Chapter 411: Champion's Footsteps (Big Chapter)
Aston Villa's American boss Randy. Lerner finally decided to enter into formal negotiations with the club's acquirer.
Yes, this is the official negotiation.
Whether Landilena's previous offer of £150 million or the recent offer of £140 million is not a real negotiation, it is at best a Yankee daydreaming that he will make a fortune if Kaizi is willing to take the bait.
Bank debt collection, Aston Villa six consecutive league defeats, 10 points behind fourth-place Arsenal, almost hopeless to hit the top four in the league, in such a situation, Landilena finally can't hold on, he is a little frustrated, really serious about selling the club.
Of course, the decision to open formal negotiations to sell the team does not mean that the negotiations will go well, and it is clear that the Yankees still want to make a lot of money.
Landilena's offer of £125 million is still a suspicion of a lion's mouth, but Aston Villa cited a variety of information, confidential data and market analysis reports to support their reasonable price, which is a sign that the negotiations are really open.
The price of 125 million pounds is impossible for Fang Jue and Papa to accept, this price is obviously too high.
All that's left is to bargain.
Fang Jue handed over the negotiation to Papa and the negotiation team, and he focused all his energy on La Liga and the UEFA Cup.
In La Liga, after 30 rounds of league matches, Ibiza accumulated 80 points, ranking first in the league, 11 points ahead of second place Barcelona, not only that, Ibiza is also the only team in the five major leagues that has remained unbeaten so far, and Ibiza, which has just experienced the devil's schedule, can be said to be very optimistic about the prospect of winning the championship.
In the UEFA Cup, Ibiza have already reached the quarter-finals, drawing 0-0 at home to Dynamo Kyiv in the first leg of the quarter-finals and are looking to reach the last four of the UEFA Cup.
Objectively speaking, Fang Jue had a meeting with the club's senior management, and once considered giving up the UEFA Cup and specializing in the league, but he didn't expect the team to reach the quarterfinals all the way to the quarterfinals, and it was only one step away from the semi-finals, and considering the good situation of the league championship, in the end, Fang Jue decided to continue to maintain a two-line battle, however, he has indicated to the club's senior management that once the league championship situation is not good, he will decisively give up the UEFA Cup, in his heart, the La Liga championship is the UEFA Cup champion can not be compared.
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On April 16, in the second leg of the quarterfinals of the UEFA Cup, Ibiza visited Kiev, Ukraine.
In the end, after 90 minutes of fierce battle, Ibiza drew 1-1 away with Dynamo Kyiv with a goal from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who returned from injury, and eliminated Dynamo Kyiv with this valuable away goal to successfully advance to the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup.
So far, the top four of this season's UEFA Cup have all been produced, namely Ibiza, Shakhtar Donetsk, Werder Bremen and Hamburg.
Ibiza will face Hamburg in the semi-finals, while Shakhtar Donetsk will face Werder Bremen in the other semi-final.
Two Bundesliga teams reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup, which made the German media very proud, and the German media even couldn't wait to shout the slogan that the two German teams could meet in the final of the UEFA Cup.
The Spanish media also cheered for Ibiza to reach the last four of the UEFA Cup, more precisely for Ibiza and Barcelona.
Just a day earlier, the quarter-finals of the 2008/2009 UEFA Champions League had ended, with Barcelona beating Bayern Munich 4-0 in the first leg and a 1-1 draw in the second leg away to the Bundesliga South Kings, with an aggregate score of 5-1 to easily advance to the semi-finals of the European Champions League.
The other three teams in the semi-finals of this season's European Champions Cup are Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal, yes, the other three teams are from the Premier League, this is the third consecutive season of the Champions League semi-finals Three teams from the Premier League, in the 2006/2007 season, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool three round AC Milan, but I didn't expect to achieve a great season for the beautiful teenager Kaka, last season, Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester United encircled Barcelona, and finally Barcelona was killed by Manchester United in the semi-finals, and the final became a Premier League civil warNow, a year later, Barcelona is facing the encirclement of the Premier League again, and the English media can't help but cheer and look forward to the grand occasion of the Premier League civil war in the final of the European Champions League.
