Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 179 Looks like someone gave me advice

Liverpool's goalkeeper Reina reacted quickly, and he flew sideways, and his fingertips would touch the ball.

"boom!"

After the ball changed direction slightly, it hit the inside of the post hard and bounced to the other side of the goal.

"boom!"

There was another sound. It turned out that after the ball bounced off the right goalpost, it hit the left goalpost again, and bounced back again.

At this time, Cristiano Ronaldo, who was quick to react, stretched out his foot to block before Reina hugged the ball.Blocked the ball into Liverpool's goal.

"GOAL!"

Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored the goal, was soon surrounded by Crystal Palace players who rushed over to celebrate.

After more than 70 minutes of fierce fighting, with Ronaldo's goal finally breaking the deadlock, Crystal Palace led Liverpool 1-0.

"call!"

Chen Ran on the sidelines also let out a sigh of relief at this time, Benitez was indeed difficult to deal with.

With the same lineup, Liverpool's performance in this game has been much stronger than when they met for the first time at the beginning of the season.

In particular, the maintenance of the overall formation has made up for the lack of individual players' abilities to the greatest extent.

For Liverpool's weakness on the wing, Chen Ran has made targeted arrangements.

Even so, it took more than 70 minutes for Crystal Palace to break through Liverpool's goal.

Benitez is indeed a master tactician.

Once the deadlock is broken, the rest of the game will be much easier.

Liverpool's players used to hold on with one breath, but now Ronaldo's goal seems to have pulled out the valve core.

The situation on the field suddenly became one-sided.

There has already been a decline in physical fitness, and now the Liverpool players feel like they have lead weights on their legs, and every extra step is exhausting.

Liverpool's formation could no longer be maintained, and Crystal Palace pursued the victory.

In the 85th and 91st minutes, Alves and Mascherano, who came off the bench, scored a goal each.

In the end, Crystal Palace beat Liverpool 3-0 at home, scoring three points, and at the same time, Chen Ran got another "re-draw card".

Looking at the "re-drawing card" in the system, the corner of Chen Ran's mouth twitched slightly. For non-chiefs, this card is a bit useless.

Forget it, something is better than nothing.

Perhaps, the African Emirates will also have a day when the salted fish will turn around?

Crystal Palace once again defeated Liverpool and completed a double play in the Premier League, which also delighted domestic fans thousands of miles away.

"Is this the case for Liverpool, the new champion of the Champions League, to be double-killed by Crystal Palace? It seems that Crystal Palace has a lot of hope of competing for the Champions League this season."

"Don't be so optimistic. Liverpool won the Champions League last season, but it doesn't mean that they are stronger than AC Milan. If the two teams play again, Liverpool may not necessarily win."

"Haha, upstairs, have you forgotten that Crystal Palace has already played against AC Milan this season?"

"That's right. Crystal Palace's two games against AC Milan in the Champions League group stage, didn't they also remain unbeaten with one win and one draw?"

"Ahem, you guys are a little bit drifting. I think what he said makes sense, and there is no harm in being cautious."

"That's right. There are strong teams everywhere in the Champions League. After all, Crystal Palace is participating in the Champions League for the first time. It's hard to say whether they can make it to the end."

"Hehe, if you want me to say that you are too timid. What happened to participating in the Champions League for the first time? Didn't Crystal Palace also win the Premier League for the first time before?"

"Upstairs, the key is whether the Premier League and the Champions League are comparable? What is the level of the Premier League? What is the level of the Champions League? The difficulty is different."

"Don't think too highly of the UEFA Champions League, that's all there is to it. There are weak teams in the Premier League, and Benfica, Eindhoven, Werder Bremen, Rangers and Villarreal are just like that. team."

"Ahem, I want to say something. Are you talking too much upstairs? Which of these teams you mentioned is not a famous and strong team? Although it is incomparable with the top ones, it is absolutely It's not a weak team, okay?"

"Anyway, I think these teams must not be able to play against Crystal Palace, so what is the difference between them and those weak Premier League teams?"

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"Damn it! The old man upstairs made a big move, and the others couldn't refute it."

