Being eliminated from the League Cup is not as severe as outsiders imagined, and it is not even as bad as losing to Zenit in the first round, which has a great impact on Metz players. Because the whole team of Metz has realized that all their tasks have been completed this season - currently ranked 12th and has no worries about relegation, but it is not a chance to get the European Cup qualification. If you are eliminated from the League Cup, the only honor you can pursue is gone.

There are three rounds left in the league, on May 4th, May 10th, and May 17th.

But everyone knows that the season has ended early. Fernandez began to give young players in the second team more opportunities. In the four-day league, Pjanic replaced Chu Zhongtian and got the opportunity to start. Chu Zhongtian only replaced Proman in the 77th minute to play, serving as a midfielder, protecting Pjanic.

In this game, Metz played 1:1 with Socho on the road. Pjanic scored his first goal in Metz's first team, helping the team equalize the score and finally took a point.

In the 37th round of the league on May 10th, Chu Zhongtian still did not appear in the starting lineup. Pjanic continued to start. Fernandez explained that Chu Zhongtian would start in the last round of the league.

He didn't say it clearly, but everyone knew that this was like deliberately giving Chu Zhongtian a chance to say goodbye to Metz, the so-called "last game at Metz."

In fact, since the League Cup was eliminated, many media have reported that many players in the Metz team have been watched by other clubs.

For domestic and foreign teams, Metz, whose financial resources are not strong, is a large supermarket. They have trained many excellent players in recent years. As long as they have a suitable price, they can definitely buy them. Let’s see how Ribery left the team.

Although it will definitely cost a lot of money, the problem in this world that can be solved by spending money is not a problem.

Chu Zhongtian and Ibisevic are the most popular figures in Metz. Menetz was the same, but he was injured and had to undergo surgery. This made the teams that were previously interested in him retreat and were temporarily waiting and watching.

Chu Zhongtian has received invitations from many teams, including Lyon, Paris Saint-Germain and Marseille. But Chu Zhongtian doesn't even look at it. In response to these transfer rumors, he said in an interview with reporters: "If I want to leave Metz, I will definitely not join the Ligue 1 team. On the one hand, I am eager to change a new environment, and on the other hand, I cannot be an enemy of Metz."

Even if the Ligue 1 team gives him the highest conditions, he will not go.

As for teams from other countries, he needs to choose slowly.

According to the formal procedures, these teams who are interested in him should make a quote to Metz Club. Metz Club decides which teams they allow to talk to Chu Zhongtian through the quotes of each team. Then Chu Zhongtian has private contact with the opponent's team, and the opponent's team will issue a personal contract. Chu Zhongtian's agent will strive for a better contract to the opponent's club based on the interests of the players. After several tug-of-war, if neither party has any objection, you can sign it and pass the experience. The transfer contract will be officially effective.

If multiple teams give Chu Zhongtian the same personal treatment, then the comparison is not hardware, but software.

This software includes many aspects, which depends on who is more attractive to the players. The team's desire for championships, the team's reputation, the team's financial situation, the team's geographical location, the team's popularity, whether the team's management is brainless, the team's head coach's personal character, whether the team's tactics are suitable for you, and the team's locker room environment... There are many, of course, all teams that meet the requirements do not exist, but the most important ones are enough as long as the players themselves can see each other, that's fine.

Simply put - just like to see it.

Transfers are a very complicated science. They don’t have to go there if they offer a high price, nor do they have an absolute advantage if they are famous.

A smart player should consider many aspects, because every transfer is an adventure. If you jump from a familiar environment to a strange environment, abandon all the interpersonal relationships before, and rebuild your interpersonal circle in a new environment, you may easily recognize one or two friends, but you may not be able to integrate into their small circle for a long time, be excluded, and be marginalized.

At the same time, you have adapted to the tactics of the former coach, which may be useless for the new coach. You not only need to face new interpersonal relationships, but also strive to adapt to the new tactical system. You were well-deserved core in the previous team, but it may not be possible for the new team. If you are a wealthy team, there are big names here, and everyone is the number one star in your previous team. You are inconspicuous here, no one listens to you, and the head coach will not formulate tactics with you as the core, because there is a mature system here. You are an outsider, why should a newcomer be the core as soon as you start?

Not only do you have to adapt to new interpersonal relationships and new tactical systems, but you also have to adapt to a new living environment. When you go to play football abroad, you have to learn language, right? How can you communicate with your teammates if you can’t understand? Others are discussing enthusiastically, but you can’t interfere because you don’t understand. You can only sit in the corner and be silent. Over time, you will naturally become more marginalized. In addition to learning new languages, foreign eating habits, daily routines, and national character may be different from where you are currently. All of these need to be adapted again.

So there are many players who performed well in the team before, but their performance plummeted after going abroad. This is the performance of failure in transfers.

