Chapter 211

After having dinner at Van Gaal's house and returning to his own rental house, Jiang Xiaolin called Baker to discuss the transfer.

According to Baker, in addition to Bayern Munich, other Bundesliga teams such as Werder Bremen, Schalke 04, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Leverkusen, and Wolfsburg are likely to qualify for the Champions League.

After all, the Bundesliga this season has not yet ended, and there are still several rounds.

Baker has already made preliminary tentative contacts. Some teams have indeed expressed interest in Jiang Xiaolin, but they are also skeptical about promising Jiang Xiaolin a starting position.

After all, Jiang Xiaolin is too young, and no one can tell whether he is a peerless genius or a short-lived meteor.

In addition, Jiang Xiaolin requires the Champions League qualification. At present, except for Bayern, which can be sure to win the championship and qualify for the Champions League next season, other teams are still uncertain.

So Baker did not try his best to promote Jiang Xiaolin.

Anyway, the European summer transfer window will not start until July 1 and end until August 31, so it is still early.

According to Baker, it would be better to wait until Jiang Xiaolin finishes the Beijing Olympics before discussing the matter.

If Jiang Xiaolin performs well on a global platform like the Olympics, it will definitely be more conducive to Jiang Xiaolin's transfer negotiations.

Jiang Xiaolin did not ask too much.

After a day of rest, the team resumed training to prepare for the final.

According to the rules of the standings, Alkmaar ranked 7th, higher than Nijmegen, which ranked 9th. Alkmaar's schedule is still to play away first and then at home.

On May 8, the day of the match, in the evening, Nijmegen's home stadium, the De Gufot Stadium, which can accommodate 12,500 people, was packed.

For Nijmegen, today's game is decisive.

Although the final is a two-round game, given the state of Jiang Xiaolin and Alkmaar in the second half of the season, they cannot pin their hopes on away games.

If they can't win at home, there's no need to have any hope away from home.

In addition, this is also Nijmegen's last home game of the season, so there is no doubt that the stadium is full, and most of the seats are occupied by Nijmegen fans.

There were 3,000 to 4,000 away fans from Alkmaar, but in the end they only got less than 2,000 tickets, and gathered in a corner of the stands, which seemed to be relatively isolated.

Of course, it was much better than the previous away games with only a few hundred people. Jiang Xiaolin and others were still waving flags and cheering for Alkmaar loudly during the pre-match warm-up.

There were also hundreds of Chinese and overseas Chinese fans who supported Jiang Xiaolin.

Jiang Xiaolin even heard Peng Zhijie say that some of the Chinese and overseas Chinese fans who came to watch his game came from Germany, Belgium and other places, which touched Jiang Xiaolin.

However, during the warm-up, Jiang Xiaolin found that a young player from Nijmegen wearing the No. 17 jersey greeted his teammates Hamdaoyi, Martens and others from time to time.

So, when Jiang Xiaolin and Hamdaoyi were practicing passing and receiving the ball, he asked who the player was.

As a result, what Hamdaoyi said surprised Jiang Xiaolin. It turned out that the player was actually Alkmaar's youth player named Lens, who was loaned to Nijmegen by Alkmaar before the start of this season.

Who would have thought that Lens would perform very well in Nijmegen, but his parent team encountered great difficulties in the first half of the season.

During the winter break, Van Gaal wanted to end the loan early and recall Lens, but how could Nijmegen agree?

So Lens continued to stay in Nijmegen.

In the second round of the first round of the play-offs, he scored two goals and helped Nijmegen eliminate Groningen with a total score of 4-1. His performance was very outstanding.

Presumably, Lens was also very motivated in this final.

Such an outstanding player could not even get a regular substitute position in his parent team and was loaned out by the team. It is definitely impossible to say that he did not have some resentment in his heart.

Now that they have met, Lens will naturally go all out and use practical actions to show his ability to Van Gaal and Alkmaar Club, so that Van Gaal will pay for his mistake of not giving him a position and loaning him out.

In addition, Nijmegen eliminated Groningen 4-1 and also won by three goals. This game is not easy.

Before the game started, Jiang Xiaolin first spent 5 attribute points to increase the fried meatballs from 19 to 20. This time it was really full value. Jiang Xiaolin's understanding of fried meatballs has changed qualitatively.

Now when Jiang Xiaolin comes on the court, he will appear more relaxed and unexpected when doing this action, and the chance of successful breakthrough will be higher.

Afterwards, Jiang Xiaolin spent another attribute point to increase the "arc" of 7 to 8, and the attribute value balance49 left.

Jiang Xiaolin also unexpectedly found that he had grown taller, his height grew to 184cm, and his weight increased by 1kg, reaching 83kg.

With this height and weight, plus a full physique, Jiang Xiaolin will not be at a disadvantage against any opponent on the court.

Although Nijmegen is not weak, and the opponents are getting more and more familiar with Jiang Xiaolin and paying more and more attention to him, Jiang Xiaolin has nothing to worry about.

After all, his strength is constantly increasing.

Other newcomers are familiar with their opponents, studied thoroughly, and strictly guarded against, and then become indistinguishable from the crowd, which will definitely not happen to Jiang Xiaolin.

At 20:00 on the evening of May 8, 2008, with the referee's whistle, the first round of the 2007/2008 Eredivisie UEFA Cup play-off final between Nijmegen and Alkmaar officially started at Nijmegen's home stadium, De Gufot Stadium.

After the game started, Nijmegen did not shrink its defense or fear attacking because of Jiang Xiaolin, a killer in Alkmaar's lineup. Instead, it pressed forward and launched an active attack on Alkmaar.

Because the schedule of home first and away later was not favorable for Nijmegen, they could only try to win in the first round of home games and establish a greater advantage, so that they could win the total score in the second round away games and qualify for the League Cup next season.

Therefore, although everyone knew that Jiang Xiaolin was a huge threat, Nijmegen did not retreat, but took the initiative to press forward with the cheers of the home fans, leaving only two central defenders and one full-back in the backcourt to defend against Jiang Xiaolin and Hamdaoyi's counterattack.

As for the other full-back, he naturally took turns with the remaining full-back to assist.

They should try their best to score goals and establish a leading advantage.

In particular, Lens, the striker loaned to Nijmegen by Alkmaar and wearing the No. 17 jersey, was extremely active from the beginning of the game, showing strong fighting spirit and good technical strength.