Chapter 155: Final Offer (4-in-1 Monthly Pass)
On July 25, the entire Dortmund team left for the United States to compete in the International Champions Cup.
The International Champions Cup, also known as InternatnalchampnsCup, is one of the most influential pre-season events in international football. As an important commercial warm-up tournament, the International Champions Cup was played by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Brown. Ross and New York Jets executive Matt? Sponsored by RelevantSports, to which Higgins belongs.
To put it simply, it is the rich American who pays for these bull teams/stars to show up before the league starts. The Americans paid for it, and naturally they kicked it in the United States!
The International Champions Cup began in 2009, but at that time it was called the "World Football Challenge", and it was held three times in 2009, 2011 and 2012. Why skip 2010? are busy with the South Africa World Cup, how can I play with you!
It is estimated that the owner became rich overnight, and the shotgun was changed, and in 2013, he began to invite various giants to participate in the competition, and his influence increased day by day, and in this year it was renamed the "International Champions Cup".
Although this year is also a World Cup year, the American tycoons have spent money and the appearance fee has increased a lot, so the 2014 summer International Champions Cup will start as usual.
However, the Dortmund internationals, especially the German international, who had just won the World Cup, did not immediately travel to the United States with the team, and they are still enjoying a rare holiday.
Therefore, the Dortmund team, which went to the United States to participate in the International Champions Cup, is a mixed team composed of some of the main players and substitutes of the first team led by the team's number one star Jiang Chenxi, plus players promoted from the youth team and the reserve team.
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Dortmund's first opponent in the International Champions Cup was Greek giants Olympiacos.
The result of this match was two to one.
Jiang Chenxi looked unaffected by the recent transfer scandals surrounding him, scoring a brace in this game to show people his excellent competitive form.
This has made many media and fans very admired, whether it is the contract renewal negotiations with Dortmund or the transfer rumors, these are all closely related to the players, but Jiang Chenxi was able to do the training, the game, and the goal, and performed very well.
Jiang Chenxi's professionalism is impeccable!
This is recognized by fans and the media.
He is not like some players, when the negotiations with the club are in conflict, they will be unstable, their minds are not on the game, and they will not be like some players who want to transfer, in order to achieve the goal of transferring and leaving, they will boycott training, even boycott the game, or even leave the team privately, in order to force the club to back down and meet their own goals and requirements.
These are impossible for Jiang Chenxi.
It's very normal in football for agents and clubs to have disagreements, contradictions, and quarrels for their own purposes, as long as players don't take the initiative to stand up and make trouble, that's a good player.
And Jiang Chenxi not only didn't make trouble, but also behaved as always, you know, this is when Jiang Chenxi may have to transfer away.
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Even the senior management of the Dortmund club, who was extremely dissatisfied with Jiang Chenxi's agent Su Xun, had to admit that Jiang Chenxi's professionalism was impeccable.
Yes, Su Xun and Dortmund have completely broken down the contract renewal negotiations on Jiang Chenxi, and the differences between the two sides are very big, and they cannot reach a consensus at all.
Considering the importance of Jiang Chenxi to Dortmund and the ability he has shown and the long-term potential in the future, Dortmund is not very willing to push Jiang Chenxi into the transfer market, after all, Jiang Chenxi and Dortmund still have three years of contract.
Moreover, Dortmund recognizes Jiang Chenxi's ability and believes that his future value will only appreciate more, which is a bull stock that can be kept for a long time.
Therefore, Dortmund made it clear to Su Xun that unless there is an offer that cannot be refused, Jiang Chenxi cannot transfer and leave.
In other words, Dortmund does not rule out transfer negotiations about Jiang Chenxi, but unless it is a sky-high price that cannot be refused, otherwise, they will not let him go.
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'A number of teams, including Chelsea, are coming to the International Champions Cup and Borussia Dortmund will be in contact and talks with clubs who are interested in you. Su Xun said to Jiang Chenxi on the phone.
As she said, those teams that are rumored to be interested in Jiang Chenxi have all come to the United States to participate in the International Champions Cup this time, and some of these clubs have already had initial contact with Su Xun, and these teams, and even some teams that have not been in contact with Su Xun before, may now take this opportunity to have face-to-face direct contact with Dortmund.
Although media reports say that in addition to Chelsea, Liverpool and Serie A giants Juventus and AC Milan are also interested in Jiang Chenxi.
These rumors reported by the media are both true and false.
On the Liverpool side, their CEO Peter Brown. Moore had been in contact with Su Xun on the phone, however, there was no further action, in fact, Klopp had just taken over Liverpool, and now Liverpool are very quiet in the transfer market, neither bringing in reinforcements nor purging, Klopp needs time to familiarize himself with the team.
