"It was a very good game."

After Sky Sports broadcast the crucial match between Chelsea and Manchester City, the guests were back to offering their opinions.

Carragher said: "Both teams are very strong. Although it is not very willing, I still have to say that this season's title should still be between Chelsea and Manchester City, and has nothing to do with Liverpool. ”

After saying that, Carragher shook his head involuntarily.

In the past two seasons, Liverpool has sold their ace players Suarez and Sterling one after another, although they have also brought in good players like Firmino, but the squad is really meaningless compared to Chelsea and Manchester City.

'But there's no doubt that if I had to pick one, I would go with Chelsea.' Alan Shearer also said: 'The quality of the two teams is obviously higher than the other teams, but in comparison to the two, Chelsea are at least a notch better than Manchester City. ”

"That's right, at least today's score proves it." Lineker smiled, "Maybe if the individual ability of the players on both sides is compared on a piece of paper, it will not be able to distinguish any superiority, including the value." But due to Pan Yi's presence, Chelsea as a whole is still much stronger than Manchester City. ”

Everyone nodded.

Indeed, as far as the squad released by Manchester City today is concerned, it can almost be said that it is ranked number one in the world, and all of them are famous stars.

But it is precisely because Pellegrini is handled by Pan Yi everywhere that these stars have a feeling of being on their own on the field, and they simply cannot form a whole against Chelsea.

Chelsea, on the other hand, hit Manchester City's soft underbelly with every punch.

As soon as City patch in on a weakness, Chelsea will immediately switch places, continue to hit hard, and then continue to knock City down.

"We all thought Manchester City would be Chelsea's biggest title rivals, but Pan Yi didn't seem to think so." Lineker added, "He mentioned Leicester City many times in interviews, saying that this team that was barely relegated last season is the opponent to be wary of, and I really don't know what medicine is sold in his gourd." ”

"Maybe it's really a sign of contempt for opponents like Manchester City and Manchester United, right?" Alan Shearer laughed, "This kind of psychological warfare is not uncommon. Anyway, he, Pan Yi, is not afraid of any opponent now, and taking a relegation team to claim to be the strongest contender will definitely make the real enemy uncomfortable. ”

Carragher said: "But Leicester's performance this year has changed a lot compared to last year. They have just beaten West Ham United 2-1 away and have already won their first two games in a row. ”

"A good start doesn't mean anything." Lineker waved his hand, "Swansea also did well at the beginning of last year, right?" Or even a three-game winning streak. Including Southampton, and then this West Ham team, they are playing very well. But the league is long, and in the end, it depends on the strength to speak, so they all end up falling behind. ”

"Perhaps." Carragher nodded slightly, but still thoughtfully, "But Leicester City's squad does look pretty good." Pan Yi also sold Mikel to Ranieri and added the last piece of the puzzle, maybe ......"

Alan Shearer laughed: "This kind of line-up should be considered ordinary in the Premier League. No matter how strong it is, can it be better than Liverpool, Tottenham, or Manchester United or Arsenal? ”

Lineker also smiled: "The main thing is that no matter what the lineup of other teams is, as long as Pan Yi is there, I feel like I am studying with the prince." You see his Chelsea team, easily equalling the unbeaten record in team history, and I really don't know when his own unbeaten record will be ended. ”

"It's 40 games unbeaten...... Alan Shearer looked at the screen, which showed the results of every game in the Premier League since Pan Yi took charge of Chelsea, "Don't you say, this is not far from Arsenal's 49-game unbeaten run......

——

In front of the TV screen, a middle-aged man dressed in the traditional costume of the aristocracy of the Middle East snorted.

He is none other than the owner of Manchester City, Mansour, a super-rich man from the United Arab Emirates.

Today, Mansour's Al Nahyan family not only sits on the Arabian Peninsula's rich oil reserves, but also invests extensively in sports clubs, the real estate market in London, England, and technology companies such as Elon Musk's SpaceX.

They are part of the UAE Royal Group, which has nearly $300 billion in assets and employs more than 27,000 people.

Of course, the "rich" is only one of his many identities that is relatively less dazzling.

He is also the son of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, former President of the UAE, and the younger brother of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Ahler, the current President of the UAE.

In fact, in 2023, his titles include, but are not limited to, the following:

Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Council for Ministerial Development, Minister of the Presidential Court, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates......

It can be said that he is a true noble son, the future successor of the kingdom.

But even a man who owns the world's largest private yacht worth $605 million and lives an unpretentious and boring life all day long has his own troubles.

Because he is a fan and at the same time the owner of Manchester City.

