Coach, I want to play football!

“Happy cooperation!!”

Edwards shakes hands with Blue Fox chairman Vichai in the Leicester City conference room.

There are only two player transfers that Mr. Vichai, the chairman, can personally participate in the negotiations. One is Vardy, and the other is naturally Ye Qi.

Liverpool, represented by Edwards, is naturally interested in Ye Qi.

After two hours of negotiation, the two sides finally reached an agreement.

Ye Qi will go to Liverpool for a transfer fee of 500 million pounds. The reason why the liquidated damages are not reached is because the Blue Fox took a step back.

At the same time, for Liverpool, not paying liquidated damages also represents a happy cooperation between the two parties.

Fans who don't often watch football may not know that a deal with liquidated damages basically means a breakup.Although the old club is also making a lot of money, this almost doesn't save face for the old club.

Leicester City's initial call for liquidated damages was actually just to raise the price and strive to reach an agreement at a price close to the liquidated damages.

Naturally, Liverpool doesn't want to pay liquidated damages. Firstly, it doesn't want to break up, and secondly, it also wants to save some money, because the Red Army has indeed spent a lot this season!

But I didn't expect that Paris would step in later and happily pay the liquidated damages.This made it difficult for Leicester City to ride. If Ye Qi had not had the idea of ​​going to Paris to play Ligue [-], Ye Qi would have gone to take pictures under the Eiffel Tower at this moment.

Naturally, Leicester City doesn't want to lose money now. Paris Saint-Germain directly paid 7000 million pounds in liquidated damages. It's hard to say if you gave too little, right?

There is still a big gap between 5000 million and 7000 million. Fortunately, Edwards was sincere enough. This time he came over and directly offered 500 million pounds.

In fact, he was ready to pay the liquidated damages directly, but no one would reveal their trump card immediately, right?It would also be good to save 500 million pounds. At least when negotiating the contract with Ye Qi later, the 500 million pounds saved can be added to the signing fee. Wouldn't that be the best of both worlds?

But Edwards didn't expect that Vichai simply agreed.

However, Leicester City has a request. The official announcement of the transfer will be postponed, and both parties must temporarily hide the information about the transaction.

It will be officially announced after the Blue Fox returns from their trip to Asia. At that time, Ye Qi will officially go to Liverpool.

Edwards checked the dates of the Blue Fox schedule and found that there was still a week before the start of the new season when the other party came back, so he agreed.

At least it wasn't at the last minute of the transfer window, which is already pretty good!

Xiao Ai did not leave Leicester. Taking advantage of the opportunity for both clubs to reach an agreement, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, and to strike while the iron was hot, he simply discussed the specific contract with Ye Qi before going back.

Because he knew that Paris Saint-Germain was very interested in Ye Qi, he wanted to initial the contract before the other party did.

Little did he know that Paris had already taken the lead.If Ye Qi hadn't wanted to play in Ligue [-], Liverpool would have nothing to do with them right now.

"I'm really sorry, Mr. Manas. It's not about money, and my players have no special emotions towards Paris. It's just that we don't want to play in Ligue [-], that's all."

"It's hard to say about the future, but Ye is currently in the growth stage, so he prefers to stay in the Premier League or La Liga to play. Let me tell the truth. We have no plans to play in Ligue [-] or even Serie A for the time being."

Among the five major European leagues, Serie A and Ligue 90 are the lowest.Serie A has long lost its reputation as the "little World Cup" in the [-]s and the beginning of the new world.

And to be honest, Serie A is a mess.What age is this, and there are all kinds of scandals, such as gambling, fixing games, bribing referees...

As for Ligue [-], although there are not as many scandals as Serie A, its competitiveness has become worse every year in recent years, and it is even surpassed by the Portuguese Super League...

Calculating the UEFA points ranking alone, the current fifth league is actually the Portuguese Super League...

Although the French Ligue [-] was also an era when Marseille and Lyon took turns to be the boss, there were also contending teams such as Monaco, Montpellier, Porto, Lille, and Saint-Etienne.

In the current French Ligue [-], it is clear from the first round of the season that the championship belongs to Paris Saint-Germain.

Of course, this is not a problem with Paris itself.In fact, this problem is not limited to Ligue [-]. In recent years, the Bundesliga and Serie A have almost become the dominant players.

So this is the reason why Ye Qi doesn't want to go to Ligue [-]. There is no passion and challenge, and there is no room for improvement.The league is not competitive either. Relatively speaking, he prefers the Premier League and La Liga.

But this was something he kicked out and made some choices.For some players who have not been played, let alone Ligue [-] or Serie A, it would be good to be able to play in leagues such as the Portuguese Super League and the Eredivisie.

"Okay, I understand what you mean." Victor Manas spread his hands.

Regarding the issue of the attractiveness of Ligue [-], he has no way to solve it. Not to mention him, not even the Qatar Investment Authority behind the boss has any solution.

After all, the Qatar Investment Authority cannot directly buy several French Ligue [-] teams, otherwise it would not be called Ligue [-], then it would be called the Qatar Football Super League...

"I hope we have the opportunity to cooperate again in the future!" Manas stood up and stretched out his hand to shake Elena's hand.

Elena also stood up quickly, "That would be our honor!"

No one can tell what will happen in the future.What if by then the French Ligue [-] elites have gathered together, and they really are ranked among the top two in the five major leagues?

After all, Leicester City can win the Premier League championship, what else is impossible?

Just after seeing off Victor Manas, Elena received a call from Edwards.

"Oh... I'm really busy this summer!"

Elena didn't ask Ye Qi to come over when meeting Edwards, because the two parties had actually talked about the same thing before.

Now that the other party has solved the problem between the two clubs, the remaining issues are money and team status, so Ye Qi does not need to participate.

It's not that Ye Qi wants to be a team boss, ball tyrant, or first brother, he just wants to ensure his appearance rate throughout the season.

He doesn't want to go to Liverpool and sit on the bench. In that case, he might as well be in Leicester City.

It's interesting to say that it's not a matter of money with Paris, but it's just a matter of money with Liverpool.

Because it was impossible for Liverpool to spend more than 6000 million pounds to buy a water dispenser keeper, Edwards readily agreed to the question about the positioning of core players.

But when it comes to salary, it's a bit embarrassing.

Liverpool's weekly salary is 14 pounds, an agent's commission of 1000 million, and a player signing fee of 1000 million.

As for appearance fees and goal bonuses, they are all minor issues. The most critical ones are weekly salary and signing fees.

Perhaps Edwards knew that this weekly salary was not very generous, so he gave Irina a commission of 1000 million pounds. Otherwise, according to Liverpool's character, the commission of 500 million to 800 million pounds for the agent would be a lot.