Chapter 339 Manchester United’s transfer plan
Chapter 339 Manchester United’s transfer plan
While the world's media are still immersed in the European Cup finals and the celebration of the Portuguese team winning the European Cup, the players of the Portuguese team are still sleeping after the all-night party. Only Bruno still wakes up early as usual. , ushered in the first guest to come to congratulate him after winning the championship.
"Good morning, Jassim!"
In the private cafe of the hotel where the Portuguese team stayed, Bruno met Manchester United's new boss Jassim.
He was accompanied by Jorge Mendes, Bruno's agent, and Cristiano Giaretta, Jassim's senior personal assistant.
Because of his outstanding work at Udinese in the past few years, Giaretta was favored by Jassim. He has been hired by Jassim to join his team and is very likely to serve as Manchester United's new CEO.
It is said that once an emperor is like a courtier, after Jassim bought Manchester United, although he did not clean up the original management team immediately, he let them continue to work until the end of last season.
However, when the season ended and Manchester United's results were unsatisfactory, the mission of its original management team came to an end. Everyone including the club's CEO and head coach were all fired by Jassim. Mourinho became Manchester United's new head coach, and Giaretta has now begun to perform the duties of the club's CEO.
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"Congratulations!" Jassim said with a smile and held Bruno's hand firmly.
Jassim's visit came after Mendes and Bruno expressed their anger after last night's game, because Jassim will return to Manchester at noon today.
Jassim's arrival, in addition to congratulating Bruno for winning the championship, also wanted to consult Bruno's opinion on the formation of Manchester United in the new season. After all, Bruno will be the most important core combatant for whom he currently has high hopes.
Manchester United has reached a franchise agreement with Ibrahimovic. This is also the only signing that Manchester United has actually completed in this transfer window. Da Fengxian, who has ended his contract with Paris Saint-Germain, will join Manchester United for free, and the two parties signed a "1+1" contract. According to media reports, the Swedish striker earns £22 a week at Manchester United.
In Bruno's memory, Manchester United's transfer progress has lagged far behind that of another time and space.
Originally, Bailly and Mkhitaryan should have reached a transfer agreement with Manchester United at this time. However, because Manchester United has changed owners, although the head coach is still Mourinho, these two transfers have not yet taken place.
Bruno played a big role in this. After all, in his memory, neither transfer can be called a success. The two players are capable, but Bailly has the attributes of a glass man, while Mkhitaryan has proven to be unable to adapt to the Premier League. .
Of course, Jassim had no intention of bringing in Mkhitaryan. Although the Armenian midfielder was the Bundesliga assists king and MVP last season, his positioning is the same as Bruno. With Bruno, Manchester United will naturally not Mkhitaryan needs to be introduced.
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Bruno suggested to Jassim that Manchester United could consider introducing Kante and Maguire.
But it is not easy to buy these two people, especially Kanter.
As the core of the defense of Leicester City, the new Premier League champion, and one of the core players in the team's miraculous championship win, Kante is also a hot commodity in the transfer market this summer.
In particular, Kante has proven himself with two teams, Udinese and Leicester City, and has the blessing of three haloes: Premier League championship, Serie A championship and Champions League championship. And his worth in the German transfer market is already as high as 3500 million euros.
Considering his age of 25, once the transfer is completed, it will be a large sum of at least 5000 million euros.
Currently, many wealthy teams, including Manchester United and Chelsea, have shown great interest in Kante.
"The night before yesterday, I met with Kante in private. He told me clearly that if you are sure to join Manchester United, he is also willing to transfer to Manchester United."
In fact, in the process of competing for Kanter, Manchester United has the right time, place and people. On the one hand, Kanter's agent is Mendes, who is also the agent of Bruno and Manchester United's new head coach Mourinho, and the personal relationship between Kanter and Bruno is irresistible. On the other hand, Kanter also appreciates Mourinho. He knows that he has a very important position in Mourinho's system. In addition, the personal treatment offered by Manchester United is also very attractive, and it makes sense for Kanter to move to Manchester United.
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Bruno is also very excited to be able to compete with players like Kanter again. With him behind him, Bruno can focus all his energy on offense, instead of having to worry about offense as a father and defense as a mother in Udinese and the Portuguese national team.
