Chapter 47: Ronaldo is mine
The conditions at Trapani's club are not good, but both Allegri and Toney can feel that the club's owner, Hugo, is at least trying to change something, and for the players, it's the pitch and the training pitch that are all about it.
Trapani's stadium has long been bare, and before Hugo took over, Trapani was on the verge of bankruptcy, and the players certainly didn't like it when they had the money to fix any turf or anything like that.
After Hugo accepted, he allocated a special amount, and Giorgio was responsible for getting it, and the game with Palazzolo was not in time to use real turf, but a few days later, Giorgio got real turf from Milan, and the turf for football matches was of a worse grade than the turf of the Meazza stadium, but it was already very good.
Once delivered, the club immediately began to hire workers to lay the turf, and not only that, but also hired two professional course caretakers to take care of the turf.
In addition to laying new turf for the stadium and maintaining the stands, Hugo also signed a contract with the family to buy a piece of land in the town of Pacheco, about 50 acres, the area can only be said to be average, but this place has an advantage, it is located just in front of the local reservoir in Pacheco, but Trapani is surrounded by a bare area, and the beautiful environment is naturally not to talk about.
Alas, the Chinese have a saying: "If you want to be rich and have fewer children, you will grow many trees!" "The environment here is really bad!" Hugo sighed as he stood outside the "training base" inspecting the construction site.
Morek, Giorgio and Tony were stunned, Allegri was not interested here, Tony was different, he was a part-time financial director, the money passed through his hands, and he was still young, maybe he would have to work here for many years, of course he cared about the development of the team.
If you have fewer children and more trees, you can get rich?! Just kidding, the people of Sicily have fled a lot, and where there are no Sicilians in the United States, the North, and other countries in Europe, the population is really not dense! Morek and Giorgio are natives and don't take Hugo's words seriously.
Of course, they don't want to see the bad environment here, but what can be done, the environment in Sicily has been like this for many years.
"In the future, we must do a good job here, we want to build it like the Kovirciano base, and in the future, the team will have a youth echelon, and we will train here in the future, and we must do the best!" Hugo said.
"How much does that cost?!" Giorgio said that at present, the "training base" of Trapani is very simple, the players' dormitories, office buildings, gyms, and two training fields are equipped with artificial turf, which is much cheaper than professional turf, and a large part of the 50 acres of land is vacant, and the training base of Covelciano is naturally different, as the training base of the national team, the conditions are undoubtedly top good, and the turf is professional football field turf, and it takes a lot of money to maintain, not to mention other such as swimming pools, restaurants, medical centers, etc.
"Haha, Georgie, I don't dare to say anything else! I have a lot of money! When the time comes, we will build this place into the top training ground in Europe and even the world, better than the three bears in the north! Hugo laughed and let out a bold statement.
Morek said in his heart that you have money, just deduct it, this construction site is my construction, except for materials, there is no labor, and I am embarrassed to say?!
Do you still need to talk about this training base at the moment?! Hugo must have let his cousin take the blame, only the material money, the cost of workers, and the cost of using machinery are all sponsored by Moreck's friendship, but fortunately, the amount of work is not large, otherwise Morek will not be happy to designate it, and no matter how relatives have to settle accounts.
"Top-notch?! Look at us now, we look so shabby! Giorgio commented.
"The food is eaten one bite at a time, I said Georgie, at the beginning Trapani didn't even have a training ground, look now we all have it, this is a kind of progress, and we will continue to improve in the future! Hey, you didn't complain much before, but now you're complaining, old fellow, you don't have to take such an inch! With such good conditions, the team has to fight for breath! Hugo began to pour chicken soup for the soul again.
"Doot toot!" Hugo's cell phone rang, and when he took it out, he saw that it was Sailly calling.
"Look, Sailly called, and I tell you, he must have brought good news this time! I've already locked two young players, and if we get their ......, hehe, we'll definitely dominate European football in the future! Hugo smiled and opened his phone while talking to a few people.
"Hello, Leo!"
"Got to Trapani?! Okay, I'll meet you right away, you can come to the team headquarters! Sailly didn't elaborate on the phone, and Hugo also wanted to hear Selly talk about whether the search for Messi and Ronaldo was going well.
