Football singularity

Chapter 301 301 Offers

Lisa stepped into the car waiting outside, her thoughts already shifting to the next meeting. The meeting with Tottenham had gone just like she had expected but she knew the coming clubs would likely offer similar promises. She would just have to look for the most promissing ones and diswade any thoughts of a long term contract. Her next stop Chelsea,

As the car cruised through London, she leaned back against the leather seat, mentally preparing herself. Chelsea, unlike Tottenham, had a reputation for acquiring young talents and rotating them across various loan systems. They'd claim it was to develop players, but Lisa saw it for what it was: a stockpile of assets. Rakim wasn't going to become just another player in their bloated system, loaned out to some far-off club for years.

By the time she reached Stamford Bridge, Lisa had already prepared her questions, her strategy firmly in place. A few polite smiles and exchanges later, she found herself in a similar conference room, this time with Chelsea's recruitment team.

"So," began the Chelsea representative, a well-dressed man with a sharp demeanor. "Rakim's recent rise in value is well-deserved. We've been watching him for a while now. He fits perfectly into our vision of dynamic, pace-driven football." He slid a folder across the table toward her. "This contains our development plan for him—both on the field and in terms of marketing. Chelsea is not just a club, Mrs. Rex, it's a global institution."

Lisa opened the folder and scanned it, noting the detailed breakdown of their "vision." She'd seen enough marketing plans to last a lifetime. What mattered to her was the focus on his development, not just his marketability. Her attention zeroed in on the parts that mattered—development, game time, his future on the field. However, no matter how much she looked through the folder there was no mention of such details in teh preliminary plan.

"And where exactly do you see Rakim fitting into your squad?" she asked, her voice steady but firm.

"Ah, well," the man hesitated slightly, "we believe Rakim could benefit from some time with our sister clubs on loan before making his impact here. It's common practice to nurture talent in environments where they can get the necessary experience and then bring them into the fold when they are fully prepared."

Lisa's eyes sharpened. "And during this loan period, will he be exempt from your marketing campaigns?" She question as he gaze quickly turned sharp alredy figuring out that they wanted to sign her son for the star power he currently has but werent willing to risck fully commiting. Following her question she directly closed the folder in her hands seeing no point reading the rest if they werent serios about their offer.

"Mrs. Rex, that's an unreasonable request," the man replied, his tone suddenly defensive. "We'll be investing in his future, after all. And that includes developing his image."

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For the next few week Lisa continued to have meetings with clubs who wanted to sign Rakim due the hype of the TItan-fit lauch. Thier attitude quickly chnaged after realising that if they didnt have a well thought out plan she wouldnt even listen them out. Most big clubs were under the impression that every young players want's to join their teams but she quickly made them realise it was them who should be thanfull if he joind them.

Her biggest bargaining chip were his Image rights and she made it clear after continued stagnation in negotiations that they would be taken off the table. Usually not so well known players and young talents looking for a break would sign away all their image rights to the club tehy played for. Howe ever in Rakim's case he was populer enough on social media to not need to do so without adequete benefits from teh club.

Simply signing away his collective immage rights was alredy a big enough concession for teh simple fact he could open up the US market. With the states being the biggest market in the world it was quite sad how unpopuler the biggest game on the planet is. However with most of Rakims fans being based on the US he quite literly held the keys to open up the gates into tha market for whatever team he joind.

"These are the clubs who have reached an agreement wit Ace Academy and have show geniuen interest in acuiring your tallents son," Lisa sated with a light smile bfore pulling out a few documents from her binder and placed them on the coffe table. She didnt rush to give her oppinion chosing instead to enjoy her team as she watched her son look through the documents.

Spreeding out the five files his mother had prepared for him Rakim read teh information with interest wanting to see what she wrote about the clubs. During his one month hiatus of professional football he had been hearing loads of rumers regarding teams who wnated to sign him. Some where more bizzare than the other as some of his more ambitiots fans wanted him to join LA Galaxy so he could focus on his Metube career.

Anyway opening the first document a familier Blue N logo apeard infront of him instantly letting him know which team it was. Napoli prelimenary offer was a 4 year offer with comprehensive development plans and a prommised sporadic match time offer. It was still in the prelimenary phases of the nagotiation's but they had offerd Ace Academy 18M as transfer fees meaning 20% would go his way based on his contract with them. If Rakim was being honest though he didnt expect this offer from napoli who had just finished second in the 2018/19 Serie A race.

"Honestly based on the prelimenary meeting Napoli was the most sinceer in their offer," Lisa spoke up after seeing her son linger on the document infront of him. "Carlo Ancelotti that Italian coach even met me personally and started anlysing your match tapes listing out ways he could use you. Despite only speeking a little english he was so passionet that I could still understand everything he wanted to convey."

Rakim looked up, a hint of surprise in his expression. "Ancelotti? Are you sure, Mom. But I don't know, Serie A isn't exactly what I had in mind. I only speak a little Italian." What he didnt say was teh fact he feard that his legs would be broken in the defencive minded Itallian league. The only good thing about joining Napoli would be the fact he wouldn't have to go against Senegal beast by the name of Koulibaly.

The next two team's where from the Budesliga, first was RB Leipzig as part of the Redbull conglomorate initive to sign young talents. Their intial offer was a 3 year contarct with comprehensive plans that would see him make his bundes liga debut and participate in media evensts. Unlike most teams they were more interest in his skills on the field as they build their brand on performace rather than star power.

The next offer was from the Bundes Liga giant's Bayern Munich which honestly excited him when he realised it. They had been his favourite team since he frist started walking in the path of a footballer. He practically mirrored half his playing styles on the left wing after Arjen Robben so he would be lying if he said that the fan inside him was doing front flips.

However, upon further thought he quickly realised that the chancess of him joing their main squd was slim if major changes didnt take place. Despite dampenning his expectations he still egarly read the offer of both teams and it looked like they wanted him to spend a month on trial with the first team. After that month they would decide wether to keep him on or send him on a loan spell, depending on how fast he adapted to the german culture.

"Joing them might be a bit of aheadache... Your Dad's family owns some of the teams shares,"

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To Be Continued...