Chapter 12 Candidates

On his way to Theo's office, Vincent was thinking about how to convince Theo to give the youth team some additional funds. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

It took more than half an hour from Fan Shang entering Tai's office to coming out, and Fan Shang felt quite satisfied after coming out. Theo still has a deep affection for the Bordeaux club, he is a Bordeaux himself, and he wants the club to be better. When he heard Vincent's comments on the current youth team and the results he saw, Theo agreed to Vincent's request to bring in young players, and he also hoped that Bordeaux would develop their own talents instead of spending money on buying people everywhere. However, the specific amount of funds is not fixed, Taio means to try to poach people from small clubs, it is best to not spend money, even if it is to spend as little as possible, and going to a big club to poach people is directly denied. In terms of the number of players, it should not be too much, no more than five, and the budget was given 300,000 francs (the ratio of francs to dollars at that time was about 1 to 5, 1 to 6, and 300,000 francs for about 50,000 dollars.) )

Vincent came out of Tyo's office and went straight to Battistone and told him the news.

"You wait a little longer, I'll put the list together right away," Battistone sped up the efficiency of his work

After a while, Battistone placed a dozen pieces of paper in front of Vincent. "I've drawn a line of all the people that our club can bring in under the current conditions, some of them are doing well in small clubs, and some of them are not playing in big clubs like Paris, Marseille and Monaco. He pointed to the list, "You can go home and have a look first."

"Okay, I'll take a look at the list first, and we'll talk about it tomorrow." Fan Shang picked up the list and said hello to Battistone, and walked out of the office quickly.

Fan Shang came home, ate something first, and then opened the list and began to look at it, at first I didn't see any too familiar names, Fan Shang just turned the pages one by one, and saw the first familiar name, Louis. Louis Saha, the striker at Manchester United, is now a Paris academy player. Seeing that there was no underline on the name, Fan Shang marked it first and discussed it with Battistone. Then there are a few more names, even more so in the city of Lyon, with Didier Drogba training at Le Vallois-Perret on the outskirts of Paris and Eric Abidal on the outskirts of Lyon

ASLyon-Duchère Club Academy, Malouda Florent Malouda at Charuto Academy, Zerbina Jonathan Zebina at Cannes Academy. There are a few people in Drogba and Abidal's club who have been crossed, but it is not them, it may be that Battistone feels that they are not enough. Fan Shang drew a heavy circle on the names of these four people. Vincent rummaged through the names of the players with the line underneath, hoping to find a target that aligned with Battistone's opinion so as not to lose face to Battistone. Finally he saw a name Sylvain Distin, a brother Vincent who had never been selected for the French national team in his career, but who had been playing as the main centre-back in the Premier League club, tall and strong but agile, tough in interception and strong in aerodynamics, and no less good at ball control. He is now in the academy in Paris, but looking at the horizontal line under his name, it is estimated that he is not doing well in Paris.

The next day, Fan Shang arrived at the club with a prepared list. Today's training is still dominated by Battistone, Fan Shang doesn't say much, he is mainly observing, and his main observation today is which players should be eliminated.

After the training, Vincent and Batiston entered the office.

"You're done?" Battistone asked Vincent

"Well, after reading it, I also circled a few people, let's discuss it." Vincent placed the list on the table and came face to face with Battistone.

"I've seen the personnel you draw, and I think this person is relatively good, with height, weight and strength," Vincent pointed to Distin and asked for his name and said to Battistone.

"Well, he's good, but he's not taken seriously in Paris, and he's ready to change places. We can get in touch, hopefully, Paris doesn't look down on him, there won't be any problems with the price, it's not impossible to be free. Battistone nodded

"Free?"

"That's right, let's go and contact the player first, and let the player terminate the contract with the club, and then we will sign with him, it's free. Paris didn't want him, and the contract was terminated. ”

Fan Shang thought about it, and that's right, if the kid in the team who wants to sell Turkish barbecue wants to terminate the contract, Fan Shang feels that he will have to die of happiness. "Then I'll contact him myself."

Then Fan Shangyou turned out the names of several other people.

Battistone looked at the names, "You chose these?" Fan Shang nodded, "Let's talk about this Zebina first, he is about to be promoted to the first team in Cannes, Cannes attaches great importance to him, this is basically impossible." I've never heard of the other three, but I'd love to hear about Abidal, but I've only heard of it. ”

"Then let's go see them, I've heard about it, and when you think it's okay, we'll want to try to bring them in."

"I'm going to lead the team in training, you can leave it alone, but I can't, just find a scout and talk to those little guys about coming to us for a tryout." Battistone was unimpressed

"No, we can't try out the players we fancy ourselves, we have to be sincere with them, we can't just give orders to the players as if we were a big club and let the players come to us for a tryout. Tryouts can only be played by players recommended by others. Fan Shang said firmly

"Okay, but what about training"

"Let the U17 coach take it, by the way, let's go to the other youth teams in a while and find out what good seedlings there are."

In the afternoon, Vincent and Battistone watched the training of the other youth teams, and the situation was a little better than the Under-19s, where Vincent saw a French centre-back with a potential rating of 73 per cent. Prani Marc Planus, Fan Shang wanted to transfer him to U19, but seeing that he was only in his early 1.7 meters, he gave up at the age of 13. (Mark. Marc Planus, a great loyalty of Bordeaux, joined the Bordeaux youth system in the 90s and has been working for Bordeaux for 24 years since the academy. )

There is also a smaller, the youngest U11 in Bordeaux, who saw a little black child with a potential rating of 76%. Mavuba Rio Mavuba, Fan Shang has heard of him in later generations, but he didn't expect this black and hard Bordeaux to come out, looking at this black boy who is only 11 years old, Fan Shang even exclaimed pity, "Child, why didn't you give birth a few years earlier." (Leo. Rio Mavuba, born in the Bordeaux academy, midfielder, was once known as Little Makelele, with a strong body and strong interception ability).

Vincent shook his head and sighed, and returned to the office with Battistone, "Patrick, I've decided, we'll go to Paris tomorrow, get rid of Distin first, and then go to observe Drogba, and go south to Charuto and Lyon to get to know Abidal and Malouda." ”

Without waiting for Battistone's answer, he walked out of the office, leaving Battistone at a loss