Halifax Italia, distributor of the popular football management game Football Manager, presents a new video starring Piero Ausilio: the technical director of Inter explains what the secrets are to becoming a top-level manager in football. It starts from the strategies to get the best out of any negotiation: “We have years of experience and knowledge is the interlocutor and it is different from country to country. In Germany they are very direct and square, if they have an idea of what the price is the margin is very low; in Italy, Spain or Portugal you can make negotiations a bit ‘more imaginative, the one who wants to buy tries to make people understand that they have lower availability and from there we go. I have seen talks last for days or months and then close with the price that both parties had in mind.”
How to move just before the end of the market? “At that time the teams have already started work, and coaches can take time to give feedback. Training camps begin in July, in August it starts already with the games, and then you can make further checks for the players you have and for those to be acquired. You also gamble on the fact that you can save something on the player signed in the end or he has a lower salary; a player signed on August 31 has had the first two months of salary paid by the club that sold him. But I think it is more than anything else a technical discussion, in the end you try to evaluate the available squad well and if you let go of a player you do so after assessments made all along. Sometimes there is a very specific program for the incoming players during the transfer market, as for Inter this year: we had in mind which players to put in this squad from the beginning, we worked immediately and almost all of the squad was ready by August 15th because the ideas had already been agreed with the staff and the coach. During the last week we focused more on which players to let go off.”
Source: fcinternews.it
