long live football

Roman Abramovich, the richest man in Russia and the governor of the Chukotka Autonomous Region, ranks among the top 20 richest people in the world.But his other well-known identity in world football is as the owner of Chelsea club.

In June 2003, when Chelsea's former chairman Bates sold the club for 6 million pounds, world football was a sensation. Although Chelsea was in deep financial trouble and debts at the time, no one thought that Bates would sell the club. The team is sold, and the buyer is Roman Abramovich?All England is asking: who is he?

Abramovich has been very low-key before the acquisition of Chelsea. Almost no one in England fans knows him. They even suspect that he is a liar who defrauded the Chelsea club from Betts. This also provoked the British Financial Services Authority for Chelsea. The FSA investigated the entire transaction under the pretext of suspecting fraud in the acquisition, and of course, the FSA found nothing in the end.

A few years later, Abramovich has already secured the position of chairman of the Chelsea club. He has repaid hundreds of millions of pounds in debt for the team, and every year in the transfer season, he waved money to buy stars wantonly. His generosity brought Chelsea several The championship brought the Blues on the road to the giants, and Abramovich himself is also the pioneer of the Premier League gold dollar football. After him, it has become a trend for the rich chiefs to invest in football clubs.

Mourinho has mentioned Abramovich many times in front of Carl, so Carl still knows the owner of Chelsea, but in fact the two have never had direct contact, so at the horse racing festival, when Abramovich greeted him, Carl A bit of surprise was inevitable in his expression.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Alston." Having settled in London for many years, the rich Russian already knows how to do as the Romans do: "Please forgive my presumptuousness, but I think with the exposure rate of the two of us, there should be no need for an introducer."

Carl shook hands with him: "You don't have to be so polite, Mr. Abramovich. In fact, I have heard your name many times not only from newspapers, but also in private."

"Who ever talked to you about me?"

"Jose, he said you are the most generous team owner in the world."

Abu raised his eyebrows, and two forehead lines appeared on his forehead: "But I haven't heard him talk about you."

"You are his boss, and subordinates don't chat casually with their bosses. But I am his friend."

Abu smiled: "Watch the game together? My box has a good view." He pointed to an area on the stands.

Carl readily agreed.

After standing still in the stands, Karl found that the field of view was wide and the entire competition venue was unobstructed. It was indeed better than his original box, and not far from the right was even the box of the British royal family. He turned around and saw the figure of Prince William in the crowd. faintly visible.

"Have you bought a betting ticket?"

"of course."

"Which horse are you betting on?"

"The seventh horse."

Abu looked surprised: "That horse is a bit weak, and it is at the bottom of the favorites to win the championship."

"Yes, I know." Carl coughed lightly: "Actually, that's my horse. This is Andorinia's first time participating in a big race, and I didn't have high hopes for it. Buying a betting ticket is just a good luck. "

Abramovich raised his chin to the field: "No. 2 and No. 5 are both my horses."

Businessmen are really good at diverting embarrassing topics.Carl flipped through the pamphlet introducing the information of each horse in his hand: "Your two horses are both favorites to win the championship." And the bloodline is more pure. The horse No. 5 has won two international race awards, and the value exceeds that of the horse. Andorinia how many times.

Abu's expression didn't change much: "It's just a hobby to raise horses." After a pause, he said as if unintentionally: "I have a stable in my manor in Sussex, and I have more than a dozen pure-blooded horses in it." Ma, if you are interested, you can stay there for two days, I really like entertaining guests from afar."

"Is it the manor that covers an area of ​​more than 400 acres? I heard that the scenery is very beautiful, I have heard of it." Karl smiled apologetically: "But you know, there are so many trivia during the season, I can't leave Munich for a long time , I will visit again when I have a chance.”

Abu nodded noncommittally.

Carl smiled at the opponent again, and then turned his eyes to the field.On the surface, he seems to be concentrating on sizing up every participating rider, but in fact, he has been thinking about the intention of the boss of Chelsea to make friends with him.

Carl was so engrossed in his thoughts that he didn't notice that the Russian rich man quietly looked at him several times.

