Soccer Card System

Chapter 52
Chapter 49 Away to Chelsea

In 2009, the New Year's bell was ringing. On January [-], in the third round of the FA Cup, Luton will play away against Chelsea.

Early this morning, Luton's orange bus slowly drove out of the training base, meandering through the narrow streets of Luton, and drove onto the M1 highway.

This is the only highway passing through Luton, which connects Luton Town and Hertfordshire, and exits along the M1 highway to the southwest, which is the Greater London area.

The scenery outside the car window flew back from the window quickly.

The players sat in their seats, some with their eyes closed, and some listening to music with huge headphones.

Gao Bo would not choose to disturb the players at this time, he didn't want to take off the seat belt in the speeding car.

"It's Hertfordshire from there." John Aston pointed in another direction when the bus pulled out from one exit.

Gao Bo looked at John Aston, who looked a little melancholy, of course he knew what John was melancholy about.

English teams always have their own rivals, and Luton is no exception.

And Luton's arch-enemy is Watford in Hertfordshire, a pair of noisy neighbours.It is difficult to trace the source of how the two sides forged enmity, but it is undeniable that the team that Luton fans hate the most must be Watford.

The two sides are each other's number one mortal enemy, and the derby between them is also called "M1 Derby".Because the M1 highway in the UK connects Hertfordshire and Luton, where Watford is located.

Of course, in addition to Watford, Milton Keynes in the same area can also be regarded as Luton's regional rival.

However, Luton's number one rival, Watford, is now playing in the Championship, while Milton Keynes is still in the First Division. Luton, who is in the Second Division, seems to have fallen into a disadvantage in the competition with the archenemy.

"John, we won't stay in the Second Division for too long." Gao Bo turned his head to look at his players, full of confidence: "The Super League is the stage for these guys!!"

John is not as confident as Gao Bo. This Luton team really has great potential, especially now that Luton's core players, Vardy, Kanter and others, have an average age of around 20 years old. Given a few years, they may or may not be able to reach the Premier League.But John knew that times were different now.Chelsea has become a wealthy team because of Abramovich's investment, and now Manchester City also has the support of a big benefactor, and Jinyuan has swept professional football.

How long can Luton keep these people?
a season?
Or two seasons?
John didn't know, but he knew that when a team waved a check, a small team like Luton could not resist the temptation.

For example, if a team spends 500 million to buy Vardy?

Although John knows that Vardy is definitely worth the price, can Luton refuse?Their budget for a season is only 100 million.

But if Gao Bo knew John's thoughts, he would definitely scoff at him.In the previous life, Vardy sold 5000 million and it was considered a blood loss. In this life, although Vardy is still young and the inflation in the transfer market is not so strong, if there is a card bonus, and now Vardy is so young. After one or two seasons, there is no more than 2000 million, and there is no need to even talk about it!
"Gao, you can take Luton to the Super League, can't you?"

John is very clear that neither Vardy nor Kanter is worth as much as the coach in front of him.Gao Bo is the most important factor in the rise of this Luton team.

Gao Bo understood what John was thinking. After thinking for a while, he gave an ambiguous answer: "I will lead the team forward."

"What's going on with Chelsea recently." Gao Bo turned to ask his data analyst Lin Sen.

"You've angered Chelsea, boss!" Lin Sen shook his head. He didn't understand why Gao Bo had to say so many things to anger his opponent before the match against Chelsea. Shouldn't he keep a low profile when facing a strong enemy? It's better to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger.
"Scolari said there is nothing wrong with Chelsea's dressing room at the moment and Chelsea will be at their best in this game to start the new year off right."

"Deco hit back directly in the media. He said that you are overreaching and angering Chelsea will make Luton pay the price."

"Wait. Did Deco say that?" Gao Bo leaned forward and asked while leaning on the armrest of the chair.

"He said it..."

done! !
Gao Bo was overjoyed for a while, he did so much, didn't he just want Scolari to arrange for Deco to start this game.Scolari established Deco as the core, and basically abandoned Chelsea's tactical tradition of defensive counterattack. As long as Scolari continues to use his method, this game will be easy for Luton.

Choke Deco! !
With Kanter on the court, it will definitely suffocate Deco.

It was still sunny in the morning, but when the bus drove into West London, the sky was already overcast, with a little rain falling from time to time.

"This damn weather forecast!!" Gao Bo cursed with a grin, saying MMP, but in his heart he hoped that the rain would be heavier, preferably a violent storm!

In any case, this game is difficult to break away from the fact that Luton's lineup strength has no advantage over Chelsea, and the opponent is showing a crushing attitude in terms of strength.

And if it is a stormy weather, this will cause some accidents on the court and narrow the gap in strength between the two sides.

The game was played at five o'clock in the afternoon. Although it was only an FA Cup game, and the opponent was still a team from the second division, clusters of blue fans had already poured in outside Stamford Bridge at three or four o'clock in the afternoon.

The fan atmosphere in England is very good, and the FA Cup is also played on weekends, so there is absolutely no empty stadium.

Luton arrived at a hotel near the Stamford Bridge Stadium at around 03:30 in the morning. After the players had lunch in the hotel in the morning, they took a two-hour lunch break in the afternoon. At [-]:[-] in the afternoon, Luton’s bus had already driven into the parking lot of Stamford Bridge.

At this time, all the Luton players were calm when they didn't come. They looked at the huge stadium outside the car window in amazement.For most of the current Luton players, it is the first time in their lives to play against a Premier League team, not to mention that this is a newly promoted giant team in the Premier League.

"A lot of people."

"This is Chelsea. They are the richest team. But who is richer than Abramovich or the Abu Dhabi consortium?"

"Of course the Arabs are rich."

"Ah, ah, when will I be so rich?"

"Stop dreaming, Charlie"

The players talked a lot.

At this time, the bus stopped in the parking lot specially provided by the stadium.

This is a place that ordinary fans can't come to.

Gao Bo was the first to get out of the car. There were not many journalists from the news media who came to film Luton, and most of them went to wait for Chelsea's bus.

But not far from the cordon, Gao Bo saw Luton fans wearing orange jerseys.

Gao Bo stretched out his hand and waved towards the fans, and the Luton fans immediately cheered.

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