SYSTEM: I Want to Be the King of Football

chapter 55

After completing his morning recovery training, Boloni immediately walked into the technical director's office.

This is a notice received prior to the training session.

On his way, Lionel Pontes was chased from behind, now a member of the technical team.

“Have you heard about what it is?” Boloni asked with concern.

The technical department holds regular meetings on a regular basis, mainly discussing various matters related to football, temporary notification meetings such as today are generally held for a while if something goes wrong.

Pontes shook his head, "I just found out before practice. It seems like that's the situation in the second team."

After Bologna listened, his eyebrows still did not loosen.

In the case of the second team, just ask second team coach James, why should he participate?

It's not that simple.

……

The two came to the office of Technical Director Aurelio Pereira side by side.

Just knocked on the door, but found out that second-team coach Jean James was already sitting inside, and there was another member of Nuno Naray's technical team.

But what was really surprising was that director of football Carlos Freitas was also there.

Director of football and director of engineering are two different positions.In the club management system, director of football can be considered as the supreme leader of technical directors, because the technical director is only responsible for technology and youth training, and the director of football has some management power, even including the appointment of a head coach, he said, player updates and transfers as well as other life and death forces.

If Aurelio Pereira calls them for a meeting, this should be a technical issue, but the director of football is there too, meaning the next thing to be discussed is related to the idea of club leadership.

“Sit.” Aurelio Pereira saw the two enter and immediately asked them to sit down.

Although as a technical director, in fact he and Carlos Freitas are more fragmented and cooperate, because Sporting Lisbon also includes a women's football team, so the authority of the director of football will be greater.

But Aurelio Pereira has served at the club for years, specialising in technology and youth training, and can be considered a veteran.

After Boloni and Pontes sat down, Pereira made them each a cup of coffee, and then today's high-level meeting began.

"I invite everyone to come today, especially to discuss some of the issues the team has faced recently."

Aurelio took the lead to speak, and opened the topic of today's meeting.

"I don't know if you've noticed that in the last few days, some fans have been watching outside our training ground a lot. According to the reaction of our patrolling staff, many of them were scouts from other teams, and some were even from other teams of the country. "

Set up scouts to spy on the military. This is very common in professional teams, and not uncommon.

But Aurelio definitely means more than that.

Sporting Lisbon has been heavily promoting young players in recent years. Especially in the last two years, a number of outstanding players have sprung up. Among them, Quaresma was the most conspicuous, which made many European teams pay attention to him. Sport Lisbon.

“Since last year, German media giant Kirch Group has been in debt crisis, tearing off the illusion of European football prosperity in recent years. Now many Bundesliga teams are in financial trouble, not to mention, even other European leagues. The team is also overwhelmed. "

Football Director Carlos Freitas took Aurelio's words and analyzed the current situation of European football.

"On the one hand, a group of giants, led by Real Madrid and Manchester United, have started globalization. They have the most influential superstars, the highest influence in the world, their financial income is incredible, and they have the ability to pay sky-high prices. Buy the best superstars, especially membership-based teams like Real Madrid. "

"On the other hand, the Kirsch Group's debt crisis is just the beginning. Many midstream and even top midstream teams are having financial difficulties. It is said that many teams in the Premier League are falling so hard to bring their players to the bank. Mortgages are required to get loans, and other leagues are also in a bad situation. "

When talking about this, Carlos Freitas sighed, "We Sporting Lisbon are not ideal either. While it's not bad enough to pawn players, we also have to operate with caution."

Everyone nodded one after another, this was his big tone.

At the beginning of last year, even since Sporting Lisbon decided to build the Alcocheti training base, this has been key to the decision.

Several giants led by Real Madrid and Manchester United, along with Serie A teams such as Roma and Lazio, have invested heavily. This makes the supply of stars throughout the transfer market extremely scarce, and many teams with insufficient financial resources have been transferred. The goal, looking at young players, teams like Sporting Lisbon and Ajax are often their goals. "

Sporting Lisbon is not comparable to top youth training teams like Ajax, but with the rise of a golden generation of Portuguese led by Figo and Rui Costa, the strength of Portugal's youth training and landing as the best South American Pedal player in the four major leagues, the Portuguese Supernatural has received a lot of attention.

"What the board of directors means is that we still can't invest in the transfer market this summer, and we still have to dig in internally. Not only that, we might have to reduce some of our expenses or even sell some players early."

