novelraw Chapter 606 - 413: Official Offer of 230 Million! Paris Saint-Germain Goes All Out to Heavily Bid for Tang Long!
Chapter 606 - 413: Official Offer of 230 Million! Paris Saint-Germain Goes All Out to Heavily Bid for Tang Long!
"€230 million! Paris Offers a Fortune for Manchester City’s Core, Tang Long!"
"If You Can’t Beat Him, Buy Him! Whose Oil Fields Are Bigger, Qatar or the UAE?"
"Historical First Bid, Is Tang Long Going to Set a Record in Football Transfers?"
"The Ruthless Nasser, Paris Can Buy Anything They Want!"
The day before the second leg of the Champions League match between Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain.
Manchester City CEO Belgistan sat in his office, surrounded by newspapers of all kinds, fuming with rage, his head practically on fire!
If it was just the usual fabricated stories from some tabloids, Belgistan wouldn’t care at all.
But the €230 million offer was real!
Because as soon as he got to the office today and opened his email, he saw an official offer letter from Paris Saint-Germain, stamped with the club’s electronic seal.
Belgistan’s first reaction was that he had been tricked!
"Well, I’m the CEO of such a big club, Paris makes an offer for our core player, and no one in the whole club knows about it, yet these tabloids are more informed than I am!"
Belgistan repeatedly checked the email address and the electronic seal, confirming that it was indeed an official offer letter from Paris.
Despite the anger, he felt puzzled.
Not to mention €230 million, which is such an astronomical, ridiculous number;
The key is why Paris didn’t even send an inquiry before, just directly sent an offer with a number?
This clearly doesn’t follow the norms.
Ordinarily, the clubs should communicate, and if the other side is interested in one of our players, they should first send an inquiry asking whether we intend to sell the player.
Sending an offer with a specific number only happens in two scenarios.
One is if the player’s contract includes a release clause, any team has the right to take the player for a sum higher than the release clause—provided they discuss personal terms with the player.
The other scenario is we have explicitly told the other side that we are willing to sell the player, then they can make an offer!
But Belgistan is sure he never discussed anything with Paris, and as for Nasser, he hasn’t even met him once this year.
"This is a pile of nonsense, such an astronomical offer, and Nasser didn’t give me a call beforehand? So what, only Qatar has oil, and our UAE oil fields have nothing but seawater?"
In his anger, Belgistan immediately called his assistant, Commercial Director Belada into his office.
Seeing this scene, Belada was immediately dumbstruck.
His body was like a clay sculpture nailed to the ground, staring at Belgistan’s email inbox, at that offer letter from Paris Saint-Germain.
He yelled "Oh my," slapped his forehead heavily, then recounted exactly the encounter with Nasser at the Prince Park Stadium that day.
With this explanation, Belgistan was infuriated, jumping up to point at his nose and cursing:
"Belada, oh Belada, what should I say to you, as Manchester City Club’s Commercial Director, how could you make such a rookie mistake!"
"Can you just throw out any number like that? You didn’t think that someone as important as Nasser wouldn’t just babble nonsense with you in the player tunnel? Your brain is fried, aren’t you? With your IQ, dreaming of being the head of City Group, keep dreaming!"
Normally, if Belada were humiliated like this by Belgistan, he would definitely retaliate mercilessly;
But at this moment, even Belada himself was panic-stricken!
Not only did he not retaliate, he asked Belgistan with a trembling voice whether they should inform Tang Long.
"Well, you better close the door!" Belgistan sighed heavily, slumped into his chair, covering his face with his hands, not even bothering to look at his foolish subordinate.
After Belada closed the door, the two began to deliberate.
"We definitely need to inform Tang. Our contract with him stipulates that if another club makes an offer, he has the right to know, so we are obliged to tell him." Belgistan frowned deeply, heavily weighed down as if foreseeing a challenging problem ahead.
"Exactly, and now that the media is buzzing, even if we don’t inform his agent, Ronaldo will certainly come asking." Belada analyzed.
Belada gradually calmed down, though his forehead was still sweating, cursing Nasser over ten thousand times in his heart!
I just joked with you after the match, and you took it seriously?
A deep sense of absurdity washed over him.
If given another chance, when returning to three days prior, when meeting Nasser in the player tunnel, he would have turned away immediately, too lazy to say a word!
But now, it’s settled and irrevocable.
Nasser took his casual remark of €230 million and treated it as a precise response following Manchester City’s initial inquiry, then immediately presented the corresponding offer; such execution left Belada, a veteran of over ten years mixing in the football world, feeling dizzy.
Feeling a bit unconvinced, he bravely asked Belgistan:
"I won’t believe it! He offers €230 million, and if we accept, will he really bring out €230 million?"
In Belada’s understanding, even C Luo or Bell’s transfer fees are around €100 million.
Tang Long is very strong, young and competent, with massive commercial potential behind him, but is he alone worth €230 million?
This is too exaggerated!
What is the concept of €230 million? It can buy an entire team; who would spend so much money on one player?
The Qatar Foundation has money, but rich people also don’t like to be the suckers.
Belgistan was also stunned by Belada’s question;
However, after a moment of contemplation, he nodded and gave a definite answer.
"Since he dares to make an offer, he certainly has the means, and Belada, don’t forget, Europe’s financial fair play rules are about to be officially implemented. By convention, the first year of implementation won’t be too strict, but it will get stricter every year! Seizing this opportunity before the rules get tougher, if Nasser really wants to break the bank to acquire Tang, it’s not without guts, besides, given Tang’s performance in the first leg, I can imagine how infuriated he is; this is revenge on us!"
"Of course, regardless of how they offer, it doesn’t matter. We definitely won’t let Tang go. No matter the price, City Football Group won’t lose their most valuable asset."
"The key lies in how to deal with Tang and his agent Ronaldo. We can refuse, but it’s hard to prevent the player’s heart from wandering..."
As the two discussed countermeasures, hurried footsteps sounded from the corridor outside.
Pellegrini didn’t even knock, he just opened the door and stormed in.
"What’s going on? The match is tomorrow, and our player is being offered €230 million by the opponent, is this true?"
"Yes, it’s true, Mr. Pellegrini, we’ve received the official offer from their CEO Nasser." Belgistan could only respond truthfully.
"Ha, Nasser the scoundrel! He’s deliberately disrupting our morale before the match!" Pellegrini sneered coldly.
...
At this very moment.
Nasser was with the team, sitting in a chartered plane flying from Paris to Manchester.
He fiddled with his Patek Philippe watch, studying it closely.
This watch is worth €230,000.
Nasser’s mind was like a calculator, he glanced back at the cabin, immediately conjuring images of 1,000 boxes containing the same Patek Philippe model, stacked on seats, luggage racks, and in the aisles.
Nasser then recalled, at today’s Brent crude price, $46.50 per barrel, about €259.9 million could purchase ≈ 5,593,500 barrels.
Using 250,000-ton supertankers, about three would be needed.
"Hmm, a plane full of watches and three tankers, and Tang Long can be bought, this isn’t much money!"