After the fifteenth round of league games, the Premier League will usher in a tight schedule before Christmas.

All teams will play three league games over eight days, with the intensity of the competition even surpassing the two in the four days after Christmas.

It's just that the Christmas Devils schedule is famous, and the mentality of players is generally easy to relax after the holiday, so these two league games after Christmas will be so a headache.

Between the fifteenth and sixteenth rounds, when the top four of the Premier League were busy competing in the final round of the Champions League group stage, Manchester City held an early Christmas dinner in Manchester, and the big boss Mansour who stayed in Manchester attended in person, and invited a team of celebrity chefs from London to Manchester to take charge, inviting all players and their families, as well as club staff to attend.

This huge Christmas dinner not only prepared a lot of activities, but also prepared valuable gifts.

Everyone knows that Mansour's shot must be extraordinary.

But all the media reporters who heard the news paid more attention to the inside story of this Christmas dinner.

For example, the chef invited by Manchester City is a Chinese from a famous Chinese restaurant in London, and the majority shareholder of this Chinese restaurant is Gao Han, when the restaurant first opened, Gao Han invited Chelsea to a Christmas dinner out of his own pocket, which also caused controversy and triggered conflicts with management.

Later, the restaurant became a favourite hangout for stars from many London teams, including Chelsea, and a favourite hangout for London's upper class.

And this time, Manchester City invited the Chinese chef of this restaurant to go north to Manchester to take charge, which is somewhat reverie, not only because of the high cold, but also because the Madrid branch of this restaurant is also the most frequented dining place for Atletico Madrid players.

Whether or not Gao Han and Manchester City want to admit it, Gao Han's line has become the undisputed number one faction in Manchester City's team, and Xavi Alonso replaced David Dunn as the team's captain when he first arrived.

But for an international column like Manchester City, which has just restructured, it's not a bad thing.

The team leads the standings with a complete winning record, and after Kaka's return, Manchester City beat Chelsea 5-0, all kinds of benefits made Manchester City's Christmas dinner very lively.

At the party, the club's chairman Mubarak also solemnly announced to everyone that the club has reached an agreement with the Manchester City Council to build a comprehensive training base diagonally opposite the home stadium, and it will be planned at the world's top level, which will greatly improve Manchester City's existing training and youth training environment.

With a budget of £200 million, the entire training base will be the most expensive in the world.

Since the training base will bring about 300 jobs to Manchester in addition to a number of football professionals, the Manchester City Council attaches great importance to it and will start land acquisition and demolition in the near future.

Hearing the news, the whole city was very excited, and the media reporters at the scene were even more surprised.

At the very least, they all have to admit that Mansour is by far the most tycoon they have ever seen, and he is willing to invest in football, which is obviously much more generous than Abramovich and others.

Gao Han was not surprised at all by this, because he is the club's chief technology officer, and the management has been in operation since he decided to coach Manchester City, but it has not been announced.

Now that an agreement has been reached with the City of Manchester, it's time to make it public.

What is not announced is that the entire Manchester City training base has Gao Han's deep involvement, and in the near future, Mubarak will organize the Manchester City team to go to the Chinatown training center in Madrid to investigate, hoping to learn advanced experience from Chinatown.

Chinatown's youth academy has made a name for itself in European football in recent years, and it has its own coach training center, with a fixed number of places reserved for coaches from China in each session, and the rest are coaches from Spain, Europe, and even around the world.

Manchester City also hope to cooperate with Chinatown in coaching and learning from Chinatown's advanced training and youth training experience, and they will also be the first club to cooperate with Chinatown in coach training.

This cooperation can greatly enhance the status and influence of Chinatown in European football, and at the same time, it can also receive a rich return on training, but it is also a big benefit to Manchester City.

You must know that all the teaching materials of the coach training course in Chinatown are written by Gao Han and his team, and many of them are still born from the coaching system, whether it is for the team's daily training or for the training of young players, the effect is far beyond the same kind.

This is also the reason why Gao Han chose Cantarero as the technical director of Chinatown in the first place.

As for how much Manchester City can learn, it is not something that the cold can control.

With the start of various activities, especially the carnival, the atmosphere of the scene is getting stronger and stronger.

Mansour seemed to be a little unable to fit in, and he didn't want to spoil the atmosphere of the scene, seeing Gao Han sitting alone in the corner, looking at the players who were reveling on the scene with a smile, he immediately walked over.

"Mr. Gao Han, what about your wife and children?" Mansour asked with concern.

"I've returned home. Gao Han replied.

Lin Xia has already taken the first step in starting a business, so he returned to China to deal with some things and discuss cooperation.

Her entrepreneurial direction is still news, she plans to make a news app on the Apple mobile phone platform, and there is nothing at the moment, but there are already two well-known columnists in China, one is Lin Xia herself, her blog has always been very popular, and the other is needless to say, it is Gao Han.

