Volume 1 Chapter 279 The Royal Way and the Domineering

"Just look at that slogan and you can see how excited we are at this moment."

After the game, to the cheers of the sky, John Terry and Frank Lampard, captains of the team, took to the general interview area to be interviewed by the media and journalists from all over the world, and now they were pointing to a sign pulled out from the stands opposite the home team's dugout.

'All Blues fans, have any of you seen Chelsea win the league with your own eyes?'

The slogan is full of poignantness, tears and the love that all Chelsea fans have for this team, even though half a century has passed, and even if more and more new fans have thrown themselves into the arms of this team, no one has changed their passion and support for Chelsea.

'This game was a game for all the Chelsea players that didn't even need to be mobilised, we didn't even mobilize before the game, we just said, 'I believe you can make history today, you can win the title, and that makes us all feel that our blood is warming, boiling, burning.'

John Terry looked excited, this is his first season as the captain of the team, and after becoming the captain, he led the team to win the league championship, and even has the hope of hitting the European Champions Cup, all of which is like a dream for him, and it is Ye Qiu who gives him the right to dream.

'I remember there was a very touching scene at the end of the game where all the Chelsea substitutes and the players who didn't make it to the squad were standing in a row on the sidelines and wearing scarves, did you arrange that?' A British journalist asked.

John Terry and Frank Lampard are arguably inseparable friends within the Chelsea team, and they are also the team's vice-captains, and they both smile when they look at each other, and it is up to Frank Lampard to answer the question.

'Yes, but it wasn't forced, but all the players were involved because it was a very fantastic occasion for us and we all wanted all our team-mates to be together because we had been together until now.

"What about your head coach, Ye Qiu?" Another reporter asked with a smile.

John Terry and Lampard looked at each other again, with John Terry saying: 'Ye Qiu is a very amazing person, we don't know how to praise him, he has been great for us all season, we all respect him, he is also very smart, he can always take the pressure off us and lead us through all the difficulties. ”

'To be honest, we didn't know anything about him before the season, we didn't know him at all, we just knew that he led Ajax to the Champions League, but the first time I met him, I knew that he was a very good manager, he was different from all our previous managers, he was hungry for wins, for titles.

"How?" The reporter who asked the question asked.

Terry shrugged, "I remember, the first time we met, he asked me what I wanted to win, and I told him we hadn't won the Premier League title for years, and he told me that we were going to win this title this season and he wanted me to pass that on his words and his confidence. ”

'So, you see, now we've won the Premier League, what an incredible thing'

"What about you? Frank, what did he say when he first met Ye Qiu? ”

Lampard smiled, 'He told me he was confident he could win everything but he needed our full support, and I assured him that I would do my best to match him, so we worked well all season and we won the Premier League title in the end.

Journalists took great care to record every word spoken by the two Chelsea captains, as it will be tomorrow's newspaper news, and it is to be expected that tomorrow almost all of Europe, and indeed the world, will be running the news of Chelsea's unbeaten Premier League title.

'This season's Premier League has been described by many as the most competitive season in recent years, Chelsea and Arsenal are unbeaten, but in the end Chelsea won the title with one more win, and in the eyes of many, what makes Chelsea better than Arsenal is that you are mentally and in better shape, is there any way to do that?'

John Terry and Lampard pondered for a moment and decided they could answer the question appropriately, so Terry stepped forward.

'I was very impressed by the fact that in September, we were going back and forth with the national team, and we were very tired from the league and the Champions League, and we told us at the time that fatigue is a psychological problem for a professional player who has experienced a lot of fitness before the season.

"He told us that if you have the belief in winning, if you have the desire to win, then you will want to try to win every game, and you will not have to think about fatigue, so when you feel tired and want to rest, then tell yourself, keep going, we can win everything"

Lampard nodded from the sidelines, 'The fact that I've played almost all of the games this season and I don't think fitness is an issue, the real problem is mental, as long as we can overcome that aspect of mentality, we can keep going'

While the two captains were answering questions from reporters, the families of the Chelsea players walked into Stamford Bridge one after another, which is also a common practice after the team won the championship, that is, to let the players' families accompany the players to share the joy of winning the championship.

Frank Lampard and John Terry's family and friends were on the scene, and the interview was almost complete, so they confessed to the reporters and left the general interview area and walked towards their own families.

The atmosphere at Stamford Bridge was heated by the presence of the players' families, and the staff were scrambling to set up a podium for two Chelsea veterans to present the trophy to captain John Terry, who would then celebrate the victory.

With plenty of time to go until the Champions League after the final round of the Premier League, Chelsea will be holding a huge victory parade in the evening, the result of discussions between the club and London City Council, as well as the boroughs of Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, around Stamford Bridge.

