road to victory

Chapter 11 Candidates

On the way to Theo's office, Fan Shang was full of thoughts on how to persuade Theo to add some funds to the youth team.

It took more than half an hour for Fan Shang to come out of Taio's office, and Fan Shang felt quite satisfied after he came out.Theo still has deep feelings for the Bordeaux club. He is a Bordeaux himself, and he also hopes that the club will be better.When he heard Vincent's evaluation of the current youth team and the results of the youth team he saw, Theo agreed to Vincent's request to introduce young players. He also hoped that Bordeaux's successors would cultivate their own talents instead of spending money everywhere. Money buys people.However, the specific amount of funds is not fixed. What Teo means is to try to recruit people from small clubs. It is best not to spend money.The number of players should not be too many, no more than five, and the budget was 30 francs (the ratio of francs to US dollars was about one to five, one to six, and 30 francs was equivalent to about 5 US dollars.)
After Fan Shang came out of Theo's office, he went directly to Battiston and told him the news.

"Wait a little longer, I'll sort out the list right away," Battiston said, speeding up his work

After a while, Battiston put a dozen of papers in front of Fan Shang. "I drew a horizontal line on all the players that our club can bring in under the current conditions. Some of them performed well in small clubs, and some of them could not play in big clubs such as Paris, Marseille, and Monaco," he pointed out. Pointing to the list, "Go home and have a look first."

"Okay, I'll take a look at the list first, and we'll discuss it tomorrow." Fan Shang picked up the list, greeted Battistone, and walked out of the office quickly.

Fan Shang returned home, ate something first, then opened the list and began to look through it. At first, he didn't see any familiar names. Fan Shang just flipped through the pages, and saw the first familiar name. Name, Louis Saha Louis Saha, the striker of Manchester United, is now the Paris youth training.Fan Shang saw that there was no underline on the name, so he marked it first to discuss with Battiston.Then look at a few more names, which are even more famous. Drogba is in the youth training in Levallois-Perret on the outskirts of Paris, and Eric Abidal is in the suburb of Lyon.
AS Lyon-Duchère club youth training, Malouda Florent Malouda in Sharuto youth training, Zebina Jonathan Zebina in Cannes youth training.Several people in Drogba and Abidal's club were underlined, but it wasn't them. Maybe Battiston felt that their level was insufficient.Fan Shang heavily drew a circle on the names of these four people.Fan Shang rummaged through the names of the players who were wired below, hoping to find a target who agreed with Battiston, so as not to be too disrespectful to Battiston.Finally, he saw a name named Sylvain Distin. This man Vincent has heard of later. He has never been selected for the French national team in his career, but he has been serving as the main central defender for Premier League clubs. Flexible in movement, tough in interception and strong in the air, and is not inferior in ball control.He is currently in the youth training in Paris, but looking at the horizontal line under his name, it seems that his life in Paris is not going well.

The next day, Fan Shang came to the club with the prepared list.Today's training is still mainly about Battiston, Fan Shang doesn't talk much, he mainly observes, today his main observation is which players should be eliminated.

After the training, Vincent and Battistone entered the office.

"Have you finished watching?" Battiston asked Vincent
"Well, after reading it, I also circled a few people, let's discuss it." Fan Shang put the list on the table, and faced Battiston.

"free?"

Fan Shang thought for a while, and he was right, if the kid in the team who wanted to sell Turkish barbecue wants to terminate the contract, Fan Shang felt that he would die of joy. "Then I'll go and get in touch with him myself."

"I saw the person you drew, and I think this person is pretty good, with height, weight and strength, right?" Fan Shang pointed to Distin and asked for his name and Battiston said.

"Yes, let's contact the player first, let the player terminate the contract with the club, and then sign with him. This will be free. If Paris doesn't want him, the contract will be terminated."

Battiston looked at these names, "Are you choosing these?" Fan Shang nodded, "Let's talk about Zebina first, he will be promoted to the first team in Cannes soon, Cannes attaches great importance to him , this is basically impossible. I have basically never heard of the other three, but I really want to hear about Abidal, but I have only heard of it.”

"Well, he's not bad, but he's not taken seriously in Paris. We're going to change places. We can contact him. There's great hope. Paris doesn't like him, and the price won't be a problem. It's not impossible for him to be free." Batis pass nod

Then Fan Shang found the names of several other people.

"I still have to lead the team for training. You can ignore it, but I can't. When it comes time, find a scout and tell those little guys to come here for a trial training." Battiston very disapproving
"No, the players we like are not allowed to try out. We have to be sincere to them. We can't just give orders as if we are a big club and let players come to us for tryouts. Only players recommended by others can be used for tryouts." Fan Shang firmly said
"Okay, but what about training"

"Then let's go and see them. I've heard of it. When you think it's okay, we'll try to introduce them."

"Let the coach of the U17 take it. By the way, let's go to other youth teams to have a look and find out if there are any good seedlings."

In one afternoon, Vincent and Battiston watched the training of other youth echelons. The situation is a little better than that of U19. Vincent saw a French central defender with a potential score of 15% in U73, Marc Praney Marc Planus, Fan Shang really wanted to transfer him to U19, but seeing that he was only 1.7 meters tall, he was only 13 years old and gave up. (Marc Planus, a loyal minister of Bordeaux, entered the Bordeaux youth training system in 90 and is still working for Bordeaux until now. He has spent 24 years in the Bordeaux club since the youth training.)
There is also a smaller one. I saw a little black kid with a potential score of 11% in the smallest U76 in Bordeaux. Looking at this black kid who is only 11 years old, Fan Shang repeatedly said it was a pity, "Son, why didn't you be born a few years earlier." Lai, physically strong and capable of intercepting).

Fan Shang shook his head and sighed, and returned to the office with Battiston, "Patrick, I have decided, we will go to Paris tomorrow, first get rid of Distin, then go to observe Drogba, and go south to Charruto Get to know Abidal and Malouda with Lyon."

After finishing speaking, he walked out of the office without waiting for Battiston's answer, leaving behind Battiston who was still at a loss.

(End of this chapter)