Chapter 043 The high-level undercurrent surges again

Barcelona returned home with an away draw in the league, and everyone didn't pay much attention to it, the league is a long-term competition, and the last laugh is the joy. But in the game that ended later, Real Madrid beat Racing Santander 1-0 at home, a result that made everyone a little depressed.

With this victory, Real Madrid temporarily overtook Barcelona after 11 rounds and ranked first in the league standings.

In Real Madrid's 1:0, Higuain's goal was no problem, taking advantage of the mistake of the return pass between the Santander goalkeeper and the defender, the butcher de Jong steals the cross, and Higuain's header is easy. However, in the second half, Santander Luis Garcia scrambled to break through Casillas' goal, only to be blown offside by the referee, and that was a clear miscalculation.

The pro-Barcelona media collectively turned on the ridicule firepower, they ridiculed Real Madrid for only surpassing Barcelona with a stolen victory, and the pro-Real Madrid media was not to be outdone, turning out a lot of old accounts to explain how much Barcelona took advantage of the penalty, and the saliva flew all over the sky for a while, and it was very lively.

In an instant, the war of words intensified, and the media on both sides began to attack each other from all angles. This is not because it is not a pain in idleness, but because the first Spanish national derby of the season is approaching, and building momentum in advance is both cheering and tacit hype.

After playing Athletic Erbao, Barcelona face two heavyweight matches at home to Camp Nou in the coming week. Three days later, the Champions League and Inter Milan will face the league leader Real Madrid.

These two games will almost determine Barcelona's honor and disgrace in the next three months, whether to live in the praise of flowers or a storm of spittle, and the decision is at the feet of Zhuo Yang.

Although they have already begun to face Real Madrid in the media, it is Inter Milan who bear the brunt of the battle. After the four rounds of the Champions League, Inter Milan has 6 points, Kazan and Barcelona have 5 points, and Kiev has 4 points.

Inter must win the first game, otherwise the last round will go to Kiev, thinking about the difficulties encountered in Kazan before, Barcelona, which is not good at away games, especially in Eastern Europe, does not dare to pin all hopes on the last round of counter-killing.

Not counting friendlies, Barcelona have played 10 away games on three fronts this season, with a record of 4 wins and 6 draws, which is far from the point rate of 9 games and 8 wins and 1 loss at home, so it is necessary to make the Champions League qualification situation clear after Inter Milan at home.

But can Inter Milan win it if they want to? As Puyol said, the Barcas would rather play 10 games against Real Madrid than against Jose Mourinho's side.

No matter how loud the cannon shouts, the game still has to be seen under the soles of the feet, Barcelona is seriously preparing for the upcoming Champions League life and death battle at its own training base, but the Barcelona club is once again undercurrent.

"World Sports" broke the bombshell news: someone stole personal emails between MediaPro Group, Spain's largest media company, and Hackson International S.A., as well as between FC Barcelona.

MediaPro is a company that started in Barcelona and they have the main rights to broadcast Spanish football for the next three seasons, and MediaPro also owns the rights to broadcast the league for Barcelona.

Hackson International S.A. is also a Barcelona-based investment company, mainly engaged in real estate properties, Hackson International is founded by Joan Laporta, and Gorda, one of the current vice presidents of Barcelona, is also one of the shareholders of Hackson.

According to the report, a senior executive within MediaPro used the opportunity of repairing the office computer of Jou Lores, the chairman of the group, to steal a large number of e-mail messages, including minutes of the company's internal negotiation meetings, television broadcast plans and his correspondence with Laporta, Pep Guardiola and the agents of the Barcelona players.

A secret account of the senior executive was discovered, through which he earned around 300,000 euros, and the source of this income pointed to a shell company owned by FC Barcelona, which in turn has close ties to Rosell, one of the four vice-presidents.

The report did not expose the specific content of the emails, perhaps the World Sports newspaper did not have a real hammer, and perhaps the content of the emails was not visible, but this kind of theft itself is a standard act of commercial espionage.

The news leaked from within the MediaPro group, and they were all talking, but none of them, including Chairman Rolles, made all the evidence fully public. None of the others involved in the incident, Joan Laporta, Pep Guardiola and Rusell, have yet to express their opinions.

Zhuo Yang was also implicated, as the emails contained letters from his agent, Milo Raiola. As a 'Mr. 100 million yuan' in history, there are many bright and dark accounts behind huge money transactions, including commissions, commissions and signing fees.

After completing the transfer from Milan to Barcelona, Zhuo Yang added an extra 8.5 million euros in his account, and the fat man said: Money is the cleanest thing in the world, so spend it well.

Now no one knows what secrets the stolen emails have revealed, and everyone is watching and not daring to say anything. But the incident has clearly deepened the power struggle between the Barça hierarchy, especially Laporta and Rosell, and may well be part of the struggle itself.

Laporta is not too worried about 'Spygate', he has the impression that the email with Rolles does not involve privacy that is unfavorable to him, otherwise Russell would have been exposed a long time ago, and he would have waited for Rolles to take the lead?

Laporta's recent concern is that the long-planned chest advertising is not going well.

In the past, there was no shirt chest advertising in La Liga, but now let alone the giants, as long as the team has an advertisement on the chest, only Barcelona in the world has maintained its 'purity' so far.

It's all water, no one can pretend to be pure, Laporta has long wanted to develop the commercial value of a piece. Since taking office in 2003, he has been constantly testing the tone of Barcelona members, and in order to gradually accept the 'tacky' on the chest, Laporta printed 'UNICEF' on the front of his shirt in 2005.

UNICEF is the United Nations Children's Charity Foundation of Zhuo Yang's international goodwill ambassador, and such a chest advertisement is completely public welfare, and the price is very high, as high as the only one in world football.

Over the years, Barcelona members have also gotten used to having something in front of their shirts. In fact, it's hypocrisy, Nike's small hook has been on the right chest of the jersey for several years, and no one has been disemboweled to protest.

In the member survey, everyone finally stopped opposing the advertising on the chest of the jersey, and the support rate exceeded that of the opponents, after all, it can bring a large amount of income to the club, and Laporta took advantage of the trend to start this investment. When the advertising on his chest goes smoothly, Laporta also plans to sell the naming rights to the Camp Nou in the future.

But the grand plan has just begun, and suddenly things have taken a bad turn.

Several Chinese trademarks, which are the main targets, have been well talked, and Qatar United Airlines, which is used as a spare tire by Laporta, has also been fished by fishhooks. But recently, for some reason, Chinese businesses are no longer tearing down each other's platforms and competing for prices, but have put forward more demands, which are very unreasonable and even excessive, and the negotiations have a clear sense of reversal. The Qatari side has also become lukewarm, and it seems that there is a sense of withdrawal.

If you can't get it right, you want to be yellow!

Laporta vaguely felt that there was a black hand behind this matter, and the Spanish government was using national influence to suppress him, all because he proposed the idea of Catalonia's 'full name gongtou'.

Laporta was racking his brains and in the midst of the chaos, Barcelona also welcomed Jose Mourinho and his Inter Milan at the Camp Nou.