On 3 October, Chelsea welcomed Middlesbrough at home, and to everyone's astonishment, Didier Drogba scored twice to help the team beat Middlesbrough 0 and win 13 in a row.

Not only that, but there are two other pieces of good news, Arsenal finally can't hold up the pressure of a dense schedule, and in the first round, they draw at home to Manchester City, while Manchester United draw against Tottenham Hotspur in 00.

As a result, Chelsea's lead quickly extended to LL, a gap that almost made opponents desperate, and even Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger expressed his frustration after the disastrous draw by Manchester City that Arsenal could no longer hope for the league title.

'I have to admit that we have never been so far from the leaders this season, and we have 10 points from four games in such a busy schedule at Christmas, relying on the will of the players, which is definitely an impeccable result enough to ⊥ anyone is satisfied.

The frustration on Arsene Wenger's face became clearer at this point, "But the problem is that our opponents have won all of their games, which is a very frustrating and frustrating thing. ”

"Yes, we were in peak form early in the season and it gave us an almost insane start to the season, but in the most crucial months and months, we were losing some advantages at a rapid pace, and the problem of too many draws has been bothering us."

"However, I want to say that even if we are now behind our opponents, we will not give up the pursuit of the championship, because if we give up the effort to win the championship now, it will undoubtedly be a crime against the fans and the players."

'I told my players in the dressing room not to care about the gap with Chelsea or how Chelsea are doing, but to care about our games and give our best to win every game so that if Chelsea make mistakes or perform badly in future games, we can close the gap with each other.'

'I'm sure everyone should remember that Chelsea's comeback in the table was all about chasing point by point, and now we have to get our mentality right, go all out and get it back point by point.'

Manchester United, who also suffered a draw in this round, also said that they would not give up.

Ferguson repeatedly stressed in an interview, "We are not without the successful experience of falling behind the opponent by double digit points, and the most successful reversal after the most reversary, no one is better at playing against the trend than us, and no one has more experience in reversing the opponent than us, so before the season is at its worst, everything is possible, and we will not give up"

Captain Keane also said Chelsea were bound to collapse, 'We've been leading the Premier League for a long time, we've come back from top to top on a number of occasions and we all know that it's going to be a lot of pressure and usually there are some surprising things like a sudden loss of form, so we have to do our part and be patient and wait for the opportunity to arise. ”

However, Ye Qiu counterattacked in an interview with the media, "Yes, if Manchester United and Arsenal still want to reverse, then they must go all out to win, and at the same time wait for us to make mistakes." ”

'I don't want to say we can't make mistakes, any team makes mistakes, but I want to tell my players not to worry about that, that everybody shouldn't feel pressure to be too far ahead, on the contrary, we should enjoy the feeling of being at the top of the table, the feeling of being on top of the table and having opponents like Manchester United and Arsenal under our feet.

"I know that some people call us nouveau riche, saying that we are pseudo-giants, it doesn't matter, we never deny that we are nouveau riche, and we never say that we are giants, but we will use the game to prove that we rely on strength to trample those giants in your mouth

'I personally admire the fighting spirit of Manchester United and Arsenal and I think they have to do everything they can to catch up with us and not fall behind so that we can have a chance to win trophies, but I have a lot of confidence in my players that they can't catch us

The battle of words between the managers and right-hand men of the three Premier League teams with a chance to win the title was naturally the closing speech of the Premier League's Devil's Christmas fixtures, but relatively speaking, most of the media and fans were generally optimistic about Chelsea, a team that has won 13 in a row and is just one step away from Arsenal's 14 in a row.

As long as Chelsea maintain their current momentum and don't go up and down too badly, it will be difficult for Arsenal and Manchester United to catch up with them, let alone the likes of Everton and Liverpool.

This also led to the fact that after the first round of the Premier League, the entire English football is generally optimistic about Chelsea, and even many Chelsea fans hope that the team can continue to work hard to defend the Premier League title while striving for the Champions League title, and it is best to become the first team to successfully defend the title since the Champions League was restructured.

But at this time, HHC TV published strong news, and the black gold case storm swept the UK again.

The black and gold scandal has long been a scar on English football.

With the rapid expansion of the influence of the Premier League in recent years, English football has become a powerful force in European football and even world football, especially with the strong rise of Chelsea in recent years, and even many people are optimistic that the Premier League will become the world's first league in the near future.

But behind the Premier League's prosperity, there are also many people who are worried, because the Premier League has formed a huge common interest group over the years, and these interest groups have a complex relationship with clubs, players, and managers.

