It's cheating, but Hazard

Chapter 214 212 La Masia and Transfer Fees (Daily Transition)
Cruyff walked out of his house in a relatively happy mood.

He feels that according to the current situation, his disciple Guardiola will lead Barcelona to establish a new dynasty.

After last season's crazy five championships, he feels that unless there are any unexpected events, Barcelona has a good chance of winning six championships this season.

As soon as he walked out of the house, he was surrounded by crazy reporters at the door.

"Mr. Cruyff, is it true that you and Barcelona's next president Rosell have a conflict?"

"Cruyff, there are media reports that Rosell plans to sell out Charles next season. Do you know about this?"

"Do you think youth players are more important in Barcelona, ​​or foreign non-youth players are more important, Mr. Cruyff?"

Cruyff just felt his head buzzing.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Who dares to sell Charles?"

A reporter who was crowded at the front directly extended the microphone.

"But according to people around Rosell's office, Charles' salary is too high and Barcelona cannot afford it, so they want to sell him."

"fart!"

Cruyff just felt a surge of anger in his heart.

"In the past year or so, the commemorative store set up at Camp Nou alone has sold more than 100 million Charles jerseys, and our Barcelona revenue from this alone has exceeded million euros."

"Almost every visitor to Catalonia will come to our souvenir shop to buy a few Charles jerseys. I have even seen several people buying more than a dozen jerseys at a time."

"We can already pay Charles' annual salary just by selling his jerseys. Why would we sell him?"

The reporter did not give up.

"So you're saying that foreign players are more important than La Masia's youth players, right?"

"Ha ha ha ha—" Cruyff felt a black screen in front of his eyes, and he staggered and almost fell to the ground.

The reporter next to him was quick to support him.

Cruyff had to lean against the door while holding on to the wall.

"I don't know who wants to stir up trouble between us. After Real Madrid lost to us yesterday, I know there was a disagreement in their dressing room about something."

Because Pellegrini's record is not very good, the question of whether Pellegrini should be dismissed early directly led to the division of Real Madrid's locker room into a local gang and a foreign gang.

"But we never have this problem, so don't try to sow discord among the players in our locker room!"

After saying that, Cruyff leaned against the wall and forcefully pushed the reporters away.

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Today is a holiday, and Charles, who finally had a day off, had just finished his breakfast when he received a call from Guardiola.

Today is the anniversary of La Masia's activities, and Barcelona's first-team players can go to La Masia.

Barcelona's youth training is also divided into different echelons.

Below the Youth A Team (JA, U19) and Youth B Team (JB, U18) there are the Junior Team (CA, CB) and Children's Team (IA, IB) as well as AA (U12).

The players in the Junior A and Junior B teams are in the initial stage of the transition from 7-a-side to 11-a-side, and it is also a key window for top players to display their talents.

The initial AA team was also divided into 11 grades, but they played seven-a-side football.

Originally, this should have nothing to do with Ciel.

Because he is not a star produced by La Masia youth training camp, and there are also many youth training players in Barcelona's first team.

But he didn't know why he was asked to participate in this activity day.

After finishing his meal, Charles immediately went to the training base, and at this time, most of the people who were preparing to participate in the event had arrived.

"Sergio, which echelon are you heading to today?"

Busquets touched his hair and said, "I'm going to the Junior B team, what about you?"

Ciel looked at his phone again, "I'm also in the Junior B Team. We're together."

"That's very good."

"Should we prepare anything? What is this mainly used for?"

Charles had never participated in such an activity and had no experience.

Busquets explained with a smile.

"No need to prepare anything. This kind of activity, well, just go there and play football and games with them. If it's a children's team, it should be similar, but the children in these teams are very young, so usually they are arranged to go only when they are a little older."

Charles then understood.

The two of them walked towards the bus while chatting.

The current La Masia is still located in the original local farmhouse and has not yet moved to other places.

The new La Masia is already under construction, right inside the Joan Gamper Sports City.

The old site is located in the northeast corner of Camp Nou. If you are in Camp Nou, you can get there by walking without taking a car.

And now Charles' first-team training base is also in Gambo Sports City.

The Sports City is not located in the city of Barcelona, ​​but about 4.5 kilometers west of Camp Nou.

So now you still need to take a car.

"Wait, can we just play football?"

