Chapter 159
"Mr. Ye Qiu, I'm so happy to see you!"
Ye Qiu himself did not expect that at Lucio's wedding, the first acquaintance he saw was not a player or management of the Ajax Club, but a player he had forgotten.
"Do you still remember me?" The Brazilian international stood in front of Ye Qiu, smiling excitedly and excitedly.
Ye Qiu nodded without hesitation, but he stammered and didn't know what to call him, "Mr. Reit?"
When the two met for the first time, Kaka was not very old, had no first-team professional experience, nor did she perform at all. She was not very famous even in Brazil, so many people just knew that his surname was Reit.
"Call me Kaka!" Kaka seemed very close.
"Congratulations, Brazil international!" Ye Qiu stretched out his hand again and held it with Kaka.
Kaka shrugged, "There's nothing to be happy about, I just..." He looked a little lonely.
Kaka did not have a very convincing performance during the Korean and Japanese World Cup Brazil win. Even during the suspension of Ronaldinho, Scolari did not choose Kaka in the end, which disappointed the young Brazil international.
"I think there is no need to be disappointed with the number of appearances. You know, in the 1994 World Cup, Ronaldo was in the same situation as you, but after the World Cup, he quickly soared into the sky and became the most dazzling forward in football today. I believe you, like him, need to wait for a chance."
After hearing this, Kaka grinned and showed a signature smile, "Why does it seem like everything that comes to you, bad things can turn into good things? And I can always be convinced by you."
What he was talking about was obviously an accidental injury back then. Ye Qiu gave him some encouragement at that time. Even now, he has not forgotten this matter, so he came over as soon as he saw Ye Qiu.
"Because everything I said is true!" Ye Qiu replied with a smile.
Kaka looked at Ye Qiu with an indescribable feeling in her heart, "I heard a lot about you from Lucio, Gilberto Silva, and others, and Douglas Macon, they all think you are a great head coach, and I hope to be able to play under your command one day."
According to these words, it should be a bit of a self-recommendation, but Ye Qiu could understand from Kaka's expression and his plain tone that Kaka was more about telling his own wish. Ye Qiu didn't know where this wish came from.
So, after listening to Kaka's words, Ye Qiu laughed, "My respected Brazilian international, you know, we can't afford yours, or you can consider paying for yourself."
In the Dutch Eredivisie and Ajax clubs, transfers are basically calculated in millions. Ibrahimovic spent 3 million US dollars at the beginning, which has already caused Ye Qiu to be attacked by many media. In terms of Kaka's current situation, it is not necessary to talk about the fact that there is no more than ten million. Moreover, Ajax does not have Kaka's position at present.
Kaka laughed, "It's really a pleasure to talk to you, but I mean it, I hope to work with you one day."
Ye Qiu nodded, "I hope too, but before that, I think we will become opponents."
"Why?" Kaka was a little strange.
Ye Qiu smiled, "Because Brazil will soon be unable to keep you, Europe is your stage!"
At present, there are agents operating Kaka to join European teams. Judging from Kaka's current situation, they may not be able to look at the teams in the four major leagues. After all, they are players who are highly anticipated by Brazil. Such talents must at least be top teams.
"I hope it can be like you said, but no matter what, I will always be grateful to you!" Kaka pressed his chest and said sincerely. He could never forget the encouragement Ye Qiu gave him back then.
While talking, a group of Brazilian internationals in the distance were playing around the Lucio and his wife. Someone was greeting Kaka. After the latter accused Ye Qiu, he also went up to join in the fun.
This should be Ye Qiu's memory. Brazil was at its strongest peak moment in the 21st century, because after this World Cup, Brazil also experienced a difficult adjustment period in the wave of Europeanization, so that after Ronaldinho and Kaka, there was no successor in Brazil's attack line.
Some people may say that Robinho, Neymar, or others, but compared with Ronaldinho or Kaka, I believe there is no need to say much.
This is what Ye Qiu has always insisted on. There is no eternal and unchanging wealthy family, nor a prosperous dynasty.
Are there any sects of kings, princes, generals and ministers?
Today, you rich families are waving checks unscrupulously, robbing my people, and digging my walls. Tomorrow, I will take my team to tear off the fig leaf from your rich families' faces. When you see, who is ugly!
"What? Who offended our head coach?" Van Prager's hearty laughter came from behind Ye Qiu.
Ye Qiu turned around and saw Van Plague, Leo Benhack coming side by side. Bobby Hams, Ricklink, Roland and other few coaching staff members, as well as some first-team players, came to the scene. They all came to Lucio's wedding. After the participation, the team will gather in Amsterdam.
Ye Qiu spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders, as if saying, you know what you know.
Everyone could see that Ye Qiu was unhappy because Gilberto Silva was poached by Arsenal. The Gunner had clearly sent a fax to Ajax, but his offer was only 8 million euros, which was simply a humiliating offer.
