1011 Only win, not lose!
Unlike the Spanish media, which focused on the turmoil at Barcelona, the British media focused more on the news of Chelsea and Carlo Ancelotti meeting in the Champions League final, and whether the Blues' bitter rival Yang Yang would score again in the final.
A year ago, Carlo Ancelotti was denied a break from Chelsea and didn't even have a chance to say goodbye to his players in the dressing room, when he received an order from the club's management to leave the bus back to London after the team's away game.
The incident caused an uproar at the time, with everyone outraged by Chelsea's behaviour and saw a lack of respect for the manager, with even Alex Ferguson publicly attacking Chelsea's approach.
At that time, Abramovich sacked Ancelotti because he felt that under Ancelotti's management, he could not see Chelsea's hope of winning the title, especially the Champions League.
Time has changed, and a year later, Carlo Ancelotti led Real Madrid to the final.
Of course, Chelsea also reached the final, but it was not Ancelotti's successor Villas-Boas who led the team, but the Italian manager Di Matteo, who was halfway through the fire in March, and more importantly, Chelsea are currently sixth in the Premier League and can be said to have basically lost the qualification to compete for next season's Champions League.
In other words, unless they win the Champions League, Chelsea will not even be able to play in the Europa League next season.
That's why Chelsea have been doing their best to challenge for the Champions League in recent times.
And with the aging of Drogba and a group of other players, it is imperative to reorganize Chelsea this summer, but at this critical moment, Abramovich began to tighten the monetary base and refused to increase investment in the team's squad, which is undoubtedly quite worrying, and even many media revealed that this will be Chelsea's last chance to impact the Champions League.
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The Guardian has published a special feature on the feud between Roman Abramovich's Chelsea and Real Madrid's Yang Yang and Carlo Ancelotti, and has revealed many truths that were previously unknown to the outside world.
Needless to say, the entanglement between Yang Yang and Chelsea, when he chose Liverpool, it has always been evidence that fans have used to criticize and ridicule Abramovich, and this time it was Ancelotti who really attracted attention.
According to the Guardian, Chelsea had two meetings with Carlo Ancelotti as early as '08, when the Blues had just sacked Jose Mourinho, but interestingly, this was supposed to be a confidential meeting, but it was quickly revealed by the media after the meeting, and then Chelsea used this as an excuse to refuse to contact Ancelotti again and chose Scolari.
In the summer of '09, Chelsea sacked Scolari and re-contacted Ancelotti, but at that time Ancelotti was always concerned about Real Madrid and wanted to coach the second phase of the Galaxy Battleship, but unfortunately Real Madrid chose Benitez at that time, and finally Ancelotti went to Chelsea, for which he also went to the Netherlands to study English.
In everyone's eyes, Carlo Ancelotti's first season in charge of Chelsea was undoubtedly a success, as there was a double, but the Guardian broke the news that this was not the case, because as early as the beginning of the season, Carlo Ancelotti's side lost 3-1 away to Atletico Wigan after winning five consecutive games, and the next day, Abramovich publicly pressured Ancelotti at the training ground to demand an explanation.
Similar things have continued to happen over and over again, especially after Chelsea were eliminated from the Champions League, and Roman Abramovich put tremendous pressure on Carlo Ancelotti, and in the end, the team won the Premier League and FA Cup, becoming one of the few doubles in English football history, but still failed to gain Abramovich's trust.
"The boss always felt that the team's ability to win the double after the season was more due to his urging, and Carlo Ancelotti was more about helping." An unnamed Chelsea insider revealed.
The precarious relationship intensified in Carlo Ancelotti's second year in charge, when Ancelotti's request for a summer transfer failed to receive support, while the squad aged, and by November, Ancelotti was still at the top of the table, but after a 2-0 defeat to Liverpool, assistant coach Wilkins was ordered to step down by Roman Abramovich.
'Ancelotti believes it was a warning from his boss to express his displeasure at the defeat to Liverpool.' An insider revealed, "Because Ancelotti was completely kept in the dark during the whole process of sacking Wilkins, and subsequently, the club management arranged for Emenalo to join Ancelotti's coaching team to play a supervisory role." ”
'The fact that Emenalo used to be a scout, adept at scouting players and opponents, but never worked as an assistant coach, and his presence upset Carlo Ancelotti and all the players in the first team.
