After being rejected, I became Shi Yijiao

Chapter 392 Isn't it just over 1 million euros?
The recent Cobham training base has started to get busy.

In two days, the Chelsea Club will start training for the new season, and the players will also be preparing to assemble.

Pan Yi drove his silver Aston Martin directly into the internal parking lot...

Wait, Aston Martin?

Yes, that Aston Martin, Abramovich's one.

This kind of car, which is only worth 120 million pounds, was given to Pan Yi by Abu as soon as he was happy. What is there to say?

When Pan Yi went to the administrative office, Chelsea executives who had known about his itinerary for a long time, as well as various core executives were already sitting in the conference room waiting for him.

As soon as they entered the door, everyone greeted each other politely and exchanged polite greetings.

The double crown last season made everyone full of confidence in the team's journey in the new season.

Now everyone hopes that the team can continue to achieve satisfactory results under the leadership of Pan Yi!

Especially if you can give the whole seven crowns like Pan Yi's bold words at the championship ceremony...

After all, this will allow Chelsea to truly establish itself as a giant in world football!
Just one Champions League championship, to be honest, can't make a team stand up and say that they are rich.

Well, even more times doesn't necessarily count.

Like Benfica, Nottingham Forest, Porto, including Steaua Bucharest, Aston Villa, and Red Star Belgrade, if they stand up and say that they are a world-class giant team, will anyone recognize it?
Or can it attract enough stars?

If the club wants to become a giant, the key point is to persevere in achieving results, and then achieve a big result.

Occasional upsets, or weak follow-up, are difficult to be recognized by players or fans.

In the FM Football Manager game, this is measured by "prestige", which is actually very reasonable.

Even if you win the Champions League once in a while, it doesn't mean that you can buy big-name players as you like next season, because your prestige is not enough, and people don't bother to come.

So, why did Chelsea not win the Champions League before, but everyone still calls it a "rich family" and can attract many stars to vote?

The same is true for Manchester City and Arsenal.

That's because they first have good results in the Premier League and can win the championship, which will also increase their prestige.

Then, although they failed to win the Champions League, their results were also very stable.

Let’s just talk about Chelsea, who have been able to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League for several years in a row, and have also reached the finals. Such results are not something that any team can achieve.

Of course, Chelsea finally won the championship last season, which is a great boost to the club's prestige, and will naturally greatly enhance the status of Chelsea as a team in everyone's minds.

And if it is true that the so-called seven crowns will be achieved, it will be even more explosive!
Because it's an achievement that will go down in history!
Even for Pan Yi, the head coach who has achieved great success, it is also another peak of his career.

After all, in the history of world football, no one has been able to lead the team to win seven heavyweight championships in one season!
"Okay, everyone is here, let's have a meeting."

With the greeting from chairman Bruce Barker, everyone started the first high-level meeting of the new season.

CEO Ron Gourley took the lead in speaking, summarizing the team's performance and operating conditions last season.

There is no need for results, two heavy championships, this is a glory that Chelsea has never had in history.

The satisfaction of the fans is overwhelming, and the media reporters are also full of praise for Chelsea.

In his speech, Ron Gourley expressed his gratitude to the head coach Pan Yi on behalf of the club, hoping that he can lead the team to make persistent efforts.

In the second half of his speech, Ron Gourley also mentioned the current financial situation of the team.

That's one word - very healthy!
First of all, the transfer operations during the winter window were all about making money, but today in the summer window, although the club just spent a huge sum of 8500 million euros to buy Harry Kane, it also bought the German player Gretzka;

However, due to the large income from the sale of Ramirez, Mikel, and Cech, plus the income from renting out Bamford, William and other players, this has led to the team basically maintaining the flow of players. balance of payments.

As for the salary structure, it has become more reasonable after Pan Yi took over, and the overall decline has also saved a lot of expenses here.

Coupled with the excellent results last season, the team has experienced explosive growth in bonuses, sponsorships, TV broadcast fees, tickets, merchandise income and other items.

Ron Gourley also mentioned that although the purchase of Harry Kane cost a lot of money, due to the popularity of this player in England recently, it has also driven a lot of jersey sales, and some of them can be added here. income.

In addition, this deal severely hit the rivals Tottenham in the same city, causing them to lose their star of tomorrow, which also made the Chelsea club very satisfied.

In other words, regardless of competitive factors, everyone also thinks that the operation of buying Harry Kane is a stroke of magic!
After introducing Chelsea's financial situation, Ron Gourley also mentioned the transfer situation of the Premier League in the new season.

