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Chapter 504 A Game Worth One Billion
Players from both sides stood in the tunnel at St. James' Park, waiting for the opportunity to play. Today Newcastle's starting lineup is goalkeeper Cech, defenders Dawson, Taylor, Bale and Maicon, midfielders Essien, Gerrard and Ribery who retreated to the midfield, center Long Bisheng, and beside him are Messi and Walcott. The advantage of the center forward header is good!

Real Madrid's starting lineup is goalkeeper Iker Casillas, defender Ramos on the right, Drenthe on the left, Pepe and Spanish international Albiol in the middle, Alonso and Diarra in the center, two attacking midfielders David Silva on the left, Kaka on the right, Benzema and Ronaldo as a double center. He scored goals-but with Ronaldo's height of 1.8 meters [-] and excellent jumping ability, he is also a good player at the center.

In the player tunnel, there was no communication between the players of the two sides, not only because of the war of words before the game, but because the players of the two sides did not have much intersection. Newcastle is mainly composed of English players. The starting lineup consists of four English players plus two Chinese, one Brazilian, one Welsh, one Czech, one French and one Ghanaian. Teammates Kaka and Benzema chatted for a few words, the others could be regarded as not squinting, just waiting for the start of the game.

The referee of the game, the Italian Rossetti, looked at his watch, and then walked out at the same time as the two assistant referees.

Players from both sides filed out behind them. The already boiling St. James' Park immediately burst into loud cheers. Newcastle fans were chanting the names of their heroes. Nearly [-] Real Madrid fans who came from afar were also not to be outdone, shouting the names of Kaka, Ronaldo, Benzema and others.

Real Madrid has two former World Footballer of the Year, Kaka and Ronaldo, but Newcastle is not inferior to them in the lineup, Messi is also the World Footballer of the Year, both sides have a huge popularity star, although Real Madrid has a slight upper hand in terms of value, but Newcastle is not too far behind!
Ronaldo and Kaka transferred to Real Madrid for a combined value of more than 5000 million euros, and Newcastle introduced Gerrard and Long Bisheng also cost them 5000 million euros (Gerrard's transfer value is [-] million euros, and Long Bisheng's worth is almost the same), and if Messi transfers, his worth will not be much less than Ronaldo, but Pei Wei has already released his words, wanting Messi to transfer?no way!

It is an exaggeration to say that there is absolutely no problem with the combined worth of these 22 players exceeding one billion euros. Even in today's inflationary world, the figure of one billion euros is enough to shock everyone!It’s no longer enough to describe these two teams as price-to-gold. It’s almost the same if you replace the word gold with diamonds…

Standing next to the coach's bench, Pei Wei watched the players of Newcastle running onto the field one after another. At this moment, he was filled with incomparable pride and pride.

In ten years, without actually spending much money, to form such a team that is not inferior to Real Madrid in terms of value, and can continue to win and honor. This is not something that can be achieved with money alone - before Calciopoli, Moratti spent more than one billion euros on Inter Milan, but it was only in exchange for the name of the star black hole!

The tradition of Real Madrid is to spend a lot of money to recruit people from all over the world, and Pei Wei also recruits people, but every time he invests a lot of money, he almost always gets super value results. For example, he bought the 5000-year-old Gerrard with 31 million euros at that time, and was ridiculed as having money and no place to spend.

Although they haven't won any championships in the past two seasons, Newcastle's domestic reputation in England has not declined but has risen. This is the role of Gerrard!
The introduction of Essien for 2000 million euros made almost everyone laugh out loud, but what happened later?Essien made Newcastle not need to worry about the position of the midfielder for ten years!
As for people like Franck Ribery, Drogba, Messi and others, Pei Wei took advantage of his close relationship with Yunjia Tianyu. If these three people appeared according to their original trajectory, Pei Wei would have to spend at least [-] million more to get them!At least if Messi went to Barcelona back then, let alone whether Barcelona was willing to let him go, even if he would, at least it would be a sky-high price not inferior to Ronaldo's transfer!
At this point in life, what does the husband want?
This thought suddenly appeared in Pei Wei's mind, and he immediately burst out laughing—even though his mental age is already in his sixties or seventies, his physical age is only in his forties, which is just the prime of life for a club chairman or businessman!Enjoy life right now?Isn't it a little too early?

