Chapter 188: Doomed to fail
No matter how the Spanish media gritted their teeth at Zhang Tiehan, it would be impossible to change the results of the game.
Real Madrid lost the game, they lost the game, they failed to get a point, they were eliminated in the group, and they had to leave Rome in shame, and didn't even stay in Rome for an extra hour. The only one who stayed was Real Madrid president Florentino Perotta. He was preparing to have a meeting with Senci after the game.
This was decided before the game. He even came to Rome for two days in advance. However, under the pressure of the media, Florentino could not officially meet Senci until now. In fact, the two have been having sex for a long time.
Before the game, Florentino thought about kicking Roma out of the Champions League and then talking about transfer issues with Roma. Yes, just like the media reported that he came to Roma for the players of Roma.
Zhang Tiehan and Totti are all under Florentino's considerations.
But the situation has changed from before. His Real Madrid lost and they were eliminated. Florentino is very unacceptable. This is the worst time for Real Madrid in the Champions League since he took office. In the first two seasons, their results were not good, but they still qualified in the group stage. Now they can't qualify in the group stage?
Florentino felt a sense of sadness...
Recalling the years after becoming Real Madrid's chairman, it seems to be a brilliant drama. In 2000, Florentino participated in the Real Madrid presidential election. On July 16, he defeated Sans and was elected as chairman of Real Madrid with 55% of the votes. He then brought Louis Figo to Real Madrid.
The following year, Florentino's Real Madrid won its first league championship trophy in four seasons. What is even more commendable is that Florentino showed his shrewd businessman nature and sold the sports city in the city center to the Madrid city government for a sky-high price of 480 million euros. He paid off 270 million euros in one fell swoop and accumulated his first pot of gold in the transfer market.
In 2001, with a record $66 million and a napkin with the words "Would you like to play for Real Madrid?", Florentino signed another emperor superstar: French midfielder Zidane, together with Raul, Robert Carlos, and Jero, to form a powerful lineup that had already shocked Europe at the time.
The arrival of the French helped Real Madrid win the 2001 La Liga championship. However, Real Madrid was eliminated by later champion Bayern Munich in the semi-finals of the Champions League that year. The arrival of the Portuguese helped Real Madrid win the 2001 La Liga championship, and Figo also won the coveted World Footballer Trophy, although it was a pity that Real Madrid was eliminated by later champion Bayern Munich in the semi-finals of the Champions League that year.
The radiant Galaxy battleship, but the star-studded Real Madrid was elected as the best club of the 20th century with an absolute advantage. Florentino's Galaxy battleship began to move towards glory.
In 2002, this was the season for the 100th anniversary celebration of Real Madrid. Real Madrid, with Qi Zu as the core of the midfield, eliminated Bayern and Barcelona all the way in the Champions League in 2001-02, and finally stood in the final of Glasgow. Facing his opponent Leverkusen from Germany, in this final where Real Madrid did not have the advantage, Zidane scored a 2:1 volley with a shocking half-turning shot, and Real Madrid scored the score for the ninth time.
In the summer of this year, Florentino's Real Madrid defeated Leverkusen in the Champions League final and achieved dominance of Europe. Zidane scored an extremely exciting goal in the final, which further strengthened Florentino's idea of carrying out the superstar policy to the end, and then put forward the famous "Zidane + Parvin theory".
Following Figo and Zidane, Ronaldo, who dominated the 2002 World Cup, also transferred from Inter Milan to Real Madrid in the summer of that year, becoming the third superstar at the Bernabeu. On September 2, 2002, just before the summer transfer window was about to close, Ronaldo transferred from Inter Milan to Real Madrid for US$44 million.
"Aliens" don't need to adapt. After a brief injury, Ronaldo exploded in full swing. He scored a goal in 15 seconds after a substitute. He scored 30 goals in 44 games in the season, 23 goals in 31 games in the league. Ronaldo was enough to win the 29th La Liga championship for Real Madrid. Ronaldo also became the double-producer that year.
In December 2002, Real Madrid was crowned the Toyota Cup champion 2-1, and Ronaldo and Guti scored for the Galaxy Battleships respectively. In that club's 100th anniversary season, Real Madrid completed the perfect curtain call for the century-old of this great club with two Super Cups, one Champions Cup and one Toyota Cup.
In 2003, in the last round of the league, Real Madrid thrilled to win the 29th league title in club history. After the flying boot gate incident on July 2, 2003, heartthrob Beckham joined Real Madrid from Manchester United for 25 million euros, joining the super luxurious star lineup of Raul, Carlos, Ronaldo, Zidane, Figo, and won the Spanish Super Cup championship.
Real Madrid is no longer an ordinary team at this time, but a star football team that they can't imagine.
