Chapter 760 The Team Was Demolished!
Saturday, November 26.
Zhao Xuming brought his assistants to the SUG club headquarters in Shanghai.
The GOG branch of the SUG club is in Jingzhou, but the headquarters has other projects, so it is still in Shanghai.
As for why he chose the SUG club as his first goal, it is obviously the result of careful investigation and deliberation.
Zhao Xuming learned that the SUG Club has a personal grudge against Tengda's President Pei!
The SUG club was originally one of the oldest clubs that established the GOG branch and cooperated with Tenda, and the bid was the most generous.
Moreover, SUG successfully won the third place in the Global Invitational Tournament some time ago, without credit or hard work.
As a result, such a club was mercilessly kicked out of the GPL league by Mr. Pei, and could only play in the secondary league!
Now that the GPL is in full swing, preparations are in full swing, and the scene is in full swing. If Ding Gan, the owner of the SUG club, has no complaints, then Zhao Xuming absolutely does not believe it.
Moreover, the SUG club also has an ioi branch. It received some subsidies from Eric before, and it also has a contract with the live broadcast platform, so it can still be supported.
This time, Zhao Xuming wanted to start with the easiest SUG club first, and try to let SUG also help lead the way, and drive various clubs to hold training matches.
It's not a joke to play against other foreign teams in the world finals.
If you don't play a training match and go straight up to fight against foreign teams, you will definitely be abused and can't find your way, and you won't achieve the purpose of driving the popularity of ioi's national server. Although the time is tight, it is always good to sharpen your guns before the battle.
Ding Gan was already waiting at the gate of the SUG club.
Seeing Zhao Xuming get out of the car, Ding Gan immediately greeted him: "Mr. Zhao, welcome!"
Seeing that Ding Gan was so enthusiastic about him, Zhao Xuming was overjoyed at first, thinking that today's matter might be possible, but upon closer inspection, he seemed to feel that Ding Gan's eyes were a little evasive.
What's the situation?
Zhao Xuming didn't have the nerve to ask more questions, so he could only take it as his own illusion.
"Mr. Ding! Hello, hello. This is..." Zhao Xuming looked at a lady in formal attire who looked like she had just turned 30 and was standing next to Ding Gan.
Ding Gan said: "Oh, this is the manager of our club, Manager Yang."
Manager Yang smiled and said, "Mr. Zhao, please take care of me."
Zhao Xuming felt a little confused: "Hey, I remember that the manager of your club is not surnamed Li? Am I wrong?"
Ding Gan smiled awkwardly: "Oh, you must have found the information on the Internet, right? We just recently made some personnel changes..."
Zhao Xuming came to a sudden: "Oh, I'm sorry! My news may be lagging behind."
Ding Gan said with a smile: "It's okay, let's stop standing here and go in and talk? Please, please!"
Zhao Xuming and Ding Gan walked into the club talking and laughing, while Manager Yang led the assistants and drivers brought by Zhao Xuming to the back and received them attentively.
After arriving at the meeting room, the two sides sat down respectively.
Zhao Xuming drank a sip of tea, and after a few pleasantries, he felt that he could almost get straight to the point.
There is no need to keep a close eye on such a sure thing, and the SUG club has no reason to refuse.
Zhao Xuming's time is limited, and he has to focus on convincing other clubs.
Thinking of this, Zhao Xuming said: "President Ding, to be honest, I have good news for my visit this time!"
"At present, Finger Company is preparing for the ioi World Finals, and it attaches great importance to the domestic market, so this time it will give some places to domestic teams. SUG already has an ioi branch. This time, I tried my best to persuade the members of Finger Company The top management has set a quota for the SUG club."
Speaking of this, Zhao Xuming lowered his voice: "Inside information, please don't spread it outside."
Ding Gan nodded quickly: "That's for sure."
Zhao Xuming continued: "That's what I think. The current ioi branch of the SUG club is relatively complete, and the qualifications of the players are relatively old. We consider that the SUG club will take the lead and organize a training game to practice hands."
"We will talk about other clubs one by one, but the teams of these clubs may need to be strengthened and adjusted, so the organization of training matches may still need to be worried about by Mr. Ding and Manager Yang."
"What do you think?"
Zhao Xuming originally thought that Ding Gan would pat his chest and agree, but he didn't expect Ding Gan to look at Manager Yang with embarrassment on his face.
