Chapter 403 Let Martians also play football?

Author: Ant who loves watching football

Chapter 403 Let Martians also play football?

"This game is very exciting."

After Sky Sports broadcast the crucial match between Chelsea and Manchester City, various guests expressed their opinions.

Carragher said: "Both teams are very strong. Although I am not very willing, I still want to say that the championship this season should still be between Chelsea and Manchester City, and it has nothing to do with Liverpool."

After speaking, Carragher shook his head involuntarily.

In the past two seasons, Liverpool has sold its ace players Suarez and Sterling. Although it has also introduced good players like Firmino, its lineup is indeed almost boring compared to Chelsea and Manchester City.

"But there is no doubt that if I can only choose one, I would still choose Chelsea." Alan Shearer also said, "The strength of the two teams is indeed significantly higher than other teams, but comparing the two, Chelsea is stronger.

Manchester City is at least a level up."

"Yes, at least today's score has proven this." Lineker said with a smile, "Perhaps if the personal abilities of the players on both sides are compared on a piece of paper, there will be no difference, including their worth.

.But because of Pan Yi’s presence, Chelsea as a whole is still much stronger than Manchester City.”

Everyone nodded.

Indeed, as far as the lineup that Manchester City has put together today, it can almost be said that it is ranked among the best in the world, and all of them are famous stars.

But it is precisely because Pellegrini was manipulated by Pan Yi in every aspect that these stars felt like they were fighting on their own on the court and could not form a whole to confront Chelsea.

On the other hand, Chelsea's side hit Manchester City's weakness with every punch.

Once Manchester City fixes a certain weakness, Chelsea will immediately change places and continue to strike hard, and then continue to beat Manchester City to the ground.

"We all think that Manchester City will be Chelsea's biggest rival for the title, but Pan Yi doesn't seem to think so." Lineker said again, "He mentioned Leicester City many times in interviews and said

This team that barely managed to avoid relegation last season is an opponent we should be wary of. I really don’t know what kind of medicine he is selling in his gourd.”

"Perhaps he is really showing his contempt for opponents like Manchester City and Manchester United?" Alan Shearer said with a smile, "This kind of psychological warfare is not uncommon. Anyway, Pan Yi is not afraid of any opponents now, and he can just pick up a guarantee ball.

If a top team comes to claim to be the strongest competitor, it will definitely make the real enemy uncomfortable.”

Carragher said: "But Leicester's performance this year has indeed changed a lot compared to last year. They just defeated West Ham United 2:1 in the away game and have won the first two consecutive games."

"A good start doesn't mean anything." Lineker waved his hand. "Swansea also performed well at the start last year, right? Even three consecutive wins. Including Southampton, and this West Ham.

The United teams all played very well. But the league is long, and in the end, strength will speak for itself, so they all fell behind in the end."

"Maybe." Carragher nodded slightly, but still thoughtful, "But Leicester City's lineup does look pretty good. Pan Yi also sold Mikel to Ranieri to make up for it.

The last piece of the puzzle, maybe..."

Alan Shearer laughed and said: "This kind of lineup should be considered ordinary in the Premier League. No matter how strong it is, can it be better than Liverpool, Tottenham, or Manchester United and Arsenal?"

Lineker also smiled and said: "The main reason is that no matter what the lineup of other teams is, as long as Pan Yi is here, it feels like he is studying with the prince. Look at his Chelsea team, which has easily tied the record in team history.

Undefeated record, I really don’t know when his own unbeaten record will be ended.”

"It's been 40 games unbeaten..." Alan Shearer looked at the screen, which displayed the results of every game in the Premier League since Pan Yi coached Chelsea. "Don't tell me, this is far from Arsenal."

Undefeated in 49 games, it doesn’t look far away at all…”

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In front of the TV screen, a middle-aged man wearing the traditional costume of a Middle Eastern noble snorted.

He is the owner of Manchester City, the super rich Mansour from the United Arab Emirates.

Now, the Al Nahyan family, where Mansour belongs, not only owns the rich oil reserve resources of the Arabian Peninsula, but also invests extensively in sports clubs, the real estate market in London, and technology companies such as Musk's SpaceX company.

The Emirates Royal Group, where they belong, has assets of nearly US$300 billion and employs more than 27,000 employees.

Of course, "rich man" is just a relatively less dazzling one among his many identities.

He is also the son of former UAE President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and the younger brother of the current UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al.

