Chapter 468 Abu
After the start of the second half, Leiden East continued to grasp the dominant advantage on the field. The cooperation between the three Ronaldos in the front court gradually began to become tacit. The large-scale transfer between the three people made Arsenal's defensive players very uncomfortable. However, it was not someone among them who expanded the lead for Leiden East, but Gerald, who performed extremely well in this game. Six minutes after the start of the second half, Gerald scored a beautiful long shot from 25 meters away.
After scoring a goal and leading two goals, Xiao Ming began to frequently substitutions to maintain his physical fitness on the field. Zimbonda replaced Sun Jihai, Daniel returned to the left-back position, Richardson and Bentley replaced Ronaldo, Pirlo and Darren. Bent replaced Ronaldo in the 65th minute, and Wenger also replaced Villott, Pire and Aliadire on the field. However, Fabregas, who attracted Xiao Ming's attention, did not play, but sat on the bench for 90 minutes.
After a large number of substitutions, Leiden Oriental did not continue to score goals, but their defense was quite good. The impact of several young players in the frontcourt also made Arsenal unable to launch a smooth attack. In the end, Leiden Oriental defeated Arsenal 2-0 and won the third Community Shield Championship.
Leiden Oriental is very happy to win the first championship of this season. After all, this championship is also a real champion. Although Leiden Oriental will win at least one championship every season after entering the Premier League, no one will think there are too many championships.
Before each season begins, Premier League boss meetings will be held as scheduled, and often this meeting will be the most valued of the four meetings a year. Every season, people on this table will have three old faces and three new faces - although most of these new faces have been seen before...
But this time it's a little different. Among the three newly promoted teams this time, except for Leicester City, other Portsmouth boss Mandarick and Wolves boss Sir Maywald were all attending the boss meeting for the first time.
As for the bosses of most small clubs, Mandaric seemed quite low-key, and the other bosses didn't care much about him, but they were still polite to everyone of Maywald - not because his team was excellent - in fact, after the promotion, Wolves, which did not buy any outstanding players, can be said to be the weakest team in the Premier League this season - but because Maywald has a real Jazz title. It has to be said that in England, no matter who it is, he always deserves respect for others after having a Jazz title, although the Jazz in the British Empire now seems less valuable...
You should know that among the twenty teams in the Premier League, one of them is counted as one, which is just the Jazz Maywald.
In addition to this difference, the other person who is most embarrassing is probably Chelsea's director Kenion. Abu came in person for this boss roundtable meeting, and also brought Kenion, a person in the football circle. To be honest, Abu was really imposing when traveling. Before entering the conference hall, four bodyguards wearing black suits and sunglasses, big waists, stood outside the conference room door, blocking all the reporters outside the door.
Abu's momentum also made other Premier League presidents a little dissatisfied, but then again, there is almost no one who can compare wealth with Abu. Perhaps Xiao Ming is an exception, because no one knows exactly how much his property is, only knows that he has never lacked money. However, Xiao Ming himself knows that although his property is not small in the circle of Premier League bosses, and no one is even richer than him, there is still a certain gap with tycoons like Abu. At least in terms of industry, he is far from comparing with the other party.
Abu looked extremely generous after entering the conference room. Although Chelsea's chairman is still Bates, everyone knows that Bates is just an honorary chairman now. The Russian is the one who is in power. After Bates sold Chelsea, he rarely appears in public.
After greeting Manchester United boss Edwards, Arsenal vice chairman David Dane, Wolves boss Sir Maywald and Ellis, the oldest Aston Villa boss, walked over to Xiao Ming enthusiastically: "Hey, Xiao, I heard about your name before coming to London. The reason why I chose the London team has a certain relationship with you... To be honest, I really envy those outstanding players in your team. What about me? A good negotiation of 70 to 80 million pounds."
"Sorry, Mr. Abu." After hugging Abu, Xiao Ming let go of his hand and said with a smile: "Everyone knows that I am a famous person who is notorious... By the way, I have always been interested in Duff. If I hadn't known that Chelsea wanted to buy him, I would have been planning to get it."
Edwards and Kenyon's faces became a little embarrassed. Originally, Duff was a player Ferguson liked, and Kenyon also knew about this, but after Abram poached Chelsea, Kenyon's first player transfer suggestion was to buy Duff from Blackburn - and now Duff has become a Chelsea player.
David Dane smiled a little embarrassedly, looking at Abu and Xiao Ming saying that 70 to 80 million pounds are about the same as 70,000 pounds, so how could he feel like the vice chairman who is willing to provide Wenger with only 10 million pounds transfer fees within three years...
