Chapter 10 Leto Ziegler
After Wan Sheng asked the club to submit a transfer application, he found Diamares. The two of them analyzed the players at what position the team still lacked, analyzed the player information provided by the scouts to study the next goal.
With one million pounds extra transfer budget, he can do a lot more.
Soon all three transfer applications were answered.
The result was unexpected.
Wan Sheng was half lying on the chair, and was stunned when he listened to Diamares's statement, "You said that Athletic Wigan is directly agreeing? Are they fools?"
"You mean..." Diamares was a little confused. After reading the information in his hand, he said, "You mean Leiden Bynes?"
Wan Sheng nodded, sat upright and stared at Diamares without turning his eyes.
Diamares was even more uncomprehensible when he saw Wan Sheng like this. He looked carefully at the information about Leiden Bynes in his hand, and after reading it for a long time, he replied, "They did agree. It's nothing strange, right? The club has specially quoted a price of 300,000 pounds according to your request."
"It's only 300,000 pounds! It's so worth it!" Wan Sheng jumped up and laughed happily.
"300,000 pounds! Wansheng, you have no problem? That's 300,000 pounds, which is enough to buy a good main defender..." Diamares muttered.
Wan Sheng asked in surprise, "Is 300,000 pounds a lot? Even Nico Herzger is worth millions!"
"No, no! Wan win! How can these two be compared!" Diamares said seriously, "Nico proved his player in the League One. He also participated in the Premier League with the team. He is our main defender... I mean when Gregory coached, Nico was still very strong and famous. The Bynes you want has just signed with Wigan Athletic for less than half a year, and he has only played a few league games."
Wan Sheng nodded. He understood a little.
In his opinion, Leiden Bynes is undoubtedly a genius, because he knows what will happen in the future. Bynes will win the award of "Rookie of the Year" next season, but Bynes has only just entered the first team of Wigan Athletics and has no special performance at all. In the eyes of others, he can only be regarded as a backup full-back for Wigan Athletics, and he is very young. Such players are all drawn in Europe. Even the Derby County Club can be found. He can completely promote one and two players from the youth team and then let them play as a substitute. As long as they can perform stably and not make too many mistakes, it is not much different from Leiden Bynes' performance.
For a young player who has not proved himself, the transfer price of 300,000 pounds is really not low.
But no matter what, it was definitely a deal worth buying next year's English Rookie of the Year for only 300,000 pounds. Especially Leiden Bynes is still a full-back. After he came to Derby County, he was enough to become the main full-back with just a little training.
Next, Diamares talked about the other two transfers.
"The Spartan Club in Prague directly refused. They believed that Thomas Hubuchman still has a lot of room for improvement. The price of 700,000 pounds is not worthy of Hubuchman's performance..." Diamares said.
This news surprised Wansheng.
In his memory, there is no name Thomas Hubuschman at all. In terms of his "fan qualifications", such a player who has never heard of the name will never be a big star in the future, that is, a blue-collar worker in a small team. The transfer fee of 700,000 pounds is definitely not high. Unexpectedly, Sparta Prague refused directly.
"The attitude of the Grasshopper Club in Zurich, Switzerland is a bit strange. They seem to want to agree, but they did not reply directly, just let the team wait?"
"Wait? What does it mean?" Wan Sheng asked.
Diamares shook his head, "I don't know either. Maybe something is wrong, or are they discussing whether the deal is worth it?"
Wan Sheng couldn't understand it either.
However, he was already very content to get the most outstanding of the three. He only spent 300,000 pounds to buy an excellent full-back, which means he still has nearly 1.5 million pounds to buy other players.
Use this money to buy another full-back?
Wan Sheng suddenly felt that instead of choosing a new goal, it would be better to continue to attack Thomas Hubbschmann and Leto Ziegler. He only needs to win one of them, which is enough to make the backcourt stable on the sidelines. It is also very troublesome to choose a new goal.
Among the two, Thomas Hubschman is even more difficult to get, and the Spartan Club in Prague is obviously quite attractive. Since they clearly refuse, they mean that they are not satisfied with the transfer fee of 700,000 pounds.
Wansheng asked the club to re-issue a £800,000 offer, which was his bottom line, and he went to Switzerland in person to see the bottom
So he decided to go to the Zurich Grasshopper Club in person.
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The Zurich Grasshoppers Club was very surprised that they received a transfer offer from the League One team Derby County to buy their young player Leto Ziegler.
It is not surprising that other clubs want to buy their players, but it is strange that Ziegler is the target of submitting the transfer. Ziegler has not played for Zurich Grasshoppers several times so far. They all think that Ziegler has something special. The only advantage of this young man is that he is young. He is less than eighteen years old. It is precisely because of his youth and a player trained by Zurich Grasshoppers themselves that they give Ziegler the opportunity to play and allow him to adapt to the atmosphere of the professional league.
That's all.
So how did the Derby County club from the League One know about Ziegler? How could they be optimistic about Ziegler and want to spend 200,000 pounds to buy him? Could it be to supplement the youth team's lineup?
Zurich Grasshopper couldn't figure it out.
