Mendieta finished training and when he returned home, he received a call from his agent on the way. The agent told him the good news on the phone that Lazio had made an offer to Valencia Club for him.
"Do you know how much they paid, Gaizka?" Agent Alberto Tordela sounded a little excited.
"How much?" Mendieta looked very calm. What Chang Sheng said to him today still left some impact on his heart.
"Eight billion pesetas! Forty-one million dollars! This kind of wealth can take away anyone in the world! But now this is prepared for you!" Tordella said excitedly on the phone.
Said, Mendieta can even imagine that his spitting star may have sprayed one meter away. "I don't know any club in the world that can refuse such a huge sum of money!"
This is the expression of this excited agent who knows that Chang Sheng has rejected Lazio's offer. I really don't know what he thinks...
But the agent didn't know, and neither did Mendieta.
His mood lifted a little.
I thought that if Lazio made such a high offer, then Valencia would have no reason to refuse.
Thinking of this, his mood became slightly clearer.
Anyway, I am leaving Valencia.
Although he was a little melancholy, he decided to put his emotions aside for the time being for the sake of a better future.
Valencia reached the Champions League finals for two consecutive seasons, but failed in the end. What did it prove? It proved that this is the top level of this team, they have encountered a bottleneck. If you continue to stay in this team
Here, I'm afraid the future will be like this, limited by Valencia's level.
He is now twenty-eight years old and is in the golden age of a professional player. If he wants to achieve anything, this will be his last chance.
If you can't catch it, you will have no choice but to wait until you retire.
He wanted to go out and gamble.
It's not just Mendieta and his agent who are happy with Lazio's offer. They also include Valencia's general managers Pitacci and Llorente.
Both of these people are typical managers. Although Llorente has never been a manager, he often did managerial things in Valencia. For example, Chang Sheng asked him to go to Sweden to bring Ibrahimovic.
Oddly, another example is that Llorente, who was responsible for the sale of Claudio Lopez and Gerald, was actually the one who handled Mendieta's transfer.
Of course, this is a story for later.
Anyway, now both managerial talents are drooling over Lazio's offer.
Llorente certainly has some abilities. But after all, he is limited by history. He cannot see clearly into the fog of the future. Naturally, he does not know that Lazio cannot afford this offer. It is purely a lie...
World football at the turn of the century was a turbulent period. At this time, the transfer market was turbulent, various high-price records were set, and any price was possible.
When Inter Milan bought Vieri from Lazio in 1999, the transfer fee was US$50 million, setting a record for the highest transfer fee for a player in world football.
A year later, Lazio lured Crespo from Parma for $55 million, breaking Vieri's transfer record.
But they had only been glorious for a few days when Florentino took action and brought Figo from Camp Nou to the Bernabeu for US$56.1 million.
A year later, this record was refreshed by Real Madrid themselves, who brought Zidane from Juventus for a transfer fee of 75 million euros, approximately 64.45 million US dollars.
This record stood for many years until eight years later, when Cristiano Ronaldo transferred from Manchester United, the record was broken.
Even among so many high-priced transfers, the price of US$41 million can be ranked among the top. In fact, in this year's transfer market, this quotation ended up being the third highest that year, second only to Zida.
Nei's 64.45 million and Buffon's 46 million.
Buying Mendieta and being able to bring so much money to the club is what they dream of.
They don't feel guilty about selling the team captain and hero.
In fact, it has always been Valencia's tradition to sell off the hero players, and even Valencia fans are used to this.
Among the previous Claudio Lopez, Herrard, Farinos and others, who did not make great contributions in Valencia and then were sold at a high price?
In fact, from an economic point of view, it is understandable for Valencia to do this. They need to survive and develop, which means they need money. And in the past few years, although Valencia sold many people, they also invested a lot.
, if they don’t sell people, how can they support their investment, and how can they reach the Champions League finals for two consecutive years?
The problem is, Mendieta's transfer deal was a loss...
Mendieta's departure will have little impact on Valencia's competitive scene, but it will still have a great economic impact on Valencia.
In fact, starting from this summer, Valencia has begun to tighten money, because the previous expenses were too high, and it also owed a lot of debt to the bank, and the fiscal deficit was year after year. The reason why it was able to sustain it in the past few seasons was because of the football
The team can continuously participate in the Champions League and finally reach the Champions League final, which allows them to get a lot of bonuses. All of this money can be used to relieve the team's financial pressure.
But last season, they were defeated by Barcelona in the final round and lost the qualification to participate in the new season's Champions League. This was undoubtedly a heavy blow to their finances.
