Super Prophecy Master

Chapter 200 Darren Bent
Hislop was born in 1969 and is now 36 years old. Many players of this age have retired, but as a goalkeeper, 36 years old is not too old.

Unlike many South American professional players who play football for a living, Hislop was born in a wealthy family and received a good education since he was a child. The process of his becoming a professional player can be regarded as a legend.

In 1987, Hislop was admitted to Harvard University, where he studied in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and won a football scholarship.

Five years later, in May when he was about to graduate, Hislop, who was already a little famous at the time, was spotted by a scout from the Reading club when he represented the Baltimore Trail Blazers in a friendly match with Asvila. Since then embarked on the road to professional football.

As long as you calculate the age, Hislop only became a professional player from Harvard University, and when he became a professional player, he was almost 24 years old.

Most professional players at this age have already achieved fame, but Hislop, who has a degree in mechanical engineering from Harvard University, gave up his research career to focus on the road of professional players, and quickly became the main goalkeeper of the Reading team. .

After that, Hislop played for Newcastle United, West Ham United and Portsmouth one after another. Except for the three seasons of Reading, Hislop has always played in the top league and served as the absolute main goalkeeper.

Last season, Hislop was injured.

Although it was only a sprained waist, he recovered after a month of recuperation, but in Portsmouth, which is focusing on training a new generation of young goalkeepers, he still has no place. He can only choose to end his contract and leave.

Many teams are vying for Hislop.

The advantage of Millwall is that the team is playing in the Premier League, which is the key to attracting Hislop. Another point is that Hislop can play the main force when he comes to Millwall.

The attractiveness of the latter is key.

There are many Premier League teams competing for Hislop, but they already have the main goalkeeper. Hislop chooses to sign, and he can only play as the second goalkeeper. After all, he is 36 years old, and he will soon retire in two years. when.

Hislop hopes to play the main force in the top league, because next year's World Cup, he is likely to represent Trinidad and Tobago in the competition, only as the main force of the top league can guarantee the status of the World Cup.

So Hislop chose Millwall.

Zhang Yang didn't expect the club to sign such a heavyweight goalkeeper. It was a pleasant surprise. He always felt that Graham Stark was too young and too edgy.

Last season, Graham's performance was good, but Millwall's players who conceded fewer goals in the second half of the schedule may be attributed to his successful use of predictive ability to 'make up for the pot', rather than the performance of goalkeeper players. it is good.

Hislop's joining has stabilized the goalkeeper's position.

Now the team has six players joining, four of them are defenders, plus Darren Ward, Barry Cogan and other original players, no matter the full back or the central defender, the personnel are all ready.

Another team that joined was Vardy.

Vardy has nothing to say. He can only be trained as a young talent. It is best if he can perform well.

Next, Zhang Yang began to care about the unfinished transfer. What he cared about most was the striker. The lack of striker ability last season was obvious. Even if he continued to use his ability to help the team score more goals, he still scored goals in many games. weak.

This is caused by the lack of striker ability.

After all, Neil Harris is old. At the age of 33, it is difficult to fight for anything on the field. It is really difficult to expect what he can do in the Premier League.

Kevin Kiel chose to leave.

Although Zhang Yang didn't want to sell Kevin Keir, Keir believed that the team had no place for him.

Last season, Keir had no place. Braniff performed well in the second half, and Keir almost had no playing time.

Braniff can be counted as one of the capable forwards, but it is still unpredictable what he will do in the Premier League.

The most important thing at the moment is to finalize a capable striker.

Zhang Yang's choice is Darren Bent.

In my memory, Darren Bent still performed very well in the Premier League, and he was able to be selected for the England national team only by relying on his continued outstanding performance.

Zhang Yang immediately asked about Darren Bent's transfer progress.

"Ipswich Town agreed to sell, but we still need to compete," Ebenezer replied, "This player is just a bit too expensive."

Millwall's transfer funds are limited.

The club’s prepared funds are 600 million pounds, or the funds obtained from bank loans, plus some proceeds from the sale of players, the total is only 700 million pounds. For the transfer, the 700 million pounds prepared can only use 80.00 %, the remaining 20.00% of the funds will be used in the middle of the transfer and the signing fee, etc. In short, the club's funds are somewhat insufficient.

Before buying other players, more than 200 million pounds have been spent, and the remaining available funds are less than 400 million pounds.

"Charlton's offer has reached 300 million pounds. Are we going to consider giving up? Another target?" Ebenezer's tentative question. For Millwall, a player worth more than 300 million pounds is too much. Expensive.

Zhang Yang curled his lips.

The 'poverty' of a small club is really helpless. In two years, let alone £300 million, if you sell the Millwall club, you will never want to buy Darren Bent.

