Chapter 1007 Pain and Disappointment

The questions about Team Excellent Era caused the atmosphere to turn a bit cold. It wasn't until the Alliance's press officer asked for the third time if there were any more questions that a reporter finally stood up.

"Captain Ye Xiu, hello. Your words just now have filled us with confidence in Excellent Era's future. However, I would still like to hear your opinion on the actual event of Excellent Era being put up for sale. Thank you."

When this reporter finished speaking, the other reporters suddenly realized.

Wasn't that what they were asking just now? However, Ye Xiu's answer was strictly off-topic. He provided an answer that wasn't about the question itself, but was a continuation of it, subtly shifting the concept while everyone was still immersed in it. Fortunately, there was someone who could clearly break free from it. The reporter's repeated emphasis on the question made everyone truly appreciate that Ye Xiu, this god who had never dealt with reporters before, was actually very difficult to deal with.

"Uh…" Ye Xiu's expression turned less pleasant. "Frankly speaking, I am very saddened and also feel extremely disappointed."

The reporters' eyes lit up as soon as they heard this answer.

"Are you referring to the decision to put Excellent Era up for sale when you say saddened and disappointed?"

"Yes." Ye Xiu nodded. "Excellent Era is at its most difficult moment, and the decision to sell Excellent Era is made at this time. I think this completely abandons and betrays what was once pursued. In this decision, Excellent Era has completely become a commodity, a pure commodity, and nothing more."

Ye Xiu's words didn't mention anyone by name. But who else could make such a decision to sell? Of course, it was Excellent Era's boss, Tao Xuan.

But reporters never feared having a clearer and more detailed understanding, so someone immediately asked, "Are you in fact saying that you are saddened and disappointed by Excellent Era's boss, Tao Xuan?"

"Yes." Ye Xiu nodded. "If it was to allow the team to survive and develop better, regardless of the method used, whether it's right or wrong, I would try to understand it. Because everyone sees things from different angles, naturally, they will have different ways of handling them. But I cannot understand the decision to sell the team."

"But you just said that no matter what, Excellent Era will not fall."

"Yes, Excellent Era will not fall, but some people, they have already fallen," Ye Xiu said.

This time, no reporters stood up to explicitly confirm who that person was. After this series of questions and answers, everyone understood Ye Xiu's meaning even more clearly. Excellent Era was indeed Tao Xuan's property, but that was only from a commercial point of view. From a competitive point of view, the Excellent Era team had already been deposited in everyone's hearts. Even Tao Xuan, the nominal owner, could only control the commercialized Excellent Era. And when he made the decision to put it up for sale, he had completely abandoned the true Excellent Era in people's hearts.

Understood. This time, the reporters truly understood. Some were pondering, some had already opened their laptops and started typing, and those who were used to organizing with pen and paper also began to write furiously.

The reporters had grasped something worth writing about. Many seemed afraid of missing any ideas and began to write as if they were possessed.

The Alliance's press officer had attended countless press conferences and journalist receptions, but this was the first time he had seen all the reporters forget the occasion and start writing on the spot. Even he was stunned for a while before reacting, "Ahem, does anyone else have any questions?"

His voice startled the engrossed reporters. Everyone came back to their senses and was surprised by their sudden, almost enchanted behavior. They quickly organized their burning thoughts. It wasn't until the press officer asked again that many sat up straight, looking solemnly at the stage, at Ye Xiu.

Everyone was very satisfied with the gains from this press conference. However, the person sitting on the stage at the moment was Ye Xiu. It was his first time attending a press conference in so many years, so they couldn't let him go back easily. Regarding Ye Xiu, everyone had been holding back countless questions, big and small, for so many years, and they had to ask enough today. If they couldn't think of any big questions for the moment, they could use some trivial and meaningless questions to stall the situation.

Thinking this way, another reporter immediately raised his hand. The one who was randomly selected probably hadn't thought of a question to stall with, so he "uhmmed" twice before finally coming up with something in a hurry, "The Challenger League finals press conference was not attended by Team Happy. What was the reason?"

All the reporters looked at him.

Regarding this question, the reporters who had been stood up were of course eager to know the reason. But the problem was that these reporters weren't so well-behaved and honest as to wait until today to ask. As early as after being forcibly dismissed from the press conference last week after failing to meet Happy, they had already strongly demanded that the Alliance provide an explanation.

