Chapter 13 Guardiola pays a personal visit

Werder Bremen is the northernmost team in the Bundesliga. It is located in Bremen. Its home stadium is the Weser Stadium, which is located on the banks of the Weser River that runs through the city center.

The team’s training base is right next to the stadium and is easy to find.

The flight that Lin Quan and others were on landed at Bremen City Airport.

Unlike other airports, Bremen City Airport is located only 3.5 kilometers from the city center.

So, after getting off the plane, it only took the group a dozen minutes to reach their destination.

The sudden visit of Guardiola and his team surprised and shocked everyone in Werder Bremen.

After seeing Guardiola, many staff members showed expressions of uncontrollable surprise on their faces: Could it be that the next stop of this legendary young coach will be Werder Bremen?

If you think about it carefully, it doesn't seem impossible.

This season, due to the team's poor performance, club manager Allofs decided to leave and join another Bundesliga team, Wolfsburg.

Thomas Schaaf, Allofs' old close partner and head coach for the team for thirteen years, also thought about leaving after hearing the news.

These two are veteran players who took over the team in 1999. If they were to leave, it would be like a severe earthquake for Werder Bremen.

Therefore, the club needs to start looking for the next head coach and club manager.

And it seems not impossible that fans and club executives, fed up with the team's declining performance, would make up their minds and spend a large sum of money to invite the most popular legendary young coach in today's football world.

Judging from the achievements Guardiola has made in the past few seasons, if he really comes to coach Werder Bremen, the fans of Werder Bremen will probably wake up laughing in their dreams.

After learning the news, Werder Bremen's club chairman Klaus Fischer, together with first vice chairman Hesgrove Nerwald, sports director Essien, club manager Allofs and others went out in person to greet Guardiola and his party.

"We didn't expect that the coach Guardiola that the entire football world is looking for would come to Bremen at this time. It really surprised us!"

Chairman Klaus politely shook hands with Guardiola, and then introduced the management of the clubs around him one by one.

Guardiola also took this opportunity to introduce his family, and after both sides introduced themselves to each other.

Chairman Klaus asked with some confusion: "I wonder if Coach Guardiola's sudden visit is for something?"

He was sure that he had not invited Guardiola to coach, as Werder Bremen was just a small club in the middle and lower reaches and could not afford a head coach of Guardiola's level.

Apart from anything else, Guardiola's salary alone is something they cannot afford.

Werder Bremen's total revenue last season was only 73 million euros, while Guardiola's salary alone was 10 million euros.

They simply cannot afford this kind of salary.

Besides, Guardiola would never look down upon a small club like theirs! So, he really wanted to know what the other party's sudden visit was all about! The most likely possibility was that Guardiola had taken a fancy to a young player in their team, so he personally came out to recruit the other party.

However, it is already the end of May and the Bundesliga schedule ended a month ago.

Werder Bremen has been on holiday for more than half a month, and the players have already returned to their respective homes.

Coming to the club to look for players at this time, isn't that like looking for fish in a tree? The more confused he was, the more curious he became.

Guardiola had long guessed that his arrival would cause unnecessary trouble. Fortunately, he came suddenly and did not alarm the reporters. Otherwise, there would probably be many groundless reports the next day.

So, he immediately explained: "It's like this, Werder Bremen submitted a loan application to Barcelona before, and I came here for this matter!"

"Leasing application?"

Klaus looked at the sports director Essien, who recalled and nodded:

"That's right. Our team's midfield bench is not deep enough. According to the coach's suggestion, we submitted loan applications to six top clubs. In the end, only Chelsea and Barcelona responded to our request and agreed to loan players to us."

When Lin Quan heard the other party mention Chelsea's name, he paused and interrupted, asking:

"What's the name of the player on loan from Chelsea?"

Essien glanced at Lin Quan, then looked at the club chairman and asked him for instructions.

Things like loaning are uncertain before the players report to the team.

The home team may change its mind at any time, and other teams may also intercept during the transfer period.

As the new season has not yet begun, they do not want to reveal relevant information too early to avoid adversely affecting their team's preparations.

Therefore, Lin Quan’s question is actually a bit taboo.

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However, Klaus Fischer, chairman of Werder Bremen, waved his hand generously and said: "The player's name is Kevin De Bruyne, a 21-year-old young midfielder."

Hearing this name, a smile appeared on Lin Quan's face.

It was indeed this guy De Bruyne. Lin Quan remembered that after joining Chelsea, he could not integrate well into Mourinho's tactical system.

So he was loaned to the Bundesliga to play for a while.

The team that loaned him seemed to be Werder Bremen. Now it seems that my memory was not wrong, De Bruyne was indeed going to be loaned here.

When Lin Quan thinks about working with this future top midfield master in football next season, he becomes more confident about next season.

Seeing Lin Quan's happy face after hearing De Bruyne's name, the people from Werder Bremen club were a little confused and didn't know why he was so happy.

Could it be that he is a fan of De Bruyne and came to Werder Bremen specifically to chase his star?

No way? Although De Bruyne is a little famous, he is not that famous, right? "Ahem, it's like this, Chairman Klaus, the midfielder that Barcelona loaned to your team is my eldest son!"

Seeing that the topic of the conversation had been diverted by Lin Quan, Guardiola coughed lightly and quickly brought the subject back to the topic.

He solemnly introduced his adopted son to the people of Werder Bremen: "He plays as a defensive midfielder in the youth team and has the usual delicate footwork and excellent overall vision of La Masia players.

Before I left Barcelona, ​​I was planning to train him as Xavi's successor. Today, I solemnly hand him over to you, and hope that you can train him well and not waste his talent.

Believe me, you will be proud to have him!"

After Guardiola finished speaking, the players on the opposite side of Werder Bremen were stunned.

No way! A legendary football coach made a special trip to lobby for his son? His background is too strong!

(End of this chapter)