"Harry, he's been doing well lately."

At the moment Portsmouth is not a Premier League club, but a club in the English First Division. Portsmouth was founded in 1999 by the American-Serbian businessman Milan. Mandridge acquisition. Before him, Portsmouth was already on the verge of bankruptcy due to too much debt, but fortunately he acted in time. Otherwise, Portsmouth would have been relegated to the lower leagues. This rich man has a lot of money, and he has spent a lot of money since he first took over Portsmouth.

However, Portsmouth's results continue to decline and can only be mixed in with League One. Therefore, Portsmouth brought in Redknapp, who has been in English football for many years. Redknapp has been Portsmouth's manager since the second half of last season.

Redknapp is an old fox in English football and knows a lot about English football. After so many years in English football, coaching the team has its own set of methods. Last season was just a temporary takeover, playing for more than two months. By the time the summer had put the squad in order, Portsmouth had been leading the way to the start of this season's League One. League One has 46 games to play in a season, eight more than the Premier League.

Therefore, the league arrangement is very intensive. The Premier League has only been in the open for a little over a month now and only six games have been played. But League One has already played ten games. Portsmouth have been in a spectacular form, winning eight of their ten games and leading them by a wide margin. Everyone knows that the Portsmouth upgrade should not be a big problem.

"It's okay."

Redknapp grinned. Redknapp is a veteran of English football, having been in charge for two decades. The others dare not say. There is definitely a lot of experience in terms of relegation and promotion, and no one in English football can compare to Redknapp. And a lot of people in English football will also give him enough face. As long as it's not too big, and if Redknapp's game is important, maybe they won't beat his team.

Don't underestimate such connections. Weishenme Many people say that Man is connected, but in fact, this is the reason. Those coaches who have a relationship with Alex Ferguson may not be a release in the game against Manchester United. It's just that it won't be too stiff, that is, it just plays normally. But against Manchester United's opponents, they will use 1.2 million points of strength to smash each other. That's why many people think that there is a Manchester connection in the Premier League.

It is precisely because Redknapp is such an old fritter that Portsmouth chose Redknapp to be Portsmouth's head coach. They believe that Redknapp will make a move and Portsmouth's promotion hopes will be very high.

"There shouldn't be any problems with upgrading."

Rist and Redknapp didn't know each other for long. But since getting to know Redknapp. Rist was quick to pull in the relationship with Redknapp.

And Redknapp is not averse to working with Rist. Although it is said that the current football world is still closed. It's still a shili to guard against outsiders, but the current football world is different from back then. In the seventies and eighties, the head coach had a lot of power in the club. In English football at that time, the head coach of the club was a figure that the club's top management would not offend. The head coach has half the power to decide the development of the club. Character coaches like Clough in the past even beat their own players hard in the locker room. The players did not dare to resist.

It was precisely because the head coach of the club back then had too much power. So any club that wants to buy a player will give the opposing manager some money. Because the manager doesn't speak. Then you can't sell players at all. Therefore, those agents who want their players to leave the club need to give the manager a small benefit fee so that he can let his players go. Of course, there are players who want to climb the branches. It is necessary to give some benefits to the head coach of the strong team, so that the head coach of the strong team can relax and let the players enter the strong team.

These things were very common until the early nineties, which is commonly known as the head coach black gold. Arsenal's George. Graham just accepted black gold, then bought a few garbage players, and Zuihou resigned after the incident broke out. Redknapp has been a coach in English football for two decades and has handled dozens of transfers. Among them, a lot of black gold was also accepted.

But the situation is completely different now. With the advent of the Boseman Act, the rights of players increased greatly and began to contend with the clubs. It's completely impossible for a manager to control the players like he used to. Now many Premier League clubs at the top have also begun to limit the manager's power and start to learn from some of the practices of continental European football. The important thing is that none of them want the club's money to be spent by the manager at will, and then the manager gets the money in the middle. So now the manager has some difficulties if he wants to accept the black gold directly.

Redknapp knows times are different. The head coach is already outdated when he goes out to win black gold in person, and it is easy to be caught. That's why Redknapp would work with Stretford, and when Stretford withdrew, he accepted Stretford's suggestion to work with Rist.

The manager is special in English football, so there are plenty of opportunities to make money. But the traditional way of receiving black gold is now outdated, and Redknapp needs a new approach. And working with a broker is the best way to go. And now that Rist has learned the lesson of Stretford, he won't make the coach a shareholder in his agency. Because this has a direct interest relationship, it will be criticized by many people. The partnership between Rist and the manager is an invisible stake.

"It shouldn't be a problem."

Redknapp replied, considering Rist's intentions. Although Rist and Redknapp began to cooperate, everyone's cooperation only stopped at the beginning stage, and even everyone's cooperation was only because of interests. Therefore, I don't know much about Rist's personality and temperament, so I can only listen to it.

"Harry, are you really going to stay in Portsmouth?"

