Chapter 146: In Argentina (5)
"I understand what you mean now, you have taken a fancy to Italian descendants in Argentina, they have the conditions to apply for Italian citizenship, and you want to dig some young players from here to train!" Hernandez sat in the hotel's café, took a sip of his coffee, and concluded.
Saying goodbye to Muscati, Hugo, Sellly, and Hernandez went to the hotel where Hugo was staying.
After chatting along the way, Hugo finally decided to tell Hernandez the truth, the truth is that this idea is basically the survival of a small club, buy at a low price, sell at a high price, and earn the capital to maintain the club's operation over the years.
Hugo wanted to gain Hernandez's trust, the only Argentine who was willing to talk to them in detail.
"Is this your idea?! Gigi! Hernandez then asked.
"Yes, it was my idea! Sailly and I were also forced to be helpless, I have already told you just now, we are a little famous in Italy, but the region is not a developed area for football in the first place, and the reputation cannot be compared with the northern team, or even Palermo and the like, it is too difficult for us to recruit young players in Italy! Argentina has a lot of Italian descent, and I want to recruit some young players from this, so it's more convenient! Hugo said frankly.
"I have to admire your mind, Gigi, your idea really makes my mouth flutter!" Hernandez said excitedly.
Hugo didn't even know that he was the first person to eat crabs, at least he was the first to put it into practice.
"I am very happy that you have been honest with me! I think you are honest people, and you regard me as a friend, so I am willing to be honest with you! To be honest, I've only had my agent's license at the moment, but I don't have any players under my umbrella, so I went to Mr. Muscati's party today just to get under his door and get his help and start my own business! Hernandez shrugged and said honestly.
"But your idea just made me have some new ideas, maybe it's a bit difficult for me to find players over the age of sixteen or seventeen to be their agents, a lot of potential players have been carved up, but if it's these players under the age group, I think I have a chance! The temptation I gave them was to go to Europe, and I think I could find some of them! Hernandez also had a big brainstorm.
"So you're saying that we have a fair chance of working together?!" Sailly asked.
"I think so! My dad was a scout, and that's why I got involved! It's a good time, our domestic economy is very sluggish, and if those children have the opportunity to go to Europe, I don't think their families will refuse! If you're looking for young players of Italian origin, I think it's not a problem at all, and I'm willing to bet that a third of Argentines have ties to Italy, and it's not difficult to get Italian citizenship! Hernandez said.
Unexpectedly, the reason why this guy entered the industry was that his father was a scout, and it was probably the idea of getting the moon first by virtue of being close to the water. However, there are some things that Hugo still has to make clear to Hernandez, such as the question of money.
"Javier, there are some things I have to say up front, if you can recruit such a young player, I will not pay you much. The whole link, is that you provide players to Trapani's academy, we are responsible for training, if you transfer in the future, I promise to share with you according to the profits of the transaction, how much we will decide on the player?! Hugo said.
"Of course this is no problem, in fact, we are also taking risks, the younger the player, it is difficult to see his potential, maybe a young player is losing money, it is not necessarily!" Hernandez said, "But I think it's worth the risk, and I'll ask my father for help and try to bring you some good seedlings!" ”
"Yes, we're taking a risk, but as you said, it's worth the risk!" Sailly said.
Hugo calculated in his heart that the difficulty of seeing the future of young players means that the risk of failure in training is high, but what is this, what is it to eat, live and learn not to spend a lot of money in Trapani, 100 players have ten talents, Hugo feels that his team must be earned.
Even if 10 players are sold for 1 million euros each, their team will make money, and such a thing is worth doing.
"Gigi, Leo, I promise you that I am willing to cooperate with you, but I take the liberty of asking, do you cultivate the abilities of young people?" Hernandez asked.
"Hehe, to tell you the truth, we have this idea, it is this guarantee, the academy is the focus of our club's work in the future, we not only want to expand, but also to hire more coaches, we hope that in the future Trapani FC will become the most famous youth cradle in the world. As we move up the ranks, we will promote young players to the first team as soon as possible, so that they can make their mark in the higher leagues, and in short, we will create opportunities for them as much as possible! Selly immediately laughed.
