Chapter 21 Rejecting the Sky-High Price

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 is, Lazio has already made an offer to the Valencia club for him.

"Do you know how much they paid, Gaizka?" The manager Alberto Toldera said excitedly.

"How much?" Mendieta seemed very calm. What Chang Sheng said to him today still left some influence in his heart.

"Eight billion pesetas! Forty-one million dollars! This kind of worth can take away anyone in this world! But now this is for you!" Toldera excitedly on the phone He said that Mendieta could even imagine that his spitting stars might have been 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 excited agent knowing that Chang Sheng has rejected Lazio's offer, I really don't know what kind of expression and how he feels...

But the agent didn't know, and neither did Mendieta.

His spirits were a little higher.

I thought that if Lazio had such a high offer, then Valencia should have no reason to refuse.

Thinking of this, his mood became a little clearer.

In any case, I am leaving Valencia.

Although a little melancholy, but for his own better future, he decided to temporarily put his emotions aside.

Valencia entered the Champions League final for two consecutive seasons, but finally returned home. Prove what? It proves that the top level of this team is like this, they have encountered a bottleneck. If I continue to stay in this team, I am afraid that this will be the case in the future, limited by Valencia's level.

He is now twenty-eight years old, in the golden age of a professional player. This will be his last chance if he wants to achieve some kind of vision.

If you can't catch it, you can only wait to retire.

He wants to go out and gamble.

It's not just Mendieta and his agent who are happy with Lazio's offer. It also includes the general managers of the Valencia club Pittaqi and Llorente.

These two people are typical managers. Although Llorente has never been a manager, he often does things as a manager in Valencia.

For example, Changsheng asked him to go to Sweden to bring Ibrahimovic, and for example, he was responsible for selling Claudio Lopez and Gerard’s Llorente. In fact, Mendieta’s transfer was also Llorente. operational.

Of course, this is something for later.

Anyway, now the two managerial talents are drooling at Lazio's offer.

Llorente certainly has some ability. But after all, he was limited by history, he couldn't see the fog of the future, so he naturally didn't know that Lazio couldn't afford this offer, it was purely a bluff...

World football at the turn of the century was a turbulent period. At this time, the transfer market was turbulent, and various high price records were broken. Any price is possible.

When Inter Milan bought Vieri from Lazio in 1999, the transfer fee was 50 million US dollars, creating the highest transfer fee record for a player in world football.

One year later. Lazio poached Crespo from Parma for $55 million, setting a record for Vieri's transfer value.

But they haven't been glorious for a few days. Florentino made a move and brought Figo from the Nou Camp to the Bernabeu at a price of 56.1 million US dollars.

One year later. This record was broken by Real Madrid themselves. They brought Zidane from Juventus for a transfer fee of 75 million euros, or about 64.45 million US dollars.

This record has been maintained for many years. It was not until eight years later that Cristiano Ronaldo transferred from Manchester United that the record was broken.

Even with so many sky-high transfers. The price of $41 million can also be among the top. In fact, in this year's transfer market, this offer ended up being the third highest that year, second only to Zidane's 64.45 million and Buffon's 46 million.

It is their dream to buy Mendieta and bring so much money to the club.

They did not sell the guilt of the team captain and hero.

In fact, it has always been Valencia's tradition to sell heroic players, and even Valencia fans are used to it.

Before Claudio Lopez, Herald, Farinos and others, which one didn't make great contributions in Valencia, and then was sold at a high price?

In fact, from an economic point of view, it is understandable for Valencia to do so. They need to survive and grow, that is, they need money. And in the past few years, although Valencia sold a lot of 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 final for two consecutive years?

The problem is, Mendieta lost money on this transfer deal...

Mendieta's departure has little impact on Valencia's sports, but its economic impact on Valencia is still great.

In fact, since this summer, Valencia has begun to shrink its money, because it spent too much before, and owed a lot of debt to the bank, and its fiscal deficit year after year. The reason why they can afford it in the first few seasons is because the team can continue to participate in the Champions League, and finally reach the Champions League final, which allows them to share a lot of bonuses. The money can be used to ease the team's financial pressure.

But last season, they were defeated by Barcelona in the final round and lost their qualifications to participate in the Champions League in the new season. This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to their finances.

