"Thanks, Jack."

Sure enough, it was the same as everyone guessed. The owners of Chelsea are too rich, not ordinary. Not only that, dare to spend money. In the current English football scene, there are definitely a lot of rich owners.

Although not as good as the newcomer Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, there are still owners worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. Like Tottenham boss Joe. Lewis is worth more than two billion pounds. But they definitely didn't spend money like Abramovich.

After spending more than £70 million, Chelsea continued to make a large number of transfers in the days leading up to the closure of the transfer market. Smertin, Crespo, Makelele, spent almost four thousand pounds.

It shocked the whole of English football, and it shocked the whole of European football. Because it has been many years since there has been such a big deal.

However, shock is shock, and the English football world is still waiting. The managers of Manchester United and Arsenal, Ferguson and Arsene Wenger do not believe that an upstart can win the title. In their opinion, money cannot buy a champion.

So we look down on Chelsea, but we are also looking at Chelsea's performance. If Chelsea rise strongly, they will probably make some moves, but they haven't made a move yet.

However, Jack at this time did not care about Chelsea's problems. The rise of Chelsea is most concerned about Manchester United and Arsenal, the dominant teams in the Premier League. They will care about the rise of new forces.

Jack is just the referee. No matter how your football power changes, as long as you keep the Premier League referee committee's one-acre and three-point land.

At this time, Jack was in Belgrade, Serbia, to prepare for the Champions League group stage to be held tomorrow. The treatment of the Champions League referees is very good.

Not only is it all the food and accommodation arranged throughout the process, but the remuneration is also very good.

1,300 euros for a single game. Then it will feed you and live for you, and you will be given a meal allowance of 100 euros per day. Because of the Champions League game. It should be said that this is the case for most of the games. Arriving the day before the game, playing the next day, and leaving on the third day are equivalent to three days and two nights.

Therefore, every time the Champions League group stage is enforced. Meals are all 300 euros.

Of course, there's more to the Champions League than that. Because if it's just this money, it's 1,600 euros per game, which is too little. This amount of money is really humiliating to the Champions League. Because the Premier League is currently 1,900 pounds per game, and it is more than 2,800 euros when converted into euros.

However, the reason why the Champions League pay is not bad is because there is still an income in the group stage of the Champions League.

That's the prize money for a single game. This bonus income is between €2,400 and €3,000. Unless the referee makes a huge mistake, as long as the enforcement is carried out smoothly, at least 2,400 euros can be earned.

If the performance is good, then 3,000 euros can also be obtained.

That is to say, every time the Champions League group stage, the referee is free of food and accommodation. You can also get more than 4,000 euros. It can be said that for a Champions League match, UEFA has to spend more than 20,000 euros for the referee team.

Because the referee is responsible for the plane ticket, hotel expenses, food and accommodation, plus the referee gets 4,000 euros, the two assistant referees can also get 5,000 euros, and the fourth referee gets 2,000 euros.

This time, Jack brought Jack's own referee team.

Less than a week after becoming an international assistant referee, Brett has just become an international assistant referee. Vaughn was among them. Brett. After being nominated by the FA to FIFA in mid-August, Vaughn was hired as an international assistant referee in just half a month.

Then Jack pulled him into his own refereeing team. That's the difference between an assistant referee and a head referee.

The referee needs to work his own, but as long as the assistant referee follows the right person, then it is easy to appear in all kinds of competitions. Then, with this qualification, he was able to leap to the top quickly.

"Nothing. I also love partnering with you. ”

The two have known each other for eight years, and Jack is taking the road of refereeing, Brett . Vaughn has been an assistant referee. Jack is willing to partner with someone he knows. That's why Brett. Vaughn enters his own refereeing team.

But for Brett. Vaughn said it was a big step.

In terms of financial income, after becoming an international assistant referee, the annual income will be tens of thousands of pounds more than in the past. After all, with Jack, you can officiate Champions League matches, League Cup matches, European Cup qualifiers, World Cup qualifiers, and friendly matches.

It's not a small income.

What's more. It's also seniority for him. Although the status of the assistant referee basically changes with the head referee who follows the assistant referee, there are some assistant referees whose status is also related to his own qualifications.

Even if the referee is very strong, his status is much higher than that of the assistant referee.

But a referee with such credentials as Jack. If you face some referees who are already in their forties and have been international assistant referees for more than ten years, they are disrespectful. Then others will criticize Jack. thinks that Jack doesn't know how to respect the elderly. That's the question of seniority.

