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Chapter 92 Selling Players, Making Big Money

Although his head hurts, Edward still resisted to get up.

Today is the day of the draw for the Liberty Berlin Cup. This time, the draw will be held at the Berlin City Hall. Although the draw ceremony is at night, as the host, he must meet the performers and other team executives in advance.

This time, the guest performers Edward invited were French chanson singer Juer, and Avril Lavigne who had just released her first album.

Avril Lavigne was also a singer that Edward had liked in his previous life. Although Europeans and Americans matured early, it was developmental maturity, not character and experience. Now the future Canadian queen is still a little naive.

Edward's first impression when he saw her was how small she was!
Avril Lavigne is only in her early 1 meters, a small one, not too old and has no strong limbs. She is no different from domestic junior high school girls.

"Hi, Avril."

After exchanging greetings with Ju'er, Edward and Avril greeted each other.Before he came, the two singers were chatting enthusiastically. Avril was born in the French-speaking part of Canada, and Juer was a French singer.

French was not a problem for Edward. After all, it was the language of nobles in Europe before. Even though he knew that Avril Lavigne was good at English, he still greeted her in French.

"Are you the rich guy who took advantage of you?"

The somewhat rebellious Avril exposed Edward mercilessly.

Edward gave her 3 times the appearance fee before, so Avril Lavigne's manager temporarily arranged such a trip.

These words made Edward's face full of black lines, thinking that this rock girl is not an ordinary person, shouldn't a normal person be grateful to Dade?
Edward was not angry either, he waved his hands and said with a smile, "Yes, it's me!"

"Why did you spend so much money to invite me here? I'm not famous!"

It turned out that this girl was not only merciless to him, but also merciless when she laughed at herself. Edward shrugged and said, "Because I think you will become a famous singer in the future. This is an early investment, isn't it?"

"I don't believe your words!"

Avril looked at Edward vigilantly, and suddenly remembered something and asked, "Are you trying to trick me?"

This……

Both sharp and direct, but how could Edward admit it!
Edward sniffled disdainfully, pointed at Avril Lavigne and said, "Look at you, you look like a middle school student. I heard that you developed in the United States. Then you must have heard about my girlfriends, Jennifer Aniston and Winona Rae. De, do you think I'm going to get your idea?"

Hearing what Edward said, Avril was discouraged for a while. She was sitting on the stool and kicked her little feet, but now she didn't move anymore. She stretched her body hard to let her feet step on the ground, so that she would look taller.

Seeing the girl's performance, Edward felt a little funny.

His smile was beautiful, but in Avril's eyes, he was mocking her. The girl shouted angrily: "Hey, do you know that it's very rude to laugh at others."

"sorry Sorry!"

Edward quickly covered his mouth, pretended to look around and apologized, "I will never laugh at you again...unless I can't help it, hahaha..."

"clang!"

Avril threw a bunch of keys casually, and hit Edward directly on the head. At such a close distance, he had no time to react and was directly hit. Edward immediately felt dizzy, subconsciously wiped his head, and found a bright red.

"Ah, you are bleeding!!!"

Avril Lavigne's high octave scream almost deafened Edward, Edward thought I haven't called you yet, what a fart, this bloody revenge must be avenged, hehe.

The bodyguard pushed the door open when he heard the movement, and Edward waved his hand: "Find a first-aid kit."

Ju'er, who had been watching the bickering between the two, took out a handkerchief from her bag and handed it to Edward: "I change it every day, you can wipe it first."

Before Edward could pick it up, Ju'er took the initiative to walk to Edward's side, carefully inspected the wound, and wiped Edward's face. The wound was not very deep, but it looked scary with blood flowing all over his face.

Avril stood aside anxiously like a child who made a mistake. Edward once again lamented that this girl is really small, and it looks like she can be pulled up with one hand.

The bodyguards moved very quickly. Edward's injury was a major event. If they couldn't handle it well, they would definitely not make it easier for them to go back to the old housekeeper.

"Put it down and let her handle it!"

Edward pointed to Avril Lavigne and said.

"Why don't I come?" Before chatting with Ju'er, she found out that Avril Lavigne was a carefree girl, and asking her to bandage the wound might have some fun.

"No, let her come!" Edward rejected Ju'er's offer.

He looked in the mirror just now, it wasn't a serious injury, why not take this opportunity to bully Avril.

"Hmph, if I come, I will come!"

