Chapter 107: Buying People in Black Shops (Part II)
Zhao Yuting did overestimate the attractiveness of his own team, but these players he and Zhang Desheng fancy are all the pride of various countries.
These are all geniuses who are absolute protagonists on the road to growth, and they naturally firmly believe that even if they go to the four major leagues, or even to the big teams, they are still the protagonists.
If they didn't even have this kind of self-confidence and arrogance, then they wouldn't have crushed all the geniuses of their own country of the same age along the way.
Therefore, the most inferior European giants such as Porto are not very attractive to them, and they have their eyes on the top teams in Europe's four major leagues.
In addition, Zhang Desheng, the absolute core of Porto, actually played a certain negative drainage role.
Just like a young genius like Kaka, they don't want to be Zhang Desheng's junior brother at all, they want to defeat him and replace him!
So as soon as they heard the name of Porto, they naturally resisted in their hearts, but they would not come here if they had any other choice.
Only Ronaldo has the most complicated mood here, he is actually a little undecided about whether to go to Barcelona or Porto!
It's not that he doesn't have other buyers, but these are the only two that can bid more than $30 million, and he has to consider the interests of his own team.
Barcelona originally only bid $25 million, but after learning from special sources that Porto directly raised the price to 30 million, they scolded the Chinese for being stupid and had a lot of money, and had to keep up with the price.
Since then, AC Milan, Manchester United, Inter Milan, Arsenal, Juventus, Bayern and other teams have withdrawn one after another, most of them have their own midfield core, and there is no need to spend such a large amount of money for Xiao Luo.
So at this time, only Porto and Barcelona are left, the former is Zhao Yuting's personal preference, and the latter is really no qualified midfield leader.
Xavi's potential seems to be high, but his combat power is not even as good as Deco's.
If he is the core of this season, Barcelona may still miss the Champions League.
It's not that Xavi is really that unbearable, it's that he can't convince in the Barcelona team.
After all, Barcelona is a team with a special status in La Liga, and it is not too much of a problem to say that they are the second biggest club in La Liga.
In the past few years, although the team has failed to recruit players, the stars have been injured, and the decline has declined, but if you let them give Xavi a hand, most of them will definitely not be willing, and in the end, it will be infighting again.
But if it is replaced by Xiao Luo, who has proven himself in the World Cup, then everyone can still be reluctantly convinced and willing to recognize this new core.
Therefore, Barcelona is also determined to win for Xiao Luo!
At this time, Xiao Luo was entangled, he personally leaned towards Barcelona, but the problem is that Barcelona this season did not even qualify for Europe, which was too stretching.
Porto is the absolute hegemon of the Portuguese Super League, and the language is slightly more advantageous than Spain, the most important thing is that Porto can play directly in the Champions League, and Porto's strength is not weak, he has every chance to compete for the Champions League immediately after joining.
But the question is, will he be the absolute core of this team after he goes?
That's the only question that Ronaldo personally asked the lobbying team in Porto!
If he can get a satisfactory answer, then he really plans to join Porto, it's a big deal to win a Champions League and then go to a higher stage, anyway, he is very young!
But as a result, the people from Porto were stopped at this time.
Even after this problem was reported to Zhao Yuting, he, the big boss, was speechless.
He really likes Xiao Luo's style of play, but his team will only have one core, and that is Zhang Desheng.
Therefore, the Porto side can't answer this question at all, they can't always say: you are here to assist Zhang Desheng!
Xiao Luo is also an arrogant master, he assists those seniors in the national team, it is a matter of seniority, it does not mean that his ability is not enough.
But at the club, even if he wants to go to a top team, he still has to be the absolute core of the team, and he is definitely not willing to be a second or third leader now.
Therefore, his final decision was to waste a year to help Barcelona return to European competition rather than go to Porto to give a talented man who has just turned 18 a second hand.
"Boss, I think our recruitment strategy is wrong, we should go to those veterans who have just lost their core positions, I think only they will be willing to join us!"
After Zhang Desheng learned from Zhao Yuting that the reinforcements were extremely unsmooth, he suddenly reacted that their strategy seemed to be wrong?
"You mean, a veteran like Makelele who has lost his place but is still at the top?"
