Mister Legend

Chapter 599
Before detailing Moody's new plans, let's take a look back at his previous career as a deep football manager gamer with an obsessive penchant for controlling and running clubs.

At the beginning of 2018, he invested 600 million Ruanmeizi to acquire 29% of the shares of Beijiang Volcano Mingquan Football Club, which had just been promoted to the Tianjia League at that time.A year and a half later, through negotiation with the competent authorities, they joined forces with the well-known local company Bingcheng Beer to complete the complete control of the club until the end of 2022.

In the past four years, with the help of the FM system and scouting tools, Li Moody has recruited many players who have not been able to find a place in the mainstream European leagues but are not bad for his hometown team. Excellent foreign aid, but also recruited many domestic potential new stars (compared to the overall quality of Chinese football).In the end, I realized the dream that I and many fans in Beijiang have insisted on for many years, that is, to let the hometown team rush up and gain a foothold in the Tianchao League.

At the end of 2020, Volcano Mingquan successfully entered the domestic top league stage by winning the runner-up of Tianjia, and successfully completed the relegation in the second year.And starting from 2022, the team's performance will continue to move towards the forefront of the standings at a rate of one step per year.

As of mid-May 2025, after the No.11 round of the league, Volcanic Spring has temporarily ranked No.4 in the Tianchao League this season with a record of 4 wins, 3 draws and 8 losses. Although there is still a long way to go for the championship, The prospect of getting a seat in the AFC Champions League is not optimistic, but compared to their almost blank team history, it is already an excellent result.

If it hadn’t been for the incident of some people illegally laundering/money through the football industry in China, I believe Li Moody would not have easily sold his shares to avoid suspicion.However, even though in reality he no longer has any connection with this club, and rejected the new chairman's proposal to let him be named as a technical director, Li Moody still pays attention to his hometown team from time to time, and through the remaining scouting team The staff help the team continue to occupy a huge advantage that ordinary people cannot understand on the road to discovering outstanding young players.

Before ending his attempts to manage domestic clubs, the Real Madrid coach had already found a second platform where he could try his skills. At the time of the handover in the spring and summer of 2020, Coventry, a veteran British team founded in 1883, Bought by the company co-founded by him and his friends, it became another nail for the Chinese people to drive into the body of the capitalist country.

It was only because Li Moody took over the coach of Arsenal very quickly that his dream of taking control of a European club did not come true until the 2023-24 season.However, it was the experience of less than ten months that made him fully understand that his favorite and most suitable job position is to be a head coach. After that, he never thought about buying a team again. Even though many friends and fellow wealthy businessmen in China once wanted to invite the world's number one football coach to cooperate with him, the answers they got were all polite refusal.

However, when British football once again closed the door to Chinese players, besides "returning to the old business", he couldn't think of any other good way for a while, so he naturally started to acquire a new player in a slightly vulgar way. Club's plan.

Fortunately, as mentioned before, the further widening gap between the rich and the poor in the European football circle has made it difficult for countless small clubs to make ends meet. As long as the funds are sufficient, except for a few clubs that cannot get it, most of them can still Sitting at the negotiating table.

Through the five or six years of the two clubs in North Xinjiang Volcanic Spring and Coventry, Li Mudi already has a management team with a relatively stable lineup and excellent capabilities. Most of them are compatriots from the Chinese Dynasty. It can be said that Still very reliable.Coupled with the various personal connections made during the coaching period in Italy, the United Kingdom and Spain, no less than ten ideal acquisition targets were quickly found.

Finally, after the screening and comparison of his big boss (in fact, a deeper understanding through cheating), the first target was set on a club called Ebro Sports.

Ebro Sports, referred to as Ebro, the Western name is Club Deportivo Ebro, abbreviated as CDEbro, because the front is very similar to the name of La Coruna, so it is mistranslated as La Coruna by many people in China Ebro.It has been introduced before that Deportivo means sports in Spanish, but Deportivo used it as an abbreviation, which led to this misunderstanding.

