Chapter 14: Valencia Halfway Through
Pep Guardiola didn't let Chang Sheng wait too long, perhaps because he didn't find a suitable street for so long, and he lost the patience and courage to continue waiting.
Chang Sheng received a call from Guardiola's agent Oloveteger that night.
"We can talk about specific individual contracts, Chang."
Chang Sheng didn't say anything, clenched his fists and ignored it, and let out a "sigh" in his heart.
"Very well, Mr. Olowitteg. We're always available. He suppressed his agitation and tried to keep his voice as calm as possible.
Negotiating a contract with Pep Guardiola's agent is as simple as giving a price that the other side accepts.
Because it is a free transfer, Guardiola's agent will definitely ask for a high salary.
Of course, this high salary is also relative. After all, Guardiola is already thirty years old, abandoned by Barcelona and retired from the national team, so it is conceivable that he does not have much time left in his career.
They are also not qualified to ask for a high price. Even if Oloveteg wanted to, Guardiola wouldn't do it. Because this is tantamount to smashing Guardiola's own signboard and ruining his reputation.
Pep Guardiola has been an honest and good man throughout his career.
If it is finally rumored that he is asking for a sky-high price, what will others think?
So Chang Sheng is not worried about the sky-high asking price of Oloveteg.
Olowitteg offered Chang Sheng a $60,000-a-week salary on a three-year contract.
Chang Sheng exchanged it for $55,000.
Then Olowitteg called Guardiola and agreed to the offer.
However, he then offered to receive an additional half million dollars in commissions.
In terms of team reinforcements. Changsheng has absolute autonomy. The club gave him $25 million, so he could use that money. As for whether to buy people or use it to dredge up the relationship, it depends on Chang Sheng's own gains.
Anyway, if there is a violation of the law in the end, Chang Sheng will take responsibility for himself.
It's not the first time that Chang Sheng has encountered this kind of situation where an agent asks for money. When he was in Getafe, he signed Yaya. Toure is like that, Yaya. Toure stated that if he did not give his family 100,000, he would not sign the contract.
So it's no wonder that Chang Sheng is used to this. Know that this is the so-called unspoken rule.
I can afford a commission of 500,000 US dollars. Anyway, it's a free transfer, so it's better to spend 500,000 to bring in Guardiola from Barcelona.
You must know that Guardiola at this time is worth a lot of money. If his contract with Barcelona hadn't expired, he would have to come up with at least $15 million to buy him.
Chang Sheng readily agreed to the agent's request.
This made Olowitteg very satisfied.
He thought the young Chinese coach would strongly oppose it......
Now it seems that people are also very knowledgeable.
After the explicit and unspoken rules of both sides have been settled. It's a contract.
But at this time, Guardiola still has to go to Valencia for a medical examination, and only after passing the medical examination can he sign it, and the contract will officially take effect.
Because Pep Guardiola's contract with Barcelona has expired, the transfer deal does not involve Barcelona at all.
In addition, Chang Sheng did it very secretly, and Guardiola, who was personally photographed, had not released a rumor at all before.
So when the first signings of the new season were announced on Valencia's official website, everyone was taken by surprise!
Valencia actually took the former captain of Barcelona Pep Guardiola?!
What kind of fuss is this?
Didn't Guardiola declare that he would not stay in Spain before? Because that would play him against Barcelona, which he can't accept.
Why are you going to Valencia again?
Although the relationship between Valencia and Barcelona is okay. But now the two teams are rivals after all. In the last round of the league last season, how Valencia was squeezed out of the Champions League by Barcelona, have you forgotten?
It was a surprise that Pep Guardiola would choose Valencia.
Of course, there are local Valencian media who see this as the best revenge for Barcelona.
But it's just a small group of people's aqjīng gods.
After all, Pep Guardiola announced his departure from Barcelona in April. So this is not some kind of "tooth extraction" at all, but picking up what others don't want.
As a result, many media criticized Chang Sheng's recruitment as a failure - although it didn't cost money, it was bound to give a high salary, which was too high and had a big impact on Valencia's finances.
And after Pep Guardiola arrives, will he be able to accept a replacement?
If he can't, which one is under Baraja or Albelda?
It seems that none of them can move, right?
Therefore, it is believed that Pep Guardiola brought by winning often does not strengthen the team. Instead, it will only throw chaos into the team's dressing room.
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Chang Sheng didn't have time to carry the newspaper and fight with the media.
After finalising Pep Guardiola, he flew back to Valencia to continue his home base and direct the club's transfer action.
Because only one transfer contract has been finalized now, Chang Sheng is not in a hurry to sell.
What if I sell a player and can't replenish it?
He has been in contact with Llorente, who is on his way to Malmö, Sweden, to make two phone calls a day to report on the progress of the situation.
Judging from the information reported by Llorente, this time it was really risky. If they had delayed for two more days, Malmo might have agreed to Ajax's offer.
The negotiations, which began at the end of March, have not yet been concluded because Malmö's asking price is too high.
They didn't want to sell Ibrahimovic at first.
But Ajax has enough sincerity, and Ibrahimovic himself wants to leave the team to explore a wider area.
They later agreed to sell Ibrahimovic, but the two teams got stuck on the transfer fee.
Malmö opened his mouth for eight million dollars, and he didn't let go.
No matter how Ajax bargains. Just don't let go.
At this price, the two sides have been deadlocked for more than a month.
Now the situation has finally eased.
Ajax's latest bid is 7.8 million.
And tell Malmö that this is the last offer, and if you don't agree, the business will be ruined.