'A madman's friend is rare and gentle. Abramovich thought with some satisfaction: "I heard that he is good at managing the locker room and is also good at activating players in a downturn... I just don't know what conditions can impress him." '

……

Carl walked out of the terminal and hailed a taxi. After restarting the phone, he found several text messages lying in the inbox.

Hit your phone and turn it off, what about people! — Ronaldo

Well, on the plane? — Ronaldo

The old man said that you hooked up with Abu. — Ronaldo

So you're going to come to the Premier League to snatch Chelsea's big-mouthed job? - Well done Ronaldo! — Ronaldo

The corner of his mouth couldn't help grinning, and Carl dialed the number back: "What did the old man say about me behind my back?"

Ronaldo answered the phone very quickly: "Get off the plane? Tell me why you and Abramovich are watching the horse race together!"

"Met by chance at the racecourse, and he invited me to his box, and I said yes. That's it."

"Really?" Ronaldo's tone was full of suspicion: "You can chat so happily when you meet for the first time?"

Carl frowned: "How do you know that I have a good chat with Abramovich? Could it be that you went to Cheltenham yesterday and I didn't find out?"

"I never skip training privately! It's even more impossible to secretly go to the racetrack!" Ronaldo muttered, "Someone took your photos and posted them all over the Internet, and the boss is talking about you in the locker room." , Said that you and the boss of Chelsea stayed in the same box and chatted all the time, he looked back at you several times in front of you and you didn't notice, the original words of the boss were 'Carl that stinky boy'." Ronaldo was a little gloating at the end mean.

"...If you scold me, you don't have to learn it as it is." Carl rubbed his chin: "Who told me that I want to take Jose's job?"

"I still want to ask you this!"

"It's probably a reporter writing scribbles again. We didn't talk about this kind of topic at all yesterday, and it's even more impossible for me to grab Jose's job."

Ronaldo seemed a little happy, but also a little unhappy.The happy thing is that Karl doesn't coach Chelsea, so he doesn't have to be enemies with the opponent. The sad thing is that Karl still has to stay in that cold place in Munich, and he and his good friends can only see each other once in a few months.It's really sad.

……

Ronaldo's words reminded Carl: If the whole of England knew that Carl and Abramovich met in private, how could Mourinho not know?

The tense relationship between Chelsea’s chairman and coach is no longer new news. Even many media and fans have vowed that Mourinho will definitely leave after the end of the season. Karl also knows that Mourinho will not stay in London for a long time. I decided to stay, because the other party had revealed to me that he wanted to leave in January... At such a sensitive moment, the news that he and Abu had a good talk suddenly came out, what would Jose think?

Would he think he was colluding with Abramovich to take his place?

Jose Mourinho is a proud man, and a proud man never accepts betrayal.

Karl didn't want his friends to misunderstand him, so he decided to make it clear.

"Jose." As soon as the call was connected, Carl said bluntly: "I have never received an invitation to coach Chelsea, and the chat with Abramovich is only about horse racing."

"Oh."

only one huh?Carl raised his eyebrows, he really didn't expect this answer.

Before Carl could speak, Mourinho raised his volume: "You called to tell me this?"

"Yes. The English media always like to make a fuss and guess. I don't want you to read those fake news from the newspapers and misunderstand me."

"I do not know."

"Prudish." Carl chuckled lightly, "You're just a supercilious person."

There was no embarrassment in Mourinho's tone, but frankly: "You guessed wrong this time. I won't misunderstand you, because I believe you will not betray me."

"So confident in me?"

"Of course." Mourinho replied very arrogantly: "You are the friend I chose, and I will not make friends carelessly."

"Are you flattering me or showing off your own vision?"

"Both." Mourinho went too far: "If my vision is wrong, I deserve it, and I can't blame others."

Carl's heart fell back into his stomach completely.And after this phone call, he thought, he and Mourinho would never doubt each other again.

In England, far away, after hanging up the phone, Mourinho sat on the sofa thinking deeply.

