Football giants

Chapter 247

"I heard that in the FA Cup final, Yang Huan, the owner of Southampton, made a bet with Abramovich."

Sadie spoke cautiously of the rumors he had heard.

"Bet?" Drogba frowned.

Needless to say, Abramovich himself is definitely a bet.

"I heard that Abramovich wanted to poach Neymar, but Southampton would not sell it, so I proposed a bet. If he lost, Southampton would have to agree to put Neymar on the transfer market."

Drogba's face was solemn, and he felt really uncomfortable to be someone else's bet.

"go on."

Sadie sighed, "Not only you, Matic and Sturridge are also bets."

Now Drogba sneered.

At least, Lao Tzu is not alone, but has two companions.

"Abramovich bet on Manchester United to win, and Yang Huan bet on Southampton to win. As a result, Southampton won, and Abramovich lost three players."

Perhaps it was to make Drogba feel better, or because the news he heard was true, what Cedi said next was to change the image of Yang Huan, the future boss.

"I heard that I didn't designate it to be yours. I just said that if Abramovich loses, any player in the Chelsea team can be chosen by them. After Yang Huan won, he just said that he only has Drogba in the Chelsea team."

When Drogba heard this, his chest grew quite high.

It can be seen that the young boss of Southampton is still very knowledgeable.

The most hateful thing is Abramovich, who actually used all the players in the team as bets, it's too shameful!

"Does the rest of the team know?" Drogba asked lightly.

Sadie thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I don't know."

But soon, he added another sentence.

"But I believe that some rumors should be heard more or less."

Even I was able to collect this kind of information, and those big brokerage companies must have collected more, which is closer to the real insider.

"If he does this, the morale of the team will definitely plummet!" Drogba sneered disdainfully.

Sadie was also a little helpless, "For rich people like them, what do the players think, how can they take care of it?"

Who cares what the players think when there are millions of pounds in every move?
With that effort, they can make more money and then bring in stars.

"I also heard that Southampton have just completed a £6000 million transfer."

"6000 million pounds?" Didier Drogba's dark face was covered with an emotion called shock.

"Who?"

Sadie shook his head, "I don't know, I just heard someone mention it. They said that Southampton has already pre-booked this summer's transfer bid king!"

Who said no?

Now that the transfer market is so sluggish, they still spend 6000 million pounds to introduce a midfielder?
"It seems that this Championship team is really ambitious!" Didier Drogba changed his mind about Southampton.

If Ibrahimovic is put aside as a substitute, if Southampton commits to the main position, Drogba feels that with the ambition and courage of this team, it is not a bad idea to go to play by himself.

But now, as long as he thinks that he is going to be Ibrahimovic's substitute, he feels very uncomfortable.

Why?
Just because he joined a year earlier than himself?
"Sadi." Drogba's eyes flashed with a hint of determination.

He has also experienced countless ups and downs, ups and downs, and his heart has been tempered very firmly.

"Yeah." Sadie listened carefully.

"Let's go to Southampton!"

"Really?" Sadie was a little surprised.

Drogba nodded heavily, "Since they don't take us seriously and don't want to keep us, then there's no point in staying!"

Sadie thought about it and nodded, thinking it made sense.

"Ibrahimovic is very strong, but Drogba is not a vegetarian. No matter how strong he is, I will fight against him to see who is the number one center forward in the world!" When he said this, Drogba exuded a domineering aura of a monster.

This is the world's top center, the momentum that Warcraft Drogba should have.

Sadie, too, was immediately and deeply affected.

As long as it is what Drogba wants to do, he believes that there is nothing he cannot do.

"As for Chelsea and Abramovich, they will definitely regret their decision now!"

Drogba clenched his fists hard, his veins were exposed, he gritted his teeth, and said every word.

"One day, I will completely repay today's grievances with them!"

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Entering the second half of June, with the U21 European Youth Championship and the Toulon Cup coming to an end, the Copa America began to enter the field of vision of fans.

