[Football] Crown of Thorns

The day after the match day is Monday, and there is still a whole week before the second round of the league, so the whole team is given a holiday on this day.

Of course, this is only because the league has just opened. After the Portuguese Cup and the Portuguese League Cup start, they will not be so relaxed. Double matches in a week will also be common, but because there are not many teams in Portuguese leagues at all levels Compared with European leagues such as the Premier League, La Liga, and Serie A, there are relatively few Portuguese League games.

Jia Ma, who got up at six o'clock, went for a run first and then did morning training. After that, he returned to the club restaurant and asked for a free nutritious breakfast. He decided to ask the staff for a copy of the rental information to see if he could find one. Cheaper rental houses - many football fans in countries where football is flourishing are willing to rent the houses they want to rent out to their own players, and sometimes they are willing to accept some foreign players to borrow their own houses - but he needs to find a room with two bedrooms If you want a rental house that is not too far from the club, you may have fewer options.

Flipping through the renting information from the club staff, Gama scratched his head in distress.

It’s too big to rent, and too small is inconvenient. There are a few suitable ones that are either too far away or the price is too high. At present, he can’t afford it. His money still needs to be invested in extra physical training. The increase in the cost of renting a house is not enough.

"Gama!"

Gama looked up strangely when he heard someone calling his name.

On the other end, it seemed that the administrator of the team dormitory was calling him.

Gama folded up the materials in his hands and put them in his pocket, got up from the rest area on the side of the training field, and walked over there.

"Gama, someone is looking for you."

"Find me?"

Gama is very strange.

In the three months here, except for the team's internal staff and teammates, no outsider has ever approached him.

"Yes, he said he was your agent."

"what?"

The young man's eyes widened.

broker?Gama's agent!

The agent who hadn't heard from him for three months suddenly appeared, after his outstanding performance last night?

With a sneer in his heart, Gama nodded, "Understood, thank you, I'll go and have a look."

"go quickly!"

The uncle administrator in his 50s grinned.

Arriving at the door of the dormitory, Jia Ma stood at the corner and looked at the man at the door—he was about 40 years old, with black hair, a hooked nose, and a beard. He was slightly fat and about 1.75 meters tall. , wearing a white shirt with hidden patterns on the upper body, a pair of gray linen trousers underneath, but a pair of fingerless wide sandals on the feet, which is a bit incongruous no matter how you look at it.

The man's previous attire appeared in Jia Ma's mind: flowered shirt and shorts, with sunglasses on his nose, wandering the streets doing nothing, he casually flipped through the street newspapers, and was surprised to find that there were reports about him in the newspapers, although there were not many but The introduction was very clear, and then the man suddenly thought that this young man should be the player he signed...

Thinking of this, Jia Ma laughed softly.

Squinting his eyes, the young man thought for a while before walking over.

Seeing the young man walking over, the man's eyes revealed a look of surprise.

"God, Shiko, you have really changed."

Chico?

The young man froze for a moment before realizing that the title 'Xiko' should be Gama's nickname, and Joanna called him that too.

"you are?"

The young man who made up his mind and didn't want to admit it blinked and asked seriously.

"?" The man stared at Gama with an exaggerated expression, he opened his arms, "Oh man, how could you do this, I'm Agostinho

(Agostinho), your dearest Agostinho, the best partner. "

Watching his exaggerated performance, the young man was expressionless, "I don't know you."

Agostinho, hehe, it means "respect" in Chinese, but I don't see anything in the whole body of a person like you that deserves my respect.

Under the cold eyes of the young man who didn't appreciate the trembling performance, the man smiled a little embarrassingly, "I heard that you don't remember anything after you were injured."

"Yeah, I just don't remember some things after the injury."

Gama sneered.

He had seen this name in Jiama's cell phone address book, and it turned out that this man was Jiama's manager.

In order to know about Jia Ma's friendship, he carefully searched all the names in Jia Ma's cell phone address book. The last record of this name in the undeleted call log was half a year ago. The agent has not contacted Gama for almost eight months now.

An agent who has never fulfilled his responsibilities, hehe, if he hadn't been praised for his performance in the game yesterday, this agent probably wouldn't have appeared!

"Oh man, my boy, shouldn't you find a place to talk to me in this weather?"

