Chapter 416 UEFA Cup Final (Big Chapter Asking for a Monthly Pass)
The shock of Ibiza's La Liga title continues to resonate.
On May 13th, this day, many media around the world are talking about one thing, there are Ibiza fans who bought Ibiza to win the championship before the start of the season, the odds at that time were as high as 1 to 6000, the fan who bet 50 euros at the time is now at the moment of a bumper harvest, although the fan swore that he bought Ibiza to win the championship is optimistic about Ibiza, but, obviously, everyone prefers to believe that this is a lucky guy......
"This is probably the happiest fan on the planet." - "As" newspaper lamented.
Birmingham, Villa base.
The only lights on in the entire training base are the club president's office and the guard's office.
Aston Villa club president Randy Murphy. Lerner stood in front of the window, and he looked out, it was pitch black outside, just like his heavy heart right now.
On the desk behind him, several newspapers were messily arranged, and the front page of the top one read in large bold black letters: Vera is dead!
Aston Villa's unprecedentedly ten-game losing streak in the league has caused huge outrage and discontent from the media and fans, and it has been a period of time when Birmingham has been full of criticism from the club's hierarchy and against the team's manager, Martin Villa. O'Neill, criticism of the players.
As the owner of the club, Landiller is the first to bear the brunt, especially in the name of the self-proclaimed Aston Villa fan who has been a 100-year-old Aston Villa fan for three generations. Under the rhythm of Kells's guys, the media gradually pointed the finger at him, and the "Birmingham Evening News" bluntly asked: An American, who understands Maozi's football?
Landilener felt extremely panicked, when he bought Aston Villa from Ellis, who was abused and ridiculed by fans as a 'miser', the fans welcomed him, and then he changed Aston Villa's youth training style of buying less and selling less, and began to recruit on a large scale, and when he brought Ashley Young, Milner and other English stars to Aston Villa, the fans applauded him.
Originally......
The memories of love in the past seem to be in my ears, but now it is such a bleak scene.
Well, it's finally a relief!
After finally making up his mind to accept F&P's offer of 96.5 million pounds, Landy Lerner was first irritable, as if the big baby had been snatched away, and then he was relieved, watching Aston Villa lose and lose every day, watching the value of the team continue to depreciate, his heart was cold, and it was good to let it go while Aston Villa had not fallen to the bottom.
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When the driver drove Landiller out of the training base, the car had just left the gate of the training base, and under the dim street lamps and bushes, more than a dozen reporters suddenly came out, carrying long guns and short guns, and instantly surrounded the vehicle.
The cameras, cameras, and microphones stretched out to the rear window.
"Mr. Lerner, what do you have to say about the current situation at Aston Villa?"
"Mr. Lerner, a famous fan of Wayne. What do you think of Kells' criticism that you should be responsible for the current state of the team? ”
"Mr. Lerner, will the team fire Martin. O'neill? ”
"Mr. Lerner, the window of your house was smashed......"
"Mr. Lerner......"
The reporters stared at the Yankees, they were eager to take pictures of the embarrassment of the American tycoon, but they were surprised to find that Landy Renner, who had been hiding from the reporters a few days ago, did not roll up the car window this time, he just looked at the crowd, and even said coldly to the microphone that was about to reach out to his mouth, "My mouth is not a goal." ”
"I refuse to accept those criticisms."
'I've brought a lot of stars to Villa.
'When I accepted the team, we were struggling with relegation.
"Right now, we're regulars in the top six."
'I know a lot of people are not satisfied, but I still have to say that no one knows what's going on, our luck is terrible, the players are injured, the team's form has plummeted, we have lost 10 games in a row, I really doubt my team is cursed.
"Well, it's time to put an end to this bad day."
Landy LernerLandy Lerner rolled down the window and motioned for the driver to drive, he looked at the reporter who was still unsatisfied, and said, "I love Aston Villa, yes, I love Villa." ”
He was responded to by a flash masterpiece, as well as ...... There was a burst of boos.
"That's a good point." "Guardian" reporter James sarcastically said, "This season has passed like this, and of course the bad days of this season are over, he~"
'Anyway, I'm not optimistic about Villa's situation next season, unless there is a big change, this is a team that is used to losing. There was some agreement.
