Yes, Manager Kalmund, I did come here this time. After the two sides took their seats one after another, Zhuang Ge saved those polite words and went straight to the topic, but Zhuang Ge gave Kalmund a shock when he said the second sentence. I won’t beat around the bush when it’s urgent. What do you think about your main central defender, Lucio? We in Florence are willing to pay him 10,000 euros for a onetime transfer?
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Chairman Corleone, we Leverkusen will never accept your offer! Hearing Zhuang Ge’s price, Kalmund was going to kill himself in Florence. At that time, he almost smashed himself on the ground and finally calmed down. He replied in an extremely firm tone, You should know that when we introduced Lucio from Fica in January this year, his transfer reached 90,000 euros, and Lucio’s performance in Leverkusen for half a season was quite outstanding. We took the honor of Sanya King, and even Brazil won the World Cup. In this case, you offered Lucio a price lower than when we introduced him, which is really unacceptable to us.
Here, by the way, due to Zhuang Ge’s intervention and GM’s luck, Lucio had to land in Europe early and played for four and a half seasons in Fika, the three giants of Portugal. This experience made Brazilians have a deeper understanding of European football tactics. At the same time, Portugal advocated the offensive league atmosphere and was familiar with the language atmosphere (Portugal is the sovereign state of Brazil, and the official languages of both countries are Portuguese), which also made Lucio adapt to the European football environment faster and better. Leverkusen spent more money than in previous lives to introduce Lucio from Fika Club.
It is precisely because of this that Kalmund is so firmly opposed to Zhuang Ge’s offer. In the fat manager’s view, the former club was forced by Hess to sell Zerroberto and Frings cheaply, which has been a blot in the history of Leverkusen forever. If their transfer in Lucio is the same this time, who else will play in Leverkusen? How can they keep those good players or ask for huge profits from the transfer of players like Houdusse and Vicenza?
Always buy the core players of the national team at a price lower than the normal market price. This is Bayern Munich and Hess who are most criticized by the fans. It is reasonable to say that a club like Bayern, which has its own backing of the whole German football resources, should not be so stingy when poaching other teams. But Hess has done it, and it is very colorful. In Hess’s past life, Bayern, the German Bundesliga boss, broke the team’s signing transfer record in Ma Kai until three summers, and the value of this new European gold boot did not exceed 20,000 euros. Like those players in Germany, Hess was very stingy when they joined Bayer
Although Hess’s stingy and cautious management strategy has accumulated a huge wealth for Bayern, the Bundesliga giants have been able to survive the economic recession caused by the bankruptcy of Kirsch Group, it is precisely because of his meanness that other teams can hardly get enough income when selling their main players to Bayern, resulting in no other team in Germany except Bayern, whether Stuttgart and Werder Bremen or Dortmund and Leverkusen all flourished for a short time and then quickly disintegrated and declined in the Bayern offensive.
Now, in order to avoid this fate, Kalmund said that he didn’t want Lucio to transfer to Florence at a relatively low price, at least he had to make a profit in this transaction so that he could rebuild the team.
Manager Kalmund, I think the milliondollar offer is already a very reasonable price. For Kalmund’s statement, Zhuang Ge has no price meaning, but further said, Don’t forget that the position of central defender is very special, and they can’t sell any high price in the transfer market. For example, when French international Thuram joined Juventus last summer, the record of defender transfer was 3.65 million euros, and the value of players was inflated in the economic bubble. As a result, it cost you 90,000 euros to introduce Lucio. Now the transfer market is already a very high price. I believe no team will transfer Lucio at this time
It’s hard to say, President Corleone, Kalmund said with a strange smile when he saw that Zhuang Ge was unwilling to bid high. If the news that Florence was interested in Lucio was released, I think there would be a lot more teams interested in him, right? I believe that if you want Lucio again at that time, I’m afraid you can’t get it without $20 million.
