The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 323
Many people know that Peter Kenyon jumped from Manchester United to Chelsea. His biggest wish is to build a wealthy business empire. He wants everyone to know that the reason for his success at Manchester United is to Not because of Edwards behind him, but because he has enough strength.

But many times, the wish is always beautiful, but the reality is extremely cruel.

In the first full year after he took over Chelsea, he received a bill that was enough to make him bald, because his Chelsea budget deficit was as high as 9000 million pounds, and no team in the world would Like Chelsea, they are heavily in debt and at the same time ambitious and want to continue to invest heavily.

As the CEO of Chelsea, Peter Kenyon actually does not approve of continuing to spend a lot of money. On the contrary, he expressed that Chelsea does not need to spend a lot of money in the next few years as Ye Qiu proposed in many club high-level internal meetings. However, it is very supportive of the suggestion that we only need to adjust the details and start to focus on strengthening the construction of youth training and promoting youth team players.

But as the boss behind Chelsea, Abramovich is obviously not going to do this.

Now the outside world is full of rumors, before the Gazzetta dello Sport first revealed an inside story, Abramovich intends to poach the Brazilian superstar Adriano from Inter Milan at a shocking price, and use the Brazilian to replace Drogba.

Everyone knows the strength of Adriano and the status of this Brazilian in Inter Milan. He is the current king of the Nerazzurri. If you want to poach him, it is impossible to impress him without a huge transfer fee and a high salary. Brazilian.

But this rumor is definitely not unfounded, because Abramovich has been very close to Juan Figel recently, and everyone knows Juan Figel's status and influence in the minds of Brazilian players.

Another rumor is hard to believe. The all-pervasive Sun newspaper first disclosed a shocking news, that is, Abramovich has reached a tripartite agreement with AC Milan and Andriy Shevchenko. After the end of this season, Chelsea will, The world's first-day price of 8000 million euros was used to purchase new material European Golden Globe winner Shevchenko.

Moreover, in order to prevent both parties from breaching the contract, the breach of contract penalty for this agreement will be as high as 2000 million euros. Once Shevchenko cannot complete the transfer in the summer, both Chelsea and AC Milan have the right to recover this penalty from the party that breached the contract. As the agent who organized the transfer, Pini Zahavi will get 10% of the agency fee.

The rumors about Shevchenko's transfer to Chelsea have been circulating in the past two years. There was even news that Shevchenko had personally promised to join Chelsea, but in the end he died because of Ye Qiu's refusal.

People outside don't know, but Peter Kenyon, as the person who handles it personally, knows very well that if Ye Qiu didn't renew his contract to reject Shevchenko after the team won the Champions League, the Ukrainian nuclear warhead would have already belonged to Chelsea , and because of this, Abramovich became alienated from Ye Qiu, and even stopped trusting Peter Kenyon so much, and began to rely heavily on that damn Israeli Pini Zahavi for everything.

And now the news from The Sun has undoubtedly made those who know the inside story feel a little more uneasy.

"We all know that Abramovich himself made a clarification a few days ago, saying that the matter of buying Shevchenko can be forgotten. He is very satisfied with Chelsea's current lineup, and it is impossible for him to poach Shevchenko. , and therefore offended AC Milan, and he once again reaffirmed his friendship with Galliani and Berlusconi."

"When Abramovich made such a clarification, we all believed that the door for Shevchenko to go to Stamford Bridge was closed, but in fact, behind this clarification, there was a mystery hidden, that is, if Chelsea won't force it?"

"When Abramovich, AC Milan and Andriy Shevchenko reached an agreement, the transfer was a natural thing. The three parties got what they needed, and AC Milan could also get a shocking transfer fee. It does not contradict Abramovich's previous clarification at all."

The Sun newspaper analyzed the direction of the whole matter, which is also to further win the trust of readers.

However, Peter Kenyon would not believe it if it was just a rumor from the Sun, but soon, he received a message from Adidas that the negotiations on jersey sponsorship were suspended, and they wanted to add another terms.

For a long time, Peter Kenyon has been very clear that Umbro is no longer able to meet Chelsea's requirements. This England native jersey sponsor obviously cannot satisfy the appetite of Peter Kenyon and Chelsea. Only Nike and Adidas , Puma and Reebok and other international brands can meet Peter Kenyon's positioning of Chelsea.

And after deciding to get rid of Umbro, Peter Kenyon began to contact Adidas, because Nike sponsored Manchester United and Arsenal, the two major Premier League giants. It has always been excluded from the Premier League, and this German jersey sponsor has always wanted to enter the Premier League market.

The rise of Chelsea has undoubtedly provided Adidas with a very good opportunity, and Chelsea's amazing performance last season has won Chelsea an excellent image. It can almost be said that Adidas pursued Chelsea in turn.

But now, Adidas has asked to add a clause, which is to guarantee Ye Qiu's retention!
The result of Peter Kenyon's negotiations with Umbro was that they broke up in the summer of 06, but Chelsea compensated Umbro with liquidated damages of 2500 million pounds, which would be deducted from the sponsorship fee by Adidas.

