345 Lister Elements (Part I)
"Shijie's best left winger, Vicente, at Anfield!"
Benitez has money in his hands. Husky's sixteen million pounds, which cost only 20 million euros when he bought Yankoler, and a surplus of nearly 5 million euros. Together with the handling of a number of players, almost five million euros were also raised. That's tens of millions of euros, and in addition to that, there are 40 million pounds that Liverpool FC has come up with. Converted into euros, Benitez now has more than 70 million euros available. That is, the current Premier League team has money, so Liverpool can come up with so much money.
In the current European football world, Serie A, which used to spend lavishly, has begun to decline. The economic crisis in Serie A is becoming more and more problematic, the powerful Parma owners have gone bankrupt, and there are also people like Roma, Lazio, and Fiorentina who do not have the financial resources to continue to buy stars. As a result, the current Serie A transfer market is becoming more and more depressed. And the same goes for La Liga. Valencia and Deportivo began to tighten their money at the time, and Atletico Madrid had just returned to La Liga. Only Real Madrid and Barcelona are still big spenders.
Compared to them, the Premier League teams are fiercer than the other. Not to mention Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and other English giants, as well as Tottenham, Newcastle, Chelsea and other strong teams, and even Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Portsmouth and other middle and lower Premier League teams spend more than 10 million pounds to buy players in a summer without blinking their eyes. There's a reason why the Premier League is strong in the future.
Rafa Benitez is a Spanish coach, and a well-known coach. Rist and Valencia are already torn faces, and now the only player left by Rist in Valencia is Vicente. Vicente, who is currently twenty-one years old. When everyone commented on him, he wasn't talking about a new star. Because the twenty-one-year-old has enough experience in La Liga, and even performed very well in the Champions League, and he also played in the Shijie Cup this summer. Vicente is far ahead of the rest of his age.
In the current La Liga, Zhonghua Jin and Torres belong to the category of talented new stars, but Vicente has long been out of this category. Liverpool's left winger is Borg, but unfortunately Borg has too many injuries. Borg is arguably the most talented player of the Czech '96 golden generation, but injuries have cost him a regular place in the national team and club. Therefore, Benitez has set the target of reinforcements on his old subordinate, or Vicente, who has an interest in him.
This time, Liverpool simply took Vicente away with 24 million euros in liquidated damages. This made Valencia bitter and unspeakable. Vicente spent two years at Valencia, scoring more than 10 goals and assisting more than 10 in each season. He is currently the sharpest player in La Liga to break down the left flank. If the normal price is concerned. Especially in the past two years, the value of players has been hyped up by Real Madrid. Vicente can't be taken without 30 million.
However, Vicente's liquidated damages are only 24 million euros, and if Rist and Valencia had not fallen out, the contract would have improved. But because the two sides fell out, Valencia could only suffer a dumb loss.
Soler is now furious. In fact, the club that wants Vicente is not one or two. Like Moratti, who likes to collect stars, he has long wanted to win Vicente. There are also Real Madrid and Barcelona who are eyeing Vicente, a native Spanish talent. But it was precisely because Lister had been holding Vicente. Contracts are also reluctant to improve. So everyone knows that you can get Vicente for only 24 million euros. Therefore, they don't care about Valencia at all, they are all negotiating with Rist behind their backs. Valencia could only watch as Rist and the other clubs casually talked about Vicente's problems and could not do anything about it. In the end, Liverpool picked up a big bargain.
Spanish coaches, Spanish players, Spanish players are almost invisible in the history of English football. That's why the English media will be surprised. Vicente's quality is unquestionable. But they have only one concern, and that is whether Vicente will be able to adapt to the Premier League.
However, regardless of whether they can adapt or not, this transfer also shows that Liverpool's charm is still the same. Although the Premier League has not won the Premier League title since its establishment, it is still very attractive to players. Vicente, one of the most popular young players in Spain at the moment, chose Liverpool.
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While Liverpool were negotiating with Vicente, Rist was in Sunderland. Now Benitez has managed to take charge of Liverpool. Benitez is not a person who doesn't know anything, and since he has worked with Lister, he will of course be inclined to Lister's player when choosing players. Because by bringing those players to a Premier League club like Liverpool, not only will their salaries increase, but even their commercial development will rise to a higher level. Benitez's income will also increase at that time. These are all invisible chains of interests, but they do not directly generate benefits, but indirectly generate benefits.
Liverpool have a large number of midfielders at the moment, but Benitez has always valued defensive ability in the middle. At Valencia, he was very concerned about the midfielder position. Hamann is now in the final stages of his career at the age of 30. And Borg and Smitchell have too many injuries, Murphy is in his playing years, but he is only a universal oil player, and the overall strength is not very strong. Of the current Liverpool, it is Steven Gerrard who is doing well. That's why Benitez wants to complement Liverpool's midfield, and he's eyeing Sunderland's Gilberto. Silva.
Gilberto. Silva is only three months old and is 26 years old, a real year to play. What's more important is Gilberto. Silva has been playing for Sunderland for almost three years and is familiar with the Premier League. Of course, one of the more reasons is Gilberto. Silva is also a player for Lister.
"Liester, congratulations to the Czech Republic for winning the championship."
Murray smiled reluctantly. He didn't know until now that things would come to this point. Just a year ago, Stretford was a popular figure in English football, and many of the smaller clubs in the Premier League would not offend Stretford. Even some Premier League clubs are completely coaxing Stratford.
