Chu Zhongtian took advantage of the holiday to inspect his business in North America and found that it was quite good. Greater China Restaurant now has ten branches, all of which are in big cities in the United States. This store has become synonymous with boutique Chinese food. His business team is already planning to open up the European market for him.

Chu Zhongtian basically doesn't worry about these things. The business team will do the specific matters, and the person who checks them in the end is his father. He just needs to count the money. He has never cared about how much assets he has now. He has no worries about his life anyway. He does not realize much money, and the money he earns is basically invested in and goes up more and more in the capital turnover.

The meeting with Emily's mother was quite pleasant - at least on the surface. Emily's mother would not think that Chu Zhongtian was a perfect partner, but what could she do if her daughter liked her so much? So on the surface, she was still kind to Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian and Emily have been dating for three years, but they have never talked about marriage. On the one hand, they are still young and cannot be busy with their careers, especially Emily. The marriage of movie stars will always affect their careers to a greater or lesser extent. On the other hand, it is naturally Emily's mother's attitude. Before Emily's mother was settled, the two of them would probably not be blessed to get married... But now Chu Zhongtian doesn't consider the matter of getting married for so long. He is only twenty-five years old, and for him, marriage seems to be something that he has to do in his thirties.

※※When Chu Zhongtian was still enjoying his holiday with Emily in the United States, Rangnick's work officially began on June 10th.

In the Premier League, manager-style head coaches are very common, so they are all called "managers" instead of "coaches". However, in other countries, head coaches are only responsible for leading the team's training and then directing the team's game. The team's management and transfer rights are not under their control. So every summer is at its most lively, head coaches basically watch the show, and they wait for the rice to be put into the pot instead of taking the initiative to find the rice.

Premier League head coaches can point fingers in the transfer market and make their ambitions, making their peers envious. Only coaches know best what kind of players their team needs, so logically speaking, the head coach is the one who should manage the transfer rights. When buying players, team managers often consider market value, commercial interests, fame, and other things that are completely unhelpful to the team's performance.

As a result, the team managers bought a lot of players they couldn't use at all for the head coach. However, the head coach could not express dissatisfaction. They could only applaud every player who joined the team, saying that these people were players he had observed for a long time. They were very capable and could fully adapt to the team's tactics. Everyone just waited for these stars to show their level in the new season!

What's the reality? At the beginning of the new season, everyone will quickly find that these stars who spent a lot of money at the club either sit on the bench, look like princes, or play positions they are completely unfamiliar with, like sleepwalking. When they come down for an interview, they dare not publicly offend the head coach. They can only say that competition is inevitable, and in order to get the starting position, he can play any position... In the end, if the conflict intensifies, there are often two results - if the club and the star players

If the club firmly supports the head coach? Then the stars who perform well in other teams may either sink into the bench for a season, or accept unfamiliar position arrangements and try to create a new world in a new position, but there are few such successful people. Many people have been declining because they are not adapted to the new position and are not adapted to the new tactics, and their performance is down sharply. One or two seasons later, they were finally sold at a low price by the club.

In the Bundesliga, most coaches have no say in this way.

Before Hoffenheim was promoted to the Bundesliga, Magat was the only one in the Bundesliga. He served as the team's head coach and the club's general manager, both in charge of team training and responsible for the team's transfer. So at that time, he was the only football manager in the Bundesliga. Later, Hoffenheim was successfully promoted and Rangnick became the second football manager. He also enjoyed a high degree of autonomy in Hoffenheim. He had absolute say and decision-making in the team's transfer. The club's manager Shen Delmaize was only responsible for reviewing and passing the transfer, and then letting the club's financial department give money.

If he is just a team coach, his vacation can last until June 20th, but as the team manager, he has to come to the club to work in advance.

The first is contract renewal and cleaning. The team and the club's substitute goalkeeper Daniel Haas renewed the contract. He had been a main goalkeeper in the previous season and a substitute goalkeeper. Even after Hildebrand came, due to Tim's injury, he had started in several important games and performed well. Although he was not enough to be the team's main goalkeeper, there was no problem with the first substitute goalkeeper.

And poor Ozjan can only serve as the second substitute goalkeeper. Who made him not like head coach Rangnick? When Rangnick supported him, he was not very successful.

Negotiations with Eduardo are underway, and the two sides have some differences now. The main reason is that Eduardo believes that he performed well last season and deserves a better salary. Because Chu Zhongtian's annual salary after tax is three million, he thinks he should not be too different. However, team manager Shendelmaize does not want to make the salary level of the whole team too disconnected. Although Hoffenheim is rich, he cannot spend money without restrictions. If Eduardo gives such an example, other players will follow suit. By then, everyone will raise their salary, and the salary level will only be higher and higher, so high that Hoffenheim cannot sustain. So he rejected Eduardo.

