In the summer of 1985, the president of FC Metz, Carlo Molinari, asked my father Jenő Békeffy to recruit him a young striker. My father then remembered that he had seen an extremely talented young player at Ajax Amsterdam, he quickly asked the club for a certificate that he could transfer the player to the French club for $100,000. Metz sent two scouts to the Netherlands, who confirmed that the player is technically and tactically very talented, however he had a back problems and will have to undergo surgery. The Metz management thought that the reason the player was so cheap was because Ajax wanted to get rid of him. Molinari decided not to buy the player. 2 years later, Molinari no longer wanted to hear about the affair because the player had been sold to AC Milan for 3 million dollars. His name was Marco van Basten.
Later, Molinari called my father into his office and asked him to look at the framed paper behind his desk. It was Ajax’s offer of $100,000 that my father had offered him.