However, the transfer fee has nothing to do with Zhang Yang, and it is impossible for the money to enter his pocket. He directly set the tone, "As long as we can sign Darren Bent, our lineup will be complete."

Ebenezer is fine.

If the transfer funds are no longer needed in the future, and all the funds are used to sign important players, it will be nothing.

Transfer funds are meant to be spent.

"Then we don't have much hope of getting Darren Bent, as far as I know, he seems to be inclined to go to Charlton himself."

"why?"

Ebenezer explained, "Charlton is a veteran Premier League team. They ranked in the top ten of the league last season, and we are just a newly promoted team!"

Zhang Yang frowned.

Compared with Charlton, Millwall has almost no advantage at all.

The two teams are in the London region. Charlton is a veteran team in the Premier League. It has played in the Premier League since 2000 and has always been ranked in the middle. It is a quite powerful team.

Charlton is also a small regional club that has played in the Premier League for several consecutive seasons. Their finances are much stronger than Millwall's. If they go to 'bid' with Charlton to compete for Len Bent, almost impossible.

Darren Bent also wants to go to Charlton?

Zhang Yang took a deep breath and decided, "Help me contact Darren Bent's agent and ask me if I can meet him in person. I want to talk to him face to face."

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Darren Bent lived in Durdin, south London, when he was a child. He was an Arsenal fan and used season tickets to watch football games.

At the age of ten, Darren Bent moved to Cambridgeshire with his family and entered the Ipswich Football School. He is a star trained by the Ipswich Youth Training System, from the football school to the youth team, and then to The first team of Ipswich Town followed the team in the first season and played five times in the Premier League.

That season, Ipswich Town was relegated.

Since then, Darren Bent has been following the team in the Championship. In the past three seasons, he has played an average of 34 times for the team and scored [-] goals.

Darren Bent is getting better and better.

The first season he became the main force was because Ipswich Town was relegated and the main striker left the team, so he became the second striker. He scored twelve goals in the season, and the number of goals in the second season changed Sixteen, having scored [-] goals for Ipswich Town last season.

Although Darren Bent scored more and more goals, he did not attract the attention of the giants, because he only participated in the British Championship, and the No.1 scorer in the British Championship scored 33 goals. Twenty goals is nothing in comparison.

So the competition for Darren Bent is still only a small team.

In fact, Darren Bent didn’t want to leave Ipswich Town. He has a lot of affection for Ipswich Town and hopes to re-enter the Premier League with the team. Ipswich Town’s performance this season is also good. Ranked fourth in the league, unfortunately last week, the Championship promotion play-offs ended, and it appeared that Wigan Athletic ranked third, and Ipswich Town was still out.

Darren Bent also knew that it was time for him to leave.

There is no way.

If Ipswich Town cannot participate in the Premier League, the club's finances will be greatly affected. They cannot meet Darren Bent's salary requirements. To have a good future, Darren Bent must also start participating in the top league After all, he is 21 years old. If he continues to stay in the second-tier league, it will be difficult to make any progress in the future.

Darren Bent applied for a transfer to the club, and there were many clubs vying for it.

Charlton?
Millwall?

This is Ipswich Town's choice for Darren Bent.

If it was the previous year, even if Millwall completed the upgrade, Darren Bent would choose Charlton without hesitation.

Charlton's advantage is too obvious!

It was a Premier League team with a chance of reaching the Europa League, and Millwall was just an ordinary newly promoted team.

But now it's different.

Darren Bent has a very deep impression on Millwall, or all players who participated in the British Championship will have a deep impression on Millwall. This team created a miracle in the second half of the schedule and only drew. Two games and all remaining games were won.

How did they do that?
Even media reports are asking this question, and of course there is no definite answer. Darren Bent is also hesitant. His agent Boku believes that it is best not to make a choice and let the two clubs bid for it. " It's still early, let them fight! That way you can get a higher salary."

Darren Bent agreed.

Because of this, Darren Bent has not yet determined which team he will go to.

On this day, Darren Bent was shopping with his new girlfriend Atanes, when his agent Boku suddenly called him, "Darren, it's about your transfer, the head coach of Millwall wants to meet you, is there any interest?"

Darren Bent replied, "What do you think?"

"It's better to meet up. After all, he is the head coach of Millwall. If we can't agree, we will choose Charlton."

Darren Bent took a long breath instead.

Charlton and Millwall are vying for him, which sounds good, but when it comes to his own transfer, no one will care about it. No matter how high the transfer offer is, it is not the income that goes into his own pocket. He attaches great importance to it. The only thing that matters is the treatment and salary. After being able to meet the head coach of one side, and having a face-to-face meeting, the transfer can be finalized.

(End of this chapter)