Yuvi never thought that the first time he met Ribery would be like this.
The scarred star who will play in the World Cup in three years, at this moment, was covered with dust.
He wore a helmet and lifted a heavy impact drill, destroying the ruins in front of him in a venting manner.
When Ribery turned his head and looked over, he really looked like Stallone holding a machine gun in "First Blood".
Yuvi waited for him for 20 minutes before he saw Ribery, who had been cleaned.
The scar on his face was as hideous as ever.
He did not have the high-spirited confidence that Yuvi was familiar with in his previous life, but was instead filled with deep depression.
During this period, football and life had dealt him a heavy blow.
Many times, choice is more important than hard work.
This was true for Ribery, and so was Koscielny.
The whole conversation went very smoothly.
This was more like a unilateral invitation from Yuvi to Ribery.
As for Ribery, as long as there is a club willing to accept him and offer him a salary, he will go.
Scarface pragmatically "proposed" his expected salary.
250 euros.
Monthly.
This is considered relatively low in the English League Two.
Yuvi agreed.
In his mind, as long as Ribery works hard in training and competition, the club will evaluate his performance every season and then increase his salary as appropriate.
But all of this is unnecessary now.
Everything will be given after Ribery has achieved results.
This is a method used by managers.
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While Yuvi was traveling between Croatia and France, Luxman in London continued to follow up on the loan business with Elvino.
After the procedures were completed and the money arrived, in addition to immediately repaying the due debts, Luxman also made frequent moves in the transfer market according to Yuvi's instructions.
As Yuvi said before, there are ways to play without money.
The first thing Bayswater consider when recruiting players is the free transfer players in the transfer market.
And Yuvi first considered the four relegated teams last season.
Cheltenham, Huddersfield, Mansfield and Northampton.
One of the important reasons for targeting relegated teams is that many teams have so-called relegation clauses when signing contracts with players.
For teams in lower leagues, relegation basically means disintegration.
For example, Martin Devaney, a winger from Cheltenham.
The 23-year-old Devaney is of Irish descent, proficient with both feet, very fast, and good at both flanks.
Bayswater did not even need to pay a transfer fee for him and successfully signed him.
21-year-old Lee Williamson has dual Jamaican and English nationality and is good at midfield and right wing.
Due to Mansfield's relegation, according to the relegation clause, his transfer fee is as low as 25,000 pounds.
17-year-old Alex Baptiste came from Mansfield's youth training and is a versatile player who can play all positions in the back line.
After receiving an invitation from Bayswater , he rejected Mansfield's professional contract and switched to Bayswater .
Jonathan Steed, a 20-year-old English center forward from Huddersfield youth training, is the young center forward that Yuvi is most optimistic about. He has the characteristics of a typical English center forward. He
is 1.91 meters tall, strong and sturdy, with excellent skills, can grab points, shoot, and has a certain ability to take the ball with his back and pass the ball.
In the English League Two last season, Steed had already established a foothold in the Huddersfield first team, played 42 times, 2568 minutes, and scored 6 goals.
This is not bad for a player who is only 20 years old.
The reason why Yuvi remembered him was that in his previous life in 2004, Steed followed Huddersfield to be relegated, performed well in the fourth-level league, and was selected for the England National Youth Team.
Subsequently, Blackburn signed this local center forward for a high price of 2 million pounds.
Unfortunately, Steed's subsequent development did not meet the expectations of the outside world.
At the instruction of Yuvi, Luxman came forward to negotiate with Huddersfield and persuaded Jonathan Steed.
In the end, Bayswater signed the young center forward from the English League Two for 250,000 pounds.
Due to the limited funds and budget of the club, the money will be paid in two installments, with the second installment of 150,000 pounds to be paid in the summer of 2004.
In addition to Steed, Bayswater also poached the 19-year-old Andy Holdsworth from the Huddersfield Youth Training Camp.
Although this player plays on the right side, Yuvi feels that he is more suitable for development in the middle of the midfield.
Bayswater also signed the 17-year-old center back Luke Chambers from the Northampton Youth Training Camp on a free transfer. He can play as a center back and right back.
In the transfer market, Yuvi also signed the Northern Irish left back Tony Capaldi from Birmingham on a free transfer.
The 22-year-old Capaldi came from the Birmingham Youth Training Camp, but he has never been valued. Apart from being loaned out, there is no place for him in the team. So after the contract expired this year, he refused to renew his contract with Birmingham.
Many English League Two teams, including Plymouth, are very interested in this young talent from a strong team.
But in the end, Bayswater got there first.
In addition to Yuvi personally going to persuade Tony Capaldi after returning from France, a very important reason is that Bayswater 's financial crisis did not attract the attention of the outside world in a low-level league.
In other words, Yuvi acted in time to eliminate it.
This led to a good impression of Bayswater from the outside world. At
least, it is foreign-funded and ambitious.
Another free transfer player is Martin Rowland, an Irish midfielder from Brentford.
The 24-year-old Rowland plays in the middle and is a midfield passer for Brentford. He has excellent skills, especially that pass.
Since joining Brentford for 60,000 pounds in 1998, he has performed quite well in the first two seasons.
