Barcelona is really too noisy, and the people here seem to never be quiet. As soon as the waiter left, two more people started arguing, this time they were two old men.

"Carlos, you've only watched it this week?"

"What do you want to throw the videotapes I sent you three months ago in the corner like garbage?"

"God,"

"I really want to slap you!"

The old man's voice sounded angry. I don't know if the video was really that important, but he kept chatting anyway.

Another old guy waved his hand.

"Old guy, I said, I forgot, forgot, forgot!"

He emphasized it three times in a row.

"It's not that I don't look!"

"Damn it, you don't know how many people are sending videotapes to my office every day."

"I can't just spend my time on this every day, right?"

"I'm so busy with a lot of things about the team."

The two of them kept beating in English, then came outside the balcony, ordered two cups of coffee, and sat down.

Zheng Zhize raised his ears and became interested, feeling that they were talking about a very awesome player?

"I watched all 50 video tapes and pulled a bunch of people to watch."

"He's too thin,"

"That head,"

"You told me he is 12 years old? I feel like he is only 7 or 8 years old."

"It's not a problem. Isn't Maradona not tall? God, are you so confused?"

Hey, even Maradona mentioned, who? Who are these two guys? Zheng Zhi became more and more curious.

"You can see that his feet can protect the ball tightly like animal claws. He is very fast and keeps running forward with his head down. In our opinion, he cannot know where he is going. But like Maradona, he has an outstanding vision and turns his head very quickly, and can quickly foresee the development of the game."

"When he got the ball, no one could grab the ball under his feet."

"His skills are absolutely no problem, but if he doesn't grow, no matter how good his skills are, it will be useless. After all, we are not playing youth competitions."

"I watched it with a few scouts, and there were many people who doubted him. Some people said he was too sticky and his figure was too small; others said he was like a toy for football players on the table and did not agree with him."

"So Barcelona wants to help him,"

"Believe me, he is definitely worthy of you."

After hearing this, Zheng Zhi completely understood.

Oh my god, these two old guys are discussing Messi! Who else can it be except for Messi being described like this?

He recalled Messi back then.

Could it be that the two guys in front of you are the agent Mingla and the other is Rexach?

It was those two guys who brought Messi to Barcelona back then.

1999-2000.

Calculate the time, it is time for Barcelona to discover Messi.

"You guys helped him grow taller. He had a checkup at Rosario earlier last year. It was difficult to grow taller because of too little hormone secretion, but it was not absolutely."

At that time, the nine-year-old Messi was only 1.27 meters tall (about 4 feet 2 inches), which was nearly 10 cm (4 feet) shorter than the average height of a boy of the same age. The doctor conducted some tests for Messi to confirm that the reason for his insufficient height was insufficient growth hormone secretion, not genes. This is a crucial message, because if it was a genetic problem, drug treatment would not work.

About one such case occurs in every 20,000 people. Not many, but not very rare.

Messi got the prescription to inject hormones every day. He had to use a device like a pen to inject drugs from his thighs into his body. For a nine-year-old boy, it really took courage to do so.

The doctor insisted that this was a painless injection, which was harder to attract attention than being bitten by a mosquito. After that, whether Messi went to school or went to a friend's house, he always brought his medical equipment. Sometimes, the pain after the injection made him unable to train.

These treatments are expensive, costing about 1,000 euros a month. At first, Messi's father could still rely on national health insurance and share some of the expenses, but after the Argentina economy began to decline in 1999, they could not rely on medical insurance. So the old Newell team extended a helping hand to them, promising to help him in future treatment.

However, Jurgen Messi was frustrated and humiliated afterwards because he often needed to ask for medical expenses at the club himself. According to Jim Le Barrager's book Messi, Sergio Almiron, the technical director of the Newell old guy team who followed Argentina to win the World Cup in 1986, often canceling talks at the last minute. Sometimes he only paid Jurgen 40 pesos, and a dose of medicine was 25 times the price.

Jurgen Messi was very disappointed. He brought his son to Buenos Aires and participated in the trial training of the Riverbed team, but the problem was still not solved. After that, it was the beautiful story between Messi and Barcelona.

But it is obviously not yet reached this stage.

“Man,”

"Do you know how much it costs to help him?" Lexach was obviously full of doubt.

"The high medical expenses, as the treatment progresses, will also increase medical expenses, and the expenses will snowball a little bit, allowing him to play in the professional league. Conservatively estimated that this budget is about 13 million euros."

"God, he is not Maradona!"

Mingla was stunned. He didn't expect the cost to be so high, and he didn't know how to respond to Rexach for a while.

If you have more than 10 million US dollars, you can buy a very good star. After weighing the trade-offs, you will not choose except for a fool.

"but……"

He still wanted to convince Rexach.

"Well, AC Milan, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid have all intentions. In any case, I still hope you think carefully and should be as soon as possible."

"Sir, if you don't try, how do you know he won't be another Maradona?"

"And he doesn't have to be Maradona, as long as he's great enough."

“Is the investment that Barcelona Club invested in every player successful?”

"More than ten million is not much. If you look far enough, how can you gain without taking risks? From your words, you can tell that you are just worried about his body and are very satisfied with his skills, but the same is true for the great Maradona..."

Zheng Zhi suddenly stood in front of them and couldn't help but speak. Although he had no connection with Messi, since he heard it, he had to help him say something.

Lexach looked at Zheng Zhi in front of him in surprise, wearing a red Manchester United jersey. It was his turn to speak.

"Ah hahahahaha,"

"Ah hahahahaha,"

"Carlos, I'm so laughing. Your vision is not as good as a Manchester United fan. He's right."

"He is definitely worth the Barcelona adventure!"

"Carlos!"

Lexach lowered his head and was silent. He was thinking about what Zheng Zhi said, but he was asking:

"I seem to have seen you somewhere?"
Chapter completed!