Chapter 40 Ribery
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Moreover, to be on the safe side, Xu Genbao also added a special "buy-back clause" in the negotiation at the suggestion of Gao Lin, which is "if the player's playing time in official matches (including European games, Bundesliga, German Cup and League Cup) in the first season after transfer is less than 180 minutes, Dongfang Club has the right to buy back the player at the selling price." Because if it's just a year without playing, there's still a chance to restore competitive status. If it's longer, then it will be completely abandoned, especially for young players whose skills are not yet fully consolidated.
Bayern doesn't care about this, they are not the kind of club that relies on youth training to cultivate young players and sell them for money. If a young player can't play well after entering the first team for a period of time, they will usually be released directly. Now that this Chinese club is willing to spend money to buy him back, it's naturally the best outcome.
However, after discovering that Dongfang Club attaches great importance to Hao Hengmin's future, the Germans decisively killed another price, and the total cash payment for the transfer fee was reduced to 100,000 euros (the buyback price was also lowered). Fortunately, Gao Jun had previously persuaded Xu Genbao to add a clause "If transferred during his time at Bayern Munich, 50% of the transfer fee will belong to Dongfang Club" in the negotiations. As long as Hao Hengmin can really play, Dongfang Club won't lose out, after all, with his qualifications, no matter how he grows, it's unlikely that he'll really become a main player at Bayern, a top European club, so he'll eventually have to leave and pursue better personal development...
In addition, there is another thing worth mentioning, that is the National Games. Since Hao Haidong's former football school has been disbanded, he can represent Shanghai in next year's National Games. Therefore, after learning that Hao Haidong was about to go abroad, the Shanghai Football Association specially requested him to return to China next year to participate in the National Games in order to increase the chances of winning the championship. Bayern considered that Hao Haidong had little chance of becoming a substitute player, so having extra games to maintain his state was not bad either, and they readily agreed.
The final agreement signed made Bayern Club, Shanghai Football Association and Qiu Jianjian himself very satisfied. However, Dongfang Club, although it may gain a lot in the long run, only got 100,000 euros in cash for now, but lost its indispensable main right winger in the away game, undoubtedly suffering a huge loss.
Fortunately, Gao Jun brought back a scar-faced player during his trip to Brittany, France to "visit the prehistoric giant stones" after the Toulon Cup. At that time, except for Gao Jun, this traverser, no one in the world knew that this young man, who had just been released by a third-tier league team in France, would become one of the best wingers in the world in the near future. He is the future "Allianz King" Franck Ribery...
Actually, Gao Jun was very aware of Ribeiro's unhappiness before joining Metz, but at the time he was in China and couldn't find a reason to convince Xu Guobao to agree to let him come to France. In addition, Dongfang team itself also had many young players who needed game training, so Gao Jun temporarily put aside his idea of poaching Ribeiro.
However, the U23 team's trip to France for the Toulon Cup was undoubtedly a golden opportunity. On the one hand, Ribéry happened to be in France and had a good reason to stay. On the other hand, he had just been informed by his club, Brest, that they would not renew his contract, and he was already two months behind on rent payments to his landlord. Moreover, he had a wife to support. Desperate Ribéry even considered giving up football and working on a construction site to make a living... There's never been a better time to persuade him to play in China than now. If Gao Lin misses this opportunity, he will regret it for the rest of his life...
It's all thanks to Arsenal and Wenger's initial contact, otherwise he wouldn't have learned French at all. Taking advantage of the two French youth coaches at the base, Gao Lin made great progress in French in less than a year, although it can't be said that he is fluent, but daily conversations and football terminology are no problem. Originally, Gao Lin's learning of French was just to get along with coach Wenger after going to Arsenal, after all, Wenger is a language genius, but communicating in his mother tongue must be different from other languages, unexpectedly it was used to poach people first.
In addition, Gao Jun's careful consideration also played a big role. Before he set off, he thought that Ribery still had a lot of debt on his back and had to solve these problems before going to China. Therefore, he brought enough money (Note 1) to help Ribery pay off the debt and lent him travel expenses (including air tickets and living expenses after arriving in China), so this "Scarface Knight" was able to bring his wife, who had been married for over a year, to China...
Compared to the future achievements of Ribery, with the current limited financial resources of Dongfang team, no matter what salary is offered, it is impossible to keep him forever. In fact, Gao Lin also did not plan to keep him in Dongfang team forever, but rather cultivate and sell him for a higher price, which is more in line with the positioning of Dongfang club. Even if China's low football status affects Ribery's value, as long as he can be sold for 20 million euros, the financial situation of Dongfang club and Chongming Football Base will be greatly improved. After all, it is still the first year of the Chinese Super League, and the team's expenses are much lower than in later years (in 2005, the lowest annual expenditure among Chinese Super League teams was only 100 million yuan, which is unimaginable today).
With this in mind, Gao Jun very unreasonably lowered Ribery's annual salary to 500,000 euros (which would increase to 1 million euros if the team was promoted to the Super League). However, due to China's relatively low cost of living in 2004, his purchasing power was at least several times higher than what he earned in France, so he was still somewhat satisfied. Now, Gao Jun, who has the highest annual salary among domestic players in Dongfang Team with a mere 1 million RMB, according to the general situation of Chinese clubs where foreign aid income is two to three times that of the highest-paid domestic player, the salary offered by Dongfang Team is not low either. After all, at this time Ribery was still unknown and had not yet reached his full potential...
Note 1: To be honest, Gao Jun's annual income, including salary and bonuses, is only around a few hundred thousand yuan, so he doesn't have much cash on hand. In order to be prepared, he had to borrow some money from his teammates in the youth team, but fortunately many of them already play in the Chinese Super League and have some savings, and they also planned to go shopping while abroad, so they exchanged their foreign currency before leaving...
