Chapter 80: Billindeley
Empoli Club, which is only a dozen kilometers from Prato, has the general manager Silvino. Bini looked at the transfer offer in front of him with a headache. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info £400,000 package to buy the ownership of Montella and Billindeley.
Bini was tempted to put the offer on hold, but he couldn't. Unlike a year ago, Empoli is still struggling in the third division, while Prato is now a second division club. Don't underestimate this, in Italy, despite the abundance of clubs, even a small town of a few thousand people has its own team, the real impact is the first and second division teams, which often have their own fixed fans and traditional spheres of influence. Just watching the TV broadcast of grade B and the non-broadcast of grade C can roughly appreciate the difference between professional and semi-amateur in the two.
Empoli were able to reject Prato's offer last year because the two sides were at the same level, and if a player insisted on leaving the team for money, it would be unpopular to even get into a conflict with his parent team, and the fans who supported them would despise them. But now, if Montella and Billindelli insist on joining Prato, it can be explained that it is for their own future, and people go to higher places, which makes sense everywhere, and many young players are attached to lower clubs with meager salaries, just to hone their skills and wait for the call of the senior clubs. If he insists on rejecting Prato's offer, then it will become Empoli FC who are blocking the player's future, and it is they who are at the expense.
Just Silvino. Bini is not reconciled, he is a very ambitious person, a full forty years, from an apprentice, until the president of the club, he has devoted almost his whole life to the Empoli club, through the vigorous investment in youth training, Empoli has emerged a group of strong players over the years, seeing that with the growth of these players, they are about to make a name for themselves, and when they blossom and bear fruit, they were inserted into a pole and picked peaches, and he did not have a mouthful of old blood spurting out of it.
Silvino. Bini can't figure out how to figure out how Prato likes Bilindelly's unpretentious style of play, even in the eyes of local die-hard fans in Empoli, Bilindeli belongs to the type that is not outstanding, his physical condition is not outstanding, his speed is not fast, and there are no gorgeous passing moves, so Bilindeley, who is 20 years old this year, has not been famous. But Silvino. Bini is very optimistic about him, in his opinion, Billindelli is a seriously underrated player, he may have limited talent, but he can do a few things that belong to him in a down-to-earth manner, he belongs to a team player, the stronger the team, the stronger his strength, because his comprehension ability is very strong, can quickly adapt to any kind of tactics, coupled with comprehensive and no shortcomings of the technology, can be perfectly integrated into almost any team.
Historically, Billindelli has been very consistent with Empoli, and this consistency has been the same whether Empoli is in the third division or later promoted to the first division, that is, if he can account for 20% of the team's offensive and defensive ratio in the third division, he is also 20% in the first division, completely unaffected by the opponent. It may not be spectacular in the third division, but it is amazing enough to still be the backbone of the team against the big teams in the first division.
I have to say that Silvino. Bini is a real discerning person. It's just that sometimes, the value of the player is not how much you think you can quote, it is affected by the market price and industry rules and other aspects, just like Billindeley, even if Prato gives him 1 million pounds, he is not necessarily willing to sell, but in the eyes of others, with Lindeley's age and fame, that is, a little better than the ordinary C level player, now C1's player transactions, generally between 10~200,000 pounds, Prato's offer has been very reasonable, if Empoli insists on reporting 1 million pounds, That is deliberately blocking the deal, which will cause dissatisfaction among other players. That's why many small clubs often struggle to keep their potential stars.
Originally, even if Billindeley couldn't afford to sell it, there was still a Montella. Montella, who rose to fame at a young age and played for Empoli at the age of 16, is also a well-known talent throughout Tuscany. Many teams have expressed concern to him, and Empoli's offer of £1 million to Prato last year is not a lion's mouth, which is also where Empoli's confidence lies, even if Prato does not buy it, there will be other teams vying to make an offer. However, a sudden serious injury almost ruined Montella's career, and he didn't play even a minute for a whole season, which made a lot of attention to him, and the enthusiasm of the team faded a little, how many famous stars have been slumped since then because of such injuries, and even many people in Empoli are not sure if Montella can fully recover.
In this case, it is not surprising that Prato made an offer that almost took the fire to robbery. Even Bini was a little hesitant, Empoli is not a team with deep pockets, and has been relying on selling young players to maintain the operation of the club with almost no sponsors, hundreds of millions of lira is not a small amount, if Montella is smashed in his own hands, then those invested in him will lose all their money, it is better to earn a little less, at least to protect the capital.
There was intense bargaining between the two sides, and when Prato finally offered a transfer price of £550,000, Empoli eventually gave in. Hearing this, Chen Lin shook his fist fiercely.
Billindley's CA/PA value of 146/164 is a player who can directly play in the first division, which belongs to plug and play, and although he plays on the right side of Empoli, his real fame is in the left-back position of Juventus.
As for Montella, when Chen Lin searched for his data, he couldn't help but have a smile on his face. No one knows better than him how brilliant Montella's future career will be, so he didn't think about Montella buying it back into his hands. However, what Chen Lin didn't expect was that after more than a year of injuries, Montella's strength not only did not decline, but also improved a lot.
When Chen Lin wanted to buy Montella last year, his CA/PA value was 141/175, and now it has risen to 149/175. He carefully compared the attributes of Montella before and after this season, and found that the growth was mainly in the attributes of consciousness, including running without the ball, imagination and other aspects, it seems that Montella did not sit on the hospital bed in vain this season.
In fact, it was also after this season that Montella changed his previous style of relying purely on body and speed to eat opponents, and became more focused on running and analyzing the weaknesses of the opponent's backline, which is why many people later thought that he was somewhat similar to Inzaghi's style of play, except that Montella also has very fast speed and dribbling ability.