champion professor

Chapter 191 The Chariot Stopped
Sega is still maintaining cooperation with Arsenal, although their latest quarterly financial report shows a loss of up to 950 billion yen.

However, this will also be the last year of cooperation between the two.

The MMO2 company Orange Telecom is in a price tug of war with Arsenal.

Arsenal can win the double crown, so apart from a Champions League that has not yet been won, what else does Manchester United have that the Gunners do not have?
A home stadium with a capacity of 6 people, generous sponsors, independent TV stations, watching Red Devils games on mobile phones...It is very likely that, in a year's time, Arsenal will have everything in Manchester United except Beckham!
Precisely because Vodafone, Manchester United's sponsor, is a telecommunications giant, they will open the door for Manchester United in these network services.

Arsenal don't have that, but as long as they can negotiate a sponsorship deal with an MMO2 company, it shouldn't be a problem.

The 21st century is the century of the Internet. If smart phone terminals are popularized in the future, everyone will be able to watch the game and learn about the score and game status through their mobile phones.

This will play a huge role in the promotion of the team.

Now Internet companies such as Google invested by Shao Bo will naturally help.

For example, the official website of Arsenal was produced and maintained by Shao Bo on behalf of Google.Although Shao Bo is not an electronic engineer, nor is he a professional code farmer, but he has a user experience experience that transcends the times, and he can tell his thoughts to Larry Page and Sergey Blue.

With successful examples, it is always easier to follow the map than to grope in the dark.

Although there are technical limitations in the current era, and the official website has not been able to meet the requirements expected by Shao Bo, they have a sense of the times ahead of other sports websites and even many large websites.

Both "Silicon Valley" and "Stanford Journal of Electronics" have selected Arsenal's official website as the top ten innovative designs of the year.

This was something Shao Bo didn't expect.

Google is still growing, but Yahoo has grown into a behemoth.

Although Shao Bozi and Yahoo are one of the directors who only receive dividends, he is also an early investor, and his suggestions can still be taken seriously.

Under Shao Bo's suggestion, or his personal selfishness, he placed Arsenal in Yahoo's sports column in a prominent position for everyone to see.

This is similar to advertising on Yahoo. As long as the viewer notices Arsenal, maybe people who are not fans will also become interested in the team.

Add in first impressions, and you might be building Arsenal fans.

Just like the representative colors of Gryffindor College in Harry Potter, it was changed from gold and crimson to bright red and pure white under Shao Bo's flickering.

Of course, the red and white colors are closer to the main colors of Arsenal, otherwise, Shao Bo would feel that those Gryffindor students looked like they were wearing West Ham scarves.

MM02 has to deal with the aggressiveness of Vodafone, and the Gunners must have enough funds to compete with the Red Devils. The two sides have a common enemy, so they have the same interest relationship at this point.

The only disagreement, though, is the contract amount.

The contract negotiated between Manchester United and Vodafone is a four-year high price of 3600 million pounds. Arsenal naturally do not want to lose to their opponents in this field.

However, MM02 cannot provide such a high sponsorship fee.

Manchester United's contract was signed at the peak of the network and telecommunications industry, so the price is naturally not low.And Manchester United's popularity in Southeast Asia will also help Vodafone's global business strategy.

But now after the dot-com bubble burst, life is not easy for major companies, and although they are the top mobile communication providers in Europe, they mainly face the domestic and continental markets, and do not pay much attention to globalization.

After a long period of negotiations, the two sides finally reached a conclusion.

Four years, £2400 million.

Although the sponsorship fee is much less than that of Manchester United, the global market is in a downturn, and Arsenal has caught up with another bad time.

This sponsorship fee has also been able to rank second in the Premier League.

Not only that, MM600 will also conduct a full range of high-tech cooperation with Arsenal-this will fully exceed the cooperation between Manchester United and Vodafone.

MM02 will become Arsenal's official and only communication provider. The two parties will cooperate in the production of communication equipment for Arsenal fans, and Arsenal will also get a certain share of the stock.

Since then, Gunners fans in Europe have been able to obtain real-time information about Arsenal through radio, print and the Internet.

It's a pity that this only covers the European region. As for the broader global market, given the scope of MM02's business, there is not much involved.

Shao Bo is naturally very dissatisfied with this. He has long been promoting the pace of globalization of the club. Unexpectedly, it seems that Arsenal has received a lot of sponsorship fees with a sponsorship contract, but it also limits them. In this era of rapid spread of high-tech Internet technology.

