Chapter 122 How could he, a striker, have so many assists?

A week later, Werder Bremen played against Freiburg at home.

This was originally a very ordinary game, but because two people were competing for the Bundesliga assists list, this game became a little unusual.

In this game, De Bruyne and Lin Quan were performing, taking turns to send exquisite passes to their teammates.

In the 9th minute of the first half, Lin Quan assisted Peterson to score, bringing his assist count to 16, one assist behind De Bruyne.

De Bruyne was not to be outdone and quickly assisted Elia to score a goal, widening the gap between the two sides to 2 goals again.

Freiburg players are angry!

Who do you think we are?

They are setting new records on us! They are launching a massive counterattack!

In the 36th minute, Freiburg striker Kroos scored a goal, changing the score to 2:1.

Five minutes later, Freiburg winger Makiadi was tripped after breaking into the penalty area and the referee awarded a penalty.

Makiadi took the penalty kick himself and scored, returning both teams to the same starting line.

The fans at the Weser Stadium were depressed when they saw their team go from leading to being equalized by the opponent.

"Why does it feel like the team played weirdly today?"

"Yeah, Lin Quan didn't score a goal today!"

"It seems like De Bruyne doesn't want to pass the ball to him!"

"Ah? Now that you mention it, I find it seems to be true. Are they having some kind of conflict?"

In the locker room, Schaff was asking the same question.

After the first half, he called Lin Quan and De Bruyne over and asked them why they did not cooperate with each other in this game.

If they could cooperate with each other as usual, they could have scored at least three goals in the first half, and the situation of being equalized by the opponent would not have happened like now.

In response to Scharf's question, De Bruyne hesitated and said: "Lin and I are competing for the assist list. I was afraid that if I passed him a good ball, he would not shoot and waste my wonderful pass."

Shafu frowned and looked at Lin Quan.

Lin Quan spread his hands and said, "Kevin, I'm really sad if you think like this. When have I ever wasted your wonderful pass? As long as you pass it to my feet, if it doesn't go in, it's my responsibility. If you can't pass it, it's your responsibility."

If the two were not good friends, based on what De Bruyne said just now, Lin Quan would have thought that the other party was telling on him in front of the coach.

"Really? Then I apologize to you. If there is a good opportunity in the second half, I will definitely pass the ball to you!"

De Bruyne said this sincerely, feeling a little guilty in his heart, thinking that he had judged others by his own standards.

Shaf was relieved to see that the misunderstanding between them was resolved.

He was really worried that the two would have some conflict!

Now it seems that I was worrying too much.

But why does it feel weird that these two are competing for the assists list?

It would be fine if De Bruyne had a lot of assists, as his task in the team is to organize the offense. Having a lot of assists shows that he performed very well and fulfilled his duties perfectly.

But Lin Quan also has so many assists, what the hell is this? How can a striker who scores so many goals have so many assists?

Schaff was puzzled, and the guests in the commentary booth were also very surprised.

"Haha, there is a very interesting technical statistic. I think everyone will be interested in it!"

"Currently ranked second in the assists list is Lin Quan, and first is De Bruyne. They just happen to be on the same team!"

Another guest exclaimed: "The performance of the Werder Bremen twins this season is really eye-catching!"

"So far this season, Lin Quan has scored a total of 28 goals and completed 16 assists. The number of goals created by one person accounts for 68.75% of the total number of goals scored by Werder Bremen!"

"De Bruyne has scored 13 goals and provided 18 assists this season, accounting for 48.5% of the team's total goals."

"From the above data alone, we can see the huge role they play in Werder Bremen's offense."

"Thanks to the outstanding performance of the twin stars, Werder Bremen has scored a total of 64 goals in the league so far this season, and its offensive firepower is second only to Bayern's 68 goals.

If you have no idea about this data, then we can make a comparison with Dortmund, which is in third place.

Dortmund, who just beat Frankfurt 3-0 at home, has only scored 54 goals so far, and is more than 10 goals behind the two teams at the top of the table.

