A phone call from Mendes kept Pakinwa from sleeping well all night, and the club and the agent are fields, this sentence is not an exaggeration at all, even Mendes's gentle-sounding tone has become Satan's magic voice when it reaches Paginwa's ears.

If he could, Pakinwa would really like to bottle every Fiorentina player and never let those greedy vampires get their hands on it, but that's simply not possible.

Just as a team needs to have several close-knit agents, soccer stars today can't do without agents, especially after the Boseman Act came into effect at the end of 1995, when they doubled in value and had more say in bargaining with clubs.

Because they have received little cultural education and little knowledge of economics, contract law, etc., they need brokers to help them develop their maximum value, and brokers are mainly produced in response to this need.

In fact, although the club and the manager hate agents, they are also needed, and veteran England coach Red Knapp called agents a "necessary sin".

"They're now an integral part of football transfers, for example, if I call the manager of another club and say I want to sell a player, the price of that player will definitely go down, and if I get an agent and say I have a player who wants to move but we don't want to let him go, then he can sell for the price we want," he said. ”

For example, the English FA only allowed the club to use agents in player transfers in 1995, but the club went against the grain and secretly contacted the agent before.

For example, in 1993, Aston Villa were found to have hired an agent when they brought in Bosnic, and were fined £20,000 by the FA. Ironically, Aston Villa's chairman, Ellis, was sitting on the FA's finance committee for regulating broker-related businesses at the time. After the incident, the old man said embarrassedly: "I only slightly violated the rules." ”

Many agents' usual method is to make trouble out of nothing and raise the "price", they always have to encourage their players to make a transfer, so that they can play their role, regardless of whether the player's transfer is successful or not, the agent will come forward to negotiate with the club, so that they can collect commissions.

For example, French player Nicolas Anelka, who made a super-idiotic mistake against Fiorentina and was banned for six months by UEFA, signed a four-year contract with the club when he played for Arsenal in 1999, but his brother and his agent, Claude, wanted to make money.

So he claimed that Real Madrid had a crush on Anelka, who also wanted to play for Real Madrid. At that time, Anelka was in good form and was a hot player in Shijie football.

Real Madrid heard the wind and immediately proposed to Arsenal to buy Anelka, at which time the "Gunners" had no choice but to let Anelka, who was "in Cao Ying's heart in Han", go to Spain, with a transfer fee of 23.5 million pounds, of which at least 1 million pounds fell into Crowder's pocket.

In addition to some necessary economic and legal knowledge, it is more important to establish a network of players and coaches in the football agent industry.

For example, a British broker listed company named PROACTIVE has great powers, and even co-opted famous coaches such as Souness, Keegan, and Robson as their shareholders.

Some people questioned the company's use of this "nepotism" to make profits, but they explained to the public: "Nepotism is not a crime, although there is a potential conflict of interest, we will try to avoid it in the course of operation." ”

Red Cornapp, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Arsenal vice-president Dane, Bolton manager Aradis and others all have sons who are in the football brokerage business. These agents are "close to the water, first in the month", relying on their father's influence in the football circle, they are handy when they start business.

And other brokers who are congenitally deficient need to think of ways to get through the relationship. For example, a Russian agent gave him a large envelope containing £40,000 in order to buy Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson. When the latter went home and opened the envelope, he found it full of money, which he immediately handed over to the club, sealed it in the club safe, and returned the money to him when the agent came to the club.

But not every manager is as clean as Alex Ferguson, like Graham in the early 90s, when he was in charge of Arsenal, twice bribed Swedish agent Hauge to bring in two "parallel goods" from the other side.

A Danish journalist who had been suspecting that Hauge had not been clean in arranging the transfer of players, carefully checked the accounts of the clubs involved in the transfer and found loopholes, so he went to the ground to expose Graham's bribery scandal. After the East Window incident, Graham not only handed over the stolen money plus interest to the club, was fined 50,000 pounds, but was also sacked by Arsenal.