"Haha, I've learned a lot today. This is the real-life version of a tongue-in-cheek battle."

In addition to Crystal Palace's game against Liverpool, there is another strong dialogue in this round of the Premier League, that is, Arsenal against Chelsea.

Originally, Chen Ran had hoped that Arsenal could help Crystal Palace stop Chelsea, but he found that he was overthinking it.

Chelsea won Arsenal cleanly 2-0 at home, still only four points behind Crystal Palace, and clung to it.

After this game, Crystal Palace have nine days to rest.

Next, is the most troublesome Premier League Christmas Devil schedule.

12月26日，英超联赛No.18轮，水晶宫在主场1:0小胜博尔顿；
12月29日，英超联赛No.19轮，水晶宫在客场2：0战胜布莱克本。

12月31日，英超联赛No.20轮，水晶宫在主场1:0小胜埃弗顿；
1月2日，英超联赛No.20一轮，水晶宫在客场2：1战胜富勒姆；
On January 1, in the third round of the FA Cup, Crystal Palace beat Northampton 7-4 at home.

Fortunately, Crystal Palace did not encounter any strong teams in the Christmas Devil's schedule this year. Under Chen Ran's careful adjustment, a wave of five consecutive victories, Crystal Palace perfectly passed this year's Premier League Christmas Devil's schedule.

This result was even better than what Chen Ran expected.

With five victories, Chen Ran also got a lot of good things from the system.

In addition to a first-level harvest card, a first-level recovery card and a first-level eagle-eyed guardian card, there is also a winning bonus of 200 million euros and a chance to negotiate with sponsors.

A chance for a sponsor negotiation?
Can this thing also be used as a winning reward for the system?

While Chen Ran was thinking about this new reward, Stephen walked into his office.

"Chen, I have good news for you. The car brand sponsor that we had not made any progress before now has it."

"Oh? Which one is it?"

Hearing Stephen's report, Chen Ran immediately understood that this was the "opportunity for sponsor negotiation" rewarded by the system.

"You should be familiar with this company. It's from Huaguo, and it's called Shencheng Motor."

"???"

Hearing this familiar name, Chen Ran didn't react for a long time.

Although Shencheng Automobile is considered one of the best automobile companies in Huaguo, its products are basically sold domestically.

How did they come up with the idea to come to England to sponsor Crystal Palace?
Is it really a sponsorship from the system?

"Chen, what's the matter? Is there anything wrong with this company?"

Seeing that something was wrong with Chen Ran's reaction, Stephen hurriedly asked.

"Oh, this company is a big company in China, so there is no problem. It's just that as far as I know, their products are basically sold in China. How could they come to sponsor our Crystal Palace?"

"I also asked this question. Their people said that our Crystal Palace is very popular in China now, and the number of fans is also increasing, so they want to expand our influence among Chinese fans by sponsoring our Crystal Palace."

This also makes sense.

However, in terms of popularity in China, Crystal Palace is definitely not as good as Shencheng Motors.

After thinking about it, Chen Ran still felt that the power of the system had played a big role in this matter.

"Are they planning to sponsor our Crystal Palace in the name of the group, or with a certain brand?"

"What? Does this Shencheng Automobile have many brands of cars?"

Stephen, who didn't know much about Shencheng Motors, asked curiously.

"That's right. Shencheng Automobile, Volkswagen of Germany and GM of the United States have established joint ventures respectively, so we must ask in what name to sponsor our Crystal Palace."

"They said to use a new brand coming soon called 'Roewe'."

While speaking, Stephen handed the relevant information to Chen Ran.

It turned out to be to promote this self-owned brand.

Hearing the name "Roewe", Chen Ran immediately understood Shencheng Motor's intention.

For a long time, Shencheng Automobile has been producing and selling cars of joint venture brands, and they themselves do not have any outstanding products, which is why they have been criticized all the time.

Now they also want to create their own brand. In order to better promote this new brand, Shencheng Motors has taken a fancy to Crystal Palace, which has been very popular in China recently.

It is more reasonable to look at it this way.

