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Chapter 5 Where is the next stop?

Real Madrid Club did not expect Chu Zhongtian to suddenly hold a press conference announcing that it would not renew its contract with Real Madrid. Although Real Madrid also had plans to announce the news, Chu Zhongtian snatched it first. This made Real Madrid feel very passive, and for a moment they became the villain in this incident and were criticized.

Then Real Madrid quickly made a news report, claiming that after friendly negotiations with Chu Zhongtian, the two sides decided not to renew the contract and after June 30 next year, Chu Zhongtian will leave the team as a free agent.

In the news, Real Madrid Club also thanked Chu Zhongtian for everything he brought to the team during his eight seasons, and said that no matter where Chu Zhongtian would go, Real Madrid will always thank him and welcome him back again... The club hopes to dilute the adverse effects in this way.

If Real Madrid still has energy, the Madrid media soon stopped discussing what was behind Chu Zhongtian's departure. Only the Catalan media was still entangled, but Real Madrid did not win with the Catalan media.

More media began to speculate where Chu Zhongtian would go after leaving Real Madrid.

Previously, Catalan media announced that Barcelona was interested in Chu Zhongtian, which forced Real Madrid to be in case. Zidane was ordered to visit Chu Zhongtian again, and he must not sign a contract with Barcelona.

Chu Zhongtian smiled: "Barcelona cannot be interested in a 34-year-old player, Qi Zu. In fact, there will not be many first-tier giants who are interested in me. If I want to go, I will definitely go to a lower-level team..."

Zidane suddenly felt sad when Chu Zhongtian said something.

The man who once a hero of Real Madrid, who forever engraved his name on the wall of honor of Real Madrid, has now fallen to this point... He just wants a dignified end, but Real Madrid doesn't even give him this... "I'm sorry, Chu." Zidane apologized to Chu Zhongtian, feeling that this is representing himself and Real Madrid.

"I understand you, Qi Zu." Chu Zhongtian sat on the hospital bed and smiled and said to Zidane. "In fact, I have never regretted coming to this team. I have been having a good time here in the past seven seasons. You should know this?"

Zidane nodded.

"So, I really don't think there is anything wrong with this. You have your position, and I have my position, and I can't ask everyone to follow one position. I think it's good. I've been very satisfied with the past seven years. The future belongs to me, and I have to write it myself. You don't have to feel guilty." Chu Zhongtian said to Zidane. "This is the truth. I am very satisfied with my seven seasons in Real Madrid, even this eighth season. As for where I will go, I don't know now, but I believe I will definitely make the choice that suits my heart."

※※In fact, there are indeed several teams who are interested in Chu Zhongtian, including the Qatar League and the Major League teams in the American Professional League. They all hope to get this player who has won three times to play for them.

In addition, there are also teams in European football who are interested in Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian's former boss Hoffenheim also hopes that Chu Zhongtian can retire from the place where he grows to become a world football player. Hoffenheim expressed his willingness to provide Chu Zhongtian's two-year or even three-year contract to retire at Hoffenheim. Today, Hoffenheim is no longer under Mr. Hop's management. Hoffenheim is a team that is self-profit and loss. As the most famous star in the history of Hoffenheim club, Chu Zhongtian's contract with Real Madrid is about to expire. Hoffenheim certainly hopes to get the legend back to Hoffenheim.

Hoffenheim fans also hope that Chu Zhongtian can come back here.

Chu Zhongtian was a little moved by the invitation to Hoffenheim... Although Hoffenheim is not a strong team in the Bundesliga, at least he is still in the top league, and it is not a shame to play for Hoffenheim.

In short, he has listed Hoffenheim as an alternative target.

In addition, Napoli, the newly promoted Serie A team this season, also expressed interest in Chu Zhongtian. However, Chu Zhongtian is not very interested in Napoli. Do you know if Napoli can stay in Serie A after a season... After the winter break, he signed the contract. Napoli will be relegated by then. Will he play in the Serie B?

Chu Zhongtian is not willing to play in a low-level league. No matter what, he is a Real Madrid player. He has won three Champions League titles and three World Footballers. How can he go to such a low-level event?

Chu Zhongtian is a proud person, otherwise he would not have rejected the contract proposed by Real Madrid that is signed once a year.

In addition, although some clubs are very interested in players of Chu Zhongtian's level, his high salary has become a reason why many people are afraid of it.

Chu Zhongtian's annual salary in Real Madrid is 8.5 million euros, which is not the highest annual salary in the world today. Considering that Chu Zhongtian doesn't care much about the increase in salary, it can be understood. If a team wants to sign him now, of course, he can't give him a high salary of 8.5 million yuan, but it can't be too low, right? An annual salary of 1 or 2 million euros is simply unavailable.

But for many teams, an annual salary of four or five million euros is considered high, and they may not be able to afford it. A team that can afford such a salary does not need a 34-year-old player.

It is really hard to find a new owner Chu Zhongtian now.

"Chu is now a little bit too high and not too low... so it cannot be ruled out that the last team willing to sign with him has not been found. Although it is not a retirement, it is actually a retirement situation..." The host was saying this in the TV news.

