On the last Friday of August 1989, Sun Dahai followed the Banat team to Cheshire to prepare for the first official league game after the new life of the Banat Football Club.
In order not to put more pressure on the team, Sun Dahai did not get on the team bus, but took other club vehicles and went there.
For the first game after the club changed ownership, everyone in the club attached great importance to it. Except for the department responsible for player transfers and club infrastructure, which did not have anyone coming, all other major departments sent people to the away game.
Even Jack, the youth training director who has nothing to do with him, has come to use his spare time. He will use his advantages of wide contacts and familiarity with various affairs to assist the current team leader in his work.
Therefore, the Banat Football Club formed a small convoy of five cars, one large, four small and five small, and headed for the away game.
Behind them were more than 20 small cars. They were the club's die-hard children's fans who organized an expeditionary force of 60 or 70 people to go on the road trip with the team.
Although the fans of the Banat team are not many, they are considered to be good among the clubs in the third league. Baia's long-term investment has enabled the club to cultivate a group of real die-hards.
Due to the environment and economic scale of Banat City, the club's fans are mainly industrial workers. There are almost no real rich people, but there are still some middle class people.
These wealthy and idle people are the main force of the club’s expeditionary force, but for them, this is more like an organized self-driving tour. Everyone invites friends to go out together, eat, drink, have fun, and watch
A game, why not do it?
Naturally, the fans cheering for the Banat team in the away game will not be just three or two big cats and kittens. Most of the fans will wait until tomorrow morning to take the train to watch the game in the afternoon, and then take the train back.
Can get home.
Compared with those who are rich, most fans have to consider time and cost even if they decide to go to an away game to cheer for the team.
After Sun Dahai took over the club, the economic conditions of the Banat team have completely changed. With strong economic strength as a guarantee, the coaching staff, players and team staff can naturally focus on training and competition instead of
Distract yourself elsewhere.
The motorcade set off at 7:30 in the morning, and after four hours, arrived at the Crewe Hall Q Hotel in Crewe.
The Crewe Hall Q Hotel is the best hotel in Crewe, with a history dating back to the seventeenth century. It is like a huge castle, a typical combination of classical and modern architecture.
This is the best hotel in Crewe, only a few kilometers away from Gresty Road Stadium. Although the price of each double room is nearly 100 pounds, it is not cheap, but it is comparable to the 20 to 30 pound rooms that the team used to stay in.
Compared with it, the comfort is much higher.
The club's front desk staff and Crewe Football Club's reception staff have been waiting at the door of the hotel for a long time.
After the team completed their check-in, they went to the small restaurant to have a meal. The small restaurant had been booked by the team for the last few meals until the team left.
All the dishes here are in the form of a buffet, and the menu is prepared by the team's full-time nutritionist. It is not only nutritious and reasonably matched, but also has corresponding requirements for each dish.
Such professionalism not only made the receptionist of Crewe Football Club stunned, but also the Banat team members who enjoyed this treatment for the first time were secretly chuckling. The new boss is really making a big deal! Those top players in the world
The club is nothing more than that.
After lunch, the players went back to their rooms for a lunch break. In the afternoon, they had to adapt to the venue and conduct the last tactical drill before the game.
Sun Dahai was invited to visit Crewe Football Club and will have afternoon tea with Sir Jason Hoddle, the honorary president of Crewe Football Club.
Sir Jason Hodel is over seventy years old this year. He is a knowledgeable, enthusiastic and talkative old man.
Sir Hodder has made great contributions in many humanistic fields such as Western literature and drama, and was therefore awarded the Order of Merit by Queen Britten.
He is not a powerful person, nor does he run a business. Most of his positions are fictitious, so he is more like a clean figure.
Accompanying Sun Dahai to meet Sir Hoddle, in addition to Wei San and Gao Yi, there is also Hadlade, the current president of Crewe Football Club.
Hadlade is also the owner of a railway machinery manufacturing company, and Crewe is the center of Britten railway machinery and advanced automobile manufacturing.
However, these industries have gradually become empty shells in recent years, retaining only research institutions and core technologies, and basically authorizing production operations to other domestic companies or foreign companies to complete.
As the head of an established third-division club, Hadlade has a deep understanding of Banat, an old rival.
From the perspective of team record and financial strength, Banat is slightly better than Crewe Football Club, but Crewe also has its own advantage, that is, they have their own stadium - Gresty Road Stadium.
Gresty Road Stadium was built at the end of the last century. Since 1898, it has been purchased by Crewe Football Club and has become the home ground of Crewe.
This investment has benefited Crewe Football Club for nearly a century. The annual maintenance cost of the stadium is much lower than the rental fee, and there is no need to share the ticket revenue with the stadium. This makes Hadled's annual subsidy to the club
, only half that of Baia.
Baia has become a thing of the past, and now the chairman of Banat Football Club has been replaced by Sun Dahai. Most of the Britten football people are very curious about this young Chinese owner.
Even those strong teams in the First Division began to pay attention to this unknown small club after hearing that Banat Football Club's first-phase investment reached 200 million pounds.
Even excluding the construction cost of the new stadium, Sun Dahai's investment of more than 100 million pounds in Banat Football Club is definitely considered a large sum for a club in the First Division.
It can be said that his intention to target the top league is obvious. Only by entering the top league and participating in European competitions can the investment be reasonably rewarded.
However, Sun Dahai's companies have no operations in Britten, and the Britten football circle has no understanding of him.
Therefore, under the deliberate guidance of some paid tabloids, Sun Dahai was loaded with multiple symbols such as "mysterious", "Asian", "young", "rich", "family", etc., which actually made Sun Dahai
It is overlooked that he was the first non-Caucasian to acquire Britten Football Club.
Therefore, when they learned that Sun Dahai would come to the away game with the team and watch the game, the bosses of the three home teams unanimously arranged to meet with Sun Dahai.
Hadlade invited the club's mascot, Sir Hoddle, just to have afternoon tea with Sun Dahai and make first contact with him.