Just after talking with David Morse, Lister received another invitation to negotiate. Although the person invited this time is not a famous person in football, he is well-known among the fans. Perhaps he himself is not well-known among the fans.
Big, but the game he developed has been popular among football fans all over the world for decades. As long as you are a football fan, there is basically no one who does not know this game. Even after more than ten years, this game is still a football game that is highly respected by football fans and players.
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That is the cm/fm series of games, which are Championship Football Manager and Football Manager games. This game was originally developed by two Everton fans, Oliver and Paul Collier. It has been around since 1993.
Up to now, it has been the fifth game developed in a row. Especially cm3, launched in 1999, can be said to be a great success. It attracted the attention of all players at once. It stands out among football games and has become the most respected among football fans and players.
One of the football games.
Among the fans and players at this time, no game can compare with cm3. On this basis, some upgrade packages and expansions, cm00-01, have been greatly welcomed by players. And today the person looking for Lister is Paul Colley.
The private company created by the Er. Collier brothers merged with edios in 1995 to form edios interactive. However, the company's design has always been the responsibility of the original employees of the private company.
Paul Collier not only developed this game, but also developed and expanded the company. This game company, which was originally a small company, has now become a very powerful game development company in England.
"Hello, Mr. Cherny."
Paul Collier was a little serious. Although he smiled, he felt stiff. Lister was not so bad. He was a technician, not a manager. It is understandable that there may be some shortcomings in this aspect of technology.
Lister has met so many people, all kinds of people, and he won't be any different just because of Paul Collier's appearance.
"Mr. Cherny, our company is currently preparing to launch the cm0102 series, followed by cm0203. We have discussed it with the Montreal general manager of eidos interactive. We hope to find a spokesperson for this game. We think Coach Benitez
Perfect for our game.”
Lister was stunned. Unexpectedly, Benitez was quite popular. Eidos Interactive is a very famous game publishing company in England, a listed company listed on the London Stock Exchange. Among the games published by their company, there is "Allied Forces"
The "Suicide Squad" series and the "Tomb Raider" series are all very profitable games. cm/fm games are also published by this company.
Lister thought for a while and soon understood. Lister was a loyal player of this game in his previous life. The current cm0102 and cm0203 are both cm3 series. And the cm0304 that came out later belongs to the category of cm4. cm4 is a
It is a game with the same milestone. Because starting from this game, it gradually emphasized the formation and the role of the head coach. Before this game, it was just a matter of accumulating some good players. But starting from this game, it is completely different.
The formation of troops and even the digging of monsters have become a fun for players. Lister understood what Collier meant by comparing before and after. Their company hopes to use a coach to show the development direction of their game. Even
More than ten years later, a fan who had been playing FM for more than ten years became a club coach.
Although he understood, List still asked Collier: "Mr. Collier, why are you looking for Rafael? Your company is an English company, you can definitely look for Coach Ferguson or Coach Wenger."
"We like Coach Benitez's title as a master tactician, which is very suitable for the development direction of our game. The slogan of our game is that we can all be coaches."
List nodded. Tactician master, this title is definitely blown out. Benitez has a certain skill in tactics, but there are not only one or two head coaches with strong tactical ability in European football. If you go to Italy, a group of experts will
Head coaches who come from a different background all have their own tactics. Many head coaches just don’t have a platform, otherwise they are not necessarily worse than Benitez.
In the coaching industry, those coaches who are players are very good at managing the locker room and mobilizing player morale. However, those coaches who have a professional background are very unique in their tactical abilities. Not only Italian coaches, but also many coaches from Germany and France.
Professional coaches have advantages in tactics. However, unless they have outstanding results, they will always remain unknown.
Because there is no way around it. People have different fates. Since Rist began to pay attention to the commercial value of developing players, someone suggested to Rist that he should focus on building Benitez, the most famous coach under Rist.
Riester also adopted that opinion. Then he spent huge sums of money to promote Benitez in various media and columns, letting everyone know what a master tactician is. If you have money, anything can be done easily. It is easiest to brag about it in newspapers.
Riester even invited some famous football players to come over and praise Benitez, analyze some of Benitez's masterpiece games, and let them analyze how awesome Benitez's tactics are. It is said to be analysis, but in fact it is to use
Money lets those famous players brag about how good Benitez's tactics are.
Football celebrities are also classified. Many of them who are still active in football after retirement are a group of people who are not short of money. Not to mention the kings like Beckenbauer and Cruyff, even if they get involved later
Ancelotti and Mancini are not short of money. And many so-called football celebrities, including those who have achieved brilliant results, will live in poverty after retirement. As long as you have money
Let them come out to praise how smart a pig is, and there will be people who are willing to come out. Let alone just praise a head coach. So under Riester's silver bullet offensive, batches of famous players came out to praise Benitez.
Therefore, when many media mention Benitez now, they will say he is a master tactician. Whether they really think he is a master tactician or just follow the trend, anyway, this word and Benitez have become one.
"Well, actually I am also a loyal Football Manager player."
"real?"
Collier did not expect Lister to answer like this. But he quickly stopped smiling because he thought Lister might be telling a joke, or doing it for his own sake. As a technician, he manages his own
The expression is really not quite right.
Lister smiled and nodded and said: "Mr. Collier, I'm not bragging at all. I like playing the game Football Manager very much. I play it all day long. Everything about this game is good. The biggest problem is that it makes me
Forgetting time. In a job like mine, forgetting time is a big problem.”