Ha ha, if you really think so, manager Kalmund, just go ahead. After the negotiation, Zhuang Ge seemed very calm, and you couldn’t see that he was bound to win Lucio. But I have to make it clear to you in advance that if Lucio’s price is beyond a normal range in these teams, then I will give up Lucio and consider other candidates instead.
Chairman Corleone, I was joking just now. If you have a lot of adults, don’t care about these little things with me. Seeing Zhuang Ge’s disagreement, you will leave. Just now, you were threatening to get the news out. Kalmund immediately panicked and spoke to retain it.
It’s not surprising that Kalmund will behave like this. After all, Leverkusen is in urgent need of a large sum of money to rebuild the team at this time, not a rotating central defender. Florence is even worse. Kalmund didn’t know that Lucio was the best choice in Zhuang Ge’s heart. When Zhuang Ge said this, the fat manager immediately panicked because he knew that even if he put the news out to attract other teams to join the transfer, it would be difficult to attract competitors with better conditions than Florence.
Because Lucio’s lowlevel mistake in Brazil’s quarterfinal against England was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and his repeated attacks in the game led to the failure of the defense, it is not uncommon. Therefore, the main defender of the World Cup champion team can be said to be left out in the transfer market. Even if Florence is in favor, it can attract many competitors to join, but then Lucio’s transfer will be left to Leverkusen for a long time to adjust the array, and this is exactly what Kalmund can bear most!
Kalmund can’t afford it. At this time, there are two choices. One is to leave Lucio’s limited budget to repair the team and expect Leverkusen to continue the season magic after losing several main players; The second is to sell the Brazilians and rebuild the team completely after Florence gives a reasonable price!
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Although there are two choices in front of him, it is actually obvious for Kalmund that the road he will take next is to rebuild the team by taking advantage of the retirement of Frings and Zeroberto, the main striker Kirsten.
Kalmund’s choice is mainly due to the great influence of Frings and Zerroberto on Leverkusen. In addition, Kirsten’s fading out of ramello, Schneider, Neuville and other main players are about to pass the peak, and Sebelzen and Prasente are extremely depressed in preseason training. Obviously, they have not recovered from the blow of Sanya King … So it seems that the prospect of Leverkusen’s new season is really worrying.
In this way, before and after the two sides sat back to the negotiating table, they were obviously in a passive position in this transfer negotiation. Although Kalmund no longer had unrealistic illusions that Florence would give Lucio a skyhigh price, he still stuck to his bottom line and showed the basic qualities of a qualified manager in the subsequent negotiations.
No, absolutely not. Kalmund waved his hands vigorously to express his dissatisfaction with Zhuang Ge’s offer. Anyway, Lucio’s performance in Leverkusen for half a season is quite excellent. We can never sell him at a reduced price! 10 million dollars. That’s my bottom line! Otherwise, chairman Corleone, you’d better find someone else.
Ten million dollars? Are you robbing money? Zhuang Ge was never shaken by Kalmund’s tough stance and said discontentedly, gilberto silva, who is also the main force of the World Cup champion team, joined Arsenal for only 450,000 euros. edmilson estimated that it was less than 70,000 euros. roque junior couldn’t even get a main position in AC Milan. Isn’t it a bit too arrogant for Lucio to pay so much money for us to play in the Bundesliga for half a season? You know, it’s a big risk for us to introduce such a player. If mendieta doesn’t perform well after coming to Serie A, it will be a bloody deal for us.
Chairman Corleone’s problem is not within our discussion scope, Kalmund said firmly, without giving Zhuang Ge room for bargaining. The scouting department and coaching staff in Florence should be responsible for this matter, not the seller’s club.
In that case, Manager Kalmund, I have a proposal here, please consider it carefully. Seeing Kalmund’s paizhuang song, I knew it was impossible to further lower the price, so I changed my strategy and looked for a breakthrough from another direction. You know that there are many potential seedlings in Florence now, but for some reasons, we can’t give them the opportunity to receive exercise in the top league …
So you are going to rent them to us to offset part of Lucio’s transfer? Before Zhuang Ge finished, Kalmund interrupted Zhuang Ge’s narrative and said, It’s impossible. Now Germany is engaged in youth training. We can’t even care about the young people in the youth training camp. There is no need to help you cultivate those potential stocks. However, if Chairman Corleone is willing to offset some transfer methods and transfer all these players to us instead of just renting them, I can consider reducing the cash part in Lucio’s transfer transaction.
