Golden Greenery

"Zhuo Yang, I'm sorry that we have not reached a transfer agreement with Manchester United and the negotiations have broken down."

"Uncle Fu, thank you for your hard work. I'm really grateful for your preference for me in the past three years. I will never forget those years in Real Madrid when I went to Manchester United...what? What did you say, Uncle Fu?"

"The negotiations have failed. Real Madrid and Manchester United have announced that negotiations on your transfer have ended."

"How...how could this happen?"

Lafayette explained a lot and rambled on for a long time, but Zhuoyang didn't listen to anything. He just held up his mobile phone in a daze, knowing that his transfer to Manchester United was ruined.

In more than two months, the transfer drama that had been going on for nearly half a year was vigorous and vigorous. The whole world was waiting to see Zhuoyang move to England and the sun to shine in Manchester, but it suddenly came to an end at the last moment.

The No. 18 jersey of the Red Devils that Ashley Young has worn for three years has been stripped off by Sir Alex Ferguson this summer, and he has been forced to wear the No. 22 jersey like a backup goalkeeper.

But suddenly everything went wrong.

Zhuoyang was at a loss. He never thought that the transfer would fail. In the past three transfers, the transfer was not just a transfer, but there was no doubt about the result.

Even though this time it was postponed to the last day, Zhuoyang never thought that he would not be able to leave. There are always buzzer transfers every year. Last summer, Bell and Scar only completed the negotiations at the last moment, so he had no psychology about the transfer failure. Prepare.

The new season in Europe has begun. During this period, Zhuo Yang paid much more attention to Manchester United than Real Madrid. He figured out the tactical problems that Manchester United currently has and figured out where to lead the team to solve them. The deposit for a mansion in Cheshire has been paid, and Royal Beiyin has been urging him to go to class for the past two days. The students' eyes are almost bleeding.

Looking at Real Madrid, Zhuo Yang doesn't even know what the new season's midfield mix is ​​like, and he doesn't care about the division of labor and differences in the tactical systems of several new players. He is clear about Manchester United, but has become blurred about Real Madrid.

Koko hugged Zhuoyang from behind and put her hands on his strong chest. "Honey, what's wrong?"

Only then did Zhuo Yang put down his cell phone, which had been hung up for a long time, and came out of his daze. "We...can't go to Manchester. Real Madrid didn't sell me."

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It wasn't until Sir Alex Ferguson called to explain that Zhuo Yang understood what was going on. He didn't take the initiative to call Sir Alex because he was angry with the old man: Look, what are you doing? All the waists in the world can be broken by you.

The problem lies with Manchester United's financial director Ed Woodward.

On the phone, Sir Alex dug into Sandoko's ancestral grave with his mouth.

Sandoko is not from the football circle, he used to be in finance. After graduating from college, he has been working on Wall Street to earn a living, and later worked as an investment manager, also called a banker, in the famous Morgan Financial Group.

When the American Glazer family used financial leverage to acquire Manchester United in 2005, Santoku was their chief banking advisor and played a major role in the Glazer family's successful acquisition of Manchester United. He also followed the Glazer family into the management of Manchester United that year. layer.

Sandoko understands financial operations very well, but he doesn't understand sports or football. This "understanding" does not necessarily mean that he can pass, stop, shoot, or form a formation, but it means that he does not understand the professional characteristics of modern football and the particularities of operation that are different from other industries.

In other European leagues, the head coach of the team is called 'Coach', but in the Premier League, the head coach is called 'Manager', which literally means 'manager'.

Traditionally, the power of the Premier League head coach is not limited to commanding the team, but will be in charge of all aspects of the club. Player transfers are the basis of rights. Some of them can even determine the business operations of the club.

However, as professional football becomes highly commercialized, the funds involved in team building and transfers are becoming more and more exaggerated. It is no longer something that can be done with 1.8 million in the past. The Premier League’s ‘Manager’ system has gradually become outdated.

After all, leaving professional matters to professionals is the most reliable method.

The capital giants have gradually stripped away the transfer rights from the head coaches and asked them to learn from the coaches of European clubs and change from 'Manager' to 'Coach'. But this is a game process. It is human nature to pursue power and control. Many old gods in football do not want to hand over their seals. The most confident among them are Ferguson and Wenger.

Sir Alex Ferguson has been coaching all his life, buying a racecourse with kickbacks from player transfers and raising many expensive racehorses. It is strange that he is willing to let go. You know, purebred racehorses are much more valuable than players. The price of just pulling them out and breeding them is enough to buy half a main guard.

Zhuo Yang and Grandpa Mo visited Sir Alex's racecourse once before and witnessed the grand scene of famous horses' love. Grandpa Mo sighed and said: Horses are much more valuable than human beings.

The words are rough and the reasoning is not rough.

Money or no money doesn't matter, Sir Alex mainly likes the feeling of being in control of everything. With his huge influence in the football circle and British society, if he was not handed over, the Glazer family would really have nothing to do with him, and they would have to cut his flesh bit by bit with a small knife.

Last year, financial director David Gill, who had worked with Sir Alex Ferguson for half his life, resigned, and Sandoko came to the front desk. This was actually a move to consolidate the power of Manchester United's top management. But if it weren't for Zhuoyang, Ferguson originally planned to retire, and he would be..., so his desire to fight for power and profit has faded a lot. He just wants to fulfill Zhuoyang's wish, and then play a good show of winning the Champions League again. , then retreated to the mountains and forests and went to the racecourse to concentrate on admiring the horse sales.

The Glazer family wanted to take over power, but the old man turned a blind eye. In the past two years, the main transfer market was actually Santoku running errands.

Last summer, Sir Alex didn't care much about transfers and left it to Santoku. As a result, none of the originally planned transfers came to fruition. He just brought in Fellaini, and Sir Alex just cleaned up the team's redundancy. of personnel inventory to prepare for this year.

This year was the highlight. Sir Alex Ferguson personally identified the heavyweight targets he met and asked Sandoku to issue a military order to him with his eyes wide open. However, the main process was still left to Sandoku to handle, and Sir Alex just led the general direction from afar.

The previous transfers were relatively smooth, with twists and turns and premiums, but they were all successful in the end, but it was precisely the transfer of Zhuo Yang that was the most critical. San Dezi was keen on using financial means, ignoring that the most fundamental rules of the game were that the players were in place. , insisting on canceling the transfer talks that were already completed.

Real Madrid lowered the price from 300 million pounds to 300 million euros, which actually showed their sincerity and had no intention of blackmailing Manchester United. At this time, the price offered by Manchester United had reached 200 million pounds. It seemed that the gap was still very large, but Sir Alex finally came up with his trump card.

There is not enough money to cover the headcount, and this has always been the case in football.

The gap between the 200 million pounds + Rooney + Hernandez and the 300 million euros required by Real Madrid is almost negligible, and Real Madrid is also very satisfied with this transaction method.

But at the last moment, Santoku, who suddenly suffered from mental illness, broke down with Real Madrid because of the payment method.