N-A-A Chapter 260
Chapter 260
The new coaching experience is very rich, and his coaching footprints are all over Europe.
These include La Liga Valencia, Atletico Madrid, Serie A Juventus, Roma, Inter Milan, Premier League Chelsea, etc.
Taking over the coaching baton of Leicester City, this is also the first time that Ranieri has returned to the Premier League to coach after eleven years since he was fired from Chelsea in 2004.
Ling Feng received the news as soon as the club officially announced Ranieri’s appointment.
For some reason, he suddenly felt relieved.
Fortunately, his appearance did not change Ranieri’s arrival.
Compared with other less familiar head coaches, Ling Feng thought about it and still felt that Ranieri was the best choice for the team.
Moreover, the Blue Fox miracle was created by him personally. If there was no “tinker”, it would always feel like something was missing.
Now, the helmsman of the miracle is in place.
Next, are the other championship puzzles far away? !
For the club’s new coach, some fans support it, while others are not optimistic.
Compared with other rumored targets, such as “magic coach” Hiddink and “madman” Bielsa, Ranieri’s coaching resume is very deep, but it is mediocre.
Counting his coaching career, a considerable part of the time he was in a hurry to take office as a fire-fighting coach, and then after the team passed the transition period, he would part ways with the club.
Although he has coached many top teams, he has never won a top league championship!
The most outstanding coaching career was leading Valencia to win the King’s Cup, leading Chelsea to the league runner-up and reaching the Champions League semi-finals.
However, that was eleven years ago.
As the saying goes, a hero does not mention his past achievements.
In recent years, Ranieri has coached Inter Milan, Monaco and the Greek national team for a short period of time, with mediocre results.
Especially in the short four-month career of the Greek national team, he made Greece lose to the Faroe Islands unexpectedly, and was dismissed.
Therefore, the British media, which has always been picky, is very pessimistic about Ranieri taking over the Blue Foxes coaching.
“What can a mediocre tinker bring to the Blue Foxes?”
“Ranieri is too old and can’t keep up with the times”
“Italians can’t play in England at all”
And Lineker, who has always been a big mouth, immediately tweeted to express his views.
Of course, he still gave enough respect to Ranieri, the football veteran.
He just said that Ranieri was not the best candidate to coach the team for a long time.
In any case, it has become an established fact that Ranieri has become the new coach of Leicester City.
However, the top priority of the Italian coach after taking office is not to get to know the players of the team, nor to transfer and recruit players, but to find ways to retain the team’s star player Ling Feng!
According to reports from newspapers such as The Sun and the Daily Mirror, because the club fired Pearson, who had a very good relationship with him, Ling Feng was very disappointed with the club’s decision and decided to put aside the renewal negotiations with the club and seek the possibility of transfer and departure!
When the parties saw the reports in these tabloids, they were confused:
Why didn’t I know that I wanted to transfer and leave?
However, news has always been a little girl who can be dressed up by anyone.
Some people don’t believe it, and some people believe it.
The fans didn’t believe that Ling Feng would want to leave the club that had nurtured him for so many years just because the head coach was fired;
But the club’s top executives dared not disbelieve it.
In June, the club had already released the news that it was negotiating a contract extension with Ling Feng.
At that time, all the major clubs thought that Ling Feng would stay in Leicester City.
So they didn’t even think about making an offer.
However, after the club fired Pearson, everything changed!
The transfer rumors surrounding Ling Feng suddenly increased.
Moreover, actual offers also came one after another within a short week.
As of the day Ranieri took office, more than seven clubs had sent offers to Ling Feng!
Manchester City, Arsenal, Manchester United in the Premier League, Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, Juventus in Serie A
PSG, French Ligue 1
These clubs thought that Ling Feng was dissatisfied with the club, so they planned to take advantage of it.
Even though he knew that Ling Feng’s contract had a termination clause of 60 million pounds.
These clubs do not intend to spend this money, but choose to lower the price.
Even so, the first-round offers, every club’s offer, exceeded £40 million.