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Three days later, Ibiza hosted Mallorca in the league.
It was the final match of the 31st round of the league, and Barcelona beat Getafe 1-0 away in the previous fixture, and the Catalan giants did not have an easy win, and it was clear that the Champions League in midweek had left Barcelona a little tired.
Therefore, now the eyes of the whole Spain are focused on the match between Ibiza and Mallorca, compared to the first leg of the 4-0 victory over Bayern Munich, the second leg of Barcelona is relatively easy, Ibiza and Kyiv Dynamo The second leg of the game is more difficult, the two sides fight fiercely, and Ibiza's bench thickness is far less than Barcelona, so the media are waiting to see if Mallorca can stop Ibiza away in this round.
Even Pep Guardiola sat in front of the TV and watched the game.
With fewer and fewer league rounds remaining, Barcelona are now expecting blockers to come online in every round of the league.
The first half of the game was uneventful, as expected by the media, Ibiza looked tired, but Mallorca did not seem to have the strength to act as a blocker, and the score was 0-0 at the end of the first half.
At half-time, the commentators were saying that the biggest possibility of this game was 0-0, and Ibiza only got one point, which is good news for Barcelona, the first chaser.
Pep Guardiola frowned and shook his head, now every point Ibiza gets means Barcelona has to catch up with a point, and of course he wants Ibiza to lose.
The dull scene suddenly changed when the visitors Mallorca scored just five minutes into the second half.
Mallorca's 22-year-old young midfielder Jurado suddenly caught Ibiza off guard with a long-range shot, goalkeeper Bravo couldn't save the ball, the football went into the net, Mallorca away 1-0 Ibiza!
Guardiola waved his fist excitedly, he touched his mouth, his mouth seemed to be open, he really loved this mouth.
Pep Guardiola sees hope that Ibiza will lose.
And as the game time passed, this glimmer of hope grew brighter in Guardiola's eyes.
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Eighty-one minutes into the game, the score was still 0-1, and the home team Ibiza was behind.
At this time, Fang Jue made the second substitution of the game, Mata who was not in good form today was replaced, and the Danish veteran Tomasson was replaced.
Just three minutes later, the substitution worked wonders.
Reuss, who had returned from injury, sent in a low cross from the right and Tomasson stepped up and the experienced Danish veteran stabbed home before defender Nunez.
At 1-1, Ibiza equalised.
Guardiola scolded depressedly, and then sighed helplessly, this is the case, he can only accept the result of Ibiza being forced to draw, he said to himself, this is also a relatively good result.
Since then, the whole Ibiza team has been working hard to score another goal.
Then, in today's game, the Polish center Lewandowski, who had performed in the same way before, began his own explosive performance.
He first received a pass from Deisler and headed in for Ibiza to make it 2-1.
Then, in the first minute of stoppage time, Lewandowski hit the goal of Mallorca's Spanish goalkeeper Moya with a long-range shot from outside the penalty area!
Three to one!
Robert Lewandowski scored twice to seal the win for Ibiza.
"Robert. Lewandowski! Robert. Lewandowski! The Polish striker opened the door for Ibiza as he scored twice in five minutes to make it 3-1 and Ibiza would win the game as they continued their eleven-point lead over Barcelona with seven league games to go, and the promoted polo team is on their way to making history! Dolores, the narrator, yelled.
"Objectively speaking, Guardiola has done a good job, but compared to Fang Jue......"
Smack, Guardiola turned off the TV, his face was pale, compared to being criticized for not doing well, this kind of you did a good job, you tried your best, but you are still not as good as someone's words, more hurtful......
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Fang Jue also watched a game in front of the TV that night.
