But it is not that easy to become a influential football agent in European football. Even being an ordinary football agent is not as easy as imagined.
Lister has been a football agent in China for more than ten years and knows better than anyone the difficulties of being an agent.
There are even many things in it that are not as simple as imagined.
An agent does not mean that you discover a talented player and then you will be successful. Nothing in the world is that simple.
Just like Leicester now goes to England to find a player from a lower league who has not yet become famous.
Tell him I want to be your agent.
That player will definitely kick you out immediately.
Because what is the use of being an agent apart from sharing money from your own income? Do you have connections in England? Do you have connections in some ordinary clubs?
In fact, there is not much difference in the strength of the top players in English League One and the players in the lower reaches of Premier League. Their strengths are not much different. However, some players can only play in League One, while some players can play in Premier League.
It doesn’t mean that Premier League players are necessarily better than English League One players.
Why?
It's not all due to strength.
That depends on the agent’s public relations capabilities.
The two players are about the same strength, but when the team chooses the player, it depends on the ability of the player's agent. If you have connections in football, then you can sell your players to the club.
If you don't have connections, you can only hang out in lower-level leagues.
this is the truth.
There are many agents who have no connections in wealthy clubs. But they have extensive connections in middle and lower-tier clubs. Although such football agents do not have the reputation of super agents, their income is not as good as those of super agents.
But it is a group that no one can ignore.
Because most of the players from the mid-to-lower teams are controlled by them. They don't have the strength to play for the rich, but they can play the main role in the mid-to-lower teams.
The movement of these players is likely to determine the relegation outcome of the relegation team.
This is when the power of these brokers comes into play.
With the strength of these agents, even wealthy teams will not look down upon them. Rich teams also need some quiet substitutes, and the best way to find those quiet substitutes is to find these agents.
But does Lister have any connections in this area? Does Lister know anyone in English football? Does Lister know the teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League? Does Lister even have connections in lower leagues?
Why do those players trust you and let you be their agent?
And there are talented players.
They all want to join a strong team and a wealthy club.
But can you guarantee your position in a wealthy and powerful team? Can you guarantee your interests in a wealthy and powerful team?
All of these require extremely strong connections.
If you have enough connections, then a rich and powerful team can give you a good contract and guarantee your playing time.
But your agent is useless, unless you are a genius.
A top talent who can shine even in wealthy families.
Otherwise, if you only play as the main force in a wealthy club, it will be difficult for you to compete successfully against players of the same strength. As an average player without connections, you will only be suppressed in a wealthy and powerful team.
The rich and powerful teams are not as glamorous as you think. There are various interests at play among the rich and powerful. How to protect the interests of the players is not a simple matter.
This is a broker.
There is nothing wrong with List now. He is just a Czech, and he has never been involved in football. He does not have any superstars or talents who can shock the European football world.
Even if he is a genius who has not been discovered by European football, Su Yun now goes over and tells him that I want to be your agent.
People will definitely not even look at you.
Because Lister now simply cannot guarantee the interests of the players.
It seems that Lister will be dormant for a while. Lister slowly thought about some experiences of successful agents.
Then I want to learn something from them.
Speaking of agents, the first thing that comes to mind is Portuguese agent Mendes.
After all, Mendes became the most famous in European football later, and he was a super agent who could make all the difference in European football. The total amount of player transfer fees in one transfer period exceeded hundreds of millions of super agents.
Su Yun carefully recalled the process of Mendes' fortune.
The biggest reason for Mendes' later power was that he controlled Portugal's player resources. At the beginning, Porto supported Mendes in order to weaken the influence of Figo's agent Vega in Porto.
Mendes became the agent of many Porto players.
These include players such as Deco, Maniche, Carvalho and Ferreira.
And Mendes relied on Porto's success in winning the Champions League to promote Mourinho.
Then with the help of Mourinho, he sold his Carvalho and Ferreira to Chelsea at a high price.
It also began the pace of his rise.