This is the real purpose of Carlos Freitas' participation in this meeting.

When Boloni heard this, the first thing that came to his mind was Jardel.

Can you think of it again, didn't Sporting Lisbon ever think of it this way?

No, they thought about it and wanted to sell it.

Although somewhat cold-blooded and ruthless, in some ways, running a club is like running a company, and the players are the product of this company.

At the competitive level, Jarder has already brought in quite a number of goals after joining. It's success. But if analyzed in terms of economy, 29-year-old Jarder has been playing since he joined this season. consumables do not have a lot of value retaining properties, and will only be cheaper.

In other words, every goal eats up Jarder's market value.

It is best not to buy in the beginning, but since you have bought it, stop the loss as quickly as possible.

But other clubs are not stupid, nor are they willing to give Jadel a hefty transfer fee and pay his high annual salary.This is the core factor preventing Jadel from moving to the four major leagues.

In fact, many parties at the club were initially against the purchase of Jadel. Boloni was against it from a technical level, while others were against it from an economic level, but in the end the club chose to buy in consideration of his immediate interests.

As a result, I bought a piece of hot potato, which was not easy to shake.

It's very contradictory.

The striker who has scored a lot of goals becomes the star the team wants to sell. Who's gonna believe it?

But for a team like Sporting Lisbon, it's very ironic.

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"Yesterday, Amadora's head coach, Jorge Jesus, spoke to James about Soto. He's very interested. Then Amadora called us to study Soto's situation. They you can accept transfers and loans, or rent first only then transfer."

Aurelio Pereira was talking about something else.

"Jesus was a very capable head coach. Without him, Amadora is degraded. The players he valued were generally not bad, so I don't think it's a good idea to sell Sudong to them. Decide, even though the price may be good. "Pontes expressed his opinion.

"How are you?" Ask Aurelio.

"The progress is very fast, even ..." Pontes pondered his words a little, "it surprised me."

Aurelio turned his head to look to Bologna, wanting to know the opinion of the first-team coach.

If there are no opportunities for the first team, then a loan or transfer is a good option.

Due to this hand change, it will most likely result in hundreds of thousands or even millions of euros for Sporting Lisbon.

“Su Dong's performance in training and group confrontations in the first team is still relatively bad, but this is normal. He, like all young players who are new to the adult team, needs a period of adaptation. He was used to the hands of adults, bare-handed fighting and was used to cruel competition. Familiarizing yourself with fast-paced attacks and defenses is a cruel and long-term process. "

“From a physical point of view, there is indeed an advantage among colleagues, but in the mature team, I think it is quite ordinary, but there are some very good things, such as some that cannot be trained, he said, like smart running and timing. . The keen sense of smell and ability to judge at critical moments are all brilliant. "

Speaking of his body, although he is inconspicuous in the adult team ~ www.mtlnovel.com ~, his height is already more than 1.9 meters, but unlike other high players, his legs are very long, but his speed is very fast, he said, and very flexible and agile, the balance and endurance of running are also very outstanding, especially the excellent emergency stop ability, which is very unscientific. "

In the end, Boloni could not help but laugh.

But Aurelio, Pontes and the others were showing tacit expressions.

By the time Su Dong joined, they had already experienced this unscientific impact.

“But what really impressed me was him here.” Boloni reached out his hand and tapped his temple lightly. “He is really smart, and his ability to capture offensive opportunities is like a lifetime kick. The old fox of professional football is just as sharp, and his comprehensive skills give him potential as an offensive playmaker. "

When Bologna said that, second-team coach Jean James also took over.

"Yes, in the last game against Amadora, we were very passive in the first half. In the second half, I tried to get Su Dong to play the core of the offensive front line and let Marcelino and Ronnie surround him to attack. As a result, we scored two goals in a row and overturned the opponent. Su Dong belonged to the type of player that could open up attacking space for teams in a stalemate. "

After the break, Jean James smiled and said, "I think Jorge Jesus is in love with him because the Campos Argentine midfielder he brought in did a bad job at this."

When Aurelio and Freitas heard this, they basically understood what the trainers said about Su Dong.

His strength is good, his potential is extraordinary, and his qualities are very pleasant.

But the key question is ...

“Does our first team have its position?” Aurelio reminded everyone.