"Liester, I'm going to take over Middlesbrough soon."
"kindness?"
Although Lister has not been involved in English football in these years, he has only slowly entered English football since this season. But he knows the top and bottom of English football very clearly. If there is any trouble in English football, Lister will
Can know quickly.
This is especially true for Middlesbrough. Middlesbrough is a very expensive club in the Premier League. In La Liga, only Real Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia can compare. No other club can compare with Middlesbrough.
.Even in England, Middlesbrough is a relatively expensive club.
The current head coach of Middlesbrough is Bryan Robson. One of the greatest captains in Manchester United's history hung up his boots at Middlesbrough and then started coaching here. His achievements at Middlesbrough
It is still good, but this is only because Middlesbrough is not a strong team in the Premier League. According to the extent of Middlesbrough's spending, Bryan Robson's results can only be said to be average. If it were not for his playing days
Despite his reputation, he had been fired a long time ago.
Bryan Robson has been coaching Middlesbrough since 1994, and it has been almost seven years since this season. During this process, Middlesbrough's boss Steve Gibson has been extremely generous and spent money very generously.
In these seven years, he invested a total of seven years in the transfer market.
Fourteen million pounds, converted into today's euros, is more than hundreds of millions of euros in transfer funds. If Middlesbrough were a club like Manchester United, Liverpool, or Chelsea, it would be understandable, but a club that has been relegated in the middle
For the club, this kind of investment is simply astonishing.
With such investment, Middlesbrough can only hover in the relegation zone. With so much money, Bryan Robson bought a lot of parallel imports.
The thirty-year-old Gascoigne, who has already put on weight, transferred for 3.5 million pounds, Joseph Job for 3 million pounds, the 33-year-old veteran Gary Pallister for 2.5 million pounds, 30
Year-old Brian Dean's 3 million pounds, Noelle Huilan's 2.2 million pounds, Emerson's 4 million pounds, and Karen Bu's 2.1 million pounds.
The above list is a list of a group of parallel imports imported by Bryan Robson. Among them are the famous talented player Gascoigne, and others like Karen Bue who have performed well in the French national team and Real Madrid and have fairy wives.
Beast. Unfortunately, it has become a big parallel import in Middlesbrough. These parallel imports alone cost nearly 20 million pounds.
Of course, Bryan Robson also has another skill. During his coaching career, he has introduced countless players worth one million pounds, but basically without success. Each and every one million pounds was wasted in the end.
According to List, Brian Robson has a very good personal relationship with Middlesbrough chairman Gibson. He has not heard of any conflicts between them, so he asked with some confusion: "What about Coach Robson?"
"You said Brian. The club's performance has not been good recently, and Brian is also under a lot of pressure. So I hope I can put out the fire."
Lister nodded. Although Venables is notorious for being a master of deceit and abduction, he is currently the most scandalous manager in English football. But his coaching ability is unquestionable. It seems that the Middlesbrough boss is also now
A little anxious. In order to avoid relegation, even a notorious head coach like Venables was hired.
Lister looked at Venables, wanting to hear what he had to say next. He came to Lister as a head coach. Needless to say, it was definitely about the players.
"Rister. Italian central defender Marco Materazzi from Sparta Prague. I hope to join Middlesbrough in the winter and help us avoid relegation."
Lister shrugged, then looked at Pini Zahavi sitting next to him. Although many clubs in European football contact agents first before negotiating transfers, this is not necessarily the case. In fact, they
You can also contact the club first and then contact the agent. Many confident clubs also do this because they believe in the charm of their club.
For example, Middlesbrough can definitely send someone to contact Sparta Prague. Of course, List will have full power to negotiate at that time. Considering Venables' status and reputation, it will not be a problem to send someone to contact List directly.
Although Lister is currently a very powerful agent, if he talks about player issues, Venables will definitely come out in person because of Venables' face. But look at how many channels this negotiation has gone through. Venables first
Contacted Pini Zahavi. Then Pini Zahavi contacted Michael Williams, and finally Michael Williams helped to connect with Lister.
After going through this circle, there are more people who need to pay for it. Lister really despises Venables in his heart. He really does everything for money. He insists on making such a simple thing so complicated. When the time comes
Trazzi has transferred. As Materazzi's agent, Riester will definitely want to
It is my own commission, and because this is not a player recommended by Lister, I will never share my commission with anyone else.
Pini Zahavi and Michael Williams, who contributed to this transfer, will all receive a commission. However, this commission was not obtained from List, but could only be paid by Middlesbrough.
.Of course part of the commission they received from Middlesbrough will definitely go into Venables' pocket.
This kind of thing is too common in European football. Why after a certain transfer is completed, there are four or five agents who come to share the commission. This is the current situation. They try to let as many agents enter the transfer as possible.
Among them, of course, most of the agents involved in the transfer are agents who have inextricable connections with the club's top management and the head coach. In the end, when these agents get the money, they have to give part of it to the person who makes the decision.
Lister sneered in his heart. Middlesbrough is now in danger of being relegated, and Steve Gibson is a generous owner. This will cost him more money. Originally he had to pay a commission of about one million pounds, but
This round may cost several million pounds more. Now that Pini Zahavi and Michael Williams have been mobilized, Lister knows that Venables must have made all preparations.
.Since he is bound to win, don’t blame me for asking a high price.
So Riester said: "Marco? He is the core of Sparta Prague's backcourt."
