Chapter 585: Forty million

Joel Luka, Modric, Kolarov, are the best of the next batch of outstanding players in Serbia and Croatia. Although they are still playing in China, they have all had excellent abilities.

These three people are all in their early twenties, and their physical and technical characteristics have basically been established. The only difference is their adaptation and experience to the top league. In later generations, Joel Luka and Modric performed well in the Premier League, and Kolarov also performed very well in Serie A. Xiao Ming is not too worried about this. As for Olic, there is no need to worry about it. The failure in the Bundesliga when he was young can make the player's mentality more mature.

Olic is also an all-around player in the frontcourt. What is commendable is that players like him who are not young but have not yet obtained enough honors to prove their abilities and abilities, definitely yearn for a team like Leiden Oriental. There will be no problem with replacing Bent's vacancy. If Van Nicht and Ronaldo are not in good health next season, maybe he can play a greater role.

If Modric comes in a transfer, he may not have a position to play. After all, the three midfielders of Leiden East are very stable. Pirlo and Gerrard are both players with high attendance rates. If he can be willing to substitute, it is good to be a suitable rotation player, because Modric is a very comprehensive midfielder. In addition to his excellent skills and excellent organizational skills, he is not afraid of confrontation on the court, but the overlap with Gerrard and Pirlo may affect the future of this young player.

As for Joel Luca, Xiao Ming felt that this tall central defender could be used directly - Campbell and Leiden East had expired, and he asked for a weekly salary of 80,000 pounds. However, he had already seemed in a sluggish state since last season. The national team position was taken away by Terry, and the club was snatched away by Hepia, who was one year older than him. Of course, Xiao Ming would not pay such a high salary for a central defender who had obviously begun to decline. In fact, since last season, Campbell's attendance rate has been very low. Not only is it as low as Luciod, but also less than Hepia. Xiao Ming has decided to give up this central defender, even if he is still an English international.

Campbell will transfer freely after his contract with the player expires, and it will have nothing to do with Leiden Oriental. Xiao Ming originally planned to let Subotic, who joined the team in the middle of last season, come to the team as a substitute. In the second half of last season, the tall central defender was loaned to Mainz by Leiden Oriental to the Bundesliga. He performed quite well. However, now it seems that if Joel Luca can be introduced, Joel Luca will be three years older than Subotic and who is fully mature, and is more suitable to fill Campbell's vacancy than Subotic.

Hypia is already 32 years old this season, and Joel Luca will not be without the opportunity to train. At the same time, although he is young, he is also a very stable central defender, and he can help Lucio make up for the position. After Subotic grows up in a few years, Lucio will probably be older. At that time, Leiden East will have a central defender combination in the former south, a pair of giant central defenders who are over 1.9 meters tall.

As for Kolarov, Xiao Ming was a little lenient. Ashley Koll's main position was unshakable. At the same time, he was not a few years older than Kolarov. However, Kolarov was a versatile player. In addition to the left back, he could also play the left central defender and the left forward. Now letting him go out to exercise for a few years is also a better choice. At the same time, Kolarov's situation is different from Joel Luka and Modric. These two are considered famous families, while Kolarov's situation is a little worse. Therefore, although he is older than Joel Luka and Modric, he is probably more willing to accept the substitute position. Sun Jihai and Zimbonda are not young anymore, finding a substitute for the full-back is imperative, and if it really doesn't work, he can also push him into the midfield...

Olic and Joel Luka strive to join immediately. Kolarov and Modric can buy it and then let them exercise or loan it out in the original team. This is what Xiao Ming defines for these four players.

In fact, this has nothing to do with their strength, it is just about the type required by Leiden East. The forwards and central defenders need to fill in fresh blood, while attacking midfielders and left-wing players are not very necessary, so this kind of different treatment occurs.

Girney was quick to move, and he quickly contacted Olic - he and Modric were both members of the Croatian national team, and Joel Luca was not able to be selected.

"Olic is very happy that we can take a fancy to him. He said that if CSKA Moscow is willing to release people, he is willing to join our team. Modric hopes to talk about this after the World Cup. His goal is to perform well in the World Cup."

When the news of Garney's feedback reached Xiao Ming, Xiao Ming gave an instruction: "First contact with CSKA and work with Peter to get Olic's transfer, then Kolarov, Modric and Joel Luka's transfer can be discussed with their club first, don't worry."

