Isabella originally wanted to buy Chelsea Football Club, but Ken Bates finally brought Chelsea back from the brink of death, so naturally he was not willing to sell his hard work easily.

The mid-60s and mid-70s were arguably Chelsea's first glory days, with the Blues winning their first league title, their first FA Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup in a decade that arguably completed their evolution from an ordinary London side to one of the powerhouses in Greater London.

But these honors still can't be compared with Arsenal and Tottenham, the "London derby" in the eighties, in fact, has not been as much attention as in the future, and the London top three has never been stronger.

Chelsea were in a slump in the late 70s and did not recover until they were sold to Bates for £1 a few years ago, but were still playing in the second division last year.

This year, thanks to a large number of cost-effective young players unearthed by manager John Neil, Chelsea finally made it back to League One and stormed into the European points in one fell swoop, and now have hopes of qualifying for next season's European competition.

This achievement is already very proud, but compared with Arsenal, which has completed the take-off directly this year, Chelsea has almost no stars, and the team is full of cost-effective young players.

The League Cup final was also played at the "Wembley Stadium", and a total of 100,000 fans were squeezed into the two sides on the day of the game, but almost all the Gunners fans wearing the new red jerseys were triumphant, showing off their might, and they almost mocked their faces!

Of course, the Blues fans are angry, but the difference in quality between the two sides is too obvious!

Wu Jie didn't even make much effort today, and fellow young players Laudrup and Lineker overshadowed Chelsea's entire youth team.

Laudrup's performance in this match was very dazzling, and the Danish genius was still in the light of Wu Jie for the first time, and still made people's eyes focus on himself, which was already a very remarkable performance.

He assisted three of Arsenal's five goals scored today, and a hat-trick of assists left Laudrup with only one less assist than Wu Jie in the assist charts.

After the start of the game, just in the 7th minute, Laudrup sent a precise through pass after breaking through in the middle, Lineker successfully countered offside and entered the penalty area at a small angle to push the far corner to score!

Conceding the ball so quickly made a group of young Chelsea players impatient, and the already nervous mood caused the combination of the two to cause just five minutes later, Chelsea's centre-back Fild, who was intercepted by the astute Wu Jie after a misplaced pass, then accelerated into the box and fired home to the goalkeeper.

The Chelsea fans in attendance, including the Chelsea players on the pitch, exploded at this moment.

Arsenal then pressed Chelsea to the ground and beat them until the end of the game, with Wu Jie, Laudrup and Cowans scoring a goal each, and Lineker scoring twice as Arsenal won the first League Cup title in the club's history with a 5-0 victory over their opponents in different parts of the city.

You read that right, this is Arsenal's first Carabao Cup title.

Although Arsenal in the 80s was much stronger than Chelsea, they were also a local England rich man, and the glorious period was very far away, so far away that most of the original witnesses have been buried in the ground.

Manchester United at the same time was half a notch better than Arsenal in terms of heritage, at least they won the Champions League once 20 years ago, and their European results after World War II were far better than Arsenal's, and they had a glorious period in League One after World War II, strictly speaking, half a grade higher than the upcoming Barcelona match.

That's what Manchester United fans think, and they're very scoffing at claims that the Catalan media are reporting Barcelona as Europe's top team.

The English media also believe that Barcelona has almost no European results to match, they have neither Champions League, nor League Cup, not even the Cup Winners' Cup, nothing more than some domestic league and cup titles, but in terms of numbers, they are far inferior to Real Madrid.

How can such a team with almost no European results be considered a top team in Europe?

On the other hand, Manchester United is a top European team that is higher than Barcelona in all aspects, including many European media, and even the Spanish media have the same opinion.

The only strong team in Spain that is recognized by Europe is Real Madrid, so Liverpool was beaten 1:0 by Real Madrid at home two days ago, and the English media also knew that Real Madrid did have this strength while criticizing Liverpool.

But you also want to get out of England with Barcelona, do you really think that England has no one?

However, the slogan didn't last long, and Lin Yaodong shot with an earth-shattering "elevator ball" before the end of the first half, which directly plunged the Old Trafford stadium into a very familiar dead silence again.

