Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 673

After the Champions League, for most players, their holidays have already started ahead of schedule, but for those players with higher salaries and prominent European international status, their holidays have not yet started.

2004 is a big year. Both the European Championship and the Asian Cup finals will start this summer. The end of the Champions League final is May 26, while the first match of the European Championship will be in June. On the [-]th, there was only more than half a month between the two. For those European internationals in Newcastle, they had almost no rest time.

And the team's concentration time for the next season will be in late July, and this summer, for them, the rest time is only a pitiful half a month...

There are six players in the Newcastle team who will participate in the European Championship. Among them, Woodgate, Dyer and Janus were selected for the England national team. Robert impressed the French coach Santini with his outstanding performance in the Premier League this season. , and Makelele was selected together with him, and Ibrahimovic was selected for the Swedish national team.

In addition, Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech, who will come to the team to report next season, has also been selected for the Czech national team. In addition, Nie Fei will participate in the Asian Cup to be held in July, so before the start of this season, Mourinho will face Will be a crippled team.

Pei Wei has no good solution for this. The contradiction between the national team and the club has a long history. The head coach of every club hopes that his team will always be complete, but the national team will always let a team The club team has become incomplete, and the head coach of the national team is always complaining that the club is not cooperative enough, so that their tactics cannot be deeply understood by the players.

To put it bluntly, each has different interests, so it is impossible to resolve the conflict in this regard.

In order to comfort Mourinho—even though Mourinho doesn't seem to need comfort, Pei Wei decided to bring his whole family to watch the European Championship together with the Mourinho family. There will be no changes before Sai and his rebirth, after all, the influence he brought has not yet affected the European Championship.

For this invitation, Mourinho is very happy. As a professional head coach of a European club, it is their job to go to the scene to watch the game when there is a big game. It is their job to check the state of their own players and observe the level of opponent players during the game. , to find newcomers who may appear... Since Pei Wei pays the bill, no one will gossip even if he takes his family to Portugal.

In the process of watching the game this time, Pei Wei did not show off such words as "Greece will win the championship". The result will definitely arouse people's doubts. Mourinho is a very smart person, and Pei Wei doesn't intend to let him see anything.

In the process of watching the game, Pei Wei and Mourinho naturally paid more attention to the game of Newcastle's six international players. Makelele is now the absolute main force of the French national team, but Robert has no chance to play. In England, three Newcastle players The players can't even get the chance to play. Woodgate's competitors are Ferdinand, Terry and Campbell. Dyer's position has Beckham and Joe Cole. Janus is even worse. Gerrard and Lampard has firmly occupied the position in the middle of England's midfield, where will he be able to stay.Probably only Ibrahimovic has the most stable position. He and Larsson are the unbreakable striker partners of the Swedish national team.

Of course, Pei Wei was not idle when he was watching the game. He knew that it was impossible to discover any rookies in this European Championship. Besides, Newcastle's current status as the new European champions is alluring to players. Also quite large.

He is busy with the summer warm-up match. Bayern Munich is very interested in going to China to play a warm-up match in the summer, while Inter Milan is a little hesitant. The club is the only European giant that has not been to China since the 90s. Their annual summer training is in the Middle East. This is because they have cooperation with a certain consortium in Dubai on youth training and echelon construction.

However, Inter Milan and Yunjiatianyu have also cooperated for many years. It is impossible for Moratti to ignore Pei Wei's invitation. After discussing with the newly appointed head coach Mancini, Inter Milan agreed to conduct a one-week tour in China. training and competition.

Of course, Pei Wei will not only do such a little thing this summer-for club owners, the annual transfer period is their busiest thing, except for Pei Wei who likes to give himself the title of assistant coach, and spends all day with the first team Except for the bosses who deal with each other, the other bosses are the most leisurely after the start of the season.

Although they won the European Champions Cup last season, both Pei Wei and Mourinho knew in their hearts that Newcastle was still far away from the world-class giants.

First of all, Shearer has not been able to play for a few years. He is already 34 years old. Maybe this age is not too old for a defender, but for a forward, this is the age that is about to retire. After Shearer, the Magpies Who is the captain of the team, this is a question worth considering.