Zhao Yuting's reaction was also very fast, and he actually found that all the people he was chasing during this time were geniuses in their early twenties.
But these people are all the pride of the sky, let them go to the Portuguese Super League team in the rising period, or go to be the second-in-command of an 18-year-old and more talented guy, then naturally everyone will resist.
But if you chase veterans who are in their twenties or nineteens, or even in their early thirties, and have just been robbed of their place by younger talents, it will be easy to succeed.
Here is the simplest example, at this time AC Milan has just bought Kaka, then Rui Costa, who has been replaced, will definitely be unhappy, if Porto offers more than 10 million to buy him at this time, it will definitely be more than the offer Kaka.
Of course, Porto won't buy a Rui Costa that will probably be inferior to Deco, isn't that a downgrade in consumption?
But these veterans can really fight for it, because they don't mind that the Portuguese Super League is not the big four leagues, but they feel that the Portuguese Super League is more relaxed, and they can just put all their energy on the Champions League.
That's right, these veterans who are at the tail end of their prime, they only value the World Cup and the Champions League, and it would be perfect if they could kill their old club who abandoned them in the Champions League.
However, the first deal made by Porto that made Zhang Desheng a little happy was not a veteran who was robbed of his place, but the versatile striker Dirk Kuyt from Utrecht FC in the Eredivisie.
Zhang Desheng naturally knows this iron man who is a model worker, because his attendance rate is too top, and he has basically not been injured in his entire career except for the last two years.
The main reason is that this person is very team, has strong mental attributes, good professionalism, and although he is not the top in terms of personal ability, he is enough to serve as the main force of the giants, and claims to be able to play all positions except the goalkeeper, which is a real jack-of-all-trades player.
The most awesome thing is that this deal only cost $2.5 million, and Zhang Desheng feels that this is much more cost-effective than spending 20 million to buy Eto'o and Mackay.
Once the deal was completed, Porto's transfer strategy was quickly turned upside down after a dinner between the owner and the core.
Of course, Eto'o's side still has to fight for it.
Zhao Yuting and Zhang Desheng had the same idea of this, but when they finally raised the offer to $25 million, Mallorca still paid back a $30 million return, Porto officially gave up the pursuit of the Cameroonian striker.
Then, they snatched River Plate's defender Martin Demichelis from Bayern Munich for $6 million.
Bayern are a little depressed about this, but who made them bleed too badly for Markay to bid for Porto, and they are not willing to bleed again for Demichelis at this time.
Both of these Porto deals are actually very cost-effective, but the problem is that the immediate combat power of these two players has not improved much compared to the old players, and at most it can be regarded as supplementing the depth of the squad and investing in the future.
Therefore, Porto finally managed to beat Barcelona a week before the start of the league and won the favor of Davies himself, and officially entered into loan talks with Juventus for Edgar Davies.
Barcelona naturally became even more annoyed with Porto, and they ended up paying a transfer fee of $32 million to grab Ronaldo, which was the result of Porto driving up prices on the sidelines.
Now this bastard club is going to rob Edgar Davis with them again, this is really a narrow road!
But this time, unlike Ronaldo, who wasted even a year and chose Barcelona, Davies is naturally more interested in Barcelona itself, but the problem is that they do not qualify for Europe this season.
This can't satisfy Davis, a team that doesn't have to play in the League Cup, is it pure retirement when he goes?
Davies feels that he can maintain his peak for another year or two, and in this year or two he has to prove to Juventus, especially to let Lippi, the old immortal, know that his importance to Juventus is irreplaceable!
On the other hand, he has to use these two years to spell a pension contract for himself, but if he goes to a team that does not even qualify for Europe, how can he spell a pension contract?
So after coming to Porto's uniform team with a grand plan to win the championship, and coming to Porto will have more salaries and the opportunity to pan for gold in Asia, there will be no better choice for Davis, who is already 30 years old.
As long as he joins Porto, he will be able to play in the Champions League immediately, and even have the opportunity to work directly at Juventus, and his salary and endorsement income will also increase significantly.
What's wrong with Zhang Desheng's youth, his back is itself a position to assist others, and it is not ashamed to assist a genius who looks reliable.
