Super Marshal

After the fifteenth round of the league, the Premier League will usher in a compact schedule before Christmas.

All teams will play three league games in eight days, and the intensity of the competition will even exceed the two games in four days after Christmas.

However, the Christmas Devil schedule is well-known, and players generally tend to relax after the holiday, so these two league games after Christmas are so troublesome.

Between the 15th and 16th rounds, when the top four of the Premier League were busy competing in the final round of the Champions League group stage, Manchester City held an early Christmas dinner in Manchester. Mansour, the big boss who stayed in Manchester, attended in person. A team of celebrity chefs were invited from London to cook in Manchester, and all players and family members, as well as club staff, were invited to participate.

This massive Christmas dinner not only prepared a wealth of activities, but also prepared valuable gifts.

Everyone knows that Mansour's move must be extraordinary.

But all the media reporters who came after hearing the news paid more attention to the inside story of this Christmas dinner.

For example, the chef invited by Manchester City is a Chinese from a famous Chinese restaurant in London, and the major shareholder of this Chinese restaurant is Gao Han. When the restaurant first opened, Gao Han paid for Chelsea to have a Christmas party. This also caused controversy and triggered conflicts with management.

Later, this restaurant became a favorite place for stars of many London teams such as Chelsea, and also a favorite dining spot for London's upper class. The business was very prosperous, and branches were opened in major cities in Europe.

This time, Manchester City invited the Chinese chef of this restaurant to go north to Manchester to cook. It is somewhat arousing, not only because of the high cold, but also because the Madrid branch of this restaurant is also the most frequent gathering place for Atletico Madrid players.

Regardless of whether Gao Han and Manchester City are willing to admit it, Gao Han's direct line has become the undisputed largest faction of the Manchester City team. Xabi Alonso even replaced David Dunn as the team's captain when he first arrived.

But for a newly reorganized international team like Manchester City, this is not a bad thing.

The team leads the standings with a undefeated record. After Kaká returned, Manchester City beat Chelsea 5-0. All the advantages made Manchester City's Christmas dinner very lively.

At the party, club chairman Mubarak also solemnly announced to everyone that the club had reached an agreement with the Manchester City Government to build a comprehensive training base diagonally opposite the home stadium, and it would be at the world's top level. To plan, this will greatly improve Manchester City's existing training and youth training environment.

The entire training base has a budget of 200 million pounds and will be the most expensive training base in the world.

Since the training base is launched, in addition to a number of professional football employees, it will also bring about 300 jobs to Manchester. Therefore, the Manchester City Government attaches great importance to it and will start land acquisition and demolition in the near future.

Upon hearing the news, everyone in Manchester City was greatly excited, and the media reporters at the scene were even more surprised.

At the very least, they all have to admit that Mansour is the most wealthy conglomerate they have ever seen, and his investment in football is obviously much more generous than Abramovich and others.

Gao Han was not surprised at all by this matter, because he is the chief technical officer of the club. The management had already started operations on this matter when he decided to coach Manchester City, but it was not until the time of announcement.

Now that an agreement has been reached with Manchester City Council, it is time to make it public.

But what has not been announced is that Gao Han has been deeply involved in the entire Manchester City training base. In the near future, Mubarak will organize the Manchester City team to conduct research at the Chinatown training center in Madrid, hoping to learn advanced experience from Chinatown.

Chinatown's youth training has become famous in European football in recent years, and it has its own coach training center. In addition to setting aside a certain number of places for coaches from China in each period, the rest are from Spain and Europe. Even coaches from all over the world come here.

Manchester City also hopes to cooperate with Chinatown in coach training and learn from Chinatown’s advanced training and youth training experience. They will also be the first club to cooperate with Chinatown in coach training.

This cooperation can greatly enhance Chinatown's status and influence in European football, and it can also receive generous training returns, but the benefits to Manchester City are also considerable.

You must know that all the teaching materials for Chinatown's coach training courses are personally written by Gao Han and his team. Many of them are derived from the coaching system. Whether it is for the daily training of the team or the training of young players, the effect is far greater than similar.

This is also the reason why Gao Han originally chose Cantarero as the technical director of Chinatown.

As for how much Manchester City can learn, that is beyond Gao Han's control.

With the beginning of various activities, especially the carnival, the atmosphere at the scene became more and more intense.

Mansour seemed a little unable to blend in, but he didn't want to ruin the atmosphere. Seeing Gao Han sitting alone in the corner, looking at the reveling players with a smile, he immediately walked over.

"Mr. Gao Han, where are your wife and children?" Mansour asked with concern.

"Back home." Gao Han replied.

Lin Xia had already taken the first step in starting a business, so he returned to China to deal with some matters and discuss cooperation matters.

Her entrepreneurial direction is still in the news field. She plans to make a news application on the Apple mobile phone platform. Currently, she has nothing, but she already has two well-known domestic columnists. One is Lin Xia herself. Her blog has always been Both are very popular, and the other, needless to say, is Gaohan.

