From June 25th to July 9th, Chu Zhongtian has been conducting physical and strength training specially arranged for him during these fourteen days, in order to restore his weight and fat content to the previous level. Only then can he follow the team for physical training.

The internationals participating in the World Cup will not meet with the team for a week, and then Fernandez will start systematic tactical training.

Just when Chu Zhongtian was sweating profusely in the gym and frowned in the face of the tasteless nutritious meal, the four-year World Cup was over.

Before the final, no one expected that the final of this World Cup would have such a dramatic scene, and no one expected that the ending of a legend would be in such a controversial way.

The captain of the French team, Zidane, was expelled from the referee for a red card in the overtime stage of the final because of Matrazi overhead. The scene where he lowered his head and passed by the World Cup became a classic shot of this World Cup.

In the end, the French team lost to Italy in the penalty shootout. Italy was not favored before the game, but with its strong team, it defeated all its opponents and reached the top of the world at the four-year time.

Ribery did not win a championship in the first World Cup he participated in, although he was so close to that trophy at one point. If he really became the world champion, Metz would not be able to stay him anyway.

After the World Cup, Ribery's transfer rumors hit another climax. Through a month of World Cup, he has become a well-known star in the world and is no longer the ordinary player who is only famous in France.

The World Cup opened the door to another world for Ribery, who was eager to participate in higher-level competitions and get more salaries.

Metz is going to be disdain for the price of leaving the team's number one star at all.

As soon as the World Cup ended, Fernandez called Ribery, hoping that he could stay in the team. Ribery's attitude was ambiguous because his agent James Merri had received invitations from many foreign clubs, including big clubs like Manchester United and Bayern Munich. It is also said that Real Madrid also fell in love with the French star and wanted to take him to the Bernabeu.

In fact, Ribery is also hesitating now. He wants to play football in those big teams and participate in the Champions League. But he is reluctant to leave his friends at Mets, especially Chu Zhongtian. He originally said that if he could, he would transfer with Chu Zhongtian, but Chu Zhongtian had already decided in advance to renew his contract with Mets. If he wanted to leave, he could only leave alone, and he was a little depressed.

Chu Zhongtian certainly hopes that Ribery will stay with him. He likes the feeling of cooperating with Ribery. It is also interesting to have this lively person as a neighbor. Moreover, they will also participate in the League Cup this season. If Ribery is gone, the team's strength will be greatly reduced. At that time, Messe may not say that he will become a supporting role who will come back after traveling to the League Cup.

Whether considering personal feelings or team performance, Chu Zhongtian hopes that Ribery will stay. For this reason, he also called Ribery, hoping that Ribery can stay.

"If you really want to leave, it's not too late to leave after the season is over, Frank." Chu Zhongtian said to Ribery, "This League Cup qualification is something we worked hard together. How can we leave without enjoying the fruits of victory? I also want to play the League Cup with you..."

"I'm very confused now, Chu... I heard from James that several clubs have offered me treatment that Metz would never give me. But... I'm on vacation now, but I'm tortured by such problems every day and can't play..."

"Then make a decision as soon as possible, Frank. Anyway, Messe's teammates and fans hope you can stay. I think, Frank...it won't make enough money anyway, and there are opportunities to make money in the future, as long as you perform well. There will be opportunities to join a big club every year, or as long as you perform well. Didn't Marseille and Lyon be interested in you before last season? But the opportunity to be with friends to work hard for the same goal is not available every year."

Chu Zhongtian's last sentence touched Ribery. After thinking for two days, Ribery called his agent James Meri and told him that he wanted to stay at Mess this season, but he would not sign a new contract. If there is a club to ask him for his own price next season, Mess cannot raise the price randomly and must let him leave at a reasonable price.

Molinari was very happy to hear the news, and he announced the good news to all Metz fans the next day: "We talked to Frank, and he decided to stay at Metz for another year!"

All Metz fans were relieved and then began to celebrate Ribery's stay at Metz.

No one wants to think about what to do in a year. Everyone knows that with Ribery's current development trend, Metz will never be able to keep him next season. Those giants are Ribery's final destination. It is not easy to make Ribery play for the team this season.

"Now Metz can do something in the League Cup!" Metz's local media, Lorraine Republic, announced happily.

Ribery did not ask for a raise or re-sign the contract. He would hold a salary of 22,000 euros per week until the end of the season, and then switch to a big club as long as there was a suitable opportunity. By then, his salary would rise to a very objective level, so he didn't care about making some money this year.

Now Chu Zhongtian has become the highest salary in the team.