As for Juventus, they have communicated directly with Dortmund Club and asked Jiang Chenxi about his value, and the two clubs have had preliminary contact with the price and return price.
As for AC Milan, they did have a series of conversations with Su Xun and asked Jiang Chenxi about the possibility of joining the Rossoneri, but in Su Xun's opinion, AC Milan is purely joining in the fun, why? They don't have money!
This can be seen in the process of AC Milan's introduction of French central defender Lamy, who turned down invitations from Roma and other strong teams when he arrived at San Siro from Valencia in the middle of last season.
Relying on his excellent performance after joining, Rami gradually stabilized his main position, and both sides expressed their desire to transfer permanently, but it was obvious that Galliani did not want to pay a buyout fee of 7 million, so he started a tug-of-war with Valencia for the transfer fee. The latter also agreed to reduce it to 4.5 million, but Milan insisted on only willing to pay 4 million, and the two sides have been deadlocked on this point, but the interesting thing is that the first to hold back is the player himself, Rami really can't stand it, and the Frenchman finally paid 500,000 out of pocket to make up the difference before he was able to transfer permanently.
Therefore, AC Milan only made phone contact with Su Xun and did not contact Dortmund FC, which means that they want to find out and tell the players that we appreciate you and build a good relationship for all kinds of possibilities in the future.
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In addition, what the well-informed media did not hear is that Manchester United have once again expressed interest in Jiang Chenxi, and the new manager of Manchester United is keen to make up for the mistake of his predecessor David Moyes and bring the goal-scoring striker to Old Trafford, and Manchester United are also in contact with Borussia Dortmund.
Su Xun's idea is very direct, these clubs interested in Jiang Chenxi will communicate with Dortmund first, if their offer can make Dortmund tempted, then Su Xun will nod and have further talks with these teams separately to choose a team that is most suitable for Jiang Chenxi.
This is also equivalent to the first step of filtering, and the club that is truly bold and sincere will not be stingy in transfer fees, and in other things, it will naturally not be stingy.
Of course, Su Xun will always pay attention to the talks between these teams and Dortmund and be ready to enter the stadium at any time.
In this process, her advice and request to her boyfriend is: stay out of the matter and leave everything to her.
Obviously, this is the wisest decision.
Whether Jiang Chenxi ends up staying at Dortmund or transferring, it will not be affected.
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"The people of Dortmund are persistent and refuse to retreat." Chelsea's sporting director Ranovskaia said with a frown.
It was an emergency meeting at the top of Chelsea.
Among the attendees were Chelsea Head of Sport Ranovskaia, Chelsea CEO Ron Brown. Gulley and Chelsea manager Jose. Jose Mourinho.
Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich was also in attendance, but Abou did not come to the United States and was involved via video call.
"The people of Dortmund are opening their mouths in the lion." Gully snorted coldly and said that Chelsea and Dortmund had direct secret talks in Miami, and Dortmund club manager Watzger insisted on asking for a sky-high transfer fee of 85 million euros, which in Gurley's opinion, is simply crazy for money.
"Marina, what do you think?" Abramovich asked.
"85 million euros is not Dortmund's psychological bottom line, they are just expressing an attitude, in fact, Suarez's transfer fee of 81 million euros stimulates the transfer market, and Dortmund naturally wants to make a big profit." "My judgment is that between 65 million and 75 million euros should be able to satisfy Dortmund, after all, Jiang can't be worth much less than Suarez." ”
"Impossible!" Gully immediately said, "We have a better value for money option, and we can't accept the robbery of the Dortmund people." ”
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In fact, Gully has been advocating for the introduction of Atletico Madrid's Spanish international Diego. Kosta, and Ranovskaya's goal is Jiang Chenxi, which player to bring in, which can also be seen as a game between Ranovskaya and Gully.
"What's going on with Atletico Madrid?" Mourinho asked in a voice, from his point of view, Jiang Chenxi and Diego. Costa is good, the technical characteristics of these two players have their own advantages and disadvantages, the Chinese feel better in front of goal, and the Spaniards have more individual combat ability, so in Mourinho's heart, there is still a slight preference for Diego. Costa, who thinks the Spanish international is more suited to his tactics.
However, Mourinho did not directly express his choice, although his personality is still the same, but now Mourinho is more sophisticated in the past, Ranovskaya is Abramovich's confidant, and he will not be easily offended.