Zhao Xuming's heart sank, feeling a little bad.
But he felt very puzzled, could there be any surprises in this matter?
SUG took the lead in organizing a training match and got the chance to go to the ioi world finals. Ding Gan would never refuse such a good thing, right?
Ding Gan looked a little embarrassed: "Mr. Zhao, of course we are very grateful that you helped us win such a precious opportunity. But the matter of organizing the training match... I'm afraid it's a little difficult. Because our ioi branch is...for the time being ...only three players left."
"I wish you had come two days earlier."
Zhao Xuming opened his mouth slightly, and was a little dumbfounded for a moment: "Huh?"
How is it possible that there are only two members left in the ioi branch?
Most of these people have had the idea of switching to play GOG before, but the reason why they have not switched is because the professional players on GOG are basically saturated. bonus.
On the other hand, on ioi's side, at least there are some meager subsidies to ensure the basic life of these players.
So why did these players go? Stop playing professionally?
It doesn't make sense, the branch is still there, what about the liquidated damages if they leave?
Ding Gan quickly explained: "Mr. Zhao, the situation is like this."
"Originally, the members of our ioi division played live broadcasts and occasionally made appointments for training matches. As a result, it has become increasingly difficult to make appointments for training matches recently, because there are very few other clubs who retain the ioi division, and they all switch to GOG gone."
"Then a few days ago, several GOG clubs suddenly came over and said they wanted to buy players from our ioi division, and they were willing to pay the transfer fee, and the salary was much higher than it is now."
"The contestants are very tempted. Based on the principle of respecting the wishes of the contestants, we... let them go."
After Zhao Xuming was stunned for two seconds, he suddenly woke up.
broken!
GOG just established the GPL some time ago, and all teams are frantically vying for players. Because the team suddenly expanded to more than a dozen teams, the demand for players also increased instantly.
Although these ioi players are better at ioi, there are always a few players with GOG talent. In the past, there were few positions and no teams wanted them, but now that the number of places has expanded, there are teams that want such players with professional experience and certain talents.
The reason why Zhao Xuming ignored this point was because he was busy negotiating cooperation with Finger Company some time ago and had no time to take care of the affairs of these clubs; Dig the meaning of ioi players.
As a result, I never expected that it was only a few days of delay, and the good ioi team was dismantled!
Zhao Xuming originally had a good idea. If SUG still has a complete ioi team here, they don't need to spend time forming a team, and can take the lead in organizing a training match; after the World Championship, they should also be able to win to a relatively good ranking.
But now that two people have been poached, don't count on it all!
After all, ioi is a five-person game, and lack of people means re-recruiting and re-working, which has too much impact.
When Zhao Xuming first arrived, he was full of enthusiasm and confidence, but he was thrown cold water on his head.
Ding Gan was also a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said: "It's okay, Mr. Zhao, we are going to recruit people immediately. If it doesn't work, we can directly spend money to buy people from other clubs. We will definitely regroup the team as soon as possible!"
Ding Gan didn't think too much about it at first, but he just felt that it was meaningless to support the ioi branch, and there were no games to play, and he could earn a transfer fee by selling people to GOG clubs, so it didn't matter if he sold them.
As a result, as soon as the front foot was sold, the spot for the ioi world finals of the back foot came to the door. How can this be reasonable?
Zhao Xuming was silent for a moment, then nodded: "All right."
What else can I say? Everyone has already sold, so you can't pay liquidated damages to buy it back, right? That's too bad.
The main reason is that these players are now worth more, and the transfer fee is also much more expensive. Isn't this a pure blood loss?
Ding Gan would rather buy ioi members from other clubs than buy his own players back.
But what Zhao Xuming is worried about is that since GOG clubs have started to buy ioi players on a large scale, it is impossible to only buy SUG.
What if the ioi teams of other clubs are also dismantled?
Should we play a jigsaw puzzle and use the existing teams to work hard to form two or three teams that can go to the World Championship, or should we find newcomers and just rely on luck?
Zhao Xuming suddenly had an ominous premonition, feeling that his task this time seemed simple, but in fact it was not so easy to accomplish.
Tengda's black hand stretched farther than he imagined!
"Is it possible that this is also within Mr. Pei's plan?"
Zhao Xuming suddenly shuddered.