The agent's offer is now a bit stale. Shendelmaize is not worried about not being able to renew the contract. Anyway, Eduardo performed well last season. If he wanted to sell, he could buy a good price. Isn't the Russian Premier League team St. Petersburg Zenit interested in him? And his role in the team is not irreplaceable. His position and role on Selihovic overlap. Most of the last season were he took turns playing with Sarihovic until the final stage of the league. Because the team returned to 442, Weiss went to the middle to play two midfielders with Chu Zhongtian. Eduardo and Sarihovic played at the same time. The real irreplaceable person in the team was Chu Zhongtian.

The cleaning work is progressing slowly. After all, the team won the Bundesliga championship and will participate in the UEFA Champions League next season. This bright future is something that Hoffenheim players dare not even think about. How could they be willing to leave? It is not a champion to go to other teams, and they can't play in the Champions League.

Perhaps only those who leave the team cannot play in Hoffenheim, but some mid- and lower-level teams, even low-level league teams, know that continuing to stay in Hoffenheim, the Champions League and other things have nothing to do with them. Hoffenheim's honor has little contribution. Continuing to stay in Hoffenheim without a ball is not a good choice.

Therefore, Hoffenheim's cleaning work mainly starts with these people.

Former captain Teber has confirmed to leave the team, which is something that was confirmed last season. Before the team disbanded last season, Teber specifically thanked his teammates. Although he has been on the bench more this season, he has performed in average performance and has only scored goals in his first match with Schalke 04. However, being able to win the Bundesliga Champions League prize set as a member of Hoffenheim is still the most wonderful moment in his life. That Bundesliga gold medal will also be the best memory of his time at Hoffenheim.

He has determined where he will stay next season. Frankfurt, who is also a Bundesliga team, is not fortunate, and he has not been to the low-level league. After negotiations with the club, he will go to Frankfurt as a free transfer player. Hoffenheim does not charge a transfer fee, which is also a kind of compensation for Teber. Free transfer players are often qualified to require higher salary, because they save a lot of money on transfer fees, so the new owner naturally has to pay some money to add to the salary as a reward. In addition, free transfer saves the team's transfer budget, so the team has more money to supplement the salary budget.

This is a win-win situation.

Except for Teber, the cleaning work of other players is not progressing quickly.

The team is adjusting personnel within this team, and the work in the transfer market cannot be relaxed. Although the summer transfer market will not start on July 1st, the previous negotiations can already be carried out.

For Hoffenheim's head coach Ralph Rangnick, introducing players is his biggest headache.

Before the start of last season, the team had no goals. If they had to say that they had, they would just stay in the Bundesliga, so the players introduced were mainly young and potential. Even Chu Zhongtian was only 24 years old at the time, and Ibisevic was not old at the age of 23. However, this season, the team needs to fight on multiple fronts, especially to play in the Champions League, which is a stage that requires great experience. If you just blindly introduce young players, Hoffenheim would not go too far.

Of course, Rangnick doesn't want Hoffenheim to go home just by just one lap in the group stage. He doesn't even want to participate in the League Cup. The team's minimum goal is to enter the knockout stage.

This requires introducing some older but experienced players. In the past, Rangnick looked down on older players. He and Arsenal coach Wenger have the same thing, and both like young demons. Last season, Hoffenheim was called "Little Demon Concentration Camp" by many FM players because there are many young players in the team who are considered to have great potential in the game.

Rangnick once said in an interview that the 27-year-old Ronaldinho is too old for him and his team... This shows that.

But such a concept must be changed, otherwise his team will struggle to defend the league championship and compete in the European Champions League. Older players are not burdensome, but precious wealth. There is a saying in China that goes well: if you have an old family, you will have a treasure. This is the same thing as the saying goes in the team.

The first thing that entered Rangnick's vision was naturally the Hertha center-back Simonic, who had been hooking up with Hertha Berlin in the winter break, who had not succeeded for a long time.

Simonic has played 70 times for the Croatian national team and has rich international experience. He has played football in Hamburg since the 1997-98 season. He transferred to Hertha Berlin at the beginning of 2000, and played for nine and a half seasons. The Croatian has never been a first-line defender in the Bundesliga. He is not as good as Lucio and others in terms of strength and fame. However, he suddenly broke out last season, and made 29 appearances in the league, and was scored by "Kickers" with a high score of 2.88 points, tied with Ram for the best defender in the Bundesliga.