This kick is too familiar to Manchester United fans - ultra-long shooting distance, ultra-violent sudden fall, ultra-outrageous violent line change, isn't this Wu Jie's representative "elevator ball"?

Lin Yaodong also showed an incredible expression for a moment after scoring the goal, this is the first time in his career that he has kicked an "elevator ball" with a changing line!

His "Elevator Ball" skills are only four-and-a-half-star level, including "Banana Ball" and "Fallen Leaf Ball" are also four-and-a-half-star levels, all of which are worse than Wu Jie.

But don't look at the skill gap of only half a star, put it on these free kick stunts, it is equivalent to hiding the killer features of each set of peerless martial arts.

This is similar to the masters who pass on martial arts will hide a hand, this hand is often a killing move, but it is the essence of the entire set of martial arts, and it is also a killer weapon that can kill the apprentice at a critical moment, and it will only be passed on before death.

Lin Yaodong will not be the killer weapon of changing the line, and he has never kicked the "elevator ball" with the line change.

But the skills of the four-and-a-half-star level are stronger than the four-star here, and if you play too many times, it is still very rare to be able to get out once.

However, this ratio is much worse than Wu Jie, if Wu Jie can play this perfect elevator ball at least a few times a season, then Lin Yaodong will have to be able to get out once in a few seasons

Lin Yaodong's "perfect elevator ball" can be called a masterpiece of his career, and the most coincidental thing is that the victim is the unlucky Manchester United and the even more unlucky Gary Bailly.

Gary Bailly is really depressed now, and he can still be regarded as an honor once, but being kicked twice in a month is really not an honor, this TM is pure bad luck!

The final score was not big, a very utilitarian 1:0, which shows that the game process was not very exciting.

Today, Barcelona won against Lin Yaodong, with his alien-possessed elevator ball in the first half, as well as the brave play in front of the goal, almost single-handedly destroyed Manchester United at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, helping the team to advance smoothly with a total score of 2:0 over two legs.

The English media were naturally all dumbfounded after the game, but not because of the earth-shattering free kick, but because they saw the game for the first time and could still play like this, and the goalkeeper could still play like this??

They have seen a lot of things that rely on the goalkeeper for defense, but the goalkeeper for goals, and even the goalkeeper for attack, is it really an unheard of and unseen new thing?!

However, today's Barcelona is like this, and Lin Yaodong's gameplay is even more outrageous!

His high block in front of goal was a reasonable play by a top goalkeeper, but that free-kick was a thunderbolt that day.

But this is still not the most excessive, what really subverts the British worldview is that this thing almost never stays in the penalty area honestly throughout the game, every time he is given a camera except for Manchester United to launch a fast attack, the rest of the time this bastard is outside the penalty area, not only ran to the midfield several times to watch the excitement, and even held the ball in the midfield once past their center Mark Hughes, which makes the English really can't help but suspect that he is a naked provocation!

However, such a jump, such a wave, such a nobody's style of play and positioning, Lin Yaodong did not lose his position once in the whole game, as long as Manchester United really attacked with the ball, he would appear in a position that made Manchester United extremely disgusting, and then blocked all the shots of Manchester United players out of the goal.

In particular, Manchester United's high-altitude ball into the penalty area was barely a threat today, and all of them were confiscated from the air by the tall and long-arm Chinese goalkeeper.

This is tantamount to Tianke England's high-altitude rushing and hanging style, and Manchester United failed to score a goal in both legs, almost all because of this inexplicable Chinese goalkeeper.

Manchester League also admitted after that they were broken by this angry and helpless goalkeeper.

And such an outrageous and bizarre, but even more magical goalkeeper, also left a very deep impression on fans across England, I really don't know what the picture of Arsenal will be when they meet Barcelona?

But then the English fans felt a sense of sadness, because Liverpool had already lost at home to Real Madrid the day before, and it was likely to be lucky to arrive away at the end of the month.

Today Manchester United was eliminated directly by Barcelona, the Spaniards are really hateful!

But soon everyone found out that the most hateful thing was not the Spaniards, the leaders of these two teams were Chinese!