So next, Xiao Ming, who was playing around with Jessica, kept asking about the progress of the transfer by phone. The CSKA Moscow was a little surprised that Leiden East took Olic to Olic. After all, although Olic is a member of the Croatian national team, his reputation is not very high. The goal rate in CSKA is not very high. If the goal rate of two games and one goal is good in the five major leagues, it is only such a goal rate in the Russian league. Even in CSKA, he is not an indispensable player.

In addition, Olic's contract is about to expire in just one and a half years. If he is not sold now, Olic will be free to find his next home by this time next year. Moscow believes that Leiden East has already settled Olic himself. In addition to Hilton's falsehood, this transfer was unexpectedly smooth.

In the end, Leiden Oriental only spent two million euros to sign the 27-year-old Croatian striker Olic from Moscow CSKA. After receiving notice from the club, Olic, who was in Germany, was very happy to sign his name on a four-year contract with a weekly salary of 40,000 pounds. Of course, it will not be announced to the outside world until the transfer market opens.

Xiao Ming was also surprised to be able to buy Olic at such a low price, but it was relieved to think about it. After all, a 27-year-old striker should be the kind of player whose "potential has bottomed out". Leiden East has no competitors, and no teams from any of the four major leagues are interested in Olic. In addition, his contract has not been long, and CSKA Moscow does not have much room for bargaining, so it is understandable that such a low price is.

A few days later, Xiao Ming began to lament that the value of English players was indeed expensive - Darren Bent, who was put on the transfer market by Leiden Oriental, became a hot item. Although he did not play much last season, he scored 16 goals in three seasons with 35 appearances and the status of English players still made him favored by many teams. Among them, Leiden Oriental's ally Tottenham is the biggest. They directly offered a transfer fee of 12 million pounds, surpassing Charlton's 8 million and Middlesbrough's 7.5 million, and grabbed the former member of the English under 21 national team. After tasting the sweetness of Simon Davis and Joe Cole, Tottenham's eyes were probably staring at the young player who came out of Leiden Oriental.

As soon as Olic came in and out, Bente left, Leiden East made more than 10 million pounds, which made Xiao Ming urge to dig around the young English players to sell them after two years.

And in Kolarov, Leiden East also made rapid progress.

Belgrade ofk is just a mid-range team in the Serbia-Black League, and Kolarov, who is less than 21 years old, gradually became the main force of this team in the second half of last season. Although he is a member of the Serbia-Black National Youth Team, compared with those geniuses who became famous at the age of 16 or 17, Kolarov is really not a genius. Both Belgrade ofk and Kolarov are very interested in this transfer.

In the end, Leiden Oriental spent only 800,000 euros to buy Kolarov's ownership. While buying him, Leiden Oriental also contacted Preston of the Championship. This old team is Leiden Oriental's relatives in the Championship. Kolarov will be loaned to Preston for one season in the next season. The contract stipulates that Kolarov must play at least twenty league games in Preston, otherwise Leiden Oriental has the right to take back in advance.

Kolarov is very happy about this result. It is only a matter of time before Serbia and Montenegro have been split into two new countries, Serbia and Montenegro. The situation in the country is turbulent. They also hope to be able to play football abroad in a quiet environment. For Kolarov, who has not been a genius since childhood, it is already a very happy thing for him to be favored by Leiden Oriental. Although it is on loan, it is always much better than playing football in China.

After completing the transfer between Olic and Kolarov, the expected four goals were half completed, and Modric and Joel Luka's transfers had to be slowly made. Xiao Ming allowed Girney and Hilton to contact Zagreb Dinamo, and began to turn around and arrange the next loan matters of several young players in the team.

Rodwell, Sturric, Carlos Bella, Subotic, and Joe Hart, who has just completed a loan return to Leiden East, these five young men are players that Leiden East attaches great importance to. If Kolarov adds to Modric and Joel Luca, then it will be another very competitive main lineup.

Nineteen-year-old Joe Hart, seventeen-year-old Sturridge, fifteen-year-old Rodville, eighteen-year-old Bella, and eighteen-year-old Subotic... These young people are the future of Leiden East.

Rodville jumped to the under-19 youth team. This is his second consecutive year. Sturridge was loaned to Leeds United in the Championship, Joe Hart was loaned to Southampton in the Championship, Subotic continued to be loaned to Mainz in the German second division, and Bella was loaned to Albasett in the Spanish second division. For these five players, Xiao Ming, it was not simply loaned them out. These teams have a good relationship with Leiden Oriental, and they lack people in the positions that these loan players are good at - this is to ensure that they have enough playing time. It is useless to simply stipulate how many times they must play, because if the opponent does not want to use this player, they can let the loan players play in garbage time - you can only specify the number of games, but not the time...

