After being rejected, I became Shi Yijiao

At the same time that Fan Jianyang was taken care of, Pan Yi's flight was already in the air to the Netherlands.

This time his target is a veteran, but also one of his old subordinates.

Former Hamburg team captain, Westermann!

At this time, Westerman has entered the end of his career. Last year, after the expiration of his contract in Hamburg, he transferred to Ajax on a free transfer.

And such a player is exactly what Pan Yi wants!
The team's back line must not be all young and young. After all, this is a position that requires the most experience, and there must be a veteran to lead the way.

And isn't this kind of veteran captain with extremely high professionalism an excellent candidate?
Moreover, Westerman can not only play all positions on the back line, but also play as a midfielder. It is simply Fuan Jianyang plus, which is more useful.

In addition, his salary is not high, the current weekly salary is probably less than six thousand euros.

Although it is quite tall compared with other players in the York City team, it is indeed very shabby for the captain who once won the Champions League trophy.

After all, let's not talk about clubs like Ajax. In fact, in many "big clubs" in the League One, the average salary of players is thousands of euros, or even [-] or [-] euros.

Therefore, Pan Yi communicated with Westerman on the phone first, and after confirming that the other party was interested, he flew directly to talk to the Ajax club.

Of course, Pan Yi also notified Ajax, probably because of Westerman, buyout or loan is fine.

In fact, for such a veteran, there is not much difference between renting or buying.

Because most of their contracts are signed once a year, if they don't play well, they just don't renew the contract and it's over.

However, since Westerman came with the halo of the Champions League champion, the contract at that time was still signed in 2018, so we still need to talk about the details-in the previous life, Westerman announced his retirement before the contract expired.

Considering his current age and competitive state, even if he really transfers, the fee should not be too outrageous.

As for Pan Yi's notification, Ajax did not directly nod to say yes or refuse, but only said that they can have an interview, and welcome Pan Yi to visit the Amsterdam Arena.

After arriving at Amsterdam International Airport, Pan Yi first went to the hotel to settle down, and then did not rest, but went directly to the Amsterdam Arena.

Of course, before going, I called the Ajax club to report. The other party seemed surprised by Pan Yi's vigorous style, but they still welcomed them politely and said that they would arrange staff to contact them.

The Amsterdam Arena is located on the outskirts of Amsterdam. Construction of the stadium began in 1993 with a cost of 1 million euros.

The stadium was completed on August 1996, 8 and can be used for football, American football matches and concert venues.

There are 51628 seats available for ball games and 68000 seats for concerts.

In March of this year, the famous Dutch star Johan Cruyff passed away, and he was also a legendary star in the history of the Ajax club.

As such, Ajax are already discussing renaming the Amsterdam Arena to the Johan Cruyff Arena in honor of the Dutch legend who was born in Amsterdam and went on to become one of the best players in world football history in the city.

Of course, the name has not been changed yet, so it is still called Amsterdam Arena.

When Pan Yi came here, he went to the reception room under the guidance of the staff. After waiting for about ten minutes, someone came over.

It's a familiar face.

It is the former Ajax, Juventus, Manchester United legendary goalkeeper, Van der Sar!

He has been a member of Ajax's board of directors since November 2012, initially as marketing director, but since this year he has taken on more of the role of CEO.

"Welcome, Pan Yi." Van der Sar greeted Pan Yi with a smile.

After exchanging a few words of pleasantries, the two started the negotiation on Westerman's deal without talking nonsense.

"Since Westerman is indeed not in the plan of our new head coach Peter Bots, we agreed to sell him." Van der Sar said simply, "The price is... 150 million euros."

Grass, so expensive?
Pan Yi complained in his heart.

It's not that Westerman is not worth the price now, nor is it that York City can't afford the money, but now they are not Chelsea after all, and millions of dollars are not worth it.

Money has to be spent wisely, save money.

150 million euros can be used for the annual salaries of many players!