Brett. Vaughn is now following Jack to have status, but as long as there is a chance to continue to officiate these international matches. After that period of time, you have enough status.

"Jack, two managers are more interesting than two teams."

Brett. Vaughn looked at the profiles on both sides and smiled and spoke to Jack. Jack nodded and said, "yes." Both of these are big mouths. ”

The match that Jack will be officiating is the Champions League group stage between Partizan Belgrade and Porto.

Porto needless to say.

Last season's Portuguese Super League treble was last season's UEFA Cup winners. Their head coach is none other than Jose Mourinho, who is currently making a name for himself in European football. This is no ordinary person, he is very famous in the current European football world and is the strongest candidate for the best coach in Europe this year.

After winning the treble last season, many giants in European football have also begun to pay attention to him. Even many strong teams in European football have become interested in him and are ready to poach him into their own teams.

However, Mourinho stayed in Porto to compete in this season's Champions League.

Speaking of which, though. Mourinho's fame, in addition to his excellent record. And his big mouth. When he played in the UEFA Cup last season, he made his big mouth known to the whole European football world. Squirt his opponents. The same blows the referee's decision.

Bullish coaxing.

Of course, it was not only the head coach of Porto who was in turmoil in this game, but also the head coach of Partizan Belgrade. If Mourinho started to make a name for himself in European football because of his excellent coaching achievements.

Then the head coach of Partizan Belgrade is not because of this, but because he is famous in his own right. He is a famous German player, and he holds the appearance record in the history of the World Cup, also holds the appearance record in the history of the International Continental Cup, and the overall appearance king of the German national team.

Mateus is known as one of the 10 greatest players in the history of football, one of the 10 greatest players in the history of the World Cup, and has won club and national team honours, almost a Grand Slam. The same goes for personal honors.

is a real superstar character.

However, compared to his achievements on the pitch, Mateus has not received much respect in private. Whether it's his opponents, the coaches he has worked with, his teammates, or the media that he has worked closely with. Even his ex-wife, basically there are few who can say good things about him.

On the contrary, the majority of the complaining accounts for the majority.

Many people who worked with him didn't like Mateus, thinking that he had a problem with his character.

The main problem is that Mateus has a big mouth and doesn't know how to restrain at all. That's why people hate it so much. He is one of the archetypal figures in European football.

A Dutch tourist once criticized Mateus, who said to him, "The Dutch are all rubbish, and Adolf has probably left you slaves." ”

Such words are what Mateus dares to say at will, and who else dares to say this.

Of course, it's not the first time that Mateus has a big mouth. A women's basketball team passed by, and Matthaus greeted them like this: "Hey girls, our black players have the longest job." ”

Of course, these are just some of the stories.

In 1996. The German national team did not choose Mateus to be included in the national team. The German national team won the European Championship, much to the fury of Mateus.

In the period before and after the European Championships, Mateus criticized the German Football Association, the head coach of the German national team and his own German national team teammates. Didn't let anyone go.

Some are invective. Some are sarcastic. Anyway, he didn't have a good relationship with the whole German football world during that time, and his relationship with his teammates was even worse.

How can such a Mateus popularity be good.

"I don't know if these two people will fight when they bump into each other."

"It would have looked good if it had a fight. You say who will win. I think it's Mateus. ”

Jack unconsciously remembered what would happen if these two men fought. But on the whole. Jack must have the upper hand on Mateus. Although Mourinho is more handsome, Mateus is playing on the pitch. is a tough guy. The fight is not bad, and it is estimated that a few punches will be able to knock out Mourinho.

"Huh. Jack, if you say that, it's going to make headlines. ”

"Haha."

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17 September 2003, Belgrade People's Army Stadium.

In the first match of the group stage of the Champions League in 03-04, Partizan Belgrade faced Porto.

This is the home of the Belgrade partizan army. Serbia has been politically turbulent in previous years, and Montenegro just declared independence last year. And because of the political instability, Serbia's economy has not been very good.

Fortunately, Belgrade is the capital of Serbia and the most economically beautiful city in Serbia. The economy has recovered a lot in recent years, so there are also a lot of fans on the spot.

"Mark, you're going to be tired in this game. Neither of those two will be easy to deal with. ”

The fourth referee of this game is also Halsey, who has a very good relationship with Jack. Although Halsey is also an international referee, she has been refereed a limited number of times. And Halsey was the fourth referee, and Jack was more relieved.

"I know. You can rest assured. (To be continued......)