"Fox of the Forbidden Zone"

"Official announcement! The "Where is Hu Lai going" transfer drama that started nearly two months after the Europa League final has finally come to an end. Today, the Madrid Pirates and Leeds City announced at the same time that the two clubs reached an agreement on the transfer of Hu Lai. Unanimously, Hu Lai will transfer from Leeds City to Madrid Pirates... It is reported that the transfer fee will be as high as 120 million euros. Hu Lai has set a historical record for the transfer fee of Chinese players, and even Asian players..."

Xie Lan murmured after reading the news: "120 million euros... How much is that?"

"About 800 million yuan?" Hu Lixin calculated casually in his mind.

"Eight hundred million? How many houses can this buy!" Xie Lan recently bought a house in the community, planning to use it as an honor room for her son, and now her mind is full of housing prices.

Seeing that his wife was really calculating, Hu Lixin couldn't laugh or cry: "Don't forget it, this is a transfer fee, and the transfer fee is for the club, not for Hu Lai."

"Nonsense, of course I know!" Xie Lan gave her husband a blank look, calling herself an idiot. "But at least it shows that our son is worth the price!"

"Whether it's worth it depends on his performance in the Madrid Pirates, otherwise he may be called a 'parallel import'... In fact, a high transfer fee is not necessarily a good thing, because a high net worth means great pressure, everyone will think you should Worthy of this price. But the price is not determined by the performance of the players, but purely market economic behavior..."

Unlike his wife who is always full of confidence in his son, Hu Lixin always has a little worry about his son's career.

"Old Hu, do you know anything about the Madrid Pirates?"

Although Xie Lan is a fan who has been watching football for five years, he still doesn't know much about the entire European football world. The focus of her eyes is firmly locked on her son. Wherever Hu Lai goes, she will pay attention to Hu Lai's team, and by the way, those teams that are against Hu Lai.

Hu Lai has played in the Premier League for two and a half seasons, and she has a general understanding of the Premier League.

But for La Liga, it is limited to knowing King Madrid and Catalan United. Because both teams have something to do with her son.

As for the Madrid Pirates... this team has a lot of fame in China, but for Xie Lan, no matter how famous it is, as long as it doesn't have a relationship with her son, it is almost equal to zero.

In terms of football, her husband Hu Lixin is much more reliable than her.

"Have you heard of the word 'g13'?" Hu Lixin introduced to her.

"I've heard of it. Isn't it similar to the meaning of the Premier League's Big 6? Thirteen top teams." This term is famous, so even Xie Lan knows it.

"Well, as long as you know it. G13 is a wealthy organization. It was originally composed of thirteen European giant teams-of course, it is no longer just thirteen teams. And the Madrid Pirates are one of the thirteen founding teams."

When Hu Lixin said this, Xie Lan could immediately understand the status of the Madrid Pirates in European football.

The purpose of the g13 established in 1994 was that the European giants united to compete with UEFA—they were dissatisfied with the reform of the Champions League in 1994, and believed that the increase in the number of participating teams in the Champions League, the increase in competitions, and the lengthening of the schedule reduced the gold content of the Champions League—that At that time, the UEFA Champions League was still called the UEFA Champions League - as a confrontation, thirteen giant teams joined hands to establish an organization that would rival UEFA, and to form their own European Super League to replace the nascent UEFA Champions League...

UEFA naturally does not allow this to happen. After a lot of quarrels, threats, and bargaining, g13 temporarily gave up the idea of ​​​​continuing to engage in the European Super League. Although the "uprising" failed, the organization was preserved, and as a representative of European clubs, it continued to fight against UEFA and even FIFA.

Now if a player is injured while participating in a national team game, the national team must compensate the club where the player plays. This is one of the results of the game between g13 and FIFA and UEFA.

