atypical center forward

Chapter 9 CY9
This winter transfer market is doomed to be full of gunpowder, and the football media almost laughed crookedly.

Diego Costan will return to Atletico Madrid next season, and Luis Lua will transfer to Barcelona for [-] million euros. The two news accompanied the fans to spend a happy Christmas. Just when people thought this was the climax of the entire transfer, the two news on Deportivo's official website made the media excited again.

The 21-year-old French player Jean Bourmont left the Ligue 5000 team Monaco and officially joined the La Liga powerhouse Deportivo with a transfer fee of [-] million euros.

Costan, Bulmondo and Lua are all strikers who have already been famous all over the world at a young age. Words such as green prodigy and football genius have accompanied them almost since their debut. When they became famous, they were already sought after by major giants. Now the three are gathered in La Liga. Together with George Lennon, the former Ballon d’Or who airborne at the Bernabeu in the summer of the previous year, people exclaimed that the heyday of La Liga has arrived.

Under the three high-profile transactions of Lua, Bulmondo, and Costan, the news of Chu Yang's transfer to the West Second Division team Valencia seemed so insignificant that almost no one paid attention to it except for causing some waves among local and domestic fans in Valencia.

Even the Deportivo fans who had just cheered for Chu Yang in the last game just cast a casual glance, at most regretting that the team lost a potential substitute, and then continued to immerse themselves in the ecstasy of Bulmondo's joining.

Chu Yang didn't have an agent, so he had to handle everything by himself. Fortunately, there was no disagreement on the most important issue of price, and most of the other details were just a matter of one or two sentences, and they were all settled in two days.

The reason why it took two days was because the contract signed by Chu Yang and Valencia was rather weird, which made the people in Laco suspicious, and they just procrastinated and asked questions, and signed it happily after confirming that there was no problem.

Of course, the transfer fee is not as much as more than 300 million euros. After all, there are only a few buyers, and Depco can't raise the price if he wants to.

Chu Yang also received the first signing fee in his life, which was [-] euros more than expected.

That night, the official websites of Valencia and Deportivo announced Chu Yang's joining and Chu Yang's departure respectively. The contract between Chu Yang and Valencia was not made public, but the huge transfer fee of 100 million euros still made other West Second Division teams smack their tongues at the local tyrants in China.

On the surface, it seems that Deportivo has made a lot of money. When they introduced Chu Yang, they didn't spend any money. The economic investment in Chu Yang these years is just a meager salary, which is equivalent to picking up millions of euros for nothing.

It's just that the head coach of the team, Happel, doesn't think so. He has always insisted that Chu Yang should be kept, even if it is a loan, it is better than a direct transfer.

However, La Liga is not the Premier League after all. The head coach of the Premier League can decide the team's transfer, while the coach of La Liga is just a purely competitive coach. Except for a few particularly outstanding or highly respected ones who are qualified to let the club build a lineup according to his wishes, most of the head coaches only have the right to suggest the team's transfer. Happel's level is not qualified to dictate the team's transfer.

Chu Yang's performance in La Liga made Deportivo no longer have the slightest nostalgia for him, and Chu Yang didn't say anything about being abandoned by the team, "I will impress you someday."

He came to Valencia to complete all the formalities before the start of the game. Because his Spanish is good and he doesn't need the club's help, he rented an apartment nearby, and ran to report as soon as the time came.

Valencia is the third largest city in Spain and the second largest port. Known as the "City of Sunshine" in Europe, it is located in the southeast of Spain.

When Chu Yang came to the training base, the training hadn't started yet, but most of the players had arrived, and when they saw him, they all looked over curiously.

A small role like him naturally didn't have any press conferences, and everything was very low-key. Except for the club's sports director and a few coaching staff who were present when he came to go through the formalities, basically no one paid special attention to him.

"Chu, come here." Head coach Marco Gressel beckoned to Chu Yang.

The top two in La Liga can be directly promoted to La Liga, and the third to No.6 will have to participate in the play-offs. Valencia is currently ranked fourth in the league and can at least get a place in the play-offs until the end.

Chu Yang, who has performed mediocrely in La Liga, is naturally not the best candidate for Gressel. However, the club owner is determined to buy his fellow countryman. As the head coach, he has nothing to do.

Seeing the call from the head coach, Chu Yang hurried forward and said, "Hello, Mr. Marko."

This coach is Dutch, and he has a surname that a rookie forward like Chu Yang respects. Unfortunately, this coach was just a poor defender in his player days, far from the other Marco in Chu Yang's memory.

"You're welcome, just call me the boss just like them," Gressel said, "greeting to everyone, and then go to the physical test with Heike, and then come to the training."

"No problem," Chu Yang turned to face his new teammates. "Hello, everyone. My name is Chu Yang. I'm from China. I'm a center forward. I'm characterized by good running and shooting skills. I hope everyone will take care of me."

"Hey, buddy, I watched that game, don't try to lie to me," a very handsome young man in the team laughed, "Your archery skills are not good, but fantastic. I don't think Fontaine was that good at your age. At least he doesn't know Chinese Kung Fu."

Although Fontaine has a Chinese-like name, he has nothing to do with the red country in the East. He is an out-and-out Frenchman.

"Moya," the young man stretched out his hand to Chu Yang, "Cesc Moya."

Chu Yang reached out to shake his hand and said, "Hi, I know you, Your Excellency Captain."

Moya was very friendly and pulled Chu Yang into the team to introduce him to his teammates, but the foreigner's name was too fucked up, it was either Si or Ke. After a round, Chu Yang remembered the main goalkeeper's surname Fernando, but he didn't remember any other ones.

Assistant coach Heike Onnes came over and said, "Okay, come with me, Chu, let me see if your body is as good as your shooting skills."

Chu Yang had already cheated on the base once, so Heike didn't take him to familiarize himself with the environment, but led him directly to the locker room.

"We know that your number in Deportivo is No. 11, but Valencia's No. 11 jersey has already been worn. If you want to continue to want this number, you have to discuss it with Adrian first." Heike said.

"May I know what other numbers are there?"

"Among the more popular numbers, numbers 1 to 8 have already been worn by people, and numbers 10 and 11 have already been worn by people. I think you can try number 9. There is probably no more suitable one for a center forward.

"CY9?" Chu Yang said, "Sounds good."

(End of this chapter)