Avril Lavigne has always been afraid of nothing. Just now it was mainly because Edward was injured that she panicked. Now that Edward has asked her to bandage her, Edward will naturally not back down.

"Hey, take it easy, do you think you're treating an animal's wound?"

As soon as Avril Lavigne touched it, Edward immediately yelled.

The girl was agitated for a while, and threw the gauze on his face: "Why don't you do it yourself!"

"Hey, you beat me up. If you don't deal with it, I'm going to tell the reporter that you beat me up. You'll be famous right away, especially famous ones!" Edward said with winks.

Avril can only continue to help him bandage helplessly. Even if she has character, she is still a public figure. If the scandal of "beating" the rich man breaks out, she will probably smell bad. She will definitely be popular when the time comes, but it is not the kind she wants Way.

After a while, Avril finally finished processing, she clapped her hands in satisfaction and said, "It's done!"

Edward looked directly at the mirror, and said sarcastically: "My uncle with a brain problem is probably better than your technique, and this bow tie, are you kidding me?"

"Hey!"

Avril stretched out her hand and slapped Edward, choking, "You are the one who asked me to bandage, and you are the one who is dissatisfied now. What do you want?"

"I guess it's okay not to get hurt?"

Avril was at a loss for words when she heard Edward's words.

Adorable Edward was not going to let him go, and looked in the mirror again: "If there is a scar, my only advantage will be destroyed."

"Aren't you rich?"

"But there are many rich people, but they are not as handsome as me!"

Avril rolled her eyes for a while, seeing this kind of rich man for the first time.However, it feels very cordial, without any airs.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Edward finally let the little girl go. The lottery ceremony would start later, and there would be no time left for entanglement. He had to say hello to those club executives earlier, this was the business.Otherwise, if the host doesn't arrive earlier, I'm afraid it will leave a bad impression on others!
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On the way to the venue, Edward received a call from Florentino.

The Real Madrid president complained: "Edward, why didn't you invite us this time?"

"..."

Edward was speechless for a while, you have so many international players, are you ready to join in the fun?Now that he said so, Edward will naturally apologize, anyway, the courtesy is not surprising: "I'm sorry, Perez, next summer will definitely invite Real Madrid, let's just say so!"

Edward remembers that Real Madrid's first trip to China will be next summer, and he is waiting to see how Florentino will respond. He believes that the old fox's plan for a trip to China is definitely not an idea that occurred within a year. Even if he has no experience of rebirth, he I have also heard rumors that Real Madrid is going to Asia to make money.

Sure enough, it was Florentino's turn to have nothing to say: "This depends on the specific situation at that time. Our schedule depends on the arrangement of the head coach, not my own decision."

Edward sneered in his heart, isn't Real Madrid's coach just your toy, even if Del Bosque won the Champions League, he doesn't look down on him, so you still look at the coach's arrangement?
But Edward would not expose the other party, and it would not do any good for him to embarrass the other party if he told the truth at this time.

Edward smiled: "Okay, it depends on your arrangements. I can understand that there are more arrangements from wealthy families."

"What giant? I wanted to buy Nesta, but you snatched it in advance! This is our most important goal in the summer."

Edward rolled his eyes again. Florentino really likes to play tricks. In his previous life, Real Madrid never said they wanted to buy Nesta. Now that they bought it, it's a good deal.

If you don’t expose him, it doesn’t mean you have to get used to him. Edward asked, “Then I’ll sell Nesta to you for 4500 million? Just adding 500 million is not enough.”

"Haha, since you are gone, we have no reason to snatch him away from you."

Now he can't afford to ask Florentino to pay. Real Madrid's transfer budget has been thrown into the midfield. Doflorentino can buy 11 of the most famous players in the world to play in Real Madrid, and Iker Casillas should be a substitute.

After chatting with the old fox again, Edward hung up the phone.

Florentino communicates with him more frequently, but Edward really doesn’t like Florentino very much, probably because he is not only the chairman of the club, but also a successful businessman. Florentino always takes advantage when he speaks, I have used all the tricks in the mall here. In contrast, Edward prefers the team executives like Asauer.

"Eddie, you're so late."

Asauer, who had been chatting with other team executives, saw Edward and immediately greeted him to come over.

"Sorry sorry, there was a little accident."

Edward pointed to the gauze on his head, and the complaints in the hearts of those club executives disappeared. With Edward's identity, he would not use such a trick to deceive them because of being late. It is estimated that something happened.

"What did you do?" Asaur and Edward had always had a good personal relationship, and asked with concern.