Karl’s special call to explain made Mourinho feel a little warmth in his heart, but even without this phone call, Mourinho didn’t think that Karl would be the one to take over after he was kicked out by Abramovich— ——There is a sentence that Mourinho has never told Carl, that is, he is actually very good at reading people. Carl has the blood of the Red Devils, and Mourinho knows that his friend is very nostalgic. He is still alive and kicking in the Premier League in Ferguson Under such circumstances, unless Karl owes Abramovich a big favor, how could his friend come to coach the Blues and fight against Manchester United?

However, trusting Carl does not mean that Mourinho also trusts his boss.

No one knows better than Roman Abramovich how he likes to poach people.

……

The media across England have been caught up in a tizzy since someone posted online the news that Karl Alston and Roman Abramovich shared a box at the Cheltenham Races. Chicken jelly!

Who is Roman Abramovich?The owner of the Premier League's quasi-rich Chelsea, the richest man in Russia who can spend like a waterfall for the team, buys a lot of stars for the Blues every year. The point is that he is having a tense relationship with Chelsea's coach Mourinho!

Who is Karl Alston?An upstart in the coaching world who debuted in the Premier League and a rising star in European football, he brought a Bundesliga team that was relegated and on the verge of bankruptcy to the position of Bundesliga champions. There are more and more superstars under him, and his domestic reputation is almost comparable to that of Baker. Ham!

When the most famous club owner in England collides with the most famous head coach in England, what kind of sparks will be created between them?

Everyone felt that Abramovich was waving banknotes to seduce Auston after waving banknotes to buy football stars all over the world. No one thought that it was a purely aimless meeting in the racetrack box.

Every newspaper is speculating on when Mourinho will be kicked out by Abramovich, and when Auston will leave Munich for London, and the excited faces of media fans don't care about the news that Prince William and his girlfriend Kate have broken up again cared.

Now that the media is so developed, major domestic news in England will reach Germany in a morning.

An interview was soon published on the website of the "Munich Daily". The interviewee was a certain football figure who did not want to be named: "Munich 1860 is in danger this time. They have encountered an extremely powerful poaching enemy—— Abramovich is the world's top rich man. There are so many people who can't resist the huge pound and move to Chelsea every year. If he wants to take Auston away from Munich, he will definitely offer a sky-high contract. Maybe It will be several times higher than Oston's current salary... Who can resist the temptation of money?"

The big man also talked about the departure of the head coaches: "UEFA has strict regulations on the transfer of players, and transactions can only be made after the winter and summer transfer windows open, but it is more difficult for the head coach to leave. It's much easier for the players, they can break up with the club anytime, 360 days a year..."

In European football, although the head coach who resigned midway was fired by the club, there are many examples of the coach himself abandoning the team. Mourinho has done this more than once: in 2000, he took over at Benfica. In his first coaching job, after coaching 9 games, he left the team because of a disagreement with the re-elected board of directors; in 2001, Mourinho became the head coach of the Leiria team, but it was halfway through the season Then switched to Porto.

The "Munich Daily" did not know how to find out the general content of Karl's salary contract: "There is a liquidated damages clause in the contract signed between Oston and Munich 1860, which means that both the team and Oston have to unilaterally tear up the contract. The contract requires compensation to the other party for liquidated damages, but what is the amount of this money?"

"300 million euros! As long as someone is willing to pay this money and make an agreement with Oston himself, the Lions coach can be taken away from the Allianz Arena! This figure is really cheap, even more so for the richest man in Russia. It’s drizzle... Abramovich even wants to buy Ronaldinho with a price of hundreds of millions of pounds, will he be reluctant to part with the 300 million euros?"

……

The live broadcast of the popular program "Linna Watching Football" on Bavarian TV encountered a rare embarrassing scene.

For the sake of ratings, the glamorous host Linna asked the guest Koch some hot topics in German football under the hint of the director.

"Have you seen the picture of Karl Alston at Cheltenham? What a handsome outfit he is in!"

A few photos of the Lions coach at the horse racing festival a few days ago flashed across the big screen in the studio. The photos were probably taken by professionals, who forcibly took some ordinary life photos into a big picture.