※※※While leaving Chu Zhongtian and Ribery, Fernandez also made some plans for the team's lineup and determined who can leave and where players need to be supplemented.

Compared with selling people, buying people is more important. In the new season, Metz will participate in the League Cup event, and it will not work until last season's lineup, so you must buy people. For example, the team's back line has multiple positions, and there are defensive midfielders. Currently, only Chu Zhongtian and Proman are only in the team. Leka has decided to leave the team, and there are also substitute players in this position. Ribery said that he will leave next season, so he will find a successor for him from now on. One season is used to adapt. After he leaves, he will just be on the way.

Only Bobiconi and Meniry can trust the central defender, but it is not possible to play the League Cup with just two people. Fernandez signed their Mali central defender Sammy Traore from Nice for one million euros. This 1.94-meter-tall centre-back is one of the representative central defenders in Ligue 1. He has excellent physical fitness, is 1.94 meters tall, and has excellent bounce. He is both heading and staring. At the age of 30, he is experienced and is just suitable for a young team like Metz.

But only three central defenders of sufficient level are obviously not enough. In this position, considering physical strength, injuries and red and yellow cards, at least four people must be included. Through the World Cup observation, Fernandez hit the central defender of Guadalajara, Mexico (francisco_javier_rodriguez), the 24-year-old central defender has played for the Mexican national team 33 times, scoring a goal, 1.91 meters tall, with excellent defense, and is a very popular central defender in Mexico. In order to bring him to Metz, Fernandez spent 1.5 million euros.

In addition, ibrahim_kargbo, a backcourt versatile player who plays for Belgian league team Brussels, also entered Fernandez's sight. The Sierra Leonean player can be competent for centre-backs, left and right full-backs, scavengers, defensive midfielders and central forwards. It is also cheap and has a very cost-effective performance. Metz finally defeated William II for 700,000 euros and brought him to France.

In addition, Fernandez is going to loan from Marseille, the young Senegalese defender Khalifa Ba (khalifa_ba), who can play right back and center back.

Alseny Camara, a 19-year-old player in Toulouse, also signed a personal contract with Metz, before that Toulouse had agreed to sell him to Metz club for 400,000 euros.

Despite introducing so many people, Fernandez still did not stop to continue to strengthen the team's defense capabilities. He also rented 23-year-old defender Jonathan Walasiak from the Belgian team's Royal_standard_de_liège. This player is also a versatile player. He can play both full-back and right-hand attack forward. He has fast speed, strong long shots, and a free kick. He is an offensive full-back.

The lineup of the back line has been strengthened, and the midfield needs to continue to make up for it.

Jean Fernandez has been observing a player, and now he thinks it's time to take action. Ahmed Yahioui, who plays as a defensive midfielder, was born in Marseille and was originally a member of the French national youth team under the age of 17. He is favored by many people. In the position of the midfielder, he has elegant play and delicate skills. In the summer of 2004, he attracted the attention and questions of many clubs, including Chelsea.

The price was rejected by Marseille Club one by one. However, in the 2004-05 season, he did not get any chance to play like his good friends Nasri and Taiwo. Finally, in the summer of 2005, he transferred to the Easter Club in the French Ligue 2 and played sixteen games on behalf of the team. However, he still did not get any decent opportunities in Easter, and most of these sixteen games were played as substitutes.

Fernandez values ​​his potential. He is only nineteen years old this year and is still very promising. Jaiovi also hopes to play football under a coach who values ​​him, so that Fernandez has a good reputation in cultivating young people. Look at Ribery, Chu Zhongtian and Menez who have been trained in the past two seasons, you will know his level. Jaiovi is happy to come to Metz, and the two sides hit it off. The main midfielder of the French national youth team joined Metz for free with zero transfer fee. In the new season, he will learn from Proman and Chu Zhongtian and be the substitute for them.

As a wing forward, Fernandez poached the former Bordeaux youth team from Libourne, the attacking midfielder who can play both the middle and the wings began to train football in the Bordeaux youth team, but due to his height, he was eventually abandoned by the Bordeaux youth team. Later, he went to an amateur team, and he did not stay in that team for long. One season later he was valued by Libourne, a team from the 2004-2005 season to the 2005-2006 season. He played 55 games in the National League for Libourne, scoring ten goals, nine of which were scored last season.

His performance attracted the attention of some clubs, and Metz was one of them.

Valbuena obviously does not want to spend his whole life in the C team. At this time, Jean Fernandez, who is famous for cultivating young people, appears in front of him like an angel and invites him to join Metz. What else can hesitate about? Valbuena nodded repeatedly. Libona, the C team, also knew that they could not retain the player who performed well last season. In the end, the clubs of both sides reached an agreement, and Valbuena joined Metz for a price of 400,000 euros and signed for four years.

