The Arena is not only a modern stadium, but also a famous shopping mall in the new town southeast of Amsterdam.

Here, there are many leisure, entertainment, food and other kinds of shops, which are very lively every day, and if it is a match day, it is a paradise for all Ajax fans in the city, and it is a festival for all shop owners.

But all of this happened after Ye Qiu took charge of the team.

Since moving from the old Olympic Stadium to the Arenal Stadium in 1996, as Ajax's results have plummeted, fans have rarely had the opportunity to indulge in revelry, and although Olsen won a league title, it was more of a time when key players kept leaving, which somewhat diluted the joy of Ajax fans.

But now, after Ye Qiu took charge of the team, he boldly reformed Ajax, so that the strength of this Ajax team has increased by leaps and bounds, coupled with the continuous improvement of the team's performance, almost every game of the entire Arenal Stadium has become a paradise for fans to celebrate, and by the way, it has also brought a huge boost to the business of the shops here.

When Abramovich is in Pini? Accompanied by Zahavi and Souness, they walked into one of the small bars at the Arena Stadium and found it crowded with fans, with the smell of alcohol in the air.

The Russian rich man frowned, and the leg that had just stepped into it stepped back out, and shook his head, "Go get coffee!" ”

Originally, he was going to experience the kind of after an ordinary fan won the game, but at that moment, he was disgusted from the bottom of his heart, and he couldn't fit into the atmosphere of a bar full of alcohol and foul language.

Even, to some extent, he prefers to be on his luxury yacht, drinking red wine, eating steak, and watching the game leisurely, which is definitely more comfortable than coming to the scene to watch.

The difference between a café and a bar is that one is noisy, one is quiet, one is on the first floor, one is on the second floor, one is not air-conditioned, and the other is always at the right temperature, and there is no disgusting smell of alcohol.

"Welcome!" As soon as I walked in, a well-dressed waiter politely came over to entertain me.

Abramovich glanced at the coffee house, which was also crowded with people, but it was clear that it was more orderly than in the bar.

The Arena Stadium is a very small area, the rent of the shops is not cheap, but the area is very small, this coffee house is probably less than 100 square meters, but it is separated from the bar, storage room, toilet and other facilities, the area that really entertains guests is even smaller, but because the furnishings are very neat, the guests are also sitting in an orderly manner, which makes it look very comfortable.

Sometimes it's like this, no matter how big the space is, it feels crowded when it's messy, and the space is small, as long as it's tidy and clean, it feels enough, people, comfortable or not, it's purely a feeling.

"Looks like business is going well!" Abramovich smiled and sat down at a window.

From here, you can see Ajax fans coming out of the downstairs, and the square below is crowded, and tens of thousands of fans are pouring out, and the scene is really spectacular.

"Yes, especially at home, the Arena has been almost full in recent years, and our business has improved." The waiter smiled and wiped the table over there, following Abramovich's words.

Abramovich smiled, "Listening to your tone, it seems that the attendance was not high before?" ”

The waiter was a little surprised, almost all of the people who came here were Ajax fans, did these people still not know what had happened in the past few years? As soon as he thought of this, he was a little proud, and thought that he had met a rookie new fan, so he pretended to be a veteran, "You don't know what to do, do you?" Back then, our Ajax results were terrible, not to mention that everyone was poached, and the results also plummeted. ”

With Abramovich's encouraging smile, the waiter continued, at least he felt that if he had flattered the guest, there might be a good tip, and he would have made a lot of money.

"I still remember when I first came to the store, that time we lost 0-4 at home to PSV Eindhoven, my God, all the Ajax fans went crazy that day, and they marched down the building of our store, and we were so frightened that we were afraid to rush in and smash the store."

Abramovich didn't seem to be in a hurry to drink coffee or rush, just sat there with a smile on his face and listened.

"Later, there was another time, it seemed to lose to Feyenoord, it was also a miserable loss, the fans were not happy, they rebelled directly, that season was very messy, the team's results were also very bad, to the worst, the first team could not qualify for the European competition, not even the League Cup, but the second team won the Dutch Cup, can go to the League Cup."

Abramovich was happy when he heard it, "Can the second team play in European competitions instead?" How is this calculated? ”

"yes, everyone wonders, how is this counted?" The waiter also smiled and asked, "The last is still on the first team." ”

"Ye Qiu?" Abramovich can be heard it, isn't this what Ye Qiu did a few years ago?

"Yes, Mr. Ye Qiu is too powerful, I have a friend who works in the administration department, he told me that Mr. Ye Qiu had a meeting for the first time, and he said directly that all the players in the first team are not good, either the veterans who are going downhill, or the strength is not good, even if there are a few players with good strength, but the club wants to bring in reinforcements, and if there is no money, they have to sell people, so he waved his hand and sold them all!"

When Abramovich heard this, he was a little surprised, and he couldn't see that Yetus's writing still had such courage.

