Chapter 779

As expected by the cold.

When ESPN's list was released, it immediately caused an uproar all over the world. Countless supporters of alpine cold and fans against alpine cold began to fight, and there was a wave of silent neutral parties in the middle.

Just like sharks smelling blood, media reporters immediately expressed their positions, either supporting or opposing the high cold, and waged a big news war in major newspapers.

Even soon, some media magazines followed the trend and launched their own lists.

For example, the European professional sports magazine also selected the 50 most influential people in European football. As a result, they directly pushed the high cold to the top of the list, forcing FIFA president Blatter and UEFA president Platini to win the championship.

Soon, there are other media newspapers with similar selection, alpine ranking or high or low, basically in the top 20, with Berlusconi, Moratti and other club leaders, far behind the players such as Beckhams, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, let alone the coach.

For a time, the selection of the most influential person in the world football world has caused a huge dispute all over the world. As a result, alpine has appeared in the pages of media newspapers all over the world, even in the front page headlines, once again standing on the top of the wave.

Although there are different criteria for judging the ranking of Alpine in different lists, it is generally acknowledged that alpine has become one of the most influential people in the world football.

But when the list events are rapidly fermenting all over the world, Gao Han is low-key in Madrid to deal with the renewal of several players of the Chinese city team. At the same time, he studies the team's tactics, the arrangement of training programs, and encourages the team's morale with bochetino, hoping that the Chinese City team can walk out of the three unbeaten decline as soon as possible.

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High end conference room of Oriental Mandarin Hotel, Hyde Park South, London.

On both sides of the oval conference table are full of professional elites in stiff suits, who represent the top talents of the two most famous financial investment institutions in London's financial street. At this moment, they are preparing a transaction involving more than one billion pounds.

Next door to the conference room, in a luxurious lounge, several people dressed in traditional Middle Eastern clothes are talking and laughing, which is quite different from the negotiation atmosphere next door. It's very comfortable here.

Manchester City's behind the scenes boss Mansour stands in front of the glass window, overlooking the beautiful Hyde Park, looking a little crazy.

It was not until someone came near that he was awakened and looked over.

The visitor is a little fatter than him. He is also from the Middle East, but he comes from different countries, Qatar.

Tamim is the future Emir of Qatar and the chairman of Qatar Investment Authority. He manages more than 100 billion US dollars of assets. This time, he came to London to deal with an asset of more than one billion pounds.

The Premier League's main sponsor, Barclays Bank.

A year ago, when Mansour acquired Manchester City, the bank was affected by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, and the situation was very bad. A number of consortia, including the Middle East and Asia, provided them with 5 billion pounds of financing and acquired the shares of the bank.

As a result, Mansour's Abu Dhabi consortium and Tamim's Qatar Investment Authority became the two major shareholders of the bank.

With the 5 billion pounds of financing, the bank has enriched its capital. It has not only passed the difficult subprime mortgage crisis smoothly, but also spent half of the financing on business development. Its strength has begun to recover steadily, its profits have recovered, and its share price has gradually rebounded.

Now that they have made a lot of money from last year's investment, it's time to consider quitting and selling the shares of the bank, and the actuaries in the next meeting room are calculating this account.

"This time you can cash at least 1.3 billion pounds, and I heard that Tamim, the Qatari Investment Authority, intends to buy Manchester United with this money. Is that true?" Asked Mansour with concern.

Manchester United are the mortal enemies of Manchester City. If the Qatar consortium is in charge of Manchester United, it will have a great influence on Manchester City.

At present, Manchester City has high temperature, but Mansour is not worried at all. However, high temperature is only willing to sign a two-year contract. After two years, once high temperature leaves, can Manchester City compete with Manchester United supported by Qatar consortium?

But Tamim shook his head resentfully. "It's over."

"Collapsed?" Mansour laughed, feeling better a lot, "why?"

"The Yankees are a group of vampires. They ask for three billion pounds. Do you think we can accept it?" Tamim still seemed indignant when he talked about it.

Mansour nodded. It was a bit of a lion's mouth.

How much did the Glazers pay for Manchester United?

The outside world has always estimated that about 1.5 billion pounds can satisfy the Glazer family's appetite, which has made them at least double their income. It can be said that they have made a lot of money. But I didn't expect that they would ask for 3 billion pounds with such a big appetite. Is it true that all the Middle East people are heroes?

"Now that the talks are over, are you going to sell off your stake in the bank?" Asked Mansour curiously.

Tamim nodded. "I'm not going to sell out all of them. I'm going to set up a sum of money to buy Harrods department store. By the way, I'll buy some shops at Knightsbridge. You know, the rent for this piece is quite considerable."

Mansour is noncommittal. Everyone has different interests and preferences in investment.

