Champion’s Heart

v3 Chapter 229: Group Seeds

When Mark was discharged from the hospital, the match between Dortmund and Hertha Berlin also started.

I don’t know if Mark’s serious injury affected the mentality of the players, or whether the continuous national team games made the players tired, or because the next UEFA Champions League group match Dortmund will face the seed team Arsenal of this group...

In short, in this game, Dortmund lost to Hertha Berlin at home 1:2.

Zhou Yi did not start in this game and did not come off the bench until the 80th minute. He hasn't been able to help Dortmund to equalize at home, let alone defeat the opponent.

At this time, everyone's concern is not in the league, but in the Champions League.

Three days later, Dortmund will face Arsenal at home, this is the first game of this group.

This season, Dortmund have been split into third-tier teams because of their outstanding performance in the Champions League last season. The first round of the group stage confrontation with the seed team is the special treatment of the third-grade team.

In addition to Dortmund and Arsenal, this group also includes Marseille from France and Olympiacos from Greece.

Olympiacos is the weakest team and will be the target of the other three teams to win the goal.

In order to be able to gain an advantage in the group qualifying, they will definitely get enough of the goal difference in Olympiacos.

When Dortmund was about to play against Arsenal, an old story was turned over by the media.

This matter is about Zhou Yi and Arsenal.

Zhou Yi stood out with a reality show on the draft, which attracted the attention of Dortmund Club. Everyone knows it. Zhou Yi has never been able to hide his experience in an interview, nor has he ever hidden his past as an amateur player.

But I'm afraid not many people know Zhou Yi who participated in the reality show, but not only was it valued by Dortmund, but it was also valued by Arsenal and Barcelona.

But in the end, why did Zhou Yi not choose these two clubs?

This is not the past that these two clubs are willing to be mentioned...

The media disclosed that Zhou Yi was not resistant to joining Arsenal at the beginning. He just hoped that Arsenal would have a commitment to him, that is, the first team's commitment. But Arsenal could not meet his requirements, and he was unwilling to make such a commitment-of course, in the circumstances at that time, Arsenal absolutely made sense to do so.

At that time, Zhou Yi was an amateur player. He had never received professional training and had never proved himself in any professional field. It was only a few reality show games that performed well. It is too arrogant for such a person to ask what the first team promises.

But it makes sense. For young geniuses, any club must take some risks. There are no absolutely risk-free things in this world. There can be no young players who can see through the future at a glance.

So in fact, this kind of scouting around the world looking for young geniuses and then bringing them to your club is like gambling. It depends on whether you dare to gamble.

Obviously, Arsenal did not dare to bet on Zhou Yi.

So they missed Zhou Yi.

What did Dortmund do at the time? Dortmund's head coach Klopp flew specifically to Barcelona to negotiate with Zhou Yi, prompting Zhou Yi to make up his mind to choose to join Dortmund's youth training camp, and finally achieved Dortmund today.

Klopp was right and Dortmund benefited greatly.

The media that exposed this question asked: "...I see Zhou Yi, who is doing well in Dortmund today, don't know if Wenger has a little regret?"

After this matter was revealed by the media, it quickly aroused everyone's interest, because the story is so legendary...

No one thought that Zhou Yi had even almost joined Arsenal?

As a result, more media joined the team that explored stories.

Some people went to ask Zhou Yi, some people went to Wenger.

Zhou Yi: "This is the case."

"Is it really because Arsenal were not willing to promise the first team?" the reporter asked.

"Just one of the reasons..." Zhou Yi said, he did not want to talk too much about this topic. To put it bluntly, when someone said he black Arsenal, how wrong was he? "I have my considerations, and Arsenal certainly had their considerations at the time. It was normal for me not to be able to come together in the end. The key is that I am having a good time in Dortmund now, so I would not think about Arsenal.

So what did Arsenal say?

Facing the reporter's question, Wenger frowned and thought for a while, then nodded: "Yes. We almost signed him at the time, but in the end did not succeed."

"Do you regret it now?" the reporter asked

Wenger shook his head: "No. We also have very good players."

On this, Wenger's attitude is very firm. He does not regret that Zhou Yi failed to join Arsenal. He trusts his players more.

A reporter asked: "Do you know what caused Arsenal to fail to sign Zhou Yi?"

"I don't know about this..." Wenger shook his head with a smile.

Wenger doesn't know?

Then continue to dig.

The reporters are magical. According to the situation at that time, if Zhou Yi really wanted to come to Arsenal, then the person responsible for this should definitely not be the first team coach Wenger, so Wenger did not know that the specific situation is normal. of. It was a special case to go to Barcelona to dig Zhou Yi in person like Klopp.

The person in charge of this matter should be the youth training director of Arsenal.

So they found Liam Brady, the youth training director of Arsenal.

Brady's impression of Zhou Yi is still very deep, because a 17-year-old amateur player dare to ask Arsenal to introduce the club's request with special genius terms... Such people are too few, and they will inevitably give Brady was very impressed.

That time in Barcelona, ​​long after they didn’t grab Zhou Yi, this Chinese teenager has a place in his mind. Occasionally thinking about it, this kid is silly and arrogantly cute. I don’t know whether he will regret the missed opportunity to join Arsenal because of his arrogance when he recalled this past event in the future.

Originally thought that this young man would only exist in his memory, and then slowly disappeared.

But when he heard the name of this person again, he discovered that he was the absolute main force of Dortmund's first team!

This really surprised him-did this kid really play in Dortmund? And Dortmund actually gave him the first team appearance opportunity so quickly!

He felt like he was watching a fairy tale, which was too unrealistic...

But when he was found by reporters and wanted him to talk about Zhou Yi, he did not want to talk more.

"Zhou Yi made his request, but we couldn't meet his request, so he didn't come... isn't it normal?"

I don’t know what the reason is. In short, there is a voice deep in his heart, telling him not to tell the past too much.

Therefore, he no longer accepts interviews on Zhou Yi's questions. His reason is that this is a thing of the past, and now it is a malicious hype.

Wenger didn't know, Brady knew but he didn't want to say.

How to do?

There will always be people who know and are willing to say...

The English tabloid's ability to mine news is still very strong.

Soon they disclosed the specific situation at that time.

To put it simply, Arsenal took the initiative to find Zhou Yi, expressed appreciation for his talent and optimism about his future, and hoped that Zhou Yi would join Arsenal. As a result, Zhou Yi made a first-line team commitment, but this involves a labor certificate, so Zhou Yi hopes that Arsenal can introduce itself with special genius terms. This request was rejected by Arsenal.

Then there is no...

After this information is disclosed to ~lightnovelpub.net~ you can have your own judgment.

Is Zhou Yi's demand too much, or is Arsenal too mean?

Everyone will have their own interpretation, and some people will think that Zhou Yi is arrogant and arrogant, asking for price before he proves his ability. However, those who support Zhou Yi will think that this is a talented player's confidence and respect for his own strength, but Arsenal seems too stingy, and the result missed Zhou Yi as a talented player.

But who is right or wrong is actually not important.

Only when the reporter asked Brady if he would regret not signing Zhou Yi, Brady and Wenger answered exactly the same.

He said, "No regrets. Why do you regret it?"

He also left a rhetorical question to reporters.

Yes, Arsenal, with its genius as dense as many forests, is there any reason to regret it for missing a tree? (To be continued.)