Hugo nodded with a smile next to him, "Next time, if you have the chance, you can go to us and have a look, and you will know if what we said is true!" ”
These two boasts are clear-eyed, Trapani has very few youth coaches, and they don't play in the Italian youth league at all, of course, if you negotiate with Hernandez today, the focus of going back to Hugo and Selly is to recruit more and better coaches and further improve the youth training facilities.
"That's good, you want me to find players, I also want my players not to be wasted in their talents, and if I don't think you're a good choice, I won't hurt my own players! I'm not Muscati, I'm Javier. Hernandez, I'm not like him! Hernandez's words were resounding.
Both Hugo and Selly believe it, but only now, in the future, who can tell who is right and who is wrong in the face of interests.
"Oh, by the way, there's another thing I don't know if you're willing to help me?!" Hugo asked suddenly.
"What's the matter?!"
"Isn't your father a scout?! I would like to ask if you would like to help our club build a scouting network in Argentina! I'm willing to give your father $100,000 a year! "If possible, I would even like to establish a scouting network on the South American continent, and we will not rule out cooperating with some South American clubs in the future!" ”
"Gigi, you have a lot of courage, but I still have to ask my father, well, how to put it, my father is actually not a big figure in the scouting world, but you know that if you have money, it is always easy to do things!" Hernandez said with a smile that this was the truth.
Hugo and Selly personally sent Hernandez to the door and called a taxi for him, and Hernandez said to Hugo when he got on the bus: "You are foreigners, don't go to a dark place at night, it's not peaceful at night!" ”
Sailly said with a bitter face: "No, we had a robbery last night, I didn't expect the security here to be so bad!" ”
"Maybe you guys can consider bodyguards!" Hernandez joked.
The speaker is unintentional, the listener is intentional, Hugo thinks it's right, damn, Lao Tzu is a billionaire anyway, and it's too shabby to have no bodyguards around!
Hugo instantly thought of the hero Lu Fan last night, I don't know if he is willing to work for me?!
Hugo remembered the name of the supermarket on the T-shirt very clearly, and when he returned to the lobby, he asked the waiter here if he knew about XX supermarket, and the waiter told him that he was not far from the hotel, and Hugo planned to look for Lu Fan.
Sailly looked at Hugo's behavior and couldn't figure out what Hugo wanted to do, Hugo told him that he was going to find the hero last night, Selly looked at the already dark sky, and said, "I still go out so late, I have a shadow!" ”
Hugo looked at the sky, and finally gave up this plan, the matter of coming to Argentina is finished, you can go to find Lu Fan tomorrow, there is no need to rush today.
The matter is over, Hugo's sleep is very good at night, he got up after nine o'clock the next morning, had breakfast, did not summon Sellly, walked out of the hotel alone, according to the instructions of the waiter, found the XX supermarket only 500 meters away from the hotel, this supermarket is a 24-hour supermarket.
Hugo walked into the store, the store was relatively deserted, there were no customers, a white aunt standing at the settlement counter The clerk looked up at Hugo, and then buried his head to look at the magazine lying on the counter.
"Sorry to excuse me!" Hugo walked up to her and coughed.
"Hello! What can do it for you! "Auntie is still very polite.
"Hello, I would like to ask if there is a man named Lu Fan in your store, and he also has a name named Angel. Dominguez. Land! Hugo asked.
"Angel?! He just left from work! He worked the night shift last night! What's the matter with him?! I can tell him for you! Aunt said.
"I'm his friend! Do you have any of his phone numbers, can you provide them to me? I can give him a call! Hugo said.
"You say you're a friend, and then you don't have his phone?!" Auntie is very vigilant.
"Here's the thing, I met the robbers the night before yesterday, it was Angel who helped me, I forgot to ask him for the phone, I remember he was wearing the exact same T-shirt as you, that's why I asked you! If you know, please let me know, I promise I have no ill will! I can speak to him in front of you, and you can know if what I'm saying is true! Hugo explained with a smile.