Football: start copying peak Messi attributes

Chapter 553: The team is in turmoil, Lin Quan chooses to renew his contract with Manchester City

After the transfer of Kroos was completed, the ambitious Real Madrid continued to pursue another midfielder in the Manchester City team.

On July 7, Marca was the first to disclose the news: Real Madrid offered De Bruyne at a price of 20 million euros.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately attracted the attention of the entire football world.

"Real Madrid is trying to hollow out Manchester City's midfield!"

"Yeah, I'm not satisfied with taking away Kroos, I'm still thinking about De Bruyne!"

"If De Bruyne is also snatched away by Real Madrid, then Manchester City is probably going to collapse in the new season!"

"Real Madrid seems to be very ambitious for next season. They recalled Morata from Juventus and bought Kroos from Manchester City at a high price. If De Bruyne is taken over, Real Madrid's midfield will face a huge challenge. strengthen!"

"Enrique's Barcelona feels a bit in decline now, and Bayern's lineup is gradually aging. If Real Madrid can poach Manchester City out of their pockets, then they can take their place and become the strongest team in Europe!"

Fans are quite amazed by Real Madrid's series of transfer operations. In order to fulfill the team's long-cherished dream of winning the 10th Champions League trophy, Real Madrid has spared no effort and tried every means to strengthen the team over the years.

If these transfers can really be completed, then Real Madrid's lineup strength is simply terrifying. Even if they want to strengthen, there won't be much room for reinforcement.

Unless they dig Lin Quan over at all costs.

Of course, Manchester City will not understand Real Madrid's little calculation.

So they decisively rejected Real Madrid's second offer.

There is no way for Kroos to transfer and leave. Real Madrid wants to copy the gourd and poach De Bruyne like Kroos, but that is really overthinking.

Even if De Bruyne does not want to stay in Manchester City, Manchester City is unlikely to sell him to Real Madrid.

After Real Madrid executives learned that their offer was rejected, they did not give up, but chose to continue to increase the price.

They added 500 million euros to the original offer and quickly made a second offer for 6500 million euros.

This price has already caught up with Cross's transfer price, which means that Real Madrid recognizes that De Bruyne's strength has reached Cross's level.

Although the price is a bit high, if De Bruyne and Kroos can really be packaged away for 1.3 million, Real Madrid will definitely make a profit.

However, this offer did not receive a reply from Manchester City. Obviously, Manchester City did not want to deal with Real Madrid.

After waiting for a week, Real Madrid knew that its offer failed to meet the other party's psychological expectations, so they gritted their teeth and added another 1000 million, and made another offer to Manchester City at a price of 7500 million.

Although Real Madrid is rich, this price is almost their limit.

The transfer value represents the player's status in the team to a certain extent. If they pay De Bruyne a higher transfer fee than Cross, much more.

Then they must also provide the same level of treatment in terms of salary and status in the team.

When Kroos moved to Real Madrid, although his salary was not increased much, he was compensated with part of the image rights share.

If they give De Bruyne the same treatment, Real Madrid's salary system may collapse.

After all, the wages and benefits of 'newcomers' like Kroos and De Bruyne are so good, so should we mention the wages and benefits of the team's meritorious veterans?

What others haven't said yet is whether Modric's treatment in the midfield position should be in line with Kroos and De Bruyne?

Modric's current annual salary is 600 million euros, only half of Kroos's.

As a veteran who has been playing for the team for four years, although he has not received many honors in the team, there is hard work without credit.

The annual salary of 600 million is indeed a bit small. After all, the annual salary of a rising star like De Bruyne in Manchester City is almost catching up with him.

Considering that Kroos holds four Champions League trophies and is much better-looking than Modric in terms of honors, his salary is a little higher than Modric, which Modric is not completely unable to accept.

But once De Bruyne's annual salary significantly exceeds his, Modric will definitely feel very uncomfortable.

Modric is not the only one who feels uncomfortable?

Are those meritorious veterans in the Real Madrid team, such as captain Ramos, forward Benzema and others, comfortable in their hearts?

