The road to godhood starting from Ligue 1

Chapter 44: The value of the card increases

"U21?"

Gaio was somewhat surprised to hear the news.

"Yes! They sent a fax to the team, hoping to call you up to the U21 squad before the next international match day."

Gaio nodded slightly, lost in thought.

Chatham is right, the national team echelon is indeed the first step to enter the national team.

But Gaio is not so keen on joining the national team's first team or any other echelon.

Thanks to the French team's excellent tradition of "internal strife", the national team's first team is in a mess. For many years, the "Marseille Gang" and the "Paris Gang" have been arguing with each other, and there are conflicts between local players and colonial players, etc.

The French team's echelons also followed suit.

The players are all very strong, but they just can't play well.

The biggest event was the World Cup in South Africa more than a year ago.

During the half-time break of France's 0-2 loss to Mexico in the group match, coach Domenech criticized Anelka for his poor performance in the first half, but Anelka did not give him any face and directly insulted Domenech.

The French Football Federation subsequently made a punitive decision to expel Anelka from the national team.

The competition is still in progress, and the act of directly expelling the main striker from the team is rare in international football.

Three days later, during the team's daily training, captain Evra had another argument with the physical coach. The players then collectively boycotted training and expressed their opposition to the Football Association's expulsion of Anelka.

Head coach Domenech was even forced to come out and read out a collective statement from the players.

In that World Cup, the French team finished last in the group and was eliminated, leaving South Africa in an ugly and even absurd way.

Domenech was then dismissed and Blanc took over.

But it is clear that Blanc is not suppressing the French team's locker room now.

Joining the French team now is a complete waste of time.

Gaio thought that it would be a good opportunity to join the national team when Deschamps came to power.

The reason why De Wei has been able to lead the French team to three World Cups is because of his control over the locker room.

Deschamps has a very high reputation in French football both as a player and as a coach. As captain, he led the French team to win the 1998 World Cup in France and the 2000 European Cup in the Netherlands and Belgium. He also had success as a coach for Monaco, Juventus and Marseille.

The only one who can consistently surpass him is Zidane.

And now Zidane is just a rookie in the coaching field.

So for Gaio, for the national team, Deschamps is the coach worth betting on.

As for the U21 team, it does not play a big role for Gaio on the competitive level.

At present, the U21 official matches have been completed, and the official matches of the new European Youth Championship will not be held until June. During this period, there will be only friendly matches at most.

Friendly matches do not count towards winning points.

However, as Chatham said, this will be beneficial for entering the national team in the future, and it will also be beneficial for building good relationships with this group of outstanding young French players in advance.

In Gaio's impression, Griezmann, the future core of the French team, is still in the echelon at this time.

They have already had contact with Mbappé in advance, and will have a good relationship with Griezmann. With their support, won't the French team be able to move freely in the future?

But now we have to think of a way to connect with Deschamps.

This can also be regarded as taking advantage of the information gap to make early arrangements for the national team.

After a brief thought, Gaio made the decision that the U21 had to go.

"Okay, I have no problem."

"Okay, I'll help you arrange it."

Chatham also had a smile on his face. He said that he didn't have to go to other echelons, but he highly recommended U21.

With this experience, Gaio's value will continue to rise!
At present, the official website of Transfermarkt has not updated the French league's values, and we have to wait until the end of March.

This happened to be during the quarter-finals of the French Cup in Gaio and after the international match day.

This way, Gaio's value can be maximized! Taking the current top player in the team, midfielder Rothen, as an example, his peak value at Paris Saint-Germain was 25 million euros.

Gaio can have at least 10 million euros.

The more Chatham thought about it, the more he felt that signing Gaio was a great deal!
Chatham couldn't help but laugh. Others would avoid these problematic players, but he was willing to give them a chance.

Not to mention Gaio, Rothen was once a notorious troublemaker, but now in Bastia he is playing for the team with all his heart.

Rothen played for Troyes for two seasons when Troyes was still in Ligue 1. He amazed many Ligue 1 teams.

Paris Saint-Germain and Monaco are both willing to sign him.

As a Parisian, Rothen's dream since childhood was to join Paris Saint-Germain. In addition, he also made his debut in Clairefontaine, so he naturally has a better impression of the Paris team.

With the double buff, I thought a transfer to Paris Saint-Germain was a sure thing.

As a result, an accident happened.

Before Rothen was about to transfer to Paris Saint-Germain and was about to go for a medical examination and sign a contract, the then head coach of Paris Saint-Germain, Luis Fernandez, stood up and openly questioned the transfer, thinking that Rothen did not have the ability.

As for why the head coach did this, there is no need to worry about the reason, because Luis Fernandez is just like that. He gets crazy from time to time and does things illogically.

He even drove away talented players such as Alneka, Lusin, Dalma and Okocha.

At this time, Monaco head coach, Deschamps, who had just started his coaching career, was very respectful and personally sought out Rothen to have a heart-to-heart talk.

Then Rothen chose Monaco.

After a season of running-in, in the second season, under the training of Deschamps, Rothen played his peak season and won the Ligue 1 assist king that season!
And because of his performance in Monaco, he successfully entered the French national team.

But he is best at playing as a left winger, a position that has the peak Pires, and Zidane will occasionally come to the left, so how could he have a chance?

He only left 13 national team appearances.

Later, Deschamps and Luis Fernandez left their respective teams one after another.

Rothen finally realized his dream of joining Paris Saint-Germain.

Paris Saint-Germain spent a full 10 million euros in transfer fees to introduce Rothen, which was 10 million euros in 2004!

Rothen then played for Paris Saint-Germain for five seasons and his overall performance was quite good.

But there are even more unexpected things. Rothen is a thorn in the side. Whether he is in Paris Saint-Germain or in the national team, he is always making trouble.

Later, he was loaned out to various teams by Paris Saint-Germain and his level declined drastically.

His football skills are getting worse and worse, but his temper is getting worse and worse.

It was only Deschamps who suppressed him for two seasons and brought him to his peak.

In 2010, Paris Saint-Germain completely terminated the contract with Rothen, and he became a free agent.

But for a whole year, no one was interested.

It wasn't until last year, in the summer transfer window of 2011, that Chatham broke the rules and signed Rothen, just like they had signed Gaio against all odds.

This season, Rothen has become Bastia's pillar of support.

Perhaps after going through so much, especially not playing football for a year, Rothen is finally willing to control his emotions.

But he is already 34 years old, how much energy does he have left?

Gaio had no idea that Chatham had thought so much.

He never cared about his own worth.

Now my mind is full of how to improve myself, and training honestly is the right way.

After this period of training, and with the competition in good shape.

Gaio saw that his attributes had improved overall.

However, the changes are mostly around four or five points.

"You still have to practice!"

(End of this chapter)