Redknapp shrugged. Redknapp is an idealistic and ambitious manager and certainly won't settle for a Portsmouth managerial position. It's just that in English football now, Redknapp hasn't found a club that suits him. Portsmouth though a little close. But the owners of Portsmouth have a bit of money and trust Redknapp at the moment. So Redknapp is just here for the time being.

"It's the most haode place at the moment."

Redknapp somewhat understood what Rister meant. Lister wanted to introduce himself to a job, so he quietly listened to Lister's next move. He wanted to hear which club Listrice was going to introduce to him.

"Harry, you know Eindhoven's general manager, Frank. Arneson? ”

"I've heard of the daimyo but I've never seen me."

Redknapp's eyes grew smaller and smaller. Redknapp's eyes were already small, and when he was serious, it was as if he was going to sleep. Arneson has been in charge of PSV Eindhoven for ten years, and in particular, the great success of Ronaldo, Ruud van Nistelrooy, and Ronaldinho in European football has pushed Arneson's reputation to the climax. Redknapp, of course, had heard of Arneson's name. It's just that everyone is not in the same place, so they don't know each other.

"He's going to change jobs recently. Probably going to Tottenham. ”

"Tottenham?"

Redknapp understood that what Lister wanted to introduce was Tottenham. If it is true, Tottenham will indeed be very good work for Redknapp. Tottenham as a traditional powerhouse. In that year, the status was the same as that of Everton and Villa. It's just that everyone is down. Among them, Everton and Villa are really in decline. Because their owners don't invest money, they are reduced to a mid-stream team.

Tottenham is different. Tottenham owners have always been very rich, including the former wronged boss Schug, who is a billionaire. They all have money to invest. But the boss is more than a layman. That's why Tottenham will fall. Tottenham's decline was simply a mistake in the club's policy. It's not that the club is really in decline.

If Tottenham really have a long-term plan, Tottenham is really not a club to be underestimated. If Tottenham were to invite themselves, Redknapp would certainly be seriously considering.

Arneson is expected to be in charge of Tottenham's competitive space. It is possible to take over as Tottenham's director of football. Arneson analysed English football before accepting Tottenham's offer and decided you were the best fit to coach Tottenham. So I'd like to ask you what you mean, and if you want to do that, then he'd like to talk to you personally. ”

Redknapp is an old fox, and at the age of fifty-five, he can be said to have experienced a hundred battles, and he has never seen anything. Rist's words had just come out, and Redknapp was already able to understand the matter. Before cooperating with Lister, Redknapp had already had a preliminary understanding of Lister's information and knew that Lister and Eindhoven had a deep cooperative relationship. Even Redknapp knows that Rist and Tottenham are also in a relationship.

As soon as this matter was contacted, although Redknapp didn't know the specific things inside, most of them were still able to guess. Tottenham, Frank. Arneson, Daniel. Levy, Eindhoven, including himself. These people all had a close relationship with Rist, and Redknapp believed that Rister must have threaded the needle in the middle.

"Harry, how's that? Would you like to talk to Arneson? ”

Redknapp nodded. It's a great opportunity, and Redknapp won't pass it up. Among the current mid-table teams in the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur is the most promising club. Tottenham Hotspur are the most likely mid-table club to compete with Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool. Tottenham's transfer market in recent years has cost a few million pounds to buy a player. Tottenham are the only mid-table teams in the Premier League who can do it. Such a club can really become a Premier League powerhouse as long as it is in the right direction.

"That's good. The two of you have a good talk, maybe Tottenham will become the top team in the Premier League in the future, and the top Tottenham will be born in your hands. ”

Rist has his own rules when he enters any league. Rist never imagined that he would be able to beat all the big clubs in a league in one go, and that could only be a dream. Even Stretford, who was once England's No. 1 agent, failed to beat all the Premier League teams in his most glorious time. Rist, an outsider, would not dare to think so.

So Rist's idea was simple. With Benitez influencing Liverpool's transfer market, and then controlling Tottenham's transfer market with Arneson and Redknapp. As for Manchester United and the future Chelsea, it is by virtue of themselves and Ferguson, Jason. Ferguson's relationship, as well as the relationship with them with the Israeli agent Zahavi.

Some are controlling, some are influencing, and some are cooperating, and Rist is very clear. A person who doesn't know how many pounds and taels he has, and he is stupid if he wants to swallow them all. As for Arsenal, it is the club that Lister will focus on. Therefore, the entry of Arneson and Redknapp into Tottenham is a very important part of Rist's jihua, as long as they work together at Tottenham, then Tottenham's transfer to Rister can really be controlled. Especially in terms of Arneson's ability to deal with Daniel. Levy, under the influence of Redknapp should not be a problem.

"Didi-Di-"

While Rist was talking to Redknapp, Rist's phone rang. After looking at the phone number, Rist was surprised, so he opened the phone and said, "Hello, Sandro." (To be continued......)