Chapter 14 Eto'o

Chapter 14 Eto'o

"You are right. The so-called negotiations are often not equal. You are now the strong side." Jose said.

"That's right, young man, if you want to impress me..."

Before Piri finished speaking, Jose took over: "Only interests, enough interests can move the other party, and the best negotiation is not to benefit one party, but to benefit both parties. The outcome of the negotiation will have sufficient value."

"That's the truth." Piri nodded: "I didn't really understand this truth until I was fifty years old, and then I became the general manager and technical director of Real Madrid. You are only twenty-five years old, even if you only understand this truth , is enough to be proud of."

Jose reservedly accepted Piri's compliment—the real negotiation is only now beginning.

"Lending Eto'o is good for Mallorca because it can get a more stable scoring point outside of Tristan. If Mallorca wants to avoid relegation, it has to win more and score more goals. Goals, Eto'o is very important to us." Jose first talked about the benefits that Mallorca can get, and then he immediately changed the subject: "For Real Madrid, on the surface, only Eto'o can get Eto'o. The opportunity for To'o to exercise is not financially beneficial...Mallorca has no transfer funds this winter. Because of the poor results in the first half of the season, we have lost a lot and failed to enter the Champions League group It is enough to cause us to lose nearly 10 million US dollars in broadcasting fee income, which is terrible, and even Eto'o's salary, we can only afford half of it."

"I know this. I know the financial situation of all La Liga teams." Piri nodded: "So, I can't see how much benefit this loan can bring to Real Madrid. Maybe Eto'o will have more money in the second half of the season. More opportunities, as for his salary, although Real Madrid's financial situation is not very good, it is still very simple to bear half of Eto'o's salary."

"Schedule." Jose spit out a phrase from his mouth.

"What?" Piri didn't hear clearly.

"I said, the schedule." Jose said clearly: "Have you noticed? Mallorca's opponents in the first round and the 20th round are both Real Madrid, and now, the La Liga has passed the 20th round. That is to say, you don't need to worry that Eto'o will fight back against Real Madrid in the remaining half of the season."

"You mean..." A smile formed on the corner of Piri's mouth.

"A more powerful Mallorca, at least in this half of the season, is beneficial to Real Madrid." Jose said affirmatively: "Just like after the end of the last round of the league, Real Madrid rose from the fourth place to the third place. Same."

The previous third place was Rayo Vallecano, and the fourth place was Real Madrid. There was a certain gap between them and the top two Barcelona and Deportivo. However, in the last round, Mallorca defeated Vallecano at home and won. Real Madrid took the opportunity to surpass this newly promoted horse.

"Next, we have to face Valencia, Deportivo, and even Barcelona..." Jose said the names of several teams in one breath. The main opponent: "You see, Mallorca is no threat to Real Madrid. I have played against Real Madrid twice this season and lost both games. These two games have brought Real Madrid six points. If the next If Mallorca can stop one of these teams, then naturally, how much advantage can Real Madrid have?"

Jose has said it very clearly-Mallorca will not play against Real Madrid this season, but it will play against Deportivo, Valencia, Barcelona... Mallorca can help Real Madrid stop these league matches The main opponents, and Eto'o joining Mallorca on loan will increase the possibility of Mallorca blocking these teams. It is impossible for Mallorca not to block these teams, because they are about to be relegated now. Fighting desperately for every point as they fight for their own survival.

For Real Madrid, in fact, they are equivalent to adding an ally who will help them stop their competitors for free in the next game, and no one can fault it...

Compared with these benefits, Eto'o's half-year salary is simply insignificant. If you talk about the threat of Mallorca in the future... that is a joke. Even Piri himself said before that he just wanted to create some for Jose. It's just stress.

After pondering for a while, Piri showed a smile, and then he stretched out his hand to Jose: "Okay, Mr. Jose, you have convinced me... Then you can go to seek the opinion of Samuel himself... ...But I think he will not refuse such a request, after all, for him, the training of the game is more important than anything else."

"So, can we add a clause in the lease contract, after the end of the lease period, we have the right of first refusal to Eto'o?" Jose said with a stick.

"Don't be too greedy, young man." Piri laughed: "As I said, Samuel was brought from Africa by myself. I am very optimistic about him. In fact, if he is not immature, Real Madrid would not There is no need to buy Anelka, just use him... I will not let go of such a player."

Jose shrugged his shoulders and gave up the idea of ​​buying Eto'o directly, but he didn't expect to buy Eto'o now.

