Young Football Player

After winning the World Youth Championship, Jackie Lee returned to London with the team and participated in the celebration dinner held by the FA.

At the celebration banquet, Southgate specially introduced FA Chairman Greg Dyke to Jackie Lee.

"Bruce, you're such a great guy." Deckard, obviously a british bald guy who couldn't keep his mouth shut, came up to give Li Chenglong a hug, and then said.

"You should go back to England to play immediately, preferably to Manchester United, which is the best club in the world, or to Arsenal, the Premier League is your big stage."

Dyke is still a Manchester United fan and has worked for the Manchester United club. He was successfully elected as the chairman of the FA in March this year and only officially took office last week.

As soon as the new official took office, Li Chenglong gave him this big gift. Of course Deke was very happy, and soon he started to talk, dragging Li Chenglong and Southgate around the celebration banquet.

After a few glasses of champagne, the bald man couldn't keep his mouth shut.

"England can no longer do nothing, we must attack the championship."

"We have already made a plan, the World Cup in Russia, yes, the World Cup in Russia in 2018, that is a good time for us to win the championship!!"

Deke's bald man showed off at the top, and the reporters below hurriedly took pictures. Tomorrow's newspaper sales are considered to be down.

Li Chenglong was also a little speechless.

What kind of birds are England's results in recent years? Don't you have any idea in your own mind, and you are still bragging about it.

However, the bald man Dyke should have made preparations. The reason why he made such a statement is because the current England U20 team has won the World Youth Championship. Five years later, this U20 team will be in its golden age. If you are lucky, you will indeed have a chance to win the World Cup.

But the difference between the World Youth Championship champion and the World Cup champion is really not that big.

Isn't it a bit brain-dead to talk like this now?

After attending the celebration banquet, Jackie Chan needs to return to Germany to prepare for the new season.

Although the Bundesliga will not start until August, but at the end of July, Schalke will have a German Super Cup match with Bayern.

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In the summer of 2013, the structure of European football changed considerably.

The first is the coaching change of the major giants.

Mourinho left Real Madrid, returned to the Premier League, entered the palace for the second time at Chelsea, and stepped into Stamford Bridge again.

And Real Madrid chose Ancelotti, the coach of Paris before, to take over the Galacticos.

On the side of Real Madrid's rival Barcelona, ​​Vilanova's cancer relapsed again, and he had to leave the Barcelona coach. Barcelona chose Argentine coach Martino to take over.

The La Liga duo have all changed coaches this summer.

On the Premier League side, apart from Mourinho's second entry into the Blues, the Red Devils coach Ferguson has retired, and Moyes has become his successor.

At the same time, the local tycoon Manchester City also changed coaches. Although Mancini led Manchester City to win the first Premier League title last summer, he was unable to qualify from the Champions League group for two consecutive seasons. This is something that the Arabs cannot tolerate.

They spend a lot of money not just to win the Premier League championship, the Arabs also attach great importance to the Champions League.

Manchester City's new coach is the Chilean engineer Manuel Pellegrini, who led Malaga to the quarter-finals of the Champions League last year.

In addition, the Bundesliga class bully Bayern has long been finalized, and Guardiola will take over Heynckes.

Ligue 1 local tyrant Paris was poached by Real Madrid Ancelotti, they chose the former French national team coach Laurent Blanc to take over the team.

In other words, this summer, Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea, the top three in the Premier League, Barcelona and Real Madrid, the champions and runners-up of La Liga, as well as the Bundesliga champions Bayern and the French champions Paris, these teams have either actively or passively changed their coaches. .

In fact, Naples, the runner-up in Serie A, also changed coaches, and Benitez, the tactician who had just left Chelsea, took over the team.

In one summer, it is indeed relatively rare for European football powerhouses to undergo such a large-scale coaching change at the same time.

In addition to the change of the coach, there is also the transfer of players that occurs every summer.

When the summer transfer period just arrived, the three players who attracted the most attention in the European transfer market were Jackie Lee, Neymar and Gareth Bale.

Barnett became the most popular agent of the giants this summer, because Jackie Chan and Bell are both players under his banner.

Earlier, Lee was the favorite because his release clause was only 60 million euros, which is a very reasonable price.

Not only the top giants such as Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​Manchester City and Paris, which are not short of money, but even the poor teams such as Arsenal and Liverpool have moved their minds and wanted to win Lee Chenglong.

Based on Jackie Chan's performance last season, plus the explosive output in the World Youth Championship, the price of 60 million really makes many teams feel that it is completely acceptable.

The most positive of these is Arsenal.

Wenger stated in front of the media several times that Arsenal has prepared the transfer fee and will go to Gelsenkirchen to pay the liquidated damages.

According to the British media, although Wenger thought it was worth buying Jackie Chan for 60 million yuan, Arsenal boss Kroenke felt it was not worth it. The two sides failed to reach an agreement, and the transfer fell through.

Later, as Li Chenglong did not express his intention to leave the team, many teams gradually knew that Li Chenglong would probably continue to stay in Schalke 04.

Up to now, Li Chenglong will basically stay in the team, Neymar has confirmed his transfer to Barcelona, ​​and only Bell's transfer issue has remained unresolved.

After failing to pursue Neymar and Jackie Lee one after another, Real Madrid is determined to win Bale.

But Tottenham's death must require a sky-high transfer fee, and the two sides are still arguing.

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After returning to Gelsenkirchen, the first thing Li Chenglong did was to renew his contract with the team.

Li Chenglong has never considered leaving Schalke now, and he has not stated his position to stay in the team before. It was Barnett who specifically asked him, saying that he could take the opportunity to hype his fame and at the same time try to let him continue. negotiate better terms.

Now that it's almost done, it's time to renew the contract.

Li Chenglong and Schalke Club re-signed a five-year contract. Li Chenglong's annual salary rose to 4.5 million euros, which was 1 million euros higher than before, and also became the team's highest salary.

At the same time, Li Chenglong's liquidated damages have also increased to 80 million euros.

In fact, in the negotiation of liquidated damages, the Schalke club can't wait to cancel the liquidated damages directly.

At present, Bale of Tottenham is because there is no liquidated damages in the contract, so in the transfer negotiations, Tottenham are sure that Real Madrid must buy someone, asking all kinds of sky-high prices.

Of course, Barnett does not allow this to happen. His rebuttal conditions are very simple. Schalke can cancel the liquidated damages if they want to, so they will offer Li Chenglong a sky-high salary.

This is something that Schalke is absolutely unwilling to do. Player salaries are easy to raise but difficult to lower.

When the team's salary structure is broken, I don't know how many disasters will be caused.

So in the end, the Schalke club made a compromise and only increased Li Chenglong's salary by 1 million euros, but the liquidated damages only increased by 20 million.

The liquidated damages of 80 million is somewhat more reassuring than the previous 60 million.

At the same time, as a reward for contract renewal, the Schalke club invested in buying the mansion where Lee Chenglong currently lives and gave it to him.