Ramos' current annual salary is only 700 million, temporarily ranked behind Ronaldo and Bale.

When Bale's annual salary exceeded that of Ramos, Ramos complained a lot. Now that Kroos is here and his annual salary is nearly double that of him, he has no complaints.

If after Cross there is another De Bruyne with an annual salary equal to Cross, then Ramos and the veterans in the team will definitely rebel!

Therefore, from the perspective of balancing the team's budget and the team's salary system, Real Madrid may not be able to afford De Bruyne. It would be very uncomfortable to force him to do so.

But if De Bruyne is not given a salary increase, the probability of poaching the other player is infinitely close to zero, unless the other party also has the dream of becoming the emperor and has been interested in Real Madrid for a long time.

Although Real Madrid struggled to quote the price, the melon-eating crowd watching the excitement did not know the inside story.

After seeing Real Madrid continuously raising their bids and looking like they are bound to win, many optimistic Real Madrid fans have begun to imagine the wonderful scene of Manchester City's dual-core midfielder, wearing Real Madrid jerseys and galloping on the court in the new season.

Real Madrid's sudden progress made other teams seem to be inspired and began to get excited.

Bayern has taken a fancy to Kimmich, a young player in Manchester City's lineup, and plans to bring the new international player of the German team back to the Bundesliga.

For this they are willing to offer a transfer fee of 3000 million euros.

Arsenal has taken a fancy to Manchester City's substitute forward Jesus and wants to take him away for 4000 million pounds.

Tottenham are eyeing Sane and Son Heung-min, making offers to Manchester City at prices of 3500 million and 3000 million pounds respectively.

Naples is eyeing another striker Iheanacho and has made an offer of 2500 million euros.

The most shocking thing was Liverpool, who offered a direct offer of 5000 million pounds for Van Dijk.

Various offers came in like snowflakes, but Manchester City was reluctant to accept the offers.

But the problem is, most of the players here are not sold!

Iheanacho is not for sale, but the player himself wants to go to Leicester City, and Leicester City is relatively poor and cannot afford a high transfer fee.

Manchester City can continue to negotiate Naples' offer, but the players themselves need to do their own work.

Whether they can convince players to join Serie A depends on their own negotiating strength.

As for other offers, Manchester City rejected them all without hesitation and made it clear that these players were not for sale.

In fact, even if Manchester City is willing to sell, other teams may not be able to take it.

The problem encountered by Real Madrid is the same. Players from Manchester City generally have relatively high annual salaries. If the new team cannot offer higher annual salaries, it will be difficult to impress them. But once they really pay high salaries, then It will also greatly affect or even destroy the team's own salary system.

Therefore, unless they are non-main players that Manchester City does not want, you should either not buy other players, or be prepared to pay a huge price. Although the club rejected offers from major teams, Manchester City fans are still worried about it. Kroos' transfer came so fast that many people had no time to digest the news.

As a result, news of the transfer of De Bruyne and a large group of players has now emerged, which has made many Manchester City fans panic.

The team has finally had a good few years, is it going to collapse so soon?

They have seen the tragedy after the collapse of the Manchester United dynasty next door, so they are particularly worried that Manchester United's fate will befall them.

The reason why Manchester City fans are so panicked is not only the transfer of Kroos and De Bruyne, but also the issue of Lin Quan's contract renewal.

When Lin Quan originally joined Manchester City, he signed for a total of five years. Now he only has two years left on his contract.

Although the club had contacted and even negotiated with the player's agent last year about contract renewal, there was no news that the two parties had reached an agreement during the period.

In other words, so far, Lin Quan still has not chosen to renew his contract with Manchester City.

This has to make outsiders speculate. With only 2 years left on the contract, Manchester City's core seems likely to leave the team at any time.

And once he leaves, it will be almost like an earthquake for Manchester City, and the entire team will have to be torn down and rebuilt.

And if Manchester City is delayed in getting Lin Quan, other players in the team will also hesitate to renew their contracts.

Lin Quan has proven his strength in the league and Champions League in the past few years, and the players also admire him very much.

