Chapter 797 Liquidated Damages

In the past ten years, Gao Han has traveled to many stadiums in Europe, including magnificent and spectacular stadiums such as the Bernabeu and Camp Nou, as well as modern Schalke and Emirates Stadiums, and has also experienced the planning and design of Inter Milan's stadiums.

But in Gao Han's eyes, the most fantastic stadium is the Allianz Arena in Bayern Munich.

After two years of coaching at Bayern Munich, Gao Han is very familiar with the Allianz Arena, and he clearly knows that this stadium is not just a fantasy in appearance, nor is it just a layer of luminous film, it has created many world firsts in terms of construction technology and space structure, which can be said to have opened up a precedent for sports architecture.

Herzog and de Meuron, the designers of the Allianz Stadium, later used these aspects of design again when designing the Bird's Nest, the main venue of the Beijing Olympic Games, and persuaded the Chinese judges with their advanced advantages in this regard, but later due to the slogan of the Green Olympics, the design of the Bird's Nest was greatly modified, so that many things could not be realized.

But based on Gao Han's two years of understanding at the Allianz Arena, this stadium is indeed quite well designed, so that now, when Chinatown is preparing to build a new stadium, the first thing that comes to Gao Han's mind is this Swiss architectural firm.

However, the design of the stadium in Chinatown must have some Chinese elements, so Gao Han hopes to be like a bird's nest, and the Chinese architectural design institute will cooperate with Swiss architectural firms to design the stadium.

In this way, the design cost will definitely be more expensive, but Gao Han thinks it is worth it.

After receiving Gao Han's handpick, Armando Marcos said that after he returned, he would immediately organize the commercial department to conduct business evaluation and planning for the new stadium, and at the same time would investigate the business environment around Fuenlabrada and even the southern suburbs of Madrid, and after having a complete set of detailed plans, he would immediately contact Swiss and Chinese architectural design companies.

But whether it is the preparation of the plan or the planning and design, it is not something that can be completed in a short time, so after the negotiation was completed and the decision was made, Mendes and Cantarero and others scattered their things.

Gao Han stayed in Manchester to prepare for the away game against Wolves.

Wolves have been average this season, temporarily ranking 15th in the league, with a significant gap in strength with Manchester City.

It was definitely the most conservative game City have ever faced this season.

As a result, Wolves' defence lasted only 30 minutes before Karim Benzema's goal gave City the opener.

After the restart-up in the second half, defenders Vincent Kompany and Karim Benzema scored in quick succession to help Manchester City beat Wolves 3-0 away to secure a victory.

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In the 20th round of the Premier League, Manchester United beat Wigan Athletic 5-0 at home, Arsenal beat Portsmouth 4-1 away, Liverpool beat Aston Villa 1-0 at home, and then Chelsea lost 0-1 at home to Fulham.

Drogba and many other players went to Africa to participate in national team training and prepare for the Africa Cup of Nations, but Anelka's injury led to a shortage of manpower in Chelsea's midfield, so that it lost to Fulham in this round and became the only strong team to lose.

The all-pervasive Sun even ran the news on the second day of the game, revealing that on the Caribbean island of Toba Telelemy, Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and a host of VIPs watched two Premier League games between Manchester City and Chelsea.

After Chelsea's shock defeat at home to Fulham, Roman Abramovich promised in front of everyone that the team would bring in two strong reinforcements, Falcao and Ramirez, during the winter break.

As soon as the news of the Sun newspaper was published, it immediately triggered a major earthquake in the entire European football world.

Soon after, the Sun newspaper published the news that Falcao's agent, Jorge Mendes, secretly appeared in London to meet with Abramovich's confidant Marina Granovskia to discuss Falcao's transfer.

These two fierce news immediately made the transfer market boil.

Could it be that Chelsea really want to bring in poached Falcao?

And how much will the transfer fee be?

With a lot of suspense, the time finally crossed 2009 and officially entered 2010.

On the first day of entering 2010, the Spanish newspaper Ace broke the news that Real Madrid had officially announced that the plan to introduce Falcao had failed, on the grounds that some teams had given higher transfer chips, and the other party and Chinatown had basically reached a consensus.

As a result, in the afternoon of the same day, Chelsea could not wait to announce that the team had officially brought in a strong center forward Falcao and midfielder Ramires from La Liga Chinatown.

Falcao has scored fifteen goals in the first fifteen league games of La Liga this season, leading the top scorers in La Liga ahead of strikers such as David Villa, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Soldado and Gonzalo Higuain.

Brazilian midfielder Ramirez is also a recent midfielder in La Liga this season, and has been a bold and defensive performer who has been an important part of Chelsea's midfield strength.

Two big players were brought in from Chinatown in one go, but Chelsea did not disclose the specific transfer fee of the players.

However, in the evening, Chinatown publicly announced the transfers of the two players on their official website and Twitter, and said with regret that the team had done everything in their power to keep them, but Chelsea paid them liquidated damages.

This immediately shocked fans all over the world.

Penalty?

