Chapter 004: In the next big game of chess (3rd update, thanks to the old K trench reward)

Leon set his sights on his old rivals in La Liga, Real Madrid. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Roma's Argentine defender joined La Liga giants Real Madrid for €23 million a year ago.

At the time, Madrid's media cheered, believing that Samuel's arrival would make up for Real Madrid's defender crisis.

However, as a result, the years at Real Madrid were almost unbearable for Samuel, a superclub that has always put attack and performance first, and has ruined the reputation of countless excellent centre-backs over the years. And Samuel, who had high hopes, unfortunately became one of them. Although Samuel retained his place in the main team during one season at Real Madrid and occasionally used his adept headers to wreak havoc for the team, more often than not, he was alone in front of the opponent's frenzied attack, and then the image of embarrassment.

Speaking of which, there is also the 'credit' of Leon, Sporting Gijón beat Real Madrid twice this season, and Samuel was embarrassed by the impact of Mata and Ribery, and was also criticized.

And now, Real Madrid brought in Pepe for a sky-high price of 35 million euros before Leon poached Sporting Gijon, which also means that Samuel is no longer valued and is abandoned by Real Madrid.

Leon is well aware of Samuel's strength, in the original historical trajectory, the Argentine joined Inter Milan this season, and the Argentine who returned to Serie A immediately found his form, and quickly became the anchor of Inter Milan's backline.

Therefore, Leon issued an order to ask Real Madrid for Samuel.

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It would have been an easy deal for Leon to make, however, Oriari then told him that Real Madrid had rejected Inter's offer.

Why?!

Leon was puzzled.

Seeing Oriari's somewhat embarrassed expression, Leon understood that nine times out of ten, the problem appeared on his own, Leon had offended Real Madrid and Fiorentina too badly, so much so that Real Madrid refused to sell Samuel to Leon's team.

This is not the first time, when he was at Sporting Gijón, Li Ang asked Real Madrid to buy Morientes, and the player himself nodded, but Real Madrid was willing to send Morientes to Liverpool and was unwilling to give Morientes to Li Ang.

It's really troublesome to hold grudges!

Just when Leon was about to abandon Samuel and look for other centre-backs, things took a turn two days later.

Real Madrid said that Samuel's issue could be discussed, and their condition was that Recoba be added to the deal.

When Li Ang heard this feedback, he was stunned at first, and then laughed.

Recoba was not in his plan for a long time, but in order to avoid causing confusion, he has not put Recoba on the transfer market, so to speak, no one except Leon and Inter president Facchetti and Inter owner Moratti know that Inter will purge Recoba.

Unexpectedly, Real Madrid actually fell in love with Recoba.

Leon thinks about it carefully, it's not surprising, Recoba is only twenty-nine years old, is a top offensive player in football, has always been pursued by other giants, Real Madrid has pursued Recoba before, but Recoba is Moratti's 'godson', which is known to the world, and other teams know that they can't poach Uruguayans, so they can only give up.

And this time, Real Madrid proposed to add Recoba to Samuel's deal, on the one hand, they really wanted to get Recoba, and on the other hand, they did not mean to block Leon, they knew that Moratti would not agree to let Recoba leave, so they deliberately disgusted Leon.

However, Real Madrid didn't know the real situation on Inter Milan's side, but sent it to the door!

"Promise them! Samuel adds 10 million euros in exchange for Recoba!" Leon said.

Oriari was surprised.

"Mr. Moratti, I'll go and say, he'll agree. Leon didn't want Oriari to know that he was being kept in the dark, so he said so.

Oriari nodded, no, he then called Moratti about it, and Moratti on the other end of the line was silent for a while, and then replied, "Do as Lee says." ”

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Real Madrid received a reply from Inter Milan and was quite shocked to see that Inter Milan actually agreed to release Recoba.

At this moment, Real Madrid sat on wax, they really wanted to disgust Leon, but they didn't expect Inter Milan to nod.

However, after careful consideration, Real Madrid also has to admit that the deal is feasible, Recoba is a top star, belongs to the players that Florentino admires, and it is also in line with Real Madrid's principle of piling up superstars, and Samuel is the player they originally planned to give up, this deal is good.

However, Real Madrid is not satisfied with the terms of Inter Milan's deal.

Samuel was brought in by Real Madrid from Roma for 23 million euros last season, and despite his poor performance in the past season, his value has depreciated, but he is also worth 20 million euros.

And Recoba's current value in the transfer market is also around 20 million euros, so Inter Milan asked Real Madrid to exchange Samuelga for 10 million euros for Recoba, which is unacceptable to Real Madrid.

Real Madrid then replied to Inter Milan that Samuel and Recoba were exchanged for equal value.

In the face of Real Madrid's reply, Li Ang was using his brain.

From Real Madrid's thirst for Recoba, Leon saw that Florentino still continued to adhere to the superstar policy, and for those top stars, he still likes to collect.

He wondered if Real Madrid was interested in Vieri?

Vieri may be 32 years old, but he had a good season last season, scoring 12 league goals for Inter Milan.

And now Vieri and Inter Milan are breaking up, in the original historical trajectory, Vieri was terminated by Inter Milan, and then joined AC Milan on a free basis.

Although Vieri, who left Inter Milan, quickly declined, performing very poorly at AC Milan, terminating his contract with AC Milan after one season and then moving to Atalanta.

But, the problem is, Leon knew that Vieri was starting to go downhill, but no one else knew.

Real Madrid didn't know either.

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Leon said to Oriari, "Help me ask Real Madrid, do they want Vieri?"

Oriari was shocked again.

Recoba, Vieri, Moratti's two 'godsons' were sent to Real Madrid?

Something that even the most daring media could not have imagined is happening now.

Just when Oriari was about to go back to Real Madrid.

Leon, who had been thinking, stopped Oriari.

"Lyle, what do you think of bringing Ronaldo back to Inter?" asked Leon Oriarri.

Oriari petrified.

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