"There are three teams we have to keep an eye on, Manchester City, Manchester United and Liverpool."

Ron Gourley said with a serious face.

"As early as last summer, Manchester City invested a lot of money in the transfer market. Although the team's performance in the Champions League was not satisfactory, it was finally second only to us in the Premier League and won the first place in the league. two."

"This summer, Manchester City continued to increase their investment, including buying De Bruyne from Bayern for 8000 million euros, buying Sterling from Liverpool for 6500 million euros, buying Otamendi from Valencia for 4400 million euros... According to my speculation, this team is likely to continue to be our number one rival in the new season."

Pan Yi thought about it in his mind, Manchester City has invested so much for two consecutive seasons, and there is no financial problem?
Listening to Ron Gourley's introduction, although Manchester City has also transferred out this season, Dzeko went to Rome, Milner went to Liverpool are all free transfers, Jovetic went to Inter Milan on loan, Sinclair went to Aston Villa also only sold 300 million euros, which is simply not enough to make ends meet.

You know, although the transfer bid king so far this season belongs to Chelsea, the problem is that Chelsea also earn a lot.

Whether it is player transfers or income from the Premier League and the Champions League, Chelsea far exceeds Manchester City.

How can you Manchester City have been so devoted.

Forget it, besides, UEFA is going to check the Milan duo.

"The other teams that deserve our vigilance are the two traditional giants, Manchester United and Liverpool."

"Let's talk about Manchester United first. Although they sold Di Maria to Paris Saint-Germain, they introduced more powerful players. Martial of Monaco, 4000 million euros; Schneiderlin of Southampton, 3000 million euros; Indhoven's Depay, 3000 million euros; Bayern's Schweinsteiger, 2000 million euros; Turin's Damian, 2000 million euros..."

"Manchester United's strength should be said to have improved a lot compared to last season. Although Liverpool sold their prince Sterling, they also bought stars such as Benteke and Firmino at high prices, and even got them from Manchester City for free. After Milner, the overall trend is on the rise. It is said that they feel that their back line needs to be strengthened, so they are negotiating with Hamburg to join Van Dijk."

"In addition, Southampton, which performed well last season, is also fighting for Van Dijk. By the way, they still want to buy our midfielder Romeu with 500 million euros. Do you want to sell them?"

When everyone heard this, they all turned their heads to look at Pan Yi.

Now in the Chelsea team, although the chairmen and CEOs are all Pan Yi's bosses in name, when it comes to actual operations, they all have to listen to Pan Yi.

In front of Pan Yi, they seem to be more purely responsible for writing ppts and making reports...

Pan Yi sat on the seat all the time, nodded slightly, and agreed:

"No problem, just sell them."

This Romeu is a 23-year-old Spaniard who came from the La Masia youth training camp. He joined Chelsea in 2011 and is also a member of the Spanish youth national team.

But this guy was injured as soon as he arrived, and his condition was not good after recovery, so he became a regular member of Chelsea's taxi business. He was loaned to Valencia, Stuttgart and other teams. To be honest, he couldn't play well. .

So if you sell it, you sell it. After all, there are so many people in Chelsea's talent pool, and it is impossible for everyone to give a chance.

Pan Yi's chances will only be given priority to those players who have proven to be able to play in his previous life, or those players he is more familiar with and more optimistic about...

Everyone didn't have much objection to this transfer.

For players who are not needed by the first team, it is perfectly normal to sell them to make some money and save some wages by the way.

And Pan Yi is obviously not concerned about Romeu, but another player's name.

After he finished speaking, he added another sentence: "Since Liverpool and Southampton are both our competitors, and they are both interested in Van Dijk, why don't we do it too."

When everyone in the conference room heard this, they couldn't help discussing.

Everyone knows that Van Dijk is Pan Yi's favorite general.

When he was in AC Milan, Pan Yi brought Van Dijk from the Netherlands to Italy, and then took him to Hamburg to become the backbone of the Champions League champions' defense.

From this resume, it can be said that in Pan Yi's mind, he is second only to Kanter!
But the problem is that last season Hamburg's results were mediocre, they were eliminated in the top [-] of the Champions League, and the league barely qualified for the Europa League. Van Dijk's performance can only be said to be fair.

And Chelsea's current lineup of central defenders can be said to be very prosperous.

The main players Terry, David Lewis, and Gary Cahill are all in good condition. The young players Ake, Zouma, and Christensen have also grown rapidly after a year of training, and they also have outstanding performances in the game from time to time;
Then like Azpilicueta, Ivanovic, including Marcos Alonso, they can all play the position of central defender.