They quickly realized that the deal was very good. Leto Ziegler is just an ordinary young player in the team. It is hard to say whether he can perform well in the future. But even if he can perform stably, it will take a long time to truly grow. The risks during this period are borne by them. If Ziegler continues to perform well, this Swiss full-back player will definitely be sold at a high price of millions of euros in two or three years. But if his performance is average, he will be a very ordinary player in his country. His value is only so much. During this period, they have to pay Ziegler salary, take risks such as injuries, and leave him playing time so that he can grow up slowly. This series combined is definitely not as good as 200,000 pounds now and sold him to other teams.
Just when Zurich Grasshoppers cleared these relationships, they wanted to agree to the transfer, but immediately they found an embarrassing problem - the contract between the club and Leto Ziegler is also the contract of ordinary youth teams, and this kind of apprenticeship contract is not guaranteed. Moreover, the contract expires a month later, and they had not had time to renew the contract with Leto Ziegler.
So they immediately talked to Ziegler about renewal.
Leto Ziegler is only seventeen years old and he doesn't even have an agent. When he was in the youth team, his father also negotiated a contract for him. When he heard that the club was going to renew his contract with him, Ziegler was still very happy, but his father, Loew Ziegler, got news that the League One team was looking to buy Ziegler through some channels in the club.
Lov Ziegler's mind turned around and knew the club's plan.
They just want to renew their contract with their son and then sell him to this League One team. Instead of doing this, it is better to sign a contract with that League One team directly!
So the negotiations could not continue.
At this time, Wan Sheng came to Zurich. He was not in the mood to appreciate the beauty of this famous European city, so he came to Zurich Grasshopper Club and explained his purpose. The person in charge of Grasshopper Club in Zurich was a staff member. When Wan Sheng asked about Ziegler's transfer, the staff member hesitated, and did not say whether he agreed or disagreed, but just asked Wan Sheng to make news.
Waiting for news?
What does this mean?
Wan Sheng was a little confused. He thought there was something wrong with the Grasshopper Club in Zurich, so he agreed. He found a small hotel near the club and stayed in.
On this night, Löv Ziegler found Wansheng.
When Wan Sheng opened the door, he saw a middle-aged man with a beard. He was wonderingly and heard the middle-aged man say, "Are you the head coach of the League One team? So young?"
Wan Sheng nodded, "English League One team? Do you think Derby County? I am the head coach of Derby County."
"That's right!"
The middle-aged man said happily, and walked into the house and talked to Wansheng about his son Leto Ziegler, and said that Wansheng should not be anxious. After a month, he would take Leto Ziegler to sign a contract with Derby County.
Wan Sheng listened a little bit confused.
He was surprised by the attitude of the Grasshopper Club in Zurich. It turned out that they had only one symbolic apprenticeship contract with Leto Ziegler, and the contract was about to expire!
This is really good news.
The better news is that the middle-aged man in beard, namely Leto Ziegler's father, seems to be eager to recommend his son to himself... But it is normal to think about it. Even if Derby County has always been a second-tier team in England, it is better than the Swiss national league. What's more, Leto Ziegler is not very valued in Grasshoppers in Zurich, otherwise he would not have only one apprenticeship contract yet.
Furthermore, if you still travel to Switzerland with sincerity, you can also express your importance to Leto Ziegler, which is much better than the attitude of Grasshopper Club in Zurich, Switzerland.
Wan Sheng was a little happy.
But thinking about it, he still rejected the middle-aged man's statement. Seeing that the other party was a little anxious, he immediately said, "I will discuss with the Grasshopper Club in Zurich and take Leto away as soon as possible!"
Hearing this, middle-aged bearded people felt at ease.
There is a reason for Wan Sheng to do this. It is good to sign Leto Ziegler for free, but that would offend Zurich Grasshopper Club. It would be bad to offend people for no reason. More importantly, Leto Ziegler's contract will be one month, which is one month!
If something happens this month, Leto Ziegler will not be able to join Derby County. It is definitely because of a small loss. The most important thing is to finalize the transfer as soon as possible. Compared with this, paying a little transfer fee is nothing.
Next, Wan Sheng went to Zurich Grasshopper Club to discuss it.
Wan Sheng said frankly that he knew the reason and also told the other party that the bearded middle-aged man Lov Ziegler's attitude. The Zurich Grasshopper Club felt a little embarrassed, but Wan Sheng said that he was willing to pay some transfer fees and take Ziegler away from regular channels.
Now the Zurich Grasshopper Club is satisfied.
They felt that the Chinese in front of them were like messengers in heaven, and they could actually sign players for free and negotiate transfers with them... The Chinese are indeed a friendly nation.
Of course, there is no need to discuss whether the Chinese are the same nation. The focus is on reaching an agreement on the transfer issue in a friendly and peaceful atmosphere.
Wansheng did not mention whether the apprenticeship contract between Leto Ziegler and Grasshopper Zurich meets the transfer requirements. The Zurich Grasshopper Zurich was also very happy to mention that they made a big concession on the transfer price. In the end, Wansheng only spent 80,000 pounds to finalize Leto Ziegler's transfer.
After Wansheng returned to Derby County, he summed up and found that he could really save money.
Leiden Bynes and Leto Ziegler, two future full-backs, plus future superstar Frank Ribery, he added three wingers to the team, but only spent less than 700,000 pounds.
Chapter completed!