George Lee whistled and parked his Aston Martin in front of his house, then opened the car door and prepared to go home.

It can be seen that for the upcoming final round of the league, George Li is relatively relaxed.

After all, the opponent has half of the main force, and it is estimated that let alone playing, and even the game may have to sit on the toilet to watch.

When George Li and his assistants were studying tactics just now, they felt that there was nothing to arrange, so he briefly discussed a few precautions and ended the tactical meeting.

It's not that George Lee underestimates the enemy, but as a Premier League team, the absence of half of the main players has a great impact.

Just like the teams in the first tier now, even Chelsea. If you ask them to remove half of their main players and play against other teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League, they are not sure to win, let alone Tottenham.

So, after the tactical meeting, George Lee told the coaching staff to go home early to rest, because they had a bigger game to play after the final round of the league, and they would have to work overtime at that time.

Players only need to train according to the requirements during training time, maintain their condition, and practice tactics, and even in the final of such a big competition, some teams will reduce the amount of training to avoid injury and fatigue of players.

But the coaches are different, they have to do a lot of preparation for this final game, and they can't wait to split every second into two seconds.

George Lee was just about to enter the house when his phone rang.

As soon as he looked at the number, it was Eddie Gray calling, and George Lee thought it was the transfer of Bowyer mentioned earlier, and he would have any new ideas.

"Hey, this is George'......"

"George, it's exploded, Italy has exploded, have you read the news?"

Before George Lee finished speaking, he was confused by Gray's "explosion", and he didn't know what Gray wanted to express.

"How did Italy explode, bin Laden blew up the Leaning Tower of Pisa?"

"You go to the news...... I didn't understand it on the phone. ”

With that, Gray hung up the phone.

Then immediately George Lee's cell phone rang again, this time from Brian Kidd.

"Hey, this is George'......"

"George, did you see the report, Juventus ......"

Now, George Li finally knew what was going on.

On May 4, the famous "phonegate" incident in Italian football broke out.

Having been preparing for the league and the League Cup, George Lee had almost forgotten about it.

Now mentioned by Gray and Kidd, he also realizes that it was "Phonegate" that broke out.

George Lee went home and quickly turned on the computer and found the relevant report.

Just now, "Milan Sports Newspaper" suddenly published the content of the phone call between the general manager of Juventus FC Moggi and the Serie A referee designator in recent years, and the content of the recording is mainly the call record between Moggi in 2004 and the Serie A referee designator Paireto, who served as the Serie A referee for 6 seasons.

This move has caused an uproar in Italian football.

George Lee knows that this is the beginning, and the whole incident will get worse and worse in the future. Soon AC Milan, Lazio, Fiorentina and many referees and football association officials will be involved.

The image of Italian football has been devastated, the market appeal of the vast majority of clubs has fallen to the freezing point, and a large number of excellent players have fled Serie A, which has caused the level of the Italian league to decline rapidly, and the European points of Serie A have naturally been surpassed by the Bundesliga, and the opportunities for Italian teams to participate in European competitions will be greatly reduced in the next few years, which will lead to a vicious circle of more excellent players who are unwilling to join Serie A.

George Lee called several other members of the coaching staff directly and asked them to hurry to the conference room at Elland Road Stadium to meet up. It's also to save time, after all, it's better to go to the Elland Road stadium in the city than to go to the Thorpe Arch training ground in the suburbs.

^^^

An hour later, everyone was in the conference room at Elland Road Stadium.

Chris Casper, the last one to come in, closed the door to the conference room.

I saw that everyone was talking about the "phonegate", and even some people who didn't know about it before they came started talking about it after being told by others.

Casper found his seat and looked around to see that in addition to the coaching staff, there were also the director of football, the head of the head of the transfer department, and even the team's general manager, Tony Wilson.

After seeing that everyone was coming, George Li started the meeting directly.

"Everyone should know about it, so I won't repeat it. Juventus is estimated to be over, points deductions are inevitable, and there is a possibility of relegation, so we have to grab people as soon as possible. ”

The crowd below began to whisper, speculating about which Juventus player George Lee was fancy.

If, according to George Lee, Juventus is relegated, then the excellent players in the team will definitely be coaxed by other teams, and the price will not be very high.

It's just a supermarket newly opened, jumping off the building for sale.

"No need to talk about it, today I may have to dictate again, Zlatan Ibrahimovic as a striker, we must take it."

The following discussion began again, especially those who were members of the coaching staff last season, knowing that George Lee wanted to bring in the Swede when he first became head coach.

When Ibrahimovic was still at Ajax, George Lee made an offer to Ajax and agreed, but the Swedes at that time rejected Leeds United because it was a relegation team and could not participate in the Champions League.

Now, two years later, Leeds United's Champions League entry for next season is just around the corner, while Ibrahimovic's Juventus are at risk of relegation.

So this time, George Lee is bound to win against Ibrahim.

"How much transfer fee can we have in the summer." He asked Tony Wilson directly.

"You're finally asking this, George." Wilson said with a smile, "You really haven't spent a lot of money on the club in the past two years, compared to the Russian tyrant next door, our Leeds United is like a bun, and the board of directors has a lot of complaints about you not spending money." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, just say it." George Lee was desperate to know if he had enough money to buy Eevee.

"Mr. President has explained, the fourth place in the league is the starting price, even if Arsenal wins the Champions League in the end, we can't enter the Champions League, that is 40 million pounds. If you are third in the league, you will go up again. Second in the league, it can be added. If you win the League Cup, then keep adding more. ”

Wilson's words caused a shock to others, who were eager to know how much they could spend this summer if United lose in the final round of the league and Leeds United finished second in the league, plus the UEFA Cup title.

But Wilson's next words surprised the people in the conference room.

"These are based on the fact that you are going to build a new stadium, and if you can postpone the plan to build a new stadium, then there is no cap on the transfer fee this summer."

"What!" Once again, the people inside heard the exciting news that the club was planning a new stadium.

'It's not a lot of money, since Chelsea was bought by Russia, Manchester United was bought by the Americans, more and more capital is going to go into the Premier League, as far as I know, there are Americans who want to buy Aston Villa, and then there's an Icelandic consortium that is buying West Ham. Maybe 50 million or 60 million won't be able to buy a player in the future. Of course, in contrast, the club's income will also increase. ”

Eddie Gray and Brian Kidd were about to cry, they didn't catch up, when they brought Leeds United, they just sold players to pay off their debts, where did they have the opportunity to buy players for tens of millions.

"Let's settle the matter on Juventus' side first."

"Okay."

"Eddie, can you fly straight to Italy and get this done?"

George Lee handed over the task to Gray, because the final round of the league was coming soon, and the team would go to the Netherlands to participate in the League Cup final non-stop after the league, so Li couldn't leave at this time, so he could only let the team's football director go out.

Eddie Gray hesitated, then agreed.

Although he would also like to go to the Netherlands to watch Leeds United's UEFA Cup final, he is willing to make a trip to Italy for the club's sake.

'The other departments are working closely together to put the transfer of Ibrahimovic first this summer, understand?'

"Understood!"

^^^

When George Lee returned home again, it was already dark, and Olson and Wallace, who had already had dinner at Mr. Black's house, were waiting downstairs for Lee to return.

"Dad, where have you been, why did you come back so late?" Olson asked.

"There was a new supermarket on the next road, and things were very cheap, so I went to the supermarket."

"What about you?" Wallace was more honest and asked George Lee when he saw that George Lee had gone to the supermarket but had nothing on hand.

"It's so cheap that everyone else buys it out."