Football System: Classic Number 10
Chapter 151: Bids From Several Clubs

The morning at the Cananga FC Mining team's main office today felt so tense. Everyone who had important positions such as head coach and the others attended the meeting this time around, though, this is because the discussion is considered quite important and the head coach of Cananga FC Mining Coach Giovanni Almeida must know this news.

Today's incident began when the Cananga FC Mining office received emails from several clubs competing in Europe. At first the administrative officer thought it was just a friendly match or a call to participate in a charity match, but when the administration read it once again then he immediately frenzied like a chicken that just laid eggs.

The administration officer immediately reported the email to the management, and the management was surprised and immediately planned a meeting to discuss this in the morning. That's what happened last night, and that's why so many people gathered in the club's boardroom.

"So I actually called coach Giovanni as the head coach of this team to discuss something that feels important enough for this club" the club's manager told Coach Giovanni.

Coach Giovanni smiled slightly, he disliked the politics of the club. Giovanni believes that what the club feels is important is very unreasonable achievements, Giovanni has heard that several times and expectations are not very good.

But it turned out that this time was different, the news this time was enough to shock him to the point that he was speechless for a while.

"So today's meeting is about one of our players, a player who has just joined us and seems to be quite an important asset for this club. His name is Rizaldi Fatah, he's a player who is now under your supervision right Coach Giovanni?" the statement from the club manager made Giovanni slightly corner his eyes.

The club manager said again, showing some of the emails the club received last night. "These are some emails from the club expressing interest in a player named Rizaldi Fatah"

Coach Giovanni looked carefully at all the emails, after he finished and then gave the email to Coach Satria Hutama who also participated in the meeting to accompany Coach Giovanni. Coach Satria's reaction was like someone who had just gotten a collapsed durian. Coach Satria was so excited to see all the applications to Rizaldi Fatah, to the point that he had to be reprimanded before he finally got his composure back as at first.

"All these offers? Rizaldi Fatah is a great Coach!" coach Satria is very passionate, but not Coach Giovanni Almeida.

He still feels deep concern, he still wants to guide Rizaldi Fatah even longer but he also does not want to make Rizaldi Fatah career there. Coach Giovanni feels he has a big responsibility about the future that Rizaldi Fatah has, he does not want to ruin the young man's dream.

But all the applications that came in were quite good, the management actually gave all the final decisions to Coach Giovanni Almeida, the president said, because young people are the first to see the potential of Rizaldi Fatah after everyone underestimated his figure who was considered new to entering the world of football.

Coach Giovanni was still worried, he seemed unable to answer at this meeting. The management understood that, and they were patient to await the final decision of Coach Giovanni.

Indeed, since his slick appearance with Cananga FC senior Mining, Rizaldi Fatah so many began to pay attention to him. Although yesterday when Cananga FC Mining met Tarakanita Jakarta FC they lost, but Rizaldi performed quite brilliantly in the match at that time.

Rizaldi recorded one assist in the match, 300 passing which accuracy reached up to 86%. Rizaldi is also the most active player who moves around looking for space, but unfortunately Tarakanita Jakarta FC is really stronger than them. Although Tarakanita Jakarta FC did not degrade Yoga Hilmawan because they had to miss the U-17 national team competing in the AFF Cup, but their attack power did not decrease sharpness.

It's a pity that Cananga Mining has to lose, but they are still far from the title so it's still safe in the meantime.

While walking, Coach Giovanni was still thinking about what they had just discussed in the meeting room earlier. Reaching his room, Coach Giovanni again sees some emails from the club showing his interest in Rizaldi Fatah.

"I was surprised by the coach's offer to sign for Rizaldi, I didn't expect some of the top clubs in the Asian league to also want Rizaldi Fatah's services" Coach Satria still couldn't hide her pleasure.

Coach Giovanni still shows twelve faces, not knowing what to do. Of the many choices that he prefers to discuss this with Rizaldi first, he does not want Rizaldi to make decisions too quickly and also does not want to take too long to process, he did not want to take too long, surely this is an opportunity.

There were offers from Nagoya Grampus, Ansan Greeners FC, and even Selangor FA. But there is one very interesting offer, one of the teams that play in the third tier of the Premier League or EFL League One. The club that interested Rizaldi is Milton Keynes Dons, or a club that is often called MK Dons.

"What is true Coach? I didn't see the app before" coach Satria said in disbelief, believing he had seen all the emails carefully.

"You see for yourself" Coach Giovanni gave an email from Milton Keynes Dons to Coach Satria, and was surprised to find that Coach Satria was created.

"For what Milton Keynes Dons! Rizaldi's chance to play in the English league is increasingly wide open Coach!" coach Satria.

But not for Coach Giovanni, he thinks this is not good news but not bad news. Indeed, currently MK Dons play in the third division of the English league, if they play well for 2 seasons they could be promoted to the English league. But Rizaldi's chances of playing in the English league are not as easy as one might think.

There are several things that must be considered by Rizaldi Fatah to be able to play in the English League, can not just play. There are regulations that he must comply with first, which is easier is to get the club's home-grown status.

"Do you mean Coach, Rizaldi must stay in the English league for at least 3 years?" Coach Satria asked Coach Giovanni about the Home-grown status.

"Yes right" replied Coach Giovanni. "Rizaldi should not move league during the time of getting home-grown status, if there is a case where Rizaldi moved to another league before he got home-grown status, then Rizaldi must reset the count of getting his home-grown status. And the age limit to get home-grown status is only until the age of 21 years"

The complicated face of Coach Satria Hutama after hearing the explanation from Coach Giovanni, he felt the complicated things from it all. But all of this has its own reasons.

Coach Giovanni continues his explanation. "Why does Rizaldi need home-grown status to play in the English league? Unlike other players who can directly play in the English league, it's because Rizaldi was born and raised in Indonesia"

Coach Satria is getting confused. "What does this have to do with Rizaldi being born in Indonesia?"

The reason in particular is because the FIFA Indonesia ranking itself is far from the top 50. Countries that are in the FIFA ranking below the top 50 cannot just play in the English league, such as countries that have a FIFA ranking above 50 such as Brazil or Argentina.

There are several stages that must be passed by countries that have a FIFA ranking below the top 50 to be able to play in the top caste of the English league. First gained the club's home-grown status for 3 years until the player's age of 21. Then secondly there is the collection of points and the collection of points will be very difficult to do by Indonesia which is far away in rank 50.

Players from Indonesia, to be able to play in the English league without regard to home-grown status, they can collect 15 points to be able to play in the English league. Where did this point come from? It comes from experience playing at club level and also at national team level. And why is this so difficult to do even if it only collects 15 points? That's because each league has a different number of points collected and depends on the ranking in FIFA once again.

So the most sensible thing Rizaldi can do to play in the Premier League is to get the club's home-grown status at Milton Keynes Dons.

"We have to talk about this first to Ward Prowse, we listen to what he thinks and then we decide the final decision" Coach Giovanni said.

"Ready Coach! I'll call Rizaldi here to talk about this" then Coach Satria leaves the room to go see Rizaldi.

When Coach Satria left the room, Coach Giovanni once again showed his agitated face. He really does not want Rizaldi to take decisions that are too rash, but he also does not want to prevent Rizaldi from achieving his dream.