Under such circumstances, does Chelsea really need a central defender?
"Need it." Pan Yi seemed to know everyone's doubts, and said to himself:

"Have you forgotten how old our captain Terry is this year? 34 and a half years old. Although his fighting spirit on the court is still there, his body is inevitably declining, which is why he announced three years ago Reasons for quitting the England national team."

"We have to find a successor for Terry. In addition, although Gary Cahill has a tough defensive style and strong air and ground defense capabilities, he is still slightly insufficient in terms of timing and accuracy. .Actually, Cahill also has a certain degree of instability in dealing with high balls...Moreover, he is already 30 years old this year."

"And Van Dijk took into account the characteristics of both of them, and he is faster, better at handling the ball, and younger. To be honest, if he didn't meet my requirements for a central defender, I would not have suggested buying him. to Milan and then get a burger."

This is actually Pan Yi's plan for Chelsea's lineup.

After all, just because a player performed well in one season does not mean that he will continue to perform well in the next season, especially for older players.

As far as Pan Yi's "experience" in his previous life is concerned, Terry played almost full attendance in the 2014-2015 season and performed very well, and was selected into the Premier League's best team of the year;
But in the 2015-2016 season, his performance declined, and the number of appearances also dropped a little;
After another season, that is, the 2016-2017 season, he will be completely reduced to a substitute, which means that his ability cannot match the level of a wealthy team like Chelsea.

Looking at Gary Cahill, it's actually similar.

He also played less time in the 2015-2016 season. At that time, the young teenager Zuma in the team gradually grew up and began to replace his main position.

It is precisely because of this that these two veterans also left Chelsea successively, and went to weaker teams like Villa and Crystal Palace to continue their football careers.

Therefore, although Terry and Gary Cahill performed very well last season, perhaps they can better continue their football life under Pan Yi's training;

But in order to prevent such a sudden decline, Pan Yi decided to buy another central defender as a supplement.

After all, although Zuma, Ake and others are also very good, they are still far from the "top".

And now who is the world's top central defender?
Of course, it is Van Dijk who has the strength to compete for the position of "World First Guard"-whether it is in the previous life or in this life, Van Dijk has the strength to dominate the Premier League.

More importantly, he has just turned 24 now and is at the peak of his career, and this peak will continue for many years...

In addition, Van Dijk has played under Pan Yi's account for several years, and there is no situation where he does not adapt to Pan Yi's tactical system, and he can definitely plug and play.

On the other hand, didn't it mean that both Liverpool and Southampton wanted to buy Van Dijk?
Then Chelsea took a shot to snatch him, wouldn't it also weaken their strength virtually?

It is definitely a good deal in one fell swoop.

Everyone nodded after hearing what Pan Yi said.

In fact, you can only nod.

Who would dare to have any objections to the players Pan Yi wants to buy?
Even if you go to some corner and get an unknown player, everyone will believe his judgment;
What's more, this is Van Dijk, this is the main player who has won the Champions League twice in the past few years, and he is also a direct descendant of Pan Yi!
It's just that CEO Ron Gourley hesitated a little and said: "According to what I have learned, Hamburg's asking price for Van Dijk is very high. This is why Liverpool and Southampton have not been able to get the Dutch star. .”

"Does Van Dijk want to leave?" Pan Yi asked.

"I want to leave. He said that playing in the Premier League has always been his dream, so..."

"Then how much is he worth?" Pan Yi asked again.

"Probably somewhere between 5000 million and 6000 million euros."

"Then how much do we have in our transfer budget?"

"...The boss said, there is no cap. If you insist on a number... [-] million... or [-] million euros?"

"Then it's over." Pan Yi laughed, "Mr. Abu warned me a long time ago, telling me to spend the money well. Even in order to complete this task, I will buy Van Dijk!"

As Pan Yi said this, he was already planning to call Nagelsman in his head.

To be honest, this kid did a good job in Hamburg. After all, in just one or two years, the former Champions League champion team in Hamburg has been almost dismembered.

Only a few people such as Wu Lei, Salah, and Mitrovic are still in the team.

But Nagelsmann still brought them to the Europa League. The Champions League also won the group first and broke into the knockout round. It really makes sense.

And now, Van Dijk also wants to leave the team, that can't be cheaper for other teams.

Pan Yi is going to use a high price to win Van Dijk, which can be regarded as a help to Nagelsmann.

Alternatively, Chelsea can also sell or rent some people at a lower price, and it can also help the old club to support them.

