Football: I can see player entries.

Chapter 118 Ibrahimovic's Contract

A day later, news broke that Danny Rose had been transferred.

Because Li Yanqing encountered this player on the field.

Name: Danny Ross

Age: 28 years old.

Status: Poor.

Fatigue level: 15%.

Probability of injury: 10%.

Keywords: [Master-level cross from the byline], [Fast winger], [Interception], [Attacking defender]

Possesses the [Master-level Cross from the Byline] and [Speedy Wingman] skills, and also has the defensive skill [Interception].

Most importantly, the injury did not leave him with any lasting effects, just like Cazorla.

Although players don't like to talk about transfers during the World Cup, he still chatted with Li Yanqing for a while.

After all, he is no longer a regular starter at Tottenham Hotspur, and his playing time is decreasing.

Li Yanqing is confident he can help him regain his form, which would be a very valuable transfer.

Therefore, he had Barker submit an offer directly.

But Tottenham's owner, Levy, is not a good person to communicate with.

"This player is very good."

"He is one of the core players on our team."

"Our lowest offer is only over fifty million pounds..."

"This is a player who lost his position after a serious injury!" Li Yanqing was somewhat frustrated about this.

He doesn't deny that Rose might have been worth that price in his prime.

But given the current situation, the players' performance is getting worse every day...

Aren't they afraid of losing their players?

“That’s how it is when you talk to Levy about a transfer.” Barker hadn’t been the manager for long, but he seemed quite familiar with Levy, who was known for being “stingy.”

"He's a tough character that we use as a teaching example."

“Just look at players like Bale, Modric, and Kyle Walker before you know that.”

"The three of them together have nearly 200 million."

"If he can't get a high price, he'd rather let the players rot in White Harbor than let them go for a low price."

"If he agrees too readily, he might raise the price at any time..."

Li Yanqing has never liked bosses who like to come up with dirty tricks, so his attitude is very firm.

"Okay, send him a message: 20 million pounds, that's the final offer."

“If they don’t reply, we’ll give up on the transfer. We already have Blind anyway.”

"After the World Cup ends, I will never sign him again, no matter what."

Unsurprisingly, Levy, upon receiving this response, believed that Burton had shown no sincerity.

I heard he even blocked Barker's email address...

Li Yanqing said it didn't matter, since he would never try to sign any more of Levy's players anyway.

There's no rush to improve the forward line now; Ibrahimovic and Murphy can handle the game.

Matias can also occasionally play as a center forward.

With Matias, Kvalatschlia, and Miller on the wings, and considering that Matias occasionally moves to the center forward position, we can add another one.

As for the star player that Barker requested, Ibrahimovic will surely not disappoint him.

We have enough players in the central area; we currently have five midfielders.

As for the defense, we need to add at least one more center-back.

There is also a backup goalkeeper.

Anyway, they won't have more games than last season.

The advantage of planning ahead is that they were able to finalize most of their signings shortly after the transfer window opened.

We can talk about the rest after the World Cup ends.

Now he's ready to enjoy the game!

However, he had only just finished watching the opening match, in which the host country Russia won a resounding 5-0 victory, when he received some rather unpleasant news.

From Chris.

"Li, are you ready to be the assistant coach?"

"I just received a notification that I will no longer be an assistant coach next season. You should be prepared."

"Huh?" Li Yanqing didn't react for a moment.

Chris originally thought he had at least six months to search, and he planned to take his time.

So now if I tell him, I'll lose him next season?

Why didn't Robinson say so sooner!

"This is no small matter!"

“He thought you’d been preparing all along…” Chris didn’t know what else to say.

"Okay, I'll go look for it. Until then, you should keep an eye on Neville."

"Let him return to the club, and cancel his vacation."

This news caught him completely off guard. There was nothing he could do but have to rely on Nawi.

To his surprise, the bad news didn't end there.

One of them came from Cheng Mengmeng.

"I'm going to have surgery, so I won't be on vacation."

Then came Sun Yan's phone call.

"Boss, there's a problem."

“My cousin needs to go back to China for surgery, and I will go back with her.”

"If I can't make it to the pre-match training camp, can I ask for leave in advance?"

"Don't worry, it won't take too long. I'll be back as soon as possible."

Li Yanqing remained silent.

"Boss, are you listening?"

"I'm here, I'm here," the latter quickly replied.

How is she?

"There's nothing seriously wrong, but I probably won't be able to do data analysis anymore."

"You need to rest more to recover faster."

"Well, the situation is indeed worse than she told me." This news left Li Yanqing feeling somewhat helpless.

Although Cheng Mengmeng can be a bit sharp-tongued at times, her work ability has been consistently recognized by both the former and Chris.

He can't find anyone else to fill the gap for the time being.

Neville had other things to do, and Lyman doing this... was somewhat of a waste.

He probably won't be able to sit here and watch the World Cup for a month in peace now.

We weren't in such a rush, since the lineup was pretty much finalized.

The problem turned out to be with the coaching team.

Chris will soon be moving to management, and Cheng Mengmeng will also be leaving temporarily. Relying solely on Neville and Lyman probably won't be enough.

As an assistant coach, Chris is definitely the kind of person who can do the work of two coaches.

The outcome of next season is far more important than watching the games.

"Zlatan! Let's talk about your contract."

I will leave here tomorrow.

“Something suddenly happened, and I need to go find a suitable assistant coach first.”

"So soon?" Neither Ibrahimovic nor Raiola expected that the other party would leave after only two days.

“Yes, accidents always happen quickly.” Li Yanqing shrugged.

“Okay, let’s talk…” Raiola understood, so he spoke first.

"Annual salary of five million pounds, signing bonus of ten million, one-year contract, no right of first refusal..."

Li Yanqing could only say that Raiola truly lived up to his reputation, setting every condition to its absolute limit.

"No, three million at most, two-year contract..."

Ibrahimovic himself remained silent throughout the entire process.

He knew that Burton Albion had been promoted to the Premier League and wouldn't be short of money at this stage.

This price isn't expensive for him, so we just need to see how Raiola performs.

Ultimately, they reached a consensus.

A four million dollar annual salary, a two-year contract, with Burton having a one-year option to extend.

As for the signing fee, Li Yanqing did not haggle.

Because a large portion of them are for Ibrahimovic himself...

PS:

I'm a bit busy today, I'll be up before dawn tomorrow.