Since the oil tycoon bought Manchester City in 2009 and quickly turned Manchester City into the Premier League champions by throwing money, becoming a new giant in European football that cannot be ignored, Mansour can also be said to be calling for wind and rain in football.

But just when Mansour was full of ambition to attack the Champions League again, make Manchester City a real giant, and change from "new money" to "old money", he suddenly found that the Premier League championship was lost!

It stands to reason that losing a championship is nothing, and this is a normal law in football.

After all, no team in the world can guarantee that they can win the league championship every year.

But after watching today's battle between Chelsea and Manchester City, Mansour strongly felt: this year's championship may be gone!

It's something he can't accept.

Not to mention that he has invested a lot every year after buying Manchester City, even this year, with an expenditure of nearly 200 million euros, including the arrival of a superstar like De Bruyne, he should be able to wrestle with Chelsea?

But the result?

At the Etihad, they were beaten by Chelsea.

"What the hell is going on?" Mansour said angrily.

Sitting across from Mansour is Manchester City FC director Edelman, who is in charge of commercial operations and is coming to the UAE today to report to the boss, so he did not go to jail at the Etihad Stadium with Mubarak and other executives.

But he, who watched the live broadcast of the game next to Mansour, is also trembling now.

This feels worse than "going to jail"!

The question "what's going on" is also a little too broad, how should he answer?

Edelman thought for a moment and replied wittily: "Didn't those experts from Sky Sports analyze it just now?" Chelsea play more as a whole, so ......'

Anyway, Lineker and they are all football experts, and the experts have the final say.

Mansur waved his hand, signaling for Edelman to say no more.

He sighed and said: "The team needs the manager to pinch them together, of course I know that. I also know that Pan Yi is really powerful, otherwise we wouldn't have invited him to join us in the first place. But what I don't know is, where are we worse than Chelsea? Why can't we grab the players? ”

Mansour refers to Harry Kane.

At the beginning, Manchester City did feel that Harry Kane's value for money was too low, so they did not make a decisive move.

But then Mansour himself instructed that the price was not a problem and that it could be higher than any of its competitors.

That's because, on the one hand, Kane's purchase is for sporting reasons, and on the other hand, his status as a rising star in England.

Manchester City wants to integrate into the local community and get the support of local fans, in addition to good results, the number of homegrown players in England is also very important.

But City are clearly lacking in this regard.

The only English players in the current squad are goalkeeper Joe Hart and striker Raheem Sterling, who has just been poached from Liverpool – and in fact, part of the purchase of Sterling is based on local considerations.

An English team with almost no Englishmen in the team is really almost meaningless to the local fans.

Not to mention that compared with Manchester United next door, which has always been famous for its local youth training, even compared with Chelsea, which is also a "nouveau riche", it is far behind.

In the current Chelsea squad, John Terry, Gary Cahill, Loftus-Cheek, Jesse Lingard, Tammy Abraham, including loan-out Bamford and just-bought Harry Kane, are all English, and there are several more here that are produced by Chelsea's own academy.

Manchester City's youth squad tally 0.

So Mansour is hoping to bring in Harry Kane.

The youth training of this team can only be done slowly, but the English household registration can be done with money.

But even though Manchester City later raised their offer and offered a higher weekly salary than Chelsea, Kane ultimately chose Chelsea.

This is undoubtedly an unacceptable thing for Mansour, who has deep pockets.

"Maybe for Harry Kane, money may not come first when it comes to choosing a team." Edelman said after a moment's consideration.

Mansur also understood this, nodded his head, and motioned for Edelman to continue.

'First of all, as far as I know, Kane is a family person, so if you choose between a London team and a Manchester team, he would probably prefer the former.

"What else?"

"Secondly, since he is leaving Tottenham, it means that he wants to go to a team that can win more titles. At the moment, it is clear that Chelsea, who won the Double last season, will be closer to that goal than we are......

"Anything else?"

"In the end, it may be Pan Yi's personal charm, and I suspect this is also the most critical point."

"How?" Mansour asked again, his tone always calm, but not as emotionless.

Edelman thought for a moment and said, "A team can win a championship in one season, but it doesn't guarantee success the next. ”

But Pan Yi's existence has magnified the possibility of continued success countless times. In other words, as long as you follow in Pan Yi's footsteps, there is a high probability that you will succeed. ”

"Of course, I am not alone in saying this, there are such words in world football now, because Pan Yi's experience has been proving it."

"As Kane, who is only 21 years old this year, he also needs a coach like Pan Yi to guide him and then let him continue to improve and become a truly world-class star."