Of course, the people around the conference table didn't know what Pan Yi was thinking. All they heard were Pan Yi's categorical words, which also made them understand Pan Yi's determination to introduce Van Dijk.

There is no doubt that Pan Yi's rejuvenation policy for Chelsea continues to advance.

And after last season, no one will doubt Pan Yi's coaching ability and strategy anymore.

Now, they are looking forward to Chelsea's journey in the new season and whether these young new aids can bring satisfactory performance.

At this time, Chairman Bruce Barker looked at the crowd, and said again: "Let's move on to the last topic, about Paris Saint-Germain's offer of 1.1 million euros to introduce Lukaku, everyone discuss it .”

Hearing this news, everyone was shocked.

1.1 million euros!The transfer amount is astonishing!

How should I put it, at this point in time, it is not easy for any player to be worth hundreds of millions.

The current world football transfer record holder is Bale. His transfer fee from Tottenham to Real Madrid is precisely 1.01 million euros.

And ranked second is Ronaldo, whose price of 9400 million euros was also the world's most valuable at that time.

The third is Neymar, who transferred from Santos to Barcelona and cost Barcelona 8800 million euros.

Then there is the 8500 million that Chelsea spent on Kane this season.

Next, De Bruyne switched to Manchester City, and Oscar went to Shanghai SIPG for 8000 million last year——

This can also show how arrogant the Chinese Super League teams have been in recent years. Few big-name European teams can offer a sky-high price of 8000 million euros.

In other words, Paris Saint-Germain wants to buy Lukaku for 1.2 million. This is to create a new world record for transfer fees!
"Maybe it's because we just bought Harry Kane, which makes Paris Saint-Germain think that we might sell Lukaku, who also plays the center position." Bruce Barker continued, "So, what do you think?"

He asked "everyone", but his eyes were on Pan Yi.

He understands whether Pan Yi bought Harry Kane to replace Lukaku, or whether the two major centers coexist, it still depends on what the head coach thinks.

Although the money...

It's really tempting, even for a "big family" like Chelsea.

This also shows how well Lukaku played under Pan Yi's command!

In just one year, he went from being a Chelsea player on loan to the Premier League Golden Boot and "Mr. Billionaire"!

"Reject directly." Pan Yi replied succinctly, and then said with a hint of a smile, "Or you can try to ask them, is 2.22 million okay?"

2.22 million, in fact, in Pan Yi's previous life, when PSG poached Neymar from Barcelona in 2017.

This has also become the most expensive transfer transaction in the history of world football.

At the same time, many people said that it was precisely because of this transaction that a series of butterfly effects followed, which also led to changes in the structure of world football.

For example, after the trade, when Barcelona got rich, they went to dig Liverpool’s Coutinho, and then when Liverpool got rich, they brought in defenders like Van Dijk and Alisson. wait.

As for Barcelona's Coutinho's poor performance, which caused another wave of chain reactions, this is another story.

The purchase of Neymar is also considered to be the beginning of a skyrocketing player's value.

After that, player transfers start at [-] million at every turn, what about Dembele, Coutinho, Griezmann, Felix, Grealish...

Anyway, the money behind it feels like it's not money.

Of course, what Pan Yi said now was a bit of a joke.

The big Paris buys people, it has always been to buy the head but not the foot. Although they vigorously introduce forwards at high prices, they are reluctant to spend money in the midfield.

Let’s just say now, you have strikers like Ibrahimovic and Cavani in your formation, as well as top strikers like Lavezzi and Lucas Jr., and you just bought Di Maria, and you still want to do it? Lukaku?
Is it really necessary to let Lukaku and Cavani play pure wingers?
This problem has not been corrected for many years.

Paris is buying, buying, and buying every year, but even if they don't renovate the midfield, they really can't complain that they have invested so much money for so many years and haven't been able to win a Champions League.

Of course, Bruce Barker didn't know that Pan Yi was complaining. Hearing what he said, he was stunned: "Ah? Really? 2.22 million?..."

Pan Yi laughed loudly: "Forget it, I was just joking."

Everyone in the conference room immediately understood what Pan Yi meant.

Just one word: not for sale!
Everyone couldn't help cheering up their spirits.

After all, Lukaku is also Chelsea's head star now. If he is really sold, it will still affect the morale of the entire team.

And it really feels good to reject Paris so simply.

Qatar's local tyrants are nothing, they can buy whoever they want?

We Chelsea are not poor.

Isn't it just over 1 million euros?
Ha ha, not short of this money!

(End of this chapter)