At the very least, he has no interest in such assets.

"However, next we will definitely look for the right team. You know, we are determined to win the right to host the world cup Tamim said solemnly.

Qatar is trying to prepare for the world cup in 2002, but its competitors are also very strong, including the United Kingdom and the United States. It is not easy for Qatar to win, and the most important thing is to enhance its popularity and influence in the world and the football world as soon as possible.

That's why the Qatari consortium wants to buy Manchester United.

"By the way, how credible is this list?" Tamim handed over a magazine.

ESPN, the American edition, is one of the most authoritative sports magazines in the world.

Magazine just turned to a page, it is a list of the world's most powerful 50 people.

This piece of news has made a lot of noise recently. Of course, Mansour has heard and seen it, so he just smiles, "as far as I know, this magazine is very authoritative, with high credibility."

"What about the high cold?" Tamim asked with concern.

In this list, alpine is just inferior to FIFA president Blatter, even higher than South Africa World Cup Organizing Committee Chairman Dani Jordan, which makes Tamim have to pay attention to it.

"It's hard to say, but from the perspective of many people in the football industry I have contacted, Gao Han is undoubtedly the most influential and appealing figure in the world football world. You know, since his debut, he has never lost and has been winning, which is unique in the history of more than 100 years of world football."

From Mansour's tone and expression, it is not difficult for Tamim to see his admiration for alpine cold.

But with his understanding of Mansour, not many people can get this evaluation. It can be seen that alpine is the real material.

"Wait, what do you want to do?" Mansour was suddenly wary.

Although they are all from the Middle East, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are neighbors, and when they come to Europe, they often cooperate with each other, but there are still two groups of people in their heart, and they should be on guard against each other.

"Don't be nervous. I have nothing now. I won't threaten you." Tamim said with a smile, "however, I heard that alpine has a football team in Spain, which has been upgraded to La Liga step by step in nine years, which is very legendary."

"You want to buy this team?"

"Of course." Tamim nodded without concealment, "Chinatown, the name of this team is very interesting."

What he valued was not only the Chinese city team, but also the cold behind the team.

"But it's not going to sell in the cold." Mansour knows more or less about China city.

"Then I will persuade him with the most sincere price." Tamim said with a confident smile.

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It is not clear that someone is planning to buy his own team behind his back. After dealing with the issue of China City, he went back to Manchester and returned to the post of city head coach.

During the national team games, Gao Han took other players to training.

Kaka, with a foot injury, was not recruited by Dunga, head coach of Brazil national team. He continued to train with the team, but still failed to train with the team. Instead, he trained alone.

After two weeks of National Games, the internationals returned to the team one after another.

In the cold, as well as city and other teams together with the charter plane pick up, including the South American International, all in accordance with the rules of the coaching team, on time to return to Manchester.

After a day's rest and training, Manchester City are on their way to challenge Wigan Athletic.

Influenced by the national team's competition and the away game, the performance of Manchester City players in the first half was not ideal, especially at the beginning when they were shot a few long-range shots by the home team Wigan Athletic, but they failed to threaten Cech.

City didn't make their first threatening attack until the 29th minute.

After that, Manchester City gradually controlled the situation on the field, but failed to create a threat. On the contrary, before the end of the first half, Wigan Athletic seized an opportunity and made a counterattack. Enzobia scored from close range, which opened the record for Wigan Athletic.

Gao Han severely reprimanded the players for their poor performance in the first half at half-time, thinking that the players were too careless.

After Yi Bian fought again in the second half, Manchester City launched a counterattack according to the strategy drawn up by the cold midfield at the beginning.

With the help of assault cards, Sanchez started the second half with a series of attacks on the right. In the 46th minute, after a series of breakthroughs, the low level ball reached the middle, and Benzema, who was inserted later, ran a little too far, blocking the defender with his body and letting the ball pass by him.

Cristiano Ronaldo stepped in and leveled the score with a right foot volley.

Only five minutes later, Benzema pulled back from the midfield pass and made a wonderful pass to the back of Wigan Athletic defence. Cristiano Ronaldo led the ball into the penalty area, but the volley was blocked by central defender bramble and the ball fell to the right.

At this time, Sanchez clapped his horse to catch up, easily pushed the empty goal, and reversed the score.

In the end, Manchester City in poor condition reversed Wigan Athletic 2-1 and won nine games in a row.

In the other games of this round, Manchester United beat Bolton 2-1 at home, Arsenal beat Birmingham 3-1 at home and Liverpool lost to Sunderland 0-1 away.

On the other day of the night, with Drogba's first goal, Chelsea were pulled two goals away by Aston Villa and finally lost to Aston Villa 1-2.

It was also the first defeat for Chelsea in the new season.