Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 291

After arranging all the affairs, Chen Ran sneaked out of his busy schedule and took Cheryl on vacation.

And those fans who were on the tree looking forward to the next big move of Crystal Palace, waited and waited, but they waited for the news that Chen Ran and Cheryl were going on vacation, and they immediately exploded.

"Damn it, this guy Chen Ran actually went on vacation? Does that mean that Crystal Palace doesn't plan to buy any more players during the summer transfer period?"

"I'm afraid that's the case. Although Crystal Palace's sports manager Luis Figel is in charge of the transfer affairs, everyone knows that Chen Ran is actually in charge of the transfer operation."

"Then after selling Zlatan Ibrahimovic, don't Crystal Palace plan to add manpower?"

"Isn't there a kid named Messi?"

"Can that kid be compared with Zlatan Ibrahimovic? With a height of less than 1.7 meters, he looks like a little chicken in front of Zlatan Ibrahimovic who is 195cm. I don't know whether Chen Ran is See where he is."

"Ahem, the one upstairs is a bit too much. I heard that Messi is fast, has good skills, and is a very talented young player."

"Then can he replace Zlatan Ibrahimovic at the center?"

"Well, I'm afraid this won't work."

"So, Crystal Palace must at least buy a center forward to replace the vacancy left by Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Are they really going to rely on Tony and Jan Kohler to play all the games in the new season? I don't know Chen Ran What was that guy thinking?"

"Actually, Crystal Palace is not completely inactive. They seem to have announced the withdrawal of two young players who were loaned to Willem II Club. One is Dzeko and the other is Cavani. Both are forwards."

"I've also seen this news. However, these two little guys are also in their early 20s. Don't tell me that Chen Ran is planning to use them to fill the gap left by Zlatan Ibrahimovic. vacancy?"

"Maybe it's really like this, otherwise, if you continue to sign in, that guy Chen Ran won't go on vacation."

"It's over. Recently, other wealthy clubs have been bursting out with large-scale transfers, and they are all engaging in an arms race. However, the strength of Crystal Palace has not increased but decreased. In the new season, Crystal Palace may want to win the Premier League and the Champions League double. It's very difficult."

"Hehe, upstairs you still want the Premier League and the Champions League double? I think you can keep one and thank God."

"Okay, let's all get down from the tree, it seems that the summer transfer period of Crystal Palace has ended early."

"Well, it seems that he has won the championship for several years in a row, which makes that guy Chen Ran a little bit flustered."

In addition to taking Cheryl to visit the great rivers and mountains of the motherland by taking the opportunity of returning to China to establish a youth training base in the first year, in the next two years, Chen Ran was too busy to accompany Cheryl on vacation. .

This time, the guilty Chen Ran took Cheryl to Barcelona to have a good time.

Of course, he also visited Macy's home "by the way", which surprised the Macy family who were busy packing up and preparing to move to London with their family.

Fortunately, with Cheryl, a family member who is good at activating the atmosphere, by his side, Chen Ran's sense of restraint caused by being the owner of the club quickly disappeared.

Seeing that Chen Ran, the new boss, is so approachable and has no airs at all, Messi and his family are relieved, and feel that life in the Crystal Palace will not be too sad in the future.

After visiting Macy's family, Chen Ran took Cheryl to Cesc Fabregas' house for a while the next day, and then enjoyed a rare vacation with Cheryl.

When Chen Ran returned to London again, it was already the day when Crystal Palace's preparations for the new season were about to begin.

The first thing after returning home, Chen Ran released the news that Beckham had joined the team, which could be regarded as boosting the popularity of the Crystal Palace, which had been silent for a while.

Then, Chen Ran held a special press conference for Messi, Beckham, Fabregas, Dzeko and Cavani, the five new players.

Unsurprisingly, the press conference at Crystal Palace was packed.Not only were all the well-known media in England absent, but they even attracted many sports media from the European continent, such as Spain's "Mundo Deportivo".

