Chapter 291: The Right Decision
After Gao Zheng accomplished a feat that no one had been able to accomplish for one hundred and five years, more and more people paid attention to him.
At this time, the matter of whether Gao Zheng will still play at Sampdoria next season has also attracted everyone's attention.
The media needs hot spots, and before Gao Zheng broke the record, this hot spot was. When Gao Zheng broke the record, this hot spot disappeared.
Journalists need to find new hot spots.
And with Gao Zheng's record-breaking performance, he has also entered the field of vision of more European teams.
Not only in Italy, but all over Europe, everyone knows that there is a young Chinese player who broke Nodal's 62-year Serie A single-season scoring record.
In fact, it is not the first time that Gao Zheng has been known by the entire European football world, in the first game of the league, he staged a senior game and helped Sampdoria defeat AC Milan 4-0, and his reputation has spread to Europe.
However, at that time, he was easily regarded as a short-lived genius, after all, the most important thing in professional football is genius - those who can play in the top professional league are basically considered geniuses.
There are too many geniuses, and in the end, there are very few people who can truly live up to the name of "genius" and grow into top stars.
There are too many "geniuses" who were talented when they were young, but as they get older, their performance becomes more and more unrecognizable.
Everyone still has a wait-and-see attitude towards Gao Zheng.
Now that the season is coming to an end, Gao Zheng's performance has fallen into everyone's eyes, and his stable and efficient performance in this season has conquered the observer gate.
Although Gao Zheng once said that he would not consider leaving this summer, everyone felt that it was just an excuse, or even if Gao Zheng was sincere at that time, he may not think so now, after all, everything is in flux, and it is normal for people's thoughts to change three times a day.
In professional football, everyone has seen a lot of loyalty to their current club one second, and the official announcement of their new team the next second.
The highly commercial world of professional football is so corrupted by money that there are very few people who can stick to a team, let alone ordinary players. It's a joke to ask professional players to remain loyal in this industry.
So Gao Zheng's statement is meaningless for those teams who want to pursue him.
They even felt that Gao Zheng's statement that he would not leave Sampdoria was actually a kind of indulgence. With Gao Zheng's confidence in himself, he must have known that the results he got at the end of the season could help him find better conditions in the transfer market, so he was not in a hurry to say that he was leaving.
But when he has good grades, he can talk about it without leaving.
Now if other teams are still interested in him, I'm afraid they will have to take out some "sincerity" to impress Gao Zheng and his agent.
With this in mind, the teams that had been observing Gao Zheng finally began to make actual contact.
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Sagramora stared at the faxes on the table in a daze.
When Sampdoria fans are still happy that Gao Zheng has set a new record, they may never have imagined that Gao Zheng, who has set the record, has attracted so many teams to make offers for him.
It is nothing new for other teams to be interested in Gao Zheng, and since the beginning of this season, as the general manager of the team, he has received many inquiries from those clubs about Gao Zheng.
Some clubs are just asking, Sagramola can't quite understand the purpose of these clubs, it is obvious that they can't afford to buy Gao Zheng, is it trying to pick up a leak, or is it purely to disgust Sampdoria club?
Sagramola ignored the demands of these teams and would not respond in any way.
But there are some teams that make Sagramola care.
For example, Inter Milan, who was most interested in Gao Zheng some time ago, made a formal offer this time as the end of the season approached.
The transfer fee was 20 million euros, plus the ownership of a whole bunch of youth players.
You must know that when Sampdoria sold Pazzini to Inter Milan two seasons ago, the cash plus player ownership was worth only 20 million euros.
And now there are 20 million euros in cash alone, and it can be seen that Inter Milan is indeed very determined.
Not only Inter Milan, but Juventus are also interested in Gao Zheng, and they have also proposed a cash plus player ownership transaction.
Out of Italy, in the whole of Europe, there are many giant teams interested in Gao Zheng.
Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga.
In the Premier League, there are Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United.
La Liga Atletico Madrid, Sevilla, and Valencia are all interested in Gao Zheng.
Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1 is hungry for talent, and with the support of Qatar Oil, they even made an offer of 45 million euros!
At the sight of this number, Sagramora gasped.
In the history of Sampdoria FC, there has never been a transfer transaction of more than 40 million euros.
If Sagramola nods and sells Gao Zheng now, then he can set a record right away.
But this record, Sagramola can't afford it......
He came back from his stupor, and looked at the faxes on the table again.
Then he got up and picked up the faxes, and walked out of his office and headed straight for the office of the club president.
There now sits Eduardo Garrone, the eldest son of the old chairman.
He is now the owner of this club.
This kind of thing is not the job of the club owner, but Gao Zheng's transfer, it must be done by the nod of the club chairman, although he is the general manager of the team, he does not have the power to decide whether Gao Zheng will stay or not.
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Eduardo Garrone, after reading all the faxes, fell silent.
Sagramola could understand the President's reluctance.
If you change to ordinary fans, you will definitely feel that there is nothing to be silent about, just refuse them all! Gao Zheng is not for sale to us, he has also shown loyalty, how can he sell him?
But Sagramola is well aware of the club's current situation.
The death of the old chairman has brought a lot of uncertainty to the future of the club.
Although Eduardo Garrone said in an interview with reporters that his family would not give up Sampdoria and would be with Sampdoria.
But the problem at face is very real - money.
The Garone family is in the energy and oil processing business, and in the eyes of ordinary Italians, they are well-deserved wealthy. But that doesn't mean that all the money earned from the business has to go to the club, so Sampdoria's financial situation has not been very good, and they are very conservative in terms of team investment.
Now that the old chairman has died, it is difficult to say whether the Garrone family will be able to maintain their previous level of commitment.
Forty-five million euros in cash, which is a huge sum of money for Sampdoria, is indeed worth silencing the club's president for half a minute.
Half a minute later, Eduardo Garrone looked up and said to Sagramola: "Tell the clubs who want to play high ideas that he is not for sale for us, that he is priceless and that we ......"
At this, he paused, a little hesitant. Then he became a little emotional: "Hell! That's forty-five million! ”
But he immediately shook his head: "No, we can't sell high, not even forty-five million." ”
Then he fell silent again.
Sagramora didn't say a word the whole time, as if he wasn't here at all.
I don't know how long I waited, Eduardo Garrone raised his head again and said to Sagramola: "Respond to all the transfer rumors through the news media, tell them that Gao is not for sale and we will not sell it for any amount of money." ”
Sagramora nodded, "Okay, I'll do it." ”
He breathed a sigh of relief that the new president had made the right decision.
If Sampdoria fans know that the club is planning to sell Gao Zheng just after setting a new record, then he and Eduardo will probably be torn apart by the angry Sampdoria fans.