"I have sent someone to release the news. Manchester United wants to get Gilberto Silva, and the offer is 15 million euros, and Barcelona also likes this Brazilian midfielder, and the offer is 17 million euros." Ye Qiu said with a sneer.
Wenger is so underestimated that he thought that giving 8 million euros would satisfy Ajax. Do you really think Ye Qiu is a country bumpkin who has never seen the euro bill look like in his life?
"I'm afraid this will scare him away?" Leo Benhack laughed.
"I wish he could get out of here quickly. It's not that we don't want to sell it, but that they can't afford it!" Ye Qiu sneered.
He just agreed to the negotiations between Gilberto Silva and Wenger, but he didn't say that everything would be accommodated by Arsenal. If they were allowed to offer a price, Wenger would offer a 100,000 euros, and then Ajax would lose to the horizon?
The so-called consent negotiation means that you offer your price, I open my bargaining chips, and if the negotiation is reached, the negotiation will be reached. If the negotiation is not reached, the negotiation will be gone.
"Send me another message, saying that I will finalize all transfers before the China Tour. After that, Ajax will close the transfer market in advance!" Ye Qiu was obviously serious this time.
It would be too unreasonable to have someone poached the door to the door if they didn't put some pressure on them.
"I'll inform people from Amsterdam to do it right away!" Leo Benhack nodded and agreed.
Ye Qiu let out a sigh, "You wait and see. When I get rich, I must avenge my previous shame. If Arsenal likes you, I will grab whoever you want. Whoever Manchester United wants, I will buy it as a bench, so that Ferguson, Wenger, and the so-called famous coaches in Europe will all be so angry that they have a cerebral hemorrhage."
These were some annoying words. When Van Prag and Leo Benhack heard this, they both laughed and didn't feel relieved.
"Before I came to Brazil, I called Van Gaal and learned about Hrad's situation. It was a bit troublesome." Leo Benhack said with a frown.
Ye Qiu had long been a little mentally prepared for this situation, nodded, didn't say anything, and continued to listen.
"First of all, it's the player himself. Barcelona has just changed coaches. Gerard has expectations for Van Gaal, and he is not ready to leave Barcelona. Therefore, he does not accept Ajax's invitation at all. Secondly, Barcelona's management. Gaspart has always regarded Gerard as a transfer with a focus on local and his youth training label. He will not sell Gerard easily because it represents the failure of his strategy!"
Ye Qiu somewhat understood the idea of the chairman selected by these wealthy families or members-based wealthy families. To put it bluntly, Gaspart had no need to be responsible to anyone at all. He only needed to be responsible to the board of directors and members of Barcelona, and even did not hesitate to do something that outsiders could not understand.
As for Hrad, who doesn’t want to join the wealthy family?
Gerard is a Barcelona youth training product and has always hoped to play for Barcelona. He has not had a good life in Barcelona in the past two years, but that is more because of the turmoil of the team. But now Van Gaal has been returned to Camp Nou by Gaspart with high hopes. Everyone is full of expectations for his future, and Gerard naturally hopes to stay in Barcelona and wait for opportunities.
Everyone has their own interpretations of the phoenix tail and the chicken head, and no one can criticize anyone.
"Dra Pena made it clear that he was leaving Lazio, but the place he really wanted to go was Spain, not the Netherlands."
In just one sentence, Leo Benhack blocked the possibility of another player transfer.
In this way, the possibility of Dela Pena and Hrad turning to Ajax is almost gone. Among the four candidates for the metronome that Ye Qiu wants, the only two players, Deco and Cambiaso.
"Cambiyasu is not going to join Ajax either. As a result, he performed very well in Argentina, and Real Madrid also had high expectations for him. Even if he was just positioned as a role to strengthen the thickness of the club's bench, in the eyes of the players, this is better than in Ajax."
This is indeed a very hard to accept, but very cruel reality.
In Real Madrid, a giant team like Barcelona plays as a substitute, or even unable to play in the game, the attention it receives far more than a core main player in a team like Ajax, because in a giant team, it is often only necessary to have one game and seize the opportunity to become famous all over the world.
This is a very realistic world. No matter how the media exaggerates fairness and justice and democracy, all walks of life, or even magnify it to the entire society, they will always be pyramid-shaped, and will always be a very small number of people at the top and dominate the vast majority of people. The same is true in the football field. The wealthy families themselves can survive by exploiting mid- and downstream teams.
Therefore, anyone, including Ye Qiu, must accept the objective environmental rules created by this society, adapt to such rules, and in the rules, try to climb upwards, towards the top, and strive to get upstream.
"I contacted Porto chairman Nuno Pinto Da Costa and talked about Deco's transfer. He offered 12 million euros. I agreed, but Porto's head coach Jose Mourinho publicly opposed the club's decision, and the player Deco also conveyed through his agent Jorge Mendes that he hopes to stay in Portugal for another year."
"Why?" Ye Qiu felt a little strange.