Although the outside world has more or less heard of the reputation of the Werder Bremen twins, no one has ever experienced how strong these two people are.

But at this time, seeing the various data displayed by the commentator, the fans were shocked: Werder Bremen's twin stars are so outrageous? One of them is approaching the Bundesliga single-season goal record, and the other is about to break the historical record of the assists list.

"Damn, what kind of shit luck did Werder Bremen have? How did they draw two monster-level players like this!?"

"That's right, one is a midfielder and the other is a striker, we can't do without either one!"

"Stop talking, stop talking. If you keep talking, the team next door will cry out of jealousy!"

"Ten-year Werder Bremen fans came uninvited. Although these two people are currently playing for Werder Bremen, they are not Bremen players. When their loan period is over, they will leave Bremen!"

"Alas, as a fan who has watched Werder Bremen's games for half a season for ten years, I simply cannot imagine what the Parrots will look like without Lin Quan and De Bruyne!"

"Yes, without the two of them, Werder Bremen's offensive firepower will definitely be greatly reduced!"

"It's not just a big discount, we might even fall back into the ranks of relegation teams..."

"Alas, Werder Bremen was glorious more than a decade ago and unexpectedly rose this season, but who would have thought it would be short-lived. When Lin Quan and De Bruyne leave, the team's strength will be greatly reduced, and I'm afraid it will really be beaten back to its original state."

"Suddenly I feel a little sympathetic towards Werder Bremen!"

"Sympathy +1!"

…

In fact, there is a statistic that the commentator did not announce. Lin Quan and De Bruyne not only occupied the top two places in the assist list.

In the Golden Boot list, the two also ranked high, ranking first and fourth respectively.

Werder Bremen's offense this season is indeed supported by these two people.

After they leave, Werder Bremen may need to adjust its front-line offensive system.

After the misunderstanding between the two sides was resolved in the second half, Werder Bremen's twin stars regained their great power.

De Bruyne not only increased the number of times he cooperated with Lin Quan, but also frequently sent him wonderful passes.

Although he knew that his goal would help De Bruyne to get a new assist record, Lin Quan still chose to score the ball steadily.

After eating two cakes with tears and giving two assists to De Bruyne, Werder Bremen defeated Freiburg 4:2 at home.

Lin Quan, who scored two goals and provided an assist, forced a smile and hugged De Bruyne to celebrate the victory, but he was sighing in his heart.

This time, there is no hope for him to be on the assists list this season.

Not only is the assist king award gone, but those 10 points are also gone!

With three assists in this game, De Bruyne's assist count reached 20.

This data has tied the Bundesliga assist record set by Ribery in the 2009-2010 season.

As long as he completes even one more assist in the next game, he will break the assist record of the Bundesliga. Such outstanding performance has attracted the attention of more and more teams.

There were quite a few scouts who came to Bremen to observe Lin Quan. When they saw De Bruyne's amazing performance, they also took the opportunity to observe him.

For this reason, Chelsea's senior scout De Visser returned to Germany again to specifically observe De Bruyne's condition.

"What is the club thinking? Why don't they call Kevin back? He is doing so well in the Bundesliga that he is almost breaking the Bundesliga assist record. Isn't that enough to prove his ability?"

Rookie scout George Evans has been hired as a full-time employee because of his long-term tracking and observation of De Bruyne and Lin Quan.

Club manager Emnaro was very satisfied with his work, but he regretted not having listened to his advice earlier and brought in Lin Quan.

Maybe they thought George had good vision, or maybe they thought he was lucky.

Chelsea has put George in charge of observing young players under the age of 21 in the entire Bundesliga, and reporting to Stamford Bridge if there are suitable talents.

Stamford Bridge will send senior scouts like De Visser to confirm the situation. If the other party's conditions meet Chelsea's requirements, they will consider buying the other party.