But in the past two seasons, Roland has gradually lost his main position due to injuries and ups and downs.
This summer, after his contract with Brentford expired, he chose a free transfer.
As a native Londoner, Roland prefers to join a London team.
Queens Park Rangers and Bayswater both extended olive branches to him, and it was Yuvi who finally came forward and persuaded Martin Roland.
As a reward, Bayswater also offered Martin Roland the highest salary in the team.
4,000 pounds a month.
In addition to Martin Roland and Steed, the Welsh veteran Steve Jenkins also received the highest salary in the team.
Jenkins, 31, plays right back and plays for Huddersfield.
After the team was relegated, the club chose to terminate his contract and let him transfer freely.
Jenkins, who came from Swansea's youth training, is no longer young, but he has rich defensive experience and a superb right-wing cross.
This is also what Yuvi values most.
The newly formed team has many young people, and Yuvi will feel more at ease with an experienced veteran like Jenkins
leading the team. But considering Jenkins' age, Yuvi signed 18-year-old Irish right-back Kevin Fury from the youth training camp of Luton Town, a relegation team in English League Two.
This deal cost Bayswater 100,000 pounds.
In terms of central defender, Yuvi also signed 20-year-old Roger Johnson from the relegation team Wycombe for 100,000 pounds.
This tall and burly local central defender was the main central defender of Wycombe last season and performed well.
Yuvi also signed English local striker Ricky Lambert from English League Two Stoke Port for a transfer fee of 150,000 pounds.
The 21-year-old Lambert did not perform well in Stoke Port last season. He played 32 times and only scored 2 goals, which made head coach Charlton Palme completely lose confidence in him.
So, Ricky Lambert, who joined in 2002 for 450,000 pounds, was sold to the Chinese by Stoke Port for 150,000 pounds.
Shrewsbury, which was stuck in the fifth-tier league, also could not escape the fate of being poached by Yuvi.
Yuvi personally went north, and in addition to persuading Stockport and Ricky Lambert, he also signed the 16-year-old local goalkeeper Joe Hart from Shrewsbury.
This transfer cost Bayswater 50,000 pounds.
The reason why it was so cheap was that Joe Hart had not yet played in the first team.
But according to the youth training rules in England, once Bayswater sold Joe Hart in the future, Shrewsbury would receive a considerable amount of youth training fees.
From the north of England, Yuvi went south to Derby County.
As early as when Yuvi went to Croatia and France, Luxman had already contacted Derby County, but the other party always rejected Bayswater 's inquiry for midfielder Tom Huddlestone.
Huddlestone, who played with England U17 in the European Youth Championship in Portugal, also conveyed through his agent that he refused to join the English League Two team.
The reason was also very sufficient.
Derby County is a second-tier English League One team, and Huddlestone is an international player of the England U17 youth team. Why did he go to the third-tier Bayswater to play football?
When England U17 finished the European Youth Championship with a fourth place and returned to England, Yuvi came to Derby County again.
He first met with the top management of Derby County, and then met with Huddlestone, the player's parents and agent.
Yuvi is very optimistic about this native English midfielder.
Because in his tactics, he really needs a midfielder like Huddlestone.
During the meeting, Yuvi introduced Huddlestone's situation in detail.
In England U17, he was not a main player, and in Derby County, he was not a main player either.
Instead of staying in Derby County, it would be better to go to Bayswater .
"I am willing to give you the main position in the midfield!" Yuvi promised solemnly.
In addition, Yuvi also said that Bayswater 's goal this season is to be promoted, but what about Derby County?
Last season and the season before last, they were both in a thrilling relegation.
Who can guarantee that they can successfully avoid relegation this season?
Yuvi also explained his tactical positioning of Huddlestone and the role he will play in the Bayswater from the perspective of the players' technical characteristics.
This surprised Huddlestone and others.
They have always thought that Yuvi is the owner of the club.
Unexpectedly, he has such attainments at the tactical level.
But even so, after an in-depth and detailed discussion, Huddlestone and others were still not convinced by Yuvi, but only euphemistically stated that they still need to think about it.
Obviously, they still need to communicate with Derby County.
Yuvi has a clear idea in his mind.
This is to see the "sincerity" of Derby County.
Yuvi naturally has no objection.
Because he himself is also making two or even more preparations.
If Huddlestone cannot be signed, he will choose Leon Andreasen, a midfielder from the Aarhus Club in the Danish League.
The 20-year-old Andreasen is a player of the Danish National Youth Team and can play as a midfielder and central defender.
Many fans may be unfamiliar with him, but he is definitely a ruthless person.
A few years later, when the future German coach Klopp first coached Mainz, he was able to shine, and Andreasen, who was loaned from Bundesliga Werder Bremen, played an indispensable role.
After the end of the season, Mainz failed to sign Andreasen as Klopp wished.
As a result, in the following season, Mainz was relegated.
Yuvi set a psychological price of about 1 to 1.2 million euros for Andreasen.
After all, Huddlestone is a local player with the advantage of a household registration book, so Yuvi's price was 1 million pounds, or 1.5 million euros.
But it needs to be paid in installments.
As for the result, Yuvi will wait and see.
(End of this chapter)