The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 593

When the Premier League team set off a huge wave of bottom-hunting in the European football transfer market, Tottenham Hotspur also worked hard to find replacements in the transfer market after selling four leading stars. candidates.

Soon, Tottenham Hotspur posted a message on the official website that the team introduced the young Belgian goalkeeper Thibaud Courtois from the Belgian Genk team. This player is 1 meters tall. The Belgian goalkeeper has only played one game for Genk so far, and he was replaced when the main goalkeeper was injured, but Tottenham Hotspur introduced him to Theobald and said that Courtois' future Has the ability to be a top goalkeeper.

Although Tottenham Hotspur officially did not disclose the transfer amount of Courtois, it is revealed that the goalkeeper's worth is very low, not even 100 million euros. The purpose of Tuva is also to find a suitable young substitute for Cech.

But Ye Qiu denied this statement on Tottenham Hotspur's official website. He said that Courtois was a goalkeeper who finally decided to introduce Tottenham Hotspur's coaching staff after careful selection. Tottenham Hotspur's goalkeeper coach Friss Hawke also spoke highly of Courtois, believing that the Belgian has a perfect goalkeeper body, and at the same time has excellent reaction and goal line skills. With time, he will definitely have a chance to become a top goalkeeper .

In fact, when choosing a substitute goalkeeper, Ye Qiu had two choices. One was goalkeeper Ter Stegen from Borussia Mönchengladbach in Germany. Similarly, Ter Stegen was also very capable. Especially considering as a substitute goalkeeper, but Borussia Monchengladbach rejected the approach of Tottenham Hotspur.

So in the end, Tottenham Hotspur chose Courtois, a teenager from the Belgian Genk team. Fries Hawke is really optimistic about this goalkeeper. He thinks that Courtois's future is very bright and even hopeful Challenge Cech.

Of course, this is not something that can be done in a short period of time. It depends on how much Courtois can learn from Fries Hawke. After all, Petr Cech has benefited a lot from Fries Hawke. Czechs can become the world's number one goalkeeper, Friss Hawke's contribution is very large.

In addition, Tottenham Hotspur also announced the introduction of 300-year-old Spanish left-back Jordi Alba from Valencia at a price of 21 million euros. A deal sealed by leads.

Jordi Alba came from La Masia, Barcelona's youth training camp. He stayed from ten to 16 years old. La Masia eliminated him on the grounds that he was too short and poor in physical fitness. As a result of Marcia's fierce competition.

After leaving La Masia, Alba continued to train in a local amateur team called Cornelia in Barcelona, ​​and was valued by Valencia. He was brought to Valencia for 2008 euros, and in 19 He went to the Tarragona club in the second league on loan, and in the process, Alba also entered the U21 and U[-] Spanish national teams successively.

With his outstanding performance in La Liga, Alba returned to Valencia and gradually gained a foothold in the second half of the 09/10 season, but his performance was not very satisfactory, but considering his age and technical characteristics , Alba is still quite optimistic, and because of this, Tottenham Hotspur are willing to pay a transfer fee of 300 million euros to introduce this Spanish rookie to fill the loophole left by Coentrao.

In Ye Qiu's view, the strength of the defensive line has been improved after being supplemented by Nastasic and Varane in the new season. Nastasic's defensive ability and his left-footed presence The ability to play left makes Nastasic a good fit if the team's left wing is to take a defensive stance.

Therefore, Marcelo's substitute on the left is mainly focused on the ability to insert assists, so Alba was introduced.

After Marca and Real Madrid announced the news that Raul will leave the team successively, Tottenham Hotspur also accelerated the discussion with Raul on personal treatment. After all, Raul's personal annual salary in Real Madrid is as high as 650 after tax. million euros, if this is placed in the Premier League, it will indeed affect Tottenham Hotspur's internal salary structure.

After all, when Raul came to Tottenham Hotspur, Ye Qiu couldn't promise Raul's main position, but after selling Falcao, the team's center forward was only Cavani, and Raul joined The team will be able to get more opportunities, and Ye Qiu himself is very optimistic about Raul. He has always felt that Raul's ability is very good, not only reflected in scoring.

In the end, Raul reached an agreement with Tottenham Hotspur through his agent and agent Maloro. In the end, the two parties reached an agreement, at a price of 600 million euros before tax, according to the new tax rate implemented by the Premier League, which is 300 million euros after tax. At the price of [-] euros, he switched to Tottenham Hotspur. At the same time, Tottenham Hotspur obtained half of Raul's portrait rights, and half of all commercial operations went to Raul.

During the negotiation process, Tottenham Hotspur gave Raul and his agent team a business operation plan. According to this plan, during the contract period, Tottenham Hotspur expects Raul The annual business operation income is expected to be around 500 million to 800 million euros. After all, Raul has accumulated considerable influence in Real Madrid over the years.