Let's just talk about Westerman himself. With his current salary, he will spend about 30 euros a year...

"Then let's rent it." Pan Yi made the best second choice, "We will bear all his salary expenses."

Anyway, as a veteran, the annual rent is obviously much more cost-effective than a buyout.

But Van der Sar was not willing to make too many concessions: "You can rent, but you need to pay a rental fee of 50 euros a year."

"..." Pan Yi was a little speechless.

This is too outrageous, it's not worth it at all, it feels like buying it out!

When Van der Sar played football as a goalkeeper, he guarded the goal tightly. Now that he is an official, he also takes the money bag seriously.

But in fact, Pan Yi can also understand.

Because according to his understanding, the situation of Ajax is not very good recently.

Ajax, which has always relied on its own excellent youth training system to transfuse blood for the first team, has been somewhat unable to produce eggs in recent years.

In the first team in the past few years, there were basically no useful young talents, which also caused them to lose to the rival PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie competition for two consecutive years.

This season, Ajax is determined to start all over again. First, it hired the new head coach Peter Bots from Maccabi Tel Aviv, and then spent 1100 million euros to buy Morocco international Ziyech from Twente.

Of course, some other people were bought, but basically they were lesser-known characters, and they didn't cost much money, so they weren't worth mentioning-the only one who was a bit famous was the Dutch national goalkeeper Krul, but that was also rented from Newcastle United.

In addition, Ajax also promoted a 19-year-old young midfielder from the youth team to the first team. His name is Frankie de Jong.

And a few months before him, he also promoted a rookie named Van der Beek who was also 19 years old.

There is also a Cameroonian goalkeeper who is only 20 years old and has just been promoted from the second team to the first team, although he is not trained by the team. His name is Onana.

From Pan Yi's point of view, of course, he knows that this group of people from Ajax has actually begun to form a brand new youth army, which will stir up a brand new youth storm in the European arena.

They will reach the Europa League final and the Champions League semi-final in the next year or two, and of course they will also dominate the Eredivisie competition.

Then there was Ajax's supermarket sale, and these players sold for high prices.

But for Ajax now, where do they know what will happen in the future?
These young people, no one knows if they can take the lead!
The decline in performance and the lack of star output have made Ajax's financial mess in the past two years.

The behavior of spending more than 1000 million to buy Ziyech can be said to be a lottery ticket!
I just hope that the arrival of this Moroccan can improve the strength of the team, and secondly, it can be sold to the five major leagues at a high price after being kicked out...

This is actually the regular operating routine of a club like Ajax.

It’s just that in recent years, it’s really not doing very well. If their own youth training, including De Jong’s, can’t be kicked out, Ajax really can’t even keep the top spot in the country.

Therefore, as the new CEO of the club, Van der Sar's first priority at this time is to maintain a balance of income and expenditure, and make up for the expenditure of the buyer.

Marginal players like Westerman, of course, sell as soon as they are sold, and charge some rental fees if they can't be sold, so as to subsidize their families.

Even if it is a transaction of 200 million euros, it is still an income, even if it is an extra few hundred thousand euros, it is still money!
But Pan Yi replied firmly: "No, I can't accept such a high loan fee. We are only a League One club, you can't compare us with those big clubs."

"..." This time it was Van der Sar's turn to be speechless.

Yes, he knew that York City was only a League One team, but the problem was that their boss was Pan Yi!

The coach with an annual salary of 2000 million euros, plus various championship bonuses, and commercial endorsements, did not know how much money he made during his two years at Chelsea.

Not to mention the feeling that York City is already an online celebrity club. Various sponsors have sharpened their heads to get in, and they are still expanding the stadium recently. How can they have no money?
The main reason is that Ajax has a shortage of talents recently, and no one cares about its own players, so Pan Yi's visit can be said to make Van der Sar overjoyed, thinking that there will be a "big killer".

I didn't expect, I didn't expect, Pan Yi, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would be so stingy when doing business!

