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Chapter 2 Windfall
As Aurelio Pereira expected, the news brought by the team's general manager Carlos certainly did not satisfy him, and this time was no exception. The businessman who always deals with numbers never cared In the specific affairs of the competition, he is an out-and-out and very cold vampire in the eyes of many people, but Aurelio Pereira knows that this guy is a responsible general manager of the team, although he often Group after group of young soldiers were deprived of their hands.

Perhaps Aurelio Pereira's evaluation was a bit too harsh, but his understanding of Carlos was not biased, and none of the news brought by the fat guy with a sad face could make Aurelio Pereira feel a little bit more. Leila was satisfied, and even made him start to fly into a rage.

"What! Are you going to promote Chris to the senior team now? Am I crazy or are you crazy? He just got promoted from the U16 team this year, and now in less than a year, you have let him go back to the U16 team. Got promoted to the U18s, then the second team, and now you're going to move him up to the first team, do you want him to go up five levels in a year? Do you know that's nothing to a kid who's only 17? benefit!"

"He just passed his 17th birthday, yes, he is a good seed, he may be as good as Luiz, but he is still a little guy, whether he can withstand the confrontation in the Super League, no one knows, I don't know, if you do this, you may destroy him!" Aurelio Pereira shouted at Carlos loudly.He threw the whistle in his hand aside, and left the sidelines angrily, leaving only Carlos who was scratching his head, and a group of players who continued to accept punishment with blank faces.

No way, although this old man is over 60 years old, his temper is sometimes so hot. When he is angry, he can point to the club chairman's nose and swear. For such an old courtier, there may not be much for anyone Method.Carlos could only signal those players to disperse, and then he himself had to follow the old man's footsteps to try to explain why all this happened.

The only ones who can take a breath now are those players who were still being punished just now, and they can finally stop spending time with the runway.

When Aurelio Pereira got angry, only Carlos, who had worked with him for more than ten years, could find a way to communicate peacefully with him, and every time this damn task had to be entrusted to him Deal with it, Carlos is already loathing this kind of work, and he doesn't want his old buddy to get angry all the time, after all, that guy is over 60 years old.

"Okay, old man, you know how bad the club's situation is now. We just lost the championship to Boavista last year. And the team has been unable to expand the first team on a large scale due to financial reasons. , since Portugal joined the damn euro zone, we have been supporting the club like this, and now we can only operate in debt. We have no other way except to sell good players, you know I say it every day I have to worry about the funds for the operation of the club, and now I live in the frantic search for sponsorship funds every day."

"The large-scale sales will make us unable to afford the consequences. The fans will not listen to our explanation too much. We want to pull them back to the stadium to watch the game. Only show them something that excites them. You are very happy. Knowing how bad the first team is right now, if we want to win the championship, we must have enough blood to come in. Your Chris is probably the best choice right now, you know exactly what he can do on the pitch, maybe you can put him Sharper, but we can't wait anymore, Porto and Benfica put too much pressure on us, old man, think for our team, Chris may do well, because he is your coach Come out and he'll be a great guy in Lisbon."

What Carlos said made Aurelio Pereira sigh helplessly. He understood what kind of pressure the team was under now. Let them enter the senior team in advance, no one knows whether it is a blessing or a curse, there have been too many boys who looked like geniuses, and they died early on the field, but what he can prevent now is too limited , the world of football has been oppressed by money and performance first, and it is no longer pure. Maybe Aurelio Pereira himself feels that he is old.

"Forget it, I will never make sense with you, you represent the team, and I'm just a bad old man messing around with the kids, I won't express any more opinions on what you have already decided, wait a minute You can talk to Chris about this, this little guy has been waiting for this day, he will definitely jump up happily, I just hope he can have a good luck now." Aurelio Pere La understands that all he can do is accept the team's arrangement. Although he is not satisfied, he is a Lisbon through and through.

"Old man, I know you won't watch the team in trouble and remain indifferent. Your most precious youth army will definitely win us many championships in the Super League, just like before." Carlos knew that he finally returned Once I convinced this old stubborn, they are all members of the competitive team, and they will all contribute their strength to this club, and the green and white jersey is their belief.

"Okay, you bloody businessman, you picked the best guy on the team, now you have to find me a replacement, you know who I'm talking about, the black haired kid was on the field yesterday You have also seen his performance, I need him, Lisbon has not had a qualified midfield commander for too long, I think, I can train him into an excellent midfield organizer, it is not possible, it should be certain, That kid’s sense of smell is too sensitive.” Aurelio Pereira can immediately regain his energy whenever he thinks of that little guy. He once thought of Chris and that black-haired kid cooperating on the court. scenes together.

A good player on the wing plus a midfielder who can send a deadly direct pass at any time, then Sporting Lisbon will have the most perfect pair of frontcourt combination, Porto?Benfica?None of these teams will be a problem, they will all fall at the feet of Sporting Lisbon, and the green and white jersey will become the flag of Portugal again, which is the scene that Aurelio Pereira is most looking forward to.

Although he may lose that little guy Chris now, if he can get a chance to guide that black-haired kid, maybe he will soon forget what he has lost, so Aurelio Pereira is very unhappy. Polite and Carlos made a request.

"My dear friend, since you told me about this matter yesterday, I know what you are thinking, but I regret to have to tell you that the attempt I made failed, the one in Setubal The kid who plays football will not come to Lisbon. If we want to get him, we have to pay the Setubal youth team [-] euros, otherwise they will not agree to let him go. I tried to negotiate with them with other conditions. Including the exchange of players, they all refused, there is no room for maneuver, they said, that is the personal opinion of the players." Carlos said helplessly.

