Football Feast, Starting From the Acquisition of European Clubs

  Chapter 88 Walk the talk

"what are you doing?"

  Chen Ran quickly ducked back.

   "I want to see if you are sick. Do you know how much it will cost to build a new stadium? That's in billions."

   Stephen glared at Chen Ran angrily, is this guy still awake?

   "I know. That's what I think. You see, we are all promoted to the Premier League now. If we still use this old and small home, isn't it worthy of the temperament of our future giants?"

   "Everyone wants a new stadium, but do you know how expensive it is to build a new stadium in London? The stadium that Arsenal started last year is said to have a budget of nearly 400 million pounds."

   "It's now 470 million."

"How did you know?"

   "Didn't I go to see Wenger two days ago, he told me."

"Well, since you already know the cost, let's do a simple calculation. Even if the land price here is a lot cheaper than Arsenal's, it will still cost two or three billion pounds. You have that much money. ?"

   "I can probably put out half of the funds, and the rest will have to be found from outside."

   "You have that much money?"

   Stephen was completely shocked. Although he knew that Chen Ran was rich before, he didn't expect to be so rich.

   You can take out hundreds of millions of pounds at will. Are Chinese people so rich now?

   "Well, but I can only invest this money in batches, and I can't take out that much money all at once."

   "It doesn't matter. As long as you can guarantee to take out half of the funds, the rest will be easy. The big deal is to find a bank loan."

   Having said this, Stephen stopped and looked into Chen Ran's eyes seriously.

   "Chen, I'll ask you again, do you really want to build a new stadium? This is no joke."

   "Of course. As long as you can find the remaining half of the money, we'll build this stadium."

   "How big a stadium do you want to build?"

   "At least 60,000 people."

   "So big? Arsenal's new stadium is just over 60,000."

   "Not big, is it worthy of our Crystal Palace?"

   "Okay then, I'll go back and find a relationship, you wait for my news."

   "Haha, Stephen, I knew it was right to find you."

   Stephen shook his head with a wry smile. His friend and boss thought he was not busy enough, so he tried to find something for him.

  Just like that, Chen Ran left the construction of the new stadium to Stephen.

   As for whether things can be done or not, it depends on whether there is a donor who is willing to pay.

   After all, Chen Ran still has a loan of 30 million euros on his back, and now he has to borrow more money, most people really dare not play with him.

  Although Crystal Palace has won the championship ahead of schedule, the British Championship is not over after all, and there are still eight rounds to play.

   However, Chen Ran had a new idea, and he called Guardiola, Southgate and Simeone over.

"Josep, I'm going to give the three of you the command for the remaining eight Champions League games. Gareth and Diego are still going to play, so I'll give you the command on the spot. How's it going? Are you confident? "

"what?"

"Did I hear it wrong?"

   "Boss, are you kidding me?"

   Chen Ran's words surprised the three of them.

   "I'm not kidding. Remember the promise I made when I invited you to join Crystal Palace? Now I'm going to keep it. These eight games are the test for you."

  “.”

   Guardiola, Gareth Southgate and Simeone looked at each other and were surprised when Chen Ran mentioned his original promise.

   They are not young and fledglings. Which ones are fake and which are the truth, even if they didn't react at the time, after so long, they all figured it out.

   He didn't take Chen Ran's promise to choose one of the three of them next season to replace him as the head coach of Crystal Palace.

   The momentum of Crystal Palace this season is very good, even far beyond their expectations, they are very satisfied.

  Unexpectedly, now the boss has proposed to fulfill the original promise.

   Could it be that this Chen Ran is really a real person?

   Don't we all misunderstand him?

   "Boss, are you sure you will hand over the next eight games to our command?"

   Guardiola said it was a lie if he didn't move, and couldn't help but ask.

"Very certain. However, I am not without conditions. With the current strength of our Crystal Palace, I demand that we win at least five of the remaining eight games, and not lose. How about this, is this requirement not excessive? "

   "Not too much."

   "How could we possibly lose to the Championship team?"

   "Yes. If the team's unbeaten record in the league is broken, then we have no face to see the boss."

  Crystal Palace's current Championship record is 34 wins and four draws. Chen Ran allows them to draw three games in eight games. This requirement is really not high.

   Hearing Chen Ran's request, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief, and patted their chests to promise that they would never lose face to Crystal Palace.

   Chen Ran's purpose in doing this is actually very simple, to further win the hearts of these three people.

   As a boss, the most taboo thing is to write a bad check to an employee and not cash it.

   Maybe the employees would not show it at that time, but the seeds of conflict have been planted since then.

   As time goes on, it will explode one day.

   These three guys are all people Chen Ran values, and he doesn't want to lose the big because of the small.

   You may lose some money, but Chen Ran still thinks it is worth it compared to the gain.

  So, in the thirty-ninth round of the British Championship, when Crystal Palace played against West Bromwich Albion, people were surprised to find that Chen Ran, the head coach of Crystal Palace, did not appear on the bench.

   Instead of him standing on the sidelines, it was Crystal Palace's assistant coach and vice-captain Guardiola.

   Guardiola drew out the tactics he had been practicing for a long time in training to hold West Bromwich down in a half-time siege.

   West Bromwich Albion is not a vegetarian, and the defensive counterattack is vigorous and not blindly defending.

   After Crystal Palace defeated Norwich in the last round, West Bromwich Albion took the opportunity to replace them and rose to second place.

   In this game, facing Crystal Palace, which had already won the championship ahead of schedule, West Bromwich Albion played a defensive counterattack from the first minute.

  Because the promotion system of the British Championship is that the top two are directly promoted to the Premier League, and the third place will play a play-off to compete for the remaining promotion spot.

   With the help of the power of Crystal Palace, West Bromwich managed to squeeze Norwich down, and they did not intend to return the second position to Norwich.

   The uncertainty of upgrading the play-offs is too great, and anything can happen.

   West Bromwich Albion worked hard for the direct upgrade.

   (end of this chapter)