Although Abramovich spends money like water, he likes to buy big-name players.

However, the team still needs a large number of young players with both strength and potential to add fresh blood.

These players can serve as substitutes, can be loaned out, or be recruited and slowly waited for them to grow up.

If a few top stars can emerge among them, Chelsea will make a profit.

Even if no top star emerges, Chelsea will basically not make a loss if the player is sold after passing through their hands, as long as they are not wrong.

De Visser shook his head and sighed, "The club's situation is rather complicated. The head coach has not been decided yet, and the current tactical style of play has changed too quickly, causing the team's performance to decline severely. The fans and players are rebelling..."

He has been in Chelsea for so many years, and he has only seen Chelsea in such a mess as it is now once, and that was when the former owner Bates managed the team poorly, causing Chelsea to be unable to cover its expenses and almost go out of business.

But at that time, Abramovich took over and immediately injected huge amounts of money to help Chelsea get out of trouble and usher in its own peak period.

But now, this situation has little to do with money, it is entirely due to Abramovich's arbitrary behavior.

He loves to fire coaches so much that in just a few years, all the head coaches he fired can form a team.

The compensation Chelsea has paid to the fired coaches in recent years is enough to buy a Torres.

Di Matteo’s coaching ability is indeed not strong, but under his leadership, Chelsea’s record in the first half of the season was still very good.

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However, due to a misjudgment, Chelsea lost to Manchester United in the league, and then their mentality exploded and they lost consecutive games.

Abu, who looked down on him in the first place, fired him in anger.

After Di Matteo was fired, his successor Benítez performed even worse than him.

Under his leadership, Chelsea were humiliated in the Club World Cup, the Champions League, and the FA Cup, and were on the verge of winning all four major titles! This greatly displeased the Blues fans.

Benítez had only been with the team for more than two months, and the fans at Stamford Bridge had already started to curse him.

Not only that, in the 16th minute of every game, the Blues fans would stand up and applaud to commemorate Di Matteo who was fired.

This made Abramovich very embarrassed, and he completely gave up the idea of ​​renewing the contract with Benítez and only wanted to change the coach as soon as possible after the end of this season.

With the Blues so turbulent internally, Benítez basically just did his job and gave up, with no intention of promoting young talent for Chelsea.

As for De Bruyne who is on loan, he can just wait for the next head coach. He doesn't have the mind to do that anyway.

Benítez is also miserable. Since leaving Liverpool, his coaching career has not been very smooth.

In 2010, he coached Inter Milan for only half a season before being fired by Moratti due to the team's poor performance.

After being unemployed for two years, I finally found a job.

As a result, after arriving at Chelsea, he was completely unable to adapt to Chelsea's tactical style of play and could not control the locker room.

If Abramovich had not fired other coaches so harshly, causing other coaches to be unwilling to come to Stamford Bridge, given Abramovich's personality, Benítez would have been fired long ago.

Chelsea was in such chaos that De Bruyne himself was a little hesitant.

He is having a good time at Werder Bremen now, and if he leaves the Bundesliga and returns to the Premier League, he is worried that he will not be able to get stable playing time.

If he hadn't proven himself in the Bundesliga, he would be fine with being a substitute at Chelsea.

But now, after experiencing a very successful season with the team, De Bruyne's mentality has changed.

He believes that he has the strength to compete for a starting position, and if Chelsea does not give him a starting position, he really needs to think about it carefully.

As they were about to go to the Allianz Arena to challenge Bayern Munich, De Bruyne looked absent-minded on the training ground, which made Lin Quan a little worried.

So I took the initiative to walk up to him and ask about the situation.

De Bruyne introduced Chelsea's chaotic situation and his own concerns, and then asked: "Lin, do you think I should return to Chelsea after the loan period expires?"

His worries are very realistic. The 2014 World Cup is coming soon. If he returns to Chelsea and fails to play in the game, the Belgian national team is likely to give up on him.

