champion professor

Chapter 146 Secret Gathering

In fact, the outstanding performance of several young lads further shook Shao Bo's willingness to sign up.

Ashley Cole was promoted to Arsenal's first team early on. As a substitute, he also won a Premier League championship with the team.

In the first half of this year, Arsenal's left-back position was still firmly controlled by Winterburn, and Ashley Cole did not have a few opportunities to play.

At the end of the year, after Winterburn was injured and recuperated, Ashley Cole's performance was not satisfactory.

Although Highbury fans usually don't like to be noisy, they are nicknamed "The Library" by fans of other teams.But they were also dissatisfied with Cole's performance.

Maybe it's because he is still young, although Shao Bo knows that Ashley Cole's future can become a left back with strong offensive ability.However, he is still too young now, maybe Ashley Cole still needs time to settle.

The five bosses of the defense cannot all go to play as full-backs, and Shao Bo is also looking for players who can step up during this period.

But to everyone's surprise, since the New Year, Ashley Cole has used outbursts to slap the fans who blacked him at the time.

In just one month, Ashley Cole became the best player of the Premier League in January with 2 goals and 2 assists.

Moreover, also because of his several key goals, Arsenal achieved a valuable winning streak.The gap with the top team has also been narrowed, and now Arsenal still has the hope of winning the championship.

Time really is the only test agent.

By the beginning of February, the teams that had been crowded in the championship zone were falling behind.

With the end of several games in January, basically only three teams, Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United, still retain the hope of competing for the championship, and the other teams can only compete for the qualification for the European war.

Due to UEFA's latest reforms, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup will be merged with the UEFA Cup next season.The European competition with a long history will be cancelled.

Even if the Europa League is not as attractive as the Champions League, it is still much stronger than the Intertoto Cup.

Therefore, there are basically no teams that have much hope of competing for the championship or entering the Champions League, and they are all working hard to advance to the Europa League.

Of course, there are still a few teams that think they have enough level to qualify for the Champions League, and they don't even look down on the UEFA Cup.

In addition to Chelsea, which has increased investment in the past few years, and ranks No. The best ever achieved by coach Martin O'Neill.

After all, as long as they reach the top three, they may participate in the Champions League.There is a huge gap between the Champions League and the Europa League, not only in prestige, but also in bonuses.

Since the restructuring of the Champions League in 92, the competition has never undergone such a major operation.

From now on, UEFA will calculate points based on club competition results to generate the rankings of each league. UEFA member countries can send one to four teams to participate in the Champions League. The No.3 of the group can continue to participate in the UEFA Cup.

At least, the expansion from 24 participating teams to 32 will inevitably bring more giants, reduce the possibility of ordinary teams accidentally entering the UEFA Champions League, and increase the attractiveness and competitiveness of this competition.

Under UEFA's bureaucratic style, any of their reforms has a slow and passive side.This time's drastic action is also hidden behind the pressure of many wealthy European families.

Indeed, with the increasing influence of the UEFA Champions League today, there are only 24 teams participating in the main match, which will undoubtedly reject many real giants.

Now is not the time when only league champions can participate. Among the major leagues, those who can rank in the top can be called European giants.

After the Bosman Act, the status of the five major leagues is even more disparity compared with other small leagues.Among them, the giants are naturally more reluctant to give up the precious Champions League places to those small country league champions.

As the boss of Paris Saint-Germain said, those Greek teams can also participate in the Champions League?God!If you have the ability to let them come to Ligue [-], you will be guaranteed to be relegated after one year!

In France, which has just won the World Cup, Paris Saint-Germain naturally looks down on teams from small leagues like Greece.

In fact, since the promulgation of the Bosman Act, except for the five major leagues and the other two best-performing small national leagues, Eredivisie and Portugal, teams in other leagues basically have little chance of qualifying for the group stage.

Kipdynamo's outstanding performance this year has already ruined their character in the next few years. People are waiting. After Shevchenko, the current top scorer in this year's Champions League, leaves, the Ukrainian team , and what kind of performance will it play.

