As the young man looked on in surprise, Tiger pointed at him and said, "I promise you now, come to Manchester United, and in a few years, the number 7 jersey will be yours. What do you say, Leroy Sane?"
The number 7 jersey at Manchester United is one of the world's most prestigious football traditions. Almost every player who has worn it has become an international football icon, including Cantona, Beckham, Ronaldo, and Owen. Each of these players has a legendary journey behind their name.
After tempting Sane with the number 7 jersey, Tiger was very satisfied when Sane signed a contract the next day. He advised Sane to rest well and not miss the team's training, which would start on July 15th. Sane successfully transferred with a transfer fee of 800,000, and Tiger still had 49.2 million in transfer funds to use.
"Buy players, keep going."
Tiger and a few others rested overnight in Gelsenkirchen before heading to Stuttgart the next day.
On the drive to Stuttgart, Woodward admired, "Tiger, I always thought you were an honest man, but I didn't expect you to be so good at lying."
"Oh? What lies did I tell?" Tiger didn't understand what he meant.
"You don't admit it? Yesterday, you used Manchester United's number 7 jersey to trick Sane. Isn't that lying? How could such a young player be qualified to inherit Manchester United's number 7?"
Tiger asked in return, "When Ronaldo came, he was only 18 years old and he wore the number 7 jersey, didn't he?"
Woodward waved his hand. "How can this Sane compare to Ronaldo? He is a genius discovered by Sir Alex."
Tiger smiled slightly. "Ed, I'm not just talking to trick Sane. I'm really planning to pass the number 7 jersey to him in the future. Don't worry, this young man has a bright future ahead of him."
After finishing his words, Tiger paid no attention to Woodward's stunned expression and leaned back on his seat with his eyes closed to rest.
Upon arriving in Stuttgart, Tiger effortlessly persuaded the club and spent €1 million at the youth academy to buy the 18-year-old German defender, Kimmich.
Kimmich is a young midfielder who is good at both attacking and defending. In the future, he will be bought by Bayern Munich and become a hope for the future. The reason why Tiger is interested in Kimmich is not because of his talent in midfield, but because of his adaptability to different positions.
Before Lahm retired, Kimmich replaced him as a full-back during Lahm's injury period. To everyone's surprise, in 7 games, he scored 1 goal and made 6 assists, instantly making people take notice of this young man. As a full-back, Kimmich's ability to both defend and attack is fully displayed, and his efficient defense and precise crossing are his strengths.
Tiger is well aware that in the future of international football, there is a severe lack of excellent full-backs. Therefore, reserving young and talented full-backs in advance has become one of Kim Taek-ge's major goals.
With Kimmich's successful transfer for €1 million, Tiger still has €48.2 million in transfer funds to use.
"Buy players, continue," he said.
Tiger continued to dig for young players in Germany. Meanwhile, there were some major events happening in the transfer market of German football.
First, it's the German giant Bayern Munich. The newly appointed coach Pep Guardiola made two consecutive moves. First, he spent 25 million euros to buy his former disciple and midfielder Thiago from his old club Barcelona. Then, he spent 38 million euros to bring in the hottest young talent in Germany, Mario Götze, from Borussia Dortmund. After these two transfers were completed, the midfield line of the German giant became even more luxurious.
Dortmund also did not lag behind. They first dug out the top scorer of the 2013 Ukrainian Super League, Mkhitaryan, from the Ukrainian powerhouse Shakhtar Donetsk, with a total cost of 27.5 million euros. Then, they bought Papastathopoulos from the German powerhouse Werder Bremen for a total cost of 9.5 million euros. It was also announced that Dortmund had successfully renewed the contract with Reus, and his annual salary reached 6 million euros, ranking first in the club.
Other Bundesliga clubs also made significant moves.
However, Tiger was not concerned about their transfer situation, but the transfer details related to Lewandowski.
He found that Bayern had not made an offer to Lewandowski, and after Dortmund lost Götze, they were determined not to let go of Lewandowski this summer. Although there was no news of Lewandowski renewing his contract with Dortmund.
This series of chain reactions made Tiger very happy. As he expected, Lewandowski did not renew his contract with Dortmund and became a free agent in the summer of 2014, eventually transferring to Bayern.
But Tiger was determined not to let Lewandowski go to Bayern. He had already made up his mind to bring Lewandowski under his command and create a new, powerful red empire!
The trip to Germany was over, and Woodward asked Tiger, "Tiger, where are we going next?"
Tiger looked at the list in his hand and briefly considered, "Let's go to the Netherlands first, it's closer to Germany."
"The Netherlands? Should we go to Amsterdam?" Woodward's eyes lit up with excitement. "I've been so busy lately, I could use a break there."
Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands and is famous worldwide for its open sexual culture, earning the title of "world city". Woodward's desire to relax there is probably due to this reputation.
Tiger looked at him contemptuously, "Ed, we don't have time to go sightseeing in the city of fireworks. If you're interested, you can come back on your own next time. What do you think?"
"Forget it, the club's big issues are more important. We can enjoy ourselves another time." Woodward was somewhat disappointed.
On this trip, in addition to signing a series of young players, Tiger and Woodward's relationship grew closer. If they had just met, they would never have talked about this sensitive topic. Tiger also had a growing fondness for this Manchester United commercial director, whom he jokingly called "San Dezi" online. In fact, this guy just values his interests a bit more. As long as he doesn't interfere with managing the team and buying and selling players, from a professional perspective, he's actually a very outstanding commercial director. Judging from the speed of signing new players in the past few days, he was decisive and efficient, which made Tiger very satisfied.
"Let's go, Ed. There's an excellent center-back in the Netherlands waiting for us. He's about to sign with someone else, and I need your help to snatch him back!"
"No problem, stealing love with a sword is my specialty."