So Davies himself really has nothing to find fault with Porto, even if the stage of the Portuguese Super League is lower than La Liga, but this is just right for him to reduce the pressure on the league, he is not short of experience at this age, and it is better to take more breaks and only play in the big game.
However, the player himself is willing to join, but Juventus is not.
They are worried about direct competition with Porto in the Champions League, and now that the Champions League group stage group stage has been out, the two teams have not met in the group stage.
But what if you meet it in the knockout round, wouldn't it be a rival?
Porto are not in a hurry, and they are not unavailable like Barcelona.
This Davis can be regarded as the icing on the cake if he can come, and not being able to come will not make them lose much in strength.
The strength of Porto in the original plane is not as good as it is now, so won't it also win the Champions League?
So as the national leagues are about to kick off, Davis is even more anxious, because the contradictions between him and head coach Lippi have reached the point of irreconcilability, even to the point that it is easy to have problems when they meet.
Finally, after Davies had a fierce verbal altercation with head coach Lippi in a training session, Juventus had to quickly get rid of this hot potato.
At this time, what kind of rivals are you still considering, and if you don't deal with the locker room, there will be a big problem.
But they are also reluctant to go on loan, because Davies has only one year left on his contract, and isn't this loan directly cheaper for Porto?
Therefore, Juventus proposed a transfer fee of 10 million US dollars, which is to sell people directly to Porto.
Zhao Yuting felt a lot of pain in his heart, he really planned to sign Davis directly for nothing when the contract expired for a year.
But Juventus is not stupid, if you don't want to, I'd rather hide Davies for a year.
Porto also knows that this is just a bluff, who dares to hide the star so much because of this contradiction in this era, then who will dare to come to Juventus in the future?
Therefore, Zhao Yuting didn't give face at all, and directly cut the transfer fee in half and then reduced it by one million, with an attitude that you like to sell or not.
"Add more, add more and sell it, give face!"
Juventus is disgusting here, but they really don't have much initiative, after all, this kind of hidden threat doesn't even dare to expose it, otherwise Davies will go to the office to make a big fuss first, and public opinion will definitely blow up, then they will almost blow up.
Porto are not in a hurry at all, and even took the time to buy the top scorer David Villa Sanchez from La Liga from Sporting Gijón for 2.5 million euros.
Of course, Villa thinks more about the top teams in La Liga, but there are not too many top teams looking at him at this time.
Therefore, compared with Zaragoza, a mid-table team in La Liga that competes at the same time, Porto is really fragrant, and he is a top scorer in La Liga, and he will not be unconvinced to win the top scorer in the Champions League.
Besides, Porto is a team that can play in the Champions League!
As long as he can win against McCarthy and Delley, he will have a chance to play in the Champions League.
So, he must have chosen Porto!
Sporting Gijón also saw that Porto was the highest bidder and was most willing to sell someone to Porto, which was a one-off deal.
In the end, Zhao Yuting still gave Juventus a face, offered a price of 6 million euros, and successfully bought Davies, who was still at the top of his tail, to Porto.
Then, they also signed a new three-year extension with Davis, who only has one year left on his contract, and the salary has increased significantly.
Davis is a little unhappy with the length of his contract, but he is still happy with the salary.
At this time, he also knew that he was not qualified to put forward a higher number of years requirements, so he was also satisfied and ready to fly to Porto to join the crew
Zhao Yuting also paid attention to this, Davis is not young, especially this guy always has conflicts with the head coach.
So if you don't use it for a year, you can sell it again, anyway, the price you buy is not expensive, and you can't lose money, and you can make a small profit if you don't do it.
At this time, you can see Zhao Yuting's business attitude, although his capital is not as strong as Abu, it is not too difficult to spill hundreds of millions of dollars in a summer.
But he obviously didn't do that, even if it was a transaction of millions, he still had to think about whether it was worth it, was it wronged?
Therefore, he made an evaluation of Abu, who was crazy in the summer: This guy's money is never earned, and the money he earns is definitely impossible to spend like this!
This assessment really hit the nail on the head, because only the money that was robbed and cheated would be spent like Abu, and the Russian oligarchs didn't even cheat and rob!
(End of chapter)