Florentino believes that Real Madrid is already the strongest, but after recalling it now, he found that it was the beginning of Real Madrid's decline. There were too many stars and too many, but no good coach could control the locker room. The team looked extremely gorgeous, but there were many internal contradictions.
What Real Madrid lacks now is not a star, but a good coach and a good result.
Real Madrid must change the status quo.
What is the way to change the status quo? What Florentino thought of is to introduce stars, introduce some stars like Gravesen, who don’t need to be too famous but are helpful to the team’s strength. Such stars don’t cost much money, but can greatly improve Real Madrid’s performance.
Now Florentino has a crush on Zhang Tiehan.
Yes, Zhang Tiehan.
Before Real Madrid and Roma played against Roma, Florentino was preparing to test Senci's attitude towards Totti's transfer, but now he doesn't think so anymore. What are the benefits of Totti going to Real Madrid? In addition to a large transfer fee, it is actually difficult to bring much benefits to Real Madrid. In terms of results, Totti's arrival will not help the team, because there are Zidane in the midfield and Zidane, Totti may not necessarily have a position.
Zhang Tiehan is different.
This young man is less than 20 years old. Even though he is not very famous now, he is definitely a future superstar. Of course, the future is not important to Real Madrid. However, his ability to score three goals in the game against Real Madrid has proved his ability. As long as he can go to Real Madrid, the frontcourt may squeeze out a position for him. Raul and Ronaldo not start every game, and this young man can score goals is the most important thing. He can make the team's performance better.
In Florentino's opinion, the benefits of digging Zhang Tiehan are much more than Totti, such as the difficulty issue. Totti's importance to Roma is unquestionable. If you want to bring Totti to the Bernabeu, the transfer fee that Real Madrid has to pay is definitely an astronomical figure.
Zhang Tiehan is different. He only joined Roma last season. Even if he performed well this season, he is just an ordinary star.
In addition, Real Madrid lost to Roma and failed to reach the top 16 of the Champions League. Real Madrid fans will definitely be very dissatisfied. If Zhang Tiehan, who scored three goals, will also weaken his dissatisfaction to the lowest level.
In short, Zhang Tiehan became Florentino's only target.
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Florentino and Senci met, and this incident became a topic of Rome after the game. Roman fans knew what Florentino was here for, and they were quite dissatisfied. Many Roman fans gathered together to protest in front of the club department. In addition, they also protested at Old Senci's manor, which filled Rome after the game with tension.
For this reason, Sensi had to face the fans and promised, "Zhang will definitely not leave Rome!"
The fans are satisfied now.
However, most people know that what Sensi said is unreliable, and it is probably only reliable this Christmas. After all, Zhang Tiehan is not a Roman. If he performed very well, it would be difficult to keep him in the Roman situation.
Florentino and Senci met that night. No one knew what the two said specifically, but from his bad expression when he left, it can be seen that he failed to get the result he wanted.
In fact, the same is true.
Old Sensi is not a fool. He knows what Florentino wants to do. Originally, Old Sensi considered reaching some agreements with Real Madrid about Zhang Tiehan, such as selling half of ownership, etc., but after Roma and Real Madrid matched, Old Sensi knew that he didn't have to do this - Roma won the game and entered the semi-sixth of the Champions League. This means that Roma will increase its income by at least five million euros in the summer. If he has good results, he can pass the quarterfinals of the quarterfinals. Roma will increase his income by nearly ten million euros. This large amount of income, coupled with the television broadcast rights signed some time ago, is enough to allow Roma to spend this season safely, so there is no need to reach an agreement with Real Madrid.
As for Zhang Tiehan, of course he can't be sold now, otherwise the fans would not let him go.
With Zhang Tiehan's performance, it is possible that his net worth doubled in summer. Real Madrid now needs to pay a lot to reach some agreements about Zhang Tiehan. As a result, the conditions proposed by Sensi were just like the Lions' big talk, and Florentino naturally could not agree.
He also knows why.
The winter transfer window has been open long ago, and many clubs have started quoting prices. With their performance just now against Real Madrid, many teams have asked Zhang Tiehan about the price.
The influential European "France Football" evaluated Zhang Tiehan's value. Their price was '22 million euros'. Everyone knows that the real transaction price is always higher than the one evaluated by "France Football". In other words, Zhang Tiehan's actual value has reached about 25 million euros. Such a transaction is difficult to achieve in a winter transfer. By next summer, no one can say how much Zhang Tiehan's value can reach, but if nothing unexpected happens, it will definitely get higher and higher.
If Florentino wants to reach some agreements with Zhang Tiehan, he must consider these situations, but he cannot pay more than 10 million euros for a player who joins Real Madrid next year.
Chapter completed!