Super Marshal

For Paul Futrey, summer undoubtedly represents busyness and fulfillment.

After returning to Manchester from BJ China, he devoted himself almost non-stop to preparations for the new season.

Although, in the past year, he has been preparing for Gao Han's taking office, but now, Gao Han is really coming, and he has to rearrange many things.

For example, during BJ, Gao Han expressed the hope that the club could recommend an experienced coach to serve as his chief assistant coach. It is best for this coach to be familiar with the Premier League and Manchester City, so that he can get into work condition more quickly.

Paul Futre was also well prepared for this. Ever since he heard that Thomas Tuchel was coaching Mainz, he knew that Gao Han needed such a person, so he had already had a case in his mind. He had just returned to Manchester from BJ After that, he immediately called Brian Kidd in Portsmouth in the south.

Brian Kidd is the assistant coach that Ferguson misses the most so far. Before entering the Manchester United first team as Ferguson's assistant, he was the coach of the Manchester United youth team. The famous Class 92 came from his team.

After leaving Manchester United in 1998, he became the head coach of Blackburn Rovers for a time, but his results were not satisfactory. Then he went to Leeds United, first as the coach of the youth team, and later as the assistant coach of the first team. He personally experienced the Leeds team at the beginning of the century. The glorious peak of United, and later moved to the England national team, Sheffield United and Portsmouth.

This coach is not only familiar with everything about English football, but also has his own unique way of training young players. He is also good at player training and will definitely be Gao Han's best assistant in coaching the Premier League.

Sixty-year-old Brian Kidd heard that he was working as an assistant to Gao Han. He flew directly from Portsmouth to Manchester the next day, signed a contract with Paul Futrey on the spot, and quickly started work. .

Now sitting in the general manager's office, directly across from Paul Futre.

Sitting next to Brian Kidd was Spaniard Rodolfo Borrell, the youth academy director of Manchester City Club.

This name is absolutely unknown, and only a handful of fans know it, but if you talk about the players he has trained, everyone will definitely look at him with admiration.

Iniesta, Fabregas, Pique, Messi...

It can be said that this group of young talents produced by La Masia have all played under Rodolfo Borrell for a long time and accepted his training, especially Messi, who was the first manager to enter La Masia. He is the coach.

This youth training coach who works very well in Barcelona's youth training camp is actually a Madrid native through and through.

But after Guardiola took over the Barcelona first team, he began to carry out thorough reforms of the youth team. Rodolfo Borrell was eager to transform, so he left La Masia in the summer of 2008 and went to Greece to coach. After working for half a year, it ended in failure.

At this time, Paul Futre was looking for a youth training expert for Manchester City. Rodolfo Borelli, who was well-known in the Madrid coaching circle, was naturally poached by Paul Futre to Manchester City as the director of youth training.

What matters more to Paul Futre is that Rodolfo Borelli once worked with Gao Han. At that time, Gao Han was only an intern in the first team, so he did not remember this youth training expert of the youth team.

The main reason why Paul Futre called Brian Kidd and Rodolfo Borelli to his office was to urge them to prepare in advance so that Gao Han could enter the role as soon as he took office, and also to tell them the club's decision. .

From now on, in addition to being the team's head coach, Gao Han is also the club's chief technical officer. In other words, all matters related to competitive affairs in the club from top to bottom will be decided by Gao Han. Brian Kidd Needless to say, Rodolfo Borelli and the scouting department are all under Gao Han's jurisdiction.

After hearing the club's decision, both of them looked a little surprised.

In the entire European football world, there are only a handful of head coaches who enjoy this power. Even Arsene Wenger of Arsenal is not that big.

In other words, Gao Han will become Manchester City's Ferguson.

"This time, the club finally persuaded Gao Han to coach our Manchester City team. The big boss has also spoken. Not only does the head coach want the best, but the team also needs to build a luxurious star lineup to compete in the Premier League next season. It’s a big fight, so you must cooperate with Gao Han’s work.”

Paul Futrey really envied Gao Han.

Just yesterday, Gao Han's agent Jorge Mendes came to Manchester to negotiate a personal contract, but as it turned out, there was no need to negotiate at all. Manchester City recognized all the commercial sponsorship contracts that Gao Han had signed before, and they did not want any of Gao Han's likeness. power, and was given a sky-high annual salary of 50 million pounds after tax.

This is more than twice Gao Han's annual salary at Bayern Munich.

Not only that, the team also promised to give a generous championship bonus after winning the championship.

Paul Futre was almost shocked. Although he only signed a two-year contract, the club spent at least 200 million pounds on Gao Han. How bold is this?

But this is obviously just the beginning.

Big boss Mansour called Mubarak and Paulo Futre overnight, saying that the team's recruitment efforts must be strong and that superstars with market influence must be introduced as much as possible and must create a sensation. With the help of Gao Han and superstars, This momentum has allowed Manchester City to soar into the sky.

