Chapter 367 Wei Shihao: The Domineering CEO Falls in Love with Me

“Let’s go!”

At the end of the game, Chelsea was still better against Leicester City away from home. The entire King Power Stadium was filled with the voices of dissatisfaction of fans, cursing the owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.

After miraculously finishing second last season, Vichai sold players such as Kante, Kramaric and De Laet.

It seems that only three people were sold, but Leicester City's overall strength directly dropped from the top of the league to the middle of the league, losing the capital to compete with top teams such as Chelsea, Manchester City, and Tottenham.

But Vichai is not a greedy businessman. After earning 4000 million euros from the sale of three players, he spent 7000 million euros to buy a series of players from teams such as Sporting CP, Army Moscow and Nice.

Obviously, they spent 3000 million euros more this season, but the team's performance this season is worse than last season. Now it seems that Leicester City's sale of Kante and Kramaric was a completely wrong decision.

The camera was in the VIP box above the commentary booth. As expected, the Chinese owner Vichai had a dark face. The fans are very realistic. No matter how much money you spend, the team's performance this season is not as good as last season. This is the result. And because they won the runner-up last season, the expectations of Leicester City fans for the team have all been raised.

Taking these two factors into consideration, Vichai, the owner who sold the players, naturally became the one to take the blame.

After the game, Sky Sports commentator Mario commented: "Leicester City is now ranked 8th in the league, and Vardy in the frontcourt is still in a very high competitive state. If Kante and Kramaric had not been sold last season, Leicester City would have had a chance to impact the Champions League zone again this season."

"Ranieri led the team to create miracles, but we must admit that his view of players was very problematic. Selling Kante for less than 3000 million is now a failed deal."

Another commentator is Malcolm from Scotland: "This is Chelsea's success. Mourinho's signings are very smart, including Pogba, Kante, and Zlatan, including Jiang last season. From 2015 to now, Mourinho's signings have been without any problems!"

Malcolm is a complete blowhard, he always brags about everything Mourinho does, but there is nothing wrong with what he said this time.

Mourinho brought Jiang Yuan to London, and this achievement alone is enough to enter the Chelsea Coaches Hall of Fame.

No one else in the Premier League has ever spent 1 million pounds on a player.

“but… … ”

Mario points out the problem: "Mourinho has not won the Coach of the Month award this season"

“This is not an issue worth discussing at all.”

In the studio, Malcolm spread his hands to Mario: "Football speaks with championships, not with voting honors. Mourinho's 4 Premier League titles are second only to Sir Alex Ferguson. He doesn't need to prove anything to us anymore."

What Malcolm said makes sense, but he overlooked a very crucial point, which is Mourinho's character.

For someone like Mourinho, who has a strong sense of self-esteem or competitiveness, the trophy won by voting is also very important.

Because he feels that he is always young.

……

After the game, Jiang Yuan received the December Player of the Month trophy at the King Power Stadium. This is the second time Jiang Yuan has won the Player of the Month award this season.

Every time Jiang Yuan returned to the locker room after winning the best player award, he would inevitably be teased by his teammates. This time was no exception. Seeing Jiang Yuan walking back with a blue water cup, Zuma immediately came over and carefully examined the so-called "Player of the Month trophy". Then he looked into Jiang Yuan's eyes and asked, "Why you again?"

"Why me again? Why me again?"

Jiang Yuan laughed and put his hand on Zuma's shoulder: "Brother Snail, you still need to practice!"

"You still have to practice!"

Pogba imitated Jiang Yuan's tone and mocked his French fellow countryman, which made Zouma very angry: "It's mainly a position problem. I play as a defender, so it's hard for me to get the best player. If I were a striker, Jiang would have no chance."

Jiang Yuan walked to his seat in the locker room, stuffed the trophy into his backpack, then turned to look at Zouma: "That's true, luckily Kurt is a defender, if he played as a striker, I would have to sit on the bench."

"You're right!"

Zouma showed his big white teeth. His teeth have been finely orthodontically corrected, so he doesn't have the gap between his front teeth like Kante: "I agree with Jiang's point of view. It's a pity. If I were a striker, I would probably be able to win the Premier League Golden Boot or something."

“Oh hahahaha!”