Matthew Valbuena is focusing on future acquisitions, and the candidate to solve the most urgent task is Fabio_felicio, who plays for Portuguese Premier League team Leiria. Metz finally brought the Portuguese wing forward from Leiria to France for 140,000 euros.

Whether it is Valbuena or Felicio, they are on the left front, and Ribery is on the right. Fernandez needs a young and promising ball to replace Ribery one season later. He aims for Bordeaux's Gabriel Obertan (gabriel_obertan), but Bordeaux is obviously unwilling to let go of the Obertan, who they are already planning to sign.

Obertan is a graduate of the Clay Fontaine Football School in France and has a bright future. The favorable condition for Metz is that although Bordeaux brought Obertan to the team a season ago and allowed him to play in the reserve team, he was not able to give him a professional contract because he was less than his age.

As long as Fernandez can convince Obetan to accept Mess' contract.

Obviously, any young French player has heard of Fernandez's famous name. He trained Zidane in Cannes, Pedreti in Socio, Ribery and Chu Zhongtian in Metz, and a rising Menetz. No young player does not want to play under such a coach.

Fernandez's personal charm once again defeated his opponent, snatched the Obertan, who they had been preparing for a year. Fernandez showed his personal charm to his contracted partner. This summer, Fernandez used this trick to steal Jaiovi from Sion in Switzerland, took Matthew Valbuena from Marseille's mouth, and now robbed Gabriel Obertan from Bordeaux's lair.

For strikers, Fernandez only bought one person and got French scorer C-level team Angers for free from French striker Sehore Tro (cyril_thereau).

While buying people, the team is also clearing out players whose strength cannot keep up with the team. The 20-year-old Cameroonian scorer Elf Toum transferred to the second-tier team Starasbourg for 750,000 euros. Since Ibisek joined the team in the second half of last season, he has basically been unable to play the game. Leaving is a good choice for him and Metz.

Another striker, Babakar Geier, transferred to Nantes for 1.1 million euros.

In the midfield, Leka has been injured in the game with Paris Saint-Germain in 2004-05, and he has not been able to play as a main player. Of course, he is unwilling to be a substitute all the time, so he has long been like Fernandez to apply for a transfer. Caen, a team from the B, was interested in him and finally got him for 500,000 euros. Although the B-class team is not as good as the A-class team and cannot participate in the League Cup, he can get a stable main position there. Compared with the League Cup, Leka is more willing to be a main player.

The original central defender Bruno Pompier was also officially abandoned by the club this summer. Metz terminated his contract and became a free agent and could go anywhere he wanted.

Frank Belia, the right-back who played the main player last season, was also sold by the team to Saint-Etienne for 1.5 million euros. He will be replaced by Ibrahim Kabo or Khalifa Ba.

There are not many people selling the Metz team. After all, the overall framework of the team is still unmovable, and at most it is only repaired in a single position.

Metz's attack lineup is very strong, and the areas that need to be repaired are mainly concentrated on the back line. If you want to perform well in the League Cup, excellent defense is indispensable.

Ibisevic, who has only scored one goal in the past six months of joining the team last season, was not sold off by the team. He scored an equalizer in the French Cup final with Paris Saint-Germain, which has relieved his pressure a lot. Judging from the team's recruitment strength on the front line, he may still be the main force in the new season.

I don't know if this will give him new pressure... In addition to these people, Fernandez also appropriately transferred several players from the youth team and the reserve team to the first team to supplement the team's bench strength.

From the changes of these players, it can be seen that Fernandez hopes that the team will concede less goals this season while continuing to hold high the banner of offensive football. Therefore, the defense has become his focus. This summer, he has introduced six new players in one go. Last season, Metz scored 51 goals, ranking third in the entire league, only less than the champion Lyon who scored 73 goals and the third place Lille who scored 56 goals. His round attack strength ranks well in the league, but their losses are also 48, ranking fifth in the league. Too many goals conceded seriously restricts the team's performance. If you want to make a breakthrough in the new season, defense must be done well.

The midfielder introduced four new players, all because the team's core players are concentrated in the midfield. These core players may face the problem of leaving after a season. It is impossible to really wait for someone to leave before considering replenishing fresh blood. A reasonable approach is to buy people now and make a smooth transition.

As the team prepares for the team, the update of the lineup is gradually completed. Ribery has also returned to the team from the resort. He can continue to stay in Metz in the new season, which gives everyone more confidence in the team's performance in the new season.
Chapter completed!