Fox in the Penalty Area

"Fox in the Forbidden Zone"

"Officially announced! The 'Where is Hulay going' transfer drama that started nearly two months after the Europa League final has finally come to an end. Today, Madrid Pirates and Leeds City announced at the same time that the two clubs have reached an agreement on the transfer of Hulay. In agreement, Hulay will transfer from Leeds City to Madrid Pirates... It is reported that the transfer fee will be as high as 120 million euros. Hulay has set a historical record for the transfer fee of Chinese players and even Asian players..."

After seeing the news, Xie Lan murmured: "One hundred and twenty million euros...how much is that?"

"About 800 million yuan?" Hu Lixin did some calculations in his mind.

"Eight hundred million? How many houses can this buy?" Xie Lan recently bought a house in the community and planned to use it as a room of honor for her son. Now all she can think about is the housing price.

Seeing that his wife was really calculating, Hu Lixin couldn't laugh or cry: "Don't forget it. This is the transfer fee. The transfer fee is for the club, not for Hu Lai."

"Nonsense, of course I know!" Xie Lan rolled her eyes at her husband, describing herself as an idiot. "But this at least shows that our son is worth the price!"

"Whether it is worth it or not depends on his performance at Madrid Pirates, otherwise he may be criticized as a 'parallel import'... In fact, high transfer fees are not necessarily a good thing, because high value means great pressure, and everyone will think you are It should be worthy of this price. But the price is not determined by the player's performance, but purely market economic behavior..."

Unlike his wife who always has full confidence in her son, Hu Lixin always has a little worry about his son's career.

"Lao Hu, do you know anything about the Pirates of Madrid?"

Although Xielan has been a football fan for five years, he still doesn't know much about European football as a whole. The focus of her attention is firmly fixed on her son. Wherever Hu Lai goes, she will pay attention to Hu Lai's team, and then follow the teams that compete with Hu Lai.

Hu Lai has played in the Premier League for two and a half seasons, and she has a general understanding of the Premier League.

But for La Liga, we are limited to knowing Madrid Kings and Catalonia United. Because both teams have something to do with her son.

As for the Madrid Pirates... this team is well-known in China, but for Xie Lan, no matter how famous it is, as long as it does not have a relationship with her son, it is almost equal to zero.

As for the football profession, her husband Hu Lixin is much more reliable than her.

"Have you heard of the term 'g13', right?" Hu Lixin introduced it to her.

"I've heard of it. It's similar to the top teams in the Premier League." This term is famous, so even Xie Lan knows it.

"Well, just know. G13 is a wealthy organization. It was originally composed of thirteen European elite teams - of course, it is now more than thirteen teams. And Madrid Pirates is one of the thirteen founding teams. "

When Hu Lixin said this, Xie Lan could immediately understand the status of Madrid Pirates in European football.

The purpose of 1 is that the European giants unite to compete with UEFA - they are dissatisfied with 1 and believe that the increase in the number of teams participating in the Champions League, the increase in competitions and the lengthening of the schedule have reduced the gold content of the Champions League - at that time the Champions League was still called the European Championship. As for the Cup - as a confrontation, 13 giant teams joined hands to establish an organization to compete with UEFA, and to form their own European Super League to replace the new UEFA Champions League...

UEFA naturally does not allow this to happen. After some quarrels, threats, and bargaining, g13 temporarily gave up the idea of ​​continuing the European Super League. Although the "uprising" failed, this organization was retained and, as a representative of European giants clubs, and UEFA,

Even FIFA continues to fight.

Now if a player is injured while participating in a national team match, the national team must pay compensation to the club where the player plays. This is one of the results of the game between g13, FIFA and UEFA.

G13 started with thirteen teams, including La Liga's Kings of Madrid, Catalonia United, Madrid Pirates, Premier League's Tramed, Stan Park Rangers, Bundesliga's Blue and White Munich, Ruhr Rheinland, and Serie A's Insubre. , Turin Bulls, Ligue 1's Fosse, Paris Eger, Eredivisie Ajax, and Portuguese Super League Alvara.