Reporters subconsciously thought that Landirler's sentence meant that the season was coming to an end, but they didn't think too much about it, Aston Villa's ownership transfer negotiations were very covert and confidential, and so far no media has received any news.
Only Times reporter Duncan. Castur frowned, and his instincts told him that Randy Lerner's reaction today was a little strange......
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Two days later, the Times broke the news that a buyer was buying Aston Villa Club, and there was insider information that the owner of Aston Villa Club, American billionaire Landilena, had accepted the offer, and the latest news was that the acquisition worth at least £100 million was close to completion.
As soon as the news came out, it immediately detonated the English football world, about the large-scale entry of foreign capital, the pros and cons of acquiring Premier League teams, has long caused a big discussion in English football, opponents believe that this subverts the football tradition of England, is a regression of football, supporters think that it is a good thing to have capital to come in, to be bigger and stronger, interestingly, after Manchester City Club was bought by the Arabs last year, the "Daily Mirror" interviewed fans and asked them what they thought about the club's acquisition, Half a year later, the Daily Mirror asked the same group of fans what they thought, some refused to answer, some still opposed, and some euphemistically said that if they wanted a buyer like the Abu Dhabi consortium, they wouldn't mind their home team being acquired......
Aston Villa fans are obviously the most concerned about the news, and some media speculate that Aston Villa fans will strongly oppose the team being sold again, Aston Villa's fans reacted relatively rationally, and the fan leaders stood up to speak, they wanted to know what the situation of the club's potential new owners is, what are the plans of the other side for Aston Villa, and of course, the most important point, what is the financial strength of the other side! Aston Villa fans don't want the new club to be a debt-in-debt takeover like United's new owners.
In fact, Aston Villa fans are not unequivocally opposed to the club being sold, mainly because, three years ago, Aston Villa was sold once, and then there was the current American owner, and now it is being sold again, and the fans are used to it.
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Now that it has been revealed by the media, Aston Villa FC has not continued to keep it a secret.
On 16 May, Aston Villa held a press conference to publicly admit that the club was indeed in the process of transferring ownership, and that the club's president, Mr. Landiller, would be responsible for Aston Villa and its fans in finding an ambitious and reliable new owner.
A day later, in the 36th round of La Liga, the new La Liga champions Ibiza were held to a 0-0 draw away by Sporting Gijón.
Four days later, the UEFA Cup final was the case, so Fang Jue rotated the squad quite a bit in this game.
In England, Aston Villa suffered an 11-game losing streak in the league to Middlesbrough in the 37th round of the league.
Aston Villa, on the other hand, have slipped to eighth in the league standings.
The Times reporter Duncan. Castour said in his column, "After suffering a miserable eleven consecutive defeats, Aston Villa was able to rank eighth in the league, from here we can also see how good Aston Villa's performance was before the 27th round of the league, who would have thought that after the League Cup home was bloodied by Ibiza, Aston Villa entered such a strange losing streak...... Obviously, the acquisition of Aston Villa is about to turn three years old, and Landiller is not stingy in the transfer market, and he is looking forward to the team being able to reach the European Champions League and bring back the income, but it is clear that the failure to hit the European Champions League for three consecutive seasons has made Landiller frustrated, not to mention, the current situation is that they will not even qualify for the League Cup next season......"
It was the Times reporter who first broke the news of Aston Villa's takeover, so now he is an expert on Aston Villa-related issues, and his column in The Times has almost become the most concerned media coverage for Aston Villa fans.
Two days later, Dunn. Castour broke the news again: the Organizing Committee of the Premier League and the Championship will ask a mystery buyer to buy Aston Villa Club for 100 million pounds, and the organizing committee believes that the other party will not be able to come up with so much money to complete the collection, in short, this mysterious buyer has not passed the financial audit of the Premier League Organizing Committee and the English FA.
The news immediately caused a flurry among Aston Villa fans.
However, soon, the "Sun", which has always been powerful, finally won back the city, the newspaper broke the news that the mystery buyer of Aston Villa is an offshore company registered in the Cayman Islands, the company name is F&P company, although the true background of this company has not been known, but the "Sun" said that the other party has no problem with the funds.
