greenery is king

Chapter 659 The Future of the Club
No. 256, Schalke District, Gelsenkirchen is the headquarters building of Schalke 04, and many major decisions related to Schalke 04 come from this place.

At this time, in the chairman's office, the general manager was sitting opposite to the chairman. The two of them were holding a cigar in their mouths, but they didn't look relaxed, but frowned tightly.

"Mr. Chairman, according to your statement, we can't win this game?"

Chairman Joseph Schnussenberg is an old man in his 50s, but he is definitely not a bald old man with a fat head, big ears, and a bulging belly as shown in TV movies. Instead, he looks like a well-dressed man in his forties. Silver-gray hair is meticulous, and the clothes on his body are also neat. At first glance, he looks like a shrewd elite.

He smiled slightly at the general manager who looked more like the chairman than himself, but there was a sense of desolation in his smile, "There is no other way. What we are facing now is not whether we can win the Bundesliga championship, but Whether we can continue to live normally and healthily, our financial problems are imminent. If you look at Steingart now, you can think of our future. This is not the Schalke 04 I want."

"Maybe we can also sell some players, such as Ai Huan. I think his current worth can definitely be sold for more than 3000 million. With this fund..."

Before he could finish speaking, the chairman had already waved his hand and interrupted him, "Don't even think about it, we can't sell Ai Huan now, his appeal in Schalke is too amazing, It is far beyond our imagination. If we really sell him, then we will come to the end of this position. And it is not the best time to sell Ai Huan. I have a feeling that this person will bring We're over $[-] million in revenue."

"[-] million?" The general manager was startled, his eyes widened, "Really?"

The chairman chuckled, "That's what I was trying to figure out, because I always thought that this kid might really become the world's footballer. What would his value be like if it really came to that time? Of course, now It's far from being such a bad situation, we are just thinking about whether to continue to invest and let us get to the top, not anything else."

"Does Magath really want to go on?"

"Yes." The chairman took out a copy and threw it on the table. "This is a plan that Magath gave me the night they returned from Valencia. It's written very clearly. What he wants is a super team."

The general manager picked up the plan and looked at it seriously, and then frowned even closer, "If all these people get together, we will really be overwhelmed. The transfer fee for these people is a lot of money, and If you want to attract them, you must give a suitable price, and then the annual salary will become a black hole."

The chairman also stood up, walked slowly to the floor-to-ceiling glass window, looked at the gloomy sky outside the glass and sighed softly, "Not only that, but also Ai Huan's salary, it seems that 300 million is not enough anymore They're gone, that damned Anderson is indeed not as easy to deal with as Pierre in the past, he has already told us very implicitly that if we want to keep Ai Huan, we must sign a new contract, which is also a big problem."

"If even you are optimistic about Ai Huan's future, then this deal is not a loss."

The chairman shook his head slightly, "It's not easy. If you think about it, if you raise his salary, what about the others? His current salary is not the highest in the team, so no one will be picky about it, but if he buys If there are some good players, then the result will become comparisons with each other, and finally the salary structure will be broken, and then we will have some big problems."

The general manager didn't speak, and he was also thinking about how to solve this difficult situation.

But at this time the phone rang suddenly, the chairman walked over to pick up the phone, and laughed immediately after hearing the name over there, "Why did you call me?" The other side didn't know what they were talking about , but it is obviously concise and to the point, and he has already finished what he wanted to say in a few words, but the chairman's face has become a little weird.

He gently put down the phone but didn't speak, but seemed to be thinking about a very serious problem. After a while, the phone rang again and the chairman picked it up again, but this time he talked less, almost didn't say much. The sentence was completely listening to the other party, and finally said "I see." Then put the phone down.

The general manager didn't speak all the time, he was waiting for the chairman to say it himself, even if he had already guessed a little about many things, he couldn't say it himself.

Sure enough, the chairman said slowly, "The old Sigourney of Borussia hopes that I can go to watch this game."

The general manager seemed to have found something immediately, and his eyes immediately widened, "They mean they want to relegation?"

"Yeah, Borussia also wants to do something this time. It seems that it is not groundless to say that someone invested in their club."

"Then are you going?"

"Go, why don't you go, maybe this time we can see if we can open up a new path." The chairman seemed to have made a decision suddenly, "This game can be regarded as a test to see how Magath and Ai Huan will go. What are you thinking, if they really understand the significance of this matter, then I might as well gamble with them. I also hope that a championship cup can be placed in our honor room. Of course, if they don’t understand If so, then I can only say sorry, and I will sell Ai Huan at that time, and the money will be enough for us Schalke 04 to continue to live well."

"Then I'll arrange it, but which side?"

"That side made the first call," the director smiled slightly. "Our results this season are so good that they didn't take much advantage. What we want now is to take advantage of this game to make a big difference."

"Understood." The general manager finally smiled. At this moment, he seemed to see the future of the club clearly, and his mood improved a lot immediately. "I will arrange this matter, and there will be no mistakes."

"I've always been at ease when you do things, you can do it, but you still have to pay attention, who knows what this Ai Huan is thinking." The chairman waved his hand after speaking, then turned around and never looked at the boss The manager took a look.

(End of this chapter)