"How about it." Van der Sar rolled his eyes and thought of another way, "I can agree to rent Westman to your team for free, and you only need to bear 100% of his salary. But I have one condition."

"What conditions?"

"You can't just rent one player, you have to buy one or two players from our reserve team or youth team. The price...we will discuss it at that time."

Pan Yi scratched his head.

This is the legendary bundle sale?
This is not a good thing!
It can be said that Pan Yi hates this kind of bundled sales!
When he was a child in his previous life, he wanted to buy a CD of a love action movie, but the boss insisted that he buy another cartoon of "Gourd Baby", otherwise he would not sell it.

When Pan Yi reluctantly agreed, and went home excitedly to open the study, he found that... the two he bought were both "Gourd Baby".

In short, those who can join this kind of bundled sales must not have any good products!
"Isn't that necessary? I only want Westerman alone." Pan Yi shook his head.

"Mr. Pan Yi, why don't you look at the list first? With your ability to discover the potential of young players, maybe you can find treasure?" Van der Sar smiled and handed over a piece of A4 paper.

On it, there is a long list of lists, from the reserve team to the youth team.

It seems that we are really going to prepare for a clearance sale!

It's not that Ajax is not ready to live anymore, it's mainly because in recent years they have become a little less confident in their youth training system that they are proud of.

Who were the former Ajax youth training?

Van Basten, Rijkaard, Bergkamp, ​​De Boer brothers, Seedorf, "Wild Boar" Davis, Kluivert, Sneijder, including Van der Sar...

But now?

Let’s just say last year, they also sold a lot of people, so I won’t mention the names, just look at the places to know:

Willem II, Utrecht, Sampdoria, Nantes, Breda...

From this point of view, it is not the owner who can pay a big price. Of course, the players are not worth much.

And the list on this A4 paper, of course, has also been screened by Ajax.

In other words, those who they think are capable of playing in the first team have all been promoted to the first team and will not be included in this list.

In addition to Frankie De Jong, Van der Beek, Onana, there are also Caspar Dolberg, Vaclav Cheney, A. Rooney, Kluivert Jr., Norbert Albras and others-as time travelers, we of course know that these people have not really been kicked out.

Eight youth team players were promoted to the first team at once. In addition to showing that their youth training "a thin camel is bigger than a horse", it also reflects from the side that Ajax is indeed short of money!
Spending more than 1000 million to buy Ziyech, it can be said that it is not only a lottery ticket, but also a gamble!
Pan Yi was also very helpless, so he could only take the paper and glance at it casually.

I really don't know the name...

However, at the end of the list, Pan Yi accidentally saw a familiar name: Matthijs De Ligt!

Damn, isn't this the future winner of the European Golden Boy Award, who later transferred to Juventus for a transfer fee of 7500 million euros, and then transferred to the Dutch international of Bayern Munich for 7700 million euros?
While he does have a bit of a handball problem in the paint, those two high-priced transfers are a testament to his quality in themselves.

As an excellent modern central defender, De Ligt has both stable ground defense and deadly aerial strike ability.

His header ability can not only come in handy in the defense of his own penalty area, but also create threats in the opponent's penalty area.

In addition, excellent tackling ability, extraordinary physical fitness, speed and passing accuracy are all important reasons why De Ligt won the 2018 European Golden Boy Award and was later favored by so many wealthy clubs.

At this time, Pan Yi also noticed that De Ligt's name was not printed, but written with a pen later.

It feels like Ajax didn't want to sell De Ligt at first, but in the end they added it temporarily in order to raise money.

It probably means that you are 17 years old and still can't meet the standards of the first team, forget it or sell it!

Pan Yi quickly moved his eyes away from the last line on the list, and pretended to scan the names on it.

This can't be discovered by Van der Sar!
Otherwise, the price will definitely rise again.

Then Pan Yi probably figured it out too.

