Chapter 647: Mr. 68 Million?!
Manchester United are heading into the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals. (good-looking novel)\(^o^)/\|\|more\|new\|most\|fast| \(^o^)/
Host Inter Milan at their home stadium at Old Trafford.
Because in the first leg between the two sides, Manchester United won 4-2 away to Inter Milan, which gave Manchester United a huge advantage on the road to promotion.
Therefore, everyone knows that Inter Milan are going to fight hard in this game, and Mourinho will definitely play all his cards.
On the other hand, Manchester United, although winning away from home and taking the lead, Manchester United will also go all out in this game, Lineker gave a reason in his column: Manchester United will fight in this game, not only because of caution, but also because the opponent coach of this game is Mourinho, and Ferguson will never take it lightly when facing Mourinho.
Jose Mourinho really played all the cards he could, and he was a 'win-only' manager who could 'do whatever it takes' to win.
So, before the game, a piece of news started to explode.
Inter Milan intends to spend a huge amount of money to bring in Yang Fan after the season!
The news first came out of Italy, then immediately spread, and there was a nose and an eye, and then the Guardian even gave a specific figure: 68 million euros!
Inter Milan has prepared 68 million euros for the purchase of Yang Fan!
According to the Italian side, in order to be able to bring Yang Fan to the Meazza Stadium, Inter Milan is ready to break the capital, and they plan to cash out last summer's Serie A champion Quaresma, and then sell Mancini Jr., in this way, in exchange for about 38 million euros, and Inter Milan President Moratti generously paid out of his own pocket to support 30 million euros.
If the rumours on the Italian side are true, the 68 million euros will be the second highest transfer fee in the history of football, second only to the 73.5 million euros that Zinedine Zidane transferred from Juventus to Real Madrid that year.
So, the media got excited.
Outside the Carrington training base, many reporters gathered, all of whom wanted to interview Yang Fan, wanted to interview Ferguson, and wanted to prove the truth of the incident. I want to hear what Yang Fan will say.
Even the rest of the Manchester United players, the journalists didn't let it go.
Scholes was surrounded by reporters outside the training base, asking him how he felt about Inter Milan's $68 million bid for Yang Fan. Scholes really wanted to curse at the time, how did he feel? What did he ask me to do about this? What is there to say about chasing after the wind and shadows? After he dodged the chase of reporters, he suddenly thought, this can't be true!
Although in Scholes's mind, Manchester United is unlikely to sell Yang Fan, because Ferguson will not agree to it in the first place, but considering Manchester United's somewhat poor financial situation, especially the actions of the club owner Glazer family, Scholes is a little uncertain. (Good Novel)
During the training, the topic of conversation that everyone was talking about was also the sudden revelation of Inter Milan's purchase of Yang Fan.
Scholes also secretly looked at Yang Fan, Yang Fan's expression was not unusual, and even jokingly asked Rooney what he thought of the 68 million euros when chatting with Rooney? !
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During a training break, Scholes approached Ferguson.
"Boss, we can't go on like this, we have to do something. He said.
In the Manchester United team, Scholes, Neville, Giggs and other players of the 'Hansen generation' are used to calling Ferguson 'the boss', which contains too many feelings and stories in it.
"I know. Ferguson snapped, "Damn." ”
Naturally, Ferguson could not have heard everyone's discussion on the training ground today.
Scholes brought the matter to Ferguson, and he was relieved, knowing that Ferguson must have a way. This kind of thing happened before the big war, and it is conceivable that this is a means used by Inter Milan to disrupt Manchester United's military morale.
Scholes also thought in his heart that Ferguson must have been scolding Mourinho just now.
In fact, Ferguson's foul language just now was not only scolding his old rival Mourinho, but there was also one person who also annoyed him, Yang Fan's agent Baker.
In fact, although Yang Fan has only been with Manchester United for less than a season, with Yang Fan's performance so good, the club and Yang Fan's contract renewal negotiations are already underway.
It's just that Yang Fan's agent put forward a condition that Manchester United could not accept, so the contract renewal negotiations have been deadlocked.
Yang Fan's agent put forward the condition: Yang Fan's salary must be at least the same as Cristiano Ronaldo!
This condition is unacceptable in the eyes of Manchester United, where Cristiano Ronaldo is a special being, and, with the Portuguese star's character, there is no tolerance for someone to be in the same position as him, let alone someone trying to surpass him.
At this time, there were rumors that Inter Milan tried to spend money to buy Yang Fan, with Mourinho's handwriting, but Ferguson can say with certainty that there must be people behind this, including Yang Fan's agent, which is using this matter to put pressure on Manchester United and seek a sky-high salary for Yang Fan.
However, Ferguson had to pay attention to it, and he was afraid that something would go wrong. There is a lesson to be learned from the past.
In the summer of 2000, Real Madrid shocked the world when he signed Portuguese superstar Luis Figo from arch-rivals Barcelona for a whopping 65 million euros. Many fans will still remember the scene when Figo returned to Camp Nou in a Real Madrid shirt, and the Barcelona fans greeted their former king with pigs' heads, throwing knives and boos......