The reason why Happy didn't attend the press conference that day was finally explained and covered up by the Alliance, so it was no longer considered a problem. Now, this person jumped out to ask again, which was very unskilled! The Alliance's press officer, who had explained this question, was standing right there. Hearing this, did they have no more questions? Okay, dismiss, dismiss! How could this be?

Fortunately, this question had already been handled by the media and the Alliance, but it wasn't surprising for Happy to be asked about it. This time, it wasn't Ye Xiu who answered, but Chen Guo.

"First of all, I want to apologize to the media friends who were present that day." Chen Guo also learned to speak in a serious and pretentious tone. "As everyone knows, our Happy is a very ordinary and common grassroots team. We haven't participated in professional competitions and have absolutely no experience in dealing with these matters. Although we received a notice to attend the press conference that day, we later won the championship. In our excitement, we completely forgot. We are really sorry."

This explanation was basically consistent with the explanation given by the Alliance, but this reporter glanced at the stage and suddenly felt something was wrong. He looked at Ye Xiu on the far right. "But, God Ye Xiu…" The reporter only said a few words before suddenly getting stuck. Ye Xiu smiled and took over the question. "What about me?"

"N-nothing…" This person originally wanted to say that God Ye Xiu had a lot of professional experience, but then he thought about it. Ye Xiu had competition experience, but had he ever attended a press conference? Not at all! Looking at the other party's meaningful smile, he suddenly felt that he shouldn't mention this.

This question was dropped, and another reporter was selected. "Can you talk about Happy's specific plans for the next season? For example, during this summer transfer window, will Happy make any moves?"

"We have already finalized a transfer." Chen Guo said in a serious tone.

"Can you talk about it in detail?"

"Su Mucheng has confirmed that she will be transferring to Happy in the next season as a free agent," Chen Guo said.

With the reporters' keen sense, they had already anticipated this. However, it was still of great significance when someone officially announced it. If so, wouldn't Team Happy no longer be supported solely by Ye Xiu? Would the Alliance's best combination be rebuilt in Happy?

"What kind of contract will Su Mucheng sign with Happy? I wonder if you can reveal some details?" Professional players' income was also a hot topic, so the reporters were very interested in the specifics of the contract. It was reasonable to say that a player of Su Mucheng's All-Star level could not be supported by a grassroots team like Happy, which was supported by an internet cafe. However, there was already an even greater god squatting here, which made it impossible to measure Happy with common sense.

"Uh, some details are still being discussed and cannot be revealed yet." Chen Guo's wording was relatively appropriate, but the momentary awkward expression was still captured by the keen reporters. Salary and benefits had always been an embarrassing and worrying issue for Chen Guo. They had managed to get through the Challenger League for a year, but now it was the professional league. Everyone was a professional player. They couldn't just provide room and board and have them play the games, right? What kind of contracts should they offer these people next? Chen Guo's head ached just thinking about it. She had no experience in this area because there had never been a precedent for grassroots teams directly entering the professional league in history.

Like paying internet cafe employees a thousand yuan or so? That was definitely not appropriate! But according to the standards of professional players? Chen Guo had already learned something. Currently, the highest-paid player in the professional circle was Team Tyranny's captain, Han Wenqing, with 30 million yuan for three years, averaging 10 million yuan a year and 200,000 yuan a week. In Chen Guo's mind, Ye Xiu was a higher being than Han Wenqing, but not to mention higher, Chen Guo would cry to death even if she followed Han Wenqing's standards.

However, Han Wenqing's contract would expire this year, and it wouldn't be a big problem to renew it, but the salary might be reduced a lot, after all, he was an old general who had passed his peak. But his current highest salary was likely to be broken this summer.

The signing model commonly used by Alliance teams was a three-year contract. And the Golden Generation that poured into the Alliance in the fourth season, after experiencing the summer of this ninth season, had quite a few contracts expiring. And these players were all at the peak of their professional careers, plus Glory was now more prosperous, and the operating conditions of each team were quite good. This summer, I am afraid there would be one salary record after another.

And against this background, Happy was actually solving the players' treatment problems with room and board, which was obviously very unscientific.

Chen Guo's embarrassment was keenly captured by the reporters, and they immediately raised new questions. This time, the protagonist of their questions was finally no longer Ye Xiu. They focused their fire on Tang Rou on the stage, a player who had attracted the attention of countless teams and was considered to be of extraordinary value in the eyes of many.

"Miss Tang Rou, do you understand the current income status of players in the Glory professional circle?" the reporters asked.