Falcao's liquidated damages amounted to 60 million euros, while Ramirez's liquidated damages also amounted to 30 million euros.

In other words, Chelsea spent 90 million euros in one go to bring in two big players.

Not to mention the shock of European football, even the whole world was taken by surprise.

But Falcao's transfer soap opera has finally come to an end, and everyone has finally got a result.

But soon, all the media and fans began to care about Chinatown again.

Gao Han's team is currently ranked seventh in La Liga, and originally had a good chance of breaking into the top six of the league and entering the European arena, and even many people are looking forward to Chinatown meeting Gao Han in the European arena to see how UEFA will decide.

Because according to the rules, as long as the team coached by Gao Han participates in the same competition as Chinatown, there will inevitably be a conflict of interest, but before this rule was more aimed at investors, now it is the head coach.

However, after entering January, Chinatown ushered in the first game of the new year, but lost 0-2 away to Real Mallorca, lost the first game of the new year, and the league ranking also fell to eighth place, which disappointed many people who watched the excitement.

A week later, in the 17th round of La Liga, China City challenged Malaga away, and the two sides played inseparable, Malaga scored first in the first half, but China City equalized in the 78th minute of the second half with Mkhitaryan assisting Diego Costa.

In the end, the two sides played to a 1-1 draw.

It was also with the points obtained in this game that Chinatown retained the eighth position in the league.

In the eighteenth round of La Liga, Chinatown returned to the Aldevilla Stadium and welcomed Mourinho's Real Madrid.

It was undoubtedly a tough game for Chinatown.

After losing Falcao and Ramirez, the team was clearly in trouble, and the encounter with Real Madrid was undoubtedly even worse.

However, Pochettino changed his formation decisively in this game, adjusting from the original 433 to a 4231 formation, with Schneiderlin and Marcos Senna forming a double midfield, Mkhitaryan playing in front, Hazard and Aubameyang forming two wings, Diego Costa in the middle, and launching a rush to attack.

It has to be said that Pochettino's change of formation worked wonders, China City not only assisted Diego Costa in the third minute of the game, but also firmly suppressed Real Madrid throughout the first half, making Mourinho's team very embarrassed and had to make substitutions in the midfield.

But after the rematch in the second half, Chinatown finally showed fatigue and was very embarrassed by Real Madrid, and Schneiderlin received a second yellow card in the 81st minute and was sent off the field with a red card.

But at the end of the game, Real Madrid failed to score.

In the end, Mauricio Pochettino's side beat Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid 1-0.

At the end of this round, Chinatown once again returned to seventh place in the league.

But this time Chinatown only sat for a week.

A week later, in the 19th round of La Liga, they lost 3-1 away to Deportivo La Coruna, and in the 20th round, they lost 0-1 away to Espanyol, suffering two consecutive defeats.

The two defeats dropped Chinatown back to eighth in the league.

But it was also during this period of time that the reinforcements of the Chinese city team finally paid off.

After more than half a month of operation, under the guidance of Mendes, Chinatown announced that the team brought in Spanish midfielder Ander Herrera from Zaragoza for 3.5 million euros.

The youngster's performances this season have been mixed, but he has a lot of talent, but Zaragoza's relegation prospects this season are very dangerous, and they are currently 19th in La Liga and are relegation favourites, so Andre Herrera is not resistant to switching to Chinatown, which has been largely relegated.

The signing is also seen as a key addition to fill Ramirez's vacancy, but many doubt that Ander Herrera has what it takes to play in the main line.

After all, Zaragoza, with him as the main force, is currently in 19th place, but Chinatown is in 8th place.

The day after the announcement of the introduction of Ander Herrera, Chinatown once again officially announced the introduction of forward attacker Kevin De Bruyne from Belgian team Genke for a transfer fee of 3 million euros.

The 18-year-old, who made his debut for Genke in the Belgian league last season, has been a regular this season and is highly regarded as a regular and will be keen to boost his attacking prowess up front.

After announcing two players in quick succession, Chinatown announced the signing at the last minute before the transfer market closed.

This time, two players were brought in from South America in one go, one is the attacking midfielder James Rodriguez of the Argentine league Banfield, and the other is Roberto Firmino from Figuelense, the second division of Brazil.

The former was the main force for Banfield, who was able to win the first Argentine Mecha League title in the club's history, thanks to James Rodriguez's crucial strike against Newell's Old Boys, which made him famous, and the Argentine newspaper Ole compared him to Cristiano Ronaldo.

As for Roberto Firmino, he is just a nobody, only known as an attacking player, and nothing else.

Both players were negotiated by Jorge Mendes in South America, and the transfer fee is totaling around three million euros.

The sale of Falcao and Ramirez earned 90 million euros, and the introduction of André Herrera, De Bruyne, James Rodriguez and Firmino cost less than 10 million euros, leaving 80 million euros in transfer income.

Spanish media reporters began to speculate that Javier Matayana, deputy editor-in-chief of the Marca newspaper, revealed in a column that Chinatown is actively preparing to build a new stadium.

This news shocked the world again!

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