Naturally, the results are getting better and better, and the influence is getting bigger and bigger. Many European giants are also dissatisfied with the existing way of dividing interests.

It’s fine that small and medium teams can always join with them. More importantly, these giants don’t feel that they get the status and respect they deserve!

Now they feel that UEFA's competitions have had a great impact on their own country's leagues. Many game arrangements do not care about their own country's schedule at all. Clubs only accommodate UEFA and never have the opportunity to do the opposite.

And in various national team competitions, the national team has never cherished the players that the club spent a lot of money to buy.

Not to mention anything else, Inter Milan, which won the runner-up in the "Little World Cup" Serie A last season, is the most sensitive to this matter.

Since Moratti re-acquired the club back in 1995, he has spared no expense in purchasing stars. No matter who he is, as long as he is famous and has a level, Moratti will not be stingy with the money in his hands.Moratti's "spending money" also drove up the value of European players in disguise, which caused Shao Bo to never find his favorite player who could be within the allowable range of the transfer fee.

However, more than three years have passed, and Inter Milan's performance has never improved.Not only did Moratti fail to reproduce the glory of the "big international era" achieved in his father's era, but he also won the indecent nickname of "star black hole" for Inter Milan.

However, is the fault of all this really on Moratti, or his chosen coach?
Not to mention that although Hodgson and other coaches are not well-known, they have also proved their own level. Later, "Silver Fox" Lippi joined. With so many coaches, why didn't they bring Inter Milan a championship?

A very important point is that after many players came here, they started to get injured.

The national team doesn't care about the players at all. Anyway, they don't need to pay the players any salary. When they are recuperating, they can replace other players at worst.However, Inter Milan can only swallow the bitter pill, and can only silently pay high salaries for the players lying on the sickbed.At the same time, they cannot prevent players from "serving the motherland".

Like Inter Milan, there are many other teams. They had already made arrangements for the next game, but they had to obediently send in the players they had worked hard to train for the national team.

And after the game, if a player is injured, the national team doesn't have to pay the club any compensation, although most clubs don't care about that little money.

How can this kind of authoritarianism reassure many clubs with powerful energy?
According to media rumors, several giants are already gathering in secret, and they are planning to set up a "European giants league" without UEFA.

People outside the circle naturally listened to the wind and rain, and guessed randomly when they found any information, and they didn't have to bear any responsibility anyway.

As an important member of Arsenal, Shao Bo can naturally get more information.With the achievements of the past two years, he has already been counted as a core member of the club, and the position of the head coach has become more and more stable.

Shao Bo, who is qualified to know most of the club information, naturally knows that the media's speculation is not unreasonable.The current European giants clubs are indeed gathering in secret, hoping to set up an organization that will fight against UEFA.

And this is probably the legendary G14, right?In my memory, the establishment of G14 should be after the new century, but the meeting in advance to discuss the establishment of the organization probably took place in the past two years, which is not much different from Shao Bo's memory.

And Arsenal, which has performed quite well in the past two years, has naturally received invitations. These invitations were all obtained at the European club managers' meeting a few months ago.

The hosts presiding over the meeting are one of the best-performing teams in Europe, the undisputed giants and the overlords of Spain - Real Madrid.

Although they have not won the Champions League for many years, defeating Juventus in the UEFA Champions League final in 1998 also heralded that this team with an ancient and glorious history has returned to the top again!
It is also expected that the ambitious Real Madrid chairman Sanz wants to unite many giants to form an organization that can compete with UEFA.

It's just that although Shao Bo is entitled to know these things, he only has the right to know.Shao Bo, who has not completed the acquisition in one go, is still the head coach of Arsenal in the eyes of the outside world.

And those who are qualified to participate in this kind of meeting are the real power holders of the club.Not to mention Shao Bo, even Ferguson failed to attend this meeting.After all, if the owner of the Manchester United team is really hard-hearted and frantic, he can still remove Ferguson from the position of head coach with just one sentence.

Therefore, all Shao Bo's current efforts are for himself to be able to truly control Arsenal one day in the future, transform everything according to his own wishes, and make it more brilliant.

(End of this chapter)