Collier also burst out laughing when he heard Lister's words. Playing this kind of football manager game requires a lot of time.
"It's just that your game still has some flaws. Especially in the exploration of young players in the world, there are still some shortcomings. If your company lacks some scouting systems in this regard, you can always come to me."
In later generations, even many head coaches of small clubs relied on this game to find young players, which shows their ability in scouting. Even Wenger said that this game is very good at judging player potential. Rees
I am very willing to cooperate with their company. Now it seems that this scouting system is very powerful, but in a few years, the value of slightly famous players will rise sharply. Because there will be more scouts by then, and the media will also pay attention to young players.
Players pay too much attention.
"Okay, Mr. Cherney, if you are willing, of course we are willing to cooperate with you."
When it came to CM4, all kinds of little monsters appeared in endlessly. After talking about some off-topics, the two parties quickly entered into specific negotiations. That is, the issue of endorsement fees. CM is different from live football, which starts very early.
He has cooperated with celebrities and done endorsements. However, CM has never cooperated with a coach. In world football, coaches have always been inferior to players.
Just like you can name superstars such as Di Stefano, Cruyff, and Beckenbauer fifty years ago, you can also name superstars such as Zico and Garrincha. But when it comes to coaches,
Who can know who the coaches of those superstars are? Even for some professional fans, apart from the master coaches who changed the tactics of world football like Chapman, Michels, and Herrera in some distant era, you can also
Name a few head coaches.
It can be seen that football is the era of players. It is also the case now. Players are the most popular, and coaches cannot be as popular as players. Therefore, Collier proposed an endorsement fee of 700,000 pounds for three years.
However, Lister immediately refused. Then he said: "Mr. Collier, the head coach is not as popular as the players, but that is for the past. With the development of broadcasting and the Internet, and agents like me are behind the scenes.
The exposure of the head coach will be the same as that of the players, and even the head coach can become a star on the football field. You don’t really think that Rafael appears in newspapers and TV every day because they like to talk about it.”
Collier didn't say anything, but he already understood what Lister meant. The current publicity about Benitez was promoted by Lister behind his back.
"I will make Rafael the best head coach in the world. Regardless of whether his results are really the best, I will make him the best head coach. You don't have to worry about Rafael's exposure. You don't have to worry.
His popularity problem."
Brainwashing, the so-called brainwashing is like this. There is a saying that if you tell a lie a thousand times, it becomes the truth. What appears in newspapers every day is to instill what they want to say.
"And Mr. Collier, I can tell you a secret. In July next year, Rafael will change to a club. This club is a European giant that once had its own dynasty. It has a long history. It’s said to be one of the top five giants in European football. I won’t say which club it is. Mr. Collier, is this kind of Rafael really worth only 700,000 pounds for three years?”
Collier was silent. He was thinking about which club Lister was talking about? There are just a few clubs that can be ranked in the top five in European football. Real Madrid, Bayern, Milan, and others like Liverpool, Juventus, Manchester United. As for teams like Ajax, they are not considered by Collier at all. In addition to them, there are also top-notch giants like Inter Milan and Barcelona. In Collier's opinion, these are the only ones. One of the clubs.
Except for Manchester United and Bayern, which are impossible, other giants are possible. Benitez is the head coach of Real Madrid. Milan and Juventus’ current performance is not very good, Barcelona’s performance has fallen to the bottom, and Liverpool’s Houllier is currently Lying in the hospital, it is not unusual for Inter Milan to change coaches. Thinking about it, there are indeed many possibilities for Benitez.
Moreover, the head coach of a wealthy team is completely different from the head coach of a strong team. Even if the head coach of a strong team won some championships for a while, he is still not as popular as the head coach of a wealthy team, and his historical status is not as good as that of the head coach of a wealthy team. Just like Irueta, the head coach of Super Deportivo, his performance is very good. As a head coach of a strong team like Deportivo, his performance is outstanding enough. But who will remember Deportivo after more than ten years? Rueta, because La Coruña's status is not high, Irueta's reputation is also average.
"So Mr. Cherney, what do you mean?"
"Three years and 1.2 million pounds. Rafael is young, has achievements, and is about to become the head coach of a wealthy club. These aspects add up to 1.2 million pounds in three years, which is definitely very suitable."
Collier took a breath. Four hundred thousand pounds a year, that is more than six hundred thousand euros. This is not a small amount. Even if their games invite superstar players, that is the price. But as a coach, Benitez really It is in line with their company's creativity, except that Benitez looks a bit awkward.
"Mr. Cherny, your request is higher than our bottom line. I want to go back to the company to discuss it."
After Collier thought for a while, he told Lister directly. Four hundred thousand pounds a year was not a small sum, and it was completely different from what they had originally considered. He could not decide alone, and he needed to return to the company to discuss it with them. Moreover, this kind of negotiation is a back and forth between you and me, and sometimes it takes a long time.
"No problem, Mr. Collier. As long as both parties are sincere, a little disagreement can be resolved."
List nodded. After all, there is a big difference between £700,000 and £1.2 million in three years. But List thinks this is not a big deal. Since their company came to him, it shows that they are very optimistic about Benitez. So. The problem isn't that big. It's not that there are millions of pounds of disagreement, it's just nearly 200,000 pounds a year. (To be continued...)