No problem, I agreed to this request. To Kalmund’s surprise, Zhuang Ge didn’t refuse his request, but agreed to it. But if that’s the case, then we in Florence have not suffered too much. Why don’t we add a repurchase clause to these players’ contracts or Florence have their priority to buy when the bids are the same?
Zhuang Ge Club chose this way mainly because with the deepening of Bosman Act in recent years, satellite clubs in Florence have established their own scouts and new talent training mechanisms, and their hematopoietic capacity has improved to a certain extent. Under such circumstances, they naturally do not want to help Florence train players.
Therefore, Zhuang Ge had to follow the example of Real Madrid in the past, and these young people of the Second Team found another way to make them grow up to be independent stars. Kalmund just happened to be pregnant with Zhuang Ge with a large part of his work.
In Zhuang Ge’s view, although Real Madrid’s attitude towards its own youth training players is a little too cold (such as Gredo and Juan Mata), this youth training policy has achieved good results. For example, Gredo, soldado, Mata, Delared and others all grew up step by step and entered the ranks of stars in this way when they got valuable games in their growth stage.
After listening to Zhuang Ge’s explanation, Kalmund thought about it. Although he felt that the buyback clause was not too overbearing, Zhuang Ge promised that the specific amount of the buyback clause would be jointly agreed with Leverkusen, and finally decided to agree to the other party’s proposal. After all, although Kalmund was far away in Germany, the second team of Florence was promoted to two grades in two years, and he also heard about it. With Zhuang Ge’s eyes, the general manager believed that these young people would definitely bring some positive things to Leverkusen.
In this way, after two days’ bargaining, the two sides finally reached a consensus on Lucio’s transfer the next afternoon. Florence will buy Leverkusen’s main central defender Lucio, Brazil’s international player, in cash, and Leverkusen will get about one million euros in cash, alberto aquilani and Andrea barzagli, two young rising stars in Italian football!
Kalmund and Zhuang Geren are very satisfied with this transaction. The former not only got a muchneeded transfer fund, but also got Aquilani and barzagli, two potential new stars, which greatly made up for the lack of Lucio and Frings. And the latter can give Aquilani and barzagli find a good home and feel happy. After all, Leverkusen is also a good player in training young players. From Barak and Emerson to tony cross and Adler to carvajal and Lionel, there are countless famous stars in pharmaceutical factories. Aquilani and barzagli should soon be able to fully improve their abilities when the shortstaffed Major General Leverkusen gets enough games, and they will not waste their time in the past.
In this way, after the top management of the two clubs reached an agreement on Lucio’s transfer, Florence and Leverkusen had to do it, that is to say, several players made them nod and sign their names in the work contract, thus completely completing the transfer!
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After learning that they were traded by the team, neither Lucio nor Aquilani nor barzagli showed any dissatisfaction. They all thought it was a turning point in their careers. Therefore, after a brief discussion with the workers who came to negotiate on personal treatment, these players were very excited to sign a work contract with their new owners, and nothing unpleasant happened.
Therefore, the final outcome of this transfer can be said to be happy. No matter which side is very satisfied with the conclusion of the transaction, Zhuang Ge is satisfied that Florence has brought a third central defender with the main level of giants and found a qualified successor for Stam, who is 30 years old. Kalmund was overjoyed when he got Aquilani and barzagli, two potential stocks of the team’s necessary fighting power. At the same time, the entry of millions of euros in cash greatly eased the increasingly tense financial situation of the club after the bankruptcy of Kirsch Group.
