For Chelsea, the fixtures around Christmas are undoubtedly breathtaking.

After playing Arsenal, the team flew to Asia for the Toyota Cup in Japan, where they faced an obscure Colombian side Caldas, who won last season's Copa Libertadores.

Because this is the last Toyota Cup, as early as before the season, FIFA has announced that from 05 years, the Toyota Cup will be suspended, replaced by the Club World Cup, which has been suspended for 5 years, and the Club World Cup will adopt a multi-round system, even if it is the Champions League champion to participate, at least one round of games.

This cup has come with the mentality of fighting for power from the beginning, and even the name is called the World Club Cup, and all the teams participating in this cup are cup champions from all continents, at first glance it seems to be really amazing, the cup champion teams from all continents gather together, how good-looking, how gimmicky, how influential.

But it will turn out that this is a stupid decision made by a bunch of guys with heads on the ass, because they don't take into account the uneven quality of the teams on the continents, and everything is only in the interest.

Just like this Toyota Cup, Chelsea flew thousands of miles from London to Yokohama, Japan, and it took a lot of effort, Ye Qiu arranged for Ronaldinho, Frank Lampard, and Rooney to go up and slip away in the half, and the others were basically on the bench, and even Cesc Fabregas played the starter, and then the team defeated the team that couldn't be named in a clean 0.

The Player of the Match award was given to Davies, who was given a Toyota but didn't have time to appreciate his prize, because after the game, he flew back to London in no more than a day.

The day after the team returned to Europe, French football magazines confirmed the previous rumors, that is, this year's European Ballon d'Or winner is AC Milan's Shevchenko, and Shevchenko even surpassed Ronaldinho and Lampard to become the new European Ballon d'Or winner.

As soon as this news came out, the entire world of football was surprised, because although the previous rumors were spread similarly, everyone felt that this could not be true, so when the final results came out, everyone was shocked.

What is Shevchenko?

Chelsea won the UEFA Champions League and the Premier League undefeated, and Chelsea's Ronaldinho, Frank Lampard and even Deco were clearly more deserving of the award than Shevchenko, and if it were to be compared to goals and performances, Thierry Henry's goal statistics were clearly better.

The British media have questioned the selection of French football, they believe that if you look at the statistics and striker goals, Henry is better than Shevchenko, and in terms of overall performance on the field, Ronaldinho, Frank Lampard and Deco are clearly better, among them, Deco is also the hero of Portugal's European Championship runners-up.

"What did AC Milan have last season? Serie A Champion"

"It turns out that the weight of the Serie A champion has now surpassed the combined weight of the Premier League champion and the European Champions Cup champion, and also surpassed the European Cup runner-up, which can be called the first league in the world, so the European Golden Ball Award in the future should be renamed the Serie A Golden Ball Award"

There are even more radical media outlets who directly shouted "After tonight, the European Golden Globe will become someone's plaything", and this is obviously aimed at the Italian media.

The influential Times newspaper made a special report on this, which pointed out that the most important reason why Shevchenko won the award is because the French football magazine has clearly lacked the solitary and independent of the past, especially under the pressure of FIFA's increasingly influential selection of World Footballer of the Year.

"Shevchenko is undoubtedly superior, but the results are not impressive, in the past, Ancelotti once only used the single striker tactics of Inzaghi, Shevchenko was reduced to a substitute, but Berlusconi came forward and accused Ancelotti of the line-up, thinking that he should play a double striker."

In addition, Shevchenko's wife works for Berlusconi's TV station, and their family has an unusually deep relationship with Berlusconi, and in the past two years, there have been rumors that Chelsea wants to bring Shevchenko to London, and there is even definite intelligence that Abramovich has negotiated Shevchenko, just because Ye Qiu did not nod, and finally let Shevchenko pass by Chelsea, because this incident also led to the disagreement between Abramovich and Ye Qiu.

"Berlusconi undoubtedly needs a superstar like Shevchenko, so in the face of Chelsea's strong poaching, in order to retain Shevchenko, he personally promised to do his best to help Shevchenko win personal honors and awards, so after the selection approached, the mainstream media throughout Italy began to build momentum for Shevchenko, even to the point of sparing no effort, which has never been done before."

"In addition to this, we also have enough accurate information to show that while building momentum for Shevchenko, Berlusconi also personally called Ernaux, the editor-in-chief of the French football magazine, to personally lobby this key figure who has the ability to change the results of the selection, hoping that the French football magazine will award Shevchenko this year's European Ballon d'Or."

"As it turns out, the Ukrainians finally won this award, and while we congratulate Shevchenko, we also have to regret it, because the selection of French football magazines has obviously lost the authority of the past, and they have to accommodate the forces of all parties in order to survive, which is why this year's Ballon d'Or is so lacking in suspense."

"We also have absolutely reason to believe that if we continue to operate like this, the Golden Globes will sooner or later lose some of their last bit of influence."