Although Southampton is a Championship team, two players were able to participate in the America's Cup.

They are the main midfielder Vidal of the Chilean national team and the talented star Neymar of the Brazilian national team.

As for James Rodriguez, who performed well, he has not yet been selected for the Colombian national team, but represented Colombia in the Toulon Cup, and defeated Pogba and Schneiderlin's French team to win the Toulon Cup.

With the approach of the new season, the transfer market has also become hot, and news of the best is frequent.

One of the most beautiful is undoubtedly Chelsea.

After introducing Benatia and Adam Lallana from Southampton at a price of 3000 million pounds and 4000 million pounds successively, Chelsea continued to spend a lot of money and introduced teenager Lukaku from Anderlecht in Belgium at a price of 2000 million pounds in [-].

This is a rookie center who is regarded as the new World of Warcraft by the outside world.

In addition, the midfielder Meireles was introduced from Liverpool for 500 million pounds.

After the new coach Villas-Boas took office, he threatened to carry out drastic reforms to Chelsea to regain competitiveness for the Blues.

And this Portuguese coach, who is regarded as Mourinho II by the outside world and has just led Porto to the Triple Crown, is also very much expected by Chelsea fans.

Manchester United was not to be outdone. After Saints teenager Wilt Chamberlain was robbed by Arsenal, Ferguson successively introduced goalkeeper De Gea from Atletico Madrid, Phil Jones from Blackburn Rovers and winger Ashley Young from Aston Villa at a price of about 2000 million pounds.

Three transfers, costing nearly 6000 million pounds, Manchester United's new season can be described as ambitious.

It is widely rumored that Ferguson persisted on all three fronts last season, but he was very dissatisfied with only winning the league championship in the end. In the new season, he is determined to make a difference in the Champions League and domestic cup competitions.

As Manchester United's rivals in the same city, Manchester City's movements are not small.

Poached the leading core Nasri and the main left-back Clichy from Arsenal, introduced the midfielder Hargreaves from Manchester United, and introduced the Argentine forward Aguero from Atletico Madrid for a price of 500 million pounds.

All these measures have made people look forward to the new season of Manchester City.

Even after cleaning out Adebayor, Santa Cruz, Boateng, Bellamy and other stars, Manchester City's lineup is still astonishingly large, and its strength has steadily improved. It is one of the favorite teams to win the Premier League in the new season.

However, when the media in the UK, Europe, and even the world are generally hyping the Premier League, the rich and powerful, they always mention the Saints Southampton intentionally or unintentionally.

Even many reporters have not noticed that since when, Southampton has begun to be included in the ranks of Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool and other teams.

This ranking is very strange, and the logic is very strange.

Because Southampton is the English Championship team, but Manchester United and other teams are all Premier League giants.

However, when the Premier League is mentioned, it is always inevitable to mention Southampton.

There are even many fans who are very concerned about Southampton's every move.

When the Premier League giants were very rich in signings in the transfer market, Southampton sold off eleven players in the team, including captain Adam Lallana and main central defender Benatia.

It can be described as a hemorrhage!

This also makes people very concerned about Southampton.

Because after selling the players, they have recovered a total of over [-] million pounds of funds, coupled with the continuous signing of multiple sponsorships such as Calon Family, Heineken, Nike and Adidas, Southampton's financial resources are definitely not a problem.

But after entering the second half of June, this team has not made any moves in the transfer market.

This also caused many Saints fans to worry.

Especially when Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City and other tycoons are signing up aggressively.

There are even more rumors in the media, and many media are even skeptical that Southampton can no longer sustain it.

Just when the fans were looking forward to it, Southampton took the lead in announcing that the team had introduced England international defender Gary Cahill from Bolton for a price of 700 million pounds.

The native English star once attracted the attention of many Premier League teams including Manchester United last summer, and his worth was as high as 500 million pounds.

