Chapter 1199 Does this kid have potential? 【Happy Chinese New Year!】
Chapter 1199 Does this guy have great potential? [Happy New Year!]
Big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat shrimps.
While the giants in Europe are eagerly looking forward to carving up Leeds United, the White Rose is like a hunter with a keen sense of smell, searching for young players within their target range in the world of football.
The players Leeds United like to bring in all have several common characteristics.
First of all, they are young. They are basically young players between 15-20 years old.
Just because they are young, their net worth is not high.
Such transfers often do not attract the attention of the outside world, and even Leeds United itself is always very low-key, so that many times, people suddenly discover that when did Leeds United have another young rookie?
In addition, in recent years, as Leeds United's reputation has gradually increased and its network of relationships in world football has spread, ways and means of recruiting and training young players have also emerged in endlessly.
For example, Vinicius and Rodrygo, two Brazilian geniuses, were signed by Leeds United early and then loaned back to Brazil to play because they were not yet old enough to transfer.
But there are also some problems in this method of buying them and then renting them back. For example, the other party is not willing to focus on training these two players. After all, they have been sold. Who will do their best?
Therefore, Leeds United often signs a series of cooperation terms, including giving the other party a generous training fee to ensure that the other party makes great efforts to cultivate the players they like.
What if a mistake is made or a player is injured?
All risks are borne by Leeds United.
It is precisely because such a system was established early that year, especially the all-pervasive scouting system that covers the world, and the world's largest player database at the AXA Center, which ensures that Leeds United can grasp the players' information anytime and anywhere.
information and has the most complete talent reserve.
It is precisely because of this that Leeds United has the confidence to continue selling players.
Similarly, because of this system and a series of logistics support departments such as the methodology department, although Leeds United's player salaries are not high, the annual salary expenditure still reaches a high price of 200 million pounds per year.
You know, teams with similar maximum salary and salary control to Leeds United, such as Tottenham Hotspur, their salary expenditure is only about 130 million pounds. Leeds United has an extra 70 million pounds, just to spend on
These places.
This does not include a series of expenses such as hardware facility maintenance and equipment introduction.
But now, Leeds United's system has formed a sustainable virtuous cycle.
Gao Shen is less involved in the club's transfers now. He is more responsible for the team's own operations. Only when he meets a suitable player occasionally does Gao Shen make recommendations.
Most of the time, after the team has completed the investigation, they draw up a transfer list and then submit it to Gao Shen for confirmation.
If the player's transfer fee is less than five million euros, the decision will be made by Fernando Lucas and Rodolfo Borrell, and submitted to the Finance Department for approval, and finally to Su Qing.
Gao Shen only receives a piece of information after the transfer is successful or failed.
Now, Gao Shen has received the transfer player materials submitted by Leeds United.
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This summer transfer, Leeds United originally planned to sign 10 young players, but 4 failed, and in the end only 6 of them were signed. Among these 6 players, Gao Shenzai carefully read the materials.
He found that he only knew two of them.
Moreover, the impression is not very deep.
Interestingly, these two players are both central defenders and both come from Saint-Etienne in Ligue 1.
One is 17-year-old William Saliba, who plays for Saint-Etienne's youth team and has not yet played in the first team. However, Leeds United signed this young French central defender for 3 million euros.
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There is also 17-year-old Wesley Fofana, who is also in the Saint-Etienne youth team.
Saliba is still in the second team at least, and Fofana was still in the U19s last season, but performed well and was targeted by Leeds United.
Like Saliba, Fofana's transfer fee is also 3 million euros.
But after Leeds United bought out the two centre-backs, they loaned them both back to Saint-Etienne for three years.
They will probably be around 20 years old by then. If their performance and worth can meet Leeds United's requirements, Leeds United will comprehensively evaluate their performance and pay Saint-Etienne a maximum of seven million euros.
In other words, Saint-Etienne can earn up to 20 million euros in income from these two central defenders.
For Leeds United, this is also a relatively safe way to ensure that the players get enough game training in Saint-Etienne, while the Ligue 1 team saves the risk of training players and both parties get what they need.
Of course, for specific contract terms, such as the final comprehensive evaluation, both parties signed many specific details.
Although it is necessary to pay up to 10 million euros for each player, this amount of money is really nothing to a Premier League team, especially a team like Leeds United.
After selling central defenders for several consecutive years, Leeds United's current central defender reserves are also somewhat weak.
Moreover, last year, Leeds United originally wanted to sign young central defender Konde (Quende) from French Ligue 1 Bordeaux in the same way, but the two sides did not reach an agreement. Now Konde has played in Ligue 1 for a season and performed well.
His net worth has reached five million euros.
Leeds United are also used to this.