Zouma's serious speech made his teammates in the locker room laugh. Pogba reached out and grabbed Zouma's belly, pinching a large piece of fat: "With your body shape, tell me how to pass the ball, use your body to bump into others, hahahaha!"

"What do you know!"

Zouma brushed Pogba's hand away: "A striker should use his body to knock the defenders away and then face the goalkeeper directly"

Zouma demonstrated as he spoke. He used a heavy push to push Pogba away, then imitated Jiang Yuan's movements and rode a bicycle to the middle.

He raised his foot and kicked the mineral water bottle on the ground away, hitting the wall of the locker room with a "bang".

"Snapped……"

Kante was about to applaud, but Zouma said it was not over yet: "Wait, wait, I am a striker now, I scored a goal, and now I have to celebrate"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zouma opened his arms and ran to the outside of the locker room. After landing, he stood with his feet apart and began his Tai Chi performance in front of his teammates: "Got it, that's it, top strikers do it this way, I can dribble past players and shoot like this, and I also know how to celebrate like a striker."

It can be seen that as a defender, Zouma has a very deep understanding of the forwards.
"If I switch positions with Jiang, I can score about 25 goals a season."

Zuma stretched out his index and middle fingers, making the number "2".

"genius!"

Hazard felt inferior and gave Zouma a thumbs up. Jiang Yuan, who was sitting next to Hazard, crossed his arms and looked very scary: "Wow, Mr. Kurt, can you please not compete with me for a position, otherwise I will have to be a substitute."

"Hahahahaha!"

Pogba put his hand on Zouma's shoulder: "Jiang Du admits that you are Chelsea's strongest striker, the absolutely best!"

Unexpectedly, Mourinho, who had been sitting in the corner without saying anything, opened his mouth and hit Zouma hard: "When will you stop giving away penalties to your opponents, respected Chelsea top scorer?"

"..."

……

On the 8th day after defeating Leicester City, which was January 1nd London time, Chelsea faced newly promoted Hull City at home at Stamford Bridge. Jiang Yuan maintained his excellent shooting touch and scored two goals in consecutive Premier League games. In addition, with Ibrahimovic's header, Chelsea defeated Hull City with a score of 22:3.

It seems that Chelsea scored a lot of goals, but Mourinho was not particularly satisfied with the process of the game, mainly because of Pogba.

The game could have ended in a 3:1 draw, but it ended in a 3:2 draw. Maybe this is the charm of Pogba.

On January 1, the Premier League winter window was halfway through, and Chelsea announced its first signing of the winter window (strictly speaking, it was not a signing) that evening. Defender Ake, who was loaned to Bournemouth, returned.

There was only one person on the first day, but on the second day, Chelsea's actions were much bigger.

There was only one transfer in, and that was defender Ake returning on loan.

There were more transfers out. Forward Bamford transferred to Middlesbrough for 720 million euros. Ivanovic and Mikel's contracts expired and they left the team as free agents and joined Zenit and Tianjin TELI respectively.

According to information revealed by reporters, these should be all the personnel adjustments made by Chelsea in this winter window.

The fans were a little disappointed, but they also expressed understanding. Chelsea spent 2 million in the summer transfer window, and this year's broadcast share and Yokohama Tire sponsorship fees have not yet arrived. Chelsea really cannot spare the spare money to recruit forwards and defenders.

As for the biggest sponsor Adidas, if nothing unexpected happens, Chelsea will terminate its contract with Adidas after the end of this season, and the jersey endorsement fee from the new sponsor Nike will not be available until May this year at the earliest.

Chelsea has no money, so if it wants to recruit new players, it has to sell players. The problem is that it is the winter transfer window and the entire trading market is lukewarm. Who is willing to spend money to buy players?

There were no transfer applications in the winter window, but there were really a lot of transfer applications in the summer window. Chelsea is probably the Premier League team that received the most transfer faxes this season.

"Jose, look at this"

In a villa in Richmond, team owner Roman Abramovich pushed a document to Mourinho.

?

After opening the file and looking at it for three seconds, Mourinho just glanced at it and pushed the file back: "Nonono, impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"

La Liga giants Real Madrid have made an offer to Chelsea for Jiang Yuan, with the expected transfer date being July 2017. Real Madrid is willing to offer 7 million pounds (about 1.3 million euros) for the young Chinese player.

