Father Green

Chapter 9: The First Seven

Other transfers are proceeding in an orderly manner, but signings in the goalkeeper position have fallen into a stalemate.In the beginning, Charlotte's number one target was Ter Stegen of Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga, but Borussia Mönchengladbach asked for a high price of 500 million euros, which is not enough for the current transfer funds It was very difficult for Charlotte, even if he sold all the fringe players in the team who were not in his plan to exchange money, it would not be enough.

For the future Ter Stegen, not to mention 500 million euros, even 3000 million is definitely worth it, but at this time Ter Stegen is not yet famous. He is only 19 years old, and he was promoted from the reserve team last season. For the first team, he only played six times a season, and three of them were in the German Cup.

And for this German national who is second only to Neuer in the future, he has not yet attracted the attention of other big teams. Charlotte remembers that Ter Stegen really came to the world this season.In this upcoming season, the young German goalkeeper will be the best goalkeeper in the Bundesliga, beating Neuer, Weidenfeller and others in his prime, and then help Borussia Borussia on his own in two seasons. Gladbach succeeded in relegation, and finally attracted the attention of the giants, and finally moved to the world-class giants Barcelona.

So Charlotte wants to get each other urgently. Some people miss it for a lifetime. For Charlotte, Ter Stegen is such a person. Once he misses this best season, Southampton may never be able to attract him next season. Here comes the young German goalkeeper.

But hanging from a tree is obviously not Charlotte's style, and he has a second alternative.Also a German goalkeeper, Bernd Leno from Stuttgart, also young at 19 years old.But Stuttgart is more inclined to loan the opponent to Leverkusen in the Bundesliga, because Leverkusen very sincerely gave a buyout clause of 500 million euros, while in the eyes of Stuttgart, the bid is only 300 million euros, of which 200 million is still Southampton, who paid in installments, is obviously not so "sincere".

Therefore, the signings at the goalkeeper position have reached a deadlock. Charlotte did not expect that both goals would be so difficult.There is no way, Charlotte had to tell the club director Les Reed to let him continue to follow up these two goals, these two goals are very important for Southampton, and at the same time look at the midfielder of Bayern Munich's youth training camp Emre Can.

In fact, in the Premier League, the head coach is responsible for most of the player transfer work, and the head coach personally contacts and negotiates for the core players.But Charlotte lacks "innate advantages" now, so he can only let the club's director Les Reed "charge" him, while he "strategizes" at the Stanwood base.

No way, who told him he was too young? As a head coach in this industry, the 23-year-old Charlotte is unbelievably young.So if he is asked to negotiate a transfer, most likely no player will choose to join Southampton.

And in Germany, Charlotte is also considered a well-known "celebrity", but this reputation is not a commendatory word.

On July [-]th, Charlotte ushered in the first batch of new players to join the team.On this day, Gary Monk, Sturridge, Sterling, Pogba, Mustafi, Danny Rose, Jeffrey Bruma and several players currently in England came to their The new club, the next stop in life.And Al Ganassi is still in Belgium and will return to the team a few days later.

In the meeting room of the club, Charlotte waited for Gary Monk and a group of seven people. They arrived at the training base early in the morning and were taken to the meeting room by the staff.

"Welcome home, Gary!" Charlotte smiled and shook hands with Gary Monk, who smiled politely, "Thank you!"

"Daniel Sturridge, Paul Pogba, Shkodran Mustafi, Danny Rose, Jeffrey Bruma, Raheem Sterling, welcome to St. Southampton." Charlotte gestured for everyone to sit down.

"First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Charlotte. It's not Sherlock or Charlotte. I hope everyone will remember this and don't find the wrong person in the future." Like the meeting with Southampton players, Charlotte started with humor Liven up the atmosphere.

Sure enough, Gary Monk and his party let out friendly laughter.

"I am the head coach of Southampton, and I will be your head coach from today on." After Charlotte finished speaking, the entire meeting room was very quiet, and the silence was a little weird.

The mouths of Sturridge and Mustafi directly became "O" shape, and even the oldest and most mature and steady family Monk's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Wow" Pogba and Sterling exclaimed even more.

Before, they thought that Charlotte was their teammate or the staff arranged by the club to receive them.

Well, the head coach is also one of the staff of the club
"Very well, I am very satisfied with everyone's performance, because it was within my expectation. Also, I repeat, this is not a joke, and today is not April Fool's Day." Charlotte's last sentence was very serious.

"I know you can't believe it, and I know you are skeptical. It doesn't matter. In my coaching philosophy, 'doubt' is a very important talent, because it shows that you know how to think, how to measure, judge and even reflect. It's very important for a player."

"But it doesn't matter, I always like to speak with facts. I don't ask you to believe me, you just need to cooperate with me. After this season is over, the facts will tell you whether I can, qualify and have the ability to become a Southampton manager, be your manager!"

"But one thing I want you to understand is that everyone here is called and asked the club to buy. So you will become a vital member of me and Southampton, including Paul who came on loan. Pogba), Danny (Ross)."

The seven people sitting were speechless in shock, especially Sturridge, who had already begun to doubt whether transferring to Southampton was the right choice.

It's nothing for Pogba, because he can return to Manchester United after the loan period expires this season. As for Southampton and the young and shameless head coach, he is just a passer-by in his life.

And Danny Rose is already thinking that if the opponent wants to use 300 million pounds to activate his own buyout clause at the end of the season, he must call his agent to directly reject all offers related to Southampton when negotiating his personal contract.

After finishing speaking, Charlotte sent several pages of printed information to each player, with the corresponding player's name, height, weight and age on it.What is even more incredible is that there are also appearance data of the respective players in the past three years on this page of information.

For example, the information in Sturridge's hands shows that he played 2009 times in the last year of Manchester City's youth training camp, scoring four goals and zero assists.Then he moved to Chelsea in 10, played 11 times and only scored one goal. In the [-]-[-] season, that is, the first half of last season, he played [-] times for Chelsea in various competitions, but none scored. Goals and assists, after the winter transfer to Bolton on loan, he scored eight goals in twelve games.

Of course, Sturridge was surprised by such information. Could it be that this young head coach was observing him when he was still in Manchester City at the age of 17?It's unbelievable, how old was he at that time?

The data column of Pogba, Mustafi and others is relatively simple, because they have not played a game for the first team of their respective teams, even as a substitute for 1 minute.Most of them participated in youth team games, so there is no data for them.

But they were attracted by the data analysis below, and they swore that this was the first time they had seen such a thing in their life.

Under the information they take, there are personal training arrangements for players and future development directions. For example, Pogba's share clearly states that his development direction is an all-around midfielder and an all-around midfielder. He will become a team player. One of the organizers of the team, the hub of offensive and defensive transitions.