Let’s look at the players here. The ball stopping mistake against England in Bayer Leverkusen last season caused a big blow to Lucio. Therefore, the Brazilian central defender hopes to play in a new environment, and Florence is naturally his ideal choice in the eyes of Brazilians, proving to people that he is not a defensive colander, and even if he can play Stam as a substitute in Viola, Lucio will recognize it.
What’s more, Stam’s age and way of playing football are 30 years old, and the Dutch are doomed to be unable to maintain their peak for too long. Therefore, for Lucio, who is only 24 years old, this is a great opportunity for carp yue longmen, depending on whether the Brazilian can grasp it.
Lucio is still very confident about this. According to Hynkes, in Florence, his defense is to grab and stare at the arrow figure on the opposite side at the right time. Behind him, the defender Nengsta is in charge, and he doesn’t need to worry too much. This is completely different from when he played in Leverkusen and Brazil. At that time, he was not good at defending Zivkovici and roque junior edmilson. Once Lucio grabbed the back root, no teammates would make up for him, which would naturally be regarded as a defensive loophole.
Although they are very reluctant to live in Florence for many years, Aquilani and barzagli also know that it is very difficult for a professional player to stay with a team all the time, especially after the Bosman Act came into effect, the mobility of players has been greatly enhanced. Now it is extremely difficult to appear as loyal servants as baresi and Maldini again. Therefore, after learning that Leverkusen will give them enough appearances in the new season, if they perform well, they will be promoted to the main force. Aquilani and barzagli are so tempted to surrender and obediently sign the contract and become members of Leverkusen.
Here, by the way, there is a buyback clause attached to the contract signed between Aquilani and barzagli, which stipulates that if Zhuang Ge wants to bring them back to Florence in the next three years, he must pay a transfer of one million euros and seven and a half million euros respectively!
Aquilani and barzagli naturally have no objection to this repurchase clause. In their view, Leverkusen is just a springboard to the giants, so the giants’ club is their ultimate goal. What’s more, Viola can be regarded as their mother team, so they are naturally very happy to have such an opportunity to return to Florence.
So on the morning of the fourth day of Zhuang Ge’s arrival in Germany, Florence and Leverkusen called a press conference at the same time to announce the transfer of the three players!
After Florence announced the introduction of Lucio, people from all sides had different opinions on the transfer. Moggi expressed strong doubts about the signing at the first time. The old fox believed that Lucio was too persistent in attack. Lucio was not a qualified central defender. He often brought the ball to Florence’s defense line, which would probably cost the team a season’s efforts in some key occasions.
The same attitude as Mo Lao Fox, AC Milan general manager Adriano Galliani suffered a lot in roque junior. Jiabald is wary of Brazilianmade central defenders, especially Lucio, who is similar to Juniors in style but more persistent in attack than the former. In Jiabald’s view, the central defender should concentrate on defending superb defensive skills like baresi and Starr, destroying the opponent’s attack and contributing the most to the attack, that is, sending a twolegged long ball at the starting point of counterattack or having a fun before serving a corner kick, rather than intervening in the attack before doing anything like Lucio.
There are many people who have different opinions from Mo Lao Fox and Galliani, such as Roberto Baggio and batistuta, who have played in Florence. They all expressed their support for Zhuang Ge’s decision. They think that although Lucio is a player with obvious advantages and disadvantages, it is not so difficult to give full play to the advantages of the Brazilian international with Heinx’s tactical level and Gasta, a central defender. Moreover, Lucio can effectively strengthen the depth of the Viola bench for Florence. Sacco is more prepared to cope with the thirdline battle in the new season. Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos welcome the arrival of this Brazilian compatriot. After all, they know the strength of this national team teammate very well.
However, this time Ronaldo obviously has no chance to fight alongside Lucio, because three days after Lucio joined Florence, the newspaper Marca, the mouthpiece of Real Madrid, broke the news that Real Madrid had made substantive contact with Florence about Ronaldo’s transfer to the exhibition. The aliens who just won the World Cup Golden Boot and the World Cup are very hopeful to visit Madrid this summer!
With this news, the European transfer market has once again become crazy because of Florence this summer!