Gao Shen would never have imagihat Alexis Sánchez, who would ter receive a weekly sary of ￡500,000 from Maer United, had grown up in such a pce.

  Fag the sea, there were n flowers blooming only the stench from garbage piled up along the shore.

  The air here was incredibly polluted, and the sky was a dull grey.

  All the way from Cama was a desert-like Gobi terrain. Gao Shen thought the situation might improve by the seaside, but he did not expect things to be even worse.

  But he finally found Sánchez.

  It wasn't too difficult to find him because he was a celebrity here a Chilean iional.

  Gao Shen's sudden visit left the Sánchez family feeling at a loss because they couldn't even find a spot in their home to offer a seat, nor could they provide det food or water to eain him.

  The living ditions here were truly terrible.

  In fact, the Sánchez family had it better than most. Sánchez, after all, ying football and making money, while the situations of other families were even worse.

  Gao Shen was standing in the yard, talking to 18-year-old Sánchez about the transfer.

  Befao She Cama, he had reached an agreement with Cobreloa 1.5 million euros, and Sánchez would belong to Napoli.

  , someone would tact Sáo discuss the trad his pensation.

  This wasn't really within Gao Shen's scope of responsibilities, but he could guarahat it would be a lot higher than what he aid at Cobreloa.

  But promises of future money 't help with the current needs.

  Gao Shen took out all the Chilean pesos in his pocket, then took the money from Lucas and Roman Dias, and stuffed them all into Sánchez's hands.

  This was all the mohey had exged at Cama Airport.

  "Take your family out of here and go baa," Gao Shen advised.

  The ditions here were just too awful.

  The pride of the eighteen-year-old made Sánchez want to refuse, but he hesitated with such a rge amount of money in front of him.

  "I will repay you, sir!" Sánchez said to Gao Shen.

  Gao Shen smiled. "When you e to Europe and py well for me, that will be the best repayment."

  Sánchez nodded heavily.

  ...

  They came a in a hurry, but Gao Shen was no longer as upbeat as when he first arrived.

  For him, coag is a job, and for the pyers, pying football is also a job.

  But despite being the same type of work, the meaning behind it is pletely different.

  For someone like Sánchez, pying football is what he and his family rely on to survive in this world, so he gives his all in every game.

  "Look around, there are tless situations like this. You 't help everyone," Roman Dias sighed.

  He could see that Gao Shen was a kied person.

  But the impact of a good person is limited.

  "In fact, a family like theirs is retively well-off. At least Sáill gets a sary at Cobreloa, and he's a Chilean iional with a promising future. When he goes to Europe, as long as he pys well, their family will have a future."

  "But you know what? There are many more, even most families, oorer than the Sánchez family. Their children don't even have the talent to py football; they only go down into the mines and never leave this small copper-mining town."

  Gao Shen uood that what Roman Dias said was right.

  He had never sidered himself a saint, but witnessing such a se just now, he couldn't help but feel a bit sorrowful.

  Well, who hasn't been moved by something before?

  Nor was he great enough to say he wao save all the poor people in the world.

  "Anyway, if I didn't see it, I didn't see it; I couldn't help it. But since I did see it, I have to do something," Gao Shen said.

  Roman Dias nodded and smiled. "If that kid has any gratitude, you helping him like this means he'll sell his soul to you!"

  "I don't want his life," Gao Shen smiled at Roman Dias. "I just want him to py well."

  ...

  Before ing to Cama, Gao Shen had spent two days in Santiago, the capital of Chile, where he visited Colo Colo Club. He spent one million euros to sign a retively unknown pyer from the Colo Colo youth team, Arturo Vidal.

  Up until now, Vidal had not yet pyed for Colo Colo's first team.

  In parison, Sánchez, a Chilean iional and an attag pyer, cost only 1.5 million euros, which was already a good deal.

  Acc to Roman Dias, Udinese in Serie A was also ied in Sánchez and had even reached an agreement with Cobreloa, but they never paid ned a formal tract.

  Before ing to Chile, Gao Shen signed Peruvia-back Juan Manuel Vargas for 1.5 million euros from in Santa Fe provinorth of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

  The 22-year-old Peruvian is a regur at de Santa Fe and has been perf well.

  At the same time, through his es with Roman Dias, Gao Shen successfully signed 19-year-old Braziliaral defender David Luiz from Vitória in Brazil's sed division. He also holds dual nationality.

