The next day, since the next round of the Premier League will not start until April 24, the entire Leicester City team got a valuable holiday.
But Chu Zheng couldn't take any time off.
He and Zhao Dudu drove straight to Manchester early in the morning.
By the time the two arrived at the hospital, it was almost noon.
"Hey, Kevin, congratulations on becoming a father! How is Michelle?" As soon as he entered the ward, Chu Zheng gave De Bruyne a congratulatory hug as he greeted him with a smiling face.
Before he could say a few words to Michelle, Chu Zheng was pulled out of the ward by De Bruyne, who was extremely excited to be a new father, and went to see the child.
"Chu, look at him, does he look like me?"
"God, you don't know how nervous I was when I was accompanying Michelle to give birth..."
"The moment this cute little guy arrived, I..."
Facing the chattering De Bruyne who turned into a chatterbox, Chu Zheng was all smiles.
But forgive his blindness, except for the blond hair that is exactly the same as De Bruyne, this little Ding Ding looks like a little old man. It is not yet clear whether he looks like De Bruyne or Michel.
The two chatted about children for more than ten minutes, and the topic naturally turned to the club.
"Chu, do you have any plans for next season?" As he spoke, De Bruyne suddenly laughed.
"Kevin, I don't remember that I told you that I'm leaving Leicester City next season!" Chu Zheng smiled meaningfully at De Bruyne, the little thief, and Te Miao came to inquire about the news again.
Hearing Chu Zheng's words, De Bruyne showed an extremely confident smile and said: "Chu, you have been in Leicester City for almost a season. I think you should be very aware of the situation in a small city like Leicester City.
The limitations of the team.”
"If you want more honors and make yourself stronger, then you must leave Leicester City!"
Chu Zheng was silent!
Mario actually said these words to him, but he heard them in one ear and out the other.
It was still very early before the end of the season, so Chu Zheng didn't want to disturb himself by thinking about those messy things.
But now that the league is about to end, he must consider this issue.
Stay at Leicester City or leave.
In this regard, Mario's advice to him was to go to a wealthy club.
What Mario means is that Chu Zheng now has the strength to compete in a wealthy team and needs a bigger stage to show himself to fans around the world and compete with stronger opponents on the same stage in order to improve.
If you stay in Leicester City, even if you can play in the Champions League next season, what about the next season?
Whether the head coach will still be Ranieri, Mahrez, Vardy, Kante and others are all unknown factors.
If they can successfully win the Premier League title this season.
Then both Leicester City and the players will gain extremely huge attention and fame.
Players will also demand a salary increase accordingly, and can Leicester City satisfy the players' appetite?
That is definitely impossible. Leicester City's financial and salary system cannot allow it, nor can it afford it.
Leicester City club owner Vichai is not a football-minded owner like Chelsea's Abramovich.
Vichai's investment in Leicester City is fundamentally to make money, so he will not endlessly invest huge amounts of money like Abramovich to build Leicester City into a wealthy club like Chelsea.
For now, Leicester City is a small civilian club after all, even worse than Wolfsburg.
So as long as Chu Zheng chooses a wealthy club that lacks midfielders and continues to maintain his current phenomenal performance, then even wealthy clubs like Barcelona and Real Madrid will have a place for him.
In addition to these, from the perspective of commercial value, Chu Zheng must also leave Leicester City.
Only wealthy families can gain greater exposure and fame, so that their commercial value will be higher.
Therefore, Chu Zheng wants to leave because he knows exactly what will happen to Leicester City in the future.
Kanter had expressed his thoughts on the transfer to him some time ago.
And once Kante, Mahrez and others have left, what is the point of him staying in the disintegrated Leicester City.
"You want me to join Manchester City?" Putting away his thoughts, Chu Zheng looked at De Bruyne with some humor.
"Of course!" De Bruyne's eyes lit up, "The conflict between Yaya Toure and the club is becoming increasingly difficult to reconcile. He will definitely leave after the end of this season, so you know, the club urgently needs someone like Yaya Toure."
A midfielder who is as good as Ya Toure or even better than him, and you are the most suitable candidate!"
"I will consider it!" Chu Zheng smiled and said nothing more.
Seeing that Chu Zheng was unwilling to say more, De Bruyne ended the topic at the right time.
He knew Chu Zheng's character. If Chu Zheng didn't want to come to Manchester City, then Chu Zheng wouldn't change his mind even if he told the truth.
Manchester City executives knew about his relationship with Chu Zheng, so they really asked him to be a lobbyist.
After Leicester City's extraordinary performance this season, Chu Zheng's reputation in Europe has completely surpassed him, and he has become a hot young talented midfielder in football.