The various media controlled by Isabella decided to take the lead at this time, first taking Chen Haonan and Lin Yaodong to lead the rhythm, and put the main contradiction on Lin Yaodong, who was the most hateful.

This product did not have the slightest low-key appearance after the game, and he was angry with the English media all the time, which can be regarded as a lot of hatred for Wu Jie.

"Boss, have you watched my game?"

Lin Yaodong also called Wu Jie very proudly after the game, but Wu Jie knew that this kind of hatred was deliberate, because this was his idea, otherwise what was the use of using a tool!

Isabella's media cooperated very well to stage a scene of thieves shouting to catch thieves, deliberately directing anger to Lin Yaodong, just to let him attract the hatred of the British for himself.

Lin Yaodong's phone call was not to show off to Wu Jie that he had won the game, but to show off that he had slashed Nintendo again.

Now Lin Yaodong is richer than Wu Jie is the richest man in China, and his Yaodong Group has three major companies, among which Lenovo focuses on domestic software and hardware research and development, and has developed a Chinese character input method and a supporting Lenovo Chinese character expansion card, as well as a domestic Chinese character DOS system that composes a suit to match.

This Chinese suit can be said to be the basic framework of domestic computers, with which Lenovo can use it as a Chinese platform for the development of more Chinese office software, and then establish a set of Chinese IT ecosystem in the eighties.

Lenovo is certainly not satisfied with only developing Chinese systems, they have developed a multilingual spreadsheet software ready to be installed on Compaq's latest commercial machine, Lotus1-2-3, which will be another battle after the popular Lenovo CAD software in the European and American markets.

This is where we have to mention another subsidiary of the "Yaodong Group", which acquired a 60% stake in Compaq Computer at the end of 1982.

Founded by Jimmy Harris and Bill Merton in early 1982 for only $2,000, the American computer company will become the world's largest PC manufacturing company in terms of market share at its peak, and will be IBM's biggest rival in the PC field for a long time. 360 Literature Network

Lin Yaodong took over the company two years ago and used it as a bridge for Lenovo to grow rapidly in China and connect with the world.

At this time, Lenovo was already selling Compaq's computers in China, which alone made Lenovo a monopoly giant in the domestic PC field, and also created a large number of orders for Compaq.

Now Lenovo has obtained all computer procurement contracts from universities and various government agencies across the country, including the military field, which is almost a monopoly.

But they not only sell computers, but also bundle the sale of "Lenovo Chinese character suits" for each computer, as well as the sale of "Lenovo CAD" and various Chinese versions of office software, especially some software that needs to be developed separately and customized, which need to be charged separately, and the price is so expensive that Wu Jie secretly smacks his tongue.

But even in Wu Jie's eyes, the price is too expensive, for the government is still two or three percent cheaper than buying from abroad, and the things developed by Lenovo are all in English, there are also versions of Chinese characters, the cost of learning will become very low, and the after-sales service is much better, the key is that Lenovo has largely solved the problem of talent employment in the domestic industry after expansion, and these are things that cannot be bought from abroad no matter how expensive they are.

In the next few years, Lenovo's strategy in China is to continue to do monopoly business, and abroad is to cooperate with Compaq Computer for office software, as well as industrial software development, and at the same time start from simple hardware manufacturing, first for Compaq Computer to manufacture the most advanced keyboard, mouse and headphone speakers and other peripherals, as well as the necessary PC power supply. A few years later, it entered the manufacture of motherboards, 2D graphics expansion cards, and hard disks. Finally, there is the manufacturing of memory and CPU.

Now Lenovo is the most popular CAD software abroad, even Texas Instruments, Intel, Infineon, Philips, Sanyo, Toshiba and other companies have begun to increase the procurement of Lenovo CAD software, and put forward a lot of customized contracts, which is considered to have started Lenovo's reputation abroad, and also brought a lot of foreign exchange income that made the upper echelons smack.

But this Lotus 1-2-3 was not small in its original position, it was the originator of spreadsheet software, and later it also integrated table calculation, graphing, database analysis and other functions into one, so it was a huge success in the late 80s and early 90s, and it was a must-have software for almost any commercial company and school, as well as office workers.

It was with this office software that IBM's computer quickly opened up the situation and successfully occupied a large market share in the nascent PC field.

