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Chapter 467
Manchester, Carrington Base.
It is already past five in the afternoon, the players have finished training and clocked out.
Ferguson did not leave, but walked back to the office building in the sunset.
The old Sir Alex was going to go back to his office to work overtime to prepare for Manchester United's next round of games.
Two days later.
Manchester United will travel to Pride Park Stadium to challenge Derby County away.
Just talking about paper strength, Derby County, which is now ranked last in the league, is definitely not good enough in front of Manchester United.
But the Premier League has entered the last nine rounds. When there is still hope of relegation, these teams can often burst out amazing potential and become the nightmare of the championship teams. If this really turns over unexpectedly, Ferguson will definitely not accept it.
When he walked to the door of the office, the door was not opened yet.
A voice came from not far away.
"Hi, Alex, I knew you were not gone."
Ferguson turned around and saw.
It turned out to be his close friend, Manchester United's CEO, David Gill.
Push open the door.
Ferguson looked at Gill and pointed to the office: "David, why haven't you gotten off work yet?"
David Gill was holding a newspaper in his hand.
Hearing Ferguson's question, he took the newspaper in front of him and shook it at Ferguson: "I just saw a piece of news, I think it's necessary for you to see it too."
"Come in." Ferguson nodded and walked into the office first.
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Putting the coffee on the coffee table, Ferguson sat on the sofa and looked at David Gill: "Tell me, what's the matter."
Picking up the coffee and taking a sip, David Gill did not immediately hand the newspaper beside him to Ferguson, but just frowned at Ferguson: "Alex, you took Cristiano to talk to Mendes yesterday. Did you find anything unusual about Cristiano?"
Ferguson was startled. He didn't expect David Gill to find him to talk about this matter, but when he talked to Mendes about things, Cristiano was not present.
Recall a little.
Ferguson shook his head: "I didn't find anything unusual about Cristiano. Moreover, when I met Mendes yesterday, Cristiano was not there. He went to have dinner with Dolores."
"Nothing unusual?" David Gill frowned even deeper. He didn't say anything more. He just handed the newspaper on the sofa to Ferguson.
Ferguson took the newspaper and scanned it. He only read two lines and immediately lost interest.
Because this Manchester Evening News had a black and white photo of Mendes sitting on the sofa and talking freely, and the content inside roughly said that a club was contacting him, hoping to introduce Ronaldo with a high salary after the end of this season.
"Is the Manchester Evening News crazy?" Ferguson threw the newspaper on the coffee table with a bit of disdain on his face, "They also published this kind of news? And it's an exclusive interview. I don't think they want to get first-hand information from us!"
The Manchester Evening News has always been the mouthpiece of Manchester United. Almost all the news about Manchester United is positive.
In recent years, Ferguson has been unable to bring a significant trophy to Manchester United.
At the end of each season, many media will take this matter out to make fun of it, but the Manchester Evening News still supports Ferguson and never says a bad word about him.
But it is obvious that today's report has a bit of a taste of poking Manchester United's lungs.
After all, no matter who looks at the content of this news, it seems to threaten Manchester United to accept Mendes' proposal to pay Ronaldo a high salary.
You know, the slow progress of contract renewal with Ronaldo has always been a concern for Ferguson and David Gill. Now that they finally see hope, the Manchester Evening News has to come out to help Mendes, an outsider.
This behavior is a bit difficult to accept.
"Ah... or we are too slow." David Gill sighed, "Cristiano's performance is getting better and better. If we don't seize the time to renew his contract, in a few months, Verontino will be back on stage..."
"I know, David."
Hearing Verontino's name, Ferguson's face suddenly darkened.
If it weren't for this hateful Spaniard, the contract renewal between Manchester United and Ronaldo would not be so slow.
Ferguson still remembers that he had a heart-to-heart talk with Ronaldo last Christmas.
Ferguson expressed his desire to do everything he could to keep Ronaldo.
Faced with Ferguson's sincere attitude, Ronaldo also told Ferguson his true thoughts without hesitation.Ferguson, again, Real Madrid is still his first choice.
But at the same time, Ferguson also remembered some news that Mendes revealed intentionally or unintentionally in yesterday's conversation. From his words, Ferguson could feel that it seemed that Ferguson's interest in Ronaldo was not as high as before.
Thinking of this.
Ferguson's eyes lit up, and he suddenly had some new ideas in his mind.
Ferguson gently tapped his thigh with his fingers, and looked at David Gill: "David, you...can you go and investigate to see if Real Madrid is still interested in Cristiano."
"What do you mean?" David Gill was stunned.
"I think Mendes is a bit pretentious." Ferguson spread his hands and began to talk about the scene of meeting Mendes yesterday. "You know, the last few times we took the initiative to contact him to talk about Cristiano's contract renewal, he directly refused, but this time unexpectedly he took the initiative to contact us, this matter itself is strange."
"And there is another point, the more I think about it, the more wrong it is. When we talked about business yesterday, Mendes's request for a salary increase for Cristiano was really an exorbitant price. He knew I would not agree, so why did he talk to me?"
"How much does he want?" David Gill was a little curious.
"I'm afraid I'll piss you off to death if I tell you." Ferguson looked disgusted. "You probably don't want to hear the specific numbers, but there's just one thing. Didn't you set a rule that the club's salary costs cannot exceed 50% of the club's total revenue? If we agree to it, then it will exceed this rule by 100%."
"Well..." David Gill touched his chin and murmured, "That's really not okay. No one can break this bottom line."
"That's why I find it strange." Ferguson nodded, "He knows our bottom line, but he still raised it without hesitation, and then in such a short time he ran to England to do an exclusive interview in the newspaper, saying that other teams want to pursue Cristiano."
"To be honest, I think he is pretending to use this to force us to agree to give Cristiano a salary increase... Maybe Real Madrid has given up on introducing Cristiano now!"
Ferguson finished speaking.
David Gill lowered his head and thought seriously.
A minute later.
A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"Alex, if what you said is right... maybe we can really save a lot of money! Hahahahaha!"