At the beginning, Stretford made a lot of promises to Murray. Stretford, like Murray, have assured that he will give Sunderland the best quality player resources. Murray believed in Stretford's promises, because Stretford had the ability and the strength to give him those promises. Although Rist helped Sunderland a lot. But when the war between Rist and Stretford came in, Murray chose Stretford. Because in Murray's eyes, no matter how strong Rister is, he is just an outsider, and he can't be compared with an English local agent like Stretford.
At first, Murray thought that Stretford would push Rister out of English football. But things are always unexpected. Stretford, who seemed so strong at the beginning, disappeared overnight. Murray didn't know how many times he scolded Stretford. Because after Stretford disappeared, all the promises he made were in vain. And the important thing is to completely offend Rister.
Murray has been following Ristter's movements since Stretford's disappearance. Rister is not at all ostentatious compared to Stretford, and it is difficult for the media to capture Rist's information. Even if there is something that needs to be used by the media, Rist will not go out himself. A lot of the players' affairs are the personal agents of those players, not the real agent behind Lister. But Rist couldn't keep a low profile. The expansion of strength is something that can be felt by anyone in the inside. Especially this Shijie Cup championship. Let Rist's strength grow not a little. And Rist is not as arrogant as Stretford, wantonly suppressing any local agent. On the contrary, Rist pays attention to the relationship with the local agent, which makes Rist even more terrifying.
The losses are too great. Murray never knew what to do with the situation. So when he saw Rist again, he put on a smile. The current Murray is not qualified to play with Lister.
On economic strength. Rist is now also a veritable billionaire. And Murray is nothing more than a former kitchen and bathroom tycoon. In football, it's just a Sunderland. Not much richer than Rist. The strength that Rist has now is real, and it is not adulterated with any other impurities. Rist's money is not one of those fictitious numbers on the stock market, it is completely real money income.
And since the Czech national team won the Shijie Cup. Rist's strength has taken a qualitative leap forward. It wasn't long ago that Rist's agency had been analysed. According to Lister's agency, the value of the players owned by the company is already more than 300 million. With the Shijie Cup championship this time, the value of the players in Lister's agency is about to rush to 400 million. And they believe that this is not the end, many of Rist's players are still young, and their value will continue to grow, and no one can say what they will be able to achieve when the time comes.
And Rist's current business promotion company has earned more than 50 million in the year since its establishment. In other words, the total amount of business income carried out by this company for players is more than 200 million yuan. A Shijie Cup championship will make this company's turnover break again this season.
In addition to this, Rist has four managers, a Belgian club, a Chilean club with Tottenham Hotspur and of course the entire Czech football scene. This kind of strength is enough to bargain with any giant in European football, even giants like Real Madrid and Milan have enough confidence to negotiate.
Murray's financial strength is not much better than Lister's now, his prestige in Shijie football is not as good as Lister's, and even his connections in English football are not as tough as Lister's. It's fair to say that Murray is no bullshit compared to Rist in football right now.
"Bob, long time no see."
Rist smiled too, but not in a very nice way. Rist is not the kind of person who will repay his flaws, but he is also not a big-hearted person. At the time of the battle with Stretford, Rist never imagined that Murray would fall into the ground. For Murray, Rist has always been very friendly, and even Rist likes club president like Murray. In Lister's mind, a club president like Murray is very competent. However, at the critical moment, Murray chose Stretford.
Even if Murray had chosen to be neutral at the time, Rist would not have said anything. Because it is human instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. But because Murray chose to stand with Stretford at that time, Rist was very disgusted.
"Huh. Lister, I know you resent me, but our little club in Sunderland, I don't have the capital to offend Sretford. ”
Murray is also a billionaire, but this time he chose to relent. Although it is a very far-fetched excuse, it is already a bowed head. Rist didn't say much, nor did he irritate Murray. Murray and Stretford are different, and those agents can strike directly. But Murray is the president of the Premier League club after all, and he owns Sunderland. In terms of the development trend of the Premier League, although the agent is strong, if these clubs are really ruthless against the agent, the agent has not much to do.
It's just that everyone is a sane person. Those clubs won't really go crazy and offend those agent predators. That's how Murray is. Don't say it's Lister, even when Stretford is at its most arrogant, Murray doesn't necessarily really fear Stretford. But for the sake of Sunderland's development, he can only make compromises.
Anyone who makes decisions needs to be rational. If any decision-maker does things the way they want to do things and has no regard for the consequences, then the consequences for their own team can be fatal. This is called compromise.
"Bob, I'm always looking forward."
Rist didn't like Murray because he was a wallhead. But Rist never really thinks he can sway Murray because of this, Murray is also a billionaire, and Sunderland is also a Premier League club. Rist can at most hit Sunderland, but not completely destroy Sunderland, so why fight him in that case. On the contrary, by pulling him at this time, he may be able to expand his influence in Sunderland.
"Yes."
Murray nodded. Murray is now soft, in addition to Rist's continued strength, mainly because Sunderland's results fell too quickly last season. Of course, the main thing is that Quinn, Sunderland's best centre-forward, is old and no longer has the courage he used to be. Sunderland's results last season were already ugly, and it was difficult to avoid relegation. This season, Quinn is even older, and his original style of play is completely inadequate. Murray is really afraid of relegation, which is why he will lower his profile against Lister.
"Bob, I'm here today to talk about Gilberto. Silva thing. ”
"Well said." (To be continued......)