Chapter 50 Meeting with the President

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"People are commercial companies, and they subsidize you to go abroad for no reason? Dream about you! ”

Chen Jianhao sighed and said, "I knew ...... like this."

"If you knew you wouldn't be here like this?" Xiao Pan smiled and said, "Don't complain, didn't you come out too?" ”

Fang Jizhou was bored for a long time, and finally spoke: "Wu Tianchang and I don't have to think about this problem. ”

"You two are self-paying?" Xiao Pan was surprised.

"Hmm."

Wu Tianchang added on the side: "Brother Zhou's father helped me pay the money." ”

"Isn't it? I heard that one person has to be in his early 400,000s? ”

"It doesn't take that much......" Franciscan said again. Even if it doesn't take that much, it's never a small amount.

"Jinwu, you are so rich, why didn't you spend this money in the first place? It can save a lot of work. ”

Chen Jinwu smiled bitterly: "It's good that I can come here, how dare I ask my father for money......"

Seeing that everyone was speaking a language they didn't understand, Govia couldn't help coughing a few times and said, "After signing the contract, the club will continue to provide food and accommodation, you don't have to worry about this." But the chairman wants to sign a five-year contract because we don't have to pay you in the first place...... Can you accept this? ”

Xiao Pan was surprised: "Five years? Just a few tens of euros per month? ”

"I can't help it, after all, they are all Chinese."

Wu Tianchang couldn't hear others say this kind of thing, and instinctively replied: "What's wrong with the Chinese?" ”

"No, no, no, it's not discriminating against you...... It's just that China doesn't have many players who are too good, and their adaptability is questionable. Don't get me wrong, it's not your fault, but I really can't convince the chairman......"

Wu Tianchang still wanted to argue, but was pressed down by Xiao Pan, "Philip, you also know their strength, they are not much worse than the children in the team." ”

"That's what I said, but the chairman said that China's good seedlings are short-lived and can't stand the test of time. Actually, I shouldn't tell you these words, it's just that I want to keep you too much, and the chairman is only thinking about the situation of the team......"

Chen Jianhao suddenly sneered and said, "What is there to consider? There are only a few people left in the team now. I just don't want to give money. ”

Xiao Pan glanced at him and said, "Pay attention to your wording, he is your head coach." ”

"Come on, anyway, the eight characters haven't been skimmed yet, is it useful for us to talk here for a long time?"

Xiao Pan pondered for a moment and proposed to Govia, "Can you arrange for us to meet with the chairman?" ”

"Yes, it's just that he's been abroad recently."

"Well, we haven't seen him in a long time, doesn't he have to worry about the club?"

"People have other things to do, and they can't stay here all the time. Then I'll talk to him again when he comes back next month. ”

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Alvaro Braga Junior, the current president of the team in Boavista. The years have left enough marks on his face, and when he is past the age of six, not only is his head gray, but even a beard on his mouth is no exception. He was a little blessed, and his smile also revealed the wisdom of an elder.

At the moment, he was sitting on the couch in the club's office, closing his eyes and waiting for the guests to arrive.

In the past two years, the club has changed several presidents. The old man can be said to be in danger and ordered to take over this hot potato. The source of the problem is naturally the match-fixing relegation storm in 2008.

Objectively speaking, after the final penalty of the year, the most advantageous clubs were undoubtedly Ferreira and Rechaunes. In the 2007-2008 season, they were struggling for relegation, who would have expected that the sky would send a big pie, not only did the Leiria team fall into the ranks of the Portuguese league like an early free fall, but even Boavista, who was far stronger than himself, suddenly fell into the abyss, so that the two relegation places in the season were "famous".

After suffering the shock of relegation, the worst end was Boavista. Founded in 1903, the 16-sport multi-sport club, which has won two league titles, five Portuguese Cups and three Portuguese Super Cups, was forced to be relegated for the first time in more than half a century. Originally, they finished ninth in the final ranking of the season, and there was no possibility of relegation in terms of points.

Of course, the most devastated in this incident was the Lorero family. In fact, to this day, whether this "Golden Whistle Operation" is a righteous proposition or a political suppression under the guise of this hand is still quite controversial among the media. The Loreiro family has been the ruler of Boa Vista for nearly three decades, with his father Volentin Loureiro having a strong personality and holding a host of positions such as president of the Portuguese Professional Football League, mayor of Gondoma, chairman of the Porto metro company, and his son João Loureiro also manages a number of businesses. After the verdict, the son was banned from playing football for four years, and the father, due to his high position, could only be dealt with by the judicial committee of the Football Association, but in the end he did not escape this fate.