  Unfortunately, due to the distance, Gao Shen could not travel to Brazil to meet David Luiz in person, but he arranged for him to be sent to Italy through Roman Dias's friend.

  In this way, Gao Shen's trip to South America was sidered fruitful.

  He spent 1.5 million euros for Sánchez, 1.5 million euros for Vargas, 1.8 million euros flia, 500,000 euros for David Luiz, 800,000 euros for i, 1.2 million euros to sign Di María, and 1 million euros to sign Vidal.

  Among these, Gao Shen inally po sign Luis Suárez, but he didn't expect to be a step behind Groningen ihernds.

  During the transfer in the Chilean capital, Gao Shen suddenly remembered Vidal from Colo Colo and signed him on the spot.

  Among the seven pyers, Vargas, Sánchez, and Vidal are all non-European pyers.

  The seven deals cost Napoli a total of 8.3 million euros.

  If you add the one million euros for Basel's Rakitic, Gao She a total of 9.3 million euros in just over half a month.

  This is astronomical for a Serie B team.

  ...

  Italy, Naples.

  When Marino received another call from Gao Shen, his brows furrowed again.

  Previously, he would receive a call from Gao Shewo or three days, and occasionally, he would receive reports from Roman Dias about Gao Shen's every move in South America.

  He was surprised to find that Gao Shen's signings had a very clear dire, even directly targeting specific pyers.

  Moreover, many of these pyers were not unknown, such as Suárez and today's Sánchez.

  Marino was very puzzled. Through what els did Gao Shen learn about so many pyers?

  His informatiowork eve deep into the Brazilian sed division. It was astonishing to discuy named David Luiz from a little-known club like Vitória.

  Marino didn't uand, but he felt he should report it.

  The transfer fee for Sánchez is not high, only 1.5 million euros, but in total, nearly 10 million euros had bee.

  While arranging someoo follow up with the Chilean club Cobreloa, Marino piled a detailed list a straight to De Laurentiis's office.

  "Boss, this is Gao's ret signing list. Below is the list of pyers he arranged for me to follow up on in Europe."

  De Laurentiis sat behind his desk, legs crossed, smoking a cigar and puffing from time to time. After reag out to take Marino's two lists, he looked through them seriously.

  When it es to money, he takes things very seriously.

  "They're all very young," De Laurentiis immediately noticed.

  "Yes, the oldest is Juan Manuel Vargas, who is only twenty-two."

  De Laurentiis smiled slightly. "It seems that he really sidered our finances."

  For the first season, he only gave Gao Shen a transfer budget of 20 million euros, which is already an astronomical figure in Serie B.

  Yet, Gao Shen did not introduce a siablished star or even the pyers he used at Real Madrid. Instead, he scouted for young talents around 20 years old.

  The upside is that these pyers are cheap, but it is still worrisome.

  these teenagers really carry Napoli?

  "I did the math. He brought i pyers himself, costing us 9.3 million euros," Maried. "Additionally, he asked me to help him with some operations in Europe, bringing in Graziano Pellè from Lecce, costing us 1.5 million euros, Bonucci cost us 1 million euros, and goalkeeper Handanovi? from Udinese also cost us 1 million euros."

  "In addition, signing Gervinho from Belgian club Beveren cost us 500,000 euros, and the most expensive was signing Marek Ham?ík from Brescia. The een-year-old cost us 2.5 million euros."

  De Laurentiis's hand holding the report twitched.

  Adding it all up, it cost a total of nearly 16 million euros.

  Ruthless, truly ruthless!

  That's 16 million euros!

  Good heavens, Gao Shen didn't even bat an eyelid he just spent it all.

  De Laurentiis lost his mood to smoke, aood up directly from his seat, trying to calm himself down.

  He had never been a big spender, and this 16 million euros was a huge sum for him. It made him quite distressed.

  "How's the quality of the pyers?" De Laurentiis asked.

  "I uand that we may not have detailed information on all the pyers, but take Sánchez, for example he's already a Chilean iional. Udinese has been monit him for months. And Biglia, he's a key pyer fentina in the World Youth Championship, and a teammate of Messi."

  "Even though we might not know some of the pyers very well, based on those we do know, they seem to be quite talented."

  De Laurentiis let out a deep sigh after hearing this.

  Despite the promising assessment, he still felt uneasy.

  "I trust him. If Udinese is ied, it means these pyers are of a det level. I believe he build a strong youth squad!" De Laurentiis said, with a tohat was as muarino as it was for reassuring himself.