De Ligt has actually performed very well in Ajax's youth training echelon, but it is a bit risky for a 17-year-old defender to play in the first team so soon.

Moreover, defenders do not have very obvious data support like forwards. Whether they can be used or not will not be counted until they play.

There are too many young players who do well in youth teams but fail once they reach the pros.

In Pan Yi's previous life, Ajax at the time, to be on the safe side, first let De Ligt go to Ajax's second team to play in the Dutch second league this season, to see if he can withstand the pressure of the professional league.

Unexpectedly, De Ligt showed a maturity that did not match his age and played quite well in the second team.

So just over a month later, Ajax gave De Ligt a formal professional contract.

Another month later, in the first round of the Dutch Cup, Ajax beat Willem II 5-0. De Ligt got the chance to start and completed his first-team debut.

And he also scored the first team's first goal in the 25th minute of the first half, becoming the second youngest goal scorer in the history of Ajax after Seedorf.

By November, he had begun to become a stable main force of the first team, and played in the Europa League group stage, completing his European debut.

Only at this time did Ajax realize that I rely on this kid to be a talent!
So, renew the contract immediately! ——Because the previous professional contract was only signed at the level of De Ligt's second team at Ajax, it was too easy to be poached.

This is not over yet.

In that season, De Ligt reached the Europa League final with Ajax. He also broke the record and became the youngest player in the history of the European finals.

He was also named in the Europa League Team of the Season.

So, Ajax found that his prediction was wrong again!
They both renewed their contract with De Ligt again!This time, the contract was directly extended to 2021.

Later, it was the story of him winning the European Golden Boy Award and a high-priced transfer.

It can be seen from this incident that at least Ajax's valuation of De Ligt is quite biased at present, otherwise it would not have signed three consecutive contracts within a year.

Of course, if the valuation is correct, he would not appear on this for sale list.

However, although De Ligt is still young, he has already signed a professional contract.

A team like Ajax, which specializes in the "human trafficker" business, naturally has a very complete mechanism to prevent its children from being abducted halfway.

After all, national football associations have different age limits for young players to sign professional contracts. In the Premier League, they can sign professional contracts at the age of 16, in France, at 17, and in Spain, they can sign professional contracts.

Because of this age limit, the Spanish team is at a disadvantage. Many talented young people can only sign youth contracts with clubs before, and youth contracts are not protected by labor laws.

Therefore, Spanish teams often have young people who have worked hard to be poached before. Among them, Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger only spent hundreds of thousands of euros in training fees to poach Cesc Fabregas from the Barcelona La Masia youth training camp is the most famous example.

The Netherlands is also able to sign a professional contract at the age of 17. Ajax will even have an agreement with young outstanding players in advance, which is equivalent to signing a professional contract that will take effect in the future.

This so-called professional contract signed in advance is actually a means to tie players, and the liquidated damages are often relatively high.

Like De Ligt, the liquidated damages are as high as 1000 million euros!
However, since Ajax wants to sell, it will definitely not be higher than this price, otherwise Pan Yi will directly pay the liquidated damages, and then just talk to De Ligt.

Although it seems that 1000 million euros is not a lot of money when I was at Chelsea, but I can do a lot of things in many clubs.

Ajax bought Polish international Milik from Leverkusen last season, and only spent more than 300 million euros...

Pan Yi first read the entire list "seriously" calmly, and then frowned deliberately:
"How do I know which player is capable of playing in the League One, or even the Championship? Otherwise let me go to the training ground to see?"

This is Pan Yi's method of lowering prices to pick up leaks.

Otherwise, it would be too fake if he decides who to buy just by looking at the list.

Van der Sar might suspect that Pan Yi had already investigated De Ligt, so the price would definitely not be lower.

Hearing what Pan Yi said, Van der Sar laughed:
"Great! And what a coincidence, we have a warm-up match against Norway's Molde team tomorrow. You can watch it together, I will let these players play!" (End of this chapter)