My light shines on Arsenal

Chapter 114 After the Conflict
The conflict between Chen Yao and Gazidis was finally resolved by taking a half step back.

Key personnel from Arsenal's scouting and transfer teams have been retained.

The most important of these are the re-signings of chief scout Steve Rowley, senior scout Francis Kagigao, and director of transfers and negotiations Dick Lowe.

But part of the team's full-time scouts and a large number of part-time scouts were abolished. In Gazidis' words, this is part of cost control.

This dealt a blow to Arsenal's global recruitment system, but fortunately the backbone of the scouting network remained.

The coaching staff's right to speak on the transfer has not been weakened. Gazidis promised not to interfere in the transfer affairs and gave up the idea of ​​​​airborne football director.

Gazidis was allowed to have an accountant in the transfer team, and both the cash outlay and the payout structure needed her approval.

And Chen Yao already knew that the person Gazidis called was Meng Qinghe, so he was not very worried about this problem.

What's more, he has no idea of ​​using financial means to leverage the idea of ​​introducing big-name players. He still prefers to buy young players at a low cost and gradually cultivate them into outstanding stars.

These can ensure that the team's transfer expenditure is within a safe range. The only trouble is that the starting capital is only 500 million pounds. According to the people he expected to buy, he needs to sell players to fill the vacancy.

In addition, the coaching staff has also been abolished in large numbers. The team left by Wenger, such as Primorac and Bora, have negotiated with the team to terminate their contracts.

Chen Yao also tried to retain them, but they were originally Wenger's team. After Wenger and Pat Rice retired, these old guys had no intention of continuing to work. They simply borrowed the money and left the team with compensation.

The coaching staff's office was suddenly empty, but both Bergkamp and Lillo came to London one after another.

As a former head coach, Lillo also had his own team. Chen Yao invited several coaches who worked best with him to join the club.

Bergkamp's colleagues at Ajax are also the targets of Chen Yao's poaching. Even for the youth team, Ajax's criteria for selecting coaches are very strict. They must not only have sufficient technical and tactical training standards, but also agree with Ajax. In addition to his football philosophy, he must also have excellent communication and management skills.

And the chance to join Arsenal's first team is still very tempting to most managers.

Two weeks later, several former colleagues of Lillo and Bergkamp moved into the Kearney base in large and small packages. They are all professional coaches, covering many fields such as technology, physical fitness, goalkeeping, etc. Chen Yao’s coaching team It was finally enriched.

The formation of the coaching staff has come to an end, and the transfer has also begun to restart.

Before Wenger retired, the transfer team was following up with several players, and the main goal was to fill the possible loss of players in the summer window.

Dick Law and the Montpellier club have been in contact for almost three months about a move for French centre-forward Olivier Giroud.

The 26-year-old Giroud joined Montpellier in 2010 and scored 2011 goals in the Ligue 12 in the 21-[-] season, winning the top scorer award. Montpellier also unexpectedly won the Ligue [-] championship.

However, as the French international, the top scorer and the main striker of the championship team, Giroud did not arouse the strong interest of the European giants like Eden Hazard.

Hazard joined Chelsea for £3000 and two million in early June, but there were only a few strong teams interested in Giroud.

Part of the reason is that the technical and tactical level of Ligue [-] has widened the gap with the Premier League, and the data obtained in the Ligue [-] environment cannot be directly converted to the Premier League.

Another part of the reason is that Giroud's technical ability at this time is not worthy of the interest of top teams.

He is very tall and is a bridgehead forward in the traditional sense. He also has a certain scoring ability.

But Giroud, who was born in 1986, is already 26 years old. Now that he has emerged, he can be said to be a late bloomer.

And Giroud's finishing ability is worrying. His statistics in Ligue [-] do not show that he has the ability to output stably. Compared with Van Persie, who has a very high scoring efficiency, Giroud's shooting skills pale in comparison.

In addition, Giroud's speed is slow, and his ability to control the ball is also inferior. For the position of striker, which requires a high level of overall quality, wealthy teams have little interest in such functional players with obvious advantages and disadvantages.

This is not necessarily a bad thing. Montpellier originally hoped to match Giroud's worth with Hazard, but no one bid for it for a long time, and their price for Giroud has been suppressed to tens of millions of pounds.

This amount happened to be within the budget of Chen Yao. After restarting the negotiations with Montpellier, Chen Yao urged Dick Law to quickly complete the transfer.

He was very impressed with Giroud. The biggest advantage of this player is that he is handsome, and...

In addition, although Giroud's shooting is as ineffective as Liumai Excalibur, Chen Yao did not expect to use Giroud to undertake most of the scoring tasks.

Last season, the tactical strategy of creating opportunities for Van Persie and letting Van Persie use his personal ability to forcibly increase the conversion rate can no longer be used. In the new system, Giroud's diligence, support and fulcrum will be better than his shooting. Works better.

Giroud's transfer should be settled soon. Chen Yao's only worry is that Giroud has already participated in the European Cup with the team.

The most interesting feature of this striker is that although he has a poor conversion rate for scoring opportunities within reach, he often hits amazing world waves for difficult shots.

What Chen Yao is worried about is that Giroud will perform this kind of unfavorable operation in the European Cup. When the time comes, Montpellier will take advantage of it to raise the price, making the transfer uncertain.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help scolding Gazidis angrily. If this guy hadn't played Gongdou, I'm afraid Giroud would be able to finalize the European Cup before the start.

Fortunately, the Zhengyin striker of the French team is Karim Benzema, and Giroud should not have a chance to get too much playing time at this time.

For Benzema, Chen Yao was also very envious.

Although this player is very snarky and good at taking the blame, his ability is excellent.

Super offensive ability and footwork, excellent awareness, all make him a world-class striker.

But Chen Yao can only look at it. It is absolutely impossible for the current Arsenal to buy Benzema. It is almost enough to buy a low-profile Giroud.

If Giroud can be signed, Chen Yao's transfer plan will be put on hold.

He needs to clean up the redundancy in the team, in exchange for salary space and transfer fees, so as to continue to win the players he wants.

Cazorla and Griezmann are the players he is determined to acquire. The former's transfer fee is expected to be 500 million pounds, and the latter's liquidated damages are 3000 million euros, but Chen Yao hopes to complete the acquisition within 2000 million pounds.

These two players will cost at least 500 million pounds, and the signings needed may not be only these two, and the sale of the players is imminent.

Thinking of the issue of selling players, Chen Yao's head hurt again.

This summer, the most difficult thing to deal with is Robin van Persie.

The contract extension provided by the club is still on hold, and Wenger's retirement made Van Persie confidently express that he should think more about it.

Van Persie only has a one-year contract, and at the age of 29, there is no doubt that there is not much left in his peak period.

Others may still have illusions about Van Persie, but Chen Yao is very clear that Van Persie is not willing to stay and work hard at Arsenal.He will definitely seek the opportunity to transfer to a wealthy club to compete for the championship.

This is understandable. Compared with Cesc Fabregas, the most disgusting thing about Van Persie is that he reneged on his promises, fed his loyalty to the dog, and knelt at the Emirates Stadium after joining his arch-enemy.

In terms of birth level alone, Xiaofa's position cannot be shaken for the time being.

But Van Persie also did one thing: on another timeline, he announced before the transfer that he would not renew his contract with Arsenal, which caused great passivity in Arsenal's sale.

Chen Yao doesn't want this to happen. Even if he wants to sell Van Persie, he hopes to maximize the Dutchman's value.

He devised a plan, but for this method, someone needs to cooperate.

(End of this chapter)