Chapter 77 Let no one have a good meal!
"Have you heard it, Dongzi." Assistant coach Xu Yang found Hao Dong and was eager to convey a gossip to him. "Dortmond also sent someone to find Zhou Yi."
"Ah? Passing through us?" Hao Dong was surprised that he did not receive the news.
"No... I came to the hotel to find Zhouyi"
"Then why they talk, they can't understand the language?"
"It is said that scout seems...can speak Chinese."
"Hey, it's interesting..." Hao Dong pondered. Dortmund, a scout from a German football club, actually speaks Chinese... Is this a pure coincidence or intentional? If it is the latter, it means that Dortmund attaches great importance to Zhou Yi.
"How was the result?" he asked.
"What else can it be? It is said that Zhou Yi used the same move to block others." Xu Yang felt a little regretful when he said this. "What did Zhou Yi think about in his mind? No matter what the first team is doing, you must be able to play football in Europe first to be qualified to consider more. Now he has proposed a higher goal as a requirement in advance. Who can accept it? He is not a genius like Messi..."
Regarding this issue, Hao Dong had already discussed it with Xu Tao yesterday, and Xu Yang was not present at that time. Hao Dong smiled and comforted Xu Yang: "Oh, it's good that people have their own ideas, so don't worry about that, you are not his father."
"It's almost his grandfather at my age... I just can't bear to see such a good seedling missed the opportunity to go abroad because she is too ambitious. You know, it's not easy for us Chinese players to play abroad. Zhou Yi has a good condition. He doesn't have a club now, so he doesn't need to go abroad with the consent of domestic clubs, and he's missing a threshold... I didn't expect that he set a higher threshold for himself."
Hao Dong shook his head: "I don't think it's even higher. Compared with those domestic clubs that are asking for a lot of prices, they are quite conscientious. It is true that the young players hope to obtain more benefits for their rights and interests. In the past, these tasks were handed over to agents. Zhou Yi had no agent, so he had to go on his own. I think it's good for him to be neither humble nor arrogant when facing European clubs."
"Yes, I also hate the kind of cords that I wish I could kneel down and hug my thighs when I saw a European club, but...ah...I'm not worried about wasting his talent?"
Hao Dong was also moved to see his mentor so anxious about a child. He always had a passion and a innocent heart for youth football work, which is why he invited his mentor to come out to partner with him.
"Don't worry, Xu Zhi. I still have some personal relationships. If it really doesn't work, I'm willing to help the child." Hao Dong said.
"You are really sending Buddha to the West."
"We are not the same, do we all love talents?"
The two looked at each other and smiled.
After Tim Kister returned to his hotel room, the first thing he did was to call Klopp.
"Tim, have you met that kid?" As soon as the phone was connected, Klopp's straight-forward inquiry rang out there.
"See, but I have a feedback to bring to you, Jurgen."
"Do I need to record it?"
"No, it's very simple. This is what happened..."
On the phone, Keest told Klopp the entire content he had communicated with Zhou Yi this evening.
"You mean... he asked us to promise his first team's chance to play?" Klopp asked back after hearing this.
"Yes. And before us, a club had looked for him. But he also made this request, and it sounded like there was no agreement there."
“Which company?”
"Arsenal."
Klopp on the other end of the phone chuckled.
"How did you answer him?"
"I said I couldn't make the decision about this. I promised to reply to him at noon tomorrow, and he promised me that he would not accept invitations from other clubs before this."
"Well, Tim, I hope you will tell him when you go to him at noon tomorrow, and just say I will go to interview him in person tomorrow night."
When Timkister heard Klopp say this, he was stunned. He originally thought it was just a call. Is it OK? Klopp said on the phone and just bring a message to Zhou Yi.
Unexpectedly, Klopp would come in person
"Don't you lead the team to train?"
"So I have to come after the afternoon training is over," Klopp said.
"Is this...Jurgen worth it?"
"Is it worth it? Let's talk about it after meeting."
After hesitating for a day, Allen Powell decided to pass Zhou Yi’s request to Arsenal’s youth training director Liam Brady.
Why hesitate for a day?
Because he felt that Zhou Yi was simply unreasonable, submitting such conditions would only make him scolded by his superiors.
Brady also fell into a brief silence after listening to Alan Powell's reposting Zhou Yi's request on the phone.
Powell didn't say anything, but held his cell phone and waited for his boss to answer.
"Special genius clause...he actually knows this..." Brady's tone was as if Zhou Yi shouldn't know this thing. "Our club finds those geniuses from all over the world every year and takes them to the Emirates Stadium. The special genius clause is for players who can play first-team games at the first time, and this will never be used on him. You can tell him that the Arsenal club is willing to loan him to the best satellite club, and clarify his appearances and time requirements in the loan contract to ensure that he gets the best exercise, but don't talk about the special genius clause."
