Football Feast, Starting From the Acquisition of European Clubs

  Chapter 97 Crazy summer transfer period

   Instructor Xu's face is still good. With his help, Chen Ran quickly settled the matter of establishing a youth training base.

   Although Smart Island belongs to Shencheng, it has always been troubled by attracting investment because it is far away from the urban area.

   Now that Chen Ran himself took the initiative to bring it to the door, the two sides naturally hit it off.

   After all, after so many media reports, Chen Ran is now a well-known figure in the domestic football circle.

  So, Chen Ran took a 300-acre piece of land next to Xu's football base and prepared to build Crystal Palace's training base in China.

   This once again created a precedent, because there has never been a foreign football club that established a training base in China, and Chen Ran named this youth training base "Star of Hope".

   On the day of the signing ceremony, major domestic sports media gathered on Smart Island, and this time even the sports channel sent someone to report.

   These media reporters all stayed at the football base hotel of Xu Zhizhi nearby, which also allowed Xu Zhigui to make a small profit.

   After many coordinations, Chen Ran signed a cooperation agreement with the school on Smart Island.

  The children selected by the Crystal Palace in the future will study directly in the school like other children.

  After recruiting a group of domestic staff, Chen Ran threw the remaining specific affairs to Stephen and the others to deal with, and he took Cheryl to play around.

   After playing for almost half a month, after enjoying the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. Under the constant urging of Cheryl's company, Chen Ran and Cheryl returned to London with an unfulfilled desire.

   At this time, the players who were on vacation have also returned to London one after another, and the preparation period for the new season of Crystal Palace is about to begin.

   "Gareth, Josep, Diego, you all come and see, our opponents are not small this summer."

   "Chelsea in particular, not only changed coaches, but also spent almost 100 million euros to buy people. The cost of a club is almost equal to the sum of several other giants. What a crazy summer."

  Chen Ran distributed the transfer information gathered to him to three assistants.

   Mourinho still went to Chelsea after all, and the wheel of history is still moving in the original direction.

  Chelsea have brought the new Champions League champion Porto to the pot this time.

   Not only poached the head coach Mourinho, but also took away the main center defender Carvalho and the main right back Ferreira.

   In addition, Eindhoven's attacking combination of Robben and Kežman was also packaged and brought to Chelsea.

   There is also Warcraft Drogba from Marseille, France, and midfielder Thiago joined the team from Benfica, Portugal.

   It can be said that, except for the goalkeeper Cech who was cut off by Chen Ran in advance, there were not a few players who went to Chelsea in the previous life.

   And the other strong teams were not idle either.

   Manchester United brought in the famous Rooney from Everton, the striker Alan Smith from Leeds United, and the defender Heinze from Paris Saint-Germain.

   Arsenal brought in striker Van Persie from Feyenoord, midfielder Flamini from Marseille, and goalkeeper Almunia from Celta.

   Liverpool brought in midfielder Xavi Alonso from Real Sociedad, striker Cisse from Auxerre, and striker Luis Garcia from Barcelona.

   In addition, Liverpool also changed their coach this summer, and Spaniard Benitez entered Anfield.

   In this lively summer transfer period, Crystal Palace, which has only introduced two players, is very inconspicuous.

   Even Norwich and West Bromwich, who have been promoted to the Premier League together this season, have introduced seven players and ten players respectively.

   This is very unaccustomed to the long-stalking Crystal Palace reporters.

   As a result, they checked and found that Chen Ran was not in the UK at all this summer, but took Cheryl back to China for a holiday.

   This time, it can be regarded as being caught by these reporters.

  So, after disappearing for a summer, Chen Ran's name once again appeared on the pages of major media in England.

   "A Champions League title plus a League Cup title will satisfy the Chinese?"

   "After being promoted to the Premier League, I didn't take the time to sign up to strengthen the team. Instead, I took my girlfriend on a vacation. This is what the Chinese owner of Crystal Palace did."

   "Pride, arrogance, that's what that Chinese man did after a little achievement."

   "So far, Crystal Palace is the team with the smallest number of signings among all Premier League teams. Does that Chinese think that Crystal Palace is strong enough?"

   "Judging from what the Chinese did, Crystal Palace is very likely to become the relegation favorite of the Premier League in the new season."

   "Given the performance of Crystal Palace's signings in the summer transfer period, the odds of the betting company's Premier League relegation team in the new season show that the number of people who are disappointed by Crystal Palace has soared."

   After reading the information on the summer transfer, Southgate, Guardiola and Simeone all felt a lot of pressure.

  Especially that Chelsea, who has made a big deal for two consecutive years. Not only did they spend huge sums of money to introduce players, but they even poached the coaches who had just won the Champions League. It was obvious that they were going for the Premier League championship.

   "Boss, what is our goal this season? Relegation?" Southgate asked casually.

   "Goal? Premier League champions."

   Southgate asked casually, and Chen Ran answered casually.

   "Pfft!"

   "Cough cough."

   "FxOMG!"

   The scene was a mess.

  Someone sprayed coffee all over the ground;

   Choked by saliva;

   and almost swear words.

   "Boss, are you kidding me?"

  Southgate asked with a fluke.

   "No, I'm serious."

  The three of Southgate looked at each other and looked at each other, and they all saw speechlessness in each other's eyes.

   Special meow, you are a newly promoted horse, shouldn't your primary goal be to avoid relegation?

   Who do you think is Kaiserslautern?

"Oh, yes. Do you remember the promise I made to you last season? Now the results are in. After examination, I think Josep is the most suitable for me to be the head coach of Crystal Palace this season. Gareth, Diego Ge, do you have any opinions?"

  Chen Ran slapped his forehead and almost forgot his business.

   "I have an opinion!"

   As soon as Chen Ran finished speaking, he saw Guardiola stand up with a squeak.

   "Boss, my current ability is far from enough to lead Crystal Palace to the Premier League title. I think Gareth and Diego are more suitable than me."

  I'll go, I didn't expect you, Josep, to be such a sinister guy with big brows and big eyes. If you don't want to do it, you will push the two of us out.

  Southgate and Simeone waved their hands in fright, quickly expressing that their ability is not enough, and that they have to play again, it is not suitable to be the head coach of Crystal Palace now.

   Special, the boss set the goal to be the Premier League champion, who would dare to take this job?

   (end of this chapter)