Chapter 82
The morning after Gao Xiaodong called Mendes, Mendes called and said that Victor Oliveira had agreed and was already negotiating a loan contract with Porto. If everything went well, Gao Xiaodong could go to the Rexos Club to report within three days.
Gao Xiaodong had just put down his cell phone when Porto manager Diogo called and said that Rexos agreed to rent him and asked him to go over and discuss.
After meeting, Diogo said to Gao Xiaodong in surprise: "I can't tell that you are still so energy. Oliveira is a very unique coach. During the winter break, he said that he only needed to introduce a forward. He had already introduced Robert before, and I don't know how you told him to lend you."
Gao Xiaodong said with a smile: "Of course my strength and potential touched him."
This is so thick-skinned that Diogo is speechless.
Time is tight, and Rexos Club is moving very quickly. After head coach Oliveira asked Gao Xiaodong to loan, sports director Mata came to Porto Club that day to find Diogo to sign a loan contract.
The intention to loan has been reached. Now the three parties are discussing Gao Xiaodong's appearance fee and goal award. Porto can recall Gao Xiaodong's terms at any time, and if Gao Xiaodong's starter games exceed 20 games in one and a half seasons, they will bear half of Gao Xiaodong's salary, as well as the priority buyout and priority loan rights proposed by Rexos Director Mata.
There is nothing to give priority to loan rights, but Diogo believes that Rexos is a player who uses Porto for free and does not want to give them the right to buy first. However, Rexos believes that they are helping Porto train newcomers and should have such compensation.
This matter is not important. The pricing power and whether to sell or not are in the hands of Porto, so Diogo agreed to see Mata insisting.
Both Mata and Rexos Club were optimistic about Gao Xiaodong. Look at Porto's promise to the right of first refusal they proposed, and did not insist too much on Porto's conditions for recall at any time, so he quickly agreed.
Rexos was very generous about Gao Xiaodong's appearance fee and goal prize because they felt that with Gao Xiaodong's strength, there would be no chance of playing, and the possibility of scoring was smaller. He readily agreed to Gao Xiaodong's appearance fee of 1,000 euros and goal prize of 200 euros.
The key issue is Gao Xiaodong's salary. Originally, Rexos' director Mata thought that an 18-year-old boy, who is still a Chinese, would be only 30,000 euros at most. If he really can start 20 games in a season, it would be worth it. But when he saw Gao Xiaodong's annual salary, he was stunned and held on! 200,000 euros a year! The annual salary of Portugal's substitute level! Porto is so terrible. On the surface, it is free, but in fact he still wants to cheat us Rexos. What is the fat man worth an annual salary of 200,000? Even if Gao Xiaodong's starting 20 games is very small, the price is too high, and Rexos's sports director Mata disagreed.
Seeing that the transfer negotiations could not continue, Diogo had to ask Chairman Costa. Costa told Diogo to try to negotiate higher and then drop the price little by little.
After repeated bargaining between the two sides, the two sides finally compromised. If Gao Xiaodong starts for 20 games, Rexos will pay one-quarter of Gao Xiaodong's annual salary, which is less than twenty games, and there is no need to pay.
Rexos felt that he had lost a quarter of Gao Xiaodong's annual salary, so he refused to provide a language teacher for Gao Xiaodong. The cost of renting a house was that Porto Hei was black and loved his players very much. Diogo promised to be borne by Porto, so there were no obstacles when signing the contract. That afternoon, the three parties reached an agreement that Gao Xiaodong would rent Rexos for free for one year starting from January 27th.
Porto manager Diogo then held a press conference to officially announce the news that Gao Xiaodong had loaned the Portuguese leader Rexos.
When Gao Xiaodong signed with Porto, it caused a sensation in China. The fans of the Cape Forum also had a fierce quarrel over Gao Xiaodong. After all, he was only 18 years old. Compared with the other three Chinese players who played in the five major leagues, Gao Xiaodong could give fans more fantasy space. However, after Gao Xiaodong loaned to Porto, Chinese fans were disappointed. It turned out that this fat man did not have the strength of Porto. If he played Porto, several of the players of the Hope Star were in Porto, but he just couldn't play as the main player. Gao Xiaodong looked like an ordinary player.