Now Compaq Computer has taken the lead, and the goal is to quickly encroach on the global office field through the strategy of bundling high-quality office software in the early stage of PC computer development, so as to achieve a win-win situation in the field of PC computers and software.

But this time, what Lin Yaodong showed off to Wu Jie was not the achievements of these two companies, but the squeeze of aperture technology on Nintendo.

Nintendo has really been bullied by Aperture Technology in the past two years to the point that it wants to buy murder, the reason is not only those phenomenal arcade games developed by Aperture Technology, but also the necessary patents for those game consoles they developed.

Lin Yaodong was the first to establish "Aperture Technology", and at present, the "Yaodong Group" is also the most profitable company, even far surpassing Lenovo, which has a monopoly in China, and Compaq, which earned $135 million in the United States last year, setting a business record in the United States.

Take last year as an example, even if these two companies add up their respective profits, they are still less than one-tenth of the annual profits of the aperture section.

It sounds incredible, but as long as you understand the annual income of the arcade industry in the United States, which is actually more than Hollywood + Grammys + all sports leagues combined, you will know how profitable the industry is at present.

Aperture Technology is now the absolute hegemon of the industry, with nearly 20 titles released in order since its inception - "Chinese Cubes", "Road Racing", "Pool Ball", "Kung Fu", "Match", "Duck Hunting", "Luo Wen Kick Gym", "F1 Racing", "Bomberman", "Bingfeng", "MapleStory Island", "Space Cruiser", "Legend of Faerie", "Super Panda", "Metroid", "King of Fighters", "Saroman Snake".

These arcade games occupy almost half of the arcades in Europe and the United States, or most players basically go to arcades to play these games, in addition, only a few games such as "Pac-Man", "Little Bee", and "Tank Wars" can grab some share.

In addition, Aperture Technology has unwittingly acquired a number of subsidiaries, including "Enix" and "SQUARE".

Lin Yaodong jumps like this every day, including the Barcelona players who have always been xenophobic, and he is exceptionally friendly, and there is no net worth here that can reach the level of buying Barcelona.

Of course, Barcelona is certainly not going to sell to someone.

But with such a huge amount of money and ability, Barcelona certainly won't make him feel unhappy from top to bottom.

Nintendo's first embarrassment is in these games, if they want to gain a foothold after the release of their FC consoles and sell well, then these arcade games that are popular all over the world, especially "Super Panda", which has become a national game in Japan, must give Aperture technology enough benefits to make them choose to port on FC consoles, and there must be an exclusivity period.

But how easy is this to say, although it has been affected by the collapse of Atari in recent years, the home console market has shrunk greatly, but there are still more than a dozen game consoles on sale in the world, and the arcade machine of aperture technology does not have to worry about the quality at all, once transplanted, it will definitely sell well, even the Americans who are heartbroken by Atari will not refuse to consume, because they have already played these games in the arcade.

This kind of business that is sure to make money, naturally everyone wants to get a piece of this big cake.

Nintendo's FC has always put forward almost unreasonably harsh requirements for manufacturers in terms of opening up to third-party manufacturers, such as reviewing each FC game. Each third-party vendor can only release a maximum of 5 games per year. In addition, the third-party manufacturer needs to predict the sales quantity of its own product, and then Nintendo will make the game cartridge, and the third-party manufacturer will not only have to pay the production fee but also bear different amounts of royalties.

What makes third-party manufacturers most angry is that Nintendo's request for a share reaches 50%, that is, Nintendo will take half of its revenue if it doesn't pay anything.

But when it was the turn of aperture technology, Nintendo didn't dare to put these requirements on the table, but they never expected that aperture technology would prepare them with "21 articles" in the game field.

The first rule here is that the sharing ratio must reach 70%, but don't get me wrong, of course, it is aperture technology to take seventy, Nintendo to take thirty percent, and it depends on the face of aperture technology.

Nintendo was half angry with this request in the first place, so wouldn't they be kneeling and begging for food?

But soon Nintendo knew that they really had to kneel and ask for food, because that's it, how many people want to kneel yet.

Aperture Technology has more than just game resources that Nintendo must take, the key is that they also have a large number of key patents on game consoles.