This is why Oti told Chang Sheng that they couldn't spend too much money to buy players. He also hinted to Chang Sheng that Valencia's current lineup is very reasonable.
But why does Chang Sheng care so much? He is a time traveler. If a time traveler does not use his foresight to gain some benefits, he would be embarrassed to say that he is a time traveler.
Therefore, Chang Sheng wanted to buy people. In order to raise enough funds, he naturally had to sell people.
But Mendieta can't sell it.
When Llorente and Pitacci thought that this money could help the club repay part of its debt, they never imagined that there were people in the world who were not tempted by the sky-high price of 41 million US dollars.
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Lazio quickly received a reply from Valencia rejecting their offer for Mendieta.
The person in charge of the transfer transaction was surprised. He did not expect that this money could be rejected by Valencia!
When they decided to quote this price, they naturally felt that this price would definitely impress Valencia.
In fact, they did impress the Valencia club, but who would have thought that a victor would appear out of thin air and know the details of the future?
Knowing that this transfer deal will turn into a mess, there is no need to take the initiative to jump into the pit if the team always wins.
The fact that Valencia rejected the offer soon reached the ears of Lazio club president Sergio Cragnotti. The shrewd businessman was equally surprised.
Because he didn't expect that such a high and sincere offer would be rejected.
"Are the Spaniards crazy?" he asked his subordinates who came to report the situation in his office, and asked in surprise.
The subordinates don't know how to return to the boss's problem.
Cragnotti thought for a moment, and he didn't think Valencia could really refuse such a large offer. Maybe they were taking the opportunity to raise the price?
This possibility is very high. After all, people are always greedy. If you can ask for 50 million, who would want only 40 million?
But I can't help their unhealthy tendencies.
So he said to his subordinates: "Tell them that $41 million is the final offer. If they are unwilling, then withdraw the offer."
Mendieta's agent has done a lot of work, but if Valencia thinks that Lazio really doesn't want Mendieta and can take the opportunity to raise the price, he doesn't care what Mendieta's agent thinks at all.
Anyway, if something happens, let him go to Valencia. We at Lazio are very sincere. There are not many clubs in Europe who can spend so much money to buy Mendieta.
Although both AC Milan and Real Madrid are interested in Mendieta.
However, Real Madrid was only willing to offer US$26 million, and AC Milan made no offer at all.
Therefore, only Lazio is sincere. If Valencia wants to use this to raise the price, Cragnotti doesn't mind letting the other party know how good he is.
Watching his subordinates leave, Cragnotti lowered his head and thought for a while, then took out his phone and called Mendieta's agent, Alberto Tordela. It was necessary for Tordela to call Valencia.
West Asian clubs are putting on the pressure.
Tordela and Mendieta made an appointment on the phone to discuss some transfer details, such as the appropriate salary from Lazio.
It's hard to explain these things over the phone, so it's better to talk about them in person.
Take advantage of the opportunity to eat. It will be done quickly.
But just before he was happy, he received a call from Cragnotti.
"What's going on at Valencia Club?" the Italian businessman asked in a low voice, with a bad tone.
Tordra was stunned. Before his excited expression could fade away, it was fixed on his face, which was quite exciting for a moment.
"What?" Pitach's phone rang. As soon as he answered it, Tordra's furious voice rang out.
After only listening for a few seconds, his expression turned serious.
"What's going on?" he asked seriously.
"I also want to ask you what's going on! You could have agreed last season that if you couldn't win the Champions League, you wouldn't block Gaizka's transfer!" Facing the club's general manager, the goalkeeper
Dieta's agent, Tordella, is very tough.
Sometimes, powerful agents have such ability. As the agent of the Valencia captain, Tordella is qualified to do this.
Pitach was a little dissatisfied with the agent's attitude, but it was not easy to explode directly. He just said: "I need to understand the situation..."
"You'd better know better, Mr. Pittage!"
After saying that, Tordella hung up the phone.
Pitachi didn't care about being angry with Tordra, he picked up the phone and called Chang Sheng.
If what Tordela said is true and the Valencia club rejected Lazio's offer, then there is only one possibility, and it is the Chinese who did it!
This damn Chinese! What is he doing?
Isn’t 41 million enough to satisfy him?!
If he does this, if this business is ruined... what should he do?
Originally, Pitaci's attitude towards Chang Sheng was just neutral. Chang Sheng had divided his transfer rights, but at least he proved his vision in Getafe, so in the face of no conclusive evidence of failure, Pitaci was
He would not talk about this matter to Chang Sheng. But now that Chang Sheng has been tossed up like this, his attitude towards Chang Sheng has begun to shift towards "indifference".