Originally, it was difficult for Hoffenheim to get the best defender in the Bundesliga because he had a deep relationship with Hertha Berlin. But not long after the season ended, the conflict between Simonic and head coach Favre broke out.

Head coach Favre claimed that he did not believe that Simonic would remain in the team next season. Such remarks made Simonic, who had already had an objection to him, feel that the coach did not trust him and did not respect him, and proposed to transfer. Although the misunderstanding between him and the head coach later was eliminated, he still insisted on leaving. Perhaps for him, he had been a little aesthetically exhausted after playing for a team for nine and a half years, not only his attitude towards the club, but also towards him.

He also wants to change the environment. According to the contract between Simonic and Hertha Berlin, if a club can pay 7 million euros before the end of June, he can climb another step. If no team pays this price within this period, Hertha Berlin can increase Simonic's value and strive to squeeze as much "surplus value" from this 31-year-old minister.

In fact, Hertha Berlin played this idea. Simonic is already 31 years old. For professional players, his career has begun to decline. Although central defenders can often play until they are 35 or 36 years old, their most glorious period is only two or three years left.

For such a 31-year-old central defender, a 7 million yuan is expensive. In the eyes of a Bundesliga club famous for its thirty-first-minded family, it must be crazy to pay 7 million yuan for a 31-year-old central defender.

So although there are clubs that are interested in him, they become hesitant when they see the value of 7 million, and they plan to wait and see first.

Now only the old club Simonic once played for Hamburg intends to pay for the newly born Bundesliga best defender, but they only paid 4 million, and then planned to slowly bargain with Hertha Berlin. Anyway, there are nearly twenty days left before June 30, so they are not in a hurry.

Rangnick is determined to win this old central defender. Although Simonic is very slow, he firmly believes that the experience of this best defender in the Bundesliga last season can help the team, even if it is not in the game, it can still show value in the training ground. As for money... it is really not a problem for a team like Hoffenheim, which is called "nova" by outsiders.

However, buying players should also pay attention to strategies and not just rely on money.

After communicating with Shendelmaize, Rangnick did not take action immediately, nor did he reveal to the media that they were interested in Simonic and planned to bid. Instead, he waited patiently for the opportunity.

They soon waited for an opportunity - Bairsdorf, the sports director of Hamburg Club, was suddenly dismissed!

Taking advantage of Hamburg's chance that the entire club's transfer activities had all stopped, Hoffenheim broke out from the stalker and directly offered a transfer fee of 7 million yuan. This price has reached the number agreed in the contract between Simonic and Hertha Berlin, so Hertha Berlin had to let Simonic and Hoffenheim negotiate the price.

For Simonic, he thought it was a good idea to go back to Hamburg before, after all, his Bundesliga career started from there. But after Hoffenheim joined, he quickly changed his mind. It is good to go back to Hamburg, but Hamburg ranked sixth this season and just participated in the League Cup. And what is Hoffenheim? It is the league champion! What can they participate in next season? It is the UEFA Champions League! This is the highest honor among clubs. Even the Club World Cup is not as powerful as the Champions League, and it has a high value.

Obviously, the Champions League is more attractive than the League Cup.

Faced with Hoffenheim's invitation, Simunic had almost no hesitation and expressed his attitude to his agent that he was willing to go to Hoffenheim, and that he was almost unavailable to Hoffenheim.

Since Lang has a love and I am interested, this matter is simple. The negotiations between Hoffenheim and Simonic went smoothly. In the end, Hoffenheim and Simonic signed a three-year contract. Three years later, he will be thirty-four years old. At that time, basically the peak period will end. You can go to a small team to retire, but it is not suitable to continue to stay in a team with ambitions.

After the two sides agreed, both teams confirmed the transfer deal at the same time. When Hamburg came back to its senses, Hoffenheim's official website had announced the news of joining the Bundesliga's best defender last season.

Hamburg had to grit his teeth and curse Hoffenheim as a rich nouveau riche. With money, you can handle everything.

But who can they blame? Since they want to buy people and still can't bear to pay, they will naturally take advantage of loopholes by their opponents. Anyway, Hoffenheim does have money, and this is their advantage, so why not use it?

In the transfer market, as long as you do not use despicable means and follow the rules, it is reproachable.

Simonic is Hoffenheim's first signing this season, and he has introduced the best defender of the Bundesliga by 7 million with one move. Hoffenheim has shown their ambitions next season, and they will never be willing to be a passerby in the UEFA Champions League.

Next, Rangnick will continue to strengthen the team's strength in the transfer market. With the support of last season's league championship, he is also qualified and confident to ask the team's boss Hope to spend more money to buy people.

This summer, Hoffenheim is destined to be one of the protagonists in the transfer market.
Chapter completed!