This football club, founded in 1942, has no connection with A Coruña in terms of historical origin or geographical location. The latter is based in Galicia, the most northwestern part of mainland Spain. It has been stationed in the Aragon autonomous region in the north-central part since the establishment of the team. It is located in Zaragoza, the capital of the region and the fifth largest city in the West.

As for why it is not named after the region in accordance with the practice in the football world, apart from the fact that another club in the same city was established ten years earlier than them and has already used the name of the city in advance, another important factor is Ebro. The name also has obvious regional characteristics.

The Ebro River is the river with the longest length, the largest flow rate and the widest basin area in Spain. Its rich water resources and numerous tributaries provide Spain with a strong network of irrigation canals and 17% of the country's electricity sources. In this country Its status is equivalent to that of the Yangtze River in China.

Before BC, this river was also the dividing line between the Roman Republic and Carthage, as well as the Spanish frontier of the Charlemagne Empire and the post-Umayyad dynasty, and it also occupied a considerable place in European history.So to be able to use the name of this river to name the club is quite awe-inspiring.

However, the name sounds very high, but it does not help the development of the club and the performance of the team. Since the establishment of the team in 1942, Ebro has never been promoted to La Liga for more than 80 years.In fact, they don’t even know what it’s like in the second league. They have been in the fourth and even fifth leagues all year round. They didn’t appear in the West until 2015, 73 years after the team was established. Among B and B, it was really bitter tears.

And what is even more tragic is that the club has also suffered repeated setbacks in terms of management.The resident is in the fifth largest city in the country, and there are no strong competitors in the surrounding area except Zaragoza, the deadly enemy in the same city. According to common sense, life should not be particularly miserable.

It's just that no matter who the chairman and manager change to, it seems that this club is possessed by the god of poverty, and they just can't find a way to live a prosperous life.

In the early 80s, Ebro experienced a huge economic crisis. In the end, it relied on the support of the local council to barely survive until 1988. In the end, it still failed to escape bankruptcy and liquidation.

After reorganization, the new Ebro set sail again more than a year later, but the club's hardware facilities were so poor at that time that the staff didn't even have an independent working office, so they had to move the players' dormitory Two rooms are divided as zero-hour office space.

The most disappointing thing is that until the current year of 2025, the FM system’s evaluation of the club’s office facilities is still only 2, and there has been almost no improvement for more than 30 years. The volcanic springs of the Tianyi League have a score of 3 in this aspect, so you can imagine how bad the working environment for the Ebro staff is.

Judging from the evaluation report given by professionals, the current total assets of this club are negative 178 million, most of which are in arrears of bank loans, which are about 340 million. It seems that it will not be a big problem to stick to the current state for another three or four years.

However, since the 2020-21 season was relegated from the B3 group of the second division to the third league, the team's efforts to seek promotion for four consecutive years have ended in failure. The 71-year-old Mr. Jesus Navarro is no longer willing to play. Amid the scolding of the fans, he continued to serve as the chairman of the club.On the 1994th anniversary of taking charge of Ebro in [-], he announced that he would sell all his shares and support the development of the team as an ordinary fan.

It's just that even though he has marked a very low price for these shares, no one is willing to take over this seemingly hopeless small club. As a result, Navarro's retirement plan has been postponed until this summer. Being able to achieve it made Li Mudi and his team see the possibility of becoming a successor.

After a short but extremely efficient screening, Ebro's advantages are naturally quite obvious by being able to stand out from hundreds of easy-to-accept candidates.

First of all, the fan base is very good. Zaragoza has a population of close to 70 urban residents, at least a quarter of which are fans. Even though it is not as big as Madrid and Barcelona, ​​it is still relatively small for Europe, where the population is generally small. It is already an excellent condition for the country.

Moreover, the strength of competitors in the same city is not very strong. The team with the same name in the city has not shown up in the top league for more than ten years. All clubs are good news.