In the city of London, where space is at a premium, it is not easy to find an open space with enough teams to celebrate, and as a cosmopolitan city, London is already congested with traffic, and if Chelsea were to march to celebrate, the roads would have to be closed, and the city councils and district councils would have to consider the implications.

But in the end, after Chelsea's coordination, the team's championship celebration parade will be relatively small, confined to the surrounding areas of Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, starting from Stamford Bridge and ending at Parsons Green Park, where the team will hold a celebration, and the city council and district council have already set the route of the parade in advance and announced it to the public.

And this celebration will undoubtedly be a holiday for Chelsea fans

Ye Qiu stood on the sidelines, silently watching the players in the stadium celebrating wildly, the players' families and children have also become a unique scenery on the field, which made Ye Qiu involuntarily think of Huang Chu and Eliza, Huang Chu came to the scene tonight, but she refused to enter the venue, Ye Qiu didn't even know where she was sitting, and looked up several times but couldn't find it.

Eliza is busy in San Francisco, she has to participate in the Champions League final, many things have to be arranged in advance, plus there are many things recently, she can only choose one of the two, choose to participate in the Champions League final, and give up this game.

Maybe it was because of the relationship between standing on the sidelines that Ye Qiu had the feeling of a bystander, so he could see it more clearly.

Chelsea, from owners to fans, are full of hunger for the title, but it can also be seen from this that Chelsea and Manchester United, and teams like Arsenal are still quite different, especially in software.

With Roman Abramovich's assets and big spending, Chelsea were able to assemble a formidable squad in a short period of time and quickly build up state-of-the-art hardware, but there are some things where money alone is not enough.

Coming from China, Ye Qiu knows the difference between a royal and a domineering.

The so-called hegemony is a bit similar to the peasant uprising, more or less with the temperament of a revolutionary, killing people and bloodshed, and taking the subversion of order as their own responsibility, but usually such a role is at the end of the day, if he does not change his image and strategy, he will not end well, which is also the reason why many famous uprisings in history ultimately failed.

Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang were able to go from the uprising to the establishment of a dynasty, because they both chose another path after the most revolt.

It can be said that they started by being overbearing and presented themselves as subversives, but that was just an accumulation in the early stage, because by adopting this method of defiance of authority, they could take a more rapid, direct, and crisp way to carry out bloody killings, without the need for moral restraint

But when they accumulate to a certain extent, they will have to transform from domineering to kingly.

The world is the world of the majority, if you want to have long-term peace and stability, you have to integrate into the world of the majority, win the recognition and affirmation of the majority, bid farewell to the recklessness of the hegemonic period, put away the sharp spirit of contempt for authority, and cultivate your own moral righteousness, this is the royal way.

Domineering is very pleasant, but it can't last, the royal road sometimes looks depressing, and the road is more difficult to walk, but it is better to be sustainable.

Chelsea's path this season is domineering, from unscrupulous poaching to creating disputes and discussions between Chelsea and the big teams, these are all methods that the overlord is good at, and inevitably, these have also made Chelsea the target of many big teams.

Not long ago, Peter Kenyon tried to bring Chelsea to Gl4 but it didn't work.

Although Chelsea has attracted sponsors like Samsung, surpassing Manchester United and Arsenal to become a major revenue predator, the club is not as good as the outside world thinks, Peter Kenyon once mentioned that the real big brands will seriously consider the impact when sponsoring Chelsea, so their jerseys are still Umbro.

If Chelsea wants to integrate into European football and English football, it must change its image as an arrogant nouveau riche, establish its own image as a giant, and continue to protect and enhance this image.

It's like Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, if there were no three chapters of the law when he entered the customs, and if he didn't work hard to create a positive image of himself in the middle and late stages, it is still unknown whether he would be able to defeat Xiang Yu in the end.

And the same applies to football, when you offend all the big clubs, it's hard to get a foothold.

Maybe you can say, I have money, what am I afraid of? But the question is, is there any way you can guarantee that Abramovich will keep going crazy every year like he did last year? Who can guarantee that Abramovich will not suddenly announce that he wants to lock up the bank?

At that point, what will Chelsea do? How to stand?

Ye Qiu and Peter Kenyon's thoughts are very clear and consistent, that is, after winning the championship, Chelsea must change their transfer strategy and recruitment practices, no longer poach from the giants, try to introduce some powerful potential stars, get rid of Abramovich's blood transfusion, and improve their own hematopoietic function, which is the foundation for Chelsea to become a giant.

But the problem is that just because he thinks this way doesn't mean that Abramovich thinks so too

When Ye Qiu saw Abramovich and Pini Zahavi walking out of the players' tunnel together, his originally good mood plummeted, he didn't like to see Israelis, and I believe the latter's opinion of Ye Qiu was the same.