Guest Koch stared at the screen for a while, then nodded: "The boss has always been the most well-dressed in our team."

"Is Austen very particular about dressing in normal times?" Lina blinked and squeezed her breasts on purpose. The director gave her a close-up of her breasts: "Munich 1860 has another heartthrob Beckham, Who is more stylish, he or Auston?"

"David often wears casual clothes during training, but the boss never wears sportswear." After the photos on the screen were finished, Koch turned his gaze.

Although the camera kept taking pictures of her proud figure, Linna found that her deliberate display just now failed to attract her boyfriend's attention, which made her a little upset: "Auston will not be your boss soon. She deliberately provoked the topic: "The British media reported that he had a heated fight with the Chelsea boss recently."

Koch looked at Linna: "The news in the newspaper is fake news, the boss can't leave the team."

"I have some inside information." Linna deliberately made a mysterious look: "It is said that Abramovich is ready to pay Auston a termination fee of 300 million euros and give him a contract of up to 600 million pounds." annual salary contract."

"It's impossible." Under the live broadcast, Koch retorted without hesitation: "Your inside information is false."

The live broadcast was mercilessly dismantled by the rumored boyfriend. This was the first time for Linna, who was praised by various male guests on weekdays.And it was an extremely awkward first experience.

The camera clearly captured the process of Lina changing her face. The director reminded her through the headset several times to hurry up, but the beautiful female anchor didn't hear it. In the end, the director had no choice but to signal the staff to hurry up and enter the commercial.

During the commercial break, the makeup artist rushed up to touch up Linna's makeup.

Under Linna's angry stare, Koch finally realized that something was wrong with him: at least he shouldn't be serious with Linna during the live broadcast.

He got up from the sofa, walked up to Linna and said something nice.

Lina was in a better mood after being coaxed. She thought to herself, 'Maybe he is too straightforward to answer questions', and then she was going to take advantage of the gap to ask Koch to try to answer ambiguously when she asked questions. One point—if even the players of 1860 Munich can't figure out what their head coach thinks, then the fans will definitely panic. When the fans panic, they want to pursue the truth, the ratings of the program will be high, and she will become more popular.

But before Lena could speak, she heard her boyfriend say, "Don't ask me about Mr. Alston, okay? He doesn't like the media attention to him. Why don't you ask me other questions, I I can tell you a few jokes that happened in the team..."

……

Karl clarified his meeting with Abramovich to the media before the Munich Daily and Lena Watch Football tried to make bigger news: "Chelsea's manager is Jose Mourinho, It was in the past, it is in the present, and it will still be in the future. My meeting with Mr. Abramovich was just a private exchange, and we didn’t talk about anything related to work, so you don’t have to guess.”

The fans were dubious about Carl's statement, but the media didn't believe it at all. They began to harass the other parties involved.

Chelsea boss Roman Abramovich has been silent throughout, no reporter can find out his whereabouts, nor can he interview him.

But the Blues coach popped up: "I don't know if I will leave Chelsea someday in the future, but I know that the person who takes over from me is definitely not Karl. I want to ask why? Because Karl is my friend, he is like me. said."

Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo accidentally said in a post-match interview: "I don't want to be interviewed by you ("Sun" reporter) because you like to make up fake news. I am worried about what I do. What he said will look different in the newspaper tomorrow, just like Karl, he just met Abramovich and said a few words, and you made so many messy news... "

Karl Alston may have lied to the press, but he never lied to his friends.

The media gradually quieted down.

……

There are many newspapers on Karl's desk, most of which are the Munich Daily.

No wind, no wave.

If the media collectively hype up some news, there must be a source.

Karl gradually figured out the pattern: Hitzfeld let go, the "Munich Daily" exaggerated, and other media followed suit.

As for what Heathfield said and what purpose he wanted to achieve, he basically guessed it.

But he wasn't going to pierce.

Playing a foolish look of not seeing through the trap is good for your own layout.

There is still one and a half months before the Munich Derby, and Karl is looking forward to its arrival.

He wants to let the enemy know that no matter how many tricks they use on and off the court, he will always be the one who laughs last.