The first half of the press conference was normal. The five players showed up one by one, and the media reporters present gave warm applause very respectfully.

However, when the press conference entered the questioning session, the situation changed suddenly.

"Mr. Chen, may I ask what made you willing to let go of Ibrahimovic, the main center of Crystal Palace last season?"

Ever since Crystal Palace announced the exchange of Ibrahimovic for Messi and Cesc Fabregas, media reporters really wanted to know what Chen Ran thought.

However, all interview requests sent to the Crystal Palace club received the same answer, which was rejection.

Today, the media reporters who managed to catch Chen Ran had already put in all their strength and were ready to deal with this difficult guy.

"The reason is very simple. The reason why I agreed to Zlatan Ibrahimovic's transfer was to get Messi and Fabregas."

For today's press conference, Chen Ran was also mentally prepared. He had fought with these media reporters not once or twice. When did he lose?
"Mr. Chen, do you think Messi is stronger than Ibrahimovic?"

This reporter went too far, directly ignoring the existence of Cesc Fabregas, which made Fabregas' face very ugly when he was sitting on the stage.

"In my opinion, Messi is a very talented player, and his future achievements will not be lower than Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Coupled with a very good Cesc Fabregas, this transfer I can't find a reason to refuse."

As soon as Chen Ran said this, not only Cesc Fabregas looked at him gratefully, but even Messi turned to look at his new boss in surprise. He didn't expect the boss to have such high expectations of him.

"Mr. Chen, according to what you said just now, can I understand that the Barcelona club has suffered a loss in this transfer transaction?"

At this time, a reporter with a special accent stood up.

"There is no way to generalize this kind of thing, and completely different conclusions can be drawn from different angles."

"Barcelona, ​​for example, has a lot of forwards with a style similar to Messi's, with fast speed and good skills, but they don't have a center forward. So in the eyes of the Barcelona club, Messi and Cesc Fabregas are Swapping Ibrahimovic is totally worth it."

"On our Crystal Palace side, apart from Zlatan Ibrahimovic, there are two centers, Tony and Jan Kohler, plus Dzeko and Cavani are also centers. So in my opinion, Zlatan Ibrahimovic for Messi and Cesc Fabregas is also perfectly acceptable."

With Chen Ran's impeccable answer, the reporter who heard the question nodded frequently and sat down with satisfaction.

Nonsense, for high-quality customers like Barcelona who often do business at a loss, Chen Ran must of course protect their face, otherwise how can they continue to cooperate in the future?

Chen Ran would never do the immoral thing of picking up the bowl to eat meat and putting down the chopsticks to scold her.

"Mr. Chen, no matter how talented Messi is, he is still only 20 years old, and he is obviously still far from his peak. After losing Zlatan Ibrahimovic, you don't plan to add another powerful striker. ?"

"Who said I didn't add strong strikers? Not only did I add, but I added three at once. See these three sitting next to me? Whether it's Messi or Dzeko and Cavani, they They're all real power forwards."

Following Chen Ran's words, whether it was Messi, Dzeko or Cavani, each of them straightened their backs.

Seeing that Chen Ran is so optimistic about them, supporting them in front of so many reporters, and making these three little fellows rush to their foreheads, they are all grateful.

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But the many reporters sitting under the stage felt completely different at this time. Chen Ran was still as slippery as ever.

"Mr. Chen, what is Crystal Palace's goal for the new season? Is it the double crown of the Champions League and the Premier League?"

"Of course. We won three consecutive Premier League titles last season, and I hope to achieve three consecutive Champions League titles in the new season."

"However, Mr. Chen, because of Zlatan Ibrahimovic's departure, it is generally believed that Crystal Palace's performance in the new season will decline. What do you think about this?"

"very happy."

"What? Mr. Chen, can you say it again?"

"I mean, I'm very happy with the fact that 'Crystal Palace's performances are generally expected to decline in the new season'."

"???? Can you tell me why?"