Abu laughed and didn't continue to say anything. Of course, he knew that it was difficult to poach people from Xiao Ming. He made a big move this year, but it also made other teams shouted that Chelsea wanted to buy people. The price was more than twice the market price and killed him. Even if Abu was rich and powerful, he was not as good as money. If he said he would buy players like Ronaldo Figo, Xiao Ming would ask for 100 million pounds, he would really have to consider it.
Although Abu has been buying people in recent years, he seems to be throwing money into the water, but in fact, Abu is a bit of spending money to ensure safety. Now the Russian government is very dissatisfied with them, financial and oil oligarchs. Abu came to London to prevent himself from being harmonious with the Russian government. In addition to making such a big news in London, he not only boosted Chelsea's fame, but also greatly increased his fame and increased. Even if the Russian government wants to touch him, he must think twice.
In fact, before Abu took over, although the bosses of Premier League teams were relatively rich, they were definitely not at the level of super rich. At least in various wealth rankings, they could only be regarded as little shrimps. However, while they made money through football and the Premier League, they also added countless fame to themselves. This is what Abu is interested in.
Abram's investment in Chelsea has decreased a few years later, and it has begun to become more rational and allows the team to break even. It is really just because of the shrinking property of divorce? In addition to this, he has gained enough influence through Chelsea. There is no need to spend money so crazy. Abram's money is also earned hard, so how can he be thrown out casually? A rich man of his level doesn't care about spending money, but he cares about the way he spends money.
In addition to the shock brought by Abu, the specific content of this roundtable is not good. The new Premier League broadcast contract is in the second season. Moreover, with the determination of the broadcast contract and several major families reaching a consensus on this broadcast distribution method, the boss meeting "I definitely have to oppose what you proposed" is almost impossible to see. This makes some bosses who have no say and don't care about this meeting feel that the meeting is becoming more and more boring. Think more than a season ago, because Bates proposed to make Carlin Beer the title of the league, Bates is naturally from Sky TV, and then David Dane and the others are seven independent.
The boss of LiTV station sent opposes the naming with all kinds of inexplicable reasons. An ordinary thing made everyone sneer for more than two hours, so Shepard, a farmer from Newcastle, jumped up and cursed both sides, using vulgar words such as "fuck", "slaughterhouse", "I won't play with you anymore", and then left. Then the other twelve bosses followed silently, leaving only seven bosses of Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Leiden Oriental, Leeds and Tottenham. Although Xiao Ming was one of them, he almost twitched when he was laughing next to him.
After basically reaching the proposal that the broadcast fee distribution model and those with higher prices should continue, the roundtable meeting of the Premier League boss became much quieter, but it was much boring.
Before an hour had arrived, Abu felt quite bored. Because he was not very familiar with others, he handed over some of the conversations to Kenyon. Seeing his unsatisfied look, he probably wouldn't appear at the meeting again unless there was something big in the future.
In fact, Xiao Ming was not willing to waste three hours here every three months. However, when he participated in the boss roundtable for the first time, he could not be as arrogant as Abu now. In order not to arouse public outrage, he came, which was related to the fact that no one under his command could represent him in terms of qualifications. The power of Leiden Oriental Club is very scattered, but to some extent it is very concentrated, because only Xiao Ming can make the final decision, but most of the affairs are scattered to Schindler, Hilton, Coft, Ella, Gale and others.
So under his boss, there is no supervisor like Kennyon. To put it in a more vivid metaphor, the composition of other Premier League clubs is the prime minister system, and under the boss is the CEO or supervisor with the greatest power. The composition of Leiden East is more like the later three-provincial and six-ministerial system or the cabinet grand sect system. There are more people with equal power, but no one is higher than others. Although Xiao Ming is relaxed, he is controlling everything remotely. Several important people under him restrain each other and cannot carry out his work without anyone else.
The bored Abu simply moved the chair next to Xiao Ming. Compared with the typical English gentlemen full of decay, he seemed to be more interested in Xiao Ming, a Chinese who was younger than him.
Seeing Abu moving the chair over, Xiao Ming smiled slightly, took an empty cup, poured him a glass of red wine.
Looking at the bottle of ordinary red wine, Abu curled his lips, obviously not looking down on him.
"The prices of red wine vary greatly, but in fact there is not much difference between taste and nutrition." Xiao Ming picked up the cup and smiled slightly: "Before I was twenty-five years old, I was an ordinary Chinese restaurant owner, so for me, there is no difference between red wine worth 10,000 pounds per bottle and red wine worth 5 pounds per bottle, it just depends on how I feel when I drink."
"I like this sentence." Abu reached out and picked up the cup: "I was just a poor soldier before I was twenty-five..."
