Chapter 1085: Bringing Humiliation to Oneself

Mendes' stay in China was even shorter, and he returned to Europe one day later to continue contract renewal negotiations with Manchester United.

Mendes did not go against the rules and told David Gill straightforwardly that his annual salary could be reduced to 18 million euros.

David Gill reported Mendes' proposal to Glazer's eldest son Ephraim, who is now in charge of United.

Efram misjudged the situation. He thought Mendes was scared, so he told David Gill that the annual salary of 18 million euros was also unacceptable. It was only 15 million euros and would not increase by one euro.

David Gill knew what was going on. He told Ephraim that Ferguson had personally gone to Gao Xiaodong and promised him the captaincy. Only then did Gao Xiaodong give in. If he could not increase the price, the contract renewal negotiations would probably be difficult. Still no progress.

"Twenty million is a big deal, and we can't accept it. Eighteen million is too much. It's not that we didn't give him a salary increase, but it was an increase of three million. We can't give him a raise all at once." Six million, David, if you persist a little longer, I think Mendes will recognize the reality."

Ephraim is aware of Ferguson's influence, but he still doesn't believe that Gao Xiaodong will ask for less than 2 million euros for a captain's position. He thinks that if he persists, maybe Mendes will accept Manchester United's contract extension conditions. of.

In order to achieve his own goals and put pressure on Gao Xiaodong and Mendes, Ephraim also found some media to cooperate and criticized Gao Xiaodong for being greedy for money and lacking loyalty to Manchester United.

David Gill had no choice but to tell Mendes that Manchester United could only provide Gao Xiaodong with an annual salary of 15 million euros.

Of course, Mendes and Gao Xiaodong would not agree, but they were not angry. They believed that Manchester United's top management would recognize the reality and the initiative was in their hands.

However, the media criticism that followed made both Gao Xiaodong and Mendes angry. This was bullying. Do you think no one wants Gao Xiaodong?

Gao Xiaodong immediately told Mendes to put aside the contract renewal negotiations with Manchester United and contact other clubs to listen to their offers.

While Evram and David Gill were dreaming about Gao Xiaodong's compromise, the French newspaper L'Equipe suddenly broke the news that Mendes and Chelsea owner Abramovich had tea together in Paris. Although apart from tea, there was nothing The news did not spread, but sensitive reporters immediately realized that something might be going on.

Later, "Gazzetta dello Sport" broke the news that Mendes visited Manchester City coach Mancini in Milan. "Gazzetta dello Sport" said this is likely to involve the transfer of a superstar.

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Gao Xiaodong also echoed Mendes. When interviewed by Sports Weekly and Football News, when reporters asked Gao Xiaodong whether the transfer rumors outside were true, Gao Xiaodong answered vaguely, saying that he believed it. If you don’t believe it, then there is nothing.

After Gao Xiaodong's words spread to Europe, they aroused the endless imagination of fans. Should they believe the rumors of Gao Xiaodong's transfer or not?

But one thing is certain. When the pre-season training of the new season is about to begin, if Gao Xiaodong is sure that he will stay at Manchester United, he probably will not use such vague language to deal with reporters.

The sense of crisis among Manchester United fans has returned. They cannot accept the result of losing Gao Xiaodong. For Manchester United fans, Gao Xiaodong plays a greater role than Ronaldo.

Therefore, Manchester United fans spontaneously gathered outside the Carrington training base and Old Trafford Stadium to urge the club to complete the contract extension with Gao Xiaodong as soon as possible to avoid the tragedy of Beckham and Ronaldo.

Manchester United club executives, Ferguson and Evram were also aware of the crisis, because after David Gill rejected Mendes's annual salary of 18 million euros, Mendes refused to negotiate with Manchester United. Wei Geer didn't answer his phone calls.

Although Manchester United does not want to pay more, it does not want to lose Gao Xiaodong. Gao Xiaodong supported Manchester United's offensive and defensive system last season. If Gao Xiaodong transfers, Manchester United will have no way to find a replacement.

After Ferguson visited Gao Xiaodong in China, Gao Xiaodong reciprocated the favor and lowered the original asking price by 2 million euros. 18 million was an astronomical figure. Ferguson was not satisfied with this figure because it would definitely affect Manchester United's future. Salary structure, but Ferguson is still very confident in his control. He feels that even if Gao Xiaodong is given an annual salary of 18 million, no one will dare to rebel.

Soon David Gill told Ferguson that Ephraim did not agree to the conditions proposed by Mendes and insisted on the original annual salary of 15 million. Ferguson was not angry about this. After all, he, the head coach, could not negotiate with the players in person. , this can only be done by David Gill. As long as the contract can be renewed in the end, Ferguson doesn't care what method David Gill and Ephraim use to complete it.

However, the development of the matter was beyond Ferguson's expectation. As the media criticized Gao Xiaodong, Mendes refused to continue negotiations with Manchester United. There were rumors that Gao Xiaodong might transfer, which scared Ferguson. He felt that if If he continues like this, he is likely to lose Gao Xiaodong, a strong player.

Ferguson first found David Gill and scolded him severely, saying that he had messed up the matter.

David Gill was unconvinced. He said that the matter had nothing to do with him. He did it according to the wishes of Glazer's eldest son, Ephraim. Ephraim did not want to pay more money, and he had no choice.

As soon as Ferguson heard this, he understood the crux of the problem. Ferguson could not let Ephraim continue to mess around. However, Ferguson did not go to Ephraim. Ferguson flew directly to the United States to find the old Glazer who was bedridden. He wanted to start from Solve the problem at the source.

Old Glazer was surprised and happy about Ferguson's arrival, because he also wanted to understand the real situation at Manchester United.

Old Glazer dismissed the people who were serving him and met with Ferguson alone for more than two hours, and then Ferguson left the United States directly.

No one knows what the old Glazer and Ferguson discussed when they met, but after Ferguson left, the old Glazer immediately called Efram over, severely criticized him, and ordered him to accept Gao Xiaodong's conditions. Contract renewal negotiations will resume immediately.

Ephraim thought that Ferguson was here to sue him, and secretly hated Ferguson.

Even though the old Glazer has been bedridden for many years, his power is still there. Efram did not dare to disobey, and quickly asked David Gill to negotiate with Mendes and accept an annual salary of 18 million euros.

David Gill was speechless and thought to himself, why did you go there earlier? Since you are going to accept Mendes' conditions, why do you still offend Mendes and Gao Xiaodong? Isn't this self-humiliation.

Just like Efram did not dare to disobey his father Glazer Sr., David Gill did not dare to disobey Efram and could only bite the bullet and go to Portugal to find Mendes in person.