Legendary Godfather

The meeting with Laporte went well!

After all, Laporte was still playing in the Spanish Third Division last season, and this season his future is still five-point slim.

After ending his loan contract in Baskonia, Laporte will return to the Athletic Bilbao youth team.

However, at this time, he has not yet received the team's arrangements for his new season.

Should he continue on loan, continue to stay in the youth team, or go to the B team? ??

Yes, at this time, for Laporte, it is a luxury to go to the B team to play in La Liga. He has never thought about being able to enter the first team and play in La Liga now.

Even at this time, Laporte was ready to continue to be loaned out to play in the Spanish Third Division.

Unexpectedly, at this time, the club sent news that he was sold.

Not renting, but being sold!

Originally, Laporte was very angry and unhappy. But when he learned that it was the Crystal Palace of the English Championship that introduced him and that it cost 1.75 million euros, he calmed down.

If you don't value him particularly, who would be willing to spend 1.75 million euros for him.

When he came to the Athletic Bilbao youth training camp, it was a free transfer, and Crystal Palace was the first team willing to pay a transfer fee for him.

Moreover, he is also very enthusiastic about Crystal Palace's new head coach Tong Yi.

He had heard of Tong Yi's name in both France and Spain.

Laporte knows very well that Tong Yi is a head coach who is good at discovering and using young people, and he is also a very successful head coach.

Now he is willing to spend 1.75 million euros on himself, which shows that he is really attracted by Tong Yi.

Laporte was naturally very excited.

So after meeting Tong Yi, he agreed to join Crystal Palace without asking any questions.

This made his fellow athletes very angry.

Before they came, they had agreed that everything would have to be obeyed by his fellow athletes.

But after meeting Tong Yi, especially when he heard Tong Yi say that Laporte would be an important rotation player for the Crystal Palace first team in the new season, Laporte agreed without even thinking about it, without even asking Crystal Palace about the opening of the new season. treatment issues.

The agent was naturally very angry.

Fortunately, Tong Yi did not treat Laporte badly. Tong Yi offered Laporte a weekly salary of 7,000 pounds, which is equivalent to an annual salary of nearly 370,000 pounds. This is already very high for an 18-year-old young man, and it is also considered the salary level of the main players in the Crystal Palace team.

And there are bonus clauses that are not included in it. If Crystal Palace is promoted and wins the English Championship this season, the money that Lapore can finally get this season should be more than 500,000 pounds, which is actually very powerful. .

Of course, the period of Tong Yi's dismissal is very long, a 5-year contract.

In this regard, Laporte did not think there was any problem. Such a long

The long-term contract shows that Tong Yi really thinks highly of him and values ​​him. Moreover, Laporte is also willing to play under Tong Yi. More importantly, Laporte will only be 23 years old five years later, which is very young.

Laporte's agent didn't think anything was wrong.

The only thing he felt was wrong was that Tong Yi set a liquidated damages clause in the contract. Of course, it wasn't the clause that he felt was wrong, but the amount of the clause. The amount of liquidated damages set by Tong Yi actually reached an astonishing 50 million pounds!

Laporte's agent felt the amount was too high.

There is no way any club would pay Laporte such a large amount of liquidated damages. Tong Yi almost tied Laporte to his boat.

Laporte's agent raised objections to this article and hoped to discuss it.

However, Tong Yi shook his head and refused. This item must be available, and it must be this amount.

Laporte's amazing feeling was Tong Yi's strength.

Laporte's agent was struggling, but Laporte himself made a decision. He was willing to sign the contract and agreed to the terms proposed by Tong Yi.

Laporte's agent was helpless.

But thinking about it carefully, he felt it was nothing.

If you can't play, just stay at Crystal Palace for five years. Five years later, Laporte will only be 23 years old, which is still very young. At that time, a large number of teams were still rushing to get them in free transfers.

Eventually Laporte's agent agreed.

Then, things are simple.

Laporte signed his name on the contract.

From this moment on, Laporte was officially a member of Crystal Palace.

After bringing in Laporte for 1.75 million euros, Tong Yi felt that it was worth the money. After all, in Tong Yi's memory, Laporte firmly established himself as the main central defender in La Liga in the second half of the following season, and until his transfer to Manchester City, he was the main force.

Therefore, Laporte now has the strength of La Liga's main force.

Tong Yi also glanced at Laporte with the Eye of Bole. Sure enough, Laporte's ability now makes it no problem to play in the British Championship.

After signing Laporte, Tong Yi was completely relieved about Crystal Palace's central defender position.

Then he and Vieri left Spain directly and went to Spain's neighboring country, Portugal.

This time, Tong Yi came to Benfica again.

Tong Yi’s target this time is Benfica Football Club’s young goalkeeper Jan Oblak.

Tong Yi really misses this goalkeeper.

Previously, when he was in Munich 1860, Tong Yi found Benfica Football Club many times and wanted to attract him.

