Left-back, this is a position where almost all the giants feel embarrassed now.

Not to mention that the left foot will be difficult to find. Excellent left foot defensive players have always been a scarce product in football and have always been a headache for transfer signings. Looking at today's football world, top left-backs are almost all popular.

Ashley Cole, Ram, Abidal, Vargas, Evra, etc. If these players really want to transfer, any of them will be a sky-high transfer. The reason is very simple. Lyon introduced a 20-year-old left-back Ali Sissoko from Porto at a high price of 15 million euros.

Just imagine, if even the big black shops in Europe had to introduce left-backs at such a high price, then you can imagine how scarce the left-backs in football are now.

Tottenham Hotspur's left-back is not without candidates. As an offensive left-back, Marcelo is still very strong. His offense and partner of Ribery and Gareth Bale have won recognition, but his defense is a big hidden danger. At least he cannot be as reassuring as Alves.

Therefore, Ye Qiu's intention is also very clear. While further crafting and helping Marcelo grow and improve, introducing a suitable left-back is not only to strengthen the team's strength, but more importantly, to stimulate Marcelo, and don't make this Brazilian left-back too relaxed, thinking that he is sure to win the main position.

"This is a scout report on your prepared roster of players"

At Theobord's training base, Ye Qiu, who had just picked up his wife and two children from China, officially ended his vacation and came to the team in advance to prepare for the new season. His first thing was to sign ups.

Peter DeVisel previously submitted a list of players in accordance with Ye Qiu's request, and Ye Qiu selected several players from them, such as Taiwo, who played for Marseille. This player was the bronze ball award in the former World Youth Championship, and was the same as Messi and Mikel. At that time, Messi scored, Mikel had a silver ball, and Taiwo had a bronze ball.

There are also several other players, such as Ajax's Vermallen, who is called Xinqiu, who can play in the middle and left, is a defensive versatile player, and Xinqiu is in Lazio's team, namely Romanian player Stefan Ladu, who is also a player who can be centered and left.

In addition, Lazio's left-back Alexander Kolarov, Serbian player and Lazio's main left-back, currently undermining Stefan Radu in the competition within the team. His characteristics are different from Stefan Radu. Romania's young players have better defense and are very stable, while Kolarov's offense is stronger.

"Lazio's transfer price for Kolarov is 15 million euros." Peter Devisel reported to Ye Qiu about the latest progress in the scouting department. "I personally think it is a bit high, especially considering the improvement Kolarov can bring to the team, I think it is not very cost-effective."

Peter DeVisel is very clear about Ye Qiu's position on Tottenham's transfer, that is, to adhere to the black store policy, buy low and sell high.

When Tottenham Hotspur does not have the objective conditions of Barcelona and Real Madrid, and does not want to become an unsustainable team like Manchester City, Chelsea, and West Ham United, the black store strategy of buying low and selling high has become the first choice.

This is why Ye Qiu still increases efforts to develop the team's scouting system when he has a player database. It's not that spending money, but that he has to rely on scouts to find the most suitable players for the team.

"Where is Radu?" Ye Qiu asked casually.

The first impression the Romanians gave Ye Qiu was that he was handsome, he was really handsome, more than Ji Fu Shuai. Ye Qiu called Ji Fu and learned about Radu's situation. Ji Fu highly praised this young guy, but through the scouts' understanding, Radu seemed to be a central defender, with only defensive ability but no offensive ability on the left.

"Lazio bought out Ladu for 5.5 million euros last summer. Not to mention that they are unwilling to sell now. Even if they sell, they will probably have to give a considerable price," Peter Devithel shook his head and smiled.

Unlike Ye Qiu's previous life, Bobby Hams did not die of illness, but continued to work in Ajax. He was not optimistic about the prospect of Tottenham Hotspur's desire to introduce Vermallen. The reason is very simple. He thinks that Vermallen is not suitable to play on the left, regardless of whether it is personal wishes or technical characteristics.

For this reason, Bobby Hams also specially asked Ye Qiu to watch the Kirin Cup match held in Japan in early U of this summer. Vermallen played as left-back in the Belgian national team. As a result, Belgium lost to Japan in 2004. Vermallen's performance was as tragedy as a tragedy.

"So" Ye Qiu was a little troubled.

Peter DeVisel smiled and signaled Ye Qiu to turn the next few pages of the scout report, "I think there is a local young player in Southampton's youth training camp worthy of attention, that is Luke Shaw, who just turned fourteen and has great development potential. He is called Singarez Bale, and he performed well in the youth team. He is a Londoner and was born in Kingston on the Thames near Chelsea training base."

After hearing this, Ye Qiu couldn't help laughing, "Peter, he is only fourteen years old."

"I know," Peter DeVisel said with a smile, "the local rookie, as a future reserve, there is one more."

Ye Qiu turned down and found that the next player was Phil Jones from Blackburn, but unlike Phil Jones who played the midfielder and central defender in Ye Qiu's memory in his previous life, he is now playing on the right side of the midfield.