"It's nothing, I just touched it accidentally, and I didn't come over until the bodyguard finished."

"Some people get retribution because they have done too many bad things." A man with a hooked nose said, and the atmosphere at the scene became cold as soon as his words came out.

Asauer immediately leaned over to Edward and whispered to him, "That bastard is the chairman of Dortmund, Nibaum."

It turned out to be the chairman of Dortmund. No wonder he treated him so badly. Then everything makes sense. If you talk about what you have done in the past two years, Edward is hated more than the entire Schalke 04 team. Dortmund's goal was immediately given to Schalke 04, Dortmund's arch-enemy, and helped Schalke in all aspects. Even Mertesacker was transferred to Schalke 04 at a low price.

Looking at the current state, Edward is preparing to support Schalke 04 in all aspects, which is very bad news for Dortmund.They spend a lot of money in the transfer market to challenge Bayern Munich's dominance. The addition of Union Berlin is at most hostile to the opponent, but the opponent not only brings competition, but also supports Schalke 04, Dortmund's arch-enemy. It's over.

What Dortmund wants to see most is that Schalke 04 will sink forever, and the second is to win the championship. The significance of the Ruhr Derby is much greater than many people imagined.

Moratti saw that something was wrong, and hurried up to pull Edward away: "I've heard your name all along, and now I finally see you."

"Masimo (Moratti), I've heard about you too."

If we talk about club owners, Moratti is definitely the most active one.

First of all, this uncle really likes football, and he doesn't consider the return at all when investing in Inter Milan. The money earned by the family business is basically thrown into Inter Milan. If it weren't for the post-financial crisis, his business did not make money, I guess Moratti Will continue to control Inter Milan.

It is lucky and unfortunate to have such a chairman. Fortunately, Inter Milan can always buy big-name players. Unfortunately, Moratti likes to intervene in the club's affairs too much. The personal relationship between him and the players often makes it difficult for the coach. This summer Ronaldo just found Moratti, admitted that there were irreconcilable conflicts between him and Cooper, and allowed him to transfer to Real Madrid. Later, Cooper's successive appointments were also related to this matter.

There is also Vieri. Originally, Vieri planned to play for Inter Milan for life, but Moratti had to suspect Vieri and arranged to tap Vieri's phone. In the future, the two will part ways because of this incident.

Moratti has done countless wrong things with good intentions, and Edward has always reminded himself not to get too involved in the club because of the experience of this senior.

"It's great now that you know me, because of Ronnie's departure, we want to continue to strengthen the front line, we wanted Robin van Persie, but he turned down our invitation, so we turned to Jan Heng. Trall."

Moratti did not hide it, and directly explained his thoughts. After all, it is difficult to obtain evidence for private contact with players, but it is very easy to hear the wind.

Edward's face froze. Originally, he thought Huntelaar was the only one, but he didn't expect that the other party had contacted Van Persie in advance. This kind of behavior made him very disgusted.Only big clubs will use this method when facing a small team. The opponent just doesn't take him and Union Berlin seriously. I really don't know how to say it face to face.

In this case, Edward would not be polite, he opened his mouth and said, "You can exchange it with Vieri."

"How is it possible, that is the king of Inter Milan!"

Moratti rejected Edward directly. Huntelaar is very good, but it is not comparable to Vieri. If Vieri is exchanged for Huntelaar, I believe fans will ask for it the next day He got out of Inter Milan.

"Then we have nothing to talk about. Huntelaar is an important member of the team. He will not leave Union Berlin before the end of the contract." Edward didn't want to continue to make false claims with the other party. Fortunately, he felt that Moratti was a good player before. Unexpectedly, the other party had already contacted two Union Berlin strikers in private.

What made him happy was that Van Persie directly rejected the other party. It seems that Van Persie still prefers Union Berlin. Edward has always been a little worried that the team's competition is too strong and the players will be dissatisfied. Now it seems that it has not happened. However, this kind of benign competition can also promote players to a certain extent.

"Edward, Edward!"

Mora Qi reached out and grabbed Edward directly: "Calm down, we are talking about business, don't be so hasty."

"But you don't want to trade Vieri, what else can we talk about?"

Edward asked back.

Moratti laughed and said: "You also know that your request is unrealistic, let's talk about the transfer fee."

"2000 million euros!" Edward said directly to the lion. Real Madrid paid 4425 million euros for Ronaldo's redemption this summer, which was twice the amount he paid for his transfer to Inter Milan.