Since Gao Han opened a column in the Guardian, he occasionally wrote it on a whim, but it was very popular with readers, and many other newspapers wanted to cooperate.

"Seriously, Mr. Kohan, I am grateful for the difference you have made for our City. Mansour took two glasses of red wine from the waiter's tray next to him and handed one to Gao Han.

The two glasses of wine clattered, and they both drank it all.

"I won't say much else, if you have any needs, as long as I can help, I will help unconditionally. ”

When Mansour said this, he looked very sincere.

Just last Christmas, the team didn't do well, the whole Christmas dinner was not interesting, Mansour didn't even bother to come, but this year is completely different.

Look at the stars present, look at the media reporters who came to the scene, and then look at the atmosphere......

Gao Han also understood what Mansur meant, he knew Mansour's energy in Europe, but there were some things he wasn't used to asking for help.

As the saying goes, eating people with a soft mouth and taking people with short hands, the most difficult thing in the world is human affection.

…………

…………

While Manchester City was holding a huge Christmas party in Manchester, Roman Abramovich also received a reply from Jorge Mendes in Spain, in London, to the south.

The Russians were furious on the spot.

"He's crazy! He must be crazy about money!"

Abramovich was so angry that he jumped up from the sofa in the living room of his home, but fortunately he didn't have anything at hand and didn't have to fall, otherwise he would have suffered.

Granovskia was mentally prepared for this, and stood aside and did not dare to say anything.

She has always been very clear, but whenever there is the slightest news related to Gao Han and unfavorable to Abramovich, her boss will be furious, Gao Han is like his reverse scales, and it hurts when he reveals it.

Just now, Jorge Mendes called her and told her that China Town had replied that Falcao and Ramirez were not for sale and that no team would want to take two players from China Town.

"I personally called Gao Han and talked about it, and he refused without hesitation, it was about the team's relegation, and it was impossible for him to let go of these two players during the winter break, so Gao Han said that it was okay to buy it and pay liquidated damages. ”

Mendes's words were conveyed to Abramovich by Granovskia.

"Liquidated damages?" the Russian sneered, "Falcao's liquidated damages are as high as 60 million euros, and Ramirez is also 30 million euros, why am I so sick in the brain that I will spend 90 million euros to buy these two guys, who do he think these two are?

"I don't think it's realistic. Only then did Granovskia interject, "Gao Han's reply clearly wants us to retreat, which is a common tactic used by many teams, but it is precisely because of this that he exposes his desire not to sell two players. ”

In this past round, China City lost at home to Valencia, but Falcao scored again.

In terms of goal efficiency, the Colombian striker has been comparable to any star in Europe since joining Spain, even in the more competitive La Liga this season, his goal efficiency has not decreased at all.

According to the assessment of Chelsea's technical team, a large part of the reason why Falcao has scored so many goals is that Chinatown's entire attack revolves around Falcao, and the Colombian center's goalscoring ability is indeed outstanding, which has contributed to his goal surge this season.

But the more goals Falcao scores, the more he can be used for Chinatown.

What's more, he is only twenty-three years old, and he is far from reaching his golden age, and the potential that can be tapped is still quite large.

But 60 million euros is indeed ridiculously expensive, and anyone who is even a little familiar with European football knows that this is just a ploy by Chinatown to scare off potential poachers.

If the usual poaching procedures in European football continue, and Chelsea are determined to poach people, they will have to offer a higher price on the one hand, and on the other hand, try to persuade the players and agents to cooperate with each other, and force Chinatown to accept the reality.

But the reality is that neither the player nor the agent can match Chelsea.

Abramovich is also very conflicted now, on the one hand, he is indeed very similar to digging Falcao and Ramirez, which can not only enhance the strength of Chelsea, but also retaliate against the cold, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone, but on the other hand, Chinatown has a tough attitude, and he is reluctant to spend this money, so ......

"What's the news on the transfer market?" Abramovich asked with concern.

According to Marca, Real Madrid do intend to poach Falcao, and they are not short of transfer funds, and Mourinho also seems to be optimistic about the center's scoring ability, hoping to use Falcao to improve Real Madrid's goalscoring ability and improve his coaching environment at the Bernabeu. ”

Granovskia's words made Abramovich's brows furrow.

"In addition, Manchester United and Liverpool also seem to be interested in Falcao, especially Liverpool, Benitez also mentioned Falcao in an interview with the media yesterday, it is estimated that it is really interesting, but the price may be ......"

When Abramovich heard this, he understood a little bit in his heart.

Falcao is indeed a treasure, and many giant teams have to poach corners, but Chinatown refuses to sell it, and it can only be liquidated damages if it is bought.

But is anyone willing to pay such a high liquidated damages?

At least Abramovich is reluctant. 8)