The most typical and famous example is Gaika_mendieta of Valencia Football Club in Spain. When he was the captain and midfield commander in Valencia, he led Valencia to the European Champions League final twice in a row. Although he did not win the trophy, he won world reputation. At that time, he was one of the best midfielders in the world. With his wonderful performance in the Champions League and European Cup, he attracted the attention of many European giant teams. Valencia knew that they could no longer retain the Basque, so he transferred to Lazio for a high price of 30 million pounds.

But then the tragedy began.

At that time, Lazio had only been a season after they spent huge sums of money to build a luxury lineup and won the league championship. Excessive investment would inevitably cause the team's financial imbalance. At the same time, Lazio owner Sergio Craniotti's own Cirio Food Company was also in a business crisis. At the end of 2002, it went bankrupt because it could not repay a billion euro bond. Craniotti, who was financially struggling, was already planning to start selling the team's leading stars. In 2002, he sold the team's flag Nesta.

These are all things that happened not long after Mendeta joined Lazio, and just before he joined, another hero of the team, Nedved (pavel_nedved), was just joined by Juventus for £38 million.

The team's financial environment is unstable, and Cranioti has demolished the east walls and repaired the west walls all day long, and has no intention of estimating the normal development of the team.

In addition, the tactical system was not suitable for Mendeta, and his life in Italy made him very uncomfortable, and his language was not understood... and other factors, Mendeta eventually died.

After that, I have been to many places, and occasionally I will regain my strength, but I will completely slide into the abyss due to injuries.

Finally, the talented player who once led Valencia to eliminate Barcelona 4-1 in the Champions League announced his retirement after the 2007-2008 season, ending his displaced career.

This is a classic example of unsuccessful transfers.

Chu Zhongtian doesn't want to be the next Mendita.

So personal treatment is not what he values ​​most.

The reputation of the team is not important. He must choose a team that suits him best. He is already twenty-four years old and his career is about to enter a golden period, so this transfer is crucial. If you take a wrong step, you may waste your time and youth in vain. Will you fight again when he reaches the age of 28 or 29? He doesn't want to do this.

He must be very cautious when it comes to transfer issues.

※※※It’s just that he quickly became obsessed with what club to go to.

On May 10th, in the 37th round of the league, Metz lost 1:2 to Lorient Lorient at home. Pjanic scored another goal in this game, and this time it was a wonderful free kick.

Then, Lian Sa stopped to make way for the national team competition. The last round of the league was May 17, which was the day when Chu Zhongtian and Metz fans bid farewell.

On the morning of May 12, Chu Zhongtian sat up from the bed and looked at the head on the bedside table. At half past six.

It was Monday, and the team had half a day of training and was scheduled to start at 10:30 in the morning.

With only one round left in the league, the team doesn't do anything like practicing twice a day. They only have a training class every day. Either in the morning or in the afternoon, after training, there is nothing to do. Everyone can do whatever they want, no one cares about it.

Chu Zhongtian did it himself, made breakfast, and finished breakfast at the dining table with his upper body naked. Then he rested for an hour before calling Belmont and using his car to the Holy Mountain Fury Training Base.

He arrived at the training base a little early, and there was no one yet. He sat in the locker room and was not in a hurry to change his clothes. He just chatted casually with his only few teammates.

Ibisevic pushed the door open and saw Chu Zhongtian sitting in the locker room talking and laughing with his companions, a little strange.

He asked loudly, "Chu, have you read the morning news?"

Chu Zhongtian shook his head.

Since the incident of smashing, looting and burning in Tibet, French media have been rushing to undermine China, and Chu Zhongtian has no good feelings for French news. Not only do he not read TV news, but he also stopped reading newspapers at all. Although he bought an LCD TV at home, he had no other purpose except for playing game videos.

"Well..." Ibisevic was silent for a moment, and then said, "Chu, your motherland has been earthquake."

Chu Zhongtian looked up at him, stunned for a while, then took out his cell phone and started calling home.

I called my father’s cell phone first, and he knew that my father had been with my mother in the country during this period.

He was not connected for a long time, but after a while, he was prompted that he was "busy on the Internet".

Chu Zhongtian took it down and called his mother's cell phone, but he was still "busy on the Internet".

He was a little panicked now and asked Ibisevic: "Do you know where it is specifically in China?"

Ibisevich spread his hands: "I didn't remember. I just saw it by chance on TV news. I only remember it was China. Which is exactly what it is... The name is not easy to remember, I didn't hear it clearly. Sorry, Chu. I hope your hometown is fine."

Chu Zhongtian nodded: "Thank you for telling me this news, Ibi."

Then he started calling home. This time it was connected, but no one answered.

He waited until the ringtone was automatically cut off before putting down his phone.

He knew that China was very big, and there were many places in the earthquake zone, not necessarily Chengdu, Sichuan. All this may be just a coincidence, for example, the mobile phone signal was not very good at that time, and there was no one at home... He decided to wait and call.