After walking out of Piri's office, Jose let out a sigh of relief—although it was just a simple lease negotiation, the difficulty of this negotiation was indeed beyond Jose's expectations...

This Piri is really not an easy guy to deal with, but fortunately, his expected goal has basically been achieved. With Eto'o and Tristan on the front line, the expected goal for the second half of the season, It's a lot closer - what Mallorca lacks now is a striker like Eto'o!

Jose wants to loan Eto'o for half a season, and of course it's not just for relegation.

Although Mallorca's current situation is very bad, and they are still at the bottom of the ranking after winning a game, but in Jose's view, as long as Mallorca can play a good defensive counterattack, even if the scoring rate is not very high, the possibility of relegation is very high Big one, Sevilla, which is currently ranked 19th, has only 18 points, although the previous teams such as Numancia, Santander, Oviedo, Real Betis, Atletico Madrid and other teams have more than 20 points Some have exceeded 30 points, but Jose vaguely remembers that the relegation line of La Liga this season is a little over 40 points. If Mallorca can win ten games in the future, there will be no problem with relegation.

With Tristan's scoring ability and the strength of the old but still strong defense line, if you play well, even if you can't fight against top teams like Real Madrid, Basarco, and Valencia, you still have to fight with the mid-range teams. What he got, tried his best to introduce Eto'o, not only to make the goal of relegation easier to achieve, Jose's vision is on Europe!

Although Mallorca led by Gomez played in a mess in the domestic league and was out of the Copa del Rey early, he did well in the European arena-although he was eliminated in the Champions League qualifiers, but in the UEFA Cup. In the game, they played pretty well. First, they eliminated the Czech team Olympos 3-1 in two rounds in the first round. In the second round, they eliminated another Czech team Belikis 5-1 in two rounds. The third round was in November and December. Tristan scored three goals in two rounds. Mallorca defeated the former European overlord 3-0. The Dutch giant Ajax successfully advanced to the league. Cup of sixteen!

In the next eighth-finals, Mallorca's opponent is the Ligue 1 giant Monaco. To deal with this team that has cultivated Henry and Trezeguet, it is not enough to rely on Tristan alone. Eto'o also is a powerful supplement.

Fighting the fire in the middle, success in relegation alone is not enough. If he can achieve better results in the UEFA Cup, for Jose, a rookie coach, that is the most important thing!

Jose doesn't know where Mallorca can go. However, although there are many excellent teams in the UEFA Cup, it is not impossible to beat them. At least for those teams, Mallorca is still a mysterious teacher , but Jose is extremely familiar with these teams!

Dani transferred and left, Biazzini was seriously injured and missed the entire season. Last season, Mallorca's striker combination no longer exists. Although Tristan's strong rise made up for a vacancy, Quinteros and Carlos are unreliable. , Mallorca's striker would not be complete without Eto'o on loan.

Although there is still a Luke in the reserve team who is also good, but his experience is not enough, and he is not a very good striker. Obviously, he cannot compete with Eto'o, the future top striker. Most importantly, This Cheetah has the most lacking speed in Mallorca's front line-this is a quality that neither Tristan nor Luke has.

After finally impressing Piri, the next person to be invited is Eto'o.

That afternoon, outside the Real Madrid training ground, Jose saw Eto'o.

At this time, Eto'o was still very young-although it is difficult for black people to judge his age from his skin and appearance, and the birth dates of black Africans are often very confusing, and the birth dates on their passports cannot be taken too seriously- For example, the famous NBA center Dikembe Mutombo didn't even know how old he was, so that when he played in the NBA later, many young players thought that this guy was actually fifty years old, but his physical fitness was not enough. just drop...

However, now Eto'o is indeed very young, with a trace of childishness on his face, and the light of endeavor, confidence and expectation in his eyes-the eyes are not deceiving, the eyes are the windows of the soul, the soul is old, the body There is also a limit to young people in the world. For example, Adriano in the future, when he was twenty-six or seven years old, the breath in his eyes was old.

Eto'o has a slender body and does not have the developed muscles of ordinary blacks. However, the weakness hidden under the slender body is explosive power-no one knows this better than Jose. He knows what Eto'o will achieve in the future .

"Samuel Eto'o, hello, I'm Jose Alemani, the executive head coach of the Mallorca club."

After seeing Eto'o, Jose stretched out his hand, and Eto'o held Jose's hand with some doubts. He knew that there would be clubs who wanted to rent him out today, but he didn't know that Mallorca's head coach be so young...