This is very painful, if there is no patent authorization of aperture technology, then the FC host will cease to exist directly.

Aperture technology alone has a large number of patents on the "controller" and "cartridge", so that Nintendo can't get around those patent barriers unless it reworks the FC console.

But do you think that's all there is to it?

Aperture Technology also holds a large number of key patents for the production of side-scrolling games, and it can be said that any game manufacturer must obtain a patent for Aperture Technology to make a game, otherwise it will directly return to the era of "Space Invaders".

Fortunately, their licensing fee in this area is very low, and it is basically a symbolic charge of a little money, otherwise those game companies will also scold their mothers.

But this also makes game production companies all over the world dare not offend Aperture Technology, for fear that they will embarrass themselves in patent licensing.

Nintendo also has a number of first-party production companies, and they also have to pay Aperture Technology licensing fees to make next-generation games of this era.

Aperture Technology has so much money in its hands that can strangle Nintendo, and in the end, it naturally forced the other party to comply, although the third-party game was divided into 60%, but it was forced to cede the agency rights in China to Lenovo.

This is actually a gift, and Nintendo has never thought of selling FC to Chinese mainland.

But handing over the European agent's status to Aperture Technology at a low price is a compromise that makes Nintendo's side bleed.

However, it is not possible to compromise, because Aperture Technology also has Sega's SMS, Microsoft's MSX2 can cooperate, and even Lenovo and Compaq have the idea of making a learning machine that references MSX.

In fact, Compaq is indeed in development, so when the 87-year monopoly period is over, the FC era should be ended by their little overlord.

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On January 21, Wu Jie sat on the sidelines to watch the play-off match in the third round of the FA Cup with Arsenal and Hereford United.

In this game, Arsenal sent a lineup exactly the same as on the field, which can be regarded as a chance to atone for the previous underestimated players.

But if they don't have a satisfactory performance, it is estimated that a series of new deals will be born.

Speaking of deals, Arsenal have finally finalised a long-awaited deal for Gunners fans in the second half of the winter transfer window.

On the morning of the extra game, Arsenal and Athletic Bilbao announced at the same time that they would complete a million-pound deal for Anthony Subisareta, the best young goalkeeper in Spain.

Wu Jie has been eyeing Subisareta for an early on, one of the greatest goalkeepers in the history of Barcelona and one of the greatest goalkeepers in the history of Spanish football, of course, much better than Gary Bailly, England's third goalkeeper.

Now Lin Yaodong has snatched Subisareta's position in Barcelona in advance, and the latter can no longer look at any goalkeeper, and now the whole Catalonia does not think that anyone in the world can replace Lin Yaodong, even if they are given a Yashin or Zoff, the Catalans are not willing to lose this goalkeeper of the same level who can win the Golden Boot.

Yashin or Zoff may not be worse than Lin Yaodong in front of goal, but can they be the top scorers? Can they press into midfield to get involved? Can they keep the home fans in a state of panic all over the stadium?

But Wu Jie knows that Subisareta's defensive ability in front of goal will not be much worse than Lin Yaodong, and such a 21-year-old talented goalkeeper is enough for Gunners fans to no longer need to worry about the goalkeeper position for the next 15 years.

As for the transfer fee, both sides have only revealed that it is a deal of more than a million pounds.

Wu Jie certainly knows the exact figures, and it took Arsenal £1.2 million to buy Subisareta.

The price is certainly too high for a young goalkeeper who has not yet made it to the national team, and it doesn't look very worth it.

But Wu Jie knew that Subisareta was about to join the Spanish national team in the summer, and after joining, he represented the Spanish national team in four World Cups and two European Championships as the main goalkeeper.

£1.2 million may seem expensive now, but in a year it will become a reasonable price, and in three years it will be a great deal.

The next day, Arsenal thrashed Hereford United 8-1 at home to reach the fourth round of the FA Cup.

But the game will start in five days' time against Yorkshire in League Two.

However, at that time, Arsenal will be replaced with a full main team, including the newly traded Subisareta will also officially represent Arsenal, and a Gunners with no shortcomings are about to start a more powerful sprint in the second half of the schedule.