The FA then conducted a three-year extensive investigation into its other managers and agents, and published a report in 1997 that said that the FA's 1995 ban on clubs from dealing with agents had no effect, and that almost all clubs secretly approached agents in the black market, and also paid agent commissions through false accounting.

At that time, there were many vaguely worded invoices in the club, such as some of which indicated that the funds were used for "marketing fees" and "consulting fees", most of which were fake invoices made to pay brokers' commissions.

But the investigation did not uncover any other "Graham", so the FA came to a conclusion: only Graham had accepted bribes from his agent, and the other managers were clean.

Many people are skeptical of the FA's findings, and some even say that the FA as a whole is inferior to a Danish journalist.

Kelly, then FA chief executive, recently admitted that their investigation had failed. He said that when he was working at the FA, he found out that brokers were a profiteering business, and that these mysterious guys seemed to run their own money printing factories.

He believes: "The agent is the biggest abscess and the most terrible cancer in football. ”

Football transactions involve astronomical sums of money, but its internal operating structure is like a family workshop, needles can't be pricked, water can't be splashed, and most of the insiders are vested interests, unwilling to stand up and provide evidence, so even if a country's football association investigates, in the end it can only end up with nothing to do.

It can be seen that the influence of the agent in football shijie, although the club and the head coach hate these moths very much, but sometimes they have to cooperate with them, this kind of interdependence, mutual hatred relationship, is also a great spectacle in football shijie.

Mendes' message is very obvious, his players are not satisfied with the current treatment, either leave, or raise salary, just two paths, but neither of these paths Pakinwa does not want to choose.

Previously, Parkinwa had also discussed with Delva about giving Degan a salary increase, and if it was last season, Delawalai would definitely not mind opening his pocket and meeting Degan's request.

But now it's difficult, and Delawale has to consider the ripple effects of giving Deegan a raise.

The team has had an excellent season and if all goes well, Fiorentina could well become the first team in the history of Italian football to win the treble.

With the improvement of performance, it must bring about an increase in the value of the player, which is originally good news, but the problem is that when the value is high, there must be a salary to match.

After the end of last season, the team has changed the contract once, and there will definitely be a new round of salary increases this season, Delaware is not a stingy person, but the huge financial expenditure, he must also think carefully.

But now, a phone call from Mendes pierced this layer of window paper, and the team suddenly became passive, and it is definitely not okay to let Digan leave, everyone knows that Digan is the core of Florence, once Digan leaves, the newly established Florence dynasty is likely to fall apart immediately, which is a situation that no one wants to see.

So how much should you give Degan?

Ten million!

Maybe if he gave Degan this contract last season, he would gladly accept it, but now it can't, Real Madrid gave Kaka a sky-high annual salary of 18 million euros, can Degan, who is better than Kaka, be less than this?

After a sleepless night, the next day Pakinwa kicked the ball to Dravalai, after all, it was Dravale who paid for it.

After hesitating for a while, Dravalai said, "Promise him!" As long as it's not too much, promise him! ”

In the end, it was the passion for football that made Delaware's choice, he didn't want Digan to leave, he wanted the Fiorentina dynasty to last longer.

Not only Degan, but also the other players in the team, De Valella will do everything he can to keep them all, financial support is inevitable, and De Valella is not like Moratti to pay in vain, if the team can really win the double this season, while bringing honor, it will also bring a lot of bonuses, and other sponsorships will also rise, as long as it can work well, maybe the team can still have a surplus.

Although Pakinwa was dissatisfied with Dravere's decision, he was not willing to endlessly satisfy the greed of the players, but the boss spoke, and he could only do it, this is the fate of the worker, he can have opinions, but he can only obey.

After organizing the wording, Pakinwa dialed Mendes' phone number: "Hello! Mr. Vampire, we can now talk about Degan's new contract! ”