Chapter Seventy-Seven: Breaking the Record
Chen Bo's intimidation still had some effect, and coupled with Simone's murderous reputation, everyone immediately threw themselves into the training like chicken blood.
There is no winter break in the Premier League, even if it is Christmas, and there is still a game to be played.
There is also a League Cup match on Christmas Eve, although compared to the English FA Cup, this game is indeed more chicken, and many giants do not pay attention to it, and usually send substitutes to participate, but it is still very attractive for a team like Manchester City that has not won a championship all year round.
January is just around the corner, the winter transfer window will open, and there will be a definite decision on who will leave and who will stay.
Chen Bo was not idle when he came to Manchester, but fortunately, Haya came over to take care of the children, so he could devote himself to interesting work.
Almost the entire European and even the world's media and fans have launched a series of ridicule attacks on Manchester City's dick boss for breaking the jar, and actually hired a manager who is too young to be young, even if he is the Argentine national team record holder, even if he is the iron man Simeone. But the Premier League is still a top league after all, so it can't be so hasty, right?
And Manchester City's results are not so bad as to let go of their dignity, right?
Chen Bo is bold and aggressive in the Internet industry, and his moves are classics that can be written into textbooks. Even if you cross over to Hollywood, there is nothing to criticize, but when you go to the sports circle, you are cautious and cautious, and you don't look like the same person.
Is it true that hiring a big-name coach will die? It can't be that you don't even want to pay two or three million pounds in salary, right?
Manchester City fans beat their chests, and other fans were sneering, thinking that a local tyrant had come, but an iron rooster came. I'm afraid this is worse than the Glazer family who joined Manchester United, but it's just idle and has nothing to do to play tickets, and sooner or later you will have to be scolded.
Just as this pessimism was spreading, the club's CEO Bird held a press conference to officially announce the formal purchase of the ownership of the City Stadium for 50 million pounds, after Manchester City had invested 30 million pounds to transform the complex used to host the Commonwealth Games into a professional football stadium.
But now there is an additional £50 million to be budgeted for upgrades and an additional 17,000 seats, which will eventually be enough to accommodate 65,000 fans. Although it is much smaller than the previous old stadium, Maine Road, it is enough for the middle and lower teams.
It will also be second to Wembley Stadium and city rivals Manchester United's Old Trafford in England, but will also finish behind Cardiff Millennium Stadium in Wales in the UK.
Not only that, but the price of the stadium will be set up with a ropeway shooting system, that is, the legendary flying cat, which is currently only planned for the 06 World Cup in Germany in the world. In addition, the 24 camera positions in the stadium will be doubled to 48, providing more angles, better quality and all-round three-dimensional visual feast for the broadcast of the game.
At the same time, 120 acres of land were purchased from City Hall around the stadium and a £200 million investment is planned to be built into a football academy for youth team training.
Just when everyone was stunned and lamenting why the boss of Dick Si was suddenly shocked to open his money bag, the orange company announced that it would be named Manchester City Stadium, signing a 50-year contract at a cost of 30 million pounds per year. The contract is worth £1.5 billion and will be officially renamed the Orange Stadium.
The UAE's Etihad Airways announced a 10-year naming of the training base, with an annual cost of £15 million and a contract value of £150 million.
This, this, this! All the news is explosive, if you really don't make a move, it will be fatal.
£100 million is not a small amount, but £200 million will be spent on a new training base, most of which will be used by youth teams.
It is not uncommon for stadiums to sell titles all over the world, after all, it is also part of the club's job to spare no effort to develop commercial value. But that's too much, isn't it? It's hard to describe it with a sky-high price, it can be said to be a super invincible universe price.
It's just that you sell the stadium title, and even the youth training base sells the title at a high price, you must know that Emirates has only given 6 million pounds to name Arsenal's new stadium, which is definitely a drop in the bucket in comparison.
What is the difference between Emirates and Etihad? Of course, one is from Dubai, the other is from Abu Dhabi, and the exact translation of Dubai should be called Emirates Airlines, but it was established relatively early. Although Ittihad is relatively late, Mansour's family company, of course, aims to enhance its international image, and it is completely understandable that it has made a generous offer.
The McLaren Group then announced the signing of Manchester City as a partnership for the car brand, with each first-team player and coach receiving the right to use a McLaren and recoup it when they leave the club, plus a £15 million annual sponsorship fee.
Germany's Adidas Group has just acquired the world's third-largest sports brand for $3.8 billion, and now it has come to take over the team sponsored by Reebok, and Manchester City happens to be one of them.