"At that time, this incident fell out in Ajax, and those directors were crazy, thinking that Mr. Ye Qiu was messing around, and the players he introduced later were not very famous, and the results were not very satisfactory at the beginning, so they wanted to fire him, but later as the team's results gradually improved, the directors were all gone, but one by one they were cut in power, and some were kicked out of the board of directors, and the management was finally taken over by Chairman Van Praag."

"And now we look back, some of the players who were sold by Mr. Ye Qiu are gone, some can't play at all, and some can only play in the middle and lower reaches of the Eredivisie, or even other worse leagues, which is enough to prove how vicious Mr. Ye Qiu's vision was at that time."

A newspaper once made a summary, among the people who were fired out of the Ajax lineup by Ye Qiu that year, there were either Glen Char, Aviradze, Konope and other players who took the initiative to ask for a transfer or sell money, and the transfer fees of these players were converted into Ajax's reinforcements, as well as Van Haast and Aaron? While a few players such as Winter played in the lower middle of the Eredivisie, the vast majority of the remaining players died down and barely continued to appear in front of the media and fans.

For example, the Portuguese genius Dani, who was brought in by Atletico Madrid with a lot of money, eventually disappeared, and after Conope left Ajax, his performance has not been satisfactory, and some other players, namely Glen Char, have performed well in the Premier League, and that's it.

Therefore, many people think that although Ye Qiu's approach back then was drastic and seemed a bit excessive, it also reflected his understanding of Ajax, and launched a reform that started from the bones, completely rejuvenating Ajax.

Seeing the waiter's departure, the smile on the corner of Abramovich's mouth became stronger, Ye Qiu's eyes were full of praise even for Zahavi, and almost every player he introduced proved his strength after reaching the top.

Don't say much else, look at Arteta, a player that Barcelona doesn't look down on, directly as a transfer additive, given to Ajax, but as soon as people came to the Eredivisie, they immediately showed that they didn't dare to say that they were top-notch, but at least they were also the strength of Europe's first-class midfielders, almost seamlessly connected with Ajax, and became a well-known rookie in Europe.

There are also Van der Vaart, Sneijder, Robben, the new three musketeers in the Netherlands, and some people call them and Feyenoord's Van Persie together as the Dutch Four Musketeers, but Van Persie is now in the cold palace because of his open conflict with Van Marwijk, but Ajax's three musketeers have made a name for themselves in Europe, attracting the attention of many giants including Barcelona and Real Madrid.

The coffee was delivered, but Abramovich didn't take a sip, and Zahavi and Souness sat quietly across from him, both knowing full well that the Russians were thinking about something at this moment.

No one would have imagined that these problems would completely overturn the current pattern of European football.

After a long time, Abramovich put away his thoughts and looked at Zahavi, "What do you think of him?" ”

Souness was embarrassed and disappointed on the sidelines because he was completely ignored by Abramovich.

After hearing this, Zahavi smiled, "I heard that what he dislikes the most is those giants, because he has been poached by giants many times, so he once said that there is nothing great about giants, give him time and money, he wants to build another giant!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Abramovich's eyes lit up, and he was also ambitious to build a giant.

For Abramovich, who grew up in the Soviet Union with complicated relationships, he entered the football field with a very complex purpose, but his goal was very clear, that is, to use the influence of football to make himself the most watched group of people in the world, so that he could continue to survive safely.

And there is no more attention paid by the European media than the owner of a super wealthy club, and his character has always been to hope to be the strongest and the most powerful decision-maker, so he is not willing to be subservient, he either doesn't do it, or he wants to do the best.

Zahavi knows how to guess Abramovich's mind, and he's a very shrewd guy.

Why is he willing to put so much effort into Abramovich?

Because he is trying in every possible way to instigate, or rather instigate, Abramovich to buy a Premier League team, in his view, the power of the agent is always limited, and controlling players is far less influential than controlling a big team.

Abramovich listened, smiled, and didn't say anything more, drank all the cup of coffee in front of him in one go, and stood up, "Let's go, Pini, didn't you say that you would take me to Eindhoven and introduce someone to me?" ”

Zahavi also stood up with a smile after hearing this, "Yes, he is the general manager of PSV Eindhoven, Frank?" Arneson is the youth expert with the most complete scouting network in the world today. ”

After a pause, he smiled again: "If a great championship coach can bring you the present, then Arneson is the one who can give you the future!" ”

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Ye Qiu didn't know if Abramovich came to the Arena Stadium to watch the game, because he didn't have time to contact anyone before the game, he was all about preparing for the game and the game, and during the game, there were so many people in the stands, where did he have time to find someone slowly?

Even if he could find it, he wouldn't have that mind.

Ajax's 3-1 home win over Manchester United was indeed a big upset and shocked the entire European football world, because Ajax will secure the top spot in the group with this victory.