Chu Zhongtian curled his lips.

※※※ "Hey, have you heard that? Chu and Real Madrid will no longer renew their contract! This means he is about to become a free agent!"

"Yes, I read the news. It's really unexpected - I thought he would definitely retire in Real Madrid. He and Real Madrid have always had a tacit understanding... How could it be?"

"Hey, isn't Florentino trying to force Chu to accept the contract renewal provided by the club?"

This is not a discussion between two fans on the bus, it is a conversation that took place on the training ground of the Championship team Wimbledon Athletics.

As a world-class superstar who has gone out of Wimbledon Athletics, Chu Zhongtian has always been the focus of Wimbledon Athletics. For example, if he performed well in the game, he would become a topic of discussion in the team the next day. Chu Zhongtian is the idol and goal of many Wimbledon Athletics players, and Wimbledon Athletics Club is also proud to have cultivated stars like Chu Zhongtian. The photo of Chu Zhongtian holding the Champions League is still hanging on the wall of Wimbledon Athletics' honor room. Logically speaking, the honor room should be displayed in the honor of the club, not the honor of a certain player. Chu Zhongtian is an exception.

This time, such a big news naturally cannot escape the fate of being brought out to discuss.

Allai Russell was monitoring the players' warm-up, and these comments fell into his ears. The players did not mean to discuss with the head coach on their backs.

Russell naturally read this news. As his friend, he also cared about Chu Zhongtian very much.

At first, he thought the breakup between Chu Zhongtian and Real Madrid was quite ordinary. After the player contract expired, some players with the club were really ordinary. Do you have to force yourself to accept a contract you don’t like? But he didn’t care much about where Chu Zhongtian’s next stop was. He felt that it had nothing to do with him. Will players of Chu Zhongtian’s level and level still lack a team to ask for him?

The players' discussion continued.

"Hey, I don't know where he will play football?"

"I heard that Hoffenheim is inviting him. Chu once won the European Champions League in Hoffenheim. It is very likely that he will go back!"

"It's great. If we were in the Premier League, we would definitely invite him back, right? After all, we are also the ones we have helped out..."

These few words suddenly reminded Russell - why can't we invite Chu Zhongtian to return to Wimbledon to compete?

He believed in Chu Zhongtian's feelings for Wimbledon Athletics. Until now, Chu Zhongtian is still one of the earliest members of Wimbledon Athletics, and he and his wife Emily will pay a total of 1 million pounds of membership fees every year.

If we have Chu, will it take so much trouble to relegate in the English Championship?

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was possible.

After the training, he couldn't wait to find club chairman Eric Samuelson and told him his thoughts.

The old man looked at Russell in a daze, and after a long time he realized: "You did not take the wrong medicine, Alai?"

Russell frowned: "Of course I don't!"

"How did you think of Chu coming to us? Do you know? We are the Championship team, Chu is a player from Real Madrid. How could he come to a team like ours? In addition, Chu's annual salary is 8.5 million euros. Even if the salary is cut by half, how can we afford his annual salary of 4 million?" Samuelson did think that Russell was talking nonsense. This is simply a matter of normal people who can figure it out with their brains. Why is Russell so confused?

"I think based on my understanding of her, as long as we invite him, he will definitely be willing to come!" Russell was ridiculed by Samuelson and was very dissatisfied, so he retorted loudly.

Samuelson shook his head: "Young man..." and then threw Russell down and walked away.

Russell was really dissatisfied.

He and Chu Zhongtian were friends many years ago. He believed in his own vision of people. He knew that Chu Zhongtian was a person who valued emotions. He felt that no matter what, he should give it a try.

So he decided to call Chu Zhongtian himself.

He invited Chu Zhongtian as the head coach of Wimbledon.

He wanted to try to see if his trust in Chu Zhongtian had not deteriorated yet, and whether Chu Zhongtian was still there at the beginning.

※※※ Chu Zhongtian is browsing news online. Since those rumors came out, Chu Zhongtian found that he had to pay close attention to these news media. Who knows what excuses they used to create trouble? If they discovered it in time, they could be corrected immediately.

Then he clicked on the official website of Wimbledon Athletics. This website is always placed in his browser favorites.

Just as the Wimbledon Athletics players are very concerned about him, he also cares about this team he debuted.

He mainly pays attention to Wimbledon Athletics through the Internet, which is the most convenient and fastest. In addition, Wimbledon Athletics has its own official website since its establishment. Every step from its establishment to the present has been detailed, from the team to every step, from the starter lineup and game process in the first game in the club's history, as well as who scored the goals, can still be found now.

In addition, with Wimbledon's escalation step by step, more news about them has also increased. Chu Zhongtian can now easily learn about Wimbledon's escalation news in the English media.

When Wimbledon was promoted to the Championship, it was widely reported by the media. Because they were a young team spontaneously organized by fans, they went from the bottom to the Championship in less than 20 years, which was amazing. Their past and present lives attracted a lot of attention.

Chu Zhongtian is very familiar with Wimbledon's competition.