If according to the agreement between the two parties, Raul can get the same annual salary as Real Madrid, and this is only a conservative estimate. Of course, Raul will cut his salary to join. After all, Real Madrid also has a share of commercial income. It's just that Tottenham Hotspur lowered Raul's salary on the one hand, and on the other hand gave subsidies in business operations.

And from Raul, Tottenham Hotspur has also adopted a floating salary structure. If Raul performs well in the team, or if the team can continue to gain something in the Premier League and Champions League this season, Raul The salary can be up to 350 million euros after tax.

After going to London and signing a professional contract with Tottenham Hotspur, Raul returned to Madrid and participated in the farewell party prepared by Real Madrid for him. At that time, it was affirmed by all the fans. There were even thousands of Real Madrid fans waiting at the Bernabeu Stadium to keep Raul. Even the King of Spain called Raul himself to say goodbye to him.

At this farewell meeting, Raul expressed his gratitude to Real Madrid to everyone. Although Florentino once again bore the infamy of driving away meritorious stars, he still gave Raul a very high evaluation. , And when Raul finally explained why he wanted to leave Real Madrid, he repeatedly stated that no one forced him or put pressure on him.

"The reason why I chose to leave is because I feel that I am still a professional player, and my physical condition can still allow me to continue to maintain my form and continue to play on the football field, so I chose to leave Real Madrid, but what I want to say Yes, I have deep love and respect for Real Madrid, as long as there is a need, Raul will always obey the call of Real Madrid!"

Raul's farewell party attracted the participation of many Real Madrid celebrities, including Piri, Butragueno, Valdano and other club legends. Lentino's contradictions did not appear at the Bernabeu, but they still conveyed their support and affirmation of Raul through the phone and the media.

"In my impression, Raul has never been anyone's burden or trouble. He chose to leave the Bernabeu. This is a very brave decision. I firmly believe that he can show his strength in Tottenham Hotspur!"

Hierro seems to empathize with Bosque's mild remarks.

"I absolutely believe that Raul will be successful at Tottenham Hotspur, he will make everyone who underestimated him regret it, but I also want to say that losing Raul is not only a loss for Real Madrid fans, but also for everyone. Spanish fans, those who attacked Raul will regret it!"

Redondo also said in an interview that Raul's departure proved the loss of Real Madrid's traditional spirit. He believes that in the current Real Madrid team, no one can take over the banner left by Raul, even Neither does Casillas.

"Herro was able to control the locker room because of his personal charm and charisma, which made everyone believe in him, but Raul was different. The way Raul convinced everyone that he was the captain was his tolerance and leading by example. This allowed him to win the respect and love of all his teammates, but after Raúl, who can take over the banner of Real Madrid captain?"

Di Stefano, the honorary chairman of Real Madrid, who is more than 80 years old, is currently sick and hospitalized. Raul went to the hospital to visit the idol, and Di Stefano only whispered to Raul from the beginning to the end, but What was said, no one knows, and when Raul left, Di Stefano wept in front of the media's cameras.

Obviously, Di Stefano was disappointed by Raul's departure, but both he and Raul refused to disclose the words they whispered to the public, perhaps this will become a secret between the two.

After attending the farewell meeting at the Bernabeu Stadium, Raul went directly from Madrid to London. His agent has started looking for a house for him in London. At the same time, Tottenham Hotspur also said that Raul himself refused to appear. Ceremony, he hopes to use the performance of a game to greet Tottenham Hotspur fans.

So, after arriving in London, Raul directly participated in the training session of Tottenham Hotspur.

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The morning before Tottenham traveled to the Netherlands for the Amsterdam Invitational, Tottenham made an exception and released Theobald's lockdown, allowing all Tottenham members and fans to come to the training ground , watching the team's training session in the morning, and everyone knows that this is Raul's debut.

Because of this, this morning, an hour before the team's training camp, hundreds of fans poured into Theobald's training base. This was because Theobald controlled the number of people, and there were dozens Media reporters, they all came to Theobald training base early to prepare.

According to the news released on Tottenham Hotspur's official website, in the past two days, Tottenham Hotspur sold 15 Raul's home and away jersey orders in London's fan shop and online store , but unlike his No. 24 jersey at Real Madrid, Raúl opted for No. 23, right after David Beckham, who wore No. [-].

As early as when Tottenham Hotspur announced the jersey number for the new season, Raul explained with a smile the reason why he chose No. 24 in an interview, "After me and Mr. Ye Qiu, that is our head, we During the exchange, he joked with me that the homonym of my name in Chinese is very similar to two, and my good friend David, he chose the 23rd, so I chose the 24th."

"You know, he used to go to Spain, which was my territory, so he had to let me go, and now I'm in England, his territory, so I have to let him go, because I was worried that he would take this opportunity to get revenge on me. !” After finishing speaking, Raul showed a bright and heartfelt smile that was rare in the past few years.

But in fact, when the two past superstars, Raul and Beckham, met in front of Theobald's first team training building, the two walked over without saying a word and hugged each other tightly. , very good friends rhythm.