In addition, the geographical location of the Aragon Autonomous Region is also very good, just in the middle of Madrid and the Catalonia Autonomous Region, not far from Basque Country, another region with strong football strength, and the Huesca region in the north is France, coupled with the fact that the natural environment and climatic conditions are easy to adapt to people from different regions, is still very suitable as a springboard for players.

On the whole, as long as you find the right way to open it, Ebro's development prospects are still worth looking forward to.

Coventry is the best example. As long as the strength of the team can be changed immediately, the results will also improve year by year, fulfilling the fans' wish to return to West Division B, and then continue to upgrade to West Division B, or even Naturally, La Liga can win a large number of fans and economic resources.In the case that there are no decent competitors in the entire Aragon Autonomous Region and even the surrounding regions, there is still a good chance to grow into the largest football club in this region in the future.

It is precisely because of the many convenient conditions that Li Moody and his team completed the preliminary assessment so quickly, and basically completed the acquisition work before the arrival of June.

However, after the acquisition of Ebro this time, Li Mudi will not participate too much in the management of the club. Instead, he will directly hand over all affairs to the club that was formed during the volcanic spring period, and will gradually absorb various clubs in the future. A team in which strongmen are perfected.As for the position of club chairman, Mr. Carroll, the original club director, was also hired. The reason is not only to appease the emotions of the fans, but also to stabilize the morale of the club.

Because the team will undergo some earth-shaking adjustments before the arrival of the new season, the players, coaching staff, scouting team and even the medical team will become unrecognizable. The violent protests of the fans are enough to cause headaches for the new managers.

The reason why Li Mudi chose to acquire the Ebro Club is to provide a platform for Tianchao players to go abroad for training, but there is an obvious paradox in the process, that is, the West C League does not allow non-European foreign aid Participated in the competition.According to the regulations of the Spanish Football Association, even the La Liga B also has the same terms and restrictions.

Only after the team has been promoted to La Liga and La Liga can obtain two and three registration qualifications for non-EU players respectively. In theory, the Spanish low-level league's restriction policy on non-European players is even worse than that of the United Kingdom. Being friendly is not an ideal choice. The old coach Xu Gengbao suffered a loss in this aspect back then, which caused him to waste a lot of energy in vain.

However, for Li Moody, who started his coaching career in the Iberian Peninsula, he still knows many ways to bypass the above restrictions.For example, as mentioned before, because Spain also regards players from nearly 100 member states of the Cotonou Agreement and the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking Countries as part of European players, many teams will use it to allow players to obtain a second nationality. The way to get the qualifications to play makes most of the players in the world, except for South American and Asian countries, not considered non-European foreign players here.

But this method is naturally not feasible for the Chinese dynasty that does not recognize dual nationality, so I can only choose another path.

The second rule that can make the Western Football Association make an exception is that if the player has the strength of the national football team and has participated in the A-level competition on behalf of the national team in the past five years, he can be qualified for the league. Chinese players Jin Rongkui, Jin Youhong and Tianchao goalkeeper Gao Leilei obtained the registration qualifications for the Western Second B League through this agreement.

However, this article is definitely not applicable to the young players of the Celestial Dynasty, so Li Mudi had no choice but to use his last trump card, which was to make a fuss about the affiliation of the youth training.

If a non-European player is considered to be part of the team's youth training, he can be eligible to participate in the West Division B League before he reaches the age of 21, but the number must be less than three, and for the West Division C Leagues at and below levels are invalid.

In other words, as long as they can be promoted to the third tier league as quickly as possible, in theory, the Ebro team can register up to three Chinese young players in the league. The reason for the big change of blood.

For this reason, he gave the team a death order to complete the upgrade task next year, and all subsequent operations of the team were also implemented to achieve this goal.

Let the name of Ebro Football Club appear in front of more people in the summer of 2025, and the movement is very big.

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