The Sun even reported in more detail that the purchase price of £100.5 million mentioned by The Times was not true, and the actual purchase price was around £97 million, and the specific acquisition plan was that before May 31, F&P would pay 69 million pounds to Aston Villa's American owner, Landilena, and the funds would be deposited into a special escrow account. F&P will also be required to pay off approximately £28 million of Aston Villa's bank overdraft by the agreed deadline for the acquisition, totalling £97 million.
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The acquisition of Aston Villa, Fang Jue handed over to Papa to handle it all, and Papa arranged for the top financial team to be in charge.
Fang Jue's full attention is now on the UEFA Cup final against Shakhtar Donetsk.
This will be the last UEFA Cup and next season will be transformed into the "Europa League".
"It's the 2008/2009 UEFA Cup final and this is Sukuru in Istanbul. At the Sarakoglu Stadium, Ibiza is the first time to play in Europe and reach the final for the first time, while Shakhtar Donetsk is also the first Ukrainian team to reach the final of the European competition. Because the final was played by Ibiza who had just created the 'Ibiza Miracle' in La Liga, this UEFA Cup final match attracted the attention of fans around the world. ”
'Maybe UEFA should send a thank you note to Ibiza, we got the news that Ibiza won La Liga, and yes, this UEFA Cup final could be an unprecedented record for viewership.'
"Sukuru. The Salacoglo Stadium is already packed, the players from both sides are warming up, and Ibiza's head coach, Mr. Fang Jue, is now in the spotlight, as the youngest champion coach in Europe's top five leagues, he has won praise and recognition for himself with three trophies, of course, many female fans are purely here to see his handsome face......
The TV in the VIP box at the Sarakoglu Stadium is playing live commentary from Sky Sports in English.
Li Zihua was in a good mood, he looked up at the TV for a while, then he got up and looked at the field, looking at the players who were warming up, and he was full of ambition in his heart, this is his team, and it is a top club that completely belongs to him!
On the night before coming to Istanbul, Li Zihua had already met with Fang Jue and his family, and after the season, Fang Jue would resign and leave, and Li Zihua's CH company would buy the couple's shares at least at market price, or at a relative premium.
Fang Jue had promised to sell the shares to Li Zihua before, but now Papa is also willing to sell the shares in his hand, which makes the fat man very surprised, of course, these two people are not the ones who suffer losses, as Miss Papa sold the shares to him in exchange, Li Zihua agreed to some of Fang Jue's requests.
Reberto, the president of the club, was playing with his mobile phone, he glanced at the smug fat man, shook his head and said nothing.
The club's sporting director, Ms. Natasha, looked at the fat man with expectant eyes, and after Miss Papa left Ibiza, Ms. Natasha will become the general manager of Ibiza.
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From the start of the game, Ibiza showed a strong attacking look, and their first attack was very threatening, Lewandowski headed in a cross, Alba crossed and Aubameyang fired a shot just wide of the goal under the close pressure of Shakhtar Donetsk's Lewandowski.
Yes, the Donetsk miners also have a Lewandowski, also Polish.
However, this Lewandowski has nothing to do with Lewandowski in Ibiza, who is a big surname in Poland.
Shakhtar Donetsk coach Lucescu stared at the field, he was observing the opponent's tactics: attack as soon as you come up, this is to take the initiative to attack?
If that's the case, Lucescu is welcome, and Shakhtar Donetsk also have two brushes on the counter-attack, Fernandinho, Willian and Luiz in the front. Adriano, the axis of this midfield is still very threatening.
However, Lucescu soon realised that he had rejoiced too soon, as Ibiza was quick to return to the defence after the attack, and they set up a tight defensive formation in their second half and waited for Shakhtar Donetsk to attack.
Fang Jue sat in the coach's seat, holding a bottle of mineral water in his hand, staring at the field quietly, Ibiza's tactics in this game were defensive counterattacks, and he waited for Shakhtar Donetsk to attack.
Shakhtar Ibiza or Shakhtar Donetsk, who is more hungry for this UEFA Cup title?
Fang Jue felt that it was a Donetsk miner.
He has already led Ibiza to the La Liga title, this season is already great, and it would be a good thing to win the UEFA Cup again, but not winning it will not detract from his reputation as a talented title coach.
At the very least, Fang Jue is relatively calm.
Shakhtar Donetsk's side seems to be different, their head coach Lucescu said in an interview with Ukrainian media that he will lead Shakhtar Donetsk to make history and become the first Ukrainian team to win the European championship.