"Phil Jones, a player produced by Blackburn Youth Training Camp, is now playing traditional right-forward. I have seen him several games. His skills are quite average among English players, but his physical fitness is very strong. What attracts me is his fighting spirit, which makes me unable to help but think of Gerald and Lampard.

"I think his most suitable position is in the middle lane, which gives full play to his wide range of coverage. Whether it is the back midfielder or the central defender, it is very suitable. In terms of technology, he is only 17 years old, so he can continue to beautify, right?"

"How much?" Ye Qiu was convinced by DeVisel. He had always had the idea of ​​appropriate localization, so Tottenham Hotspur team would also appropriately introduce some young players, such as Kyle Walker, and Ramsey.

"Luke Shaw, we can talk to Southampton that the Saints are now relegated to the League One, which is the third-level league. I believe it is not difficult to deal with him. Perhaps we only need to pay a training fee of more than 100,000 pounds."

"Phil Jones has not played in the first team yet, and the youth team has performed well. He is currently joining the Hl9 youth team, but I believe that the price should be within one million euros. If you agree, I will handle it."

Ye Qiu nodded. For such a small transfer, Peter Kenyon basically doesn't have to use Peter Kenyon, but it's just Peter DeVisel, because Peter Kenyon is still investing more energy in big business. For example, the most important thing now is to negotiate two major sponsorship contracts.

"What about my left back, Peter?" Ye Qiu turned to the last scout report and saw a name.

Fabio Coentrand

"It's him," said Peter DeVisel.

Ye Qiu's first reaction was to shake his head, "Isn't this guy easy to deal with it?"

"Why?" strangely turned into Devithel.

"I'm a little allergic to Portuguese players." Ye Qiu said with a wry smile. His first reaction was to remember Mourinho, then Jorge Mendes, who is Portugal's largest agent, and his players all have a characteristic, high prices.

Tottenham Hotspur pursues cost-effectiveness, but Jorge Mendes' standards are high.

Hearing Ye Qiu say this, Peter DeVisel immediately laughed and even his glasses almost dropped. "He is worth about two million euros now, and I think he can give it a try. He performed well after changing to play left-back at Avi River Club. I think he can introduce it."

Fabio Coentran is 21 years old this year. He debuted as a right forward in Avihe and was named Figo II. But in fact, his technical characteristics are completely different from Figo, but they still attracted the attention of many teams. Later, Benfica bought it for a low price of 900,000 euros.

However, in Benfica, with a lot of talent, Coentran did not get much chance. He was loaned to the Nationals of Veshal and Zaragoza in La Liga. However, neither of these teams could get the chance. Later, he was loaned to his old club Avihe and changed from a left forward to the left back. He performed well and scored three goals in half a season.

"His agent" Ye Qiu didn't like Jorge Mendes very much.

"A Portugal's agent is not well-known, but has a little friendship with me, so I can get Cointran's information."

When Ye Qiu heard this, he understood that he was too worried. After all, there are so many professional players in Portugal, especially many players from South America. No matter how broad Mendes' business is, it is impossible to recruit all professional players under his command. Then he couldn't bear it at all, so he took the high-end route and specifically selected players who performed well and were eye-catching to sign contracts.

Cointran had nothing worthy of recognition before. As for how many wealthy families are attracted, this is actually media publicity and hype. If there are really a wealthy team, Benfica can get him at an extremely low price of 900,000 euros?

Ye Qiu thought again, in fact, it was good to introduce Coentrand. The Portuguese had excellent offensive ability and defensive ability. What’s more important is that the price is low and affordable. It is naturally good to be able to play in the future. If you can’t play, the team will not suffer any losses.

"Then I'll leave it to you." Ye Qiu nodded with a smile and agreed to Peter Devithel's suggestion.

"Waiting for my good news"

When the outside world kept rumoring that Tottenham Hotspur was poached, especially after Gareth Bale and Avelloa transferred to Real Madrid one after another, many media and fans were worried about Tottenham Hotspur's signings in the new season.

But at this moment, Tottenham Hotspur announced a transfer. The team introduced Fabio Cointran from Portugal's Benfica with a transfer fee of 2.5 million euros. This left-back who had just played in the Portuguese Premier League for half a season and scored three goals in 16 games. The outstanding Portuguese left-back was like a carp jumping over the dragon goal and directly joined the European overlord Tottenham Hotspur.

At the same time, the club also announced on its official website that the team has introduced local rookie Luke Shaw from Southampton and Phil Jones from Blackburn's young midfielder. Among them, Luke Shaw, who is only fourteen years old, will play for the youth team, and Phil Jones will play for the first team.

But soon, Liverpool announced that it would introduce Brazilian midfielder Lucas Reva from Tottenham Hotspur for 18 million euros. Benitez called the Brazilian midfielder the successor of Xavi Alonso, which somewhat made up for some of the regrets of missing Gareth Barrie.

However, Benitez also introduced midfielder Aquilani from Roma, and the transfer cost nearly 24 million euros in total.

Lucas has not been degenerated as a midfielder in the past few years at Tottenham Hotspur in his previous life. Because Tottenham Hotspur's midfielder pays great attention to ball control and organization, he basically maintains the style of offense and defense in Brazil, which is also an important reason why Benitez values ​​him.