This is why Otti told Chang Sheng that they can't spend too much money to buy players. He also hinted to Chang Sheng that Valencia's current lineup is very reasonable.

But Chang Sheng doesn't care so much. I have come here through time travel, and the time traveler does not use the foresight to gain some benefits, so I am ashamed to say that I am a time traveler.

So Changsheng wanted to buy people in order to raise enough funds. Of course he wants to sell people.

Comendieta is not for sale.

When Llorente and Pitazzi said that the money could help the club repay part of the debts, they couldn't imagine that there are people in this world who are unmoved by the sky-high price of 41 million U.S. dollars. .

Lazio quickly received a reply from Valencia rejecting their offer for Mendieta.

The person in charge of the transfer transaction was taken aback. He didn't expect the money to 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 there would be a Chang Sheng who knew the details of the future generations?

Knowing that this transfer deal would turn into an unfinished business, Chang Sheng didn't need to take the initiative to jump into the pit.

Word of Valencia's rejection of the offer quickly reached the ears of Lazio club president Sergio Cranioti. The shrewd businessman was equally astonished.

Because he never thought that such a high and sincere offer would be rejected.

"Are the Spaniards crazy?" He asked the subordinate who came to report the situation in his office, and asked back in surprise.

Subordinates don't know how to get back to the big question.

Craniotti thought for a while, he didn't think Valencia could really refuse such a large offer. Maybe they are taking the opportunity to raise the price?

This possibility is very high. After all, people are always greedy. If you can ask for fifty million, who wants to ask for only forty million?

But I can't contribute to their unhealthy tendencies.

So he said to his subordinates: "Tell them. Forty-one million dollars, this is the final offer. If they don't want to, 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 happened, let him make trouble with Valencia. Our Lazio is very sincere, and there are not many clubs in Europe that can spend so much money to buy Mendieta.

Although both the Milan club and the Real Madrid club are interested in Mendieta.

However, the Real Madrid Club was only willing to offer 26 million US dollars, and Milan even didn't offer an offer at all.

So only Lazio is sincere. If Valencia wants to use this to raise the price, Craniotti doesn't mind letting the other party know how good he is.

Watching subordinates leave. Craniotti lowered his head and thought for a while, then took out his phone and called Mendieta's agent, Alberto Toldera. It is necessary for Toldera to put pressure on the Valencia club.

Toldera and Mendieta made an appointment on the phone, intending to discuss some transfer details, such as how much salary they want from Lazio.

I can't explain these things over the phone, so it's better to discuss them in person.

Take advantage of eating opportunities. It will be done in no time.

But before he was happy, he received a call from Craniotti.

"What's going on at the Valencia Club?" the Italian businessman asked in a low voice, with a bad tone.

Toldera was stunned, his excited expression froze on his face before it faded, and it was quite exciting for a while.

"What?" Pitage's phone rang. As soon as he picked it up, Toldera's exasperated voice sounded from the other side.

After only listening for a few seconds, his expression became serious.

"What's going on here?" he asked seriously.

"I also want to ask you what's going on! You can agree last season, if you can't win the Champions League, you won't block Gazika's transfer!" Facing the club's general manager, the door Dieta's agent, Tordera, was tough.

Sometimes that's what powerful brokers are capable of. As the manager of the Valencia captain, Toldera is qualified to do so.

Pittaqi was a little dissatisfied with the manager's attitude, but it was not good to explode directly, he just said: "I need to understand the situation..."

"You'd better find out, Mr. Pitage!"

After speaking, Toldera hung up the phone.

Pitage didn't care about being angry with Toldera, he picked up the phone and called Chang Sheng.

If what Toldera said is true and the Valencia club rejected Lazio's offer, then there is only one possibility, that is, the Chinese did it!

The bloody Chinese! What is he doing?

Is forty-one million still not enough for him? !

If he does this, if the business is messed up... what should I do?

Originally, Pitage's attitude towards Chang Sheng was just neutral. Chang Sheng divided his transfer rights, but at least he proved his vision in Getafe, so in the face of no conclusive evidence of failure, Pitage is I won't tell Chang Sheng about this. But now that Chang Sheng has been tossed about so much, his attitude towards Chang Sheng has begun to shift to "indifference". (to be continued)

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