Besides, the oldest of my two sons is only ten years old, and it's not yet time for them to take over!

Thinking of this, Pei Wei shook his head, then turned and walked towards the visiting team's coaching bench.

After walking over, Pei Wei extended his hand to Hiddink with a smile. The two of them are also old friends. Although Pei Wei had mainly operated in Newcastle when Hiddink entered the Chinese team, Pei Wei, who was once the honorary vice president of the Chinese Football Association, still has inextricable relations with the Chinese Football Association, and he has dealt with Hiddink a lot.

A smile appeared on Hiddink's face, and he held Pei Wei's hand.

"Huss, this is the second time I've played against you on the court! But it's the first time in the Champions League!" Pei Wei took the lead to say that Hiddink had served as Chelsea's firefighter in the 08-09 season, and played a game against Newcastle, which ended in a draw. In the Champions League, Newcastle lost to Manchester United in the semi-finals, so they did not meet in the Champions League, so Pei Wei said this.

"I didn't seem to be playing against you last time, right? When did you become the head coach of Newcastle?" Hiddink teased Pei Wei with a smile. He knew that Pei Wei, an assistant coach, was just a name and basically didn't interfere with the club's affairs, so he didn't have to be afraid to say a few words to him.

"What does that matter? Isn't Jose's coaching the same as my coaching? The Sun newspaper also said that we are two in one." Pei Wei laughed and shrugged.

"The Sun? What's that?" Hiddink wasn't too fond of England's most famous tabloid, which also attacked him during his brief stint as Chelsea manager.

"Now we have something in common. You have to be merciful during the competition. You should have heard a saying when you were in China. Friendship comes first, competition comes second." Pei Wei said nonsense.

Hiddink almost laughed out loud, friendship is the first in the Champions Cup?What a joke!But he quickly woke up, this guy didn't come here specially to distract me, right?

"This is your home court, but today your four attackers in the front court are not very friendly. Are you afraid of any problems in the back line if you do this?" Hiddink asked intentionally.

"Jose insists on doing this, what can I do? He is an authentic football manager. My boss doesn't have as much power as him!" Pei Wei shook his head nonchalantly: "Who wants your back line to be so tall? The average height of four defenders around 1.8 meters 1.9 is not lower than ours. How can we do it without sending more forwards, but you don't even have a defender who is [-] meters tall. Are you afraid of our Long Bisheng? He is [-] meters [-] tall."

"The height may not be enough to win the header, the jumping ability is the most important..." Hiddink became alert at this point, and immediately stopped: "Okay, I will buy you a drink after the game is over. Now the game is about to start. I have to prepare to command."

"Ah, it's gone so fast?" Pei Wei blankly looked at the scattered players on the field, with an embarrassed look on his face: "I just want to chat with old friends... I can't help it, I'm getting old and I'm getting wordy. Hus, don't be offended... Let's have a drink after the game."

Pei Wei turned around and walked back, stopped suddenly, turned his head and smiled at Hiddink: "I just don't know if the two of us are still in the mood to drink after the game, and who is the one who is not in the mood to drink?"

Hiddink was taken aback by his question, then raised his face and walked towards his seat.

Pei Wei smiled and returned to his seat with a smile on his face, but what he said was not so easy: "This Huss is really an old fox... His words seem to say that he wants Pepe to deal with Long Bisheng, but with his shrewdness, will he reveal his tactical arrangement so easily?"

"Unexpected thing." Mourinho replied blankly: "But I don't need to disclose this intention. I can guess it. With Long Bisheng's height and physical fitness, no one in Real Madrid's defense can pose a threat to him except Pepe. Although Pepe is only about 1.8 meters [-], his jumping ability and physical fitness are definitely not inferior to Long Bisheng. No matter how bad the defense is, his height can help."

"It's always difficult to play games with players worth more than one billion..." Pei Wei sighed.

(End of this chapter)