The first target the club aimed at was Kaká.

"Okay, I have already explained everything that needs to be explained. You go and do the work quickly." Paul Futrey was also a little tired.

Since coming back from BJ, he has been busy and never had a good rest.

But just when Brian Kidd and Rodolfo Borelli stood up to say goodbye, the door of the office was suddenly knocked open by someone, and only a man came in anxiously from the outside.

The three people in the office were startled by the sudden movement. When they took a closer look, they saw that it was David Harrison, the club's chief scout, a talent selection expert who has coached Leeds United for nearly ten years and has very rich experience. Brian ·Kidd was recommended to Paul Futrey.

"What's going on?" Paul Futrey was a little unhappy.

Someone walked in to my office space without knocking, and no one was happy about it.

"I'm sorry, but the matter is urgent." David Harrison rushed directly to Paul Futre's desk, "I just received the news from Milan. Just this morning, Kaka's Agent father Bosco has officially reached an agreement with Real Madrid on Kaká’s personal treatment, and the contract will be signed in the afternoon.”

"What?" Paul Futrey jumped up from his seat.

"How come it's so fast? Didn't we even agree on the price before?"

"That's right." David Harrison shook his head vigorously, "But according to the information I received, Real Madrid President Florentino suddenly visited Milan in person yesterday and reached an agreement with Galliani in just one morning. After reaching an agreement, we met with Kaka’s father and lawyer in the afternoon to discuss personal treatment, and an agreement was reached in the morning.”

Paul Futrey's face changed.

He never expected that things would suddenly change like this, so fast.

He had told Gao Han before that Real Madrid's progress was not going well and the price had not been agreed upon with AC Milan. It was estimated that there would be no result before mid-July. After all, it was a superstar transfer and involved all aspects of the contract terms. .

Because of this, Gao Han was not in a hurry to call Kaka. He wanted to wait until Manchester City and AC Milan reached an agreement before coming forward to discuss with Kaka. After all, this was more formal and would avoid being caught and making a big fuss.

Unexpectedly, Florentino personally led the team to Milan for negotiations, and the progress was so fast.

You know, Kaká is the first superstar that Manchester City has contacted and fought for in the past year. If he goes to Real Madrid, it will definitely be an operational error by the Manchester City management, and the first one to bear the brunt is Paul Futre.

When he thought of this, Paul Futrey was completely confused.

He waved his hands absentmindedly towards the three people in front of him, indicating that they should all go out first and that he needed to think calmly.

But after all three of them went out, he still couldn't think of a way.

The only thought that came to mind was to ask Gao Han for help.

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Kaka attaches great importance to this signing in the afternoon.

After lunch, he went back to his room to take a shower, shaved, and changed into a suit specially made for him by his master Zhang Quan from BJ. Looking at himself in the dressing mirror, Kaka raised the corner of his mouth. A smile appeared.

He hopes that this signing in the afternoon will be a new life for his career.

Walking back to the room and taking the mobile phone on the bedside, Kaka hesitated whether to call the boss Gao Han.

Real Madrid chairman Florentino said that his people have been trying to get Gao Han to coach at the Bernabeu, and Kaka also wanted to call Gao Han and tell him that he had decided to go to Real Madrid and hoped that he could come too. .

Let Kaka transform, this is what Gao Han has said long ago, and transforming under Gao Han is what Kaka has always expected.

It's just that he has always been hesitant, not knowing whether he should make this call.

Finally, Kaka made the decision to fight.

Even if it's just telling the boss that he's joining Real Madrid.

Thinking of this, Kaka found Gao Han's mobile phone number in the address book, but just when he was about to press the dial button, the door was opened from the outside, and his wife Caroline walked in, asking Kaka The hand pressing the keys stopped.

"What's the matter?" Kaka asked.

"My father said it was time to go, so as not to keep Real Madrid waiting," said Caroline.

Kaka glanced at the number he was about to dial, finally pressed the cancel button and nodded towards his beautiful wife.

"Well, let's go."

Caroline smiled brightly at Kaka and walked over to help him tidy up the collar and cuffs of his suit.

When the young couple came down the stairs, Bosco and the two lawyers who were sitting in the living room stood up.

This time, the contract negotiations with Real Madrid went surprisingly smoothly. Real Madrid's request was very simple. Half of Kaka's image rights. As for the commercial contract signed by Kaka before, there is no conflict with Real Madrid's existing contract. , so this is not a big problem.

As for Kaka's annual salary and terms, Real Madrid also made considerable concessions. From the entire negotiation process, Real Madrid did show enough sincerity, especially Florentino, who promised Bosco more than once. Real Madrid will do its best to invite Gao Han to coach at the Bernabeu to help Kaka successfully transform.

Everyone believed in the real estate tycoon's promise.

"Okay, let's go."

After saying goodbye to their families, Kaka and his son got into the car with their lawyer and headed towards the hotel where Florentino was staying.