Although Newcastle has never lacked local players, that is a thing of the past. Speaking of Newcastle's main lineup last year, Shay may be a good target. Although he is Irish, he has been in Newcastle for a long time. Time, but Cech will come to Newcastle next year. Shay may not be able to compete with him by then. A substitute will definitely not be able to be the captain. Woodgate is also possible, but he is not a native of Newcastle after all. Young, and he was also trained by Nottingham Forest, Dyer can't guarantee the main position...

Other non-English players Mourinho will not consider for the time being, unless he stays in Newcastle for a long time, otherwise for a club that has always been proud of its local flag, letting a foreigner serve as the captain of the team Captain is simply unimaginable.

Looking at the major European giants, which one does not have its own local flag?Manchester United's Keane is half English, Arsenal's Henry only wore the captain's armband long after he became King of Highbury, Chelsea has John Terry, Liverpool has Steven Gerrard, AC Milan has Maldini, Real Madrid has Raul, Barcelona has Guardiola in front and Xavi in ​​the back, Juventus has Del Piero, and Inter Milan's Zanetti is Argentine, but Inter Milan itself is an international team, and Zanetti He came to Inter Milan in his early 20s and stayed for ten years. He deserves to be the captain.

Obviously, Newcastle does not have such a person now, maybe Shearer can play for another year, but Pei Wei and Mourinho are about to start preparing now.

In addition, there is the problem of youth training. Although Newcastle's echelon construction is quite famous in England, the set they are using now is a bit outdated. Pei Wei plans to invest some funds to improve the training facilities for young people. On the one hand, he has never been stingy, and it is very likely that the echelon from China will also train in this training ground in the future. Pei Wei's doing so can be regarded as a way to keep the money from outsiders.

The rest... Newcastle's status is different now. As European champions, they must have sponsors and sponsorship fees worthy of their status. Pei Wei doesn't care about the previous sponsorship fees.

Naturally, the financial staff of the club will negotiate the advertisement on the chest, and Pei Wei does not want to change the advertisement of Northern Rock Bank on the chest. After all, this is an old local bank in Newcastle. The advertising only earns a mere £200 million a year.

As for the jersey, Pei Wei has already planned to change it. Now there is only one year left in the Adidas contract. Pei Wei does not intend to renew the contract, although Adidas has shown this intention after winning the Champions League. However, they were only willing to pay 500 million pounds at most, and Pei Wei refused it straight away-why do those sponsorships on the jerseys of those giants get tens of millions, and we only have 500 million?We are world champions now!

The reason why Pei Wei is so confident is that he has already reached a cooperation intention with the domestic Li Ning Group. After a year, the two parties will formally reach a cooperation intention. This is a win-win thing for both parties. When Chinese advertisements appear on the Champions League, it will play an inestimable role in opening up the international market for Li Ning Group, and Li Ning's good sales network in China can also sell genuine Newcastle jerseys to all parts of China - Pei Wei naturally will not Making the mistake of other big clubs, the price of jerseys is hundreds of euros at every turn. At that time, the price of Newcastle fans will be controlled within the range that a Chinese fan can afford while ensuring profits. Only in this way can the Chinese market be truly developed.

European clubs want to develop the Chinese market, they just come here to play a high-income warm-up match in the summer, open a few specialty stores with extremely luxurious decorations, and the prices of the items inside are ridiculously high, or open a few A restaurant with a club name... that's definitely not enough.

As Chinese fans, they generally don’t have much money in their hands. Even if they have, they are not European fans who have supported a certain team since their ancestors. They are willing to save money to buy genuine jerseys to support the club... Even if there were, there would not be too many such fans.

What they can accept is that within one hundred yuan, they can buy the jerseys they wear when playing football. Therefore, in China, if compared with the sales of genuine jerseys, those European team genuine jerseys that cost hundreds of euros are no good. The sales of genuine jerseys of domestic teams that cost RMB 100 are not as good.

(End of this chapter)