Although he is very loyal to Chelsea Football Club, he is also very grateful to the other party for discovering him from the lower leagues and bringing him to the big stage of the top five leagues.

However, between the national team and the club, De Bruyne will definitely choose the national team without hesitation.

Lin Quan knows that Mourinho is likely to be the head coach of Chelsea, but he is not sure at the moment.

Historically, Mourinho was abandoned by Real Madrid after he lost the Champions League and the league championship.

He didn't know how big the butterfly effect of his appearance would be. If Real Madrid had not been eliminated by Dortmund and had instead made it to the Champions League final, then everything would be unpredictable.

Even if they didn't win the championship in the end, reaching the final can prove Mourinho's strength. At least under his leadership, Real Madrid is really moving forward step by step.

So he had to comfort De Bruyne: "Don't rush to make a decision. Chelsea's head coach has not been decided yet. Wait until the head coach is decided and the team's tactics are determined, then you can see if you can adapt to the coach's tactics.

If you feel you can adapt, then I support you to return to Stamford Bridge. If you can't adapt, I think it's better to stay in Werder Bremen!"

Mourinho actually coached De Bruyne for a period of time, and De Bruyne's performance was not good under him.

Although De Bruyne's defensive ability has improved, it still does not reach the level of a standard defensive player.

Under Mourinho, except for superstars like Ronaldo who have privileges, all other players need to participate in defense.

De Bruyne will not have as high a tactical position as in Werder Bremen under Mourinho, and his position will most likely be arranged as a winger.

The wingers have to shoulder heavy defensive responsibilities, at least they have to be able to limit the attacks of the opponent's wingers.

De Bruyne is weak in physical confrontation and his defensive ability is poor, and the Premier League emphasizes physical confrontation.

If Mourinho arranges him in this position, his performance will inevitably decline significantly, and it will be impossible for him to perform as well as he did in Werder Bremen.

In this way, in Mourinho's mind, he may be labeled as a fake, and De Bruyne will have even less chance of playing.

From this perspective, Lin Quan thinks that De Bruyne should just stay in Werder Bremen.

De Bruyne nodded. After all, Bremen was the team they had played for for a season, so they had some feelings for the team.

He also didn't want Bremen's performance to plummet immediately once he and Lin Quan left.

However, with Bremen's financial resources, they may not be able to afford him.

"By the way, how many years is your contract with Chelsea?"

Seeing that De Bruyne wanted to stay with the team, Lin Quan asked curiously.

He remembered that when De Bruyne moved to Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg spent 25 million euros.

This price is a bit stressful for Werder Bremen, but it is not impossible to get it if they try hard.

During last year's transfer window, Werder Bremen made a small profit by selling players. Taking into account the financial surpluses from previous seasons, they had a budget of about 20 to 30 million euros available for buying players.

But if the price were a little higher, there would be no hope.

A player's transfer price is related to his value and the time left on his contract.

Since the value is high, the transfer fee will naturally be expensive.

However, if a player's contract has little time left, the transfer fee is likely to be lower than his value.

"It's a five-year contract, and it won't expire until 2017!"

De Bruyne guessed what Lin Quan was thinking, and shattered his idea as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Well, well, it looks like Chelsea have the initiative in the transfer."

Lin Quan sighed. It was a five-year contract, but only one year had passed and there were still four years left.

With such a long time, Chelsea doesn't need to be anxious at all. Instead, the party buying the player should be anxious.

When the Bundesliga started last year, the German transfer market estimated his value to be 18 million euros.

It's probably more than 20 million euros now. If Werder Bremen wants to buy him, it's impossible without paying more than 25 million.

Chelsea are not stupid. It is impossible that they fail to see De Bruyne's value and will not sell him at a low price.

“Actually, I’m a little worried!”

De Bruyne suddenly spoke up.

"What?"

"If other teams submit an offer to Chelsea that is higher than Werder Bremen's, it will be more difficult for me to stay in Bremen!"

(End of this chapter)