These thirteen teams have all won the Champions League, but not just the Champions League. They were once dominant in their respective countries' leagues, and that status hasn't declined much over time.

Otherwise, even if you have won one or two Champions League championships, but were relegated or lost their former glory when g13 was established, you will naturally not be qualified to sit in those thirteen positions.

Because winning the Champions League in ancient times was not necessarily due to strength, it could also be due to luck. After all, the European Champions Cup at that time was only a single-round elimination system, and the chance of an upset was very high. If you can win the Champions League and enter this wealthy organization, then the title of "rich organization" is too cheap.

The Champions League honor is a stepping stone to becoming a wealthy club, but it is only a necessary condition, not a sufficient condition for becoming a wealthy club.

Later, g13 attracted several new Champions League champions, and at the same time, clubs with strong strength in the current football world entered the organization. For example, London Bridge was admitted to the club after they won the Champions League and remained competitive in the Premier League for a long time.

Sevilla Navigator dominates the Europa League and has been a force to be reckoned with in La Liga for most of the past two decades. But just because there is no Champions League, many attempts to enter the G13 have been ruthlessly rejected.

Although Xie Lan understood this problem, another question popped up: "Then why do you always feel that the Pirates of Madrid are not as famous as the King of Madrid, and are not as strong as the King of Madrid?"

"Isn't this nonsense... How many teams are more famous than the Kings of Madrid? G13 is Europe's top wealthy organization. Anyone who can enter this organization must be a wealthy team that has won the Champions League. Then you know that you want to establish Who is g13?"

"It can't be...the King of Madrid, right?"

"That's the King of Madrid." Hu Lixin nodded. "G13 is a wealthy organization, and the Kings of Madrid are the founders of this organization. That's why everyone calls the Kings of Madrid - 'the richest among the rich'. Don't talk about the Pirates of Madrid. There is no one in Europe who can compare with the Kings of Madrid. Several companies. So the fact that the Kings of Madrid are very powerful does not mean that the Pirates of Madrid are not powerful. They were born in Madrid, so they were half beaten. If it were any other place, they would be the local tyrants. And you think so. , the King of Madrid regards Madrid as their territory, but in this city, under the eyes of the King of Madrid, a giant team can still develop, you can know how strong the Madrid Pirates are."

Xie Lan slapped her hand: "Understood, on the side of the bed!"

Hu Lixin showed an expression of "a child can be taught" and said happily: "Yes, that's what it means."

After listening to her husband's introduction, Xie Lan said happily: "In this way, our son went to Madrid Pirates, so he has not wronged himself..."

Hu Lixin was speechless: "Don't act like you're marrying your daughter, and you still want to be a well-matched girl!"

"Hey - can that be the same? We are marrying a daughter-in-law. Besides, I am very satisfied with Qingqing!"

"Where are you..." Hu Lixin couldn't laugh or cry.

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"...Neither party disclosed Hu's annual salary, but according to the information given in the 'transfer window', it should be between 8.5 million and 10 million euros - please note that this is after tax. If this If the numbers are true, then Hu's annual salary will be ranked second among the Madrid Pirates, second only to the team's top superstar Maxi Carey..."

"The annual salary is indeed not as high as yours." Jim Castian confirmed this news to Maxi Carey. "You're still the highest-paid player on the Buccaneers' roster."

After hearing this, Maxi Carey finally nodded with satisfaction.

His annual salary at Madrid Pirates is 15 million euros after tax, the only one in the team.

The annual salary figure is actually not only related to income, but also related to the club's positioning of players.

When you don't know a certain player's status in the team, it's easy to look at his annual salary.

The more important the player is to the club, the higher the salary.

It is impossible for a player whose annual salary is only in the middle of the team to claim to be the number one star in the team.

So at least in terms of annual salary, Kyrie does feel the club's respect for him...