Agostinho spread his hands and looked up again.

It was a sunny day today, and the sun was already scorching hot early in the morning, so it was no wonder he shouted like this.

The young man paused, "Let's talk about it here!"

"Oh, how can you do this, we have been partners for many years, you can't treat me like this~~"

Agostinho's eyes widened exaggeratedly.

The vulgar and exaggerated performance came again. Seeing him like this, the young man couldn't help laughing and could only sigh silently. The young man shrugged, "I have no money."

"God, my dear Xiko, your dear fellow, I won't refuse to buy you a cup of coffee, don't think of me that way."

"OK then!"

Jia Ma walked over, looked around casually, and pointed to an open-air booth in front, "Let's just go there!"

After all, he walked over first.

"Oh, my dear Xiko, you really have changed a lot now," Agostinho followed behind him, still murmuring endlessly, "You have to know my buddy, I'm a good guy , your good buddy, I have so much work &**&%*..."

Listening to his blah blah blah blah, Jia Ma walked to the small shop where the open-air booths were set up early in the morning, "I want a cup of black coffee, how about you?"

"Have a cappuccino."

Agostinho snapped his fingers.

The young man glanced at him, then looked at his already protruding belly meaningfully, "Do you want anything else?"

Spotting the sight of the young man, Agostinho patted his stomach, "I need to enjoy life now, my boy Chico, you must know that old Agostinho has suffered a lot, and he needs food to nourish his stomach .”

Although the first impression of this middle-aged man on the young man was not good, but seeing his frank answer that he loved to enjoy himself, the young man felt that he was a bit rogue and straightforward.

"Well, old Agostinho, what do you want me to do?"

After the waiter put away the coffee and walked away, the young man asked.

"Oh my little Xico, how can you do this, can't I come and see you, you know..."

"Eight months."

The youth interrupted his aria.

"what?"

Agostinho blinked his big eyes and tilted his head puzzled.

It's okay to be fat, but with such a cute expression with a fierce face, one can't help but want to beat someone up.

The young man twitched his lips, "You haven't contacted me for more than half a year, and you haven't contacted me since our agent contract expired on June 6. I think you are no longer my agent. !"

After the coach told him to sign the contract, the young man carefully checked Gama's room cabinet. He found a simple contract hidden in the innermost part of the cabinet. It was at the end of June this year, that is to say, there was indeed no agent for Jia Ma, and the contract had already been terminated.

"Oh my little Chico, you have to understand the job of the old Agostinho. It's not that I didn't find you, but there are really no job opportunities. You have to know that you are just a young player who made his debut. Although you have entered the first team But you have never had a chance to play, and what you need is a chance, a chance to perform..."

Agostinho started to talk, he said that he didn't care about Gama, but that Gama did not perform particularly well, and if there is no opportunity, there will be no other job opportunities, and it is even more impossible to wait for endorsement advertisements and so on. What about waiting.

The young man propped his chin and listened to him, his thoughts had already flown to other places.

He knew what Agostinho said was right. Players like Gama can be seen everywhere in Portuguese leagues at all levels. Any young player who can play from the youth team all the way to the first team has no talent, but talent does not mean opportunity. No opportunity, no performance, no fame, no extra job opportunities, no income, not to mention the fact that the agent has to take a commission, and the income of young players is even lower. These are the rules, the unspoken rules and practices of football, no one can Unable to resist.

So what happened to Jia Ma is not unusual. If you have no chance to make a fortune, why should you let the agent look up to you, not to mention how many unknown players these agents have signed, and he is just one of them. That's all.

Gama was able to come to Porto from a small island, and he was sent to the Boavista team by a scout who occasionally saw him on vacation. This was the greatest luck of Gama's boyhood - his alcoholic father said that the other party was not good. Gama is not allowed to go if you give the money. If it weren’t for Jiama’s sister who tried her best to stop her father and gave Jiama the little money she saved from working part-time, telling him to follow the scout uncle, maybe Jiama would live forever in his life. Just like his father, he spent his whole life as a fisherman in a mess on the island.