"On the side of Atletico Madrid, Diego. Simeone doesn't want to let go, however, Costa has a buyout clause of 32 million euros, as long as the player nods, we can activate this clause to take Costa, in fact, Costa's ability is not weaker than Jiang, this is the most cost-effective option. Gullilo said proudly, in fact, in his opinion, Chelsea should not have wasted time on Jiang Chenxi, Diego. Costa's side is very easy to handle.
Ranovskaya frowned slightly, and at the same time sighed inwardly, Gurley said the number, and the words had already done Diego. Costa and his agent, she knew what the outcome would be.
Ranovskaia glanced at Mourinho, she knew Diego. Both Costa and Mourinho's agents are super agents Mendes......
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Madrid.
Diego. Costa paced his home preoccupiedly.
He's waiting for news.
"Diego, you're so nervous, it's not like the Diego I know who isn't afraid of anything. Costa. Agent Mendes sat on the couch and said with a smile.
"I can't afford to lose to that Chinese kid!" Diego. Costa clenched his fists and said, after learning that Chelsea were chasing him and Jiang Chenxi at the same time, intending to choose one of the two, Diego. Costa's whole person exploded, in his opinion, this is war, there is a PK, he wants to win, he wants to win Jiang Chenxi! The defeat in the Champions League final made him very uncomfortable, and this time, he had to pull one back.
Mendes shook his head, chuckled, and didn't say anything.
At this time, Mendez's cell phone rang.
"Hello, I'm Jorge. Mendez. ”
"Okay, thank you, nice cooperation."
A minute later, Mendez hung up.
Diego. Costa immediately looked nervously at Mendes.
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"That's it, Chelsea chose you!" Mendes smiled and said, "There is also good news, they are also bringing in Felipe. ”
Yes, after a closed-door meeting, Chelsea finally decided to give up the sky-high price to bring in Jiang Chenxi and chose Diego. Costa, meanwhile, Roman Abramovich agreed to Chelsea to bring in Diego in order to make up for Mourinho. Costa and his Atletico Madrid teammate Felipe, in the words of Chelsea CEO Gully, Chelsea brought in Diego for a price of Jiang Chenxi. Costa and Felipe. Luiz's two new signings are very cost-effective.
"Oye!" Diego. Costa waved his arm vigorously and roared excitedly, he was in a happy mood, this time he won a game against Jiang Chenxi, which made him proud in his heart, "Wise choice!" The Chelsea people knew very well that the Chinese was not as good as me. ”
Mendes smiled slightly, didn't say anything, Costa was happy, and some things should not be said, so as not to blow his confidence.
Diego. Costa's move progressed very quickly, and a day later, Premier League giants Chelsea officially announced the activation of Spanish striker Diego. Costa has a buyout clause of 32 million euros and has signed a five-year contract.
Diego. Costa also gave a farewell message to Atletico Madrid fans on his personal social account on this day.
On the same day, the former Atletico Madrid striker left Madrid for London with his agent, Mendes.
On the plane, the Spain international picked up a newspaper and saw his photo and name, and he wanted to see what the media had to say about his move to Chelsea:
'Jiang's value is too high: Chelsea withdraw from the Chinese shooter race, Diego. Costa's spare tire is turned right. ”
Spare wheel!
Spare wheel!
Spare wheel!
Diego. Costa was short of breath, his eyes were red, and his fists were clenched......
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Hotels in Dortmund.
Borussia Dortmund's club manager Watzger and sporting director Zoger looked confused.
Chelsea said they were out of the talks, and they were so neat and quick to get Diego done. The addition of Costa, which caught them off guard.
Whether it is Watzger or Zogerk, after learning that Chelsea is interested in Jiang Chenxi, although it has not yet been finally decided to allow Jiang Chenxi to transfer away, they still take a special fancy to Chelsea, the big financier, this is a local tyrant, and it is Dortmund's favorite buyer.
Moreover, stimulated by Suarez's sky-high transfer fee of 81 million euros to Barcelona, Dortmund was able to accept an offer that was difficult to refuse, just to make a big profit on Jiang Chenxi's transfer.
Suarez, who is always causing trouble, is worth 81 million euros, Jiang Chenxi is younger, scores more goals, and his appearance is far beyond this bucktooth, Dortmund made up his mind to ask for a sky-high transfer fee: They decided to take Suarez's transfer fee as the benchmark, up and down, at least 75 million euros, the highest Suarez's transfer fee shall prevail, in addition to such a sky-high offer, Dortmund will not be tempted.
Who would have thought that the big fat sheep Chelsea ran away.
"Are we asking too hard?" Zogerk said subconsciously.
"Abu is not as generous as he used to be." Watzger shook his head in annoyance, lamenting that the local tyrants who had spent a lot of money had become slammers.