Busquets nodded. "That's about it. Say a few words of encouragement and chat with them, sign autographs, and then we'll be fine because they have to train too."

"Is that so?" Charles finally understood. "Can I visit La Masia later?"

Hearing this, Busquets also became excited.

"Of course, I'll take you to see it. I'm very familiar with this place."

Soon the bus arrived at La Masia.

This place still looks like a farmhouse.

Its predecessor was an old manor built in 1702. It was not until 1950 that Barcelona bought the land from the manor owner and the prototype of La Masia was formed.

In 1966, after several renovations, it became the club's office area.

It was not until 1978 that Nunes became the president of Barcelona and re-elected three youth training directors.

They proposed to Nunez to build an accommodation center for the club's youth players to facilitate centralized management and ensure their personal safety.

And it just so happened that Barcelona had a new office space, so this place finally moved in the direction he had originally planned.

On October 1979, 10, La Masia, the players' new home, was officially unveiled.

October 10th last year was the 10th anniversary of the establishment of La Masia.

At that time, all the stars who came out of La Masia came here to take photos.

Of course Charles knew about this, but he did not participate.

“The success rate here is very high.”

Busquets shook his head. "It depends on how you define high."

"Compared with other youth training camps, it is indeed quite high."

"But if you carefully calculate the number of La Masia academy players playing in the top five European leagues and the total number of people who actually studied at La Masia, you will find that the success rate is actually not high."

Charles and Busquets got off the bus.

"how many?"

"Less than 10 percent. You know, they were screened when they entered La Masia."

After Busquets finished speaking, Charles did not ask the question again.

It is easy to play football, but it is difficult to play well.

Even if you have absolute talent, the road to football growth is full of too many unknowns and risks.

Soon, under the leadership of Busquets, they arrived at the training ground where the Youth B Team was located.

A group of 15 or 16-year-old kids on the field were delighted to see Charles and Busquets coming.

Seeing this, the coach on the sidelines did not force them to continue concentrating on training.

Soon, they all flocked to Charles and Busquets like birds out of a cage.

"Charles, Charles..."

"Charles, can you sign an autograph for me?"

"You had it last time, this time it's my turn."

"Last time it was Harvey, this time it's Ciel, it's different..."

Seeing Charles busy interacting with the youth players, Busquets was also very happy.

Although he came from La Masia, Charles is more popular. You know, the fan souvenir shop outside the Camp Nou has almost become a landmark of Barcelona.

For no other reason than to buy Charles' jersey.

Time flies.

Soon after the originally planned interaction with the "younger players" who were only 4 or 5 years younger than Charles, the two finally had some free time.

Busquets decided to show Charles around the training base.

"Sergio, what's that?"

Looking in the direction of Charles' finger, Busquets blurted out the answer without having to recall.

"It's the cafeteria in La Masia. Do you want to try it?"

Hearing this, Charles almost stumbled, "No, no."

Busquets smiled and said nothing more.

"Is that your dormitory?"

"Yes, that's right," Busquets nodded, "I lived here at the beginning."

Soon, the two walked towards the dormitory, but did not go inside.

"When you go in, you can see a front desk directly. The dormitory manager is at the front desk. The players who stay here have to sign in every night."

Busquets explained, “There is a mentor for every five or six players.”

“What about the players who don’t live here?”

Charles was still quite curious about the accommodation life because he had never lived in a dormitory before.

"The club has hired a lot of taxis to take the young players home after training, free of charge."

Busquets pointed to the door and said, "Get on the bus there. Generally, one-third of La Masia's youth training players are locals, one-third are from other parts of Spain, and the remaining one-third are foreigners."

“So it’s more convenient to take a taxi.”

"So is there some kind of secret base here?"

Hearing this, Busquets hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded.

"Yes, but it's the storage room where Barcelona's mascots are kept. Do you want to go?"

Ciel almost took a step back, "I'm afraid I'll have a nightmare tonight, so forget it."

There is no other reason, mainly because Barcelona's mascot is too scary, so Charles prefers to call him Big Eyes.

Because in addition to its big eyes, it has another characteristic, which is that it only has one eye.

Perhaps this is why Barcelona mascots are rarely seen at the Camp Nou.

Just as Charles was visiting La Masia under the leadership of Busquets, news that Charles was about to leave Barcelona next season spread like wildfire.

Wenger's assistant excitedly pushed open the door of the head coach's office.