It is worth mentioning that among all the offers, those from Manchester City and Arsenal are the most sincere.
Manchester City directly offered £55 million, the highest of any club;
The Gunners offered a down payment of 2,000 plus 4,000 in installments!
After Manchester City missed the opportunity to defend the championship last season, they learned from the pain and decided to continue spending money to strengthen the lineup.
Among their luxury purchases are players such as Ling Feng and De Bruyne, two of the most creative offensive midfielders in Europe, as well as Sterling, whose contract extension with Liverpool is in deadlock.
As for Arsenal, Wenger’s coveting of Ling Feng is not something that happened in a day or two.
Although there is already another European assists king Ego in the team.
But what head coach would dislike too many of his team’s top players? !
The professor has said more than once that if Ling Feng improves his shooting skills under his training, he will have the opportunity to grow into a superstar like Henry or Bergkamp with excellent passing and shooting!
Faced with offers from other clubs, Leicester City of course rejected them all.
And it was clearly stated that Ling Feng was not for sale by the club!
However, in this increasingly commercialized era, no player is for sale.
On the contrary, many players have been labeled “not for sale”, which is just a way for clubs to raise prices.
Once a club directly bids 60 million pounds, Ling Feng’s termination clause can be triggered and he can negotiate his personal treatment.
Based on Ling Feng’s latest net worth of 65 million pounds, taking into account factors such as his age and potential, commercial value, England household registration and so on.
The transfer fee is less than 80 million pounds, and Leicester City is losing money!
Therefore, whether it is to appease Ling Feng and ask him not to care too much about Pearson’s firing, or perhaps to retain Ling Feng, the club’s most valuable “commodity”, the club must renew his contract as soon as possible!
Ever since, on only the third day after Ranieri took office, Mendes called Ling Feng:
“Ling, they agreed to our conditions!”
After Mendes’ negotiation, Ling Feng’s new contract weekly salary was 130,000 pounds, an increase of 80%.
In addition, when renewing his contract, he will also receive a signing fee of three million pounds!
In terms of bonus terms, in addition to goal and assist bonuses, if he can win personal awards such as Premier League MVP, Premier League Team of the Year, and Assists King, Ling Feng can also receive an additional corresponding bonus.
It is worth mentioning that during the negotiation process, the club also plans to remove the termination clause in the contract.
It was Mendes’ insistence on not letting up that prevented the club from “successful”.
Because there is an understanding clause, if Ling Feng transfers next year, he will be able to take the absolute initiative, and there is no need to fear that the club will deliberately set a sky-high price in order to hinder his transfer.
After the contract renewal, the new contract termination fee became an astonishing 90 million pounds!
Although compared to “Happy Boy” Sterling, who is about to move to Manchester City and earns a weekly salary of 180,000 yuan, Ling Feng, who is more famous and stronger than him, only earns a weekly salary of 130,000 yuan, which seems a bit low.
However, comparing the income volume and salary structure of the two clubs, this amount is enough to show that Leicester City attaches great importance to him!
Ling Feng was not polite and immediately came to the Belvoir base. Accompanied by the team director, he signed his name on the new contract!
It wasn’t until he completed his contract renewal with the club and on his way home that Ling Feng learned from Mendes that those tabloid news were actually deliberately released by this super agent!
The purpose is to put pressure on the club to accept the contract renewal conditions he proposed as soon as possible!
This hype made Ling Feng feel extremely lucky again for his decision to choose Mendes as his agent.
Now, this is called professionalism!
Facing Ling Feng’s thumbs up, Mendes just waved his hand lightly, then suddenly took out an exquisite invitation from the inner pocket of his suit and handed it to Ling Feng:
“By the way, I’m getting married on the 2nd of next month. Remember to ask for leave and come to attend the wedding.”
Ling Feng was a little surprised when he saw the invitation:
“Huh? You’re not married yet?!”
As far as he knew, Mendez had a wife.
Mendes also explained lightly:
“It’s just a make-up wedding.