Some clubs can accept it, and some can't. There's no way to force it.
Besides, there are so many talents, who can catch all the outstanding players in one go?
This is impossible.
Also last year, Leeds United actually wanted to sign the 18-year-old Konate from Sochaux on a free transfer, but there was no way. Red Bull Leipzig in the Bundesliga offered more generous conditions, especially the promise of a first-team player.
position, so the player went directly to Red Bull Leipzig.
In contrast, Leeds United already had Van Dijk, Militao, De Ligt and Ruben Dias, and it was impossible to give Konate enough first-team opportunities, so they had to give up in the end.
This is actually a very helpless thing.
A similar situation also happened to the young center Vlahovic of Partizan Belgrade in Serbia.
At that time, many teams were competing. Leeds United had reached an agreement with Partizan Belgrade to sign Vlahovic for 2 million euros. However, they were still unable to reach a consensus on whether the player could play for the first team.
A loophole was taken advantage of by Serie A Fiorentina.
There are many cases like this, and in the past few years, many have occurred every year.
For example, the list that Gao Shen has now has 10 transfers this summer, but only six players were signed. If the remaining four players become famous in the future, it will be Leeds United's treasure.
Of course, no one will pay attention now, just like no one noticed at all back then. Ibrahimovic and Yaya Toure both went to Arsenal for trial training, and Kaká was almost there before he went to AC Milan. Went to Real Madrid and Manchester United.
All of this was discovered after the stars became famous.
As for things like making mistakes, which club doesn’t have a lot of them?
Gao Shen was impressed by the two young central defenders from Saint-Etienne because Fofana seemed to be playing for Leicester City and Saliba couldn't play football at Arsenal.
But judging from the fact that they were noticed by Leeds United's scouts and decided to sign them, they must be very talented.
Among these six people, there was another stranger who attracted Gao Shen's attention.
That is a 16-year-old player from Dinamo Zagreb U17 in Croatia. He has just met the transfer conditions. Leeds United scouts said they have been observing him for a long time. Even Borrell flew to Croatia in person. Watch him play.
The transfer fee was not high. After negotiating with Dinamo Zagreb, we signed him for one million euros.
But this time, Borrell did not plan to rent him out and directly brought him back to Leeds United to train him personally.
This is what makes Gao Shen feel strange.
"Yoshko Gvadiol?" Gao Shen read this strange name awkwardly, and it was hard to pronounce no matter how he pronounced it.
"Who is this kid? Does he have great potential?" he murmured to himself.
After hearing this, Su Qing on the side shook her head and replied, "I don't know."
She is specifically responsible for finance, and she basically does not participate in the team's recruitment and selection.
"I'll ask Borrell or Modric another day." Gao Shen said with a smile.
Modric is a hero of Croatia and also from Dinamo Zagreb. Maybe he knows some news.
Gao Shen's main interest came from Borrell's arrangement.
He knows his assistant very well, and it is probably unusual for Borrell to take him so seriously.
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When Gao Shen got this list, the transfer had actually been completed.
Leeds United's current focus has shifted to player sales, as well as the team's summer training preparations.
Since Gao Shen made the decision and Leeds United signed a three-year contract with an American company for the International Champions Cup, Leeds United has gone to North America to participate in the International Champions Cup for three consecutive years. This has also laid a solid foundation for Leeds United to develop the North American market.
It can be said that in the past few years, Leeds United's commercial revenue has increased dramatically every year, which is inseparable from the North American market.
After three years of traveling to North America, the International Champions Cup has become more and more prosperous and has added China and Asia divisions.
In the past two years, Leeds United has traveled to China and the Asian Division to further develop the Chinese and Asian markets.
This year, according to arrangements, Leeds United will still go to North America.
After an absence of two years, Leeds United returned to North America, and the club took it very seriously.
Lucas and others have already set off one step ahead, and the team's summer training camp is also scheduled in Miami, USA.
Except for the players who participated in the knockout stages of the World Cup, all other players have basically returned to the team, including several players who may be transferred this summer, and all of them will go to the United States with the team.
This time, the number of Leeds United's North American team is around 25. Because many international players have not returned to the team, many youth team players have been recruited.
Generally speaking, events such as the International Champions Cup not only give wealthy teams an opportunity to compete against each other, but also provide them with a platform for face-to-face negotiations.
Many major transfers were negotiated during this period.
Neither Gao Shen nor Su Qing had traveled to the United States before, so they decided to "go" with the team this time.
It's just that the team is going to training camps and games, and they are going to travel around.
But who would have thought that on the second day after he arrived in Miami, he would receive a call from Jose Sanchez.
I wish you all that in the new year, all your dreams will come true, you will have abundant financial resources, and your family will be happy!
