Chapter 113: Match-fixing
In the blink of an eye, another month has passed, Lao Liu's young players are maturing rapidly, drawing consecutive promotion favorites Sunderland and Birmingham, defeating Sheffield Wednesday, just losing to Crystal Palace away, three wins, four draws and two defeats in nine league games, accumulating thirteen points and rising to eighth place, but as the game continues, one thing gradually bothers Lao Liu more and more, that is, whether he is suitable to be a head coach, because every time the game comes to a critical time, However, he could not completely convert what he wanted into effective action implementation, and the continuous upgrading of the abilities of the opposing players made it difficult to provide tactical and technical guidance.
Caldoni will return to Italy after staying for a while, Mike is a strict enforcer, and Lao Liu is not a person who can stay on the training ground all day, the most important point is that after being promoted to the Premier League, according to the FA regulations, the directors of the club will no longer be able to serve as coaches, and Lao Liu is absolutely unwilling to give up the shares that roll up in order to be the coach.
"To be honest, did you ever hit the professor's idea some time ago," Leboeuf, who knew Lao Liu's mind very well, suddenly asked. "Hehe, I'm making up my mind about all the great coaches, or you can try it."
"I'd better forget it, I want to be a coach, I was already a coach when I was in France, or do the manager to develop the appetite of the market, if you really want the professor to come, but you have to talk to him quickly, it is said that Marseille, Nancy and many other French teams have an interest in him, I think this time the professor may be disheartened, really returned to China to coach."
"Do you think there's any hope for the professor to come over?" "It's difficult, but it's still possible, it's mainly up to you." "Oh, tell me about it."
Took a cigar from Lao Liu's Taipan desk, Leboeuf took a deep breath, "In fact, what the professor needs is a platform to show his thinking, when he led Arsenal to the Premier League championship, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Italy's Inter Milan all spent a lot of money to poach him, but the professor did not allow anything, I asked him at the time, and he said, I want to work in a place where I can be completely in charge, and now Arsenal gradually does not have this environment, do you think you can give him this environment?" ”
Lao Liu nodded, "Yes, a good coach needs a reading environment, even if he is not a professor, others are like this, so I have to think again, can I completely delegate power?" ”……
Before Lao Liu could think about it, there was a major event in the Championship that shook UEFA. A coach was exposed to be linked to a gambling company. And immediately after, there was a fatality.
In the tenth round of the league, the match between Boehly and Cardiff ended with a disparity of 4-0, and the Boehly team at the end of the standings defeated Cardiff in the middle of the table, this result was somewhat unexpected, but football is round, and any result can happen, until someone reported to the "London Evening Standard" and other media that there was a telephone tape in his hand, which could confirm the gambling company behind the game, and played a short segment, One of the coaches of one of the teams could be clearly heard talking about cheating on the pitch, selling the tape to the media for £100,000, only to disappear when the relevant reporters of the media went to the agreed place to approach.
So reporters began to investigate the events before and after the game, and more unusual situations gradually appeared: after the 4-0 win over Cardiff, Boehly just got out of the relegation zone by a goal advantage; Cardiff's main striker, who claimed to be injured and unable to play, was seen fighting with people in a bar the next day, but the club did not punish the incident, and even denied it when a reporter interviewed the matter; The Cardiff players were drowsy during the game, but none of the coaches shouted at the pitch; What particularly interested the reporters was that on the evening of the day before the start of the game, someone in the betting area wanted to invest 50,000 pounds to buy the Boehly team's 4-0 victory over Cardiff, but was finally rejected by the staff on the grounds that the computer crashed and exceeded the betting time.
Some people suspect that the person who rejected the bet is the person who called the media to report the news, but now there is no news of this person, and there is no way to start, although the investigation has been blocked, but the matter has spread throughout the English football community, and even UEFA has issued a document asking the FA to thoroughly investigate the matter.
Less than 12 hours after the UEFA document was issued, in a small alley in London, a male corpse was found, who was stabbed in the heart and died, and the police investigated and found that he was a scout parry who had just been dismissed by the Cardiff club, living alone, and was about to be named a robbery and murder, but on the telephone recording of the apartment room where Parry lived in Cardiff City, the police unexpectedly found a passage left by Parry himself, in which Parry told the police, If he was killed, there was only one reason: he was the one who exposed Boehly's match-fixing case with Cardiff.
In the bank safe mentioned in Parry's message, the police found the tape and solved the mystery of match-fixing: it turned out that after Parry was fired three months ago, he held a grudge, so he installed a monitor on a secret phone of the club, originally just wanted to know some club secrets and find an opportunity to extort some money, but he didn't expect to let him run into such a big secret, in fact, he didn't want to expose such a thing, because the consequences are quite serious, But when he raised £50,000 to bet, he was rejected by Gamco and immediately discovered that a killer was following him, so Parry went to London, intending to copy the tape and sell it to the media, and then go abroad to avoid trouble, but in the end he still did not escape the sharp knife of the tracking killer.
The matter was so easily figured out, for a while the FA and UEFA didn't know what to do, and the final result was that Boehly deducted 20 points from the league, Cardiff deducted 12 points, all those directly involved were banned for life, and both clubs also had to pay high fines. As for the criminal case of football accidents, it is natural that the Metropolitan Police continue to pursue them.
Such a result has the other mid-table Championship teams secretly happy, and in this case, there is effectively only one relegation place left for this season.
Lao Liu was talking to Leboeuf, Murphy and Tommy about this when his phone rang, "Do you have time to meet?" It was Dickens's call, and Lao Liu was very curious about what would happen to him at this time.
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