Chapter 17: Pirates of Madrid

"Official official announcement! The "Where to Go Hulay" transfer drama, which has been nearly two months since 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 have reached the transfer of Hulay. Unanimously, Hulay will transfer from Leeds to the Madrid Pirates... It is reported that the transfer fee will be as high as 120 million euros. Hulay has created a historical record of transfer fees for Chinese players and even Asian players..."
Xie Lan murmured after seeing the news: "120 million euros...how much is that?"
"About 800 million yuan?" Hu Lixin thought about it casually.
"Eight hundred million? How many houses can you buy!" Xie Lan just bought a house in the community recently and plans to use it as an honor room for her son. Now she is full of housing prices.
Seeing his wife really calculated it, Hu Lixin couldn't laugh or cry: "Don't forget it. This is the transfer fee. The transfer fee is for the club, not for Hu Lai."
"Nonsense, of course I know!" Xie Lan gave her husband a blank look, and said that she was like an idiot. "But at least it means our son is worth the price!"
"Whether it is worth it depends on his performance in Madrid pirates, otherwise he may be called'parallel imports'... In fact, the high transfer fee is not necessarily a good thing, because high net worth means a lot of pressure, everyone will think of you It should be worthy of this value. But the value is not determined by the performance of the players, but pure market economy behavior..."
Unlike his wife who always has confidence in his son, Hu Lixin always has a trace of worry about his son's career.
"Lao Hu, do you know the pirates of Madrid?"
Although Xie Lan has been a football fan for five years, he still doesn't know much about the entire European football scene. The focus of her sight is firmly fixed on her son. Where Hu Lai goes, she pays attention to the team where Hu Lai is, and then pays attention to the teams that compete with Hu Lai.
Hu Lai 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 the Madrid Kings and Catalonia. Because these two teams have something to do with her son.
As for the Madrid Pirates... this team has a lot of reputation 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 will be about 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 that, isn't it similar to the meaning of the Premier League pushing G6? Thirteen top teams." This term is famous, so even Xie Lan actually knows it.
"Well, just know it. G13 is a giant organization. It was originally composed of 13 European giants. Of course, it is now more than 13 teams. The Madrid Pirates are one of the 13 founding teams."
Hu Lixin said that Xie Lan could understand the status of the Madrid Pirates in European football at once.
The purpose of the G13, established in 1994, was for European giants to unite and want to compete with UEFA. They were dissatisfied with the Champions League reform in 1994. They believed that increasing the number of teams participating in the Champions League, increasing the number of matches and lengthening the schedule reduced the gold content of the Champions League at that time. The league is also called the UEFA Champions League as a confrontation. There are 13 giant teams working together to establish an organization that will fight against UEFA and form their own UEFA Super League to replace the new UEFA Champions League...
UEFA naturally does not allow this to happen. After some quarrels, threats, and bargaining, G13 temporarily gave up the idea of ​​continuing to engage in the European Super League. Although the "uprising" failed, this organization was retained, and as a representative of the European giant clubs, it continued to fight with UEFA and even FIFA.
Now if a player is injured while participating in a national team game, the national team must pay compensation to the club that the player plays for. This is one of the results of the game between G13 and FIFA and UEFA.
G13 started with 13 teams, namely La Liga’s Madrid Kings, Catalonia United, Madrid Pirates, Premier League’s Tramed, Stan Park Rangers, Bundesliga Blue and White Munich, Ruhr Rhein, Serie A’s Insubre , Torino Bulls, Ligue 1's Foss, Paris Eger, Eredivisie Ajax, Portuguese Premier League Alvara.
These thirteen teams have all won the Champions League, but not only won the Champions League. They have also occupied a dominant position in their respective national leagues, and this status has not fallen too 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 has long lost its former glory, it is naturally not qualified to sit in those thirteen positions.
Because winning a Champions League in ancient times is not necessarily due to strength, but may also be caused by luck. After all, the UEFA Champions League at that time was only a single-round elimination system, and the chance of an upset was very high. If you can get the Champions League, you can enter this giant organization, the title of "rich" would be too cheap.
Champions League honor is a stepping stone to becoming a giant, but it is only a necessary condition, not a sufficient condition to become a giant.
Later, G13 attracted several new Champions League champions, and at the same time, the powerful clubs in the current football team entered the organization. For example, London Bridge was attracted to the club after winning the Champions League and maintaining competitiveness in the Premier League for a long time.
The Navigators of Seville, who dominated the Europa League, have been an important force that cannot be ignored in La Liga for most of the last two decades. But because there is no Champions League, repeated attempts to enter G13 have been ruthlessly rejected.
Although Xie Lan understood this question, another question came up: "Then why do you always think that the Madrid pirates are not as famous as the King of Madrid, and not as good as the King of Madrid?"
"Isn't that nonsense... How many teams can be more famous than the Madrid Kings? G13 is the top European giants organization. Those who can enter this organization must be the giants that have won the Champions League. Then you know that it is proposed to start. Who is G13?"
"It won't be... the King of Madrid, right?"
"It's the King of Madrid." Hu Lixin nodded. "G13 is a giant organization, and the King of Madrid is the founder of this organization. That's why everyone calls the King of Madrid'the richest of the rich'. Don't talk about Madrid pirates. It can be compared with the King of Madrid. There are not many in Europe. . So the King of Madrid is very powerful, it does not mean that Madrid’s pirates are not good. They were born in Madrid, so they were overwhelmed by half. Anything else can be a local hegemon. And you think so, Madrid The king sees Madrid as their territory, but in this city, under the eyes of the king of Madrid, there can still be a wealthy team, and you will know how strong the Madrid pirates are."
