Football feast, starting from the acquisition of European clubs

Chapter 334 Have You Digged Another Hole?

"Jorge, what do you mean, this is actually an illusion deliberately created by that guy Chen Ran?"

Hearing Mendes' rhetorical question, Mourinho froze for a moment, and quickly reacted.

"Although I'm not [-]% sure, my intuition tells me that the truth of the matter is likely to be like this."

Mendes gave Mourinho a meaningful look, "José, I believe you must have a deep understanding of how cunning that guy Chen Ran is."

"If things are really as you said, then Chen Ran is too insidious. I have already begun to sympathize with Rijkaard."

Mourinho frowned first, then smiled gloatingly.

Anyway, he was no longer in the Premier League, and seeing his current main competitor Rijkaard being beaten by Chen Ran, he was too happy.

At the same time, Mourinho's friend Rijkaard was sitting in a good mood with club chairman Laporta and sports director Fernandez, drinking coffee and chatting about Chen Ran and the Crystal Palace club.

"This Chen Ran is indeed very business-minded. He could think of taking advantage of the opportunity of selling tickets for the Champions League final to bundle the membership system of the Crystal Palace Club. Based on this alone, he is an excellent club manager."

Although Crystal Palace and Barcelona are rivals for the Champions League this season, Laporta still made no secret of his admiration for Chen Ran.

"Haha, Mr. Chairman, from the perspective of club management, Chen Ran's operation this time can indeed score full marks. But if from the perspective of competition, he was distracted to do these things before the Champions League final, it would be a big deal. Points deducted."

Fernandez, as the sports director of Barcelona, ​​from his point of view, Chen Ran obviously lost the watermelon by picking sesame seeds.

"Robert, isn't this very good. I hope that Chen Ran can put his mind on the management of the club, so that we will have a better chance of defeating Crystal Palace in the Champions League final."

Rijkaard wished that Chen Ran would be distracted as much as possible, and he raised his hands to support what Chen Ran was doing now.

"Frank is right. This is the biggest disadvantage of one person being the chairman and head coach of the club at the same time. Coupled with the fact that Crystal Palace has been plagued by injuries this season, this is a great opportunity for us to win the Champions League. Frank, don't Let me down."

Laporta patted Rijkaard on the shoulder earnestly.

Over the past few seasons, his support for Rijkaard is obvious to all.In order to meet Rijkaard's request to introduce Ibrahimovic, Barcelona even paid the team's star of hope, Messi.

Now Barcelona has been robbed of the La Liga championship trophy by Real Madrid for two consecutive seasons. If they can't win the Champions League this time, then he can only use Rijkaard to explain to the fans.

"Don't worry, Mr. Chairman, we will definitely win the Champions League final!"

Rijkaard himself is very clear in his heart that if a top club like Barcelona fails to win a decent championship trophy for two consecutive seasons, then someone must be responsible for it.

As the chairman of the club, Laporta will definitely not take the initiative to take responsibility, and Rijkaard is not so naive.So as the head coach, he naturally became the first person in charge of the duty.

In other words, if you can't win the Champions League, then you will be kicked out in all likelihood.Looking into Laporta's eyes, Rijkaard suddenly had this realization in his heart.

For his biggest player Ibrahimovic, Raiola is naturally caring.

This time Barcelona went to Moscow to participate in the Champions League final, and Raiola also ran over with the team.

"Zlatan, don't you want some? Russian caviar is really good."

While Raiola was feasting, he did not forget to seduce Ibrahimovic.

"Stop rambling, you eat yours, I've already eaten it."

Looking at the large table full of high-calorie food in front of him, the corners of Ibrahimovic's mouth twitched slightly.

"Hey, if you can't even enjoy delicious food, what's the point of living?"

Raiola's plump cheeks kept chewing, and he didn't forget to mutter.

"Hehe, there are so many interesting things. For example, I want to prove that it was a wrong decision for Chen Ran to trade me for Messi!"

