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George acted very quickly. The day after the deal was made privately with Ferguson, major British media received news from unknown sources: Tottenham Hotspur intends to acquire David, the current captain of the England national team. Beckham was brought to White Hart Lane and has made a formal offer to the Manchester United club where he plays!
At the same time, Manchester United officials also confirmed the authenticity of the news and announced the specific transfer fee amount quoted by Tottenham for Beckham - 40 million pounds!
Tottenham bid £40 million for Beckham! The announcement of this news immediately caused a huge earthquake in English football and even the entire European football world. Everyone who heard the news was wondering whether George was also planning to follow the old path of Cragnotti and Florentino and use the pounds in his hands to create a bright road for Tottenham leading to the top giants. ?
However, given Beckham's current reputation and status in the football circle, the possibility of joining Tottenham is not very high. After all, although Tottenham offered a high transfer fee and were willing to give Beckham the world's number one salary, Beckham also had to consider whether joining Tottenham would have a negative impact on his own commercial value - you know , unlike Real Madrid and Barcelona, the top giants in big cities, Tottenham Hotspur in London is a club that doesn't even qualify for the European competition!
On the other side, after learning that Tottenham was interested in bringing in Beckham and offering a sky-high transfer fee of 40 million pounds (approximately 64 million U.S. dollars) for the "heartthrob", Milan originally wanted to take advantage and muddy the waters. The two heroes immediately gave up and withdrew from the battle for Beckham - in their view, Beckham's commercial value was far from high enough to justify paying such a large transfer fee for him.
For Barcelona, Laporta, who had just assumed the role of president, also chose to terminate negotiations without hesitation. However, for the sake of his own chairmanship, Laporta, who promised to bring Beckham to Camp Nou during the campaign, did not immediately announce the news to the outside world, but still pretended to intend to acquire Beckham. Posture!
Obviously, although Tottenham's chances of success are not high, with its participation, clubs that lack financial resources or are not interested in this will actively choose to withdraw. The rest are those buyers who have money and really want to win Xiaobei.
Just when people were speculating on how Beckham would respond to Tottenham's offensive, George took action again. This time Tottenham's poaching target has been replaced by its city rival, Arsenal, currently the second strongest team in the Premier League!
"Alex, how do you think I did this time?" On the phone, George was proudly showing off his recent results, "I offered David 40 million pounds, and packaged Henry and Vieira for 60 million pounds. ...Hmph, I guess Arsenal must be having a headache right now as to whether they should agree to my offer in exchange for funds to build a new stadium."
It stands to reason that if Tottenham, a rival in the same city, comes to poach their pillar, Arsenal should immediately refuse it sternly to show their attitude. However, when Tottenham actually proposed this transfer deal to Arsenal, Wenger and Arsenal's senior management did not object to the matter at the first time, but very subtly did not give any response.
The reason for this situation is mainly because Arsenal has begun construction of their new stadium. The high cost of up to 390 million pounds is expected to put the Gunners on an extremely heavy financial burden. Therefore, when Tottenham proposed a package deal of 60 million pounds to buy Henry and Vieira, Wenger, who had been worrying about how to pay off the debt as soon as possible, couldn't help but feel a little moved.
After all, in Wenger's eyes, no player is irreplaceable, even if it is Vieira, the team captain, and Henry, who can score a double-double of goals and assists. The question is simply whether the professor can find a suitable replacement. If possible, then even players of the level of Vieira and Henry would be exchanged for money by Wenger.
Of course, there are many reasons why Wenger did not immediately agree to Tottenham's offer. The most important one is that if he sells the backbone of the team to Tottenham, Arsenal's century-old rival, it will definitely cause strong dissatisfaction among Arsenal fans - this point, since Campbell's free transfer to Arsenal, the result is not only Tottenham Spurs fans hate him to the core, and it can be seen that even Arsenal fans don't like him very much.
What's more, selling Vieira and Henry will also have a huge negative impact on the Gunners' reputation and appeal. No one believes that a club that dares to sell the core of its team but does not have any big spenders in the transfer market has the possibility of becoming a top giant.
Therefore, under the combined effect of these two factors, Wenger and Arsenal's senior management are very entangled - on the one hand, they want to take this opportunity to kill George severely in exchange for Arsenal's scarce funds; on the other hand, they want to take this opportunity to kill George. , they don’t want to bear the negative impact of selling core players to Tottenham.