"Because he has been in Portugal for 6 years, and according to regulations, as long as he stays for another year, he will be able to obtain Portuguese nationality and have the nationality of the EU, which will have an immeasurable impact on his future development in the mainstream European leagues." Leo Benhack explained.
Ye Qiu understood after he said this.
Whether there is an EU nationality or not is not very big. There are even many clubs who buy people for this. After all, there are restrictions on foreign players, but there are no restrictions on internal EU players. Therefore, for many South American players, getting EU nationality is more important than anything else.
Didn’t the incident of forging EU nationality in Serie A not long ago? Many people even said that Peron went away from the UK because of this. Who knows what’s going on here? But it can be seen that the importance of EU nationality.
Leo Benhack was also a little ashamed. Ye Qiu gave four candidates, but in the end, after more than a month of operation, none of them were taken down. This has to be said to be his mistake and responsibility for the operator.
"By the way, Leo, you mentioned... Mourinho?" Ye Qiu thought of this madman.
Speaking of which, he also stayed in the same trench as Mourinho, which was against Jaime Pacheco. Mourinho was still in Leria at the time and had a verbal battle with Pacheco, but he never defeated Pacheco.
"Yes, he transferred to Porto from Leria at the beginning of this year. It is reported that Dacosta had been optimistic about the Portuguese a long time ago, but in order to allow him to accumulate some experience, he went to Leria. At the beginning of the year, Mourinho took over Porto as the head coach of firefighting and successfully became a regular this summer."
Ye Qiu is not very familiar with what happened before and after Mourinho in Porto in his previous life, but in this way, it is probably difficult to steal Deco from Mourinho's mouth. In addition, the matter of Portuguese nationality can almost be concluded as impossible.
It is truly unparalleled blessings, but misfortunes never come in singularly.
But what's even more terrible is that the poaching of Ajax continues.
"Just yesterday, Barcelona sent a price question fax to ask about the price of Sedo Keita!" Van Prag said with a frown.
Ye Qiu's heart was really immersed in the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. It was not good for signing up here, but it was constantly poached.
"No!" Ye Qiu rejected the transfer without hesitation.
If a metronome is introduced, he can consider selling Keita at a suitable price. But the problem is that the metronome is not good at signings, and Yaya Toure cannot replace Keita's position for the time being, so Ajax's midfield needs Keita to maintain the team's midfield balance and competitiveness.
Besides, Gilberto Silva is likely to transfer. If this core midfielder transfers, and then sells Keita, the impact on Ajax midfield will be too big. Isn’t this equivalent to reorganizing the midfield?
"Coku in Barcelona is not young anymore, and they hope to use Keita to take over Coku." Leo Benhack analyzed.
"That's their own business of Barcelona, and it has nothing to do with us. I know better than anyone else now. We must ensure that the team can maintain the competitiveness of last season, otherwise we may not even be able to keep the Eredivisie championship!"
In terms of strength, Ajax is improving year by year, but if he loses Gilberto Silva and Keita but cannot get strong supplements, it is unknown how much combat power Ajax can produce.
To maintain Ye Qiu's tactics and high-level defensive system, the midfield is very important, especially this midfielder.
Being able to stand in a position, cover the front area of the defense line, protect the defense line, and have stable ball protection and ball output ability, such a midfielder is not that easy to find. Many people who can meet the requirements may not come to Ajax at all.
As for barbaric midfielders like Mohamed Diyala and Essin, it is difficult for them to meet Ye Qiu's requirements.
Ye Qiu originally had two candidates for defensive midfielder, one was Marcos Senna, who later became a hero of Spain's European Cup 2008, and the other was Mexican defender Rafal Marquez, who currently plays in Monaco.
The former is very difficult to find. Ye Qiu is currently searching for this late midfielder through the scouting system of Eliza and Ajax, but it is hard to say whether he can find it. As for the latter, if you want to get this defender from Monaco, the price is not low, but the premise must be convinced by Marquez himself.
The Mexican performed well in the Ligue 1 and has been targeted by many teams. If you want to talk about the league level, Ligue 1 is higher than that of the Dutch Eredivisie. Even if Ajax has the League Cup champion and the Champions League semi-finals, the results of the two consecutive European competitions are used as bargaining chips, but who knows what Ajax will be like this season?
After all, Ajax's restrictions are still too great. The Eredivisie cannot attract famous players to join, nor can it attract players who have made a name in other European leagues. In addition, there are very few signings with Ajax in the Eredivisie, and they often break the team's salary structure, which really makes it difficult for Ye Qiu to let go.
This is the difficulty of the small club. You must have a thrifty family. But more importantly, you must be ready to be poached by the giant team anytime and anywhere, and you must be able to make up for the right players at any time to consolidate the team's combat effectiveness.
All in all, just two words, depressed!
But Ye Qiu knew very well that if he wanted to make his name in European football, he had to climb up step by step from such a small team, and there was always a belief in his heart.
Chapter completed!