After touching the cup with Abu, Xiao Ming took a sip, Abu also took out a box of exquisitely shaped cigars from his pocket and handed them to Xiao Ming.
"This thing is different. The more expensive it is, the better." Xiao Ming laughed haha.
"I found that we have the same attitude towards life... But there is one thing I'm very curious about. I heard that you don't have a private car until now, and you just take a taxi when you go out?" Abu was obviously very talkative and had a full sense of curiosity.
"This is true, because I think you either don't want it. If you want to have it, you have to have the best one." Xiao Ming exhaled a cigarette: "But half a year later, I will have a car... It's hard to get my customized car, so before that, I would rather not drive."
"Bugatti Veyron? The super luxurious one?" Aburo asked a little surprised.
Xiao Ming showed a smile and nodded.
The Bugatti Veyron is the most expensive sports car in the world, and Xiao Ming’s custom-made one is the best, priced at more than 10 million pounds - this sports car is available in limited quantities and has to be reserved. It is not just for money to buy it. Being able to own such a sports car requires identity and status to set off.
Xiao Ming actually cannot have this status. He entrusted Morati to help him. The Morati family's status in Italy is unquestionable. Although the Bugatti Veyron is affiliated with German Volkswagen and is produced in a French car factory, its founder Etor Bugatti is an Italian Milanese native and has a close relationship with Italy. In this way, Xiao Ming customized the car through the back door. Even Abu, although he owns a Boeing 767 private aircraft worth more than one billion US dollars; a 355-foot luxury yacht in the world, cannot own a Bugatti Veyron.
"Xiao, I think your approach is right, either you don't own it. If you want to own it, you have to have the best one." Abu sighed: "I want to throw away all my sports car now and then customize such a car..."
"I am not qualified to have a billion-dollar private jet and a top luxury yacht in the world, so I can only work hard on cars, otherwise I will be under a lot of pressure to be with someone like you." Xiao Ming smiled.
Abu laughed loudly, Xiao Ming's words made the Russian tycoon feel very comfortable...
Seeing Abu's thirsty look, the other bosses frowned collectively, thinking that this Russian was so vulgar and rude, and he was so simple-headed - hell, how did he make so much money!
Xiao Ming did not have the intention to underestimate Abu, because he knew that Abu's rude and generous appearance was a standard capitalist who could eat people and not spit out his bones - he could start from scratch in just over a decade, dig his first pot of gold by smuggling cigarettes, perfumes, etc., and then after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia began to privatize successfully, and continuously controlled Siberian Petroleum Company, Russian Aluminum Company, and Russian Civil Aviation Company, established its own huge business empire, increased its assets to the level of 10 billion US dollars, and then decisively gave up its industry in Russia and went to London to establish its own status. How could such a person be such a simple guy?
Maybe he is rude, maybe he is generous, but he will definitely not be an easy guy to get along with.
Xiao Ming smiled and dealt with Abu, but thought in his heart how to give Abu a warning in the first round of the league.
In the first round of the league, in addition to Manchester United's home match against Liverpool, the most focused game is Leiden Oriental's home match against Chelsea.
I don’t know how the Premier League organizing committee arranged it. Chelsea, the most crazy in the transfer market this season, encountered the first round of Leiden Oriental, who always invested in the Premier League first in the transfer market in the previous few seasons. This season, Leiden Oriental invested only less than 20 million pounds in the transfer market. Not to mention that it is not as good as Chelsea, it is even worse than Manchester United, ranking third only - but there are only four Premier League teams that have invested more than 10 million pounds so far this season. Except for the above three teams, only Blackburn has invested more than 10 million pounds. However, their income from Duff's transfer to Chelsea alone has reached 17 million pounds, and they still make profits in the transfer market.
This season, the transfer fee for the Premier League was almost all spent by Chelsea. Five teams had zero investment in the transfer market, namely Charlton, Leicester, Newcastle, Middlesbrough and Leeds. Newcastle only dug up Bowyer in the free transfer market. Shepard probably had no money at hand, while the other teams had no money at hand, and Leeds even more so. This year, they only sold Cowell and Dakot for less than 10 million, and terminated contracts to save money by many players who could not sell money. The players introduced were basically on loan, and their finances had reached a very bad point.
Do you play Chelsea in the first game? Then let Abu know that you have to have skills to spend money...
In Xiao Ming's opinion, Ranieri, a pot maker, often does a good job when he has no money to give him, but after he has sufficient transfer funds, he doesn't know who to buy. For example, Mutu, Peron and others who he strongly advocated to introduce this season almost all spent money in vain. Lampard and others who were introduced when Bates didn't give him much transfer funds before were quite outstanding.
Chapter completed!