Taking the cigar that Hugo threw over, he sniffed with his nose, "From the smell of Cuban tobacco, I remember that you don't smoke!" ”
"I don't smoke, but I bought some to pretend! At least it looks like hehe......" Hugo smirked, and he was blunt about Seli.
Skillfully using the tools on Hugo's table, Selly twitched, "Well, it tastes good!" ”
"Okay, you must have brought me good news this time, right?!" Hugo laughed.
"Absolutely good news! Let's start with Cristiano. Ronaldo, I met him in person, he's only 14 years old now, but he's already showing very good talent and ability, I don't know where you heard about it, although I personally think the $5 million offer is too high, but I think he should definitely be more than that in the future! Selly spat out a smoke ring.
"And then, how is he doing now?!" Hugo doesn't want to listen to Sailly's nonsense, I want you to say, I already knew that he was more than this price, otherwise Lao Tzu would have paid so much.
"His home is in Madeira, Madeira, you know what?! Gigi?! Sailly didn't hurry and talked about Ronaldo.
"How do I know, I only know that it must be Portuguese, as for where I don't know!" Hugo shrugged.
"It was a long way from mainland Portugal, which is said to be as poor as Sicily, and Cristiano's family was not very good, but he joined the local club Madeira National at a very young age, but last year he was offered by Sporting Lisbon for £1,500!" When Sailly said this, all he heard was "it!" "A bang.
"! Knowing this, wouldn't it be cheaper to bring him in last year?! Hugo stood up and cried out in regret.
"Last year?! Gigi, it seems that you didn't have a team last year! Sailly said confusedly.
"It seems to be!" Hugo sat back in his place, and at this time last year he didn't think about playing with the team.
"Then, are Sporting Lisbon willing to sell him?!"
"Why not, more importantly I found Cristiano's agent, a small agent, Jorge. Mendes, I told him that if he was willing to make the deal, I would pay him $200,000! Sailly said smugly.
"He agreed?!" Hugo asked a nonsense.
"Yes, of course I also promised Cristiano that if he was willing to sign Trapani, we would pay him $100,000 a year from now on! There's no reason why the club won't let them go, Cristiano is under 18 years old and can leave on his own at any time, but according to what you said, I didn't want to get into a stalemate with their club, I made an agreement with them that I was willing to give them a transfer fee of $1.5 million, and then I would play for them for free until the age of 18, and then we were willing to give them another $1 million in development fees! Selly was now smiling all over his face, and he cared that he had exceeded Hugo's mission.
"Oh, here's the agreement!" Selli took out the preliminary agreement document and the official contract from his briefcase, according to the usual practice, he knew that Hugo was not too clear about the player contract, and he was responsible for the previous Kameni, Toni, and Allegri, so he signed a preliminary agreement with Sporting Lisbon in Portugal, and the formal contract needed to be signed by Trapani's general manager Giorgio.
Hugo took the document handed over by Sailly, looked through it in detail, looked at it very carefully, and raised some questions from time to time, Sailly explained to him, the training fee is not necessarily so easy to get for Sporting Lisbon, Sailly has stipulated in the contract that Ronaldo must play in the first team after reaching the age of sixteen, and he cannot play less than 20 times per season, and the time of each game is stipulated, not less than how many minutes, the conditions can be described as harsh, nothing more than the fear of Sporting Lisbon stealing and slipping.
"$2.5 million?! Haha, Sburn Athletic is really stupid here! Hugo scoffed.
Sailly was speechless for a while, people are not stupid, first of all, Ronaldo is too young, who can say clearly, and then it is only a year, and people will make a lot of money, compared to the Serie A, the players in the Portuguese league are almost the price of cabbage, and this price can buy the absolute main force, what else is bad.
"You see, their general manager has already signed, now wait for Giorgio to sign the contract, and everything is done! Congratulations, Gigi, I think it's a good deal! Sailly laughed.
"Definitely! By the way, Messi, what you told me should be good news, right?! Hugo put down the file and smiled.
"Well, Messi's situation is a bit of a problem! He's sick! I'm afraid it's not good for playing! Sailly said.
It's impossible, Nima Messi in the future is more than a cow, why can't he do it now?! Hugo couldn't believe Selly's words.
"He has a disease, dwarfism! I'm afraid it's going to be hard to grow taller in the future, so I think it's going to be hard for this kid to play football again in the future?! ”