Football Feast, Starting From the Acquisition of European Clubs

   Chapter 220 The five-star red flag on the podium of the Champions League

   "Boss, do we think of a way to limit that Ronaldinho?"

  Seeing Ronaldinho doing whatever he wants on the left side of the Crystal Palace, like being in a no-man's land, Guardiola really can't stand it anymore.

   "Under the premise that the twin towers tactics remain unchanged, do you have any good ideas?"

  Chen Ran looked at Guardiola helplessly.

   It’s not that he has no way to limit Ronaldinho, such as replacing Mascherano to mark closely, Chen Ran successfully used this move to limit Riquelme before.

   However, Chen Ran is reluctant to change the existing tactics of Crystal Palace, because the double tower tactics have proved to be very effective against Barcelona.

   "Uh, I haven't thought of this yet."

   Hearing the preconditions set up by Chen Ran, Guardiola was immediately speechless.

   His original intention was to add a defensive player to specifically mark Ronaldinho. Now Chen Ran is unwilling to change the twin towers tactics, so naturally he cannot do so.

"Josep, this game is all about who scores more goals. It doesn't matter if we can't guard Ronaldinho, can't they also guard Chris? As long as we can keep scoring goals, we will win. Belonging to Crystal Palace."

   Before he finished speaking, Ribery made a breakthrough with the ball on the right and was brought to the ground by Sylvinho. This time, Crystal Palace won a frontcourt free kick near the right line.

   As a right-footed player, it is really not suitable for shooting directly in this position. But Ribery just scored a shocking free-kick, and now is the time to burst with confidence.

   Measure your steps, step back, run up, swing your legs.

"boom!"

   The ball spun rapidly and flew towards the Barcelona goal again.

   However, this time, Valdez, who was already prepared, would not fall into the same pit.

   No matter how outrageous the ball's flight direction is, he has to clear the ball first.

   Seeing that the ball really started to fall when it was approaching the goal, for the sake of safety, Valdes did not catch the ball with his hands, but hit the ball far away with his fists.

   At this time, Barcelona's penalty area was chaotic again, and everyone wanted to compete for the second spot of the ball.

   Seeing that the ball was about to fly out of the penalty area, suddenly a figure rushed over and jumped high with his back to the goal.

"boom!"

   An upside-down golden hook with an extremely stretched action kicked the ball hard towards the goal again.

   is Cristiano Ronaldo. He has a very keen judgment on where the ball falls. As soon as Valdes hit the ball, he immediately rushed towards the vicinity of the landing point.

   At this time, Valdes, who had just hit the ball, did not expect the ball to fly back so quickly.

   In a hurry, he could only block the ball together, and the ball bounced upwards, but this time it didn't hit far.

   At this moment, the advantage of height is completely revealed.

  I saw Jan Kohler leaping high, as if standing out from the crowd. He took the lead in grabbing the ball, lightly tipped it, and pushed the ball towards Barcelona's goal again.

   At this time, Valdés had just finished his second save and was lying on the ground too late to get up, so he could only watch the ball fly into the net.

   "GOAL!"

  Crystal Palace led Barcelona 4:3 again.

"too crazy!"

The phrase    not only appeared in the hearts of fans and reporters watching the game, but also in the hearts of players and coaches on both sides of the war.

   "Boss, your twin-tower tactical power is so powerful, it's like you're specializing in restraining Barcelona."

   At this time, Guardiola couldn't help but sigh that Chen Ran's tactics were extremely precise.

   He would rather let his left defense be blown up by Ronaldinho, and insist on the two-tower tactic. Now it seems that Chen Ran is right again.

   On the other side, Rijkaard, who saw the team fell behind again, couldn't sit still.

  Because the game has been going on for nearly 80 minutes, there is not much time left for Barcelona.

   At this time, Rijkaard played the last card in his hand. He replaced the French veteran Giuli with the teenager Messi.

   Seeing Barcelona's substitution, Chen Ran was also slightly taken aback.

   This is the first time Ronaldo and Messi have played against each other in this world. Due to his arrival, this time is two years earlier than in the previous world.

  Messi replaced Giuli as the left winger, and he was opposite Crystal Palace's right back Maicon.

