Chapter 011: 'With this fierce general, the widow has no worries on the left side!' (1st update)
In fact, for the left-back position, Leon could have had a more suitable choice, and that was his former club at Sporting Gijón, Fabio Grosso, a 27-year-old Italian left-back, who was in the best stage of his entire career in the past two or three years. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Moreover, Grosso is confident that he will also be happy to follow Leon to Sporting Gijón.
It's just a pity that Leon had an agreement with Benita that he could only poach three players, and after Mata, Carlos and Modric, he can't poach people from Sporting Gijon anymore.
Rao is like this, Sporting Gijón still did not keep Grosso.
The future of the Italian left-back is Juventus, and the Serie A giants knocked on the door of the office of Sporting Gijón president Manuel Arango for 12 million euros, and Benita's opposition was not able to stop the deal.
When he learned that Grosso was poached by Juventus, Leon was unhappy, and there was an unpleasant feeling of being pried into the corner.
However, Juventus's transfer fee of 12 million euros also made him breathe a bad breath in his heart, Grosso's highest moment was in the 2006 World Cup, after that, his career went downhill, the 12 million euros should be worthless, Grosso is a pit, Li Ang was originally in Sporting Gijon, he planned to sell Grosso to the Italian giants after the 2006 World Cup, when Grosso was at his highest, Juventus and Inter Milan were the objects of his digging, but he didn't expect that he only stayed in Sporting Gijón for one season, and now, Grosso went to Juventus, since it is destined to pit people, let's go to pit Juventus.
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Leon then turned his attention to Germany, where he set his eye on 21-year-old youngster Philippe Lahm of Bayern Munich.
Lahm is a Bayern Munich academy, and in 1995, Lahm was selected by the Bayern Munich academy and officially started his Bayern career. However, due to the unassailable position of French defender Vicente Lizarazu in Bayern's first team in 2003/04, Lahm was loaned to Stuttgart by Bayern Munich in the summer of 2003 for two seasons.
This loan became an important turning point in Lahm's career, Stuttgart coach Magath was worried about the lack of left-back in the team, and he had the idea to let Lahm try to play left-back, but unexpectedly, it was a huge success, and both Lahm himself and Stuttgart benefited.
In the 2003/2004 season, Lahm helped Stuttgart finish fourth in the Bundesliga as a regular left-back and helped the team qualify for the UEFA Champions League. In the 2004/05 season, Lahm only played half a season due to two injuries, but he still made 22 appearances for Stuttgart and contributed one goal to help the team finish fifth in the Bundesliga that season.
At the end of the season, Lahm has now returned to Bayern Munich.
Inter's left-back has long been considered a shortcoming for the club, and over the years, Inter have not had a truly top-class left-back.
Lahm can play left-back or right-back, and since the beginning of this season, he has gradually become the main full-back of Bayern Munich and the German national team.
Inter Milan have sent a request fax to Bayern Munich for €8 million for their young full-back Lahm.
This is a more sincere price, although during the loan at Stuttgart, Lahm was already the main full-back, Bayern Munich naturally saw Lahm's talent and value. However, Lahm has not yet played in Bayern Munich, Lizarazu is still the main defender, Bayern Munich is known as the 'Bundesliga Hollywood', superstar-studded, although the young Lahm is talented, but no one can guarantee whether he can play in Bayern Munich in the future.
To Leon's surprise, Bayern Munich rejected Inter Milan's offer, and not only that, but Lahm also rejected Inter's invitation, and the young German full-back showed his loyalty to Bayern Munich.
At this time, German football emperor Beckenbauer came out to speak out, saying that players like Lahm are the foundation of Bayern Munich......
Well, the emperor of German football has said so, it is impossible to dig up Lahm.
Leon decisively gave up his illusions about Ram, and he immediately activated Plan B.
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This time, his eyes turned to France.
Inter Milan have asked Ligue 1 side Monaco for their 24-year-old French full-back, Patrice Evra.
Patrice Evra is Monaco's current main full-back, and the Frenchman, who was defined as a full-back or even a winger in Ligue 2 and Serie A before joining Monaco, was converted to left-back by then-manager Deutsche in Monaco, and immediately showed his football talent in this position.
Patrice Evra is now Monaco's main defender and it will be difficult to poach people.
However, Leon chose the most brutal and effective method.
He motioned for Oriari to make a direct offer to Monaco for 4.5 million euros for Patrice Evra.
The €4.5 million offer was rightfully rejected by Monaco.
However, after Monaco refused, less than ten minutes later, they were again subject to Inter Milan's latest offer.
€6 million for Patrice Evra!
The price of 6 million euros was enough to cause Monaco's heart to fluctuate, but Monaco still chose to refuse. It's just that they still have a little expectation, and they can see the sincerity of the Serie A giants towards Evra.
An hour later, the Monegasque received a third offer from Inter Milan for 9 million euros for Patrice Evra!
The Monegasques were shocked!
In less than two hours, Inter made three offers for Patrice Evra, two of which were price increases.
From 4.5 million euros to 9 million euros, the price is directly doubled!
To be exact, this has already made Monaco very excited. It's just that seeing Inter Milan's price increase so happily, the greedy Monegasque still wants to continue to make more money.
So, once again, they rejected Inter's offer worth 9 million euros.
They expect Inter Milan to continue to raise their prices.
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Then, the Monegasques waited, waited.
The day passed.
They didn't receive another offer to come to Inter Milan!
This makes the Monaco people sit on the wax, regret not falling, at this time Monaco is not the team that once became a local tyrant ten years later, 9 million euros for them, is a large amount, with Evra's current value, it is also around 8 million euros, 9 million euros belongs to a 'small premium'!
Watching the 9 million euros slip away, the Monegasque regretted it, they should have agreed to the Italians' offer of 9 million euros, and now they are retributed.
It was at this point that the Monegasque received another offer from Inter Milan.
The Italian giants offered 9.5 million euros this time, and made it clear that this is the last offer, okay, if not, pull down.
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Inter Milan played a psychological tactic in the negotiation tactics this time, a 'little trick' made by Leon and Oriari after conspiring.
Soon there was good news from Monaco that Monaco were willing to sell Patrice Evra - apparently they had taken the bait and feared losing Inter's lucrative offer, and this time they agreed to it!
Talks between Inter and the players themselves have also gone well, with Patrice Evra delighted with the Italian giants' call-up and few obstacles in the negotiations.
On 20 July 2005, Inter Milan and Monaco agreed to join the Nerazzurri at 24-year-old French left-back Patrice Evra for €9.5 million.
At 9.5 million euros, it represents a premium of less than 1 million euros to Evra's market price. This is also the first time that Leon has bought a player at a price higher than the market price.
However, he willingly.
Now Leon is not short of money, Moratti gave him a transfer budget of 50 million euros, which was spent when he introduced Mata, Modric, and Carlos, but then Inter Milan cleaned Martins, Van der Meyde and a series of players, and returned a large amount of transfer funds, so he still has a lot of transfer budget in his hand, besides, the team's cleaning is not over.
What he wants is to make a quick decision and get the transfer, so as not to have too many dreams at night, because he is well aware of Evra's development potential, which is also a top left-back who can be used for ten years, although the ownership of the first left-back in football is controversial, but Evra is among the top three, which is recognized by everyone.
With less than 1 million euros more, play a psychological war and get Evra out before it provokes other European giants to intervene.
There's nothing wrong with that.
With the addition of Evra, Li Ang has a lot of coolness and pride, 'to get this fierce general, the left side of the widow is worry-free!'.
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