What does 1.5 million euros mean? If Chelsea gets this money, they can refresh their entire defensive line.

Terry is old, Zouma's penalty is unreliable, Azpilicueta has no attack, and Ivanovic left the team as a free agent. These are not problems. At present, the prices of defenders in the top five leagues are generally not high. If you buy four people for 1.5 million euros, you can already buy a very top-level defender.

"I knew you would say that"

Abu took the document back with a smile and threw it aside. It was obvious that he had a very negative attitude towards the deal.

After William was injured, Jiang Yuan became the only explosive point in Chelsea. If Jiang Yuan was sold, Chelsea would simply not have to attack.

In fact, what Real Madrid originally wanted was Hazard. As early as the 14-15 season, the La Liga giants expressed their desire for Hazard, and Chairman Florentino even made offers for Hazard several times.

But because of Jiang Yuan's sudden rise, Real Madrid's interest in Hazard is gradually fading. In the eyes of current coach Zidane, Jiang Yuan's style of play is more suitable for Real Madrid.

As for Hazard, Zidane has spoken to Florentino privately.

"Eden should go to Barcelona"

Real Madrid's most recent offer to Hazard was 1.2 million euros during the summer transfer window last season, and then there was no news.

As for Barcelona, ​​there is no possibility that Messi will leave Barcelona, ​​so they naturally will not have any ideas about Hazard.

"We still have a lot of positions to strengthen, full-backs, central defenders, and center forward. Zlatan is just a transition and he can't be the core of Chelsea."

Facing the boss, Mourinho did not hide anything and spoke out what was in his mind.

After winning two consecutive league titles, Chelsea’s next goal must be the Champions League title, but the Champions League is now dominated by Real Madrid and Salah, and Chelsea’s lineup is like a luxury cruise ship.

It is true that the luxury cruise ship is very powerful, but when it is placed on the battlefield outside the atmosphere, facing the Silver Han battleship and the space team, the luxury cruise ship can only be destroyed by a single shot.

call……

After listening to Mourinho's plan to strengthen the team's position, Abramovich sighed. How could he not know what Mourinho was thinking? It was nothing more than asking the boss to pay money out of his pocket and bring in strong players from other leagues.

But there is a problem here. Even if Abramovich is willing to pay, Chelsea will be restricted by Financial Fair Play (FFP). According to the Premier League's "Break-Up" regulations, the club's cumulative losses within three years cannot exceed 1.05 million pounds.

Chelsea has been spending a lot of money to buy players but has not sold any of them. The sponsorship fees remain roughly the same every year. Isn't that bound to be a loss?
There are two ways to solve this problem. The simplest one is to sell the players in the team and make up for the losses.

The second method is to win the Champions League, receive a large bonus and even higher endorsement fees to achieve a balance between income and expenditure.

As for the sales of jerseys and tickets, Chelsea has already maxed out these revenues. The stadium only has 4 seats, so it is unrealistic to expect to make more money. "Mr. Roman, believe me, if we prepare another 1.5 million this summer, we will be the Champions League champions next season, or at worst the top two."

Mourinho made some bold remarks, but Abramovich's expression did not change at all. It was obvious that he did not approve of the Portuguese's risky approach.

Mourinho insisted on recruiting new players, but was always evaded by Abramovich with various excuses.

“What the fuck, Roman, why don’t you believe me?”

Mourinho was a little annoyed, but he didn't dare to yell at Abramovich, so he could only wave his hands and complain.

"Then I suggest you sell Paul"

Ok?
Abramovich, who had no reaction at first, was stunned when he heard this: "Sell Paul? Sell Pogba? Why? Tell me why!"

Mourinho crossed his hands in front of his chest and spoke nervously: "Discipline, Pogba is not the player I need"

"You chose Pogba!"

Abramovich reminded. Mourinho said:

"I was deceived, deceived by Paul's talent. His talent was so great that I didn't notice his shortcomings, which were so obvious. Chelsea couldn't accept those shortcomings."

"What we need is a quick transition between attack and defense. The midfield must run, like N'Golo, not Paul, not Paul Pogba!"