"Good news, good news, Arsene, Barcelona will sell Charles next season."

"What?" Wenger raised his head suddenly, "What did you just say?"

The assistant coach repeated the news again, and Wenger stood up in ecstasy and looked around for information.

"Great, great, where was the offer Barcelona made to Fabregas before?"

Not long ago, Arsenal just finished a fierce battle with their arch-rivals Tottenham.

Before the game started, all British media were optimistic about Arsenal.

Because Tottenham has not beaten Arsenal in the Premier League since November 1999.

In the first round of this season, Arsenal swept Tottenham 3:0.

Unexpectedly, after this game, Arsenal lost to their arch-rivals 1:2.

This is all because Arsenal lacks quality strikers and defenders.

The assistant coach did not look through the information with Wenger.

"Arsena, didn't we just reach an agreement with Barcelona's top management not long ago, asking them not to poach Fabregas this summer?"

Wenger shook out all the information in the folder and looked at it one by one.

"No, that's fake. If they want, they can contact us directly. You remembered it wrong!"

The teaching assistant scratched his head. "Okay, I did remember it wrong, but how much do they want? Can we afford it?"

Finally, Wenger found the offer made by Barcelona before.

"Fabregas can be sold to Barcelona for 5500 million euros, or to Real Madrid," Wenger paused, "Anyway, his heart is no longer completely here."

"Well, Ciel wants at least 4500 million, and we're still million short."

The teaching assistant also started to have a headache.

Wenger flipped through his transfer list. "There's also Bendtner, who can also be sold. 1000 million is about right. Then there's Eduardo, 900 million. The price can be negotiated a little higher..."

"That's 7400 million, and we're still 2600 million short."

Wenger stood up quickly.

"I'll go find Hill. We can't miss Charles. My beautiful football can also be passed and controlled... No, no, no, Charles doesn't need to adapt to passing and controlling. He can understand everything!"

Before the assistant coach could react, Wenger rushed out like a whirlwind.

The assistant coach could only chase after him while shouting, "Does Hill Wood have any money? Go find Ken Fia..."

Soon, Wenger arrived at Ken Fia's office.

"I need another 2200 million in transfer funds," Wenger said directly. "The transfer funds are too little and we need to invest."

Ken Fia was confused, "Arsene, what are you talking about?"

Wenger excitedly waved the newspaper about Charles' transfer, "Charles is leaving Barcelona next season, we want to buy him now."

"I can sell Fabregas, I can sell Bendtner, Eduardo and I'll have 7400 million."

"I can still go gold-digging in the summer transfer window. I've already seen that we can sign Chamakh for free and make him a substitute for Charles;"

"We also need to strengthen our defense. I am optimistic that we will buy two defenders. It will cost about 1600 million."

"The original 2000 million transfer funds have all been used up, so we still need 2200 million, and we can buy Charr."

Ken Feia was speechless for a moment.

"But he's too expensive, and we don't have 2200 million."

Our bank loan was obtained by selling your body.

However, Ken Fia did not say this.

Wenger felt like the sky was falling.

"Two of our defenders' contracts have expired, and the other players are not mature enough and need to be loaned out. We don't have any more players to sell."

"The other players are leaving, but they want to transfer on a free transfer basis, without any transfer fee..."

"It's only 100 million, very cheap. He's worth the price. If we sell his jersey for a year, we can earn back his transfer fee."

"For only 2200 million, I can take a pay cut, I can use all my salary to subsidize Charr... For only 2200 million, we can bring him to Arsenal..."

Wenger begged.

"But we have no money."

"It's just 2200 million. He has me in his heart. I can convince him. As long as I match the offer, he will definitely come..."

“But we really don’t have any money.”

"Only 2200 million is missing..."

"Okay, I'll go find Mr. Chairman and see if I can get some more investment."

Ken Feia had no choice but to pick up the phone.

The new schedule for the 2010-11 season is ready.

Arsenal really has no money, it is impossible for him to go to Arsenal, he can't afford it.

When the plot progresses to August 8, the protagonist completely breaks up with Yosi.

Next season's Champions League and the season after that will teach Yosi a lesson.

As long as the protagonist is here, Yosi will never win the World Cup. I’ll do it every time I see him.

Too many plots in the front are still being changed.

I hope everyone will be satisfied with this treatment.

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(End of this chapter)