In fact, by 2023, his titles include but are not limited to the following:

Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, Chairman of the Council of Ministers for Development, Minister of the Presidential Courts, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates...

It can be said that he is a true nobleman and the future successor of the kingdom.

But even for such a person who owns the world's largest private yacht worth 605 million US dollars and lives an unpretentious and boring life all day long, he also has his own troubles.

Because he is a fan and the owner of Manchester City Club.

Since the oil tycoon acquired Manchester City in 2009 and used money to quickly turn Manchester City into the Premier League champion and become a new giant that cannot be ignored in European football, Mansour can also be said to be a shaker in football.

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But just when Mansour was confidently about to launch another attack on the Champions League championship, making Manchester City a real giant and transforming from "new money" to "old money", he suddenly discovered: the Premier League championship was lost!

Logically speaking, it doesn't matter if you lose the championship once. This is considered a normal law of football.

After all, no matter which team in the world, there is no guarantee that they can win the league championship every year.

But after watching today's battle between Chelsea and Manchester City, Mansour felt strongly: This year's championship may be gone!

This was something he couldn't accept.

Not to mention that he has invested a lot every year since buying Manchester City. Even this year, the expenditure of nearly 200 million euros, including the arrival of superstars like De Bruyne, should be able to compete with Chelsea, right?

But what's the result?

At the Etihad home court, they were beaten by Chelsea.

"Tell me, what is going on?" Mansour said angrily.

Sitting opposite Mansour is the director of Manchester City Club Edelman. He is the director in charge of commercial operations. He came to the UAE today to report related work to his boss, so he did not attend the meeting with Mubarak and other senior executives in Ittiha.

The German stadium is "in jail".

But Mansour, who watched the live broadcast of the game next to him, is also trembling with fear.

This feeling is even worse than "going to jail"!

"What's going on?" is a bit too broad a question. How should he answer it?

Edelman thought for a while and replied wittily: "Didn't those experts from Sky Sports analyze it just now? Chelsea plays more as a whole, so..."

Anyway, Lineker and the others are all football experts, and experts have the final say.

Mansour waved his hand, signaling Edelman not to say anything.

He sighed and said: "The team needs the head coach to knit them into a whole. Of course I know this. I also know that Pan Yi is really good, otherwise we wouldn't have invited him to join us in the first place. But I don't know.

Yes, how are we worse than Chelsea? Why can't we steal players from them?"

Mansour was referring to Harry Kane.

At the beginning, Manchester City did feel that Harry Kane's cost-effectiveness was too low, so they did not take decisive action.

But later Mansour personally gave instructions, saying that the price was not an issue and he could pay higher than any competitor.

This is because, on the one hand, buying Kane is for competitive reasons, and on the other hand, it is because of his status as a rising star in England.

In order for Manchester City to integrate into the local community and gain support from local fans, in addition to good results, the number of local English players is also very important.

But Manchester City is obviously lacking in this regard.

In the current team, the only English players are goalkeeper Joe Hart and forward Sterling, and Sterling has just been poached from Liverpool - in fact, part of the purchase of Sterling is based on localization.

consider.

An English team with almost no Englishmen in the team is indeed uninteresting in the eyes of local fans.

Not to mention compared with Manchester United, which is known for its local youth training next door, even compared with Chelsea, who are also "upstarts", they are far behind.

In the current Chelsea team, Terry, Cahill, Loftus-Cheek, Lingard, Abraham, including Bamford who is on loan, and Harry Kane who was just bought, are all English nationals, and there are several others here.

All of them are products of Chelsea's own youth training.

The number of players in Manchester City’s youth training team is: 0.

So Mansour hopes to introduce Harry Kane.

The youth training of our team can only be done slowly, but the English residence can be obtained with money.

But even if Manchester City later raised their offer and offered a higher weekly salary than Chelsea, Kane still chose Chelsea in the end.

This is undoubtedly an unacceptable thing for Mansour, who is rich and wealthy.

"Maybe for Harry Kane, money may not be the first thing when choosing a team." Edelman said after thinking about it.

Mansour also understood this, nodded and motioned for Edelman to continue.

"First of all, as far as I know, Kane is a person who takes care of his family. So when choosing between a London team and a Manchester team, he may prefer the former."

"anything else?"

"Secondly, since he is leaving Tottenham, it means that he wants to go to a team that is more capable of winning the championship. At present, it seems that Chelsea, which won the double championship last season, will be closer to this goal than us...

"

"Any more?"
To be continued...