Chapter 033: Raising the Price Thorn?
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George moved very quickly, and the day after a private deal with Alex Ferguson, the British media received news from unknown sources: Tottenham Hotspur were interested in bringing current England captain David Beckham to White Hart Lane, and had made a formal offer to the club where he played!
At the same time, Manchester United officially confirmed the authenticity of the news, and announced the specific amount of Tottenham's offer for Beckham - 40 million pounds!
Tottenham Hotspur made a £40 million bid for David Beckham! This announcement immediately caused a seismic shock in English football and even in the entire European football world. Pen~Fun~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Everyone who learned the news was wondering, did George also plan to follow the old path of Cragnotti and Florentino, and use the pounds in his hand to smash a bright road to Tottenham to the top giants?
However, with Beckham's current prestige and status in the football circle, the possibility of joining Tottenham is not very high. After all, although Tottenham Hotspur offers a high transfer fee and is willing to give Beckham the salary of the world's No. 1, Beckham also has to consider whether joining Tottenham will have a negative impact on his own commercial value - you know, unlike Real Madrid and Barcelona, which are top giants in the metropolis, Tottenham Hotspur in London is a club that has not even qualified for Europe!
On the other hand, after learning that Tottenham Hotspur was interested in bringing in Beckham and offered a sky-high transfer fee of 40 million pounds (about $64 million) for the "heartthrob", the Milan duo, who had originally wanted to take advantage of it and muddy the waters, immediately instigated and withdrew from the battle for Beckham - in their opinion, Beckham's commercial value is far from high enough to pay so much for him.
On the Barcelona side, Laporta, who had just assumed the presidency, also did not hesitate to terminate the negotiations. However, for the sake of his chairmanship, Laporta, who promised to bring Xiaobei to Camp Nou during the election campaign, did not announce the news to the outside world for the first time, but still put on a posture of intending to buy Xiaobei!
Obviously, although Tottenham's chances of success are not high, with its involvement, those clubs that lack the financial resources or do not have the heart to do so will voluntarily choose to leave. The rest are those buyers who are rich and really want to win Xiaobei at the same time.
Just when people were speculating about how Beckham would respond to Tottenham's attack, George made another move. And this time, Tottenham's poaching target has been replaced by its sworn enemy in the same city, Arsenal, the second strongest team in the Premier League!
"Alex, how do you see me doing this time?" George said triumphantly boasting of his recent results on the phone, "£40 million for David and £60 million for Henry and Vieira...... Hmph, I guess Arsenal must be having a headache right now, whether they should agree to my offer in exchange for the funds to build a new stadium. ”
It stands to reason that Tottenham, a sworn enemy in the same city, came to poach their own pillars, and Arsenal should immediately refuse to show their attitude. However, when Tottenham did propose the transfer deal to Arsenal, Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal hierarchy did not object to the matter in the first place, but very delicately did not give any response.
The main reason for this is that Arsenal have already started building their new stadium, which is expected to cost a whopping £390 million has put the Gunners on a heavy financial burden. Therefore, when Tottenham proposed to buy Thierry Henry and Vieira for £60 million, Arsene Wenger, who had been struggling with how to pay off the debt as soon as possible, couldn't help but feel a little moved.
After all, in Arsene Wenger's eyes, no player is irreplaceable, not even against Patrick Vieira as captain of the team, and Thierry Henry, who can record a double-double of goals and assists. The question is simply whether the professor can find a suitable replacement. If they could, then even players of the calibre Vieira and Thierry Henry would have been traded by Wenger for money.
Of course, there are a number of reasons why Arsene Wenger did not immediately agree to Tottenham's offer. One of the most important is that if he sells the backbone of the team to Tottenham, which is Arsenal's century-old enemy, it will definitely cause strong dissatisfaction among Arsenal fans - this can be seen from Campbell's free transfer to Arsenal that year, not only Tottenham fans hate him to the core, but even Arsenal fans don't like him very much now.
What's more, the sale of Vieira and Henry would also have a huge negative impact on the Gunners' prestige and appeal. No one believes that a club that dares to sell the core of the squad but does not have a big deal in the transfer market has the potential to become a top giant.