Just then, the door was pushed open, and Watzger's assistant Weisd hurried in, with a fax in his hand and a shocked expression.
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"What is this?" Watzger asked.
"It's a fax of an offer from the Liverpool club, transferred from the club, and they officially offer to buy Jiang." Wisdom said.
"Liverpool?" Watzger shook his head slightly, he guessed that if Klopp arrived at Liverpool and poached the old department from his old club Dortmund, Jiang Chenxi would be the number one choice, however, he was not interested in Liverpool's offer, without him, Liverpool is not a local tyrant who is not bad for money.
Watzger took the fax file casually and glanced up at the Liverpool team emblem.
"Liverpool wants to come too...... Watzger waved his hand and motioned for his assistant to leave, then sat down and said to Zogek, who, before his ass had fully touched Schaf, stood up as if there was a nail on the couch.
Watzger's eyes widened, staring at the fax in his hand.
Stare at the numbers in this fax, to be exact.
Zogork also leaned over to look, and then his eyes widened as well, staring at the string of numbers!
50000000!
Million!
The unit is pounds!
The current exchange rate between the British pound and the euro is 1.3:1!
Fifty million pounds!
That's 65 million euros!
Liverpudlian directly offered 65 million euros to buy Jiang Chenxi!
Mr. Dortmund Club Manager and Mr. Sports Director both gasped.
When did Liverpudlians get so rich?
How could the Liverpudlians be so arrogant?!
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65 million euros!
Although this price is not very satisfactory to Dortmund, it is enough to make them tempted: if there is no sky-high transfer fee for Suarez to Barcelona, 65 million euros, Dortmund will immediately nod and agree, but now...... I must give it a go, and the bicycle will become a motorcycle.
Both of them subconsciously glanced at the Liverpool crest on the fax document and confirmed the authenticity.
Then, neither of them had to speak, and they were a little distracted.
It was so sudden that they wanted to be quiet.
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There are five rooms on the left side of this suite on the upper floor of the Dortmund Club, which is Jiang Chenxi's room.
At this moment, Jiang Chenxi's mobile phone at the bedside rang.
"Jiang, your phone is ringing." Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who was playing Pro Evolution Soccer, shouted.
"Got it!" Jiang Chenxi came out of the bathroom, picked up his mobile phone, and glanced at it, it was Su Xun calling.
"Two things." Su Xun's tone was eager.
"Yes, you say." Jiang Chenxi took his mobile phone and walked into the bathroom.
"Liverpool have officially made an offer to Dortmund, £50 million, their first offer." Su Xun said.
Jiang Chenxi raised his eyebrows, 50 million pounds, that is, 65 million euros, this offer ......
"The second thing, Liverpool CEO Peter. Moore is in Miami right now, and I'll meet in half an hour. Su Xun said.
Jiang Chenxi was stunned, Liverpool's operation is very sharp, if you don't move, it's just a thunderbolt.
"Be careful." Jiang Chenxi said that when he said be careful, he did not refer to Su Xun's safety issues, but to be careful not to be photographed by the media, it would be more troublesome.
"Don't worry." Su Xun pursed his lips and smiled, then hung up the phone, and said to Lu Wushuang and Tang Xiaoya, the three of them were dressed almost identically.
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Just hung up Su Xun's phone, Jiang Chenxi's mobile phone rang again, and the caller ID was a landline phone number in Los Angeles, USA.
"Hello, I'm Jiang, are you?"
"Jiang, it's me, is it convenient to answer the phone now?"
Jiang Chenxi's face changed slightly, and he turned his head to look at Aubameyang, who was playing live football, and saw that Aubameyang seemed to be disturbed by the ringtone of his mobile phone before, and now he has put on headphones, Jiang Chenxi whispered Aubameyang, and the latter did not respond.
Jiang Chenxi quickly hung a Do Not Disturb sign on the door, locked the door again, returned to the bathroom again, closed the door of the bathroom, and locked it.
"Hello, Coach." Jiang Chenxi said softly.
The call is Dortmund's former head coach Jurgen. Klopp called.
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Watzger and Zogke and Dortmund President Reinhard. Raubal is on a conference call.
"Liverpool have money now." "One thing we overlooked, Suarez's transfer income, they now have 81 million euros! ”
"Even if it's 81 million euros, it's still very shocking." Zogerk shook his head and said, "They're putting this money directly into reinforcements." ”
If it is Dortmund, the 81 million euros, at most 50 million euros will be used to bring in reinforcements, and this 50 million euros will be all the transfer funds of Dortmund in a transfer period, at least to ensure that two or three players can be brought in, not to mention spent on one player.
And what about Liverpool?