At the beginning of g13, there were thirteen teams, namely the King of Madrid in La Liga, Catalan United, Madrid Pirates, Tramed in the Premier League, Stan Park Rangers, Blue and White Munich in the Bundesliga, Ruhr Rhine, and Insubrein in Serie A. , Turin Bulls, Ligue 1 Fosse, Paris Eger, Eredivisie Ajax Athletic, Portuguese Super League Albara.

These thirteen teams have all won the Champions League, but not just the Champions League. They also used to be dominant in their respective national leagues, and that status hasn't declined much over time.

Otherwise, even if you have won the Champions League once or twice, but when g13 was established, it has been relegated, or it has long since lost its former glory, so naturally it is not eligible to sit in those thirteen positions.

Because winning a Champions League in ancient times may not necessarily be due to strength, but may also be caused by luck. After all, the European Champions Cup at that time was only a single-round elimination system, and the chance of being unpopular was very high. If you can win the Champions League, you can enter this wealthy organization, then the title of "rich" is too cheap.

Champions League honor is a stepping stone to becoming a wealthy family, but it is only a necessary condition, not a sufficient condition for becoming a wealthy family.

Later, g13 attracted several new Champions League champions, and at the same time entered the organization in the current powerful clubs in football. For example, London Bridge was admitted to the club after that because it won the Champions League and at the same time remained competitive in the Premier League for a long time.

The Sevilla navigators are all-powerful in the Europa League. For most of the past two decades, they have also been an important force that cannot be ignored in La Liga. But because there is no Champions League, he repeatedly wanted to enter g13 and was ruthlessly rejected.

Although Xie Lan understood this question, another question popped up: "Then why do you always think that the Madrid Pirates are not as famous or as strong as the Madrid King?"

"Isn't this nonsense... how many teams can be more famous than the King of Madrid? G13 is the top European club organization, and those who can enter this organization must be the giant clubs that have won the Champions League. Then you know that you proposed to establish G13 Who is it?"

"It's not... the King of Madrid, is it?"

"It's the King of Madrid." Hu Lixin nodded. "G13 is an organization of giants, and the King of Madrid is the founder of this organization. That's why everyone calls the King of Madrid-'the giant of the giants'. Don't say Madrid Pirates, there are not many in Europe who can compare with the King of Madrid Home. So the king of Madrid is very powerful, but it does not mean that the pirates of Madrid are not powerful. They were born in Madrid, so they were overwhelmed. But if you change it to other places, they can be the local tyrants. And you think so, The King of Madrid sees Madrid as their turf, but in this city, under the watchful eyes of the King of Madrid, they can develop a big family, and you can see how strong the Madrid Pirates are."

Xie Lan slapped his hands: "Understood, on the side of the couch!"

Hu Lixin showed an expression of "children can be taught", and said very relievedly: "That's right, that's what it means."

After listening to her husband's introduction, Xie Lan said happily: "So, our son went to the Madrid Pirates, so it's not like I've wronged myself..."

Hu Lixin was very speechless: "Don't make it like marrying a daughter, and pay attention to the right family!"

"Hey - can it be the same? We are marrying a daughter-in-law. Besides, I am very satisfied with Qingqing!"

"Where are you going..." Hu Lixin didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

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"...Neither side has disclosed Hu's annual salary, but according to the information given in the 'transfer window', it should be between 8.5 million and 10 million euros - please note that this is after tax. If this figure is true , then Hu’s annual salary will be ranked second in the Madrid Pirates, second only to the team’s number one superstar Maxi Carey…”

"The annual salary is indeed not as high as yours." Jim Castian confirmed the news to Maxi Carey. "You're still a top-salary player on the Buccaneers."

After hearing this, Maxi Carey finally nodded in satisfaction.

His annual salary in the Madrid Pirates is 15 million euros after tax, the only one in the team.

In fact, the annual salary figure is not only related to income, but also related to the club's positioning of players.

When you don't know the status of a certain player in the team, it's easy to look at his annual salary.

The more important the player in the club's mind, the higher the salary.

It is impossible for a player whose annual salary is only ranked in the middle of the team to claim to be the number one star in the team.

