Coaching legend

Marseille had already received the news. They were very happy to hear that it was a team from the Premier League.

With the establishment of the Premier League, the English League began to get rid of the influence of the "Heysel Tragedy" that year, and the Premier League clubs began to become one of the mainstream leagues in European football. The Premier League also began to spend a lot of money, although it was not as much as the Premier League after Abramovich took over.

But it is not uncommon for English clubs to buy players in the European market with checks. Because Premier League clubs are no longer short of money, it is very common to spend millions of pounds or tens of millions of pounds to buy players.

Therefore, Marseille certainly likes to do business with Premier League clubs, especially when they heard that it was Blackburn. What kind of team is Blackburn? It is the first Premier League champion club built with money after the establishment of the Premier League. Behind them stands an English steel tycoon Jack Walker.

So Marseille entertained George very warmly. After seeing George, although they did not show it on their faces, they were very surprised in their hearts. The head coach of a Premier League club is so young. When George's age was inadvertently asked, this surprise has turned into shock.

It will take several more months to become thirty years old, what a young age.

After George sat down, he didn't say anything nonsense. He directly stated his purpose.

"Claude?" The representative of Marseille asked again, and shook his head after hearing the affirmative answer. "Coach Levy, Celta of La Liga has offered 2 million euros. The club also agreed to Claude's negotiation with Celta, and they should have almost finished the negotiation now."

Celta, they are quite fast. George's main purpose in coming to Marseille today is to redefine the defensive blue-collar midfielder in the future, that is Claude Makelele.

What George hopes most is the kind of midfielder who can attack and defend well, but this kind of midfielder is hard to come by. Midfielders like Keane, Vieira, and Redondo are rare in football, so George can only lower the standard.

Find a midfielder who can protect the penalty area, even if he lacks offensive ability, but has strong defensive ability. If you talk about such a player, the first person George thinks of is one person.

He has played for a world giant like Real Madrid, although only for a short three years. But he contributed to the glory of Real Madrid in the early 21st century. But no one valued him, and people's attention was more focused on Ronaldo, Raul, Figo, Zidane and others in front of him.

He wanted to increase his salary a little, but was directly rejected by Florentino. In Florentino's eyes, the work he did was only worth that salary. It was not until he moved to Chelsea that people discovered his role. At the same time, Real Madrid was short of defensive midfielders, and the decline in performance made them understand his role more clearly.

He was Claude Makelele, the target of George's trip. Makelele just transferred to Marseille last year, and he had been performing very well in Nantes before.

"Celta offered 2 million euros, and we are willing to convert the subsequent euros into pounds." George said lightly, but the representative of the Marseille club was overjoyed. He said that Celta and Makelele were about to reach an agreement, which was a bit of a lie.

In fact, Marseille had just received an offer from Celta and was about to agree. Don't look at the euro and the pound as just different units. The pound exchange rate at this time is very high. A slight change can make a big difference.

Two million pounds is a good price for a player who has not even entered the French national team. A smile immediately appeared on the face of the Marseille representative, thinking about how to get the most profit between Celta and Blackburn.

Unfortunately, Celta immediately backed off after hearing that Blackburn from the Premier League offered two million pounds. Damn, Premier League clubs have money. La Liga clubs are all poor, and Celta is not Real Madrid or Barcelona. It doesn't matter if they have hundreds of millions of dollars in debt.

After Celta backed off, Blackburn was the only one left to buy Makelele.

"Two million pounds is for Makelele. We are willing to add five hundred thousand pounds to buy William Gallas." Hearing George's words, the Marseille representative hesitated. Gallas is not an important player for Marseille. He didn't even play a few times last season, and the number of appearances can be counted with a slap.

But it does not mean that Gallas is not a famous person. Gallas is a member of the same French youth team as Henry and Trezeguet. He is also one of the French players who won the European Youth Championship. But unlike Henry and Trezeguet who have become French internationals, Gallas is not even a main player in the French Ligue 1 club Marseille.

But Marseille still attaches great importance to Gallas. Their coaching staff unanimously believes that Gallas still has great potential. But 500,000 pounds is difficult for Marseille to refuse.

"Give us some time, I will report it."

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Two days later, Marseille agreed to Blackburn's offer.

Marseille is a little helpless. If it was six or seven years ago, Blackburn wanted to dig Marseille's players, it would be a fantasy. Even with the Bosman Act, it was still the same. Marseille was a European powerhouse and the French Ligue 1 overlord at the time.

However, Marseille President Bened Tapie was sentenced to one year in prison for bribing the opposing players. Marseille was hit hard by this and has not recovered until now. It's just that for 2.5 million pounds, they can only sell the players.

"I like France." George couldn't help laughing. If it wasn't for his bad voice, George really wanted to sing here.

For 2.5 million pounds, he bought Makelele and Gallas. Such a good thing, who can reason with it.

If it's another two years, the value of these two people will rise. Now is the best time to take action. I really like France and Ligue 1.

That is, in France now, Gallas can be bought for only 500,000 pounds. If it were in England, if the England youth team won the European Youth Championship, then those young players would have been hyped to what extent. If you don't pay millions of pounds, you can't even see the players.

"George, didn't we just want to buy Makelele? Why did you add Gallas at the last minute?" Evan didn't feel sorry for the 500,000 pounds, but was just a little curious.

"Gala, I've been eyeing him for a long time. I've noticed him since he joined the French youth team. Burnley was in a low-level league before, so I didn't make a move. I was going to buy him this summer, but unfortunately..." Gallas was originally in George's future for Burnley, but now he can only be brought to Blackburn.

Evan shrugged, he had never heard of Gallas. But George's vision of judging people is always good, and Evan did not raise any objections.

"Where are we going next?"

"Metz, there is a genius waiting for us."

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