In comparison, Chen Bo likes Nike's business plan, but Nike has already sponsored its city rival Manchester United, so it will not give another team a big contract, and the ranking will have to drop.
On the field, it is a battle between two teams, and off the field, it is not a bunch of sponsors that explode each other.
Look at the sponsorship, Manchester United is Vodafone Telecom, Manchester City has Orange, Manchester United has Epson, Chen Bo is ready to pull Samsung over, Manchester United has Nike, and Manchester City has Adidas again............
A series of dazzling actions not only made the media orgasm, but also made Manchester City fans so excited that they almost knelt down and hugged Chen Bo's thigh and called Dad.
The media is saying every day that your boss is a dick, and he is not willing to pay until now, and the players still rely on others to send them.
But now? Although the results are still not good, the Manchester City fans themselves know what it was like and it is perfectly acceptable. The stadium was bought by a new owner, right? The sponsorship was brought in by the new boss, right? Even if it's his own company, the Glazer family doesn't have a single child, right?
If it continues to blow, the cow will be embarrassed, but Manchester City fans are indeed proud, of course they have to be high after being aggrieved for so long, who is still thinking about scolding the new manager at this time. Could it be that this new boss is not succeeding in the next big game of chess?
Just two days before the game, Chen Bo happened to appear at the door of the club, and happened to accept an interview, by the way, through the media to tell all the fans that the second shareholder Mansour will prepare a Christmas gift for all fans at that time, and it is best to arrive half an hour early, because there is also a rich opening show.
"48,000 gifts!!" Mansour's heart was bleeding, "But why should I pay the bill?" ”
"You're wrong, it's 50,000 copies. There are also the staff and security guards of the event. Chen Bo smiled, "Isn't this an opportunity to prove yourself to the world?" ”
"That's right!" Mansour's head seemed to be a little funny just now, when did he ever treat money as money, even if a hundred pounds of gifts were not only 5 million pounds, it would definitely be a drizzle for him.
"Don't think I don't know, you signed several real estate projects with the city government through Manchester City FC, so I won't talk about oil and water, right?"
"Don't worry, I didn't intend to hide it from you." Mansour said, "I don't know, it's really easy to use the name of this boss, most of the people in Manchester are Manchester City fans, so naturally they give me the green light." ”
"Isn't that the end of it, let's pay more for the sponsorship fee, and let the world know your generosity."
"What else is needed? Just say! You're welcome. ”
"Next season's chest advertisement, I plan not to sell it, but to leave it to the Charity Foundation!"
"Are you crazy? To charitable foundations? That's a lot of money! ”
"Big fart, all those big sponsorships burned your head? That's our own company's money. ”
"If you want me to say, why do you want to do that, just take out the money and smash it in?"
"Nonsense, if you want to do this, UEFA will definitely come and punish you!" Chen Bo didn't have a good temperament, Abu is a tyrant Chelsea and immediately changed the pattern of the Premier League, which is a serious infringement on the interests of traditional strong teams, of course, you have to be punished as a rule-breaker.
The only way is to make the accounts detailed in advance, and use the trick of hiding the sky and the sea to leave them with nothing to say.
"Okay, then I'll pay another £50 million a year, that's enough, right?"
"That's too conspicuous. Our current sponsorship is already breaking records, Real Madrid and Manchester United are not as high as our sponsorship, a cuff and collar is 50 million pounds, isn't this a slap in the face of UEFA? Did Johansson's old man say at last month's UEFA meeting that he should pay attention to the harm that this kind of golden dollar football brings to the healthy development of the league? ”
"I didn't see it." Mansour shrugged, looking indifferent, rich is a dick!
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Christmas Eve finally arrived, and the whole of Manchester was in a sea of blue from the early morning, and the streets were full of fans wearing light blue jerseys, but most of them were wrapped in thick cotton clothes, and some of the big men with fat chests with various slogans in support of Manchester City written on them, and some of them were very shocking, such as "I want to have monkeys for you...... Something like that. ”
Manchester Airport, on the other hand, welcomed a well-wrapped and low-key young man, who would never have guessed who he was if it weren't for the sharp-eyed senior media, who was surrounded by a group of men in black and hurried to the renamed Orange Stadium in a car.
Chen Bo and his family also came to the stadium early, although the temperature was already below zero, but they did not specialize, and chose to sit in the warm luxury box. Putting them to the test of the cold, plus the passion on the pitch is also a growth process that must be experienced.