Enter this Aublac's. But Benfica refused. The Benfica club still values ​​​​Oblak very much and is regarded as a key training target.

Even though Benfica can't use Oblak now, Benfica has loaned Oblak to other teams in the Portuguese Super League for several consecutive years for training. Yes, it is the Portuguese Super League, Portugal's top league. This shows that Benfica attaches great importance to Oblak.

Moreover, after loaning Oblak out, the Benfica club did not just let go, but continued to pay attention to Oblak's performance.

In the 2010-2011 season, Benfica loaned Oblak to Beiramar Football Club in the Portuguese Super League. Seeing that throughout the first half of the season, Oblak did not get a minute of playing time in Beiramar. At the first moment of the winter break, Benfica He recruited Oblak back. Then in the second half of the season, Oblak was loaned to Ohannis Football Team, another team in the Portuguese Super League.

It's a pity that he didn't get any playing time in a game here.

Last season, Benfica rejected Ohannis's request for a lease extension for Oblak. Benfica directly loaned Oblak to the Leiria team in the Portuguese Super League. Here last season, Oblak played 16 times and contributed 4 clean sheets, performing well.

Oblak's outstanding performance last season attracted the attention of many other Portuguese Super League teams. Now there are many clubs who want to rent or buy him out, but Benfica said that they will only rent him out in the new season and not sell him.

Therefore, at this time, many Portuguese Super League teams want to loan Oblak. ??

Among them are teams such as Leiria, Beiramar, Ohannis and Rio Ave.

Benfica was selecting a loan team for Oblak, and Tong Yi came to visit Crystal Palace again.

Benfica directly rejected Tong Yi's purchase request without even thinking about it.

Benfica was very determined and did not give Tong Yi any chance.

The Benfica people's words were not as tactful as the Athletic Bilbao people. Tong Yi understood in an instant that Benfica was really unwilling to sell Oblak.

Tong Yi also felt very sorry for this!

To be honest, he is very optimistic about Oblak.

After all, Oblak was also a member of the world for a while, and in 2014, when he left Benfica for Atletico Madrid, his worth reached 16 million euros.

And if Tong Yi remembers correctly, Oblak will return to Benfica on loan in the 2013-2014 season and stay in the Benfica first team. Then in the second half of the season, after the team's assistant goalkeeper Moraes is injured, he will take over as Benfica's main goalkeeper. position, and then played 16 times in the Portuguese Super League, keeping opponents clean 14 times and conceding only 3 goals.

In this way, he made Atletico Madrid so willing

The land paid a transfer fee of 16 million euros.

Moreover, in the upcoming season, Oblak also played 28 times in the Portuguese Super League and completed 6 clean sheets. The Rio Ave club is not strong, and its defense is even worse. After all, last season Rio Ave was the third-worst team in the Portuguese Super League and the team that conceded the fifth most goals.

Having such a performance in such a team is enough to show how powerful Oblak is.

However, there is no way, Benfica won't sell it.

What can Tong Yi do?

Vieri contacted Oblak privately, indicating that Tong Yi valued him. I hope he can put some pressure on the Benfica club so that Benfica can compromise and agree to sell Oblak to Crystal Palace.

However, Oblak refused outright.

It's not like Oblak has fallen out with Benfica, and he is actually very grateful to Benfica. Without Benfica, he wouldn't be where he is today. And he can also feel that Benfica values ​​and values ​​him, otherwise they would not have arranged for him to be loaned out to so many top teams for training.

More importantly, Oblak clearly knows that his future lies in Benfica.

Although Tong Yi is also very powerful, he also has a certain attraction to him. If it is through normal channels, he is willing to transfer to Crystal Palace to play for Tong Yi. But if he had to fall out with Benfica, he would not want to.

There was no other way, so Tong Yi had to give up on Oblak in the end.

To be honest, I was still a little disappointed to give up Oblak Tongyi.

If they can't get Oblak, Tong Yi will have to find a new goalkeeper. But to be honest, the current Crystal Palace goalkeeper Speroni is actually enough. It is enough to use him as the main force for at least two or three years, and then let Mendy and others grow up and take over.

How about temporarily using Speroni as the main goalkeeper?

Then bring Alisson from the Brazilian International Youth Team to the Crystal Palace, let Alisson and Mendy serve as substitutes for Speroni, let these two people grow for two or three years, and then directly succeed Speroni?

This is a great idea!

Of course, Tong Yi originally wanted to take Ruben Dias directly from the Benfica youth training camp.

However, Ruben Dias and his family now have no plans to leave Portugal. Ruben Dias’s parents were not willing to let such a young son go to a foreign country to fight. They still chose to stay in Benfica. Benfica is a giant in Portugal. They firmly believe that staying here is the best choice for Dias.

Therefore, Tong Yi once again encountered Waterloo in Benfica.

Tong Yi was in a very bad mood.

After leaving Lisbon, Tong Yi went directly to Porto and Boa Vista Football Club. He spent 40,000 euros to introduce Bruno Fernandez, a young player from their club.