Gama entered the Boavista youth team at the age of 14, entered the U15 youth team at the age of 16, entered the U17 team at the age of 18, and entered the first team at the age of 18. It sounds very good, but it is a pity that he just met the team In the downhill team, inexperienced youths have never had a chance to play.If there is no opportunity to play, there will be no opportunity to perform, and if there is no fame, there will be no opportunity, and there will be no opportunity to enter the Portuguese national youth team and national youth team. When seeing that most young players are about to become mediocre, youths come.

Then the team was relegated, and the main players were transferred one after another. Young players like Gama finally had a chance.

"Shiko."

Probably noticing the young man's absent-mindedness, Agostinho called out.

"Well, what?"

"Can you tell me about the contract you signed?"

The uncle broker who can bend and stretch asks.

Finally turning his mind back to the manager in front of him, the young man casually shook his head, "I've already signed it."

Does that mean you don't care?

Agostinho stared wide-eyed, "Aren't you afraid of being cheated?"

"What can I be lied to?"

The young man pouted.

When the new contract was signed, the youth failed to show anything special in the game except for serious training. Is such a player worthy of being cheated by the club?

What's more, in the case of Yijiama, it was the club that saved him at the time. Not only was the income much higher than the previous youth player contract, but he was also given a signing fee of [-] euros after the contract was signed. Players like Gama who came from their own youth training did not pay signing fees.

If you treat me like a gentleman of the country, I will definitely repay you as a gentleman of the country!

The coach treats him sincerely, no matter what, I will return it sincerely!

Pulling the small spoon in the cup, a smile appeared on the corner of the young man's lips, "Agostinho, you are not my manager now."

"You don't want to renew your contract with me?"

Agostinho took a sip of coffee from his cup, the smile still on his face.

This man is not stupid, and... the young man rubbed his fingertips back and forth on the wall of the cup, "If I renew the contract, what discount can I get?"

Agostinho on the opposite side narrowed his eyes with a smile, "You can mention it."

The young man frowned, "Really?"

As a person who has experienced South American football, paid attention to European football, and experienced the darkness of national football, he is not a pure white lotus. Of course he knows someone who can be a football agent in Portugal, but None of them are clean people. They walk on the edge of the law and do black-hearted business on both sides of black and white. Small players like Gama may be punished at any time so that they have no chance of getting ahead, and even threaten their safety.

If you want to get ahead, you have to endure these rules under the water.

"At the moment I need to have a chance with the team, you know."

said the youth.

"Yes, of course."

Agostinho smiled.

"I need at least two years, I need games, I need on-court experience."

"Of course!"

Agostinho closed his mouth, and his eyes flashed brightly.

The young man under his banner seems to have made a lot of money, and his brain is also a lot smarter, so it's not easy to be fooled.

"I still want to get Joanna out."

It seems that Agostinho wants to invest in him, so he can naturally ask for a high price, it depends on how the other party counters the price on the spot.

"Joanna? Oh sure, your dear sister, lovely and respectable lady, sure sure, no problem."

After thinking about the request made by Jia Ma, it is actually not difficult to do, and it does not cost too much, but as long as he can kick it out, there will be a lot of money in the account.

Negotiating with a smart guy is more refreshing than negotiating with those players who have no brains.

Agostinho smiled and smiled.

The young man also smiled and smiled and curled his lips.

"Then we sign a three-year contract."

"No, two years."

The youth and Agostinho looked at each other.

"Oh, my dear little Xico, this is not good."

"My dear old Agostinho, I give you priority."

"priority?"

"Yes," the young man blinked, "Partners who cooperate happily will naturally have priority."

Agostinho grinned, this brainy brat, "Of course we'll have a good time working together, it's just..."

"My dear Joanna needs a job offer when she comes here."

The young man replied.

His words made Agostinho also blinked, Mom D Chico is really shrewd, "Oh no problem my dear little Chico, there are many job opportunities here in old Agostinho, of course I can help To your dear Joanna."

"Then," the young man stretched out his hand, "happy cooperation!"

The thick palms slammed together, "Happy cooperation!"

Damn, this midfield player has a good brain, and he must never sign such a player next time, it's hard to talk about!

Agostinho thought bitterly.

Tsk, the old Jianghu is the old Jianghu, even though he looks ferocious, his brain is quick.

The young man licked his teeth, happily drank the cold coffee in his cup.

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