  Messi, who is only 19 years old now, is still a little immature, but his skills and dribbling speed are already very sharp. This made Maicon, who had been playing for 80 minutes, unable to keep up with the huge physical consumption.

   "Josep, immediately tell Alves to warm up and replace Maicon later."

   "Okay, boss."

   Chen Ran can be endured by being blown up on one side. If both sides are blown up by Barcelona, ​​Crystal Palace's defense line will completely collapse.

   Fortunately, Messi, who is still relatively immature now, is not as clueless as Ronaldinho at his peak. With Alves, who has plenty of stamina and can keep up with the speed, he should be able to do it. Anyway, there is not much time left for the game.

   It turns out that Chen Ran's substitution was very timely.

   Just after Alves warmed up, he stood on the sidelines and waited for the dead ball to play.

  Messi took advantage of Maicon's physical decline and the disadvantage that his speed could not keep up, successfully broke through and sent a precise cross, which almost made Eto'o score another goal.

   Just when Rijkaard sighed for not scoring the goal, Alves replaced Maicon.

   This time, Alves, who was about the same height, about the same speed, and equally strong, but stronger in body, suddenly let Messi, who had just found the feeling, fall into a fight.

   Alves stuck to Messi like a dose of dog skin plaster.

   Although Messi has better skills, his current body is not yet mature. Once he has a physical confrontation with Alves, it is easy to lose the center of gravity, and the next movements are naturally easy to deform, and the effect is greatly reduced.

   Seeing the immediate effect of replacing Alves, Chen Ran was secretly relieved.

   Others don't know how powerful Messi is, and only regard him as a potential player.

   But Chen Ran didn't dare to be careless, even if he was only facing the 19-year-old Messi.

   After the two teams alternately attacked for a few more rounds, Chen Ran saw that the game had reached 85 minutes, feeling that the time was almost up, and then turned around and called Guardiola over.

   "Josep, tell Mascherano to warm up and replace Jan Kohler with him later."

   "Okay, boss."

   Hearing Chen Ran's order, Guardiola knew that Chen Ran was preparing to shrink the formation.

   Soon after, Mascherano, who had finished his warm-up, was called to his side by Chen Ran.

   "Javier, after you came on, the Ronaldinho who was in charge of marking Barcelona. Wherever he goes, you go there, just like you did with Riquelme before. Understand?"

   "Understood, boss."

   As soon as he heard Chen Ran mention Riquelme, Mascherano immediately understood what he meant.

   Soon, just before the game entered stoppage time, Mascherano came on and replaced Jan Kohler.

   Seeing this substitution, everyone understood that Crystal Palace wanted to keep their one-goal lead and strengthen their defense.

  Rijkaard doesn't have the heart to care so much now. It doesn't matter whether Crystal Palace strengthens their defense or not.

   He stood on the sidelines, constantly calling on the Barcelona players to press the attack with all their strength and make a last-ditch effort.

   Mascherano immediately became Ronaldinho's nightmare.

   No matter where Ronaldinho went, Mascherano followed him, and with the help of Evra and others, he finally stopped Barcelona's offensive on the right when the game was about to end.

   Once Ronaldinho and Messi were contained, Eto'o in the middle was alone, and the entire Barcelona offensive suddenly came to a standstill.

  In this way, Crystal Palace finally passed the last few minutes of this game safely.

   When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the entire Stade de France was completely boiling.

  The result of the game is prominently displayed on the huge display screen in the stadium.

  Crystal Palace defeated Barcelona 4:3 to win the 2005-2006 UEFA Champions League.

   "Fuck!"

  Chen Ran only had time to express his feelings before being lifted up by the guys from Crystal Palace and thrown into the air again.

  The starry sky in Paris is a little more beautiful than London.

After experiencing    many times, Chen Ran is now numb.

  Since you can’t resist, just enjoy it.

   "Ding! Congratulations to the host for winning the Champions League this season and achieving the "Triple Crown", the rewards are as follows:

   Champions League winner bonus, 40 million euros;

   Premier League Championship bonus, 20 million euros;

   England FA Cup champion bonus, 10 million euros;

  Triple Crown Honor Special Reward: Open the football group mode, the host can use Crystal Palace as the core to acquire football clubs from all over the world to form a huge football group all over the world. The system will randomly provide information about the clubs that can be acquired, as well as half of the acquisition funds. "

   "Football Group?"