Therefore, when the black gold case was exposed by HHC TV, although the focus of this exposure was on the illegal operation of Israeli agent Pini Zahavi in a number of Premier League player transfers, in fact, everyone knew that no agent was Yu Jing if he really wanted to picket to the end.

If the previous competition between Stretford and McShkin over Rooney, as well as Stretford's charges of wiretapping, intimidation, bribery and other crimes, are just the beginning, then this time Pini Zahavi was caught in the black gold storm and stabbed the hornet's nest, and it can even be said that the sky of the Premier League has collapsed.

The next day, the headline was on the front pages of almost all the Premier League's newspapers, large and small, and the Israeli suddenly became a household name in the UK, with his picture appearing on television, newspapers, magazines, the Internet and all other important sections of the media.

The FA's official spokesman said that the FA will do its best to investigate the incident and will set up a research team to investigate the transfer of club players.

"We will bring all the criminals to justice"

Ye Qiu also noticed this news when he read the newspaper the next morning, and when he noticed that Pini Zahavi was being investigated, his first reaction was a counterattack from Paul Stretford.

This is very in line with Ye Qiu's impression of Stretford, this person has been used to running rampant in British football for a long time, and he has a very strong British character in his bones, arrogant and face-loving, if he chooses to be dumb this time and does not fight back, it will be really unexpected by Ye Qiu.

"Will this affect Eliza?" Huang Chu asked with concern, she now has an obvious belly.

Ye Qiu raised his head, looked at his wife, who was a little fat because of pregnancy, and shook his head with a smile: "This is someone who wants to target Pini Zahavi, but there will definitely be an investigation, Eliza has always been very cautious in doing things, and rarely involves those illegal transactions, so this time the matter should not have an impact." ”

The most important thing in the real black gold case is to crack down on collusion of interests, that is, like Schmeichel's transfer from Aston Villa to Manchester City, the player and the manager of both sides belong to the same agent company, and the practice of turning the left hand to the right hand to make two interests from it, and also cooperate with the manager to coax the player's transfer fee and extract a huge commission from it.

Although Eliza is the agent of many of Chelsea's players now, a large part of it was after the player transferred to Chelsea, and a lot of her business is player image marketing and sponsorship agency matters, and she has little to do with player transfers and salary contracts.

So from this point of view, Eliza will not be affected very much.

"I'm going to make a phone call" Ye Qiu thought about it for a while, and for the sake of safety, he still made a phone call and asked.

Walking from the living room to the balcony on the second floor, it was a cold winter in London, and there were still traces of snow in the yard, and many farmlands in the distance were covered in thick snow.

"It seems that you still have a good conscience, at least remember to care about me" As soon as the phone was called, Eliza over there came from a tired voice, if Ye Qiu remembered correctly, San Francisco should be midnight now, right?

"When I'm what? How could it be that it didn't care about you? Ye Qiu scolded with a smile, "How's it going?" ”

Eliza was not as serious as Ye Qiu imagined when she was tired, but with a relaxed tone, "What can you do?" This is not so much a black gold case as it is a power struggle for power."

"Oh?" Ye Qiu didn't notice this.

"The FA has always wanted a piece of the big fat of the Premier League, especially after last year's Eriksen zip-gate and the financial difficulties of rebuilding Wembley Stadium, they have coveted the Premier League even more, but the Premier League has always kept them out of the door and only given them appropriate financial support."

For this point, Ye Qiu is aware of this, when the FA had a financial crisis, the Premier League gave 15UU million pounds in aid, and then successively gave some financial support, as the so-called short hands, eat people softly, the FA has not dared to have too much involvement in the Premier League.

But in their bones, they still hope that they can take a share of the big cake of the Premier League.

"The FA now only has the power to appoint referees, discipline and other aspects, and after the outbreak of the agent black gold case this time, they will react so quickly, in fact, they want to use this as an entry point to clamp down on the Premier League and the Premier League, so they will be so efficient."

Between the words, Eliza did not hide her disdain for the FA's wine bags and rice bags, which were definitely a group of guys who existed to brush up on their sense of existence.

Just as in 2004, they restructured the leagues of League One, League Two and League C into the Championship, League One and League Two three leagues, hoping to put this whole league system into business and emulate the success story of the Premier League, but as it turned out, they failed.

Ye Qiu was reminded by Eliza like this, but immediately came to his senses, feeling that the FA's reaction was too fast, as if it was really a bit of a rush to snatch the right to speak and arbitrate, for fear that others would not know that they were the arbiters of Premier League discipline.