Ibrahimovic is still a little worried about Chen Ran's exchange for Messi and Cesc Fabregas last summer.

"Zlatan, I want to be more open. For club owners like Chen Ran, football is just a business, and players are just a commodity."

Seeing that after nearly a season, Ibrahimovic still couldn't let go of this matter, Raiola was a little helpless.

"Hmph, I'm just a player. I will help Barcelona snatch the Champions League trophy from Crystal Palace on the court, and let Chen Ran pay for his wrong decision."

Thousands of miles away in China, since Chen Ran created the membership system, many domestic Crystal Palace fans have signed up enthusiastically.

On the one hand, it is because the membership fee of 99 euros is not too outrageous, and many fans can afford it.In addition, a genuine jersey and a series of membership benefits are also included, which has really attracted many fans to become members.

On the other hand, Chen Ran stipulated that tickets for the Champions League final were only sold to club members, so that some fans who wanted to watch the game had to become members first.

And because the supply of tickets was in short supply, Chen Ran introduced a lottery lottery system, which made some well-off fans buy tickets for the Champions League final at a high price on the post bar of the Crystal Palace.

It further prompted some fans who did not intend to apply for membership, in order to earn some extra money, also joined the membership and signed up for the lottery lottery.

In this way, the number of members of the Crystal Palace in China increased rapidly, and finally became the country with the second largest number of members of the Crystal Palace Club after England itself.

All of a sudden, "Have you become a member?" has also become the hottest topic in the Crystal Palace Post Bar.

"This guy Chen Ran is really capable of tossing around! Isn't it just a Champions League final, and he made such a big fuss."

"That's right, now non-members are too embarrassed to talk in the post bar."

"Hehe, how about he can be the boss. I heard that in just a few days, the number of members of Crystal Palace has exceeded [-]."

"Good guy, there are so many people in just a few days? One person is 99 euros, and 5 people are 500 million euros. Isn't it too easy to make money?"

"Hehe, what is 500 million euros? Tickets for the next Champions League final, next season's game package, and various business cooperations that emerge one after another. Just wait and see, that guy Chen Ran must have a backhand."

"Brothers, have you forgotten that Crystal Palace has a Champions League final against Barcelona? Why is it all about members?"

"Damn it, what the upstairs said makes sense. I was too busy trying to count how much money I made this time, and I really forgot about the Champions League final."

"Hehe, that brother must be a newcomer. Did Ji Zeran get his name for nothing? Maybe it's his trick to make the soldiers suspicious."

"I'm going, are you upstairs being overly mythical? You don't want to say that he deliberately confuses his opponents, making the people in Barcelona think he is distracted, right?"

"That's right, that's how it is. Mr. Lu Xun said: 'I've always been willing to speculate on the worst kind of evil.'"

Crystal Palace is recruiting members and selling tickets for the Champions League final is in full swing, which immediately aroused widespread doubts from the English media.

"Crystal Palace Club recently launched a membership system, and a series of supporting measures, the effect is very good. But they seem to forget that there is still a Champions League final that has not been played."

"That Chinese man was only thinking about making money, but he put aside the more important Champions League final. This puts the cart before the horse, and he will definitely pay a heavy price for it."

"Crystal Palace, which has been plagued by injuries this season, should calm down and prepare for the final game of the Champions League, rather than busy doing messy things."

"Barcelona, ​​which has lost the La Liga title, is trying its best to compete for the Champions League trophy, while Crystal Palace, which has won the Premier League title in succession, is busy selling memberships and tickets."

"According to the latest data from bookmakers, the number of people who are optimistic about Barcelona winning the Champions League this season has skyrocketed."

In the hotel room where the Crystal Palace Club stayed in Moscow, the little fat man sat on the sofa with a smile on his face and watched Chen Ran flip through various football newspapers and magazines he had collected.