"Just as famous as Pan Yi's world-famous tactical varieties is his ability to develop young players, which should not need to be introduced."

'Whether it's Harry Kane himself or the younger Mbappe, the games so far this season, including today's game, have been very good.

"Ugh." Mansour sighed, "Of course I know this, otherwise Mubarak's first target at that time would not have been him." ”

Now Mansour is a little regretful, and even a little blamed on Mubarak.

It was because the competitor Abu directly threw out the world's highest salary to invite Pan Yi at that time, but he really showed the greatest sincerity.

On Manchester City's side, to be precise, it is President Mubarak, but he still has a little hesitation about the young Pan Yi, doubting whether he can match such a high salary.

It was after such a hesitation that Chelsea fished Pan Yi away, and then Pan Yi immediately returned to Chelsea an undefeated season of the Premier League title and an undefeated season of the Champions League title.

"You say, is it still possible to convince Pan Yi to come to Manchester City to coach?" Mansour asked suddenly.

"This ...... Unlikely. ”

"Why?"

'You know, he's now recognised as the number one manager in the world. I dare say that all teams in the world want to invite him to coach...... But now that he's mixing so well with a big club like Chelsea and Abu is giving him so much support, there's really no reason for him to leave Chelsea. ”

"I know it's hard." Mansur stared at Edelman with fixed eyes, "But I know there's always a way, isn't it?" To be sincere, we have. We have money, and whatever we want, we do our best to meet it. ”

With that said, Edelman could feel Mansour's determination.

This is indeed the style of the Middle Eastern tyrants, as long as the best.

It doesn't matter if it's a player or a manager.

But here's the problem......

Edelman scratched his head and said, "There is a rumor about Pan Yi, I don't know if it's true or not. ”

"Say."

"I heard that he bought a League Two team, York City, and arranged his first assistant coach and girlfriend to this club this season. Then he used his connections in European football to get a number of players to go to York City, which is now much better than last season. ”

"Uh......" Mansour asked, after a moment's thought, "does that have anything to do with what I just said about inviting him to Manchester City?" It's just a League Two team, of course he can afford it, and it's normal to buy a team to play around. ”

"I have the feeling that he will shift his focus to this team of his own in the future." Edelman spoke his mind:

"Didn't Pan Yi tell Abu that he was going to win seven crowns this season? It is said that he has the idea of leaving the team after winning the championship. But the question is, where is he going to go? ”

"He's a guy who likes a challenge. Then, going to a lower-level team that is completely his own and re-challenging the major giants is really in line with his personality. ”

"So my opinion, after this season, once Pan Yi really achieves his goal, no matter which team, it will be difficult to invite him out of the mountain again."

Mansour was a little stunned for a moment, and only exhaled after a while: "Isn't it okay to give him more money?" ”

"I'm afraid he's not a guy who only looks at money." Edelman replied quickly.

'But it's still hard for me to believe that a Champions League-winning manager would go and coach a League Two team. Mansour shook his head.

"I'm just guessing......," said Edelman, "but if York City are promoted this season, they will be League One next season. Then the Championship, the Premier League...... It's actually pretty fast. ”

"Well, whether it's true or not, I'm asking you to do one thing." Mansur looked at Edelman.

"What's the matter, boss, please command."

"It's that I don't care what measures you take, you just have to try to get in touch with Pan Yi as much as possible. Knock on the side, first establish a friendship, gain his trust, and then slowly talk about cooperation. ”

"Oh?"

"Didn't you say he could leave after this season? Whatever he thinks, we just have to build a good relationship with him and maybe we will be selected next season. ”

"Uh...... This one...... All right. Then the Pep Guardiola we are talking about......"

"Same talk. He's better than Manuel Pellegrini. In case Pan Yi really can't figure it out, let's settle for the next best thing and use this Guardiola. ”

"Understood."

Edelman responded verbally, thinking in his heart, who would have thought that this world-class head coach Pep Guardiola could only be Pan Yi's spare tire?

In the end, Mansour said to Edelman in no uncertain terms, "You are responsible for this. I don't care what you do, no matter how much time it takes, the ultimate goal, I just want to see Pan Yi coach our Manchester City! ”

——

Jason McGill has been in a good mood lately.

As the former owner of York City, the current chairman and a loyal fan, it is of course relieved to see the team's results improve.

Last season, York City only started to develop in the final stages of the league and ended up in League Two, five points above the relegation zone.

After the end of the league, the former head coach Wilcox also submitted his resignation, because he believed that the club's squad at that time was not enough to go further in the league, and even possibly fell into the relegation spiral again.