In the first season after the verdict was handed down, Boavista had changed the president twice, but because no suitable sponsor could be found, the wages of the first-team players were owed four or five months in a row, for which the team has collectively boycotted three times and threatened to boycott the game several times. The scandal was heavily fined by the Alliance, and the last interim president resigned. People naturally understand and believe that it is only a matter of time before such a century-old team collapses under multiple economic, financial and moral blows. It was in this context that Álvaro Braga Júnior, as the most recent president of the club, took the initiative to take on a bank loan of up to 5 million euros for the team and began a new round of reconstruction.

It has to be mentioned that although Porto retained the title that year, it is not difficult to imagine that its competitors will spare no effort to attack it from a sportsmanlike point of view in the future. From the perspective of judicial analysis, there was insufficient evidence of Porto's "sexual bribery" of the referee at that time, and there was also a lack of obvious favorable verdicts during the game, but many media speculated that with the personal relationships that Boacosta President Valentin Loreiro had made over the decades and his status as the "godfather of the north", these evidences were obviously deliberately erased after the fact. There are also analyses that Football Association officials have warned that if there is conclusive evidence that Porto are involved in bribing referees and manipulating the results of matches, they will lose the Portuguese Super League title and be relegated - so it is clear that Valentin Lorrero deliberately sacrificed himself to save the team.

In any case, Valentin Lorero, the veteran president of the Portuguese Super League for 26 years, who personally sent Porto to the Champions League twice (1986-1987 and 2003-2004) and more than a dozen Portuguese Super League titles, will find it difficult for him to return to Portuguese football despite the humiliation suffered by Boavista, even if it is a fatal blow.

Álvaro Júnior has the limited financial resources to cover the entire debt of the team, but it is difficult to bring more to the team. In the past year, the team has not even been able to recruit for the academy, so they can only sit on the hill and eat short, using meager part-time contracts to sign some Portuguese outcasts they have not looked down on in the past, and when the season is over, almost all the first-team players are gone, and then look for replacements. Fortunately, Boavista has been a well-known youth training base in China, with a large number of young talents vying to come here, relying on a large number of children recruited in previous years, barely retaining a place in the second division and not continuing to fall.

But now, even the local children have run to their rivals Porto, and it is difficult for them to start out on youth training again. The first team is even more problematic, and no one knows what it will be like next year.

There was a knock on the door outside, and Álvaro Júnior opened his eyes, his ass moved slightly, before replying in a deep voice: "Come in!" ”

Philip Govia walked in front, followed by Pan Xian'en, Chen Jianhao, Chen Jinwu, Fang Jizhou, and Wu Tianchang, who gradually walked in one by one.

"Hey, boys, I heard you all speak Portuguese well?" Álvaro Júnior pointed to the sofa next to him and smiled: "Feel free to sit down, I have brought all the contracts." ”

"Mr. President?" Govia asked softly.

The old man waved his hand and motioned not to interject. The lads didn't speak, but nodded their heads in greeting, and when everyone was seated, he spoke again, "I'll get straight to the point." The team doesn't have a lot of money to run around right now, but if you're willing to sign a long-term contract, I'll be able to help with the rest! ”

Pan Xian'en, also known as Xiao Pan, said: "Hello Mr. President, I am Pan Xian'en, and we are meeting for the first time. I'm their accompanying coach, so I'll talk to them about it. ”

"No problem. What are the requirements can be bluntly stated. ”

"Okay sir, I've talked to them all, and they don't care about their current income. It's just that I've heard that non-EU players under the age of 18 can't sign a formal contract with a club......"

"You are mistaken about this, because the agreement with the Chinese side itself includes a clause that the first team must play no less than 10 games, which is also authorized by the Football Association, so it is not included in this agreement. So whether they sign or not, they will definitely get a chance in the first team. It's just that if you're willing to sign now, we're going to give you an absolute anchor for the next five years. Unless...... Their performance was really unsatisfactory. ”

"The absolute workhorse?" Little Pan glanced at Govia.

Govia hurriedly said: "I don't know about this either, and since Mr. President said so, I have no objection." I've been quite optimistic about them. ”