Xie Lan slapped her slap: "Understood, on the side of the couch!"
Hu Lixin showed an expression of "children can be taught", and said with satisfaction, "Yes, that's what it means."
After listening to her husband’s introduction, Xie Lan said happily:
In that case, our son went to the Madrid pirates, and it’s not that he was wronged...

Hu Lixin was speechless: "Don't do the same as marrying a daughter, and pay attention to the right person!"
"Hey, can it be the same? We are married to a daughter-in-law. Besides, I am very satisfied with Qingqing!"
"Where to follow..." Hu Lixin couldn't laugh or cry.
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"...Neither party 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 among the Madrid Pirates, second only to the team’s number one superstar Maxi Carey..."
"The annual salary is indeed not as high as you." Jim Castien confirmed to Maxi Carey on this news. "You are still the top paid player on the Pirates."
After listening to this, Maxi Carey finally nodded in satisfaction.
His annual salary for the pirates in Madrid is 15 million euros after tax, the only one in the team.
The annual salary figures are not only about income, but also about the club's positioning of players.
When you don’t know what a player’s status is in the team, it’s simple, 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 in the middle ranks of the team, claiming to be the number one star in the team.
So at least from the annual salary, Carey does feel the respect the club has for him...
The club did not lie to him, or that it did not lie to him completely.
If he hears that Hu Lai not only has a higher transfer fee than himself, but his annual salary is even higher than his own, then he is probably going to explode.
Maxi Carey is not a good-tempered person!
Castian was relieved to see Carey's performance.
Before that, he actually didn't know how Hu Lai talked with the Pirate Club and what kind of annual salary he would get.
If he is really taller than Kaili, he might not be confident to persuade Kaili.
After all, the after-tax annual salary of 15 million euros seems to be quite high, which is all earned by Carey through his own performance. Hu Lai, a newcomer, hasn't contributed to the team yet, so why should he get a higher salary than him?
After transferring to the Madrid Pirates, Maxi Carey helped the Madrid Pirates win the La Liga championship in the 2022-2023 season, the Spanish Copa del Rey in the 2024-2025 season, and the most importantly the Europa League in the 2025-2026 season. champion.
Triple crowns in four years, this is the most glorious period since the Madrid Pirates won the second Champions League trophy in club history in the 2011-2012 season.
In these three championships, Carey is an important contributor.
When the Pirates won the La Liga championship in the 2022-2023 season, Carey won the La Liga Golden Boot with 33 goals.
When he wins the Europa League in the 2025-2026 season, Kyrie’s eleven goals are the UEFA Europa League golden boots.
So when I won a new contract of 15 million after-tax annual salary for Carey three years ago, no one felt that "Flying Dutchman'Max' Carey" was not worthy of this annual salary, and no one was right. He was dissatisfied with the number one salary in the Madrid Pirates.
Even after Carey was injured, the Madrid Pirates immediately sent a three-year contract extension without asking Carey to cut his salary.
This allows Castien to fully feel the human touch of the Madrid Pirates, a working-class club.
Therefore, he is also willing to help Palotti calm Carey's emotions, not wanting everyone to make trouble.
Otherwise, Kaili, who will go his own way, is afraid that the congregation will betray their relatives... Most of the fans of the pirates are the low-level people and the working class. They have passionate emotions and intense expressions. Love you can love you to death, hate you can also hate to the extreme.
Castien can completely imagine how these pirate fans would treat Kyrie if Kyrie did things that made the fans angry...
He didn't want things to go to that point.
It now appears that things will not come to that point.
He began to persuade Carey to focus on football itself:
"Last season, you didn’t come back until March. Although your body came back, you are still far from getting back to your state. Both psychologically and physically... But that’s okay. The important thing is that you didn’t have the rest of last season. Injured during the game. So next train hard and get back to your form, you are still the'MAX', Maxi!"
Castian cheered Carey this way.
He did see Carey clearly cheer up.
Obviously knowing that he is still the number one high salary in the team, so that Kyrie's mood is much better.
"Okay, no problem, Jim. I will let the club know that they don't have to spend so much money to buy that Chinese kid. With that money, just buy a few more players who are enough to support me. We can also buy Madrid. The king and the Catalan united ass!"
Seeing Carey's fighting spirit suddenly came, Castien smirked in his heart.
Maxi is such a person...Even if he is thirty-two years old~EbookFREE.me~, he doesn't feel much mature.
Although this immaturity caused a lot of trouble for myself at some times, but at other times I felt that it was okay for him to be so immature.
Otherwise, it would be really difficult to break free from the quagmire of a serious knee injury.
Castian now hopes that Lopati can fulfill his promise and successfully allow Hulai and Carey to coexist.
He believes that as long as Carey adjusts his mentality, coupled with tactical opponents, even if the Dutch can no longer fly, they will still be "MAX".
Next, his wish is that Carey can successfully fulfill his contract with the Madrid Pirates, and then take him back to the Netherlands to end his career in his hometown team The Hague Hercules.
That was the career plan that Carey had mentioned to himself many times.
He said that no matter how far the ship sails, it will want to return to the port where it sailed.
Castien, also a Dutchman, deeply agrees.