"I didn't have anything to do before, and I didn't have anything to do this time, who let the FA's money bag be in someone else's hands?" Eliza laughed lightly.

Ye Qiu was relieved when she heard her say this, but he didn't forget to remind, "Even so, it's better to be careful." ”

"Don't worry, if something really happens, it must be something wrong with me, you must be fine" Eliza said softly on the other side of the phone, which made Ye Qiu listen to it but there was always a little bit of a bad feeling.

"Don't say stupid things, what do we have to do with each other? I will make sure you don't have anything to do" Ye Qiu was very resolute, all along, he always felt that he owed Eliza too much, if he hadn't shown the courage to protect her in this kind of matter, then even he would look down on himself, and now for him, the small black gold case would not play much role at all.

Looking at the major European leagues, which league and club dare to say that they have not violated the law?

Is the tax rate so high? Who would dare to say that they did not help the players evade taxes?

In order to get the player he likes, who dares to say that he hasn't secretly stuffed kickbacks for his agent?

Every industry has its own unspoken rules, and football is no exception.

With Ye Qiu's status in European football today, even if the black gold case really involves him, what impact will it have?

"You still have a little conscience," Eliza said with a smile, "don't talk about me, this time it's Stretford and Pini Zahavi fighting, I guess they're going to have to be depressed for a while, but I've heard that Abramovich has been very close to the Brazilian agent Figer lately." ”

"Figer?" Of course Ye Qiu has heard of this name, Juan Figer, a Brazilian football agent predator, a figure who can make an earthquake in European football with a stomp, Florentino and others have a lot of friends with him.

When Ye Qiu heard this name, his first reaction was Corinthians, because just a few days ago, the Argentine media spread the news that the beast Tevez had switched to Corinthians, and the Argentine teenager who was targeted by many clubs in Europe transferred to the league of the rival Brazil, which did cause a huge repercussion.

In Ye Qiu's previous life, Abramovich has always been regarded as one of the behind-the-scenes bosses of Corinthians.

"There is news that Figel was introduced to Abramovich by Frank Arneson, you should be familiar with the Danes, right? He is now his technical director at Tottenham, reportedly introduced by Pini Zahavi, who led the rise of Bayer Leverkusen and has a close relationship with Porto. ”

For all this, Ye Qiu does not find it strange, European football is inherently intricately related, and it is not surprising that Abramovich knows Juan Figer, but he has always been very clear that the gap between himself and Abramovich is getting bigger and bigger, at least not as close as when he first came to Chelsea two years ago.

At that time, Abramovich ran to the Harrington training base in three days, and from time to time he would show friendship to Ye Qiu, and he would discuss everything with him, but after Ye Qiu refused Shevchenko's transfer, there was a rift.

When he thought of this, Ye Qiu sighed with embarrassment, the relationship between people is really elusive.

Perhaps, in his own opinion, his choice is not wrong, but in Abramovich's opinion, his ideas are not wrong, and perhaps the biggest point of disagreement between him and Abramovich is that neither of them is willing to go completely according to the other's will.

There is no way to distinguish who is right and who is wrong in many things, and it can only be said that each side stands from different angles and positions, and some differences and opinions will inevitably arise, and may even be irreconcilable.

Ye Qiu feels that the most enjoyable and rewarding thing is to create value, leading a group of stars who are not very famous, to create a vigorous career, this is the most rewarding thing for him, especially watching the players he introduced at a low price after excellent performance, his value has soared a hundred times and a thousand times, and he is also honored.

But Abramovich is different, what he pursues is to have value, so he wants to buy people, and wants to have a superstar team that can compete with star-studded teams such as Real Madrid, Manchester United, and AC Milan in the shortest possible time, so players like Drogba are not liked by him.

What he wants is Shevchenko, and I believe that this desire will become stronger as Shevchenko wins the European Ballon d'Or.

"Ye Qiu" Eliza waited on the other side of the phone for Ye Qiu to be silent for a few seconds before speaking again, "I really have a hunch

"I know it," Ye Qiu said with a faint smile.

"Do you know the way?" Eliza was a little surprised.

"What is our relationship? What do you think, I don't know? Ye Qiu smiled again, "Don't worry, I will handle this matter myself, you don't have to worry about me." ”

When she heard Ye Qiu say that he knew everything, Elizafang's heart trembled for no reason, as if the secret hidden in the deepest part of her heart had been unearthed by Ye Qiu, but soon she was amused in her heart, you know what you know, you big fool know what you do?

"Well, if you have anything to do, just look for me," Eliza said lightly.

Ye Qiu nodded, "Hmm"