didn't veto the signing immediately, Ranieri and Walsh quickly looked at each other, and both saw the other party's happy face.

With confidence on his face, Steve Walsh said: "Boss, as long as you agree to our signing plan and increase the transfer budget, maybe I don't need 4500 million to bring this player back to the club .”

Hearing what Steve Walsh said, Vichai remained silent and continued to roast the cigar in his hand with his head down.

This made Steve Walsh and Ranieri nervous again.

"I can increase the transfer budget!" After a long time, Vichai spoke, but his sharp eyes looked directly at Ranieri, "But I need to know what I can bring to the club and myself by paying 4500 million?"

"Champion!" Ranieri almost blurted out.

Hearing this, Steve Walsh on the side had a toothache.

本赛季莱斯特城38轮英超，11胜8平19负，积38分，排在英超积分榜第14。

Steve Walsh is really curious where Ranieri's confidence comes from when he says this.

"Sir, I believe my vision, this player is the same player as Cristiano, Leo Messi, they are both super talents!"

"And now, Leicester City also has the opportunity to have this kind of super talent!" Ranieri said in a somewhat excited tone.

Ranieri dared to directly tell Vichai that he won the Premier League championship, but he actually did it after his own deliberation.

Since negotiating the coaching contract with Leicester City, he immediately conducted a comprehensive analysis of all Leicester City first-team players.

This analysis, Ranieri really found a few buried gold in the first team.

For example, forward Vardy has top speed, first-class shooting skills, and has the potential of a first-class forward.

On the defensive line, Morgan, he feels that this player is no worse than Wolfsburg's Nardo, and he is also a tank-type central defender.

The winger, Mahrez, has exquisite skills, wide vision and strong assist ability.

Midfielder Drinkwater is also a competent midfielder, not losing to Wolfsburg's Gustavo and Jilavoji and others.

Combined with the signings he and Steve Wolff have made of several young players with cheap but high potential, he feels he can replicate Wolfsburg's success.

Of course, the last piece of the puzzle for this success is Chu Zheng.

What Ranieri values ​​most about Chu Zheng is not his super defensive ability as a central defender.

It was Chu Zheng's terrifying vision in the midfielder position, and his crazy and aggressive offensive talent.

Although Chu Zheng still has shortcomings, he is confident that he can successfully transform this young super genius.

Once he succeeds, maybe the Premier League title is not a distant dream for him and Leicester City Club.

There is another point that Ranieri hasn't said to anyone.

That is, he has noticed that the dominance of the major giants in the Premier League has gradually weakened in recent years.

This is related to the aging of the major stars in these giant teams and the decline in their competitive status.

Therefore, these two years are the best time for other Premier League clubs to break the rule of the Premier League BIG6 and win the Premier League championship.

Once this opportunity is missed and these giants complete the blood exchange, the Premier League will once again enter a cycle of being ruled by the major giants in turn.

(End of this chapter)