Football giants

Chapter 58 It must be him!
Frank Arneson drove to Canary Wharf, London.

Canary Wharf is a famous yacht wharf in London. Abramovich's world-famous Eclipse always stops along the coast of Canary Wharf if it does not go out to sea.

Walking on the pier, you can see this Eclipse, which is particularly dazzling white under the sun, at a glance.

With a total length of 160 meters and a width of 21 meters, such a large size is considered a giant in Canary Wharf.

Not only that, but this is a yacht with amazing protection capabilities, equipped with an anti-missile system developed by Germany, as well as two helicopters on call at any time, twenty jet skis, etc.

Arnesen couldn't help but want to curse every time he saw this yacht.

Rich people are so fucking cool!

But now, the closer he got to the eclipse, the more uneasy he felt.

He was well aware of Abramovich's reasons for calling him to Canary Wharf.

He messed up a very important thing!
Walking on the eclipse and going up to the deck along the spiral staircase, Abramovich is sitting on the deck, facing Chelsea's coach Ancelotti, which makes Arnesen somewhat surprised.

"Boss." Arnesen stepped forward.

Abramovich nodded, and casually pointed to the opposite seat, signaling him to sit casually, but he was staring at his phone.

Ding dong~ ding dong, two messages came from the phone in less than three or four seconds.

After reading the news, Abramovich couldn't help laughing.

This made Frank Arnesen and Ancelotti sitting on the side very strange.

looking at what?so funny?

Abramovich handed over the phone, "Take a look."

Ancelotti was the closest, and immediately leaned over, and Arnesen originally wanted to poke his head over, but seeing that Ancelotti was ahead, he immediately retracted.

His technical director is not compatible with all the team's head coaches. He was with Mourinho before. After Mourinho left, Grant was a little better, but whether it was Scolari or Ancelotti, he had a bad relationship with him.

It turned out that Abramovich was following Southampton's press conference on the WeChat platform.

"Hello, Neymar, I'm Rudolph, a reporter from the Brazilian daily, and I want to ask you, why did you choose Southampton, which is a lower level, between Chelsea and Southampton?"

There is nothing funny about this question, what is really funny is the expression below.

A cartoon of a cute version of Neymar that occupies half of the phone screen, squatting on the ground to study for a while, but grabbing his hair vigorously, with an exaggerated, distressed and embarrassed expression on his face.

Rao Ancelotti had been prepared, and when he saw this emoji, he couldn't help but smile.

There was another ding dong, and Neymar's reply soon came.

Ancelotti pushed the phone back to Abramovich, who took a look.

Neymar replied: "Joining Southampton is a decision made by me and my family after careful consideration. I am eager to play for a European team, but joining a giant like Chelsea is too risky, so I decided to play for a low-level team first like Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and other predecessors to adapt to European football style."

"Another very important reason is that in many contacts, I deeply felt the ambition and strength of Southampton. The team introduced Zlatan Ibrahimovic this summer. They told me that they will continue to introduce more stars. I believe we will return to the Premier League soon and enter the European arena."

"I am still young, only two years later, I will adapt to European football, and the team will return to the Premier League. At that time, the best Neymar will be ushered in!"

"As for Chelsea, I've never had any contact with them."

Then came another cute emoji that took up nearly half of the screen, and a cartoon of Neymar sticking out his exaggerated tongue.

Although he was lowering Chelsea, Abramovich couldn't hate it. Instead, he felt that this cuteness was very cute and likable.

"Look." Abramovich pushed the phone in front of Arnesen.

Arnesen took the phone, picked it up and swiped it up and down, feeling a little flustered.

Regarding Neymar's transfer operation, he is indeed a little careless, because he feels that this is just another rookie who has been touted too high in Brazil, and it is not worth spending so much money at all.

So he made an offer of 2000 million euros, but Santos returned a sky-high price of 500 million euros.

It's impossible for Arnesen to agree to such a deal, that's crazy, and 500 million euros is impossible, and Neymar's break contract fee is only 3000 million euros, who would be stupid enough to use 500 million euros to introduce Neymar?
"Southampton directly used the break the contract and bought out Neymar's contract." This is the news that Arnesen got.

Abramovich nodded lightly, "I know."

After taking the mobile phone handed over by Arneson again, he didn't continue to look at it, but directly turned off the screen and put it on the table.

"I just want to know now, why, did we lose to a League One team?"

The last sentence showed the anger in Abramovich's heart.

Even if he suppressed it deliberately, everyone could tell that he was holding back his anger.

Neymar was called out by him himself, and Ancelotti himself expressed his desire to introduce him, but in the end he switched to other teams.