"Then how much do they charge?"

Chen Ran asked the most concerned question.

"Because there is no jersey advertisement, their asking price is only 200 million euros per year, which is the same as the previous offer from the Japanese car company that you rejected."

"How long is the contract?"

"They said they wanted to be able to sign a three-year contract."

200 million euros per year, three-year contract, frankly speaking, Chen Ran is not very satisfied.

It's only 200 million euros a year, which is just his bonus for winning a Premier League game.

And three years is too long. In three years, Crystal Palace probably won the Champions League.

"Stephen, you tell them that 200 million euros per year is fine, but we only sign for one year."

"One year? Chen, isn't that too short?"

"It can't be longer. If we win the Champions League this year, we end up signing a three-year contract with a sponsorship fee of only 200 million euros per year. Don't you think it's too bad?"

"That's true."

Hearing what Chen Ran said, Stephen also felt that it made sense.

However, he reacted quickly.

"Chen, do you think it's easy to win the Champions League? Crystal Palace is only participating in the Champions League for the first time this season. How can we win the Champions League? You think it's the Premier League."

"Be bold, Stephen. Never heard of it? 'Suppress the bold and starve the timid.' Oh, never mind, I forgot you're British."

After staying with Chen Ran for a long time, Stephen has also learned a lot of Chinese by himself.Although it's too complicated, he still understands the general meaning.

"Okay, Chen, since you are so confident, I'll reply them like this. But what if they disagree and terminate the negotiation?"

Stephen asked a little worriedly.

Because many of the bullshit that Chen Ran boasted at the beginning has now been realized, so now Stephen is a bit blindly worshiping Chen Ran.

As long as Chen Ran insisted that it was possible, even if Stephen thought it was impossible, he would still support Chen Ran's decision in the end and implement it unswervingly.

"If it is terminated, it will be terminated. It is only 200 million euros. Our Crystal Palace is not short of this little money now."

"If we can really win the Champions League this season, then there will definitely be bigger sponsorships waiting for us next year. At that time, we will make up for the money we made less this year, even the principal with interest."

Regarding the car sponsorship, Stephen responded to Shencheng Automobile according to Chen Ran's intention, and now it depends on the other party's decision.

After the end of the Premier League Christmas Devils schedule, Crystal Palace ushered in a rest period of more than ten days.

Chen Ran gave the team members three days off, and he also spent three days with Cheryl.

Then, he threw himself into the intense preparations again.

Because, the first game after returning from the holiday was the head-to-head collision between Crystal Palace and Chelsea.

Now, halfway through the Premier League schedule, Crystal Palace are only four points ahead of Chelsea.

In this direct contest, if Crystal Palace wins, the lead will be extended to seven points.

But once Crystal Palace loses, Chelsea will immediately reduce the point gap between the two teams to one point.

Everyone understands that the outcome of this game may directly determine the ownership of the Premier League champion this season.

Just before this game, Chen Ran received a piece of good news.

That's when Shencheng Motors replied, agreeing to Chen Ran's request to only sign a one-year contract.

However, they also put forward new conditions.

"Chen, Shencheng Motor proposed to add a priority renewal right to the contract."

"Priority renewal right?"

"Yes. The specific content is that if a new sponsor joins the competition after the contract expires next year, then under the same conditions, we must sign a contract with Shencheng Motor."

"Hehe, it seems that Shencheng Motors also has expert advice."

Hearing the new conditions of Shencheng Motors, Chen Ran couldn't help laughing, there are so many smart people.

"Stephen, do you think you should agree to this condition?"

Chen Ran still respected his friend very much. Even though he already had the answer in his heart, he still asked Stephen for his opinion.

"I think we can agree to this one. After all, there is competition, so the price will not be low, and we will not suffer."

"Well, since you think so, Stephen. Then you go and tell Shencheng Motors, we agree to this condition."

While Chen Ran was intensively preparing for the game against Chelsea, Mourinho was also sharpening his sword on Chelsea's side, preparing to take the Crystal Palace flag.

"Jose, how sure are you of this game against Crystal Palace?"

(End of this chapter)