"Congratulations, our championship coach" Abramovich looked very happy, speaking with a bit of alcohol, "I just drank a whole bottle of champagne in the box, we'll continue drinking it later, remember, don't run"

It seemed that he was a little drunk, Ye Qiu smiled, nodded and agreed, anyway, everyone knew that he couldn't drink much, and he wouldn't deliberately pour him, even if he agreed, it was okay.

"Congratulations, Mr. Ye Qiu, you are really a veritable godfather of champions, you will win the championship as soon as you come" Pini Zahavipi stretched out his hand towards Ye Qiu with a smile, and Ye Qiu shook hands with him politely.

When did the two start to fall out awkwardly, Ye Qiu himself didn't know, maybe it was from Pini Zahavi privately revealed that he hoped that Ye Qiu could support him to introduce Veron and Crespo, the Israeli did not work at Chelsea at all, but he was a close friend of Abramovich and had a certain influence on Chelsea's transfer.

But Ye Qiu finally rejected his suggestion and did not bring in Veron and Crespo, but for all considerations, Ye Qiu finally brought in Joe Cole and Parker, which can be regarded as a little compensation for Pini Zahavi, but it is clear that the Israelis are not satisfied with Ye Qiu's compensation and concessions, because he did not get anything from the transfer of the two.

'This title was the start of the Chelsea era'

When Ye Qiu shook hands with Pini Zahavi, a reporter appeared out of nowhere and found Abramovich, who rarely appeared in public, to interview the Russian tycoon.

'We have a big long-term vision for the club, a lot of people have been overly concerned about Chelsea's investment and financial spending in the past, but it's kind of foreshadowing, just to be able to compete with the top teams in the Premier League and Europe as soon as possible, and it turns out that we have the best players, the best managers, so we won the title'

"Here, I can also assure all the fans that we have waited 50 years for this title, but I am confident that the next championship will not be so long, we will continue to make high-quality reinforcements in the weak areas of the team, we will continue to maintain the investment in the team, I hope to be able to build the team into an invincible Lions in the shortest possible time"

Maybe it's because of the drinking, Abramovich spoke very imposingly, domineeringly, and loudly today.

When asked by reporters about the positions that Abramovich is interested in, the Russian pointed out two positions, one is a center forward and the other is a central midfielder, and he promised that the reinforcements in both positions will be world-class superstars.

For a long time, not only Abramovich, but even many Chelsea fans and some professionals have complained about Drogba's scoring ability, believing that Ye Qiu should not have such high hopes for this brave but inaccurate Ivorian, but should bring in a more capable and prolific scorer.

Ye Qiu defended this, saying that Drogba is an important part of the team's tactical system, although he has some shortcomings, but not enough to kill, and Drogba is constantly improving, but other scorers do not have some of Drogba's tactical characteristics, such as his diligence and bravery, and forward dominance.

As for the central midfielder, Davies's form has declined, and Ye Qiu's plan is to change the formation and straighten Ribery, plus Messi, Joe Cole and other substitutes, Chelsea are fully capable of continuing to fight in the Premier League and Europe.

But the outside world is more about linking stars such as Ballack, Nedved, and Gerrard with Chelsea, thinking that the introduction of these stars can fill Davies's shortcomings, but in Ye Qiu's opinion, let's put aside whether this problem can be filled first, just rush to a point, if Chelsea still plays 4I, will the effect be as good as this season?

You must know that people are not familiar with it in the first year, and in the second year, you are still fighting like this, and there is no change and progress at all, and people will understand you

And Ye Qiu arranged Davies, Deco and Makelle to form a three-midfielder, in fact, for the sake of safety and insurance, but after a season of exploration and familiarity, Ye Qiu is convinced that Deco and Makellele, plus Frank Lampard and Drogba in front, Chelsea's midfield pressing tactics are fully capable of adding a wing attacker.

But Ye Qiu's idea is obviously different from Abramovich's idea, the latter's mind is obvious, that is, to replace Drogba with Shevchenko or Thierry Henry, and then choose one between Ballack, Nedved and Gerrard to fill the gap between Davies, so that Chelsea's squad will be bigger than this season.

But Ye Qiu knew very well that the tactical system was not so simple to play a filling game, but to consider more and more complex relationships.

Now, listening to Abramovich's statement in an interview with reporters, Ye Qiu frowned, and felt that the differences between himself and Abramovich seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, the latter was going farther and farther on the road of hegemony, enjoying more and more the pleasure of domineering and squandering money, but forgetting to deploy the future.

"That's right" Pini Zahavi took in Ye Qiu's expression, and felt very comfortable, because this encounter between Abramovich and the reporter was actually arranged by him, "Shevchenko has personally promised Romain that as long as he talks with AC Milan, he will transfer to Stamford Bridge"

"What?" Ye Qiu was a little surprised, how could he not know what to do?