If it is Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Manchester United and other top giants, it is not bad, but it happens to be a League One team, which is slapping Abramovich and Ancelotti in the face.

What would people who don't know outside know?How would you treat them?

Everyone must be joking that Chelsea lost to a League One team!

Arnesen was silent, he couldn't explain anything, it was indeed his problem.

It can only be said that he is too careless and too self-righteous.

"I'm sorry!" Arnesen could only bow his head and apologize.

Other than that, he couldn't do anything.

But the eyes looking at Ancelotti were full of anger and hostility.

This damn Italian must be snitching on the boss!

Must be him!
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In the corner of Mountain View, Silicon Valley, WhatsApp headquarters, the second floor of a very ordinary office building.

Jan Koum stared blankly at the desk in front of him. There was a computer on it, an Apple mobile phone in front of the computer keyboard, and a handwritten note pinned to the side of the mobile phone.

"No ads! No games! No gimmicks!"

The author of this handwritten note was right in front of him, his partner, Brian Acton.

And at this moment, both of them doubted for the first time whether the three don'ts on the sticky note were correct.

Brian Acton put his hands on the desk and his forehead, looking extremely distressed.

"According to the latest news we got, their focus of this press conference is to make efforts in South America, and along with this press conference, they also updated the WeChat version and launched a service called Mood Stamp."

Since the launch of WeChat, WhatsApp has been in constant bad luck. First, it was free for a limited time. As a result, the server crashed twice in a short period of time. Then it crashed again because of too many users and the server could not handle it. Three times in a row, it damaged their reputation a lot and lost a lot of users.

Today, the number of WeChat users has surpassed that of WhatsApp. They have exceeded 400 million and are attacking 500 million.

WhatsApp, on the other hand, has been stuck at 300 million, and there is even a faint danger of slipping from the 300 million level.

This made the two founders have to worry.

Even more damaging to their confidence is the creed by which they run the company.

Don't be a gimmick?
Opponents rely on gimmick marketing to surpass them!
"South America?" Jan Koum's face was extremely serious, and he realized a problem.

"Is there any problem?" Brian Acton thought for a moment.

Jan Koum wanted to say something, but his mind was in a mess, and it took him more than a minute to get up before he stood up.

"Smartphone users in the United States usually use a monthly subscription system. After the monthly subscription system, calls, text messages, and Internet traffic are all free, so they are not very willing to save text message fees."

Jan Kombe's words completely awakened Brian Acton.

The monthly subscription system in the United States is a unique phenomenon. In other countries and regions such as Europe, Asia, and South America, this monthly subscription system is rarely used. Therefore, they are very interested in the services promoted by WeChat and WhatsApp.

Because it can help them save a lot of money.

In Europe, WeChat has already gained a reputation, and now they are going to make efforts in South America and Asia.

"This is a conscious act of grabbing the market!" Jan Koum can [-]% swear that the opponent is premeditated.

Brian Acton was also dumbfounded. Their limited-time free service is mostly for users in the United States. The reason is very simple. Registration and use of WhatsApp requires SMS verification, and the SMS verification fee in the United States is the cheapest, only two cents.

Do you know?If it is abroad, such as to the Middle East, Asia and South America, it will charge 65 cents per line.

The more users abroad, the higher their operating costs.

In other words, SMS verification has become a rope that binds the rapid development of WhatsApp.

As for WeChat, they don't need SMS verification, so they can attract users anywhere in the world without any scruples.

The only problem is, they have to have good enough servers.

But judging from the recent period, their server quality is quite good.

"What should we do now?" Brian Acton was a little weak.

He found that the business model they thought was perfect before was full of mistakes and omissions.

And, they simply don't have time to slow down, fine-tune, and plug holes.

The strong development of WeChat is to force them to keep up quickly.

They launched celebrity accounts first, and now they are launching mood stamps, and they may launch more services one after another in the future, which will allow them to attract more and more users.

Once users have accumulated a certain social relationship, they will no longer be willing to easily transfer platforms.

In other words, these people will become die-hard users of WeChat!

Jan Koum didn't know what to do?
Judging from their current situation, it is difficult to attract investors' interest, and if no one invests, they will not have enough funds to compete with WeChat, and they can only watch their competitors step by step.

For more than a year, they have worked so hard and spent more than a year to establish this company, but it was completely defeated by people in just one week!
At this moment, both of them were a little depressed.

At this moment, the door of Jan Koum's office was knocked hard twice, and when it opened, the panicked face of the employee was revealed, "Boss, our server crashed again!"

Jan Koum and Brian Acton looked ashen, and they were even more desperate!
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