However, since these teams lack players in these positions, Xiao Ming believes that with the strength and potential of these young players, it is only a matter of time before they become the main force.

Leiden East has no room to hone these players now, so it is necessary to find a suitable space for them.

Xiao Ming didn't do these things himself, it was just a remote control of the phone, otherwise there would be too many things he would have to do.

He usually doesn't have time to accompany his wife. Now even if he still has to work, he has to accompany Jessica well. However, after the World Cup begins, his work will be much more leisurely. If all the transfers are arranged before the World Cup, then during the World Cup, he only needs to comment on the England national team's game in addition to watching football - he is only responsible for this kind of work.

He has already prepared for the team's personnel configuration this next season. After introducing Olic, there is no need for much supplements in other positions. Even Modric is not a player he urgently needs. It is enough to introduce Joel Luca to enrich the central defender configuration. Leiden Oriental's current main lineup has been quite complete after last season's running-in. Except for the main center and main center back who are older, other players are in their peak state or in the rising period. This is the time to achieve results, so there is no need to make too much changes easily.

After the season, Xiao Ming contacted the agents of the main players. It was obvious that his players were very satisfied with their current treatment and status in the team and had no idea of ​​leaving. In fact, Leiden Oriental's salary level is already the world's top. Even if they leave, they may not be able to get higher treatment than Leiden Oriental. At the same time, they can still get countless honors in Leiden Oriental. No team can compare with this, so naturally no one will be greedy. Except for Campbell's request for a value that is inconsistent with his efforts and Bente's pursuit of the main position, no one asked to leave.

So for Xiao Ming, there is only one person he wants this summer, that is Joel Luca.

Xiao Ming did not think it was too difficult to introduce Joel Luca and Modric, but on the eve of the World Cup, he received a bad news.

"What? Joel Luca 10 million euros, Modric 30 million euros? Why don't they grab it!"

After receiving Hilton's call, Xiao Ming's first reaction was that he was joking, and then he was immediately furious.

To be honest, Xiao Ming doesn't think that these two young players are not worth the price. In fact, two years later, Modric's transfer to Tottenham was worth 24 million euros, and Joel Luca's transfer to Manchester City was worth 13 million euros, but that was the more mature Joel Luca and Modric, who now marked such a high value for them. Obviously, Zagreb Dinamo treats Leiden Oriental as a rich funder.

Hearing Xiao Ming's roar on the other end of the phone, Hilton looked up and looked at Garni helplessly. The former king of the left also smiled bitterly. He was still a little face in Croatia, but this time, Zagreb Dinamo did not give the former national team superstar too much face...

"I'm wondering, why do they think Modric is worth 30 million? Joel Luca's 10 million is not too outrageous... 30 million... I'm looking for a substitute, not a main player!" Xiao Ming asked Hilton after calming down.

"Modric is about to participate in the World Cup... If he performs extremely well in the World Cup, then with his current age and talent, he might be hyped up to this price," Hilton explained.

"Then let it go first." Xiao Ming shook his head: "Drag with them until Croatia is out of the World Cup... See how outstanding Modric can perform! Although Croatia is good now and has many outstanding players, it is far inferior to the dark horse in 1998! But they can't feel that it's too much... Try to reduce the value of the two people to 20 million, up to 25 million, and you can't even think of one more son... Also, don't mention signing and renting them for use. These two people are still useful in my team."

"I understand, boss." Hilton nodded: "But if Modric really performed well in the World Cup, it would be difficult to get the 30 million figure. Players who perform well in the World Cup will often soar."

Xiao Ming certainly understood this point. Although the facts prove that such players who have just passed the pan in the World Cup often perform very average in the future, such as Diouf and a large number of Senegalese players such as Hakan Suk after the World Cup in 2002, they were like this, but people's psychology is always like this, and players who perform well in the World Cup will always be more favored.

"Then we will give up Modric. 30 million. I haven't had the luxury of spending so much money to buy a substitute. 30 million. Should Andre serve him as a substitute or Stephen serve him as a substitute?" Xiao Ming replied.

"I understand." Hilton said simply, and then hung up the phone.

"Peter, how about it?" Galney asked Hilton anxiously.

"Robert, I think your mood will be complicated." Hilton laughed: "If Croatia and Modric perform poorly, we have great hopes to introduce him. If the performance is excellent, we may have to give up on him."
Chapter completed!