   Isn't this the model that Mansour, the owner of Manchester City, later adopted?

   Chen Ran's mind was immediately attracted by the announcement of the system.

   Frankly speaking, Chen Ran, who was a veteran fan in his previous life, also studied Mansour’s City Football Group in particular.

   is very innovative, but there is no obvious benefit in the short term.

  Some people say that Mansour's approach is actually to circumvent UEFA's Financial Fair Play Act.

   But Chen Ran believes that things are not that simple, at least this set of methods is still very desirable in the mining, training, training and trading process of young players.

   For example, if Crystal Palace is optimistic about a young player, they need to provide opportunities to play after the introduction so that the player can grow rapidly.

   But as a team that competes for championships all year round, it is impossible for Crystal Palace to provide a lot of playing opportunities for young players in the game.

   Then if you adopt the football group model, you can rent these talented and good seedlings to other teams under the same group for training and training.

   This guarantees young players a chance to play without worrying about losing their ownership.

   Just like Crystal Palace’s previous cooperation plan with the satellite club of Willem II Club, in order to guarantee the game time of the loaned players, Chen Ran also asked Stephen to sign a very detailed loan contract with the other party.

  If Willem II is Chen Ran's team, then all is not a problem. Whoever plays and how much time is played is just a word from Chen Ran.

   Thinking of this, Chen Ran was a little moved.

   However, the idea is good, but the implementation is not so easy.

   First of all, because Chen Ran already has Crystal Palace Club, at least in Europe, he has no way to acquire any big team.

  Because UEFA has regulations, teams under the same owner cannot participate in UEFA competitions at the same time.

   For example, if Crystal Palace participates in the Champions League, then other teams under Chen Ran cannot participate in the Champions League.

   It would be better if it acquired a weak team that was not eligible for the Champions League.

   In case the acquired company is strong and qualified to participate in the Champions League, but cannot participate because of the relationship with Crystal Palace, then the boss Chen Ran will definitely be scolded.

   Therefore, in the previous life, the City Football Group, except for Manchester City, the teams they acquired in Europe were all unknown, low-level, or even secondary league clubs.

  Secondly, when buying a team, it is easy for the opponent's boss to do it. As long as the money is sufficient, there is generally no problem.

   The point is that those fan groups are not easy to deal with, because if this club joins the football group, it is almost certain that the future will never come out.

The most important task of all other clubs in the    Football Group is to help the core team develop and deliver fresh blood.

   And this situation is almost unacceptable to most fans of the acquired club.

   Therefore, it is also doomed that Chen Ran's acquisition targets can only be those weak clubs, or even clubs without huge fan groups.

   Of course, the above situations may not be so serious when acquiring clubs from other continents.

   Thinking of this, Chen Ran felt that if he really wanted to set up a football group, then the first acquisition target should not be in Europe, which would be too eye-catching.

   Next, Chen Ran has no way to continue thinking about this matter.

  Because the award ceremony of the Champions League has officially started, he still has one important thing to do.

  Although he has won many championships, Chen Ran is still very excited at the moment.

   After all, this is the heaviest Champions League champion, which is of extraordinary significance.

   At this time, in the country of China, which is thousands of miles away, it is already early morning, and the sky is about to dawn.

   But none of the Crystal Palace fans who stayed up late to watch the game were willing to sleep, and gathered in the Crystal Palace post bar to pour water and wait for the award ceremony.

   "Mom! This is the first time that Chinese people have stood on the podium of the Champions League, right?"

   "Nonsense, in the past, our foreign players played for weak teams, so how could they be qualified to play in the Champions League."

   "Chen Ran's identity is not ordinary. He is not only the team's head coach, but also the team's owner. Has there been a team owner on the podium before?"

   "Uh, this is really unclear."

   "I'm going, Chen Ran is still carrying the national flag!"

   "I'm going to cry. I didn't expect that I could see the five-star red flag on the championship podium of the top football competition in my life."

   (end of this chapter)