It was a Premier League match two and a half hours after the La Liga tie in Ibiza, with Aston Villa hosting West Ham United.
In the end, Aston Villa lost 2-1 at home to the Hammers.
Counting this game, Aston Villa are on a seven-game losing streak in the Premier League.
Seven consecutive defeats have pulled Aston Villa from third place in the league to sixth place in the league, and there are currently five rounds left in the Premier League, Aston Villa is eleven points behind fourth place Arsenal, and it is difficult to complete the goal of grabbing four.
Fang Jue was also embarrassed, he couldn't wait to save Aston Villa from the Yankees' dire rule.
The next day, Papa told Fang Jue that Landilena had cut the price by £5 million and was willing to trade for £120 million.
"What do you think?" Fang Jue asked.
"Wait." Papa said firmly, "I feel like Aston Villa will continue to lose, this team has lost the morale to lose. ”
"You have an idea."
La Liga is a double fixture this week, with a tired Ibiza unable to continue their win this time in midweek as they were held to a 0-0 draw away at Osasuna.
On the other field, Barcelona beat Sevilla 4-0.
In doing so, Barcelona took the opportunity to close the gap on Ibiza, who are now nine points behind Ibiza.
However, Guardiola did not have much joy, Ibiza was only one round late, but the impact was very different, because the league has one less round, and now there are six rounds left in the league, Barcelona is nine points behind Ibiza, if Barcelona wants to turn the tables, they must hope that Ibiza will lose at least three of the remaining six league rounds, which is almost impossible to happen in terms of Ibiza's performance this season, you know, Ibiza is still unbeaten in the season so far.
Four days later, in the 33rd round of La Liga, Ibiza beat Deportivo La Coruna 1-0 at home thanks to Lewandowski's goal.
The fact that he was going to compete with Forlan and Samuel Eto'o for the La Liga Golden Boot spurred Lewandowski into a fight, and the Pole was in better form as the team was in a period of fatigue, and the goal was Lewandowski's 22nd goal in La Liga this season.
However, Lewandowski still needs to work the top of La Liga's scorer list, with Atletico Madrid's Uruguayan striker Diego Forlan currently in first place with 26 goals and Barcelona's Samuel Eto'o in second place with 25 goals.
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"Watching the dejected Aston Villa players walk out of the pitch has a question mark in my heart, how much effort does it take for such a team, a team that has lost without morale, to bring them out of the slump and create a winning team with high morale? I don't know, even though I have full confidence in myself, I still scratch my head a little...... Yes, Aston Villa lost again, they lost 1-0 away to Bolton Wanderers, and it was already the eighth consecutive defeat in the Premier League for the former European champions......
The biggest blow for Aston Villa was that they were already 14 points behind Arsenal after losing this game, and with four games left in the league, Aston Villa missed out on the top four...... I was puzzled that the fact that the team that had finished third in the league two months ago had fallen to this point two months later made me realise for the first time the cruelty of the Premier League and at the same time had question marks in my mind...... Of course, there is no fear, how can such a fierce Premier League be without the best me, although this is a bit of a boast, but, I think so, who can lead a promoted polo team towards the La Liga title at my age? It's just me! ”
Fang Jue carefully checked the diary, revised some wording, nodded with satisfaction, and then solemnly copied it in another diary.
In the 34th round of the Premier League, Aston Villa lost 0-1 to Bolton Wanderers, and the team suffered an unprecedented and miserable eight-game losing streak.
Aston Villa missed out on the top four in the Premier League four games ahead of schedule, and it was not the Aston Villa fans or Aston Villa players who were hit the hardest, but the club's American owner, Landiller.
The team's complete failure to qualify for next season's Champions League has put Landilena's last insistence and last hole card in vain.
This time, Landiller finally gave up on the 'unrealistic' idea of 'making a big profit', and for the first time took the initiative to reduce the price by a large margin based on the market value of Aston Villa.
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