Even so, there is a lot of criticism from the outside world.
Giving $7.8 million to a nineteen-year-old boy is considered insane by many.
After all, even if Ibrahimovic has talent, it will be for the future.
Even if Wenger is optimistic about him, Wenger is optimistic about more people.
Why is Zlatan Ibrahimovic worth so much money?
So Ajax is under a lot of pressure.
If it's not really love, it's heartfelt. When Malmo reported an $8 million transfer fee, they didn't talk to each other at all, but turned around and left.
Because even if it's Ajax. I also think this price is too exaggerated.
Just when the two sides were at a stalemate for a long time, Malmo saw that Ajax was not bluffing this time, but really intended to abandon the transfer deal. Things just took a turn for the better.
At first, Malmo did not want to sell Ibrahimovic.
But once they plan to sell, they can't accept the result of not selling.
Just after they considered whether to accept Ajax's offer, Llorente came out on top.
He directly gave the highest offer that Chang Sheng allowed him to decide - eight million dollars.
Because of the urgency of time, he cut it first and then came up with an additional clause. That is, if Valencia sell Ibrahimovic in the future, Malmo can get a share of the transfer fee of 20%.
This is obviously more attractive than simply giving $7.8 million. Not to mention that Valencia's offer is $200,000 higher than Ajax's.
Even a dollar more is a lot.
By this time, Malmo FC should have begun to falter, but don't worry, Llorente still has a trick.
After completing the offer, Llorente delivered the fatal blow to Malmo – he found Ibrahimovic himself. Directly revealed his identity, telling him that Valencia was interested in Ibrahimovic and had already made an offer to Malmo.
Which is more eye-catching, Valencia or Ajax?
Perhaps in 10 years' time, this issue will need to be carefully considered. But now there is no suspense, Valencia, who have just reached the Champions League final for two consecutive seasons, won completely.
Although Ajax is a giant in the Eredivisie. He has also won the European Champions Cup four times, and even won the Champions Cup three times in a row. But that was a long time ago, and the last time they won the trophy was in the last century, 199495 season.
The glory of the past is obviously not as convincing as the results of today.
La Liga is also more well-known than the Eredivisie.
The Dutch league is at best a second-rate league in Europe, while La Liga is a real top league.
Playing in La Liga. It helps to attract the attention of the big clubs, and for Ibrahimovic, this is the biggest highlight.
He immediately told the club that he would prefer to go to Valencia rather than Ajax, who had been pursuing him for months.
It just so happens that Malmö also finds Valencia's offer more attractive.
They quickly rejected Ajax's offer, insisting that Ajax raise the offer to more than $8 million.
Ajax have apparently been caught in some of the rumours, knowing that Malmo's sudden decision must have been due to the addition of a new contender.
So do you want to follow the offer of eight million dollars?
Ajax eventually gave up the offer, saying it was $7.8 million, and if they didn't agree, they wouldn't talk about it.
Malmö terminated the negotiations and agreed to Valencia's offer.
Valencia can now negotiate a personal contract with Ibrahimovic.
In this way, Chang Win got Ibrahimovic again......
Soon Valencia announced that they had successfully signed Swedish prodigy Gerlatan. Ibrahimovic.
However, Valencia did not disclose the transfer fee, and Malmo did not say anything.
But don't think that if the clubs don't say it, the reporters won't know.
Soon there were revelations in major media outlets, claiming that Valencia had spent eight million dollars to sign nineteen-year-old Ibrahimovic!
This news once again pushed Chang Sheng to the forefront.
For giving such a high transfer fee to a nineteen-year-old teenager who has never proven himself in a major league...... The Chinese are sick in the brain, right?
Ibrahimovic is a real talent and has been praised by Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.
But so what?
There are many geniuses in this world, but Ibrahimovic is definitely not the kind of genius who can be worth so much money at the age of nineteen!
Ronaldo moved from PSV Eindhoven to Barcelona at the age of 19 and is worth $19.5 million, but can you Ibrahimovic compare to Ronaldo?
Valencia's transfer budget this season is $25 million, and you use up a third of it in one go, and then buy it!
Besides, Valencia already have a striker like Carew in the team, as well as Diego. Alonso and Juan. A striker like Sanchez, plus Angulo and Zahovic can all be a cameo striker...... People don't understand what Chang Sheng is doing with eight million dollars and another striker.
Does he have a striker collecting fetish?
Why didn't you see it in Getafe......
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"Eight million bought a nineteen-year-old hairy boy......" Soler took the newspaper in his hand, shook it, and smiled happily.
This perennial victory was found by Oti Force. I didn't expect that it was less than a month later, and so many things were tossed.
Buying a Swedish kid with eight million really makes people wonder if he is suspected of money laundering......
Soler is going to wait for the season to start watching the jokes of Winning and Ottie.
When the time comes, the kid that Chang Sheng spent so much money to buy will not perform well, and then see what else he has to say!
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In the face of overwhelming media criticism, Chang Sheng still did not open his mouth to defend himself, and he continued to stay in the Valencia club's manager's office in Mestalla, giving instructions one after another.
He quickly made it clear why he bought strikers when the team already had so much forward talent.
What should I do if the forward lineup is bloated?
It's very simple, sell it!
Soon there were media reports on Zakhovic and Diego. Alonso's agents have received calls from Chang Sheng, clearly informing them that their players are not in their plans for the new season and asking them to find their next home as soon as possible.
In order to reduce the burden on the front, Chang Sheng listed two attacking players in one go! ……)
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