Wimbledon is currently ranked fourth from the bottom in the Championship, just one step away from the relegation zone. It seems that Russell's team is in a bad situation... Wimbledon has invested all its money in the construction of a new training base in the past few years. In fact, Chu Zhongtian did not agree with the club's doing this. First of all, the team is not without training, so the requirements for the training base are not so urgent. Secondly, he believes that instead of first renovating the training base, it is better to build a new stadium instead of always repairing and patching it on Kings Ranch. No matter how much it costs to repair this old stadium, it is impossible to expand into a stadium that can accommodate 30,000 fans, so it is unpaid to waste money on this stadium. However, the club's board of directors believes that expanding the stadium is not much, and it can also increase the number of seats and increase ticket revenue. It is a win-win situation, and it is also economical.

Although Wimbledon Athletics is a member-based club, they also have a board of directors. The institutions that voted by members to represent all members will hold regular meetings to discuss the team's operating array and other policies. This is much more efficient than the annual membership meeting, and it is also an organization that truly manages the team.

Chu Zhongtian is naturally a member of the board of directors, but because he is also a Real Madrid player, he has never participated in the board of directors. At that time, his wife and another board of directors often take time to participate. Emily voted against the construction of the training base. However, this is useless. Most of the directors were attracted by the words "a brand new, modern, and beautiful training base" and they didn't care about anything else. In recent years, the bank has

The loans and sponsors have been invested in this project, and they will finally be completed and delivered next summer... Chu Zhongtian thinks this is quite ironic. The team's home court still cannot meet the requirements of the Premier League. These people did not seek solutions to the stadium first, but went to build a training ground... As he already owned a team, although he did not fight on the front line of running the club, he still knew something. He had never eaten pork and had never seen pigs running, right?

Sichuan Quanxing is fighting hard in China's first-class football league. He has not set a goal for the team to advance to the Super League for many years. Anyway, he invests a lot of money every year to slowly raise this team, and starts with the club's cascade. The investment in these ten years has paid off. Sichuan Quanxing's youth team has already provided several outstanding talents to China's national youth team and the National Olympic Team. In addition, through his relationship and connections with Meili in European football, he is excellent. The young people in Quanxing, Sichuan have also gone abroad and studied abroad, and received the influence of the advanced European football culture. If Wimbledon Athletics was not the English team, they would have to be restricted by labor certificates. Chu Zhongtian really wanted the two clubs to cooperate and send the players from Quanxing in Sichuan to Wimbledon Athletics to play football and exercise... However, he never participated in the board of directors, so it was not easy to point fingers at the development of the club.

Wimbledon Athletics has developed very rapidly since its establishment. Under the leadership of meritorious coach Terry Brown, the team has successfully upgraded continuously. Now it has changed from an amateur team in the ninth level league to a professional team in the English Championship. The changes between these things cannot be explained simply by "from ninth level to second level".

The team is constantly developing and changing, and the ideas and ideas are constantly developing and changing, including the popularity of the club.

But there is always one that should remain unchanged and is the ultimate goal in the minds of all Wimbledon athletes.

That is the declaration of the first club chairman, Mr. Chris Stewart, on the day the team was founded.

Everyone is working hard for this goal, whether it is the players, the club's management, or ordinary fans.

He suddenly felt a little touched - one day this team really returns to the Premier League, what would it be like? People from Kings Ranch will definitely rush into the stadium and abandon the players high to celebrate, right? Chu Zhongtian has seen many photos of teams successfully upgrading, but he feels that no matter which time it is, it cannot be compared with returning to the Premier League.

Just like the Chinese team reached the World Cup finals, that kind of scene is something that Chu Zhongtian will never forget in his life and is the eternal memory of everyone.

Just as Chu Zhongtian was looking forward to the team's promotion to the Premier League, his cell phone rang.

When I answered the phone, I found it was Alex Russell.

"Alai? You are a busy man. I haven't received your call for a long time!" Chu Zhongtian was very happy to receive Russell's call. He was still thinking about whether it was the legendary telepathy. He happened to be looking at something related to Wimbledon Athletics, and then received a call from Wimbledon Athletics head coach... After a simple greeting, Russell asked: "I heard that your current agent is looking for your next stop for you, right, Chu?"

"Yes."

When this sentence was really about to be said, Russell hesitated a little. Samuelson's disdain flashed through his mind. He was worried that the truth would really be like what the old man Samuelson said... After so many years, Chu Zhongtian is no longer an amateur player who even he could not compare to back then. He is now a world superstar... If it is really like Samuelson said, wouldn't he be embarrassed?

"Is there anything wrong? Alai? Just say directly that we are friends." Chu Zhongtian realized that Russell seemed to be a little indescribable.

"Uh, we are friends?" Russell asked.

"What are you talking about, of course we are friends." Chu Zhongtian felt more and more that Russell was very strange today.

"So OK... just think this is a good friend's request... Of course, it's nothing if it doesn't work. I know this request is a bit presumptuous... Well, that's it... Are you, uh... are you interested in returning to Wimbledon to play football, Chu?"

Chu Zhongtian was stunned. He didn't expect that he would hear such a sentence.
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