Chapter 103: Here comes a crooked nut
Liu Yun was ruled out in the "YOYO" physical test. He lost his qualification for the second half of the Chinese League and the FA Cup.
A player who can't play in leagues and cups is obviously a burden to the team.
However, the team owner Xu Wen found a new position for Liu Yun! That is the image spokesperson of Sea Soul Group. I have to say that this Xu Wen is quite inauthentic. He didn't give Liu Yun any endorsement fees, what he paid Liu Yun was only an annual salary of 600,000 yuan!
With a price of 600,000 yuan, in exchange for a splash Weibo big V with millions of fans as a spokesperson. From another point of view, this Xu Wen is a real profiteer!
Liu Yun didn't care. He felt that he couldn't play because of his own reasons. He felt guilty about Xu Wen. Since he can help his boss Xu Wen and help the team off the field, he is naturally happy.
Time flies quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it is late August.
On this day, Liu Yun had just finished attending the groundbreaking ceremony of a new project of Sea Soul Real Estate, and suddenly received a call from Hao Hexi.
"Lao Liu, where are you?" Hao Hexi asked anxiously on the phone.
"I'm here in the development zone. Participated in the groundbreaking of the new project of Sea Soul Real Estate. Liu Yun replied.
"Come back soon, my Lao Liu! Here's your chance! I'll send a car to pick you up right away, no, you take a taxi right away and return to the training base immediately, it will be faster! Hao Hexi ordered eagerly.
Liu Yun obeyed the order and took a taxi back to the base.
Hao Hexi was waiting for Liu Yun at the gate of the training base.
"Lao Liu, you're back!" Hao Hexi greeted him.
Liu Yun asked: "Director Hao, what is so urgent?" β
Hao Hexi said: "Lao Liu, I'll take you to meet someone in a while!" This personγγγγγγ It might bring you back to the green field!! β
Liu Yun was surprised: "Return to the green field? But the Football Association is not a ruleγγγγγγ β
Hao Hexi waved his hand: "The policy of the Football Association can control the domestic league, but it can't control the foreign league!" Come with me! β
Hao Hexi led Liu Yun to the meeting room of the training base.
In the living room, a blond foreigner was sitting. This foreigner looks like he's forty years old. He looked curiously at the Jingdezhen welcome porcelain tea set beside him. Sitting next to him was a young Chinese, who was supposed to be his translator.
Hao Hexi led Liu Yun into the living room, and the foreigner stood up to greet him and stretched out his hand towards Liu Yun. He muttered in English, but Liu Yun didn't understand a word.
The translator said: "This is Mr. Edda, the deputy director of the athletic department of Coventry, a team in the English second division. He said it was a pleasure to meet you. β
Liu Yun said: "Hello, I am Liu Yun, a player of the Pearl River Sea Soul Team. β
This Mr Edda's position at Coventry City is the deputy head of athletics and, to put it bluntly, a scout. The UK has a well-established professional league system. There are even eleven levels of professional leagues under the jurisdiction of the English FA. League Two is the fourth of the eleven divisions, behind the Premier League, the Championship, and League One.
Although when the Chinese people heard about League Two, they thought it was a low-level league. But the level of English B and Hua B are far from being in the same heavyweight class! There are 20 teams in the Premier League, 24 teams in the Championship, 24 teams in League One and only 24 teams in League Two! To qualify for League Two means that Coventry is one of the top 100 football clubs in England!
Last season, Coventry City finished fourth in League Two, just one point off third, and came close to making it to the top one. Despite missing out on League One, the team earned a place in the FA Cup. It can be said that Coventry City is a very strong team.
Coventry's two main strikers are out of contract before the start of the new season. Due to a more lucrative offer from an English One club, two of the main strikers left League One.
Coventry suddenly found themselves in a situation where there was no one to use up front. Although the team still has three substitute strikers, the team's coach is skeptical that these three can provoke the main pillars of the new season.
In desperation, the coach of the team had to send scouts to Eda abroad to find strong foreign reinforcements. Eda first came to East Asia.
This Mr. Edda has an older brother Plath who is well-known in English football. Plath is a scout for Premier League giants Manchester City. When Manchester City legend Sun Jihai went to the Premier League, it was Plath who operated.
Knowing that his younger brother was looking for good foreign aid in East Asia, Plath immediately asked Sun Jihai, who was in China, to help.
Eda came to Huaguo and contacted Sun Jihai. Sun Jihai recommended several Chinese strikers to him who were in their playing years. Eda only had his eye on two of them. However, now the salaries of Chinese players are rising, and their worth is even more expensive! The clubs of the two strikers have offered Coventry City a transfer fee of 6 million euros and 8 million euros respectively. Even if it's a loan, it's 5 million euros!
Perhaps compared to the giants of the Premier League, the transfer fee of several million euros is nothing. But for an League Two team, this is a sky-high price!
However, Edda believes that the ability of these two strikers is not directly proportional to such a high transfer fee! If hundreds of thousands of Euros, millions of euros are acceptableγγγγγγ It's just a sky-high asking price.
And now the salaries of Chinese Super League players are inflated, and the two players even regard Coventry as a big wrongdoer, asking for hundreds of thousands of euros in signing fees and 10,000 euros in weekly salaries.
Eda is not a big deal. He's a professional scout! Facing the two players of the Huachao Club and the Lion who were sitting on the ground, he finally said to Sun Jihai: "To hell with them!" β
Manchester City celebrity Sun Jihai and Hao Hexi have a very good personal relationship, and the two are iron buddies from a football school. After Hao Hexi heard about this from Sun Jihai, he sent a video of Liu Yun's highlights in Huabing to Sun Jihai with a try-and-see attitude. and asked Sun Jihai to transfer the video to Eda to see if he could meet in person, and let Liu Yun go to Coventry on loan.
Sun Jihai blocked Edda, who was about to leave Huaguo, at the door of the hotel. When Eda heard that Sun Jihai recommended a forty-five-year-old player, he felt insulted by his parent team! However, Sun Jihai is a member of the Premier League Hall of Fame, and he has the face of his brother Plath, so he had to put down his luggage and watch Liu Yun's video.
After watching the video, his first reaction was that the super-older player's dribbling skills, shooting skills, and awareness were all very good. But as soon as he heard that Liu Yun was participating in the fourth division of the Chinese League, Eda shook his head at Sun Jihai like a rattle.
Sun Jihai told him very sincerely that he guaranteed the reputation of a member of the Premier League Hall of Fame, and the reputation of his friend Hao Hexi, who was formerly the Asian Footballer of the Year, that this super old player named Liu Yun is definitely capable of playing in League Two. Only then did Eda change her mind and planned to go to Zhujiang to meet the player in person. But it was only an encounter, and he didn't have much hope. came to Zhuhai only to see the face of Premier League Hall of Fame member Sun Jihai and former Asian footballer Hao Hexi.
So, today's meeting.