Directly quoted Jiang Chenxi for the first time, and directly quoted 50 million pounds (65 million euros), which is a very crazy move in Zogerk's opinion.
"What do you think?" Reinhard. Raubal asked.
"Acceptable." Zogerk said that he thought twice about it, but he still felt that it was best to take it when he saw it, and if Liverpool were like Chelsea again, it would be a lot of fun.
"Refuse!" Watzger said.
Zogke looked at Watzger.
'Liverpool's first offer was £50 million and I think their psychological bottom line is more than that. "They've got 81 million euros. ”
"But what if that's the final offer from the Liverpudlians?" Zogerk asked.
"That's nothing, anyway, after we refuse, we'll see how Liverpudlian responds, and if they're really only willing to pay £50 million, then bring it back to the negotiating table." Watzger said.
"Okay!" Zogek said.
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Dortmund's reply to the rejection of the offer was faxed to Liverpool.
Just half an hour later.
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
The assistant, Wise, walked over with a fax file.
Watzger and Zogek were stunned, and the former directly snatched the fax file.
His gaze rested on the string of numbers.
60000000!
The unit is pounds!
Sixty million pounds, at an exchange rate of 1.3:1, that's 78 million euros!
This is very close to the €81 million transfer income that Liverpool received from the sale of Suarez.
It touched Dortmund's psychological bottom line.
"What should I do?" Watzger and Zogek looked at each other, both sweating on their foreheads.
The transfer offer of 78 million euros is definitely the highest transfer offer for a player in Dortmund's history.
"I think ......," Watzger said, swallowing his spit, and wanted to 'struggle' a little more, in case he could ...... again
"Promise!" Zogork gritted his teeth and said that he didn't know if the Liverpudlian were crazy, but he knew that this was Dortmund's chance to make a big profit.
Although when Zogerk and Watzger discussed before, they said that Jiang Chenxi's value was comparable to Suarez, but both of them knew that in this transfer period, it was almost impossible to find a big money owner like Barcelona to smash the same sky-high price again, and they just thought about it.
Now, the offer of 78 million euros makes it almost difficult for Zoger to breathe, he thinks that the Liverpudlians are too crazy, lest the Liverpudlians call in the blink of an eye: Dude, don't take it seriously, tease you.
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"I'll think about it, think about it." Watzger waved his hand and took a long sip of water.
Just then, Assistant Manager Wesd knocked on the door again and came in.
He had a fax document in his hand.
Watzger and Zogek were stunned, "Which club sent this?" ”
"Still, still Liverpool." Wisdom swallowed in shock.
This time, it was the sports director Zo Geke who snatched the fax file, looked at it fixedly, and then gasped, and the whole person was speechless in shock.
62500000!
£62.5 million!
It was accurate to the figure of 500,000 pounds.
£62.5 million, which equates to €81.25 million.
Both people were shocked and breathless, 81.25 million euros!
You know, Liverpool's transfer income from the sale of Suarez is exactly 81 million euros!
This offer is higher than Suarez's transfer fee, which is exactly 250,000 euros higher.
Hiss!
Both were sweating and aware of the Liverpudlian determination.
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"Look." Zogek exclaimed, and on the fax file, in addition to the quotation figures, there was a text:
Dear Dortmund Club, this is the final offer, valid for 3 hours, please reply to us within the effective time, overdue will be deemed as your disagreement, we will completely terminate the negotiation.
Mr. Dortmund Club Manager and Mr. Sports Director looked at each other, and the two of them only felt a little out of breath and dizzy, which was caused by excessive tension.
"Promise them!" Zogek said.
"Nope! Calm down, I feel like there's something wrong with this. Watzger took a deep breath, Liverpool's offer came too quickly, in one day, no, to be exact, in half a day, three consecutive offers, thunder, which made him feel that his thinking was a little confused.
"Promise them!" Mr. Athletic Director almost roared.
What is an offer that cannot be refused?
That's an offer you can't refuse!
The Liverpudlians are crazy, they can't be stupid and make the hard facts before the Liverpudlians come to their senses.
"No......" Watzger said subconsciously, he just subconsciously felt that he shouldn't make a decision so quickly, this offer was indeed impossible to refuse, but, but...... He felt a voice in his head, to be calm, to be calm, not to rush to make a decision, otherwise he might regret it.
"I'm on the phone with Mr. President." Zogerk ignored Watzger, he took out his mobile phone and dialed the club's president, Reinhard. Laubal's phone.
"If you are too greedy, you will be punished." Before the call was answered, Zogerk said to Watzger, "I am sure that Mr. Chairman will make a wise choice." “
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