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"This Brazilian is jealous of money!" After learning that Ronaldinho had rejected the contract he proposed and turned to the arms of the Lazio people, Laporta ran away in his office for a full half hour until the two bigwigs Rossel and Cruyff came in close contact. "Sandro (Rossel), Mr. Cruyff, our plan to introduce Ronaldinho failed. The damn Lazio people signed a work contract with him before us. Now, this Brazilian boy is one of them."

"What did you say!" Cruyff was not calm when he heard Laporta's words. After all, the introduction of Ronaldinho and establishing him as the team's new generation offensive core was decided after a long discussion and research. Now, the new core of the scheduled team has become the spoils of other clubs, which is undoubtedly a huge blow to Barcelona's team building plan. "Joan (Laporta), can you discuss with Lazio and let them transfer Ronaldo to us? You don't need to worry about the price. Although there is not much liquidity in the club's account, we can solve this problem through bank loans."

"You can try it, but I think Lazio's promise may not be very high." Laporta felt that there was little hope for Cruyff's proposal. "You know, with Abramovich, a super rich man, supporting Lazio behind his back, Lazio is not short of money at all, so even if we raise the price, it may be difficult to reverse the current situation."

"By the way, hasn't our negotiations with Ronaldo been going well all the time? Why did Lazio suddenly succeed?" Rossel, who has been paying attention to Ronaldo's transfer, was very surprised by this god-turning turn and asked Laporta.

"I heard that Lazio agreed to provide Ronaldo with a signing fee of up to $1.5 million, and their transfer price was 10 million more than ours. The combined two factors made us lose in the battle for Ronaldo." Laporta, who had learned the details from his subordinates, said depressedly, "As far as I know, Ronaldo's agent brother Assis played a very critical role. If he had not been to talk about Ronaldo himself, Lazio would not have been able to handle Ronaldo's transfer in such a short time."

"Haha, an agent brother who is jealous of money. The player himself is very talented but does not know how to better plan his career. He is indifferent to the recruitment of top giants like Barcelona. This is simply a copy of Anelka." After hearing Laporta's explanation, Rosel sneered and commented, with a sarcastic feeling in his words. "Fortunately we didn't bring him to Barcelona, ​​otherwise, we might be another strange Anelka-like figure."

It has to be said that Rosel's evaluation is biased. You should know that most Brazilian players grew up from slums, and Ronaldinho is naturally one of them. The lack of good education and harsh growth environment in youth made these players lack sufficient self-discipline and their ability to resist money is even more negligible. Barcelona ignored this time when introducing Ronaldinho, and only wanted to rely on their wealthy signature to recruit Ronaldinho, which gave Lazio an opportunity to take advantage of.

"Now, this is useless. When Ronaldinho has become a member of Lazio, we must take remedies." Cruyff waved impatiently and interrupted Rossell's sarcasm. "Joan, send someone to contact Lazio to see if you can buy Ronaldo from them. If not, then you'd better stop Riquelme's loan negotiations first, maybe we will count on him to lead the team to win next season."

"Ah? No, right?" In Barcelona's current team, Riquelta looks down on the most is Riquelme. Not to mention the introverted personality and difficult to get along with, it is also incompatible with the team's existing tactical system. He always insists on his own playing style and refuses to make any changes. Such a player, no matter how good his skills are, he cannot gain a foothold in Barcelona, ​​because Barcelona has established a complete tactical system and football ideas since the Cruyff era. Even Zidane and Rui Costa have to play under this framework when they come, let alone Riquelme, who has not proved himself in Europe.

Therefore, in Laporta's opinion, Riquelme must not stay in Barcelona. Taking advantage of the halo of genius on his head, he quickly rented him out to save the club's expenses, and at the same time, it is justified.

"Well, what you said makes sense. But..." After hearing Laporta's opinion, Cruyff also felt it made sense, but when he thought of the candidate for Ronaldinho's substitute, the Barcelona godfather couldn't help but feel headache again, "It's not easy to find a player with similar characteristics and similar abilities to Ronaldinho."

"Why don't we try to intervene in Beckham's transfer?" At this time, Rossell put forward an idea and said, "His crossing skills can be said to be unique in the world, and his overall view is also very outstanding, which can greatly enrich the team's tactical changes. Moreover, if Beckham can join, it can also attack Real Madrid and enhance our Barcelona's reputation and popularity."

"Come on, just with Beckham's skills at his feet, I suspect he can't even adapt well to our pass control system. It is true that Beckham's joining will make us sell a lot of jerseys, but we are not Real Madrid, and we cannot cause the team to suffer losses on the competitive level for commercial interests." Laporta rejected Rossel's proposal without hesitation, and his statement was also agreed by Cruyff - the Dutch also does not think that Beckham, who is not skilled enough, has the ability to integrate into the Barcelona tactical system.

"Oh..." Speaking of this, Laporta, Rosel and Cruyff couldn't help but sigh at the same time. The reconstruction plan that had been hard-working was ruined by Lazio, and this result was enough to make them depressed for a long time.

However, Laporta and the others obviously don’t have this extra time to sigh. Because according to reliable information, another important figure in their summer recruitment plan, Cameroon international Samuel Etoo, who plays for Vicenza club, is also on Lazio’s robbery list at this time!
Chapter completed!