To be honest, there was nothing wrong with his thinking, because York City FC did not have a transfer budget at that time for the manager to play his role, and some of the team's loan "thigh" players will also leave, and the strength will only decrease.

It was originally a team that was barely relegated, and its strength continued to decline, so how to relegate? ?

In a normal timeline, York City have been relegated from the bottom of the league this season, winning just seven of their 46 league games.

But in this timeline it is different, because Jason McGill sold the club to Pan Yi, and then the support from the owner appeared!

First came the head coach Scaloni, Pan Yi's personal disciple.

Then there was the "swill" from various Premier League clubs, and York City suddenly became a "scrap yard".

But these "scraps" are treasures for York City!

First of all, these players are all free to sign, and York City does not have to pay a penny.

In addition, their wages are not high, York City itself can barely afford it, and Pan Yi, as a "backing boss", also injected millions of funds into the club, and immediately lived.

What's more, these Premier League scraps are all at the level of big daddy in League Two!

At present, the League Two has played three rounds, and York City defeated Wycombe Rovers 1:0 in the first round, Hartlepool 2:1 in the second round, and Yeovil 1:0 in the third round, winning all three games!

In the standings, they are only second behind Leyton Orient, which is also on a three-game winning streak, simply because of the disadvantage of goal difference.

Compared to last season, this is really a world of difference!

Jason McGill has to be thankful that he made the right decision.

Selling the club to Pan Yi is really the right move!

Although he lost ownership of the club himself, he gave York City a new lease of life.

He can even fantasize about the team being promoted to League One or even the Championship......

And the good results actually brought commercial sponsorship!

No, the famous American space exploration technology company SpaceX came to the door.

The owner of this company is none other than the well-known Elon Musk.

This guy started out in e-commerce, and then as early as the beginning of 2001, he planned a project called "Martian Oasis", which planned to build a small experimental greenhouse on Mars, so that crops from Earth could try to grow in the Martian soil.

In June 2002, Elon Musk invested $100 million to establish this space exploration technology company, that is, Space X, as CEO and chief technology officer, and began to study how to reduce the cost of rocket launches, and planned to realize Martian immigration in the future and create a real space civilization for mankind.

What makes Musk even more famous is that he served as the chairman of Tesla Inc. in 2004, focusing on the development of electric vehicles.

Later, the sales of Tesla cars also climbed and became a representative of high-end electric vehicles.

In 2005, the 34-year-old Musk was worth more than $300 million, and when he was not yet 40 years old, the three ideals of the Internet, clean energy and space had been realized, and his fame around the world was also very great at this time.

It can be said that people from Musk's company came to talk about cooperation with Yorktown, and McGill was still a little flattered.

They are a League Two team, how can they be?

Of course, if it is a representative of Tesla who comes to talk about cooperation, Jason McGill is quite understandable.

Although it is said that with Tesla's coffee position, you have to sponsor a Premier League team, but after all, it is not inconsistent that a car advertisement appears on the jersey of a football team or something.

Jason McGill really can't figure out why such a company engaged in space exploration and is closely connected to NASA would want to sponsor a football club......

It can't be an advertisement for Martians to popularize football in the universe, right? This Musk's pattern is also a little bigger.

Of course, this Jason McGill doesn't care.

The other party took the initiative to send it to the door, there is a cheap and not to take advantage of it, and the beast is not as good as it!

And now I have a good boss like Pan Yi, it is a little bit to be able to make more money, and it is good to help the boss save some money.

It's just that after sending off the representatives of SpaceX, Jason McGill still sat down to check the background of the company's management, and then thought about it carefully.

"It turns out that there is an injection from the UAE...... Is that the one owned by the owners of Manchester City? ”

"If you look at it this way, does this sponsorship have something to do with our boss? Manchester City has always wanted Pan Yi to coach their team, and everyone knows this. ”

"Yes, although the boss doesn't want to reveal the news of his acquisition of York City, there will always be some clues to be found. If nothing else, Valentina and Scaloni both work here......"

"If you analyze it this way, SpaceX's motive for sponsoring our club makes sense. This is here to fight a relationship! I want the boss to have a good impression of Manchester City. ”

The more Jason McGill thought about it, the more he felt right.

"Well, let's report to the boss."

Under normal circumstances, Pan Yi would not care about such a sponsorship business, and it was handled by the chairman with full authority.

Well, in fact, Pan Yi doesn't care about most of the business, he just makes his own judgments and instructions on the team's coaches and players that are closely related to the game.

But since this sponsorship may be related to Manchester City, McGill feels that it is still necessary to report to Pan Yi.

(End of chapter)