Once upon a time, it was a near-monopoly business for South Ameri pyers to move to Europe.

  Take Ferger, the godfather of Brazilian football, as an example. As a, he trolled almost all the els for Braziliao move abroad, recruiting partners in various European tries.

  The most famous of these is Puese agent Je Mendes, who started out running errands fer.

  But gradually, the teams in the European leagues began to realize that there were huge fws in this model.

  To put it simply, the middlemen were earning too much of the difference.

  The wealthy teams don't pay much attention to these. As long as the pyers they provide meet their strength requirements, they don't miing them draw an agency fee because they don't care about mohey care about talent.

  However, the mid and lower-tier teams of the five major leagues, as well as some sed-tier league teams, gradually realized that there was a lucrative market here.

  In fact, they have a natural advantage over middlemen like Figer.

  For example, teams such as Sevil in La Liga, Udinese in Serie A, and Porto in the Puese Super League were the first to tap into this lucrative market in South America. They went directly to the sourd grabbed high-quality pyers at good prices.

  Those selected by them are sent directly to their teams or satellite teams to train and py.

  For example, pyers like Dani Alves and Julio Baptista in La Liga, who were not famous before, pyed for Sevil, showcased their strength, and won the favor of the giants.

  Now, Dani Alves is Sevil's most coveted star, with many giants eagerly watg.

  Pyers who have been verified by teams such as Porto, Sevil, and Udinese have proven to be suitable for the European leagues, with their strength tested in petitions like the UEFA Cup and the Champions League. The possibility of them being a flop is very low.

  Therefore, the giant teams are more ined to sign pyers from these clubs.

  As a result, more and more European teams have started expanding their scoutiworks into South Amerid Africa.

  Agent giants like Figer gradually lost their market share, their businesses shrunk rapidly, and they gradually disappeared from the fans' field of vision, repced by teams like Porto, Sevil, and Udinese, who operate on a "bck shop" model.

  Among them, Ajax ioneer in actively developing the Afri market, but unfortunately, they didn't stick to this path, which also led to their dee from the top tier in the early 2000s.

  Napoli's De Laurentiis is a very shrewd owner. He could see the operational meism of Udinese's model at a gnce, and he also uood that with his financial resources, it would be challenging to pete with the top three in the north of Serie A for a long time.

  Sht after he restructured Napoli, he poached teical director Pierpaolo Marino from Udinese.

  After the founder of the Udinese scoutiwork came to Naples, he began actively developing overseas talent markets for Napoli.

  When Gao Shen and Lucas both arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Roman Dias, who received them, was Marino's partner in Argentina.

  Befao Sheentina, he had already faxed Roman Dias a list of the pyers he wanted and asked him to explore the situation in advahe results were mixed.

  ...

  "I just got your fax and immediately got in touch with the Uruguayan team, but unfortunately, they have already sold Luis Suarez to Groningen in the Eredivisie. You're a few days te."

  At the hotel where Gao Shen and Lucas were staying, Roman Dias came to report on his test progress.

  Gao Shen frowned. He had known for some time that Suarez would trao the Eredivisie this summer and tacted Roman Dias immediately, but he was still a step behind.

  There's nothing to be done about it that's life!

  "What about the others?" Gao Shen asked with .

  "The Indepee team is in Buenos Aires. I first tacted them. At that time, there were also some agents who were actively operating the pyers of Indepee to move abroad. You know, their pyer Aguero just moved to Atlético de Madrid for 20 million euros, and the agent made crazy money from it."

  Gao Shen had also heard of this transfer, and it was indeed shog.

  Of course, from the perspective of 2021, Aguero's deal was quite worthwhile, but in 2006, paying a transfer fee of 20 million euros for a 19-year-old teenager was simply astronomical.

  "What about Lucas Biglia?" Gao Shen asked with .

  This pyer was also a key target for him.

  Many people got to know Biglia from the World Cup in Brazil, but in fact, he was already a mainstay in Argentina's youth national teams at all levels. For example, in the 2005 World Youth Championship ihernds, which was Messi's only world championship, Biglia was the main midfielder.

  But sometimes, choices ge a person's life.

  Instead of pying iop European leagues, Biglia went to Anderlecht in Belgium.

  Although he has always been the main core of this team, his reputation has not been widespread. It wasn't until the World Cup in Brazil that he gained snition, which allowed him to join Lazio in Serie A, where his strength was further aowledged.

  Moreover, this pyer is both offensive and defensive, with siderable skill.