After receiving instructions from his boss, Aren Powell nodded: "Okay, I know what to say. But...what if he sticks to his opinion?"
Powell asked, because he thought of Zhou Yi, who sat face to face with him but was extremely calm and difficult to deal with, didn't look like a seventeen-year-old child at all...
"This cannot be compromised. We have given our greatest sincerity. If he is unwilling to accept it, then that's all." Brady said.
In the process of Arsenal's global search for young geniuses, there are always some situations where they have to give up. As the team's youth training supervisor, Brady has seen so many times. There is nothing to regret. It is normal. When you choose me, I also choose you. It is necessary for both sides to reach an agreement before this matter can be successful.
Although Brady had some regrets in his heart, this regret did not affect his decision-making. He was just incredible about Zhou Yi's unrealistic persistence. This stupid persistence would make him lose his chance, but it did not lose much for Arsenal.
In Brady's mind, he felt that it was already very good that Arsenal could give Zhou Yi a chance, and bargaining was not something that children at this stage of Zhou Yi should do.
The next day, when Zhou Yi finished training, he followed the bus back to the hotel, but did not go back to the room with everyone, but... he was called away by Hao Dong.
Everyone looked at Zhou Yi and Hao Dong's backs, some envious and some were jealous.
"Which one is it this time?"
"Everyone is crazy, why are you looking for Zhou Yi? I'm playing well?"
"Come on guess whether Zhou Yi will refuse or agree this time..."
While everyone was talking, no one noticed Tim Kister sitting in a corner of the lobby, looking uneasy.
In fact, Kester had been here a long time ago, but he had no chance to find Zhou Yi at all. Zhou Yi followed their coach in the end.
Even fools can guess that there must be a colleague looking for him again.
I just don't know who this time...
He guessed uneasyly.
But not long after, it might be less than ten minutes before he saw Zhou Yi walking out of the elevator again and then looked around.
He knew that this was looking for him because they had made an appointment before, so he stood up and walked towards Zhou Yi.
"I see you followed your coach just now..."
"It's still Arsenal." Zhou Yi said. "This time they proposed better loan treatment, but... they still didn't let go of the first team matters. So we had no chance." He spread his hands.
"That's really..." Keest couldn't continue, because he didn't know whether to comfort Zhou Yi at this time or be happy that he still had a chance.
Zhou Yi also felt Kister's embarrassment, so he smiled and said, "You want to say this is really good news?"
Keest scratched his head awkwardly: "I won't talk about this anymore. I'm here to tell you the latest news. That's right. After your request... the club still attaches great importance to it, so the first team coach Mr. Klopp will fly over to interview you specifically, and it will be tonight."
Zhou Yi was also surprised to hear Kister's words.
Jurgen Klopp is the latest Dortmund coach, and as a fan he naturally knows this.
But I didn't expect that Klopp, the first-team head coach, would come to Barcelona specifically for him...
This really surprised him.
After the training in the afternoon, Zhou Yi was finally called to his room by Hao Dong before he arrived at the hotel. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, no one looked for Zhou Yi for the time being. Otherwise, they would feel uncomfortable if they saw other clubs looking for Zhou Yi every day...
However, halfway through the meal, two people appeared outside the restaurant, one of whom was wearing a baseball cap, and the other raised his hand to wave to the restaurant.
After seeing this, Zhou Yi stood up and said, "Ah, someone is looking for me, don't worry about me tonight."
After saying that, he went out to greet him.
Zhou Yi's sudden departure also made other teammates curious, and they all cast curious eyes on the two people at the entrance of the restaurant.
Zhou Yi walked to the door and said a few words to the two people, then shook hands with the man wearing a baseball cap, and the three of them left the restaurant and disappeared from everyone's sight.
At this time, someone suddenly shouted: "Isn't that Klopp?"
Someone wondered: "Who is Klopp?"
"Don't you watch the game? Dortmund's new coach Jurgen Klopp this year"
"Who?"
"The one wearing a hat"
"Damn it"
The restaurant was frying.
The head coach of Dortmund's first team came to find Zhou Yi in person
What's going on in this situation
This is more shocking than scouting looking for Zhou Yi
Sun Pan was also stunned. He didn't expect Dortmund to bring the first team coach directly.
"Damn, the head coach comes to see you for dinner. Can you still have someone to have a good meal?" he complained.
In the noisy environment, Liang Qiqi looked at the rice grains everywhere on the table that he was sprayed, and she was crying without tears.
Just now, he had just brought the seafood paella into his mouth when he heard that Dortmund coach Klopp had personally ran to Barcelona to look for Zhou Yi. He was so shocked that he choked a few grains of rice into his trachea. Then he coughed violently and sprayed all the rice in his mouth, which formed the current mess.
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