So at least in terms of annual salary, Carey does feel the club's respect for him...

The club didn't lie to him, or didn't quite lie to him.

If he heard that Hu Lai not only had a higher transfer fee than himself, but also had a higher annual salary than himself, then he would probably explode.

Maxi Carey is not a nice guy!

Seeing Carey's performance, Castian was relieved in his heart.

Before that, he actually didn't know how Hu Lai and the Pirate Club talked about, and what kind of annual salary he would get.

If he was really taller than Carey, he might not have the confidence to persuade Carey.

After all, the annual salary of 15 million euros after tax seems quite high, and it was all earned by Carey with his performance. Hu Lai, a newcomer, has not contributed to the team yet, so why should he get a higher annual salary than him?

After moving to the Madrid Pirates, Maxi Carey helped the Madrid Pirates win the La Liga championship in the 2022-2023 season, the Spanish King's Cup championship in the 2024-2025 season, and the most important Europa League championship in the 2025-2026 season.

Four years and three championships, this is the most glorious period since the Madrid Pirates won the second Champions League trophy in the club's history in the 2011-2012 season.

In these three championships, Carey is an important hero.

When the Pirates won the La Liga championship in the 2022-2023 season, Carey won the La Liga Golden Boot with 33 goals.

When winning the Europa League in the 2025-2026 season, Carey's eleven goals were the Europa League Golden Boots of the season.

So when I won a new contract for Carey with an annual salary of 15 million after tax three years ago, no one felt that "The Flying Dutchman" and "'Extreme' (max) Carey" were not worthy of this annual salary, nor did they People are dissatisfied with his taking the top annual salary in the Madrid Pirates.

Even after Carey was injured, the Madrid Pirates immediately offered a three-year contract extension, and did not ask Carey to cut his salary.

This made Castien fully feel the human touch of the Madrid Pirates, a working-class club.

Therefore, he is also willing to help Parotti calm down Kaili's emotions, and does not want everyone to make trouble.

Otherwise, Carey, who is determined to go his own way, is afraid that the congregation will betray his relatives... Most of the fans of the Pirates are the bottom people and the working class.

Kastian can totally imagine what these Buccaneers fans would do to Kyrie if he did something that made them angry...

He didn't want things to go that far.

It now appears that things will not go to that step.

He began to persuade Kyrie to focus on football itself:

"Last season you didn't come back until March. Although the body came back, it was still far from getting back to the state. Whether it was mentally or physically... But that's okay, the important thing is that you didn't play the rest of last season. Injured in mid-term~lightnovelpub.net~ So train hard and get back to your form, you are still that 'max', Maxi!"

Castian cheered Carey up like this.

He also did see Kyrie visibly perk up.

Obviously knowing that he is still the number one salary in the team makes Carey feel much better.

"Okay, no problem, Jim. I'll let the club know that they don't have to spend that much money on the Chinese kid. With that money, just buy a few more players who are enough to support me, and we can also bring Madrid back." King and Catalan beat the **** out of it!"

Seeing Kaili's sudden fighting spirit, Castian chuckled inwardly.

Maxi is such a person... Even though he is thirty-two years old, he doesn't feel that he has matured much.

Although this kind of immaturity sometimes caused me a lot of trouble, but sometimes I felt that it was fortunate that he would be so immature.

Otherwise, it would be really difficult to break free from the quagmire of a serious knee injury.

Now Kastian hopes that Lopati can fulfill his promise and successfully let Hu Lai and Kaili coexist.

He believes that as long as Carey adjusts his mentality, coupled with tactical opponents, even if the Dutchman can no longer fly, he will still be "max".

Next, his wish is that Carey can successfully fulfill his contract with the Madrid Pirates, and then bring him back to the Netherlands to end his career in his hometown team Den Haag Hercules.

That is the career plan that Carey has talked about to himself many times.

He said that no matter how far a ship sails, it will want to return to the port from which it sailed.

Castien, who is also Dutch, agrees.