When Yang Huan was sitting in the presidential suite and talking to Sun Yue and others, H was downstairs, Barcelona Chairman Sandro Rossell waited for the long-awaited knock on the door.

As soon as the door was opened, he saw his right-hand assistant Bartomeu standing outside the door.

"Josep, come in!" Rossel quickly gave in and welcomed his right-hand assistant.

As soon as Bartomeu walked into Rosel's room, he walked directly to the sofa in the hospitality area and sat down.

"How is the situation?" Rossel chased after closing the door.

Bartomeu shook his head and said, "I talked to Belt Hoyette about Neymar. Nike's attitude is that the sponsorship fee is easy to discuss, but they will not intervene in this transfer."

"Why?" Rossel was a little disappointed and curious.

You should know that the official sponsor of Southampton where Neymar is located is Adidas.

From a certain perspective, Nike should be the one who won Barcelona sign Neymar.

In this way, can we work together to develop the Brazilian and South American markets in the next few years?

In addition, Barcelona currently has Messi, Sanchez, Mascherano and other South American stars. This is an excellent opportunity. How could Nike miss it in vain?

"Belt Hoyette said they have a good cooperation with Southampton and are unwilling to have conflicts over this matter."

Bartomeu's words made Rossell suddenly remembered that when the new training base was built in Southampton, Nike sponsored 30 million pounds to the Saints and established a mysterious Nike training center.

For this, sports media around the world also reported crazily, thinking that Nike was disgusting with Adidas.

No one knows what kind of cooperation is involved in this, but I just heard that it is very high-end and advanced.

Seeing Rosel's disappointed expression, Bartomeu said again: "I learned some news from other channels and heard that Nike is rushing to compete with Adidas for the International Champions League sponsorship rights."

"Sponsorship rights? Didn't Adidas sign?" Rossel was a little surprised.

The football used in last year's International Champions League was officially sponsored by Adidas. When the organizers were promoting and promoting, they focused on introducing the two major sponsors, Etihad Airways and Adidas.

Bartomeu shook his head and smiled bitterly: "For this matter, Nike also fired an executive because of his poor work!"

"What's going on?"

"As early as the International Champions League planning stage, Miracle Media contacted Adidas and Nike respectively, but no one knew whether the International Champions League would be successful at that time. After all, there was a North American challenge."

Rossel nodded. Barcelona joined the team and was rushing for a generous appearance fee.

"So, neither side paid much attention to this event, so Adidas finally signed, but only signed for two years. As a result, the first International Champions League hit a hit last year, directly triggering the US football market. Now the second one has made a comeback. According to surveys by authoritative organizations from outside, the momentum and attention are even higher than last year!"

When Bartomeu said this, Rossel immediately understood.

A two-year sponsorship contract, that is, this year is the last year.

Now that the International Champions League is popular, Adidas is of course desperate to renew his contract, but the United States is Nike's base camp. Now that he has suffered a big loss, of course he will catch up immediately. How could he let go?

In addition, the International Champions League may expand its army next year. Once the army is expanded, the next battlefield will definitely be Asia.

That is the best economic development momentum in the world, and Nike and Adidas both snatched the head and wanted to capture a strategic high ground.

In this case, the International Champions League is undoubtedly a powerful tool for siege and land.

Thinking of this, Rossell couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly. No wonder Nike was unwilling to commit crimes against Southampton!

In this way, the greatest help Nike can give Barcelona is the sponsorship fee negotiation!

"By the way, Josep!" Rossel seemed to have thought of something, "Did Real Madrid also launch an offensive against Neymar?"

"Well, based on the exact information I have obtained, the purpose of Sanchez's trip is to talk about Neymar, and they have already made a offer to Southampton!"

Rossell's eyes twitched, and he felt panicked, "How many?" p>

"The specific amount is not very clear, but I heard it is not lower than Cristiano Ronaldo!"

Rossell was so surprised that his mouth was wide open that he could almost stuff a fist.

Not lower than Cristiano Ronaldo?

That's over 100 million!

This will become the first football player in the history of world football to have a transfer fee of over 100 million yuan!