Perhaps because the selection of this year's European Ballon d'Or is too unpopular, many stars interviewed by the media have chosen to remain silent, and even the editor-in-chief of the French football magazine Ernaux only said in an interview, "Shevchenko has performed very well this year, I am not comfortable commenting on the selection, but I believe in the fairness of the judges"

On the other hand, the French team newspaper has its own selection, but they select the best team.

Interestingly, in the best team selected by the French team newspaper, the goalkeeper is Van der Sar, the back line is Zambrotta, John Terry, Cannavaro and McConn, the midfield is Ronaldinho, Lampard, Makelele and Deco, and the forward line is Adriano and Thierry Henry, Shevchenko is clearly not one of them.

Chelsea, on the other hand, emerged as the biggest winner in this best team, as Chelsea have a total of eight positions in the All-Round list, basically in central midfield, and the characteristics of Drogba up front make him incomparable to the likes of Adriano and Thierry Henry.

The best coach fell on Ye Qiu, the French team newspaper believes that Ye Qiu was able to lead the team to win the Premier League championship and the European Champions Cup with an undefeated record in the first year of coaching Chelsea, and his coaching ability can be seen, and he deserves the title and title of best coach of the year.

Also in France, the selection of the team newspaper and the French football magazine is completely different, which really makes more people begin to doubt the authority of the French football magazine, thinking that this year's selection is obviously disturbed and influenced by too much outside world.

Soon after, the British media also seemed to start to build momentum for the Premier League teams to win the award, and various media and newspapers have announced their own selections of the best players and teams of the year, among which the more influential is the British World Football Magazine.

In the World Football Magazine's Team of the Year selection, Chelsea's Ronaldinho came out with P. Even Premier League fans felt that the Brazilian superstar deserved the title of best player, and the second place was won. Frank Lampard, Thierry Henry is next in third, Shevchenko is only fifth, and even behind Deco.

In the selection of the best coach, Ye Qiu won 45. The vote share completely crushed Otto the Great Rehhagel to win the Coach of the Year title, while Rehhagel and Arsene Wenger came in second and third place.

Of course, as long as it is a selection, it will inevitably be controversial.

Many people are skeptical of the World Football Magazine's selection, believing that players and coaches who play and coach in the Premier League are significantly more favoured, but there are also many who believe that the reason for this is that Chelsea and Arsenal were the two brightest teams in European football last season, both of them were unbeaten in the season, while Chelsea won the Champions League and Arsene Wenger's side came close to catching Capello's 58-game unbeaten run.

"If AC Milan can go 57 games unbeaten or win the double, then we recognise Shevchenko's status, but until then, he beats Ronaldinho, Frank Lampard, Deco and Thierry Henry to win the European Ballon d'Or, and no one will be convinced except the Serie A fans."

The media of the two countries have confronted each other and fought with each other with words, which directly contributed to the dispute between the fans of the two countries, and the two sides not only bombarded and accused each other in the media, but also directly engaged in a war of words on the Internet, forming a whirlwind of public opinion in just a few days.

Ye Qiu did not participate in this melee, after returning to London from Japan, he called Ronaldinho to his office after the French football magazine announced the results, and even did not hesitate to use self-deprecation to explain the Brazilian, because he is the second millennium in the eyes of many people.

"You see, I haven't won the UEFA and FIFA Coach of the Year or Coach of the Season for many years, but I have never given up the pursuit of these two honors, and I will take them as my lifelong goal and direction, so we have to continue to work hard."

Ronaldinho is actually not sad, he is optimistic by nature, he sees this very lightly, but he is still very grateful for Ye Qiu's explanation, and he can't stop laughing at Ye Qiu's self-deprecation.

"Don't worry, head, when I win the prize, I will say a few kind words for you"

"Roll" Ye Qiu almost didn't give him a flying leg, which is comforting, it's just gloating

However, this also made him see that Ronaldinho is indeed fine, at least not affected by French football magazines, and the Brazilian also seems to be holding his breath, when Chelsea welcomes Norwich at home, he shoots left and right, scores a hat trick, and leads Chelsea to a 0-win over promoted Manovic.

Everyone is starting to be a little numb to Chelsea's outstanding performances, and even they feel that it is not strange for Chelsea to win, and it is news not to win, but it is Manchester United who beat Crystal Palace and made people shine, while Arsenal beat Portsmouth 0 away and continue to maintain a nine-point gap with Chelsea.

After the 18th round of the league, the league was temporarily suspended, and the 19th round was continued, but Chelsea obviously cannot be disbanded, and the team will still gather for training, but the team must make arrangements for the holidays.

"Casinos, castles, make-up parties, bar parties, nightclubs"

Ye Qiu was a little dumbfounded when he looked at the report in his hand, which listed the various options for the Christmas parties of the Premier League teams in the past, because many of these choices surprised him.