But there is still no team shot.

In the summer of this year, with only one year left in the contract, Sun Yue went north to Bolton on behalf of Southampton and negotiated the England international, and the price of 700 million pounds can be described as high quality and low price.

This has also been interpreted by the outside world as Southampton filling the vacancy after Benatia's transfer.

But some people still worry about whether the team's central defender combination of Varane and Gary Cahill can satisfy the team's multi-line combat in the new season, and whether the teenager Nastasic can help the team.

This is also a concern of many people.

On the second day after announcing the introduction of Gary Cahill, Southampton once again officially announced that the team introduced teenager Danny Sturridge from Chelsea, and the transfer fee will not be announced.

Chelsea's official website also announced the news.

This immediately aroused strong repercussions from the outside world.

Southampton went to poach Chelsea's corner?
Bull, it's really awesome!

Saints fans are even more excited on the Internet.

"Didn't you Chelsea come to poach our players? Reciprocity, we will poach yours too!"

But soon, Chelsea fans fought back.

"We poached both of you, and you only poached one of us, why are you so arrogant?"

However, the following day, the Southampton club was quick to give the fans another weapon to fight back.

The official website and WeChat announced at the same time that the team introduced Serbian midfielder Nemanja Matic from Chelsea.

The transfer fee is still not announced.

This time the Southampton fans went wild.

"Two against two, even!"

"Do you know why the transfer fee is not announced? To save face for you, you know?"

"Wow, Kaka, the Sun reported that these two players are free transfers!"

"Southampton got a great deal, look at Sturridge, look at Matic, the strength is nothing to say!"

"Chelsea is being taken advantage of, don't explain!"

"I finally know now, the team's transfer operation is too powerful, is there any?"

"Three players, strengthen the three positions, which are the front, middle and back three lines, very pragmatic!"

"I've said it a long time ago, Master Huan will never let us down!"

"Long live Young Master Huan, continue to poach Chelsea's corner, we support you!"

Some Chelsea fans have also begun to question the transfer operation of the management, thinking that it is a scam to bring in Adam Lallana and Benatia at such a high price, but send away Sturridge and Matic for free.

"We have reason to wonder, is the management taking money from Southampton?"

Even when many Chelsea players were interviewed by the media, they expressed their incomprehension of the team's transfer operation.

This even includes leaders such as captain Terry and magic lamp Lampard.

But Chelsea's troubles have nothing to do with Southampton.

Southampton held a WeChat news conference for Gary Cahill, Sturridge and Matic the day after the Matic move was announced.

With the previous operation experience, this time it will be more skilled in operation.

Coupled with the close to [-] million users of WeChat itself, and the impact of Zlatan Ibrahimovic's press conference last year, this press conference also attracted the attention of over one million WeChat users.

Most of them are British local users.

And after this press conference, Yang Huan sent a WeChat message, just one sentence.

"Who would be interested in meeting at Heathrow tomorrow morning at 09:30?"

Although there was only one sentence, it was forwarded by countless fans and fans who followed Yang Huan.

Even the major newspapers in the UK have carried out a report based on this sentence.

Many people are guessing, who is the player Yang Huan is going to pick up?
Could it be the long-rumored Drogba?
But soon, this was left out.

The reason is simple, Drogba is already in London, why bother to pick him up at Heathrow Airport?
As a result, early the next morning, thousands of Saints fans from Southampton, London and surrounding areas gathered at Heathrow Airport, as well as reporters and interview teams from major media in the UK and Europe.

Even TV stations such as BBC, Sky, and Independent have specially arranged for filming crews to go to Heathrow Airport.

People who didn't know that posture thought it was a visit from a foreign leader.

Who would have thought that what caused all this was just a word from our young master Huan?
　Thanks to [Fengyan Jujing], [Milan Star], [Running Wheel King Xue] and [I'm so disappointed in you] for their monthly tickets!

　　
　
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