"Is the news reliable?" Rossell's voice trembled a little.

"It should be reliable, but I don't know exactly how much Sanchez has made to Southampton."

What is the acceptable bottom line for Real Madrid and what is the offer they made to Southampton? This is a two-digit matter.

But in Rossell's view, Barcelona is already completely passive.

"When I just made a offer of 70 million euros to Yang Huan, did you notice his expression?"

Bartomeu frowned, a little confused, and he didn't notice it.

"I think the offer offered by Real Madrid is definitely higher than ours, and much higher!"

"What should I do?" Bartomeu was also panicked.

If Neymar is taken away by Real Madrid, then Barcelona will be too passive.

Adidas has made harsh words to fully support Real Madrid, Chelsea, Bayern Munich and other teams poaching Messi. If Messi is poached and Neymar cannot sign, what should Barcelona do?

You know, Messi is currently the most commercially appealing star in Barcelona and the most threatening attacker on the football field. If Messi is lost, not only Barcelona will suffer heavy losses, but even Rossel and Bartomeu may have to resign.

At least, fans who don’t know the truth will definitely vent all their anger on them.

But they can't say anything about these things.

Thinking of this, a trace of determination flashed through Rossell's eyes.

"Josep, we have only one choice now!"

Bartomeu's eyes flashed with surprise, "Do you want to..."

"Yes, I can only do this, and take Neymar at all costs!" Rossel said violently.

Bartomeu thought about it again, sighed in his heart and nodded.

In this case, they have only this option.

"Although the team has achieved good results in the past few years and has a lot of transfer fees, I'm afraid it's still hard to compete with Real Madrid for Neymar."

When it comes to borrowing money to buy stars, Florentino's ability has to get away from them several streets.

Without further ado, can Florentino be brothers and sisters with the top leaders of all the big Spanish banks?

"Southampton players have always asked for cash transactions, I'm afraid..." Bartomeu said with concern.

Rossel nodded, "Then try to add existing players to the transfer transaction as a bonus, or let Southampton show mercy and allow us to pay in installments!"

In the European transfer market, it is quite normal for players to pay in installments.

On the contrary, like Southampton, the transaction is paid in full, which is unusual!

But because it is paid in full, Southampton always has a relatively advantage in signings and the price is relatively cheap.

"Any player?" Bartomeu asked tentatively.

After all, Rossell authorized him to negotiate, so he had to determine how many bargaining chips he could master?

"Anyone except for core players such as Messi, Xavi and Iniesta!"

Rossell said this very powerlessly, but he was helpless.

The situation has developed to this point, and he can't help but say it!

"Okay, I'll go talk to Ron Gurley tomorrow morning!"

"It's better to talk about progress in these two days!"

"Yeah, I understand!"

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The next day, the Miami Yongming Stadium gathered more than a thousand media outlets from all over the world.

Just like last year, this year's lottery ceremony is still broadcasting lottery draws to all netizens through WeChat videos for free.

Not only that, the organizer also organized some live performances and invited entertainment superstars including Uncle Bird and Yoona to sing. Even the lottery guests were very substantial football stars like Beckham.

Overall, this is a very high-standard draw ceremony, not even a draw ceremony for knockout matches in the UEFA Champions League.

Although there are few teams participating, each team is the most top team in Europe.

In addition, it caused a huge response in the United States last year, so the second International Champions League naturally attracted much attention.

Southampton eventually drew three opponents, including Barcelona, ​​Juventus and Manchester United.

Real Madrid is in the same group as Manchester City, Arsenal and Bayern Munich.

This also made many fans very excited, thinking that the teams in both groups are very outstanding and are both veritable strong teams in Europe. Such a game is undoubtedly quite impressive.

But what makes fans even more excited is that during the days of the International Champions League draw, messages have been sent from the United States to all over the world.

For example, Manchester United has a fancy to Southampton's Chilean midfielder Vidal, with a transfer fee of up to 60 million euros.

But in a blink of an eye, news came out that Arsenal and Real Madrid also fell in love with the Chile international.
To be continued...