When Frank walked into the manager's office, he brought two men, but, don't get me wrong, neither of them was a player, both were in their forties, and one of them was a slightly gloomy Italian named Sensibiele, with a suit and leather hair combed meticulously, and a hooked nose, obviously full of smiles, but this smile seemed to be like an out-of-body sword. Frank described his personality as less optimistic and uninhibited than the average southern European, nor like most Italians, who had no sense of time, but more like an Englishman who counted everything.

The other man, Ward, noticed at first glance that the little finger of his right hand, the nail cover was broken, and it looked very horrible, and it seemed that this was a man with a very good story, his name was Peranchi, and he was Sensibile's assistant. This man's style of dressing is not so serious, he has a suit but no tie, and there are two openings in his shirt, which is completely different from the serious hook-nosed guy.

Portsmouth invited Sensibile as the team's director of football, and the two of them had just flown from Italy to England, and they happened to meet Frank, who had just returned from Germany, and they got to know each other together.

Hydward's salary for Sensibile is also not low, basically the same as Frank, and it is the highest salary in the entire Championship, but the key to the problem is not this, no Championship club will have a professional director to manage everything in the club, and Sensibile is not professional. In modern football, the director of football is generally sent by the team owner to share the authority of the head coach, which is commonly known as the "second child", and this responsibility can exercise almost all the powers of the head coach off the pitch and transfer; contract negotiations; personnel appointments; economic power, and so on. Portsmouth may not have a boss this year or in the future, and the whole team has the final say, isn't that good? Frank didn't quite understand Ward's uncomfortable approach to himself.

Such an appointment is common in the Premier League at Chelsea Football Club, and their owner Abou usually controls the team in this way, at first it was just the Russian tycoon to make it easier to insert people into the team, and then Abu became proficient in football operations and evolved into a manager who only needs to tell the director the name he needs, and everything else is done by the second child, turning the traditional manager responsibility system in England into an Italian-style general manager and manager model, where the real owner of the team only cares about things on the pitch.

Blues fans are familiar with their own "uniform group", because there are too many managers who have died under this system, including Claudio Ranieri; Jose Mourinho; Grant; Scolari; Hiddink; Ancelotti and so on, but when it comes to the history of the scare, this goes back to the time when the magic bird got out of class, after all, in their minds, Mourinho is a scumbag, and it is also the best first love, and the Premier League is staging a bad love triangle every day.

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"Welcome to Portsmouth, sir, where you are seated."

Hydward pointed to the table outside his office, which was the second floor of the club's building, with meeting rooms, media briefings and staff cafeterias on the first floor, and the second floor where the transfer market dominated, with only five or six benches and tables, two potted plants, and a few computers and printers. The place where the manager stays is just a glass door away from the team's hierarchy, and there are no secrets.

"Thank you"

Sensibile's voice was full of magnetism, and he tapped his fingers twice on the table, picking the same position as he did the furniture, and finally choosing a "sturdy" one.

After the director finished picking his seat, Frank walked around the big office twice, frowned, shook his head, and said, "Hey, Hydward, the team is still so poor?" Don't have a separate office? ”

Hydward remembers that Frank had a spacious office in Metz, France, full of player photos and group photos, which he had to take out and wipe back and forth every day, but he couldn't do it. If he didn't have a room, where would he put these memories of the past?

Hydward laughed and said, "You can't use it here. ”

Frank's brow furrowed even deeper, "What do you mean?" ”

Sensibile on the side took out a few pieces of paper from the briefcase he was carrying, handed them to the anxious Frenchman, and Peranch on the side said very tacitly: "This is the work arrangement for the first half of the year, you really don't have much opportunity to enjoy a leisurely time, as soon as this transfer period is over, you will start to prepare for the investigation of 1,114 goals, Portsmouth's scouting network is messy, you have to be responsible for repairing him, I will help you, and take over the investigation of the team's opponents, your task is in the distant sea of stars, Frank!" ”

Sensibilai nodded calmly and pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, "The team has already transferred your half-year's activity funds into your account, don't thank me, if you want to thank you, thank Mr. Hydward." ”

Frank looked at the smiling crowd around him, his fingers trembled with anger, but he still put his hand down when he thought about the extra money in the account, he knew that Hydward, the little boss, was a very atmospheric person, and he would definitely not be stingy with a little "activity funds". Moreover, looking at what Hydward revealed, Portsmouth, a Championship club, is already in his hands, and it is not surprising that Hydward must hold more than 10% of the shares in his hands, but these shares are bought in different capacities in different corners of the world, 10% seems to be very little, but it is already the second shareholder of the team.

Hydeward practiced so well that even Tom, the team's butler, was deceived. The butler is an out-and-out Portsmouthist, and not letting him know is also to maintain the friendship between the brothers, after all, the boat of friendship is always capsized. Once the FA's review has passed this month, Tom, who has accompanied the team through their toughest years, will step down and hand over the reins to Sensibile, and he will return to his familiar role as legal adviser.

The successor Sensibile is known to Hydeward, a man who was part of Galliani's team a few years ago, working as a small director of AC Milan's sports department, but Ga's team had left the once-glorious Milan dynasty a few years ago because of Berlusconi's spending cuts, and some of the elites left the once-glorious Milan dynasty, and Sencibile was among them.

He later switched to scouting for a few years and was famous, but if the trajectory continues, Sencibile will come to Sampdoria in Serie B this year as team director to take over Mariano's position, and Peranch will be Sampdoria's chief scout as his golden partner. The following winter, the two men staged a series of dazzling moves in the transfer market, and after selling the team's star Poli, they signed Mauro for free. Icardi and bought Spanish midfielder Pedro for a bargain. Obiang and a series of other players make up the main squad of Sampdoria to break into Serie A.

Icardi was the prey he had been eyeing for a long time, and now he was in Portsmouth.

Sensibile glanced at Frank and pulled out a few more pieces of paper from the folder, but this time handed them to Hydward, "Sign them, Mr. Coach, I know you're still looking for some possibilities." ”

Peranci patted the "boss" on the shoulder and said, "It's a gift, Surprise!" ”