"In terms of defense, there is no problem with Maguire's transfer." Giaretta took the initiative and introduced the team's current signings.
"We have had contact with Maguire, and he has clearly told us that as long as he can convince Udinese, he is willing to move to Manchester United, and Maguire is full of expectations to continue to be your teammate."
<divclass="contentadv">After hearing this, Bruno couldn't help but smile.
When Maguire joined Udinese from Hull City, Bruno was indispensable. During their two years at Udinese, Maguire and Bruno had a very harmonious relationship.
At the end of last season, Maguire inquired about Bruno, and Bruno told him with certainty that he was basically going to Manchester United.
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In fact, Manchester United's current lineup is very good. On the front line, there is the superstar Rooney, as well as four potential rookies Depay, Martial, Januzaj and Rashford, plus Ibrahimovic has already joined, the combat capability is still very strong.
There are even more talents in the midfield. It turns out that there are powerful stars such as Carrick, Mata, Herrera, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Schneiderlin, Fellaini, and Lingard. Together with Bruno and Kanter who are about to join, the lineup already has both strength and thickness.
Relatively speaking, the weakest is the defense line. A lineup composed of Smalling, Phil Jones, Blind, Damian, Luke Shaw, Ashley Young and Valencia. Young and Valencia are already old. Smalling, Jones, Blind and Damian were embarrassed. The only top player, Luke Shaw, suffered a severe leg injury and his future is full of uncertainties.
It can be said that the current Manchester United team needs the most reinforcements at the back. In addition to basically completing Maguire's transfer, Manchester United is currently actively looking for new targets.
However, at any time, top central defenders are scarce items. Once a central defender with good potential emerges, he will be quickly taken over.
Although Jassim has stated that Manchester United will invest no less than 200 million euros to introduce new players this summer, this amount of money is really not much when it comes to introducing Bruno.
After all, before the start of the European Cup, Bruno was worth as much as 1.35 million euros in the German transfer market. After his outstanding performance in the European Cup, Bruno's value is bound to see a huge growth, exceeding 1.5 million euros is inevitable.
Under such circumstances, many media have predicted that once Bruno transfers, it will be a truly astronomical figure. Not only will it definitely exceed 2 million euros, it may even reach million euros, a figure that no one has dared to imagine before.
It can be said that Bruno alone may spend the 2 million euros budget. Coupled with Kante's 5000 million euros and Maguire's 2000 million plus euros, Manchester United's funds for signings this summer are likely to exceed 3 million euros if they are not careful.
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Under such circumstances, even if Manchester United clears out some redundant personnel, it will be difficult to raise any funds. After all, as a redundant employee, it is difficult to sell at a good price.
In fact, in Bruno's view, if you really want to raise part of the signing funds by selling players, selling last season's European Golden Boy Award winner Martial and Dutch winger Depay would be a good choice.
Because of the aura of the European Golden Boy Award and the European Cup, Martial's worth is likely to reach 6000 million euros, while Depay's worth is around 3500 million euros. If they are sold, Manchester United can recover million euros. Something relaxing.
It can be said that now is the best time to sell Martial and Depay, because Director Ma is a typical player who is at the peak of his debut, and his future performance can be said to be worse than the previous year. If you hold onto such a player for a long time, you will only be hurting yourself.
As for Depay, although his performance last season did not meet expectations, he has not yet reached the bottom. But if he doesn't take action in time, his value may be cut in half.
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Regarding players and signings, although Bruno had many ideas in his mind, except for Kanter and Maguire, he did not put forward any others. After all, as a player, it is not a good thing to be too involved in the team's transfer and recruitment operations.
Later, Bruno also had an in-depth conversation with Jassim about the transfer.
Jassim said that there are no big problems with Udinese, and they will conduct secret negotiations on the transfer details, and a very important point is Bruno's sponsorship contract.
Bruno currently has contracts with nearly ten world-renowned sponsors. Once he transfers from Udinese to Manchester United, there will be some problems. The most direct one is whether there will be conflicts with Manchester United's existing sponsors. .
The best solution is to bring sponsors together for negotiation and come up with terms acceptable to both parties.
There are many situations like this, and we will face a long and protracted negotiation.
Jassim will form a negotiation team headed by Giaretta to be responsible for the details of Bruno's transfer and strive to negotiate Bruno's transfer as soon as possible.
