Chapter 661 Scratch Card
Due to the European Cup in 2004, the Premier League started a little later than in previous seasons. When Ronan came to Manchester, the competition for the transfer market had already reached a fever pitch.
Transfers in the football market are not only about competing for the players you like, but also about causing trouble in the transfers of competitors as much as possible.
Now all Manchester United's equity is in the hands of the holding company "Anderson Investment Company", and has also been successfully delisted and completed extremely critical privatization. Ronan has absolute controlling stake. To a certain extent, just like Roman Abramovich is to Chelsea, his power in Manchester United is unquestionable.
However, Ronan did not make much adjustments to Manchester United's management. Manchester United's current commercial profitability is ranked first in the Premier League, and is also one of the top football clubs in the world.
As one of the former Manchester United executives who supported Ronan's acquisition, David Gill was promoted to CEO from the club's general manager and is fully responsible for Manchester United's daily operations and transfer management.
Alex Ferguson continues to serve as the team's manager and head coach, and has the right to recommend the transfer.
Although Ferguson has certain shortcomings and even had a transfer black gold scandal, there is no more suitable head coach candidate than him at this stage. Moreover, Manchester United club has replaced a brand new financial director. This is the person selected by Mary, the chief financial officer of Relativity Entertainment, at the request of Ronan.
Power can be given, but supervision must not be missing.
As the brand new owner of Manchester United, Ronan's first big move after acquiring the club was to follow Ferguson's advice and sign the future super star Rooney in the eyes of British fans.
Although Lu Xiaopang later failed to reach the expected level, he became one of the cornerstones of Manchester United's success in the next ten years.
Moreover, such a green leaf-type player is actually rare. Rooney later was willing to act as the deputy and wingman of Ronaldo and General Fan, playing an extremely important role in Manchester United's success.
On the contrary, when he arrived in England, Rooney became the core, he performed...it would be fine if he didn't mention it.
Rooney's transfer also has another role, which quickly stabilized Manchester United's morale and the emotions of fans. Don't underestimate the role of the English household registration book. Ronan agreed that Manchester United won Rooney for a high price of 27 million pounds, which also won the recognition of fans.
Although some diehard Manchester United fans broke with Manchester United Club because of the acquisition and went out to establish a new Manchester United club, preparing to start from the lowest league to declare Manchester United's orthodox bloodline, for 99.9% of Manchester United fans, after they had made crazy opposition and were unable to stop them, they accepted the reality in front of them.
Just like the former Glazer family.
Moreover, Ronan, the boss, looks very generous. Manchester United club has more than a dozen transfer goals, including Arsenal's Ashley Cole and Chelsea's Lampard.
“My goal is to build a championship team!”
In the conference room of Manchester United club, Ronan told Ferguson and David Jill: "Manchester United should stand at the highest point in the Premier League."
He glanced at Ferguson. Maybe others didn't know it, but he knew Ferguson's biggest wish: "I hope Manchester United can win another Champions League title as soon as possible! No, not one, but many! So, I prepared a transfer fee of 100 million pounds for Manchester United this summer!"
Of course, some of these transfer fees come from new loans from banks, and some of them need to be resolved by selling redundant players.
David Gill said: "The transfers of several players, including Sylvester, have been completed, raising £35 million."
Ferguson looked serious. After the new boss took office, he directly intervened in the team's transfer, which made him somewhat unhappy: "The team is short of manpower now and cannot deal with multi-line combat. We must supplement it as soon as possible."
Ronan knew that Ferguson was extremely eager for a second Champions League trophy and had repeatedly delayed his retirement for this, and immediately said: "Sir, we will get the players you want and complete Manchester United's technical innovation."
The new boss has brought the team the Rooney he asked for, and left behind the players he likes and other favored and liked.
In fact, Ferguson's dissatisfaction is within control. After all, Ronan and David Jill had enough communication with him before selling players, and basically all the marginalized players were sold.
But these players have been introduced by him in recent years, and now they are being swept out. The face-saving old Scottish man looks a bit bad.
For example, goalkeeper Butters, since the guy who kissed him bald, left Manchester United, lost his good friend and instantly plummeted, becoming one of the most famous butterflies in the Premier League.
There is also Sylvester, also from France, with a large colander on the back line.
Other players like Cleberson, Jemba, Berion and Diego Fran are typical examples of failure in buying scratch cards.
Ronan knows very well that due to Manchester United's technological changes, among the technical players Ferguson has purchased in recent years, there are very few successful people at Manchester United, and it even makes people feel that Ferguson's vision is problematic. No wonder there is a black gold scandal in the transfer.