According to the report of The Times, not only is there no problem between Raul and Beckham, after Raul's family came to London, Beckham invited them to visit Beckingham Palace, and at the same time, he also put a part of himself in London. The property is temporarily lent to Raul, and they will move out after they find a house.

Judging from this series of actions, there is not the slightest problem between them.

Just when everyone was looking forward to whether something would happen in Raul's first Tottenham Hotspur training session, they saw that after Raul entered Theobald, he followed Beckham, Messi, Fabregas, David Silva, Ribery, Cavani and other Tottenham Hotspur players greeted each other and talked for a while near the training building. I took a few photos and posted them on Weibo to show off.

Then everyone entered the locker room. After changing their clothes, they returned to the training ground of the first team.

Soon, Ye Qiu and the coaching staff also entered the training ground on time, and he didn't introduce Raul in particular, but let everyone train as usual, and the training items were not much different from usual.

In the second half of the training session in the morning, Ye Qiu arranged an internal match, but this time the internal match was not strictly divided into main players and substitutes. Silva, Thiago Silva and others are in a group, and Raul even acts as the center striker of the frontcourt attacking trident.

When Cavani played as a center forward, he used his active running and stretching in the frontcourt to disrupt the opponent's defense. However, when Ye Qiu arranged for a group confrontation, he specially called Raul aside, and kept on playing. Raul was talking next to his ear, and this was the only communication between the two in the entire training session.

Ye Qiu's intention is that Raul should not be too high, because he is not the type of powerful center forward, his position should be withdrawn, and he should become a supporting striker. His main task is to respond to the midfield pass. Support both wings at the same time.

The reason why superstars are superstars is mainly because their technical characteristics are very mature and stable. Although Raul participated in Tottenham Hotspur's team training for the first time, he still showed his superb skills with his feet, especially As a supporting player in the center, Raul does not lack the opportunity to retreat back to get the ball, but he rarely loses the ball under the defense of Kompany and Varane.

At first, everyone didn't realize it, but as the match progressed, everyone began to realize one thing, that is, Raul quickly proved himself to everyone after adapting at the beginning.

When a retreat was made to respond to David Silva, Raul caught the ball and faced the attacker. When he saw that Neymar had already run to the position, Raul pushed the ball with his left foot and directly passed the ball from the penalty area. Outside sent into the penalty area in a straight line, but this time Neymar's running position was not smart enough. He was always pressed inside by Varane and could not receive Raul's wonderful pass.

If this scene is seen by fans, they will definitely think that this is Raul's pass error, but in the eyes of some more professional reporters, Raul's pass is the best way to deal with it. Neymar only needs to rely on the outside. It is very convenient to hit the goal directly with the left foot after reaching the ball, and Varane can't stop it.

So I saw the reporters applauding, and the fans applauded after seeing the reporters applauding.

After Neymar made a useless sprint, when he ran back, he made an apology gesture towards Raul, and the Spaniard also made a gesture of running to the left towards him, and his mouth should be saying So, he should have turned a little to the left just now, so that it is easier to catch the ball and kick.

After all, Varane limits the chance of passing to Neymar's feet, so if you want to catch the ball, you have to use your speed and running position to create space, instead of running with Varane, so you can't run Varane at all. within the defensive area.

Soon, Raul seemed to feel that passing the ball to Neymar was not enough, so he went up by himself. When he dropped back to meet the midfielder, Coutinho chose to cooperate with Messi, and the Argentine took the ball from the right and cut in At this time, Raul chose to directly hit the left post of the opponent's goal from the left side of the top of the penalty area.

Messi quickly passed the ball with his left foot and passed it to the left side of the other side. Raul's speed is not very fast, especially in the face of Varane who is defending him, but it is strange that he uses it very cleverly. The body blocks Varane, making it difficult for the young French central defender to hinder Raul to catch the ball, and Raul seems to know what Varane is thinking. After chasing the ball, he directly dunks the ball with his left foot and dunks the ball towards Varane. Instead of hitting the goal with his kick, Varane, who suddenly wanted to stop suddenly, lost his balance and fell on the grass.

After Raul snapped to the right, Cech also reacted very quickly and attacked immediately, but this was obviously expected by Raul. He took a step forward and directly poked the ball with his left foot, and the ball moved on Cech. In the process, he went straight to the right column and hit the side net.

The ball is in!
At this moment, Raul showed everyone the strength of his top superstar!

Even though he is 33 years old, he has never been a player who relies on youth, body, and speed to make a living!

For a player like him who relies on consciousness and wisdom to survive on the court, the older he is and the more experienced he is, the more terrifying he will be!
There used to be a saying in Ye Qiu's motherland, old age is not death because of a demon!

Raul, as long as he has not retired, as long as he continues to survive on the offensive line, he is still the nightmare of all defenders!

(End of this chapter)