If Lin Quan continues to stay in Manchester City, even if several core players are lost, everyone will still have hope for the results in the new season.

But once Lin Quan leaves, Manchester City will completely lose its backbone, and the team's record may plummet.

Therefore, Lin Quan's decision will undoubtedly affect the decisions of many others.

Once he leaves the team, many players who stayed because of Lin Quan may leave the broken ship of Manchester City and go to other championship teams where it is easier to win honors.

Manchester City was also very aware of this, so at the end of July, they sent someone to visit Lin Quan in order to have an in-depth and candid communication with Lin Quan about the contract renewal.

In order to avoid affecting Lin Quan's decision, Guardiola did not participate in the matter.

Although Guardiola hoped that Lin Quan would stay, he did not want to wrong Lin Quan because of himself, so he decided to stay out of the matter and not interfere.

After picking up the new contract from Manchester City and taking a look at it, Lin Quan's brows couldn't help but jump.

Manchester City's sincerity is very high, and the annual salary, bonuses, image rights, etc. are all so generous that it is unimaginable.

As long as he signs this contract, his annual salary will far exceed that of competitors such as Messi and Ronaldo.

Looking at this posture, the other party wants to keep him at all costs.

Lin Quan actually thought about whether to transfer or not for a long time.

To be honest, after three years at Manchester City, I got really tired of it.

He was not very satisfied with the Premier League schedule, the league's style, as well as Manchester's climate, culture, food, etc.

Relatively speaking, Lin Quan still hopes to return to La Liga to play football.

Being closer to home, the climate, culture, food, etc. will be more adaptable. Even if the salary may be a little worse, it doesn't matter much. He is not short of money anyway.

But the problem is that there are really not many teams for a player of his level to choose from. Even some top clubs may not have enough financial resources and salary space to afford him.

Only Barcelona and Real Madrid have this strength in La Liga, and Lin Quan was originally more inclined to Real Madrid.

Real Madrid president Florentino has always admired him very much and has invited him many times.

The other party was so sincere that Lin Quan was embarrassed to keep refusing.

But Real Madrid may not have enough financial resources to acquire him this year, especially after signing Kroos at a high price.

Unless Real Madrid chooses to purge Ronaldo and sell Ronaldo in exchange for a large transfer fee, there will be some room for maneuver.

But the problem is, not many teams are willing to take Ronaldo now!

Even if Real Madrid is willing to sell, there are only a few teams willing to buy. Only Paris Saint-Germain can look forward to it. However, Paris Saint-Germain spent huge sums of money to acquire Neymar last year. Will they still have enough funds to acquire another player? Super giant has to put a big question mark on it.

Moreover, it is difficult to achieve such a huge transfer in a hurry.

It may not be too late to wait until Real Madrid finalizes Cristiano Ronaldo's transfer to negotiate with Manchester City about Lin Quan's transfer.

Therefore, he will probably not be able to go to Real Madrid this summer.

What's more, Real Madrid's move to poach Kroos from Manchester City also made Lin Quan somewhat worried.

Kroos is gone, and some people in Manchester City are panicking. If he leaves again, the team may really fall apart.

At least based on his understanding of De Bruyne, there is a high probability that the other party will follow him.

Lin Quan has been at Manchester City for three years and still has feelings for the team.

He doesn't want to see Manchester City fall apart like this, nor does he want to see Guardiola struggling in Manchester City.

Therefore, after learning the news of Cross's departure, Lin Quan finally decided to stay.

After learning that Lin Quan had renewed his contract with Manchester City, Guardiola breathed a long sigh of relief.

Although he did not participate in this negotiation, he was always relieved in his heart and was more concerned about this matter than both parties participating in the negotiation.

Lin Quan is the most important person in the team. His contract extension is of great importance. It is the most important thing for Guardiola and the entire club, bar none!

If you can't take down Lin Quan, everything else will be difficult to deal with.

And once Lin Quan is taken care of, the rest will be easy!

After successfully renewing Lin Quan's contract, Manchester City Club immediately issued an announcement on the official website to make the matter public!

(End of this chapter)