Lin Hai Ting Tao
Chapter 1661 Amoruso's Ambition (First Update)
So, Solskjaer wasn't focused on the upcoming league games. He contacted São Paulo club directly with the 80 million pound check in hand.
His first offer was 45 million pounds.
At the same time, he contacted Amoruso's agent, conveying Manchester United's interest in Amoruso and hoping to talk to him.
The 45 million pound offer was naturally rejected by São Paulo.
Currently, Amoruso is a sought-after center forward in the world. São Paulo knew they couldn't keep him, and he also had a shrewd agent. But agreeing to the first offer would make them look like fools.
After being rejected by São Paulo, Solskjaer didn't immediately make another offer, but decided to let São Paulo cool off for a while.
Solskjaer had already obtained Amoruso's agent's consent to contact him, so he naturally didn't care about São Paulo's attitude.
São Paulo didn't have much say in the matter. Everyone knew they couldn't keep Amoruso. It all depended on which team Amoruso wanted to go to, or which team his shrewd agent wanted him to go to.
So, Solskjaer was right to approach Amoruso himself and his agent.
Solskjaer originally thought he would need to spend a lot of effort and time to persuade Amoruso. After all, judging from Amoruso's previous performance, this was a young man with his own ideas and ambitions. He knew what he needed, and he knew what he should do. When faced with life choices, he was very calm, as if he had a one-on-one opportunity in front of the goal.
For example, he was frighteningly calm when he chose to represent Argentina or Brazil.
In the end, he made the choice that was most beneficial to him.
What about this time?
But unexpectedly, the communication and negotiation between the two parties went surprisingly smoothly.
When Amoruso heard that Manchester United had come to him, he expressed great interest.
After listening to Solskjaer's blueprint, although he didn't agree on the spot, Solskjaer always felt that the other party had already agreed to join Manchester United.
Sure enough, the next day, Amoruso's agent came to talk to Manchester United about personal contracts.
Solskjaer knew this person was shrewd, so he naturally didn't dare to neglect him. He offered the best contract he could and told him that as long as Amoruso came to the team, he would definitely enjoy a first-class salary, and the goal bonus was set very high.
He was imitating Chen Hero's transfer to Napoli.
At that time, Chen Hero's various bonuses were creatively designed.
This was mainly to fully stimulate the striker's desire to score goals.
Amoruso showed good scoring ability in his first season, and his performance became more stable in the second season. Some people were worried that he would be a shooting star, dazzling in the first season but disappearing completely in the second season. There were actually many such "geniuses" in the world of football. This was also why many European giants weren't in a hurry to bring him to Europe – those shrewd giants weren't willing to make a loss.
However, Amoruso's scoring momentum remained strong this season, and he was currently the top scorer in the Brazilian league.
And Manchester United happened to need goals the most.
So, Solskjaer offered such a contract.
The salary wasn't the highest in the team, but it was in the first group, which wasn't bad. In addition, there was a high goal bonus. As long as Amoruso could score goals like he did in São Paulo, the final income would only increase, not decrease.
Amoruso's agent obviously knew this, so he didn't have any objections to the contract.
The two sides quickly finalized the contract details privately, which was basically an agreement on the intention to transfer.
Now all that was left was to make an offer to São Paulo.
At the same time, Amoruso also promised to put pressure on the club to complete the transfer as soon as possible.
With things developing to this point, Manchester United was almost certain to sign Amoruso.
Solskjaer felt like he was dreaming – how could it be so fast and smooth?
He felt unreal, afraid that this was a false illusion, and that when he woke up, he would find himself still in the cruel reality.
But in the past few days, no matter how many times he woke up from his dreams, he found that things hadn't changed.
Especially when he learned from the news media that Amoruso had taken the initiative to show his goodwill to Manchester United, he was ecstatic!
He knew he had bet right!
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For Manchester United fans, these days had been terrible. They lost to their arch-rivals Liverpool in the league, and then lost to Chelsea, causing them to lose second place in the league, which Liverpool took. And they were eliminated by their arch-rivals Liverpool in the Champions League.
Originally, if Nacho could win a Best Shooter award, it would have been able to comfort their injured hearts.
As a result, Chen Hero, that old freak, scored thirteen goals in one game, completely shattering the hopes of Manchester United fans.
But in such terrible days, an exciting news suddenly came. That was, Amoruso, the most sought-after young center forward in the world, actually took the initiative to show his goodwill to Manchester United, expressing his admiration for Manchester United.
"... I know that Manchester United's situation is not good at the moment, but this will not affect my love for Manchester United... I have been a Manchester United fan since I was a child, even when Manchester United has not won a championship for many years in a row, I am still a Manchester United fan!"
