Chapter 117： Real Madrid's refusal

England.

Hertfordshire.

Kearney training base.

The world-famous Arsenal Club ’s training base is located here, just 45 minutes ’drive from their Emirates Stadium.

The season has just ended, there are not many people in the training base.

The players have already gone on vacation, and many of the staff who provide logistics services for them have also taken vacations.

The summer sunshine prints golden spots on the grass through the dense green trees.

A middle-aged bald man in a white shirt and a tie walked quickly under the shade.

He is Ivan Gazidis. He was born in South Africa in 1964. He moved to the UK when he was 4 years old. He obtained a law degree from Oxford University in 1986. In 2011, he returned to the United Kingdom and came to London to join Arsenal Football Club as CEO.

Every time a player transfers, it is a very busy moment for him.

Is no exception this year.

Walked a few steps and the phone rang.

Gazidis walked, picked up his phone and looked at it, and ordered to answer.

"... Well, I know. I'm talking to Real Madrid."

"However, you have to give me some time in Alsena. I will talk to Chelsea about Cech, and Basel to talk about Mohamed Ernyi. In addition, I have to find a way to find a new club for Podolski. The German performed poorly at Inter Milan last year, and the Italian club is not ready to buy him out. "

"It takes time."

Gazidis looked worried, and he continued to walk briskly.

"Well, well, I'm listening."

"That's it. I tried to inquire, and was rejected by them. Then, I quoted a price of 8 million pounds. As a result, guess what. They were rejected by them."

"I think they might be crazy. A Chinese, who didn't even play the national team's game, just played a year in the reserve league. The offer of 8 million pounds was not negotiated and refused directly! This is too ridiculous. Right? "

"... I may not have heard clearly. The signal was not good just now, can you say it again?"

"What? 15 million pounds? My goodness. When we took Walcott from Southampton, it was only 12 million pounds. At that time, the price shocked the world. A 17-year-old Chinese kid, 15 million pounds, Alsena, do you also ... "

"Okay, okay, I will think about it. You let me think about it first, I'm thinking a little bit messy now."

"Uh. Um. I will contact you later. Rest assured, I will contact you soon, and won't keep you waiting."

……

Opened the door of the office, and Gazidis dropped the phone on the desk.

He quickly walked to the desk, picked up the landline microphone, and instructed, "A cup of iced coffee, no sugar, thank you."

Then, Gazidis closed the office door, walked back to his seat, and sat down.

He turned on the computer.

Call up the player's information.

"Twenty games in the Western B League, scored 27 goals, five assists, averaging 1.35 goals, 0.25 assists, averaging 9 times per game, averaging 5.8 violations per game, averaging 0.7 possessions, Threats were sent 1.2 times per game. "

"Four upgrade playoffs, 6 goals and 0 assists, averaging 1.5 goals."

"European Youth League, 6 games, 13 offenses and 3 assists, averaging 2.17 goals and 0.5 assists per game."

"Seven goals in La Liga, scoring a goal and zero assists."

Gazidis held a pen in his hand and habitually tapped it lightly on the table, frowning slightly.

"From the data point of view, it is a very gorgeous piece of data, but the level of the game is lower."

"The only high-level La Liga league, this young man played only a dozen minutes, the data is hard to have any reference price."

"This is the price of 15 million pounds? I really don't know what Alsena thought ..."

Dong dong dong dong!

Knock came from outside the door.

"Please come in."

Gazidis did not turn his head, he still looked at the computer screen.

Handed over a cup of coffee.

Gazidis did not look up. He took the coffee and said, "Thank you."

After a while, Gazidis was a little strange before the person came.

He looked up, "I said, thank you ... uh, it's Steve. I'm sorry."

Gazidis quickly stood up.

Steve Raleigh is a veteran of the club.

In the early 1990s, Steve Raleigh was already a scout at Arsenal Club.

The legendary captain in the history of Arsenal Club, Tony Adams, was discovered by him. At that time, even Wenger was not the head coach of Arsenal. The gunners coach at the time was legendary coach George Graham.

For such club elders, Gazidis must be respectful.

"I just thought it was Miss Watson, I'm so embarrassed, please give me coffee. Please sit down."

"Oh, how about Miss Watson? Why are you here?" He asked with some curiosity.

Steve Raleigh smiled and sat down opposite Gazidis. "I came back from the outside and happened to meet Miss Watson to bring you coffee. I thought, to chat with you, just stop by Bring the coffee over. "

The delicate coffee spoon slowly stirs clockwise, and the rich aroma of coffee beans slowly evaporates in the air.

Gazidis raised his head and raised his eyebrows, "Look for me? Is there something wrong?"

"Well, it ’s like this ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Raleigh put his hands and knees on the table and looked at Gazidis," some time ago, I recommended a Real Madrid Castilla to the club Player. I want to ask the club, how is it going, and what is the other party's response. "

Uh……

Gazidis rubbed his temples with both hands, his expression looked surprised.

"Is that Chinese player named Ge Chu? Just now Alsena called me and was talking about him. Now you are coming for him specially. Why, are you so optimistic about him?"

"Ok."

Raleigh immediately gave an affirmative answer, "Ivan, you may not know very well, but you must believe me, this player's future is very bright. If you have the opportunity, don't miss it, otherwise you will regret it later."

"Oh?" Gazidis shrugged. "There are football geniuses every year, do we regret every year?"

Seeing Raleigh was about to speak, he immediately raised his hand, "Listen to me, Steve. I recognize the professional qualities of you and Alsena. I believe you can say nothing wrong."

"But as the team's CEO, I need to think more than you. This season, the transfer budget given to me by the board of directors is not much, I must spend it in the most effective place."

"Good players are definitely what we need. But good players also need to have good prices, right?"

"I really value this Chinese player. Soon after the season, I got in touch with Real Madrid's general manager Jose Sanchez. But he refused my offer of £ 8 million. A just over 17 A year-old child, a Chinese who has no experience in top-level league games, I have sincerely offered such an offer, but he did not talk about it, what can I do? "

Gazidis spread his hand.