Later, Mendes almost controlled Portugal's best player resources.
The outstanding players of the Portuguese national team are all his players.
This confidence also became the basis for his subsequent influence.
Thinking about this, Lister slowly figured out some clues.
There is no such thing as Lister now.
Because Lister is not a player and does not know anyone in European football. If he goes to other leagues in European football, it can be said that Lister has no connections at all.
This is Riester's huge disadvantage.
Lister himself is not a football player, which is a big disadvantage.
From another perspective, Lister is an outsider and has no connection with the current European football world.
Football is the number one sport in the world, but it is very difficult to enter football.
Because football is very conservative.
They exclude any outsiders from entering.
But Riester also has his own advantages.
What advantages do you have now?
He is a member of the Cerny family. He is a direct descendant of the majority shareholder of the Czech giant Sparta Prague. His father is the actual person in charge of Sparta Prague.
In other words, I have a natural connection with Sparta Prague.
Grandma's.
Mendes was able to rise through the ranks with Porto and later became a super agent in world football.
I also have my own backing.
Even Mendes is just an agent supported by Porto to compete with Figo's agent Vega. But his family is directly the largest shareholder of Sparta Prague.
In other words, Sparta Prague is your own back garden.
Sparta Prague is the largest club in the Czech Republic, and 70 to 80% of the best players in the Czech Republic have played for Sparta Prague.
Mendes has a monopoly on Portuguese players, and Riester can rely on Sparta Prague to monopolize Czech players.
Of course there is no comparison between the Portuguese league and the Czech league.
The Portuguese League could later be regarded as the third-rate league in European football. In terms of attractiveness, the Premier League, Serie A, and La Liga were the first in European football.
The Bundesliga and Ligue 1 are the second tier.
Next are leagues such as the Portuguese Super League and the Eredivisie.
Of course, this is not absolute. When the Bosman Act began, the Premier League was only moderately attractive. Later, with the decline of Serie A, the attractiveness of Serie A began to decline.
The Bundesliga has also begun to rise strongly after a period of dormancy.
But the Portuguese Super League is indeed a third-rate league in European football. Especially because of historical reasons, it is very easy to introduce South American players. Compared with the Portuguese Super League, the Czech First Division is not even a fourth-rate league. If you just rely on When the Czech league prospered, Lister was always just a small agent.
And the quality of Czech players is not as good as Portuguese players.
Portugal is a strong team in Europe and has good players one after another. Compared with Portugal, the Czech Republic may not have that many good players.
If you want to become a super agent in European football, you need an opportunity.
Mendes started to rise in European football with the help of Porto's Champions League championship.
Riester also needs such an opportunity.
Riester is not in a hurry because Czech football has a chance to take off.
European Cup 1996.
In the 1996 European Cup, the golden generation of the Czech Republic emerged. They shocked the entire European football world in the European Cup. And in that European Cup, there were also many Czech superstar players who later influenced European football.
It's this opportunity that List needs to seize.
The opportunity now is good.
Because the current domestic political situation in the Czech Republic has just stabilized. Czechoslovakia has just disintegrated, and the domestic political situation has been turbulent for nearly a year. It is now slowly settling down.
There is currently no active agent in Czech football.
There are some intermediaries who are equivalent to brokers, but they are not formal brokers. They are just people who help with some simple intermediaries.
These are completely different from brokers.
But Riester knew that some agents would soon appear in Czech football. After all, the most indispensable thing in the world is smart people. How could they give up such a big cake?
Riester wants to make the first move.
Where to start?
We must start with the Czech international players from the 1996 European Cup.
In this way, List could take advantage of the 1996 European Cup to promote his players and himself to the European football world. He also began the first step of accumulating original capital and entering the European football world.
But where to start?
Sparta Prague players can be released first. After all, although Sparta Prague is not entirely the private property of the Czerny family, the Czerny family has the greatest influence in the club.
With their special status, most of the players of Sparta Prague will definitely not be able to escape from his grasp.