But Abramovich has clearly become more and more disrespectful to Ancelotti, and even appeared before the game, after he lectured all the players, he specifically left Ancelotti and told him directly, "If you can't win this game, you don't have to come back to work." ”
"The boss said it in a tone that was akin to a joke, but everybody knew it was his last warning, and he always had because he was the owner of the team."
Unfortunately, Carlo Ancelotti's side lost to Manchester United in the subsequent game.
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The Guardian concluded that sacking Carlo Ancelotti was not a smart decision, especially in this way, but this is not the first time Abramovich has done so that no big manager has been willing to take over Chelsea at all.
After leaving Chelsea, Carlo Ancelotti immediately switched to Real Madrid, and this season led Real Madrid to beat Barcelona in La Liga, leading all the way, reaching the final of the Copa del Rey and the final of the Champions League, with a strong hope of winning the treble.
'The Italian has shown the world with ironclad results that it's not that he doesn't have the ability to coach, but that there are too many other factors that have influenced his management at Chelsea, especially Roman Abramovich.
The Guardian also says it will be a spectacular Champions League final as Carlo Ancelotti will lead Real Madrid to Chelsea for revenge.
"Yang Yang, will this [first love] that Abramovich wants but can't get, will he cruelly hurt the Russians again?"
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"Fart!"
On the top floor of a luxury cruise ship at London's Canary Wharf, Abramovich slammed the newspaper in his hand onto the table, looking furious.
Marina Granovskia, the personal assistant sitting across from him, was also trembling, and she didn't dare to come out.
At this time, whoever comes forward is unlucky.
"How could the Guardian know in such detail? Even all the details are clearly reported, where did they get the information? Abramovich's eyes flashed with a hint of fierceness, "There must be a ghost in our club, someone must be reporting to the media, check me immediately, you must find out for me." ”
Granovskya looked at his nose and his nose at his heart, and still did not say a word, but his brain turned rapidly.
Chanei ghosts?
That's not a good idea.
Modern football and the media are like twins, interdependent, although the media is highly dependent on the club's news to promote sales, but in fact, clubs often need to use the media to achieve some goals, such as transfer exploration, or other pressure, and cover up some news that the outside world does not want to know.
It's no secret that the UK media is highly developed, and Premier League players have close contacts with media practitioners, just as Frank Lampard is close to Martin Samuel of the Daily Mail, and John Terry, who is also a close friend of a large number of media practitioners.
To find out who leaked the news, that is, to suspect everyone, and in the end the result is often that nothing can be found, but the players are offended in vain, which is always the stupidest decision in internal management.
Of course, Granovskia would not dare to say such words, she only had to be obedient, which is the reason why she has been able to stay by Abramovich's side for so many years and her status has been rising.
Abramovich is undoubtedly an extremely domineering and controlling person, but anyone who can become the world's top richest man like him has a strong personality, but this does not mean that he will lose his mind.
Firing Mourinho, sacking Ancelotti and Boas and others, just because in his eyes, these people are nothing, and he believes that in the world of professional football, there is nothing that money can't buy, the key is only whether he wants to buy it or not.
And now, he was just angry for a while, vented, and quickly regained his senses.
"Marina." Abramovich turned his head and shouted.
"Boss." Granovskia hurried out of the state of the statue and replied as soon as possible.
"You go to the club first and tell them that you can't give me this Champions League final no matter what, I want to win, and if they dare to lose, then they don't have to go back to Chelsea!" Abramovich said through gritted teeth.
"Understood." Granovsky agreed.
This is indeed the style of Abramovich, who has said such things more than once, and not only to one person.
It's like the CEO of a company who says this to a department head whose performance satisfies him.
The only difference is that the team's manager and players are more famous.
But sometimes, firing these unattainable stars in the eyes of fans in minutes is actually a very happy thing.
"Tell Barker again, let him keep an eye on me, I want to personally supervise the Champions League final, I can't lose no matter what, I want to see the team kill Real Madrid at the Allianz Arena!" Abramovich said fiercely.
He never mentioned Yang Yang or Ancelotti from beginning to end, but Granovskia knew very well in his heart that Abramovich was angry because of these two people.
Just meeting in the final, it made the British media hype, if Real Madrid really stepped on Chelsea's corpse to win the third consecutive championship, then wouldn't Abramovich become the laughing stock of others forever?
This is unacceptable to the Russians in any case.
In that battle, Chelsea can only win, not lose!