"And you know that guy Bettenkort, he can't pay so much cash for a little guy who is only 15 years old. You have to know that when you signed Chris from the Nationals, you only spent $1500, although They also waived their $1 arrears, but compared to now, it is impossible for us to pay so much money immediately for a little guy you like. The club will not allow the youth team to spend so much, here is for the club Where blood is provided, not the first team, we couldn't have made that investment, so... sorry."

Carlos understood that such an explanation might not be acceptable to Aurelio Pereira, but he had to be honest with his old friend, even if it provoked an angry response from him, he had to tell the truth He, who let this damn situation be the case.

"Fifty thousand euros! Could it be that Sporting Lisbon can't even come up with fifty thousand euros! Believe me, old man! That kid will definitely bring a qualitative change to the competitive team. I have never been so sure of the value of others, but this time I hope you will be on my side, he is really a very worthy boy, he will bring huge benefits to the club, just like Luiz before, I swear to you, believe me!"

"Old man, I believe in your vision. No one in Portugal has ever doubted your ability to train young people, but now it is not the golden age when our Sporting Lisbon team dominated everything. If we want to survive, we must rely on Selling people to support the club's operations. The economic conditions in the Portuguese Super League are not optimistic, and we are the same. Although we are still one of the top three in Portugal, we are not even qualified to enter the G14 threshold. Porto and Benfica have used money It's too far behind us, [-] euros is not much, but use it to invest in the future, no one in the board of directors of the team will agree to give you this cash, absolutely nothing, I mean real."

"The result of a game can't convince the members of the board of directors. Even if you and I understand the value of that kid on the field, no one wants to risk tens of thousands of euros. This is not the age of sailing. We just Can choose the safest way, Chris is recognized by them, so they can spend money to train him, but the little guy with black hair has no such luck."

Carlos sighed. Although he, as the general manager of Sporting Lisbon, always wants to show his team that they are still strong, but he is very aware that the current economic situation of Sporting Lisbon has been reduced. Too weak, they dare not even reach out to those famous players, they can only expect miracles in Aurelio Perret's youth army, they have fallen behind from the competition of the top three in Portugal, and they have strong financial support Porto have started to overtake them and Sporting is no longer one of the symbols of Portugal.

Regardless of whether he, the general manager of the competitive team, is willing to admit this fact, this is real, fifty thousand euros, maybe this is just the monthly salary of a second-rate player in the Portuguese Super League, but now the club is so stingy that it invests this money In a star of hope, Sporting Lisbon, has become a weak giant, they are constantly overdrawing the future.

Aurelio Pereira and Carlos could only sit in the office and sigh helplessly in the face of this terrible reality, as if they were using such sighs to commemorate a great team and began to degenerate, as if It is lamenting for the team they have loved all their lives.

That black-haired kid seemed to have passed Sporting Lisbon four times, and he was destined to pass by this team. Aurelio Pere was not reconciled, but the damn tens of thousands of euros But it has become the biggest fetter. A godfather of the youth army who has no right to use the transfer funds is sometimes so helpless. He can only watch such a good seed slip away from him, but there is nothing he can do.

"Carlos, maybe giving up that kid is like the king of Portugal giving up Columbus. We may have lost the opportunity to make the Athletic team more brilliant." Aurelio Pereira didn't want to see this scene, but he had no Nothing can be redeemed, this is the damn reality.

Nobody knows what's going on in the office, including those Sporting youth players, and Jorge Mendes who just drove here, they don't know how uncertain the future of Sporting is, but the door However, Des learned about what happened yesterday afternoon from Chris. As an agent who discovers young people, he seems to have captured another potential possibility.

A kid who made Sporting Lisbon suffocate?Mendez's sharklike sense of smell seemed to pick up on new prey.

Half an hour later, Aurelio Pereira and Carlos came out of the office. There was no smile on their faces, but they simply explained the future personnel adjustment of the team. The guy they called Chris Boy, after hearing the news that he was promoted to the first team, he jumped up happily just like the old man said. Not only did he feel excited, but Mendes was also grateful for his vision.

In 2002, the year of the World Cup, the popularity of the World Cup in Korea and Japan occupied everything in the football world, but the embarrassment of the Portuguese team being eliminated in the group stage made the football in this country look a bit sluggish.

Not many people have paid too much attention to some unfamiliar names this summer. A little guy who came out of Sporting Lisbon entered the list of first-team players of the Portuguese giants Sporting Lisbon at the age of 17. His name It was Cristiano Ronaldo, a kid Aurelio Pereira used to call him Chris.

It seems that a magical boy is going to succeed from here, just like Futre and Luis Figo in the past, but few people know that a day ago, the Sporting Lisbon team led by Cristiano had just been hacked. The boy with the hair had been taught a lesson on the pitch, they were beaten badly by the country team, and the protagonist of that game, the boy with the dark hair, was passed by Sporting Lisbon.

Except for Mendez, who is full of interest in all this, few people know what happened here. . .

Aurelio Pereira reluctantly gave up his pursuit, but there was one person he would not miss. His sensitivity to football told him that maybe that black-haired kid would be another good luck. . .

Three days after Cristiano was promoted to Sporting Lisbon, Aurelio Pereira, the meritorious coach in the Lisbon youth training system, chose to retire. Only Carlos knew that the old man came from here with a trace of regret. left.

This old man who has cultivated batch after batch of excellent wingers failed to bring the boy he liked to his team. The football world is always full of regrets. Maybe when the old man left, I am also sighing for this regret. . .

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