Unavoidable

Only a very small number of people knew the exact time Yang Yang would return to the National Team. The purpose was to avoid trouble.

But unexpectedly, the all-pervasive media reporters and fans still got the news.

Perhaps it was in Lijiang, perhaps on the way to Haigeng Training Base, or perhaps from the training base staff...

In any case, the next morning, when the National Team began its morning training session, many of the national players had only just received the news that Yang Yang had returned to the team. Yet quite a number of media reporters and fans had already arrived, many of them having driven there specifically for the occasion.

Their purpose in coming was clearly not the National Team's upcoming Confederations Cup campaign in South Africa, but Yang Yang.

It had been a week since Florentino announced that he had become Real Madrid's chairman.

Over the course of that week, Real Madrid officially announced Kaka's arrival. Italian media soon broke the news that Real Madrid was formally submitting an offer for Inter Milan's super striker Ibrahimovic, with the transfer fee likely to exceed Kaka's.

Meanwhile, all kinds of rumors had been pouring out of the transfer market. Some clubs were deliberately hiking their asking prices, some agents were testing the waters, and some people were simply trying to ride the latest wave of attention. Every sort of situation had emerged.

But the person everyone cared about most was still Yang Yang.

Marca had conducted a poll on its official website. More than five hundred thousand Real Madrid fans had voted, and over ninety-eight percent had chosen Yang Yang as the superstar they most wanted to see join the Bernabéu during this summer's transfer window, far ahead of everyone else.

After waiting bitterly for three years, the