Gao Xiaodong's rental this time is like a fan filter. Some people who praise him become people who blacken him, some people who like him become passers-by, and some people who really like him are still paying attention to him silently.
If Gao Xiaodong's loan Rexos is a splash in China, then he didn't even hear a sound in European football. The reporters and fans are paying attention to the transfer dramas of superstars such as Shevchenko, Barack, and Rui Costa. He doesn't even care about the transfer of the Portuguese Super League. Who cares about the loan of an unknown Portuguese level?
Even Rexos fans didn't take Gao Xiaodong seriously. They were just a loan player. They could not play as the main player or their own. They were just the club greedy for cheapness and just rented from Porto to try. Most of them left after a year. Who cares about what he does?
Rexos, which means "the abrupt rock on the coast" in Portuguese. It is a port city in northern Porto and is affiliated to the city of Matthinos. The Rexos Club, founded in 1907, is the largest and only professional football club in the city.
On January 26, 2007, Gao Xiaodong, Chen Qiang and Xiao Le quietly arrived at the city of Rexos, which is only more than ten kilometers away from Porto, and quietly stayed in the hotel they booked for Rexos.
Rexos Club held a welcome ceremony for Gao Xiaodong, but Rexos's chairman Carlos Oliveira did not come, and head coach Victor Oliveira did not come in training either. Only sports director Mata and Rexos' assistant coach Kau attended the welcome ceremony.
However, the Portuguese media was not interested in loan players of Gao Xiaodong. There were only a few sports reporters at the welcome ceremony, and no fans watched. However, after dinner in the hotel, Gao Xiaodong was stopped by the Rexos fans wearing red jerseys and black gloves. A middle-aged man with a beard and strong figure in the lead looked up and down ruthlessly, saying: "Little fat man, I tell you, Rexos is not a place to live."
In the Porto region, both Boavista and Rexos live in the shadow of Porto, and the hardcore fans of these two clubs are also very hostile to the Porto people.
"Alexander, what do you want to do? Mr. Gao will be a member of our Rexos in the future." Sports director Mata scolded Alexander and explained to Gao Xiaodong: This is our hardcore fans of Rexos, the Red Mafia. This person is named Alexander, and he is the leader of the Red Mafia."
The Red Mafia? Alexander? Damn, it was a bit stressful. Gao Xiaodong stood in front of Alexander who was more than 1.9 meters tall and was a bit stressful. Although he didn't know the grudges of the three clubs and didn't understand why these fans targeted him inexplicably, Gao Xiaodong spoke very hard, "I'm not here to make a fuss, I'm here to help Rexos win the championship."
"Help us win the championship? Hahaha, boy, we can win the championship without Porto's help. 46 years ago, we defeated Porto's Cup championship."
Alexander and the members of the Red Mafia all burst into laughter.
Gao Xiaodong is now a little aware of why these fans are targeting him. He smiled and said, "A hero will not mention his courage back then."
"What did you say?" Alexander shouted.
Gao Xiaodong said with a smile: "Are you deaf? Sister Xiaole, translate it loudly again."
Xiao Le translated it loudly again.
Alexander said furiously: "You dare to mock us Rexos."
Gao Xiaodong put away his smile and said, "I'm not sarcastic, I'm talking about the facts."
Alexander shouted again: "No, we will be promoted to the Portuguese Super League this season, and we will let all the Portuguese see who is the best team in the Porto region."
Gao Xiaodong smiled humbly and said, "If roaring is useful, the donkey would have dominated the world long ago."
"You dare to say I'm a donkey!"
Alexander was furious and reached out to grab Gao Xiaodong.
The sports director Kawu next to him reached out and stopped Alexander and said, "Enough, Alexander, if you still want to show up at the March Stadium, stop and take your people back."
One sentence shocked Alexander. What they were the hardcore fans were most afraid of was that they were banned from entering the court to watch the game.
Alexander withdrew his arm and said to Gao Xiaodong: "Boy, I hope you can be as useful as you said."
"I don't need to prove my abilities to you, you can't represent Rexos."
"you……"
Alexander was so polite that he was not as good as Gao Xiaodong. He was afraid that he would be banned from watching the game, so he had to stomp his feet and leave resentful.
Looking at the red mafia's back as he left, Chen Qiang sighed: It's really a tiger falling into the sun and being bullied by a dog."
Chapter completed!