"impossible!"

Moratti once again rejected Edward's request.

At this price, he can buy a striker who has already established a foothold in European football. They bought Mutu for only 2 million euros two years ago. The picture is more expensive, and the transaction price of around 600 million is more reasonable.

"Then trade him for Materazzi."

"Edward, don't embarrass me. Although we want to strengthen the forwards, we are also short of defenders. It would be nice if you could sell us a defender. I think Sebastian Chivu will do it."

"Then Huntela Larga Chivu for Matera Larga 2000 million euros!"

The price that Edward said this time is about the same as he estimated in his heart. Before the Lions opened their mouths to break Moratti’s psychological defense, Chivu’s transfer to Union Berlin cost 600 million euros. The current value of this versatile backcourt At least 1000 million or more, if you leave, you will need at least 1700 million euros, which is estimated to be about the same as Materazzi's worth, and the rest of the money is Huntelaar's ransom fee.

"We can only add 1000 million euros more!"

Moratti also thinks this deal is very good, he is very optimistic about Huntelaar's future development, while Chivu is only a player mentioned by Kupe and him beforehand, and it is said that he can play in many positions. It's not that the main players are all right. When the team is short of people, they can fill in many positions, and when the team is seriously injured, it can relieve the urgent need.

In fact, the price is about the same, but Edward will never agree to Moratti so easily. The other party contacts players in private. If Inter Milan does not let Inter Milan bleed, how will he resolve the depression in his heart? More money is not a big deal for him, respect is the only thing. Yes, since the other party doesn't respect him and Berlin United, they have to pay a certain price!
"An extra 1800 million euros!"

"1200 million euros, no more!"

"Materazzi is very old, and we will lose a lot if we trade Chivu, at least 1600 million euros."

"But Marco has leadership qualities, and he has a strong scoring ability. He can only add 1300 million euros at most, not even one more point."

Edward felt that Moratti had been pushed to the limit, and it would be difficult to squeeze out more money, but the original purpose of doing business cannot be directly revealed, so he still called out the price: "1500 million euros."

"No, I will give you an extra 50 euros at most, 1350 million!"

"Okay, deal, you are such a difficult guy."

Edward gave Moratti Ferguson's evaluation of him yesterday, and Moratti seemed to be very proud of his bargaining skills, and said to Edward earnestly: "People like us are taken advantage of in the eyes of others. Hearing that we want players, we will immediately increase the player's price, if you don't know how to bargain with one or two hands, I'm afraid you will suffer a lot!"

"Yes, you are right!"

Unexpectedly, he felt that he had made money when he was taken advantage of. Edward suddenly felt that Moratti was very interesting. This person basically lived in his own world, because his family had money since he was a child, and he didn't know much about these things.

Although Edward was taken for a ride in the eyes of others, he didn't seem to have done any loss-making business. Even if the players he bought after he arrived at the club were sold, he made a lot of money. Union Berlin can be developed into a black shop model like Porto. The player business is really lucrative. Not to mention others, in a few years Alves will transfer at least 4000 million or more, and may even refresh the transfer value of direct football defenders. Compared with him 20 euros when he transferred to Union Berlin, this is simply violence.

Of course, this is just to say that Edward will definitely not sell Alves. There are too few full-backs with double-digit assists in a season at their peak, and they cannot be bought back no matter how much they spend after they are sold.Even Evra, who is equally good, does not have such a strong offensive ability. It is not a casual talk that a Brazilian full-back can be used as a winger.

What about Marcelo?
Marcelo is also a very strong defender. If he can be brought to Berlin Union, it will also be a very good supplement to Berlin Union.More importantly, the relationship between Marcelo and Ronaldinho was very good in the previous life. If there is one more playmate, Ronaldinho will definitely be very happy.

Thinking of this, Edward turned his mind to Marcelo again.

Although Edward's vision is advanced, there are also disadvantages. If it is a normal procedure and the team has inspection goals, it will usually inspect or try to sign several players from the same country at one time. This will not cause waste of resources, but Edward always thinks of one It’s very inefficient for a player to buy one. He just left Brazil before. At that time, he didn’t think of Marcelo. Funny left-back brought to Berlin.

Signing so many players may not all be useful, but this is also a change of direction to weaken other giants. Even if the players transfer and leave later, Union Berlin can not only make a fortune, but more importantly, Edward can intervene in the whereabouts of the players. Much more controllable.

(End of this chapter)