Therefore, under the combined effect of these two factors, Wenger and the Arsenal hierarchy are very entangled - on the one hand, they want to take this opportunity to slaughter George and return the scarce funds for Arsenal, and on the other hand, they do not want to bear the negative impact of selling key players to Tottenham.
However, what the Arsenal senior management and Wenger didn't expect was that their hesitant attitude caused the dissatisfaction of Henry and Vieira and others - we have made so many contributions to Arsenal, and you don't mention the salary increase, and now Tottenham has quoted a high price, and you are so hesitant, are we just able to sell goods at a good price in your eyes?
"Haha, that's right. George, you kid always give me extra surprises. Imagining the sad face of his old rival Arsene Wenger at this time, Ferguson was also very happy at this time, "Not responding to your offer immediately is definitely Wenger's biggest failure." I can already imagine that Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira would be unhappy with Wenger and the club and would be tempted to leave Arsenal. ”
"By the way, Alex, how is the situation on David's side, do you need me to add another fire and let Real Madrid raise the price?"
Although Victoria and Simon Fowler were very unhappy with Tottenham's sudden intervention, Beckham himself understood this and expressed his willingness to cooperate with Tottenham's price increase. After all, in Xiaobei's view, the amount of his transfer this time can also reflect the importance that Real Madrid attaches to himself - if Real Madrid is not willing to pay more transfer fees for him, why does Xiaobei believe in Florentino's so-called sincerity?
What's more, Beckham is also very affectionate towards Tottenham and George - before the age of 13, Beckham has been in the Tottenham Academy for football training, and only chose to leave at the invitation of Manchester United, and his perception of Tottenham is naturally not bad; After all, he had just won a Premier League title under George, and they knew each other well and had a pretty good relationship...... As a result, Tottenham Hotspur was also on the list, albeit only at the bottom of all his options.
"No, it's no more than two years ago, and the price of 40 million euros is already a very rare high price at this time. If the price is raised again, I am afraid that Real Madrid will withdraw from the transfer negotiations directly. Hearing George say this, Ferguson hurriedly stopped the other party's idea of continuing to raise the price, "As for the fake show...... I'll admit David does mean something, but with Victoria's woman here, I think it's better not to get your hopes up. ”
"That's right. George nodded in agreement with Ferguson's opinion. Although he appreciates Victoria's dedication to her husband's career development, it doesn't mean that he will like the woman who keeps Beckham from focusing on football: "Well, it's up to Alex to do what you do." It's better to let Real Madrid put more blood, anyway, they can't pursue profit, so much money is a waste if you don't spend it on us. ”
With that, George said goodbye to Ferguson and hung up. After promising Ferguson that the matter had been completed, and it was also confirmed that the possibility of Becky joining Tottenham was very small, George stopped paying attention to the negotiations between Manchester United and Real Madrid, and continued to monitor the team's current recruitment progress.
Looking at Ferguson's side, with Tottenham's 40 million pounds transfer offer that is comparable to Zidane's world's first value, Manchester United will also harden its waist in the next negotiations, and dare to ask Real Madrid to increase the transfer fee figure of Xiaobei - if the price is not raised, we will sell Xiaobei to Tottenham Hotspur, whose price is nearly twice as much as yours!
Faced with such a situation, Florentino, who knew that he would definitely be slaughtered by Manchester United this time, had no choice but to accept his fate and obediently increased the transfer fee to 40 million euros in the next negotiations!
Although there is a big gap between this figure and Tottenham's transfer offer of up to 40 million pounds, Real Madrid's reputation is far from being comparable to the current Tottenham, and 40 million euros is also a sky-high price in 03, so Ferguson did not insist that Real Madrid must maintain the same bid as Tottenham, and only intends to get some more benefits from Lafayette on this basis.
So, after some bargaining, Manchester United agreed to Real Madrid's plan to bring in David Beckham for a transfer fee of 45 million euros, so that this transfer that attracted the attention of the world finally came to an end on the day the summer transfer window opened!
And Tottenham Hotspur, which cost Real Madrid a whopping 10 million euros more than expected on a Beckham transfer with just one offer, has also become famous. Coupled with the previous move to buy players such as Carrick, Drogba, Cech and Cristiano Ronaldo for a transfer fee much higher than the normal market price, some people have begun to secretly call Tottenham "price thorns".