"Chen, how is it? Is the heat enough now?"

"There are still not enough people who are pessimistic about us. There are still some people who firmly believe that we can successfully defend the title."

Hearing Chen Ran's complaint, little fat Louis curled his lips helplessly.

Crystal Palace has already won two Champions League titles in a row, and even monopolized the Premier League championship trophy. It would be a ghost if everyone looked down on it.

"Chen, you should be content. It's not bad to be able to achieve this level. If we continue to defend the Champions League this time, no matter what you do in the future, no one will believe it."

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Chen Ran gave the little fat man a speechless look, it was you who ruined my reputation.

In fact, this strategy of recruiting suspicious soldiers was also thought up by Chen Ran on the spur of the moment. When he wanted to launch the membership system, he thought of taking a grass to beat a rabbit by the way.

Those who can fool Barcelona are the best, and it doesn't matter if they can't.Anyway, all matters related to the management of the club are handled by Stephen. After he has determined the general direction, he only looks at the results and does not ask about the process.

Therefore, although the Crystal Palace club has made a lot of noise recently, Stephen is actually the one who really stepped forward.

Chen Ran has already quietly hid, together with Guardiola, Southgate, Simeone and other assistants, leading the team to make intense preparations.

It has become a well-known fact that Crystal Palace has been plagued by injuries this season. Although Thiago Silva made a timely comeback at the last moment, the stability of the defense is still not comparable to that at its peak.

After discussions with Guardiola and the three of them, everyone agreed that Crystal Palace's existing defense cannot withstand Barcelona's super offensive combination.

Therefore, Chen Ran finally decided to continue to use the previous strategy, using offense instead of defense, and compete with Barcelona who scored more goals.

center tony
Left midfielder Ronaldo, midfielder Kaka, right midfielder Messi
DM Yaya Toure, DM Mascherano
Left back Evra, center back Thiago Silva, center back Pepe, right back Maicon

goalkeeper cech
On the Barcelona side, Rijkaard also broke the boat and sent the strongest lineup he could come up with.

Left winger Henry, center Ibrahimovic, right winger Eto'o
Ronaldinho
DM Deco, DM Marcos
Left back Zambrotta, center back Edmilson, center back Puyol, right back Thuram
goalkeeper valdes
On May 5, the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow was crowded with people.

The game started at nine o'clock in the evening, but in the afternoon, a large number of fans began to appear around the stadium.

In view of the bad reputation of England's football hooligans, the Moscow police have made sufficient preparations in terms of security. There are even soldiers with live ammunition and armored vehicles near the stadium.

Different from previous UEFA Champions League finals, this time near the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, there were also a large number of Chinese fans.

In the past, some Chinese fans went to watch the UEFA Champions League final live, but they were scattered and the total number was not large.

This time, because Chen Ran stipulated that the [-] Champions League final tickets distributed by Crystal Palace were only sold to club members.As a result, the rich Huaguo fans snatched nearly [-] of them by relying on crowd tactics.

These fans who grabbed the tickets, took the Crystal Palace post bar as the assembly point, and were organized by big fans who work in the airline, and collectively chartered a flight to Moscow to watch the Champions League final between Crystal Palace and Barcelona.

All of a sudden, this incident caused a huge sensation in the country, and even appeared on the news program of the sports channel.

When Chen Ran took the Crystal Palace team to the Luzhniki Stadium by bus, the sound of "Chen Ran" in Chinese was immediately heard in his ears.

Chen Ran, who was the first to get off the bus, looked up, good guy, there are countless yellow-skinned and black-haired fans outside the isolation belt pulled out by the Moscow police.

Among the uniform Crystal Palace jerseys, a strong man is carrying a five-star red flag.

Nodding, smiling, and waving, just as Chen Ran was about to go over to sign some autographs, a voice suddenly came from the crowd.

"Chen Ran, are you digging holes for Barcelona again?"

(End of this chapter)