Leon asked Inter Milan to book a plane ticket for him, and he was going to Munich in person.

Just before departure, Leon received news that the Portuguese star from Barcelona had passed on through his agent that he was eager to play under Leon.

In fact, although Barcelona rejected Inter Milan's bid for Deco, Inter Milan still kept in touch with Deco in private.

It has always been a grey area for clubs to engage with players privately, as according to Article 18, paragraph 3 of the FIFA Player Transfer Regulations: "If a club wishes to bring in a professional player, they must inform the player's club in writing before entering into negotiations with the player!"

The reason why it is a gray area is because the key word here is "to start negotiations", not "engagement" at all.

Prior to Klose's move to Bayern Munich last summer, Hoeness and Heathfield had a meeting with Klose, who were investigated by the Bundesliga and concluded that no penalty had been awarded. The reason is that Bayern and Klose were only "exchanging information" at that time, and did not negotiate informally. In the case of transfers in various leagues, it is only natural for interested clubs to inquire about the player's intentions before notifying the opposing club.

For example, this time, Juventus wants to introduce Marchisio, and has also been in contact with Marchisio in private, both Leon and Inter Milan are aware of this, but they have not stopped it.

"There's a grey area here," said Leon, who has taught his new assistant Mihajlovic on the matter, "and if a club sticks to the rules, it's not impossible that a player can't be signed." It's really very difficult to transfer without adequate communication. ”

"How does the club know if a player is interested in joining, if they don't know, then why waste time? Spread all the cards on the table? There are probably 100 reasons why he doesn't want to come. Leon said.

"This kind of private contact can also be more imperceptible than a closed private meeting, and the line between right and wrong is very blurred. ”

Mikhailovich listened respectfully, and interestingly, he also took a small notebook and recorded these words of Leon.

"Shall we go to Munich then?" Mihajlovich asked, "or are we going to Barcelona?"

If Deco can be brought in, it seems that there is no need to bring in the young man Tony Ross.

"Let the club continue to engage with Barcelona and Deco to negotiate. "Let's go to Munich as planned!"

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Li Ang is making preparations with both hands, which is also the safest way to do it.

Deco is a veteran who is used to seeing big scenes, and will not influence Leon's decision just because he goes to Barcelona in person, and the only criterion for such a veteran to make a choice is whether it is good for his career and personal treatment, and will be calm. Now Deco has expressed his desire to come to Inter Milan, which shows that Deco's thoughtful idea no longer needs Leon to do any work.

For Tony Rosros, this eighteen-year-old young player can now be said to be unknown, for him, a world-class coach like Li Ang is simply a mountain to look up to the existence, Li Ang personally invited, which reflects the importance of the attitude, for this young player and his family, is very important! This is from the world's top coach Li Ang's attention attitude! This is very important for a young player!

If Leon had gone to meet Tony Kroos and his family in private like this half a month ago, he would have caused him trouble, but not now, because Tony Kroos is already 18 years old.

Just last year, FIFA began to set up a Transfer Check System (TMS) and set out a series of provisions to protect young players in order to curb the poaching of young players under the age of 18 between clubs. The most important of these is Article 19, which stipulates that the transfer of a player under the age of 18 must meet three additional conditions: first, the parents of the young player must be engaged in work unrelated to the club in the country where the club is located, second, the transfer must take place within the European Union, and the young player must be at least 16 years old, and third, the young player's home should be within 50 kilometers of the club's training base.

In addition, there is another point, which is to crack down on the 'abduction' of young players under the age of 18 by third-party clubs.

According to this logic, when Li Ang was in Sporting Gijón, he poached Benzema from the Lyon team, which was a serious violation and should be punished by FIFA, but at that time, there were no clear penalties and rules for this kind of thing, and Li Ang took advantage of the loophole.

Now that Tony Cross is over 18 years old, Leon will not be penalized as long as he is not caught and evidence proves that he is negotiating a transfer with Tony Kroos, and only has private contacts and meetings.

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Leon was accompanied to Munich by an Inter Milan expatriate scout named Massimiliano Mirabelli. For accompanying the team's head coach Li Ang on a business trip, Mirabelli was very excited.

Li Ang is now not only the king in the hearts of Inter Milan fans, but also regarded as a legend by many sports practitioners, an unknown Chinese, in the mainstream football world dominated by Europeans and Americans, it took only five years to become one of the best managers in world football today, which is simply an incomparable inspirational story.

"Sir, I've arranged to go straight to Cross's house, he and his parents are waiting for us...... It's just ......" Mirabelli said to Leon, his expression a little hesitant, and he looked like he wanted to say something.

"Just what?" asked Leon.

"Do we have to talk to Bayern Munich first? Mirabelli said.

"No!" Leon shook his head, "On the fourth of this month, Tony Cross turned eighteen!"

Mirabelli was stunned for a moment, then nodded, indicating that he understood, and at the same time was a little ashamed that he hadn't noticed such an important detail.

"As long as we persuaded Toni Kroos and his family, Bayern Munich had to release him, and it was the biggest mistake that they didn't sign a professional contract with Tony Kroos in time. Leon said.

"Is this ...... Some...... Uh......" Mirabelli glanced at Leon and didn't continue.

"You're saying Bayern Munich has groomed Tony Ross and it's a bit unethical for us to do that?" asked Leon.

Mirabelle first nodded, and then shook his head, this kind of thing is actually not uncommon in football, not to mention young players, that is, adult professional players, the secret war of poaching is also very fierce and uncompromising, take Bayern Munich as an example, regard other teams in the Bundesliga as their second team, as long as other teams have good players to kick out, Bayern Munich will directly force poaching people, and their usual routine is to get the players first, and then get the transfer at a very small price and transfer fee, so that some teams that hate Bayern Munich even angrily denounced Bayern Munich as a Bundesliga cancer, which means that Bayern Munich is there, the rest of the Bundesliga should never want to develop.

"Okay, don't think about it so much. Our goal is to convince Tony Ross!" Leon said with a smile.

There is one sentence he did not say, that is, Bayern Munich's interests and feelings are his business.