  "I've asked around, and there are agents w on it. If you are sure you want him, I'll start iatiht away, but it has to be quick," Roman Dias said with some urgency. He also gets a ission for pleting this deal.

  However, pared to those agents who work directly with European clubs, the ission is less, as it is more about facilitatiiatioweewo clubs. As for the transfer fee, that's up to the two sides to iate.

  Each type of agent has its own survival mode, and Roman Dias survives this way.

  "How much do you think it will cost?" Gao Shen asked.

  After thinking about it, Roman Dias said, "Between 1.5 million and 2 million euros."

  Gao Shen took ell me about the others."

  "Di Maria is in Rosario, not far north of Buenos Aires, and is currently a substitute for the first team of Rosario tral. He hasn't had a standout performa, but he is oeen years old. I guess the transfer fee should be about the same as Biglia's."

  Gao Shen nodded repeatedly, which was much lower than he had expected.

  This should be the advantage of not having a middleman take a cut.

  If he remembered correctly, Di Maria performed well at Rosario tral the following year. After his agent transferred him to Benfica, he was worth more than seven million euros. So now, signing him would be very cost-effective.

  Buenos Aires, the capital entina, and Montevideo, the capital uay, are separated by a bay and are very close.

  Uruguay's Danubio is in Montevideo, aer-forward Edinson i is currently pying for this team. In the just-cluded league, he scored foals in ten games and three goals in five cup games, showing good performance.

  Luis Suarez from the Uruguayan national team scored ten goals in 29 games and one goal in three cup games. His overall performance is slightly better than i's. The fee for his move to Groningen was 800,000 euros.

  Of course, this price was a steal because a year ter, Groningen sold Suarez to Ajax for ten times the price.

  As for i, Roman Dias believes that his price is at most around the same as Suarez's.

  After all, the euro is very valuable.

  Plus, with no middleman taking a cut, European teams buying pyers in South America is almost like a harvest.

  Gao Shen realized he had made a mistake.

  He initially po spend several million euros to acquire these three future stars, but now it seems he doesn't o spend that much.

  Now, he increasingly uood a saying: the essence of business is asymmetriformation.

  A pyer sold for only a few huhousand or oo two million euros in South America could sell for millions or even tens of millions in Europe after iation and manipution by a. What a hugely profitable business!

  Just like Aguero, apart from being a transmigrator with knowledge of his future achievements, what achievements does he have now to warrant a 20-million-euro price tag from Atletiadrid?

  The most valuable thing is that he pyed in the Argentine League at the age of 15 and is the you pyer in history. At the same time, he scored 18 goals in 36 games st season. There is no doubt about his strength and potential.

  But is he worth 20 million euros?

  His agent is Jose Segui, one of the most powerful agents in Spain, and he is affiliated with the world-famous IMG pany.

  In fact, everything behind this, to put it bluntly, is about hyping up a story.

  And Atletico was willing to pay for the story.

  Of course, this does not mean that Aguero has nth or potential.

  No, on the trary, Aguero's strength and potential are beyond doubt.

  But 20 million euros is eous!

  Another cssic case is the transfer saga between Neymar and Bara and Real Madrid. This is actually a very typical case of how a middlemaes and packages a pyer. The difference is that Neymar simply made his father the biggest middleman.

  The South Ameri football market is so chaotic that if there isn't someone familiar with the terrain like Roman Dias leading the way, let alone Gao Shen, even Marino would have difficulty figuring things out.

  And Gao Shen is also very fortuhat in the tract he signed with Napoli, there is a cuse for sharing the transfer price of the pyers he signed.

  It turned out that this decision was incredibly smart.

  ...

  ...

  After making some adjustments, Gao Shen had Roman Días apany him as he went to hahe club's affairs.

  First, they visited Club Indepee to discuss the transfer of Biglia, a pyer from the Argentine Youth National Team who also holds Italian citizenship. After iations, Gao Shen secured the transfer for 1.8 million euros.

  Acc to Roman Días, they could have iated for an even lower price with a bit more patience.

  , they headed north to Rosario, where they iated with Rosario tral for Di María. Gao Shen mao sign the "Angel Wing" for 1.2 million euros. From there, they immediately crossed the bay a directly to the capital uay.

  This time, the deal was the most successful. Upon hearing that a European team wao buy Edinson i, the other party almost didn't eveiate. They agreed to 800,000 euros a him go immediately, simir to how Suárez was transferred.

  Gao Shen did not expect his trip to South America to be so smooth.

  Meanwhile, Roman Días tio receive more updates.

  In addition to Di María, i, and Biglia, Gao Shen was also ied in three other South Ameri pyers.