But now Adidas has asked to add Ye Qiu's retention clause. If Chelsea's head coach is no longer Ye Qiu at the beginning of the cooperation between the two parties in the summer of 2006, the annual sponsorship fee of 1500 million pounds will automatically drop to 1000 million pounds.

This is the first time that Peter Kenyon has felt the commercial value of Ye Qiu so clearly. In the past few years, under the shrewd operation of Eliza Moon, Ye Qiu has become a brand in the world football , and when he was at Ajax, Ye Qiu had a very good cooperation experience with Adidas, and Adidas also made a lot of money from Ye Qiu.

Now, after Ye Qiu came to Chelsea, his grades and net worth have also risen accordingly. In terms of influence alone, he is definitely the most influential head coach in today's football, and he doesn't even need one of them. For Adidas In other words, Ye Qiu's value is equivalent to half of Chelsea's.

So, with Ye Qiu, it was 1500 million pounds, but without Ye Qiu, it was only 1000 million pounds!
Of course, adidas is not only interested in Ye Qiu alone, they are also a sponsor of AC Milan, and they have obviously obtained some inside information of their own, but in the end they should draw a relatively pessimistic result, that is, Ye Qiu is very happy. Maybe he will leave the team, and once Ye Qiu leaves the team, will the Chelsea that he built with his own hands be disintegrated?

You know, before Ye Qiu came, Chelsea was just an ordinary team in the Premier League. Umbro’s annual sponsorship fee was 200 million pounds. There may be a rapid decline at any time, such as Leeds United back then, or some short-lived teams. Adidas is naturally unwilling to pay a huge sponsorship contract for this, because it is a trade and transaction that is not worth the candle.

Peter Kenyon was sitting in the office, looking out of the window of Stamford Bridge with a sad face. Stamford Bridge and Cobham seemed to be two worlds, and all football clubs have always heard about the conflicts between these two worlds. Even if it is as strong as Manchester United, it is hovering between business and competition. Ferguson has bombarded the team's business operations more than once.

Now, all of this naturally happened to Chelsea.

He has reported the situation to Abramovich and is now waiting for the Russians to make their own decisions.

If you agree to Adidas' conditions, it means that Ye Qiu will stay in the job, and Abramovich wants to go against Ye Qiu's wishes, and the idea of ​​​​introducing superstars will be declared dead, because Ye Qiu's contract has a clause that can be unilateral at any time. The clause of terminating the contract without paying liquidated damages was what Abramovich himself promised back then.

In other words, he can get a signal from Abramovich.

Just when Peter Kenyon was in distress, the phone on the desk rang, and he turned around to answer it. As soon as he saw the caller ID, it was Abramovich, and he immediately connected.

"Suspend the negotiations with Adidas, Peter!" Abramovich explained on the phone.

Peter Kenyon frowned, "Do you really want to pause?"

Adidas was the line that he managed to pull. If Chelsea called a timeout unilaterally now, then with Adidas' dominance and wealth, it would be impossible for them to contact Chelsea on their own initiative, unless Chelsea was willing to make concessions.

To be honest, although Chelsea have had a lot of glory in the past two years, in the eyes of giants like Adidas, they are still nouveau riche.

"Yes, pause first, because we have no way to meet the terms of the other party!" Abramovich said lightly on the phone.

This remark made Peter Kenyon's heart tremble, and he knew exactly what it meant.

He had no doubt that Abramovich valued and valued Ye Qiu. If he didn't value Ye Qiu, with Abramovich's personality, it would be impossible for him to take the initiative to make concessions after the end of last season. But now However, Abramovich's words clearly sent a signal that Ye Qiu's future at Chelsea was not clear.

"Don't disclose these to the outside world, including Ye Qiu, just let it be!" Abramovich hung up the phone after explaining a few words, apparently not planning to tell Peter Kenyondo.

The bald man put down the phone in his hand a little weakly. He had a premonition that the Sun's report was likely to be true. Only in this way could it be explained that Abramovich would make such a decision, because Ye Qiu and Chelsea There is also a contract that ends in 2007.

Thinking of this, Peter Kenyon couldn't help feeling a pang of sadness in his heart, because he could clearly feel that Ye Qiu's situation could fall on him anytime and anywhere.

It's just that all of this has to be kept from Ye Qiu for the time being!

Ye Qiu didn't know what went wrong in the team's negotiations with Adidas, because there was a confidentiality agreement, so he didn't know that the best of the month curse fell on such a thing, so that Clubs lose tens of millions of pounds every year.

However, Chelsea are invincible on the court and are getting better and better.

In the 25th round of the Premier League, Chelsea challenged Blackburn in an away game. Mark Hughes’ team still couldn’t stop Chelsea. The Blues beat Blackburn 4-0 away and successfully won the Premier League’s 16-game winning streak, breaking the 40-year-old record of Real Madrid. The winning streak of the four major leagues.