However, what Arsenal's senior management and Wenger did not expect was that their hesitant attitude aroused dissatisfaction among Henry, Vieira and others - we have made so many great contributions to Arsenal, don't you think Forget about the salary increase. Now that Tottenham have quoted a high price and you are so hesitant, do you think we are just goods that can be sold at a good price?
"Haha, that's right. George, you always bring me extra surprises." Imagining his old rival Wenger's frowning face at this time, Ferguson was also extremely happy at this time, "There is no immediate offer for you. Responding is definitely Wenger's biggest failure. I can already imagine that Henry and Vieira will definitely be dissatisfied with Wenger and the club because of this, and have the idea of leaving Arsenal."
"By the way Alex, how is the situation with David? Do you need me to add fuel to the fire and make Real Madrid raise the price?" George is still quite concerned about things he has promised to others. , "Also, if Beckham really chooses to join Tottenham in the end, Alex, will you agree to my fake show?"
Although Victoria and Simon Fowler were very dissatisfied with Tottenham's sudden intervention, Beckham himself understood this and expressed his willingness to cooperate with Tottenham's price increase. After all, in Beckham's view, the amount of his transfer can also reflect the importance Real Madrid attaches to him - if Real Madrid is unwilling to pay more transfer fees for him, why should Beckham believe in Floren? Tino’s so-called sincerity?
What's more, Beckham also has a lot of affection for Tottenham and George - before the age of 13, Beckham had been receiving football training at the Tottenham youth training camp, and only chose to leave at the invitation of Manchester United. He has a natural impression of Tottenham. Not bad; at the same time, the existence of George also made Beckham have a certain interest in joining Tottenham. After all, he had just won a Premier League championship under George, and they knew each other well and had a good relationship... Therefore, Tottenham was also included in Beckham's consideration, although it was only ranked among all his options. Just the last choice.
"No, no more than two years ago, the price of 40 million euros is already a very rare high price at this time. If the price is raised again, I'm worried that Real Madrid will directly withdraw from the transfer negotiations." I heard George say this , Ferguson quickly spoke to stop the other party from continuing to raise the price, "As for the fake show... I admit that David does have some interest, but with that woman Victoria here, I think you'd better not have too much hope. .”
"That's right." Regarding Ferguson's opinion, George nodded in agreement. Although he admired Victoria for working hard for her husband's career development, this did not mean that he would like this woman who prevented Beckham from focusing on his football career: "Then, it depends on your ability Alex. . It would be best to let Real Madrid put more blood, since they can't pursue profits anyway, so it would be a waste not to spend so much money on us."
With that, George said goodbye to Ferguson and hung up the phone. After the promise to Ferguson was completed and it was determined that the possibility of Beckham joining Tottenham was slim, George no longer paid attention to the negotiations between Manchester United and Real Madrid and continued to monitor the team's current signing progress.
Looking at Ferguson's side, with Tottenham's transfer offer of 40 million pounds, which is comparable to Zidane's world's most valuable transfer offer, Manchester United has become much tougher in the subsequent negotiations, and dared to ask Real Madrid to increase Beckham's salary. Transfer fee figures - If we don’t raise the price, we will sell Beckham to Tottenham, whose asking price is nearly double yours!
Faced with this situation, Florentino, who knew that he would be severely beaten by Manchester United this time, had no choice but to accept his fate and obediently increased the transfer fee to 40 million euros in the subsequent negotiations!
Although this figure is far from Tottenham's transfer offer of up to 40 million pounds, Real Madrid's reputation is far from being comparable to Tottenham's today, and 40 million euros was also considered a sky-high price in 2003. , so Ferguson did not insist that Real Madrid must maintain the same bid as Tottenham, and only planned to get some more benefits from Lafayette on this basis.
So, after some bargaining, Manchester United agreed to Real Madrid's plan to introduce David Beckham for a transfer fee of 45 million euros, making this transfer that attracted the attention of the world finally open in the summer transfer window. The day has come to an end!
And Tottenham Hotspur, which made Real Madrid spend a full 10 million euros more than expected on Beckham's transfer with just one offer, also became famous. Coupled with the previous move to acquire players such as Carrick, Drogba, Cech and Cristiano Ronaldo with transfer fees that were much higher than the normal market price, some people have begun to secretly call Tottenham "high-priced Spurs". "Yes.