Amoruso's sudden words surprised many people.
Previously, all the European giants were vying for him, but Amoruso had never stated where he wanted to go. His agent only said, "Let us fulfill our contract with São Paulo first," as if he was not in a hurry to develop in Europe at all.
Now he suddenly expressed his affection for Manchester United so clearly, although he didn't directly say that he wanted to join Manchester United, who couldn't see the subtext?
He wanted to join Manchester United!
Manchester United fans were ecstatic.
If anyone in the world of football today is closest to Chen Hero, and who is most likely to surpass Chen Hero, Amoruso is recognized as the number one.
His characteristics are very similar to Chen Hero, and many of his goals come from headers.
Although he tried his best to deny and express dissatisfaction, everyone was happy to regard him as Chen Hero's successor.
Since Chen Hero is so powerful, his successor shouldn't be too bad, right? If Manchester United can acquire Amoruso, wouldn't they be able to start their own dynasty in the post-Hero era?
Countless excited Manchester United fans flooded into Manchester United's official website, leaving messages hoping that Manchester United could bring in this "son of Manchester United" at all costs!
Amoruso's speech also surprised other giants, because they had never heard that Amoruso was a Manchester United fan before...
Fans watched the excitement, while they watched the inside story. There was only one reason for Amoruso's sudden speech at this time – he had contact with Manchester United, and the two sides had a good talk, otherwise Amoruso's shrewd agent would never allow his players to publicly express their positions and preferences, because this would affect his negotiation with the other club.
Since it's all come to this... it means that Manchester United has already won over the other party's agent!
I don't know how much Manchester United paid this time. That agent's appetite is not easy to satisfy...
But many teams were unwilling to let Manchester United take the lead silently, so they flocked to Brazil.
Amoruso's statement made São Paulo smell danger. This was not what they liked. They hoped to keep the situation within a range they could accept. Amoruso's transfer could only be led by them...
But now they were all smiling, because Amoruso's speech caused the European giants to rush over like crazy, competing to buy Amoruso, and the price was raised like this...
They only needed to reap the benefits.
They only needed to see who offered the highest price and could win their hearts the most, and then they would sell to that team. They didn't care where Amoruso wanted to go... As long as this person could bring them a lot of cash.
Solskjaer knew that the European giants were rushing to Brazil like crazy to compete for Amoruso.
This was actually what he wanted to see.
He wasn't afraid that someone would be able to take Amoruso away, because he believed that no other team would be more crazy than Manchester United.
In the face of his own offer, all opponents would disappear.
He was waiting for the right opportunity. If he offered too early, he was afraid that it would not have a fatal effect, a final word.
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Amoruso's confession completely shattered the illusions of those Liverpool fans who had been fantasizing about him joining Liverpool.
Amoruso had said that he had been a Manchester United fan since he was a child, so could you expect a Manchester United supporter to transfer to Liverpool?
So Amoruso's words gave many giants the opportunity to buy him, but Liverpool was the only one among these giants that didn't have a chance.
In fact, Liverpool had known for a long time that they had no chance. During the transfer period before this season, Niang had been to Brazil, and Amoruso had made it clear that he would not join Liverpool.
As for why, he didn't say the reason.
Now it seems that perhaps this is related to the fact that he is a Manchester United fan.
But in reality, this is not the case.
The real reason, even Niang and Solskjaer didn't understand.
The reason why Amoruso didn't want to join Liverpool was because Liverpool had a Chen Hero.
He didn't like Chen Hero, and even being his second coming would make him feel angry and disgusted, let alone go to Liverpool.
Although Amoruso had only risen for two seasons, he had already regarded Chen Hero as his future goal to surpass.
The reason why he readily agreed to join Manchester United was because Manchester United was Liverpool's arch-rival. Everything that Chen Hero did in Liverpool, he planned to do in Manchester United as well. For this reason, he couldn't go to Liverpool even more.
In Amoruso's view, as long as he surpassed Chen Hero, he would be the next king of football.
Moreover, his national team record was much stronger than Chen Hero's, so he could surpass Chen Hero in all aspects of honor.
Chen Hero's name would eventually be reduced to dust, replaced by Amoruso.
This was the reason why Amoruso planned to go to Manchester United.
Because of Chen Hero, Manchester United had not won the Premier League title for fifteen years, which was very similar to Liverpool before Chen Hero went there!
Chen Hero went to Liverpool and then created an era that belonged to him.
And Amoruso himself was going to Manchester United, and then create an era that surpassed Chen Hero.