But soon, everyone forgot about Ajax, forgot about Ye Qiu, who beat Ferguson, and remembered another name.

Antich!

To say that this season's Barcelona is indeed sad, Gaspat has gambled all his belongings on Van Gaal, and is full of confidence that Van Gaal's return will definitely bring changes to Barcelona, but what he didn't expect is that Van Gaal's Barcelona fell to 15th place in the league and almost fell into the relegation zone.

Many people are beginning to suspect that Louis van Gaal will make Barcelona another club to be relegated to La Liga after Atletico Madrid.

Van Gaal finally couldn't bear the pressure after the winter break and announced his resignation, while the chairman who supported him, Gaspart, also announced his resignation, vice chairman Reina temporarily took the helm of the board, and after a short period of training with Lexach, the former Yugoslav coach Antich, who had relegated Atletico Madrid, took over Barcelona.

Everyone knows that there are many reasons for Atletico Madrid's relegation, and Antich cannot be blamed entirely, but he still can't help but feel pessimistic about Antich's future in Barcelona, but what he didn't expect is that the manager who has been questioned since taking office beat the opponent 3:0 when he faced Inter Milan at the Camp Nou.

Cooper's Inter Milan were star-studded but ineffective at the Camp Nou, and the Argentine boss publicly criticised the team's midfielders and defenders after the game, and even harshly criticized the team's number one centre-back, Cannavaro.

'Today's game taught us a hard lesson, the movement of Kluivert and Saviola created a huge space, our centre-backs and midfielders were too far apart for the opposition to take advantage of, especially Saviola, who played his best game since joining Barcelona and we have to be held accountable.

According to Inter Milan's lineup before the game, as well as the performance in the game, Cooper discharged Cannavaro and Carlos? Gamara's combination, in which the shorter Cannavaro was in charge of marking Saviola and Gamara was in charge of Kluivert, but Saviola's performance in this game was very eye-catching.

Although Cooper did not name names, everyone knew that he was very unhappy with Cannavaro's performance.

As early as the summer of 2002, Inter Milan was interested in Nesta, and Cannavaro was AC Milan, but by mistake, it was incomprehensible that the two actually switched clubs, and after Cannavaro came to Inter Milan, he was injured and stopped, and his performance was very different from that of Parma, which was difficult to be satisfactory.

With a 3-0 home win over Inter Milan, Antich's Barcelona won the affirmation of fans and media for the first time, and also made himself the number one person in the Champions League.

Bayer Leverkusen, who are in the same group as Ajax, have just undergone a change of coach, and the team's combat effectiveness has declined rapidly, and they have no fighting spirit at Bayer Stadium, even if they face Lokomotiv Moscow from Russia, and the pharmaceutical company does not have the style of Sanya King last season.

In 30 minutes, it took only 30 minutes for the Moscow locomotive to completely collapse the pharmaceutical factory.

In the 6th, 16th and 30th minutes, Lokomotiv Moscow scored three goals for pharmaceutical factories, and Bayer Leverkusen, although they pulled one back in the 26th minute, but in the end it was to no avail, watching the Russian team get the first victory of the second round of the group stage on their own doorstep, while the pharmaceutical factory lost three consecutive games in the second round of the group stage.

The entire German football world is incredible, the decline of Leverkusen, the king of Sanya, who had a great glory last season, only half a year later, has completely become a weak team fighting for relegation in the Bundesliga, and has no combat effectiveness in the Champions League, which is indeed incomprehensible, but also a little more embarrassing.

Some people even wondered, if Ballack was still around, would Leverkusen still sink to this point?

No one knows the answer, but it is clear that both Manchester United's Alex Ferguson and Ajax's Ye Qiu have removed Bayer Leverkusen from the list of qualifying opponents, and now the biggest suspense for these two teams is not to qualify from the group, but who can become the top of the group.

Back in the Eredivisie, Ajax travelled to Utrecht.

For this match at Old Trafford four days later, Ye Qiu arranged most of the substitutes for this game, but ended up in a 1-1 draw away from Utrecht.

In the 74th minute, Heitinga was sent off by the referee for a red card after a clash with an opponent, while Utrecht's striker Kuyt equalised for Utrecht in the 83rd minute.

In the locker room after the game, Ye Qiu gave a stern warning to Heitinga, who was not calm and rational, and also expressed disappointment with the performance of several players in the team, without that red card, Ajax would have been able to win the game.

Now only one point has been obtained, but Hiddink's PSV Eindhoven beat Breda to get three points, and the gap between the two sides has been shortened to two points, and Ajax's title momentum has once again been attacked by PSV Eindhoven.

Heitinga also apologized to the head coach and teammates before the training session on the second day after returning to Amsterdam, admitting his mistake for his recklessness yesterday, and Ye Qiu and the club did not plan to continue to punish Heitinga, but told Heitinga that there should be no next time.

After three days in Amsterdam, the team departed for Manchester.