"The psychology of the players during the Christmas period is more war-weary, so generally the team has to take some necessary stimulation methods, but the choice is also different, for example, Newcastle's Acuna was caught drunk driving by the police; West Ham defender Dix in 0l was photographed peeing in public; In '0l, Leicester's Wise and Savage brawl in public; '98 Carragher performs with strippers"

Peter Kenyon has been in the Premier League for many years, and he can be said to have a lot of fun with all of this, and when he said it, not only did he laugh non-stop, but Ye Qiu couldn't help but feel that the Christmas party was indeed troublesome enough.

According to the arrangement, the team still needs to train before Christmas, and the team will participate in the league the day after Christmas, so in this case, many teams choose not to have a holiday on Christmas, continue to insist on training, and then hold some activities on Christmas night to let the players have a good time.

Of course, there are special ones, for example, Arsenal's Christmas plan is rarely announced to the public, and Chelsea did not hold a Christmas event last year, so it is still not announced to the public, it depends on the club's own choice.

"What do you think?" Ye Qiu asked.

Chelsea's momentum and form are good at the moment and they need to maintain that momentum to get through the Christmas holidays, and if the disruption of Christmas affects the team's form, the Christmas schedule could well become a nightmare for Chelsea.

When Ye Qiu decided to come to the Premier League, he watched many Premier League coaches talk about the Christmas schedule in the study room, among them, Chelsea has been stuck in the Christmas schedule almost every season in the past, and Manchester United has had many precedents of reversing on Christmas, the most famous of which was in 1995 when they were 10 points behind Newcastle and finally completed the reversal.

"There are certain benefits to team activities, as is customary, it is usually a morning off, training in the afternoon, activities in the evening, and preparing for the game the next day, which has the advantage of preventing players from making some actions that affect their condition during the Christmas season, such as eating and drinking."

Peter Kenyon's statement is also the concern of most Premier League managers, Christmas can be said to be a food paradise in every household, if the player's self-control ability is not enough, one can't control it, eat more, or drink or something, it affects the state, it is really worth the loss.

But sometimes managing a team is like this, you can't pull it too tightly, because the players will have a sense of suffocation, there is some resistance in everyone's character, and it is not a good thing for you to blindly take urgent management and guard the players like thieves.

But it's not okay to be too loose, after all, many people have a hard time resisting temptation, especially at home.

"It's not as good as Yu Crisp, we will still be in London in the next round, Yu Crisp will invite the players and their families to Cobham to attend a Christmas buffet dinner, leave snacks in terms of ingredients and drinks, and the players' families will be picked up and dropped, arrange rooms for them in hotels near Stamford Bridge, and organize to watch all Premier League games during Christmas."

Having a family member and not having a family member with you are two different things, and the buffet is also a regular activity for Chelsea, and now everyone has something to learn about it, although the trick is not new, but it is better than going to the bar and the casino, right?

Maybe it was because he saw Peter Kenyon's somewhat unsatisfied look, after all, this was a little too common, Ye Qiu thought about it again, and said with a smile: "And I think we can take some activities, such as giving small gifts and lottery." ”

Ye Qiu remembers very clearly that when he used to work, there would be some lottery dinners every year, whether it was the Mid-Autumn Festival cake or the tail tooth lottery, how lively that scene was, and the key to the lottery was that your gifts should not be too cold, cold, the players obviously didn't take it to heart, but it was not enjoyable.

"You're going to want the club to vomit blood," Peter Kenyon shook his head and smiled bitterly, Chelsea's financial situation is now in a serious deficit, and he, the club's CPO, is frowning every day, just to settle those deficits.

Frankly speaking, Ye Qiu's spending money is actually not serious, he has always believed in a principle, the money that should be spent must be spent, and the money that should not be spent must not be spent, so his way of spending money is still very much agreed by Peter Kenyon, but now the club is indeed in serious deficit, and if you want to draw and give gifts, you have to find Abramovich to pay for it.

"Don't look for him, I'll pay for the lottery and gifts myself, and the prizes must be prepared a little bit, and the most upscale ones can get on some sports cars, and then slide down one gear after another," Ye Qiu proposed.

The car sent by the lottery is just a body, if it is according to the current market price, a Mercedes-Benz sports car will only cost tens of thousands of euros, Ye Qiu feels that this is full of calculations, and the lottery gift or something, at most it will cost two or three hundred thousand, but it can not only buy the hearts of the players, but also greatly boost the morale of the team.

There is a good saying, if you can't bear the child, you can't get a wolf, now you spend a lot of money, as long as the team has excellent results, Ye Qiu's bonus is more than a fraction, his bonus last season was more than 10 million euros, and he really can't care about such trivial money.

After Peter Kenyon listened, he thought about it, nodded and said: "You have spoken, I can't be stingy as a person, I will also pay a little, but first say it, I am not as rich as you, I am responsible for the gift, you are responsible for the lottery"

For Ye Qiu, he still recognizes it very much, Ye Qiu is very generous, almost most of the team dinners are prepared by him with his own money, and it costs a lot this year.

Of course, compared to Ye Qiu's amazing salary, it is a drop in the bucket.