Don’t make a fuss. There will be many colleagues in the industry, so you’d better bring your girlfriend with you. ”
Hearing this, Ling Feng raised his eyebrows, “Ronaldo will come too, right?”
The Ronaldo that Ling Feng mentioned is not the Brazilian one.
Obviously, Mendes also understood what he meant and smiled:
“Of course! I’ll introduce you to each other then! ”
…
In July, the European summer transfer window officially opened.
Leicester City’s first signing was the Austrian international Christian Fuchs, who was signed from Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga for free!
The 29-year-old Bundesliga veteran is experienced and capable of both offense and defense.
With Fuchs’ arrival, Leicester City finally has a solid option at left back.
In addition, Maguire’s transfer negotiations have also reached the final stage, and the transfer fee has been finalized, leaving only the club and the player to discuss personal treatment.
However, for Fox fans, no signing can be more important than Ling Feng’s contract renewal with the club!
Just after the club officially announced the contract extension with Ling Feng until 2020, Vardy , Mahrez, Drinking Water and other main players have also renewed their contracts with the club one after another.
For this good news, the Blue Fox fans are delighted and praise the club’s operations.
They do not expect the team to be able to call the wind and rain in the transfer market, just pray that the team can keep the current main lineup, which is already very good.
Especially the most popular Blue Fox Three Musketeers.
As long as there are these three people, they can maintain their competitiveness in the Premier League and rank among the top six in the Premier League!
After finishing some business activities, Ling Feng finally ushered in the day of returning to the team
As soon as he stepped into the familiar locker room and saw familiar faces, Ling Feng was like a child returning home, and his emotions suddenly became high.
“Hey! Guys! How are you?”
After shaking hands and hugging his teammates one by one, Ling Feng also came to the team’s new aid Fuchs and said to him:
“Hey, Christian, how are you? ”
Facing Ling Feng’s right hand, Fox also stretched out his hand to shake it, and then smiled:
“Not bad.”
“My name is Ling Feng, you can call me Ling.”
“Although someone may have told you. But I still have to tell you, welcome to Leicester City!”
“Thank you.”
Fux is not an introvert.
Although his English is very poor and he can only say a few simple words.
But with the help of Huth, a German, it is not a problem to integrate into the team.
After changing into training clothes and sneakers, everyone also came to the training ground.
And Ling Feng also met the team’s new coach for the first time, the Italian old man known as the “tinker”.
The sparse hair, the kind smile, and even the wrinkles under the glasses are so amiable.
When Ranieri saw Ling Feng standing in the first row during the queue, he couldn’t help but smile and nodded to him:
“Ling, welcome back! ”
Faced with Ranieri’s initiative, Ling Feng also smiled:
“Thank you, coach.”
Even though he had known about this absolute star player in the Blue Foxes through game videos and player reports.
However, when he saw Ling Feng’s physical condition and technical level in training, Ranieri was still shocked.
You know, in his nearly 30 years of coaching career, he has coached many top teams and met many famous stars.
Mendieta, Zola, Piero, Nedved.
And the talent shown by Ling Feng made Ranieri shout in his heart:
What kind of monster is this?!
His vision is wider than Mendieta’s!
His pass is more accurate and imaginative than Sneijder’s!
His long shot is more powerful than Nedved’s!
His The speed is the fastest among all the players he has ever seen! ! !
Especially the commanding appearance on the field, controlling the team’s offensive rhythm leisurely, which reminds him of Mendieta, the midfield commander when he coached Valencia!
However, compared with Mendieta, Ling Feng’s physical fitness is even more explosive.
Strictly speaking, he is more like an enhanced version of Mendieta!
And he is only twenty years old!
Looking at the black-haired young man running on the training ground, Ranieri suddenly felt how correct his decision to take over the Blue Fox was.
Under the leadership of Mendieta, Valencia has become a contender for the La Liga championship.
Then, under the leadership of Ling Feng, Leicester City may also become a Premier League championship group
? !
Thinking of this, Ranieri’s heart, which was as calm as a lake, was rippled for the first time in a long time.
(End of this chapter)