The club didn't lie to him, or not entirely.

If he heard that Hu Lai not only had a higher transfer fee than himself, but also had a higher annual salary than himself, then he would probably explode.

Maxi Carey is not a good-natured person!

Castian was relieved when he saw Kaili's performance.

He actually didn't know how Hu Lai negotiated with the Pirates Club before this, and what kind of annual salary he would receive.

If he was really taller than Kaili, he probably wouldn't be confident that he could still persuade Kaili.

After all, the annual after-tax salary of 15 million euros seems quite high, and it was all earned by Kyrie through his performance. Hu Lai, a new guy who has just arrived, has not contributed anything to the team, so why should he get a higher annual salary than him?

After transferring to the Madrid Pirates, Maxi Carey helped the Madrid Pirates win the La Liga championship in the 20222023 season, the Spanish King's Cup championship in the 20242025 season, and the most important 2025202.

Three crowns in four years, this is the most glorious period for Madrid Pirates since they won the second Champions League trophy in the club's history in the 2011-2012 season.

In these three championships, Carey is an important contributor.

When the Pirates won the La Liga championship in the 20222023 season, Carey won the La Liga Golden Boot with 33 goals.

In 2025202, Kyrie's eleven goals were the Europa League Golden Boot that season.

So when he secured a new contract for Kyrie with an annual salary of 15 million after tax three years ago, no one felt that the "Flying Dutchman" and "Max Kyrie" were not worthy of this annual salary, nor did anyone People are dissatisfied with him taking the top annual salary in the Madrid Pirates team.

Even after Carey was injured, the Madrid Pirates immediately offered a three-year contract extension without asking Carey to cut his salary.

This made Castian fully feel the human touch of Madrid Pirates, a club with a working-class background.

Therefore, he was also willing to help Parotti calm down Kaili's mood, and did not want everyone to be unhappy.

Otherwise, Carey, who insists on going his own way, will be afraid that the congregation will betray their relatives and leave... Pirates fans are mostly people from the lower class and the working class. They have passionate feelings and fierce expressions. They can love you to death if they love you, and they can hate you to the extreme if they hate you.

Castian can totally imagine how these Buccaneers fans would treat Kyrie if he did something that made the fans angry...

He didn't want things to come to that.

Now it seems that things will not come to that point.

He began to persuade Kyrie to focus on football itself:

"You didn't come back until March last season. Although your body has come back, you are still far from getting back to your form. Whether it's psychologically or physically... But that doesn't matter. The important thing is that you didn't have the rest of last season. Injured during the game. So train hard and regain your form. You are still the 'max', Maxi!"

Castian encouraged Carey like this.

He did see Carey visibly cheer up.

Obviously knowing that he is still the highest paid player in the team makes Kyrie feel a lot better.

"Okay, no problem, Jim. I will let the club know that they don't have to spend so much money to buy that Chinese kid. With that money, just buy a few more players who can support me. We can also bring Madrid The king and Catalonia beat the shit out of them!"

Seeing Kairi's sudden fighting spirit, Castian chuckled inwardly.

Maxi is such a person... Even though he is thirty-two years old, he doesn't feel that he has matured much.

Although this immaturity sometimes caused him a lot of trouble, sometimes he felt lucky that he was so immature.

Otherwise, it would be really difficult to get out of the quagmire of a serious knee injury.

Now Castian hopes that Ropati can fulfill his promise and successfully allow Hulay and Carey to coexist.

He believes that as long as Carey adjusts his mentality and becomes a tactical opponent, even if the Dutchman can no longer fly, he will still be "max".

Next, his wish is that Carey can successfully fulfill his contract with Madrid Pirates, and then bring him back to the Netherlands to end his career in his hometown team Den Haag Hercules.

That is the career plan that Carey has talked about many times.

He said that no matter how far a ship sails, it will always want to return to the port where it set sail.

Castien, who is also Dutch, wholeheartedly agrees.