Chapter 709 2. Summer Reinforcement 2

Chiellini's refusal was surprising, but Trapani still had many candidates on its list. The third candidate was Brazilian teenager David Luiz. The story of this third candidate was not complicated. His agent, Giuliano Bertolucci, was no stranger to Seliri. As early as when David Luiz wanted to land in Europe, Bertolucci intended to recommend David Luiz to Trapani.

This agent had a good relationship with Joorabchin. Joorabchin started to send players to Europe from South America at that time. Bertolucci's history was earlier than his, but he didn't find the right way at that time. He met Seliri under the introduction of Hernandez. However, Trapani implemented another set of strategies at that time, and was unwilling to introduce inexperienced defensive players who played in non-European leagues. If it was an offensive player, Seliri might consider it.

Then Bertolucci began to do business with teams in the sub-five major leagues, extending his business tentacles to the Portuguese Super League or the Dutch League and even some leagues in Eastern Europe.

David Luiz was Benfica's main center back last season and made some achievements. But Bertolucci and David Luiz could not sit still. Bertolucci recommended David Luiz to Selli again. He did not know that Trapani's scout team had actually investigated Luiz and had a good evaluation of him. Moreover, he was a multi-position player who could play as a center back and a left back.

When Selli was ready to spend a lot of money to introduce Pique or Chiellini but failed, David Luiz was placed in third place. His favor from Trapani was also closely related to Samuel's departure. The owner of Benfica was no stranger to Trapani. He wanted to make a fortune from Trapani, but this wish was unlikely to be realized now. First of all, he was the third choice after all. David Astori of Cagliari was also a candidate with him.

David Astori seemed to have more advantages, but his price might not be cheap. He was the main player in Cagliari last season and played 34 times in the league.

His problem is that Cellino does not intend to let Astori go. Cellino is also negotiating with Cellino about Padoin. He intends to add Padoin to the deal. Cellino's price for Astori is between 17 million and 20 million euros, and Padoin can be discounted by 10 million euros.

Cellino's price can be said to be a very good price, but Cellino is still dumb and unmoved. On the one hand, he thinks Astori still has room for growth, and on the other hand, he thinks Padoin is not worth the high price of 10 million euros.

In early July, when Trapani had gathered to start preparations for the new season, Cagliari reached a deal with Trapani to buy Padoin for 8 million euros, but Astori never reached an agreement. Fortunately, Benfica realized that it might not be easy to knock Trapani. It was said that they only spent 500,000 euros to introduce David Luiz, and now they have reached an agreement with Trapani on a price of 9.5 million euros, which is already very good.

The ownership of David Luiz is very complicated. He does not belong entirely to Benfica. Half of his ownership is in the hands of his agent Bertolucci. In fact, Benfica only earned about 4 million euros, which is not much.

Bertolucci is the one who really made a fortune. He successfully recommended David Luiz. This is a great step in his agent career, because not every player can play for Trapani. Now Trapani is as famous as Barcelona in European football. It just happens that this season, Trapani’s two important transfer targets are both temperamental people.

Like Amelia’s agent Pastorello, Bertolucci also believes that the star-studded Trapani will benefit David Luiz’s growth.

After completing the David Luiz deal, Trapani has changed its defense. Of course, they also took on a huge forward position. This change is what Kenyon is happy to see. Trapani has thrown off a lot of burdens. Boateng and Luiz's annual salary is not high because they are young and have no experience in big clubs. Samuel's annual salary is enough to support three Boatengs or three Luizs.

Seli is helpless. He imagines Pique is Chiellini, but there is no way to get him. Besides, Bielsa supports both deals.

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After eating Boateng and David Luiz in the defender position, Seli discussed with Bielsa and Miku and decided to introduce an old player, Nicola Legrottale.

Legrottale had a hard time in Juventus. His return to Juventus was not his highlight moment. On the contrary, he has been unable to find his form in Juventus. But this veteran has no lack of experience in Serie A, and it is not difficult to introduce him. Juventus is expected to let him go happily.

Lerotale naturally didn't expect that he would be able to return to Trapani one day. The new Trapani has cultivated a lot of talents in the past ten years since its establishment, but he is the only player who can still be called up by his old club. In fact, he is the second one, the first one is Cristiano Ronaldo.

Trapani, Juventus and Lerotale all have such intentions, so the transfer issue is naturally very simple. Juventus only charged a friendly price of 3 million euros to transfer Lerotale to Trapani.

So far, Trapani's defense line has 9 players, including Behrami, Maggio, Boateng, Luiz, Victor, Barzagli, Bocchetti, Peruso and Evra, which is enough to cope with all the competitions next season, and the competition will be very fierce.

However, Trapani's recruitment of players in the midfield is not smooth. At present, there are relatively few midfielders, only five players, Beckham, Mascherano, Schweinsteiger, Kaka and Cazorla. Li Tie has terminated the contract with the team and left the team freely. Padoin transferred to Cagliari. Five players plus Behrami who can play in the midfield seem a bit thin to cope with the whole season. The most important thing is that they lack sufficient thickness.

Even though there was a temporary compromise in the transfer this summer, Seli and Kenyon still had many conflicts. Seli chose one person, Steve Gerrard, in the midfielder selection. This was a blockbuster deal. Trapani sold a lot of young players in the summer, recovered funds, and raised more than 40 million euros. Seli planned to sign Gerrard in installments, but such a plan was naturally ruthlessly rejected by Kenyon again.

Kenyon admitted that Gerrard could indeed bring unlimited commercial and competitive benefits to the team, but this also violated his tone for the team's transfer strategy this summer.

Moreover, in his opinion, the team with Beckham, Henry, Messi, and Toni did not seem to need another Gerrard.

By the end of July, Trapani's midfield still had no reinforcements. Bielsa even went to the youth training camp several times. If the transfer marketing department went smoothly, he would definitely select two or three young players from Shafir's youth training camp to supplement the first team.

There was a player in the under-20 youth team named Marco Verratti who impressed Bielsa deeply, but because the player was small and thin, Bielsa eventually gave up the idea.

Sely was very dissatisfied with the current situation and complained to Hugo several times. Hugo asked Sely to find a solution himself. He said to Sely: "You have to follow Kenyon's ideas!"

Hugo did not think there was a big conflict between them. It was all for the good of the team. Hugo told Sely that it was not the right time to introduce superstars. Otherwise, you should spend money to buy some good seedlings and make more money for the team. Maybe you will be more relaxed in the future. The money now is not wasted. Kenyon will definitely not allocate more funds to you next season.

Hugo's statement was sarcastic, but Sely listened to it. He contacted Shafir and Miku to study how to spend the money. He felt that the money was not Hugo's, but Kenyon's. Every penny spent was a penny. It was difficult for us to introduce famous players. Can't we introduce young players? !