Lister had some hesitation. Seeing Lister pretending, Venables was amused. For someone like Venables who, besides being a head coach, was always ready to deceive people at any time, Lister's little trick was simply childish. Back then, he was
He had used it countless times. But he couldn't say anything because everyone was familiar with this commonly used trick and knew it well. But everyone still used it.
Lister did not care about Venables's thoughts and continued: "And Sparta Prague has sold too many players this season. In the winter, Tomas Rosicky and Jankulovski will be transferred.
For the sake of the stability of the team, I probably won’t agree happily.”
Pini Zahavi said nothing at the side, because for him, this small transfer was simply dispensable. The commission of hundreds of thousands he received was a completely small amount for him.
The reason why he is willing to do this is mainly because of his friendship with Venables. Also, he really wants to get to know Riester Cherney, the European football agent who is currently experiencing the most rapid rise.
But he smiled when he listened to Lister's words. He had known Materazzi for a long time, even better than Venables. Seventy percent of Materazzi's current ownership is in Lister's
In his hands, and with the relationship between List and Sparta Prague, as long as List nods to the transfer, there will be no problems.
"Lister, I came to you just because of difficulties."
Venables doesn't care at all how much money Materazzi makes. His mission is simple. It is to help Middlesbrough avoid relegation. It is nothing for him to spend some money to avoid relegation.
Venables was already on the verge of bankruptcy ten years ago, in the early 1990s, because he had the habit of spending money lavishly. But Venables was not an ordinary person. He was almost bankrupt, but he was still cheating.
There was one person. That was Alan Sugar, the current chairman of Tottenham Hotspur. Sugar at that time was not a cat or a dog. Sugar, a Jew, was the founder of Amstrad, a large computer and electronic products company, and a tycoon worth hundreds of millions.
He had strong financial strength, and more importantly, he was invincible in the English electronics market at that time. He could be said to have swept the English electronics market. Therefore, he was full of confidence and ambitious. He wanted to run Tottenham well and wanted to start from
Tottenham makes money. Unfortunately, he was shocked when he jumped into Tottenham.
Because there were many unclear things in the accounts left by the former chairman. Later, I found out that those unclear accounts were bribes to the other team's head coach during transfers and commissions to agents, which were clear at the time.
Things that are strictly prohibited on the Internet. This made Shug, who was very successful in the electronic product market, understand that football is not that easy to mess with.
At this time, Venables began to make money. While he used fake accounts to become the majority shareholder of Tottenham, he was also the head coach of Tottenham. Then he made his confidant Ashby become the commercial director of Tottenham.
He also made his daughter an assistant to the general manager. Their annual salary is about 100,000 pounds.
Venables, who was about to go bankrupt, relied on this method to become the owner of Tottenham Hotspur with nothing. Then he took huge kickbacks from various transfers, which was considered black gold at the time. Tottenham boss Sugar just wasn't used to it.
Football, so he was played by Venables for several years. When he slowly understood the truth behind it, he couldn't bear it anymore.
After he investigated Venables behind his back, he did not go with the team to Highbury during the derby match between Tottenham and Arsenal. Instead, he stayed at Tottenham and took advantage of Venables' absence to open the door.
The board of directors directly kicked Venables out. Then he took him to court. Once Venables is convicted of various commercial frauds, kickbacks, etc. during his time at Tottenham, he can only spend more than ten years in prison.
.
But at this time, the Football Association stepped in to protect him. Because this kind of kickback is so common in British football, it should be said that there is no head coach who has never taken a kickback. People like Ferguson just take kickbacks more cleverly, because they don't know how to do it themselves.
He came forward in person. Instead, he used commissions to let his son come forward.
Therefore, the FA was very reluctant to allow outside forces to interfere in football affairs, so they refused to provide evidence. In the end, Venables had no choice but to compensate Sugar and end the lawsuit. But after this series of lawsuits, Venables
Boors spent four to five million pounds. He was once again on the verge of bankruptcy. With such a good opportunity this time, of course he wanted to take advantage of it. So he didn't care about the transfer fee at all.
Lister offered a high price of nine million pounds, and Venables returned six million pounds. Neither of them bargained much, and the negotiation was completed for eight million pounds in just two or three times. Lister had negotiated so much
This time, I felt that Venables was the most generous. Because the price was too high.
Even Riester himself thinks this price is too high. The normal price for Materazzi is 8 million euros, which is quite unexpected. It is really unexpected to convert it into pounds.
"Rister, it's a pleasure to work with you."
"Coach Venables, I hope we can continue to cooperate in the future."
Although this transfer was easy, Lister was no longer willing to meet and cooperate with Venables. This bastard Venables was too shady and did not consider his employer at all. See you, Lister
After having gone through so many club executives and head coaches, this head coach who looks personable and humorous on the outside is really evil-hearted.
Lister himself made a profit from this negotiation, and he made a lot of money. In terms of commission, Lister's commission was no problem at all. But for Middlesbrough, they really lost a lot of money.
For Materazzi alone, the total expenses may be around 12 million pounds. Most of the extra money will be eaten up by Venables.
If possible, Lister would really not want to have contact with someone like Venables, because he has no bottom line as a person. When they first met, Venables was personable and well-spoken, which left a trace of goodwill for Lister.
In the process, he completely disappeared. He only had deep contempt for Venables List, and this person should not be deeply friends. At the moment when the two parties were about to part, Pini Zahavi suddenly said: "Mr. Cherny, please pass.
I hope we can talk about it in a while.”
"Okay, Mr. Zahavi."
Lister smiled slightly. Because he understood what Zahavi meant, he nodded. (To be continued...)