Since Gao Han opened a column in the Guardian, he occasionally wrote it on a whim, but it was very popular with readers. Many other newspapers wanted to cooperate. As the saying goes, the good news should not go to outsiders. Of course, Gao Han wanted to leave the benefits to Lin Xia. , and by the way, support her in starting a business.

"Seriously, Mr. Gao Han, I am very grateful for the changes you have brought to our Manchester City." Mansour took two glasses of red wine from the waiter's tray next to him and handed one to Gao Han.

The two glasses of wine clinked together and they both drank it down.

"I won't say anything else. If you need anything, as long as I can help, I will help unconditionally."

Mansour looked very sincere when he said this.

Just last Christmas, the team's performance was not ideal, and the entire Christmas dinner was boring. Mansour didn't even bother to come, but this year it was completely different.

Look at the stars present, look at the media reporters who came to the scene, and look at the atmosphere...

Gao Han also understood what Mansour meant. He knew Mansour's energy in Europe, but there were some things he was not used to asking for help from.

As the saying goes, the most difficult thing in the world to return is a favor.

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While Manchester City held a huge Christmas party in Manchester, in London in the south, Abramovich also received a reply from Spanish Jorge Mendes.

The Russians were furious and furious on the spot.

"Crazy! He must be crazy about money!"

Abramovich was so angry that she jumped up from the sofa in the living room at home. Fortunately, she didn't have anything on hand and didn't have to throw it. Otherwise, she might still have suffered.

Granovskya was mentally prepared for this and stood aside without daring to say a word.

She has always known that her boss would be furious if there was even the slightest bit of news related to Gao Han that was unfavorable to Abramovich. Gao Han was like his reverse scale, which would hurt when exposed.

Just now, Jorge Mendes called her and told her Chinatown's reply that Falcao and Ramirez were not for sale. No team would want to transfer these two players from Chinatown. take away.

"I personally called Gao Han and talked about this matter, and he refused without hesitation. It was related to the team's relegation. It was impossible for him to let go of these two players during the winter break, so Gao Han said that he could buy it if he wanted to. , pay liquidated damages.”

Mendez's words were conveyed to Abramovich in a scripted manner by Granovskya.

"Liquidated damages?" The Russian sneered, "Falcao's liquidated damages are as high as 60 million euros, and Ramirez's liquidated damages are as high as 30 million euros. Why am I so stupid that I would spend 90 million euros?" Go buy these two guys, who do you think they are? Top European superstars?"

"I don't think it's realistic either." Granovskia then interjected, "Gao Han's reply clearly means that he wants us to retreat despite difficulties. This method is commonly used by many teams, but precisely because of this, it is exposed He doesn't want to sell out two players."

In the past round, Chinatown lost to Valencia at home, but Falcao scored again.

In terms of scoring efficiency, the Colombian forward has been comparable to any star in Europe since joining Spain. Even in the more competitive La Liga this season, his scoring efficiency has not dropped at all.

According to the assessment of Chelsea's technical team, a large part of the reason why Falcao scores so many goals is that Chinatown's entire offense revolves around Falcao. The Colombian center's scoring ability is indeed outstanding, which creates He has scored a torrent of goals this season.

But the more goals Falcao scores, the more his impact on Chinatown becomes clear.

What's more, he is only twenty-three years old, far from reaching his golden age, and there is still considerable potential that can be tapped.

But 60 million euros is indeed ridiculously expensive. Anyone who is even slightly familiar with European football knows that this is just a trick used by Chinatown to scare away potential poachers.

If the poaching procedures commonly used in European football are followed and Chelsea is determined to poach people, it will have to offer a higher price on the one hand, and on the other hand, do everything possible to convince players and agents to cooperate internally and externally, forcing Chinatown to accept reality.

But today's reality is that neither players nor agents can cooperate with Chelsea.

Abramovich is also very contradictory now. On the one hand, he is really like poaching Falcao and Ramirez. He can not only strengthen Chelsea's strength, but also retaliate against Gao Han. It can be said that he kills two birds with one stone, but on the other hand, Chinatown He has a tough attitude and is reluctant to spend the money, so...

"What's the news in the transfer market?" Abramovich asked with concern.

"According to Marca, Real Madrid is indeed interested in poaching Falcao, and they do not lack transfer funds. Mourinho also seems to be very optimistic about the center's scoring ability and hopes to use Falcao to improve Real Madrid's performance. His goal-scoring ability will improve his coaching environment at the Bernabeu."

Granovskya’s words made Abramovich frown tightly.

"In addition, Manchester United and Liverpool seem to be very interested in Falcao, especially Liverpool. Benitez also mentioned Falcao in an interview with the media yesterday. I guess he is really interesting, but the price may be..."

When Abramovich heard this, he understood somewhat.

Falcao is indeed a treasure. Many wealthy teams want to poach him, but Chinatown refuses to sell him. If he wants to buy him, he can only pay liquidated damages.

But is anyone willing to pay such a high liquidated damages?

At least Abramovich was reluctant to part with it.