Therefore, Manchester City is not the only one coveting Chu Zheng.
Although Manchester City is rich, if they want to compete with super giants such as Barcelona and Real Madrid for Chu Zheng, they lack the confidence.
In terms of financial resources, Manchester City is not afraid of anyone!
But in terms of influence and appeal, it is difficult for Manchester City to compare with super giants such as Barcelona and Real Madrid.
When it comes to player transfers, the player's personal wishes are an extremely critical link.
As long as Chu Zheng is willing to join Manchester City, then Manchester City can be said to be in an invincible position.
I'm afraid that Chu Zheng admires other wealthy clubs, so no matter how rich Manchester City is, they will still be beautiful and wink at the blind man, which will be a waste of time.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Chu Zheng and Zhao Dudu returned to Leicester.
As soon as he parked the car, Chu Zheng's cell phone rang.
"Chu, I have someone here who wants to see you. Do you have time now?" Mario's deep voice rang on the phone.
"Who?" Chu Zheng asked.
"Po Hong Gao?"
"What?!!" Chu Zheng looked like a black man with a question mark on his face, and he reacted instantly, his face was so red.
"Who is it?" Zhao Dudu unbuckled his seat belt and looked at Chu Zheng curiously.
"Our national team's new head coach Gao Hongbo!" Chu Zheng said with joy.
Although he has never been called back to the country, Chu Zheng still pays attention to the national team.
At the end of March this year, after 15 years, Chinese men’s football once again entered the top 12 Asian preliminaries of the 2018 World Cup.
The hero is Gao Hongbo, who took office on the line.
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At around 6 o'clock in the evening, Chu Zheng left Mario's house.
As soon as he got in the car, Chu Zheng opened WeChat and sent a group chat video.
After a while, Niu Benben, Hao Xiao, and Jiang Lai connected to the video one after another.
Seeing the smiling expressions of these three people, Chu Zheng became angry and said: "Okay, you guys, you've done a good job keeping secrets!"
"Okay! We all listen to you!" Niu Benben rolled his eyes, "You are the boss, you can do it if you want, and if you can't do it, pull him down. Anyway, we four brothers will advance and retreat together!"
Chu Zheng frowned again when he heard this.
After an in-depth conversation with Gao Hongbo, Chu Zheng found out the reason behind the country's delay in recruiting the four of them.
It's not complicated to say, but some people hope that the new head coach will be a foreign head coach with World Cup experience.
Gao Hongbo was only temporarily dispatched to put out the fire.
But I didn't expect that Gao Hongbo really put out the fire, miraculously achieved results and entered the top 12 of the World Preliminaries, so now ZX is in a dilemma.
On the one hand, they want to agree to the terms of a coaching change in exchange for financial support, but on the other hand, they are afraid of backlash from public opinion.
Therefore, Gao Hongbo kept delaying his request to recruit the four Chu Zheng men, for fear that the four Chu Zheng men would come back and make Gao Hongbo's newly built golden body stronger.
As for Gao Hongbo, seeing that the start of the top 12 World Preliminary Tournament in September was getting closer and closer, his superiors were still delaying meetings and studies. Unbearable, he gritted his teeth and planned to use a trick to drain the bottom of the fire for those people. He didn't. It's time.
This time Gao Hongbo came to see Chu Zheng. In addition to inviting Chu Zheng and the others, he also hoped that Chu Zheng and the others could cooperate with him.
What Chu Zheng and the others have to do is simple, which is to post a message on domestic Weibo to inform fans that they are about to return to China to compete, creating an established fact.
To put it simply, Gao Hongbo wants to cook raw rice into cooked rice.
For Gao Hongbo, it is a fact that he was promised to recruit the four Chu Zheng players. He is just fulfilling the duties of a head coach.
As for Chu Zheng and others, of course they have to accept the call-up call issued by the national team coach. There is no guilt in being patriotic, it's that simple.
After thinking about the twists and turns here, Chu Zheng really admired this Gao Hongbo. He played really well and really dared to place a bet.
Because once Chu Zheng and the others return to the national team and still don't have good results, Gao Hongbo's end may be miserable.
But once he has good results, these results will be Gao Hongbo's most reliable talisman. Anyone who wants to touch him must weigh the consequences.
Seeing that Chu Zheng was still silent, Niu Benben seemed to have guessed what Chu Zheng was thinking, so he winked and said with a smile: "The impact of capital is not ours to consider. My old Niu told me to leave it to him, as long as the four of us If he plays well and reaches the World Cup, it will be worth it no matter how much money he spends. It is the best reward for him."
Hearing this, Chu Zheng's eyes suddenly lit up and he couldn't laugh or cry: "Uncle Niu really thinks highly of us!"