Only one minute later, he picked up his cell phone again.

I continued to call, but I was still busy with the signal when I called my phone, and no one answered the phone call from home.

Until the start of the training, he did not contact his parents. The ominous thoughts in his heart became stronger and stronger, as if a thick fog was covering him, making him unable to distinguish things, and was in a daze and extremely anxious.

He also seemed absent-minded during training. After Fernandez noticed his situation, he called him aside to ask the reason. After hearing about Chu Zhongtian's concerns, Fernandez decided to give Chu Zhongtian a holiday.

"You go and contact your parents first, Chu. Make it clear. You don't have to participate in the training today. In addition, I hope your parents are fine."

Chu Zhongtian thanked the head coach and did not insist on continuing to train. Without saying hello to his teammates, he hurriedly left the training base.

Since he couldn't contact his parents, he rushed home to search for news online.

Just in Belmont's car, he finally opened his father's cell phone. When he heard his father's voice coming from the other end, he felt half of his heart, and the other half he didn't let go was worried about his mother.

So his first sentence was: "Dad? Are you okay? How are my mom?"

After hearing Dad say, "I'm okay, she's so good, we two are so good, don't worry."

Only then did his whole heart completely come to fruition.

He didn't know if the earthquake really happened in Chengdu, he didn't know what it was like, and he didn't know whether his house was damaged and collapsed in the earthquake. He didn't care about these things. As long as he knew that his parents were fine, he would be better than anything else.

His heart, which had been beating wildly, then calmed down.

Later, during the connection with his parents, he learned the specific situation. Perhaps a major earthquake occurred somewhere in Sichuan, and the tremor in Chengdu was strong. Chu Zuosheng was surfing the Internet at home, but he heard a squeaking sound. At first, he thought it was a strong wind, but when he turned his face, he saw the electric poles outside the window shaking, and then he realized the earthquake.

So he ran down wearing shorts, vest and slippers.

Zhou Xiaoxiang was in school at that time and had just started her first class.

During the earthquake, neither of them could contact each other, and all communications were interrupted at that time. Later, the telecom phone was the first to recover, and China Unicom was also unblocked, and the mobile phone was severely damaged, but there were also signals in Chengdu.

Chu Zuosheng couldn't get his wife's phone number, so he decided to go to school to find her. Rising the risk of a second aftershock, he ran upstairs to get his clothes and keys and wallet, closed the door and headed straight to the school.

After finding his wife in the school playground, he started calling his son. But it was not cleared after a long time. Because of the constant aftershocks, he didn't dare to go back home and could only wait in the school playground. Until dark, there were rumors that there would be aftershocks of magnitude 6 or above at 3 a.m., so he didn't dare to go home. He found a restaurant that was still open for dinner outside and continued to take shelter in the school playground.

During this period, the two of them kept calling Chu Zhongtian on their mobile phones, and it was not until now. As for the specific situation at home, Chu Zuosheng said that the wall above the doors had cracked several cracks, and you could see the brick wall. The flower stand where the flower pot was placed fell down, the flower pot was broken, and some wall skin fell. The others were fine, without much damage.

After listening to his father's story, Chu Zhongtian understood what was going on.

However, at this time, neither he nor his parents knew what kind of earthquake it was, nor how wide the impact it affected, and how great the subsequent impact it had.

It was not until Chu Zhongtian returned home and turned on the computer to log in to the Internet that he found that the problem was very serious.

At 2:28 pm on May 12, a magnitude 7:8 earthquake occurred in Wenchuan County, which is about 90 kilometers away from Chengdu (Note 1). There was a tremor that was far away in Japan, which shows how strong the earthquake was.

What is known at present is that houses collapse in Wenchuan and Mianyang.

However, the earthquake had just happened, and there were many rumors now. Chu Zhongtian didn't believe it easily, but just glanced around quickly and made up for the various earthquake common sense that he didn't care about before. He was basically not worried about his parents, but now he began to worry about his hometown Sichuan.

At this moment, Xu Xiaodi called.

"Xiao Chu, Wenchuan earthquake! Are your parents okay?" Xu Xiaodi's first words made Chu Zhongtian feel deeply that he had not missed anyone.

"Thank you for your concern, Brother Xu. They are all fine, they are not in the earthquake zone, they just feel tremor."

"That's good! Damn, I feel the earthquake in Shanghai. This earthquake is so terrible!" Xu Xiaodi also spoke with a little fear in his tone. "Damn, when I heard the house creaking, my legs were weak... I didn't expect that I was so useless... Hey, forget it, I won't say this anymore. I just care about your parents, and I can't even call them with their phones. I heard that there was a major earthquake of magnitude 6 or above at 3 a.m.? You told your parents to be careful, but if it really doesn't work, don't go back tonight..."
To be continued...