Not to mention whether Lucescu said casually in the face of the Ukrainian domestic media or really thought so, Fang Jue believed it.
Besides, in the final, is there a more secure tactic than a defensive counterattack?
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Soon, Fang Jue was relieved, Shakhtar Donetsk was not playing conservatively, and when they saw Ibiza retracting the defensive line, they immediately pressed up.
However, Shakhtar Donetsk played hard against Ibiza's tough defence and struggled to make more than three offensive passes.
This time, Judson was about to pass the ball to Willian, but Clement was right in anticipation, he stepped up early, successfully intercepted the pass, and then quickly played the ball to Modric in front.
"Fight back! Ibiza's counter-attack chance! ”
The stands suddenly resounded with the excited shouts of the Ibiza fans.
Ibiza showed everyone what counter-attacking speed is, Modric directly diagonally to Deisler, the Ibiza captain dribbled the ball forward at high speed, he deducted Lewandowski beautifully, and then pushed sideways, the follow-up Mata swept the ball to the left, Alba crossed the bottom, Lewandowski jumped high in the middle of the head to hit the goal, the football was saved by Shakhtar Donetsk goalkeeper Pyatov, Aubameyang's follow-up shot was blocked by the defender on the goal line with his body.
The Ibiza players were all raising their hands and they signaled to the Shakhtar Donetsk players to handball.
However, Merkel, the referee on duty in this game, did not say anything, he signaled that it was a corner.
Juan Mata drove a corner and Shakhtar Donetsk's defence was not lacking in height, the defender cleared the ball and then drove out with a big foot to get through the goal.
"Let's see what's going on in the box." Dolores said.
Slow-motion replays show that when Aubameyang made up the shot, the football hit the upper arm of Shakhtar Donetsk defender Srna, but the player's arm was close to the body, about the penalty standard for handball, the leagues of various countries are not uniform, this kind of blocking, in some games may be blown handball, it mainly depends on the referee, however, in a game like the UEFA Cup final, the referee is unlikely to award a penalty.
However, Fang Jue didn't care so much, in his opinion, it was the referee who wiped out a penalty for Ibiza, and he protested loudly on the sidelines, which drew a stern warning from the fourth official, and he returned to the dugout in a huff.
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Ten minutes later, Ibiza pressed out again to play a counter-attack, however, this time their pass was cut off, and Shakhtar Donetsk played Ibiza on a counter-attack.
Brazil's Willian dribbled beautifully past Alba and then continued to dribble while watching his team-mate's movements, when he suddenly came at him with a pressure on him.
Willian reacted quickly and was about to pass the football out early, but it was too late.
"Clement!"
"The ball is broken!"
Willian was tackled, which immediately put Shakhtar Donetsk in a dangerous situation, they just wanted to hit Ibiza's counterattack, it can be said that they were pressed across the board, and at this time they were counterattacked by Ibiza, and the backfield was empty.
Clement, who broke off the ball, didn't let the ball stay at his feet for another second, and passed the ball to Mata, who had already plugged in.
In the face of Lewandowski, who hurriedly came up to intercept, Mata used his speed to directly force the opponent.
Lewandowski was shocked and was about to get started, but he saw Mata get out of his defensive range with an acceleration, and his right hand, which was about to pull the shirt, only caught air.
Juan Mata played a wall-to-wall link with Luka Modric on the ball, and then he made a gesture to pass to Alba, but the ball was pulled back and then curled.
In the penalty area, Lewandowski carried Srna, he stretched out his foot to rub the football, and the football flew to the back post.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is in the picture, with no one to defend him.
"Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang! Opportunity! ”
Fang Jue's fists clenched, staring at the goal, Aubameyang can score a very wonderful goal, but when facing some very easy opportunities to score, he will waste it, just take the previous time when Aubameyang's shot was blocked by Srna with his body, if Aubameyang's shooting level is higher and the football is suppressed, there will be no chance for Srna to block it.
This time, Aubameyang lived up to his team-mate's wonderful pass and everyone's expectations, he stopped the ball with his left foot, and at the same time blocked Chigrinski's counter-attack with his body, followed with his right foot, and the ball flew into the net from the left hand of Shakhtar Donetsk goalkeeper Pyatov!
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