On the other hand, Arsenal were slaughtered by Manchester United 2:4 at home. Although Vieira's goal took the lead at the beginning, Giggs and Bergkamp soon scored goals. In the second half, Portuguese teenager Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice to help Manchester United reverse Arsenal 3:2, while O'Shea's goal at the last moment locked the score at 4:2.

This game completely exposed Arsenal's weakness. Henry publicly stated in an interview with the media after the game that Arsenal's defeat was due to the loss of Edu and Gilberto Silva.

"Many people are surprised that Chelsea have played so well so far, but in fact, Chelsea has 25 outstanding first-team players, and their midfield has Makelele, Davies, Deco, Parker, Excellent players like Lampard and Essien can form an effective rotation mechanism, and once we lose Edu and Gilberto Silva, we will completely lose the midfield."

Vieira can no longer be regarded as a midfield defensive player. He looks more like a commander. He has quit all the dirty work, but his temper has grown. At least he almost had a big fight with Keane, but Unable to lead the team to beat Manchester United.

After this game, Chelsea's lead directly expanded to 17 points, which is enough for everyone to declare Chelsea to win the championship early, because so far no team has led by 17 points after the winter break and has been reversed. precedent.

Some people even think that with the current strength of Chelsea and the poor performance of Arsenal and Manchester United, Chelsea may break Manchester United's record of winning the championship by 20 points ahead of the runner-up. A lot of records, become the so-called record-breaking experts.

Ye Qiu was satisfied with the team's 17-point lead, saying that he was not surprised at all, but he also warned the players not to have the slightest carelessness, especially after the team created an astonishing miracle of 16 consecutive victories, it should be appropriate Splash cold water on the team and keep everyone calm.

Three days later, the team ushered in Keegan's Manchester City team at home, and the result was a 0-0 score. After Ye Qiu's rotation, his lineup performance was average. Although the tie was saved, Arsenal won Aston Villa away. , So the gap between the two sides narrowed to 15 points.

On February 2, Chelsea challenged Everton away.

Moyes' team is the biggest dark horse in the Premier League this season. Moyes also said before the game that Chelsea just ended their winning streak. Although they remain unbeaten so far, this will put huge psychological pressure on Chelsea.

"This team has been in a period of rapid growth in the past six months, and they have adjusted their tactics to make their offensive power stronger. In addition, Ye Qiu has introduced suitable players and improved the team's bench. Thickness, they are now the strongest team in the Premier League."

"However, no matter how strong the team is, there will always be loopholes. When Chelsea played Manchester City, they looked very out of shape. I think this is because of the psychological pressure they have accumulated after a long winning streak. After breaking multiple records, I suddenly lost the direction and motivation of my efforts.”

"I am very confident that I can beat Chelsea in this game and end their unbeaten record!"

Moyes' confidence also comes from Chelsea's injuries. Ronaldinho was injured in the game against Manchester City. Joe Cole, Drogba, Cannavaro and Terry were also injured. And Evra strained his leg before, and the injury is still unhealed, so he will also miss this game.

Obviously, Chelsea is not playing with the main lineup, but Everton is going to do their best and give it a go.

What Moyes said is actually very reasonable. The pressure on Chelsea is indeed very high, and the players have experienced so many games, and the state is indeed not very good. At least Captain Terry made several mistakes in the defense of this game. , and Lampard was completely out of form, causing Chelsea's offensive and defensive problems.

But one of the most important reasons why Chelsea can maintain the current momentum is that the team trained by Ye Qiu can be invincible when the state is good, but when the state is not good, they still have a way to beat the opponent.

Gallas made a great contribution at the critical moment. This substitute central defender replaced Cannavaro's starting partner Terry. As a result, in the 78th minute of the second half, when Chelsea took a corner kick, he flew the header to the back point and replaced Van Persie. Gudjohnsen made an easy push in front of the goal and scored the only goal of the game.

1:0, relying on this goal of Gudjohnsen coming off the bench, Chelsea defeated Everton in an away game, successfully scored 3 points, and continued to maintain the points gap with Arsenal and Manchester United.

However, Arsenal's state this round is very good. They beat Crystal Palace 5:1. Gilberto Silva's comeback really gave the Gunners a new look. Wat has become an indispensable member of Arsenal's midfielder, even if he is only a defensive midfielder.

Chelsea's poor state lasted for a week. On February 2th, the FA Cup round of 20 knockout round challenged Newcastle away. Chelsea still performed sluggishly and the audience was passive. However, thanks to Parker's goal, they finally defeated Thorne 16-1. magpie.

The role of the thickness of the bench is brought into full play when the team is in poor condition, which also makes everyone amazed at Chelsea's overall strength.

After finishing the FA Cup, midweek ushered in the first round of the UEFA Champions League round of 16 knockout rounds.

The opponent is La Liga giants, Barcelona!

(End of this chapter)