Who made him now just a head coach instead of a boss?There is no way, only in his position can he seek his own government.

If Shao Bo wants to use his advanced vision to help the team choose better partners, he can only talk about it when he becomes the boss.

Of course, as the head coach of the club, his speech still has a certain influence, but because this kind of sponsorship contract involves too much, Shao Bo did not interfere with the process of history after he finished speaking.

That's right, this sponsorship fee is also considered a high price.The team's recent unbeaten streak has also provided great confidence to the club's negotiators.

Still the same sentence, in competitive sports, you have to use your results to speak.

MM02 The contract of Middlesbrough, another sponsor of the English team, also expires this year, but there is no definite news on whether the two sides have reached an extension.

What's interesting is that MM02's CEO Ershkan is a Tottenham Hotspur fan, but for the sake of profit, he can only support his favorite team's competitors.

After all, Tottenham are about to fall into the relegation zone after being massacred by Arsenal, and there is really no investment potential.

After lengthy negotiations, Arsenal finally reached an agreement with MM02.

In the future, as long as any Arsenal fan joins 02's network, they can enjoy Arsenal's unique ringtones, images and voices, as well as the Gunners' game live broadcast, ticketing system and pre-match and post-match analysis.

The most exciting thing is the Arsenal mobile phone provided by 02, which can be purchased in the Arsenal store and the newly opened 2002 service center during the 2003-02 season.

It is depressing that, with the signing of this exciting contract, Arsenal's unbeaten record was immediately ended.

After the unbeaten in the league was ended, the morale of the Arsenal players was a bit depressed, and the second stage of the Champions League group stage also failed to break through for two consecutive years.

The team that ended Arsenal's 31 consecutive unbeaten games is the overlord of League One, the once prosperous Liverpool.

In this game, Arsenal still underestimated the enemy a bit.

Since they failed to break through the second stage of the UEFA Champions League group stage last season and advanced to the quarter-finals, this year they will focus on the Champions League in the second half of the season when the league basically won the championship steadily.

What is depressing is that there are still strong teams in the second stage of the group stage.

Super black Mara Coruña, Serie A overlord Inter Milan and Bundesliga king Bayern Munich, this group stage has included four teams that are good enough to enter the semi-finals. Unfortunately, only two teams have a chance to win in the end. Tickets for the quarterfinals.

When Arsenal focused on Bayern Munich, they relaxed their vigilance against Liverpool.

Originally, they hoped to keep the tie. Anyway, the league championship is coming soon, so there is no need to ask for more wins.As long as you retain more energy in this game, you can fight harder in the midweek game against Bayern Munich!
As a result, in the 3rd minute, Henry's right-footed shot was blocked by the Liverpool goalkeeper. Five minutes later, Parlor's long-range shot missed the goal in the 5th minute.

While defending, Liverpool also looked for opportunities to organize an offense. In the 13th minute, Phillips' shot was shot by Lehmann.

One minute later, Owen's shot was blocked from the bottom line. After that, Owen's shot was once again rejected by Arsenal goalkeeper David Seaman. Arsenal had almost no chance to breathe in front of Liverpool's crazy attack.

In the 35th minute, Phillips made a cross from the right, Owen's left-footed shot in front of the goal broke the goal guarded by Seaman, and Liverpool led 1-0.

In the 42nd minute, Henry's right-footed shot missed the right side of the goal.With Owen's goal, Liverpool ended the first half with a 1-0 lead.

There was still a whole second half to go, and Arsenal's players didn't believe they couldn't even come back.Months of unbeaten results make them proud.

Under the strong self-confidence, it is a serious underestimation of the opponent.

Arsenal launched a tenacious counterattack in the second half of the game, but they have not been able to score.

In the 50th minute, Henry's free kick went over the crossbar.In the 54th minute, Ljungberg found an opportunity in the middle and shot with his right foot. The ball was pushed out of the baseline by the goalkeeper.

In the 60th minute, Arsenal got another free kick opportunity, Bergkamp took the penalty, Henry took a shot, and the ball flew out of the baseline.

In the 67th minute, Ljungberg's shot was blocked.Subsequently, Pires missed a free kick opportunity.In the 83rd minute, Henry's strong shot from the front of the penalty area was saved.

Although Arsenal have always hoped to get back a goal and continue their unbeaten run, after the whistle sounded at the end of the game, Shao Bo could only accept this reality helplessly—they were trying to achieve No.30 in the second game. There were setbacks on the road to invincibility.

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