However, perhaps few people knew at the time that Figo had some helplessness as a traitor to Barcelona. What is the secret behind this shocking transfer?
Just recently, after Figo's stalemate with Real Madrid, Figo's agent, who is now the president of Swindon City in League One, revealed the answer for everyone.
In the summer of 2000, Figo was in talks with Barcelona over a salary increase. In order to get the Red and Blue Army to meet the Portuguese's annual salary of 3 million, Figo and his agent Vega can be said to have done everything they can. They decided to threaten a move to Real Madrid to force Barcelona to comply. It coincided with the election of the Real Madrid president, and the old president, Lorenzo Sanz, was trying to seek re-election, and his chip was to lead Real Madrid to two European Champions League titles in three seasons.
And Sans's rival Florentino Perez is not a vegetarian either, and he promised during the campaign that if he took office, he would poach rival Barça's star Figo to the Bernabeu. The Figo camp realizes that this is a godsend. Agent Vega then initialled a contract with Florentino to join Figo.
Vega's original intention was to blackmail Barcelona in order to achieve the purpose of raising Figo's salary. He thought that there was a chance that Sans would be re-elected as president of Real Madrid, so he chose such a ruthless move. But what neither Vega nor the media could have imagined was that on July 16, 2000, Florentino was elected as the new president of Real Madrid with a surprise victory over Sanz with 55% of the vote.
Florentino's election pushed Figo to the brink of extinction. If he wants to stay at Barcelona, Figo will have to pay Florentino up to 30 million euros in liquidated damages. In the end, Figo, who was forced to helpless, chose to betray Barcelona and switch to the sworn enemy Real Madrid.
In an interview with Daily Sport, Vega revealed, "At that time, Figo was in a hurry, he came to me and asked: 'What should we do now?' and I replied at the time, 'There are only three options: one, you stay at Barça, pay 30 million euros in liquidated damages, you don't have to leave, second, you don't have to lose money to Florentino and I go to jail, and third, you transfer to Real Madrid. Eventually, Figo signed a six-year contract with Real Madrid.
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With Figo's experience, Ferguson was really worried that Yang Fan's agent would reach an agreement with Inter Milan in order to help Yang Fan earn a sky-high salary, but in the end he led Yang Fan to transfer away.
Ferguson was disgusted by the agent's behavior, and he once angrily denounced the agent as a vampire who would ruin football.
However, as a manager, as the godfather of Manchester United, he had to deal with his agent. Fight for your own team.
In this process, the players are right, and the club is not wrong, which is like a person working in a company, and the worker asks for a salary increase, which is a reasonable request, and the company does not want to agree to this request, which is an inherent contradiction between labor and management, and both sides consider it from their own interests, and it doesn't matter whether it is right or wrong.
At the end of the day's training, Ferguson received a call from the club's CEO Gil, who told him that Yang Fan's agent had called and asked Manchester United to respond to Yang Fan's contract renewal negotiations.
"Shit!vampire!" Ferguson burst into a foul mouth again. He knew that this agent would definitely take advantage of this incident to make trouble. However, when it comes to Yang Fan and his blueprint for building a new dynasty for Manchester United, Ferguson still has to take it seriously. But, no matter what, Manchester United's godfather is extremely unhappy in his heart. His perception of the agent was simply terrible.
On March 10, Inter Milan arrived in Manchester.
A large number of journalists went to 'meet and greet', and Mourinho picked up and dropped off at the airport.
'Old Trafford is a special place, it's a great course and it's hard to conquer. Mourinho said, "No matter what, I happen to have done it before, so I'm confident that I can come back away from home." ”
Jose Mourinho was called a 'madman', and sure enough, his words were really arrogant, and many English reporters at the scene were in an uproar, and Manchester reporters were even more angry. However, they have nothing to say.
Here is a story that has to be mentioned, and this is a sad past that Manchester United fans do not want to recall.
In the 37th round of the 2005/2006 Premier League season, Chelsea hosted Manchester United, and the Blues needed to remain unbeaten to win the league title. Three goals from Alan Galla, Joe Cole and Carvalho secured Chelsea's 3-0 win over Manchester United. By the time Carvalho scored the third goal, the game was not over yet, and Mourinho had already started to shake hands with his assistant coach and substitutes in celebration, not taking the old boss Alex Ferguson seriously at all. After the game, Jose Mourinho even threw the Premier League winner's medal into the stands of Chelsea's diehards, with the Portuguese giving the reason: because he already had one.
It is said that at that time, Ferguson was angry and yelled in the dressing room. He and Mourinho have also had a grudge ever since.
Obviously, Mourinho means that he only needs to win Manchester United 3-0 again, then it will be Inter Milan who will advance!
On the same day, the headline of the Times was: Yang Fan, Mr. 68 million?
It's a question mark.
Ferguson threw the newspaper straight into the trash.
Obviously, this time, Mourinho has annoyed Ferguson again.