After Manchester United's three championships in 1999, Ferguson began to change the old and the new process. However, the continuous signing mistakes (Beron, Jemba, Cleberson, Fran, Fortun, etc.) not only made people doubt Ferguson's vision, but also led to Ferguson himself starting to hope for the birth of the new 92 generation. So Brown, Fletcher, Simpson, Richardson and others began to enter the first team rotation lineup.
Ferguson's idea was to lead the new with the old, and it was also successful at first. Brown next to Starm is a new celebrity in England; Fletcher is the next generation Beckham, who repeatedly assisted; Richardson scored two goals in his debut national team.
But Ferguson did not expect that the situation would soon be out of his control. Stam wrote a book, Xiao Bei, Solskjaer was seriously injured, Giggs and Scholes were injured one after another, and Ferdinand also joined in the fun in 2003 for more than half a year...
Once in the 2004-2005 season, the lack of staff in the backcourt allowed Ferguson to buy the same unreliable Argentine Heinze, who pushed Sylvester to the centre-back. This decision made Manchester United a big colander; the midfielder failed to sign, and when Keane gradually grew old, Scholes was troubled by injury, Giggs had not yet transformed, the midfielder was basically out of control, and he could only count on Fletcher, who was called a waste, and O'Shea, who was very active in all aspects but was limited by the talent limit.
As for Ronaldo on the right, he was still a big laughing stock in the Premier League. His daily operations were said to have sprinted 20 meters forward and then passed back 30 meters.
Although Fanny is still brave on the front line, Rooney occasionally has a little eye-catching, but the loss of power in the midfield and backcourt has caused Manchester United to be completely uncompetitive in the strong dialogue. Even Manchester United fans even wrote a joint letter to ask Ferguson to be dismissed during the season.
At that time, it was difficult for the Red Devils fans to really like Ronaldo because they were just a black sheep in those two seasons!
However, fate is ridiculous. After Beckham ran away, the first candidate on the right was Solskjaer, but the baby face was seriously injured since then, allowing Ronaldo to quickly get on the position. Even if he kicked like shit, he could firmly stand the main force, because no one could kick it.
Who would have thought that Ronaldo would be completely enlightened two years later and start a brand new football era?
Now that Manchester United is no one available, it is related to the club's instability in recent years.
Manchester United's profits are excellent, but if you study carefully, it is not difficult to find that Manchester United's investment in the transfer market is not very high. Most of the club's profits have been taken away by investors. Peron, who introduced the largest investment in the past few years, could not adapt to the Premier League at all.
As for those scratch cards, don't mention them.
Especially the goalkeeper position, since Schmechel, Manchester United goalkeeper has become a joke around the world. None of them is reliable.
In fact, Schmechel in 1999 is not reliable anymore, and all kinds of low-level mistakes can be made into a hilarious collection.
Therefore, Manchester United's biggest problem now is in the midfield and backcourt.
Once, after the Glazer family took over Manchester United, Manchester United was very stingy in supporting roles. For a long time, they did not spend much money. However, Ferguson was running at the time and the scratch card was at the time of the lottery draw.
Vidic, Evra, Vanderza and others all played an important role.
"We have Scholes, and the midfield does not need Lampard with overlapping positions." Ferguson said at this time: "Chelsea just changed the Russian boss last year and is not short of money at all, so it may not be sold to us."
David Jill told the truth: "Chelsea refused to talk to us about Lampard's deal, their new head coach, the Portuguese even clamored in the media that if we violated the rules and privately contacted the players, they would appeal to UEFA."
That Portuguese? Munniao.
Ronan was not surprised and stopped mentioning Lampard, but asked, "Where is Ashley Cole?"
"It's hard," said David Gill. "With our relationship with Arsenal, the possibility of a transfer is extremely low."
Manchester United and Arsenal are direct competitors.
"Have you visited the candidates I mentioned?" Ronan asked.
Ferguson asked a little surprised, "You have a scout."
Ronan shook his head: "No, but I have money. I can do a lot of things, including collecting information about first-tier league players in European countries." He always has to find a suitable excuse: "As early as 2001, I was interested in Manchester United, and I started working with some football information collection companies, and now I have invested a lot of money in them."
Ferguson nodded. As the head coach of the top team, of course he understood what role money can play in the football world.
Manchester United has a complete scouting system, and after Ronan provides information, David Gill quickly received a reward, saying: "Belgrade Red Star Vidic and Monaco Evra are indeed doing well in their respective leagues, and their prices are not high."
Ronan looked at Ferguson, and he still respected the opinions of the veteran coach.
Ferguson had already read the relevant information and talked with several spys who had cross-examination in person, nodding: "I have potential, I agree with the introduction."
David Jill said: "The transfers between the two of them are not difficult to operate, and the rest need to be competed with Chelsea and Liverpool."
Chapter completed!