Compared with Tottenham Hotspur, Lucas himself hopes to get opportunities in Liverpool. After all, Tottenham Hotspur's midfield competition is fierce. Not to mention the three main players Fabregas, Yaya Toure and David Silva, Beckham's condition is still pretty good, and the strong rise of young player Ramsey has made Lucas feel pressure. More importantly, he is already twenty-two years old and urgently needs more games to improve his strength.

Ye Qiu also supported this. He left a message on the official website, wishing Lucas a bright future in Liverpool. The Brazilian midfielder also expressed his gratitude to Tottenham Hotspur and Ye Qiu in an interview with the media.

"I hope to have a chance to return to Tottenham Hotspur in the future and retire here"

As the Federation Cup came to an end, as the training date approached, the transfer market was also in full swing. The most eye-catching one was the news that Ibrahimovic transferred to Barcelona, ​​but there was no further movement in the transfer market, which made everyone anxious.

But no one expected that the situation would be the first to rekindle the war.

After the Blues' new head coach Ancelotti came on stage, he finally signed an important transfer for Chelsea, filling an important gap in Chelsea's defensive system, and was hailed by the media and fans as Ancelotti's last contribution to AC Milan, which was to poach Brazilian goalkeeper Giulio Cesar from Inter Milan.

This transfer cost Chelsea a total of 28 million euros. Compared with the 2.6 million euros when Julio Cessar transferred to Inter Milan, his net worth has soared ten times. With this transfer, Julio Cessar was successfully selected as the second place in the world goalkeeper's transfer record, second only to Buffon.

The sky-high price created by Buffon's transfer from Parma to Juventus was almost difficult to break in today's football world. Although there were previously rumored that Manchester City intended to pay 70 million euros for Tottenham's goalkeeper Peter Cech, Tottenham Hotspur's official denies it immediately, saying that Cech is not a seller.

Peter Cech is now the world's number one in terms of momentum. His performance with a helping performance last season allowed Tottenham Hotspur to successfully win the double championship in the Champions League and the Premier League, and was also the best goalkeeper last season. Selling him is undoubtedly a move to dig his own grave. After all, there is no suitable goalkeeper at all.

Joe Hart said for the time being that playing a substitute is OK. If you really help him get on the top, Ye Qiu and the players are not very relieved.

But just after Cesar transferred to Chelsea, the next day, Barcelona officially made news. Tottenham Hotspur's main striker Van Persie transferred to Barcelona at a sky-high price of 70 million euros, which almost caught up with Cristiano Ronaldo in terms of value, which surprised the whole world.

The Guardian reporter Sheen Ingel, who is familiar with the transfer information, published an exclusive report at the first time, clarifying that this was a forced action by Tottenham Hotspur, because Cruyff personally came forward to deal with Van Persie. Although Tottenham Hotspur refused to give in, he finally nodded and agreed on the transfer offer of 70 million euros in Barcelona.

This also made everyone realize the madness in the transfer market, especially Van Persie, a Dutch striker who has performed very high standards at Tottenham Hotspur for two consecutive seasons. It is indeed unexpected to switch to Barcelona at such an amazing sky-high price, because with such a high transfer fee, Ibrahimovic can be introduced.

But soon, World Sports reported a response from a senior executive within Barcelona, ​​mainly because Cruyff and Guardiola both felt that after Ibrahimovic entered Barcelona, ​​the team's entire offensive system would change, and relatively speaking, Van Persie's integration with the team would be better.

Cruyff also publicly supported the introduction of Van Persie in his column, "Barcelona should never be a team of a certain star, he should belong to all players."

This is also seen as the reason why Barcelona finally chose Van Persie. Although Van Persie is a bit far from Guardiola's definition of a top high center, Cruyff came forward, and Laporta also supported the introduction of Van Persie, which eventually led to this sky-high transfer.

Although he was poached, Tottenham Hotspur once again won the title of black store with its continuous sky-high transfers.

Not just a black store, it's simply a super black store

You should know that this summer, Tottenham Hotspur sold four players, Gareth Bale, Aveloa, Lucas and Van Persie, but they received four transfer fee incomes of 55 million, 20 million, 18 million and 70 million euros respectively, totaling 163 million euros. This is definitely another stunning transfer fee income.

But more importantly, after Tottenham sold four players, the players introduced were affordable and cheap, including Cointran, Phil Jones, Luke Shaw, and Ye Qiu announced the sale of Van Persie, followed by the announcement of the introduction of Romedal Falcao from Ajax.

He received such a huge transfer fee, but the players introduced only spent less than 10 million yuan, which made everyone worried about Tottenham Hotspur's new season.

But everyone still dare not deny that Tottenham Hotspur is still one of the most powerful contenders in the Premier League and Champions League in the new season.

After Ye Qiu also introduced Falcao, whose ownership was already in his hands, he announced that the transfer curtain of this season was closed. Next, the team will focus on preparing for the new season.
Chapter completed!