"Because in this way everyone will not be pinning all their attention on Crystal Palace, which will make us a lot easier and easier to achieve the goals we set."

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Under Chen Ran's rambling and nonsense, the first press conference of the new season of Crystal Palace finally became his own performance stage.

Inside the Crystal Palace Club, after holding a welcome ceremony for Messi and other new players, Chen Ran also held a retirement ceremony for Southgate and Simeone.

At the ceremony, Chen Ran also officially announced that in the future, all players who have played in Crystal Palace until they retire will be given priority to become coaches or club officials under the Galaxy Football Group, without having to worry about life after retirement.

As soon as this new benefit was announced, it immediately caught the eyes of many players present.

For a football player, most of them play until they are in their 30s and retire.Today, when the average life expectancy is over 70 years old, what will they do in the next 40 years?Sitting and eating mountain empty?
The benefits that Chen Ran offered today directly solved the worries of the players.

The feelings of the young players are not very deep, but the older players like Edwin van der Sar, Jan Kohler, and Tony are all very excited, and their loyalty is directly off the charts.

After all, with the three living examples of Guardiola, Southgate and Simeone in front of them, everyone believes in Chen Ran's commitment.

Because of the departure of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and the addition of Messi, Cesc Fabregas and others, Chen Ran also made some adjustments to the Crystal Palace lineup.

center tony
Left midfielder Ronaldo, midfielder Kaka, right midfielder Messi
Vieira, Modric
Left back Chiellini, center back Thiago Silva, center back Vidic, right back Maicon
goalkeeper cech
This 4231 lineup is Chen Ran's preliminary idea of ​​starting the main configuration, but in reality, he does not intend to launch it immediately.

For example, Ribery's emotions need to be taken care of. Messi can't just replace Ribery's position as soon as he comes. In this case, Ribery will definitely explode.

So in the initial stage of the Premier League, when the schedule is not very dense, Chen Ran will still use Ribery as the starting right midfielder.

When Ribery's physical fitness declines in the second half of the league, the two will take turns to play.In this way, the frogs are boiled in warm water, and the effect of simmering and simmering is better.

After a period of physical reserve training and technical and tactical training, Chen Ran led the team to participate in the "International Champions Cup" in the East Asian Division.

Everyone wanted to see the performance of Crystal Palace after Zlatan Ibrahimovic left, but it turned out that Chen Ran was still using the same old lineup, and he immediately lost interest in them.

Crystal Palace won all three games in the "International Champions Cup" and won No.1 in the East Asian Division.Then, taking the opportunity of the competition in Huaguo, he also inspected the situation of the youth training base in Shencheng and Shencheng Galaxy (formerly Shencheng East Asia).

The good news is that Shencheng Galaxy won the second division championship last season and has been promoted to the first division this season.

Taking advantage of Chen Ran's opportunity to inspect the team, Director Xu asked him to introduce foreign aid.

At this time, domestic football has not yet entered the golden yuan era, the players are very low in value, and the level of foreign aid is not high.

Shencheng Galaxy is now only a second-tier league team, and naturally does not need any big-name foreign aid.

Chen Ran immediately agreed to Director Xu's request.

After asking about the position of the players that Director Xu needed, Chen Ran directly called David Gill, the CEO of the Galaxy Football Group who was still in Brazil.

Let him directly select a few players from the Recife Sports Club, and then send them directly to Shencheng Galaxy on loan.

During the whole process, Chen Ran did not shy away from it at all, and it was all carried out in front of Director Xu.

Director Xu, who has been the head coach for so many years and has led many teams to win championships, sighed to his old partner Coach Jiang after Chen Ran left.

When choosing foreign aid in the past, it was not only complicated and cumbersome, but also often deceived into buying parallel imports.

Fortunately, it was just a phone call.

Moreover, the quality is guaranteed from the source, which is really a world of difference.

At this moment, Director Xu is extremely grateful for his decision to join the Galaxy Football Group.

Leaning against a big tree is good for enjoying the shade.

(End of this chapter)