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Although there are two choices in front of him, for Kalmond, the path he will take next is actually very obvious, that is, to rebuild the team by taking advantage of Flins and Ze Roberto's departure, as well as the main shooter Kirsten's retreat.

The reason why Kalmond chose this is mainly because the departure of Flins and Ze Roberto has had a great impact on Leverkusen. Coupled with Kirsten's fading out, Lamero, Schneider, Neuville and other main players are about to pass their peak. Sebetzen and Placente, who performed well last season, seemed extremely sluggish during the pre-season training camp, obviously not recovering from the attack of the Sanya King... In this way, Leverkusen's prospects for the new season are really worrying.

In this way, after both sides returned to the negotiating table, although Carlmond, who was already clearly in a passive position in this transfer negotiation, no longer had unrealistic fantasies about Florence's price tag, he still sticks to his bottom line in the subsequent negotiations and shows his basic qualities as a qualified manager.

"No, absolutely not." Kalmond waved his hands vigorously to express his dissatisfaction with Zhuang Mingge's offer. "No matter what, Lucio's performance in the past half season at Leverkusen has been quite excellent. We will never lower the price and sell him! 18 million US dollars, this is my bottom line! Otherwise, Chairman Corleon, you might as well find someone else."

"One-eight million US dollars? Are you robbing money?" Zhuang Mingge was not shaken by Kalmond's tough statement at all. He said dissatisfiedly, "As the main force of the World Cup champion team, Gilberto Silva joins Arsenal only for only 4.5 million euros, Ed Milson's estimate is less than 7 million euros, and Rock Junior can't even get a main position in AC Milan. Let us pay so much money for Lucio, who has played well in the Bundesliga for half a season, isn't it a bit too much for us to talk? You know, we are also taking a lot of risks in introducing such a player. If we don't perform well after coming to Serie A like Mendieta, it will be a huge deal for us."

"Chairman Corleon, this issue is not within our discussion." Karmond gave Zhuang Mingge any room for bargaining, and said firmly, "This should be the responsibility of Florence's scouting department and coaching staff, not us as a seller's club."

"Since that's the case, Manager Carlmond, I have a suggestion here, please consider it carefully." Seeing Carlmond's style, Zhuang Mingge knew in his heart that it was unlikely to further lower the price, so he began to change his strategy and look for a breakthrough from another direction. "You know, Florence now has many good seedlings with potential, but for some reasons, we cannot give them the opportunity to train in the top league..."

"So, are you planning to rent them to us for free to offset part of Lucio's transfer fee?" Before Zhuang Mingge finished speaking, Kalmond interrupted Zhuang Mingge's narration and said, "This is impossible. Now all over Germany is engaged in youth training construction. We can't even care about the young people in the youth training camp. There is no need to help you cultivate those potential stocks for free. However, if Chairman Corleone, you are willing to transfer the ownership of these players to us by offsetting part of the transfer fee, rather than just loaning, I can consider reducing the cash part of Lucio's transfer transaction."

"No problem, I agree to this request." To Kalmond's expectation, Zhuang Mingge did not reject his request, but agreed immediately. "However, if it is just like this, then we, Fiorentina, would be a little disadvantage. It would be better to add a repurchase clause to the contracts of these players, or Fiorentina has their first right of refusal when the bid is the same. What do you think?"

The reason why Zhuang Mingge chose to do this is mainly because over the years, with the deepening of the Boseman Act, the satellite clubs under Florence have begun to establish their own scouting system and a new talent training mechanism, and their hematopoietic ability has been improved to a certain extent. In this case, they are naturally unwilling to help Florence train players for free.

Therefore, Zhuang Mingge had to follow the practices of Real Madrid in his previous life and find another way out for these young people in the second team, so that they can grow up better and become stars who can stand alone. Karmond's proposal just hit Zhuang Mingge's thoughts, which eliminated a large part of his workload.

In Zhuang Mingge's view, although Real Madrid's attitude towards their youth training players is a bit too ruthless (such as Negredo and Juan Mata), the effect of this youth training policy is still very good. Negredo, Soldado, Mata, de La Reed and others all gain valuable playing time in their growth stages through this method, and finally grow step by step and step into the ranks of stars.

After listening to Zhuang Mingge's explanation, Karmond thought about it. Although he felt that the repurchase clause was a bit too domineering, Zhuang Mingge promised that the specific amount of the repurchase clause would be agreed with Leverkusen, and finally decided to agree to the other party's suggestion. After all, although Carmond is far away in Germany, he has heard of the second team of Florence's team's second team's record of being promoted to two levels in two years. Coupled with Zhuang Mingge's famous eye for identifying people, the general manager believes that these young people will inevitably bring some positive things to Leverkusen.

In this way, after two days of bargaining, the two sides finally reached a consensus on Lucio's transfer the next afternoon. Fiorentina will acquire Leverkusen's main central defender by players and cash, and now Brazil international Lucio, who will receive about 8 million euros in cash in this deal, as well as two young rookies who have made their mark in Italian football!

Kalmond and Zhuang Mingge themselves were very satisfied with the content of the deal. The former not only received a much-needed transfer fund, but also obtained two potential new stars, Aquilani and Barzali, which greatly made up for the shortcomings of Lucio and Flins and others in the midfield after leaving; while the latter was delighted to be able to find a good home for Aquilani and Barzali. After all, Leverkusen is also a good player in training young players. From Barack and Emerson to Tony Cross and Adler to Carvajal and Leno, there are countless stars who have become famous in pharmaceutical factories. With the strength of Aquilani and Barzali, they should soon be able to get enough time for Leverkusen, who is short of soldiers, and fully improve his abilities. They will no longer waste their time like they did in their previous lives, and eventually become obscured by everyone in disarray.
Chapter completed!