Mourinho's voice became louder and louder, but there was no one around except Abramovich's personal bodyguards. The conversations in the villa were kept absolutely confidential, so there was no risk of information leaking.

boom!
Abu clenched his fist with one hand and slammed it on his desk: "Fuck!"

"He's a defensive midfielder who just joined the team this season. He scored 6 goals, 2 of which were long shots, and he also had 8 assists. You just say you don't want this kind of player? Who should we sell him to? Should we sell him to those Italians?"

Mourinho spread his hands: "Paul's performance this season is amazing. He can be sold at a very good price, at least 9000 million euros. At most, you will lose 2000 million. Sell Cesc as well and get 1.1 million. We can use this money to buy a new full-back and a new center forward. Chelsea will definitely play better than now!"

"Jesus!"

Abu took a big gulp of red wine, and the bitterness in his mouth completely covered the fruity and earthy aroma.

"gentlemen"

The assistant came over, took the goblet from Abu's hand, and reminded him: "You can drink it slowly, otherwise it will be difficult to feel the balanced acidity and smoothness..."

"Go away!"

Abramovich pushed the assistant away and then looked Mourinho straight in the eye: "I totally cannot understand what you are doing. Remember what you told me before, no coach can refuse a player like Pogba. What are you doing now? Selling Pogba, a super player who has been nominated for the Player of the Month three times?"

"Well, listen"

Mourinho could tell Abramovich was angry, so he leaned forward and said comfortingly: "I can bring victory to the team. We were the league champions last season and the season before last. You can't deny that. I have proved that I have the ability to coach Chelsea, so I have the ability to judge which players Chelsea needs."

"..."

Mourinho's remarks left Abramovich silent.

Yes, even though Chelsea is only fourth in the league now, Mourinho led Chelsea to win the Premier League trophy four times in his career.

In terms of qualifications, the Portuguese in front of him is indeed the most qualified one.

Abu kept silent for about a minute, and finally said slowly: "Jose, you go first."

Mourinho first stood up and pretended to leave, but he turned around as soon as he took a step and asked: "So... what about the transfer?"

"I will think about it"

"Thank you!"

Mourinho smiled when he heard what he wanted to hear. The security guards wanted to take Mourinho out of the villa, but Mourinho said he could find the way by himself and did not accept the security's assistance.

……

Chelsea's last game this month is the FA Cup against Brentford on the 28th. Compared with November and December, the schedule in January is still quite loose.

Premier League fans have begun waiting for the not-so-exciting FA Cup at the end of the month. During this period, they can only rely on reading about player transfers and news in The Sun, which can be said to be very uncomfortable.

As a result, on January 1, Anderen, a reporter from Portugal's A BOLA, reported a piece of news that shocked the fans.

"Jiang acquires 1720% of the shares of the A-League team Lexon Ish for 70 million euros"

The news was released at 25 a.m. on the 2th in BJ. By 11 a.m., related reports almost dominated the football forum.

The front page headline of China Football News: A young soccer player finally becomes a boss? Jiang Yuan acquires 1720% of the shares of Portuguese First Division team Lexon Ish for 70 million euros.

Telegraph reporter Calevendo: Through Biko's agency, Jiang completed the equity control of the Lexon Ish club. According to information revealed by insiders, Jiang will officially complete the acquisition in February this year, achieving absolute control over the transfer project of the Lexon Ish club.

德国《转会市场》中国区1月25日12时电：莱雄伊什球员韦世豪将在今年2月租借加盟中超球队上海海港，租借截止日期为2017年12月。

Germany's "Transfer Market" China region reported at 1:25 on January 16: Lexon Ish club unilaterally stopped Wei Shihao's loan deal and renewed the contract with the player until 2020. In the new contract, Wei Shihao's weekly salary will increase to 1.2 euros.

By 8 o'clock in the evening in China, the news reposted from "A BOLA" on Dongqiudi had exceeded 1.5 comments.

[No, buddy, don’t football stars use their money to buy sports cars and villas? Why are you buying a club?]

[Awesome, adidas paid 2400 million, Xiao Jiang directly used 1700 million to buy a club, and it was Euros]

[It's amazing! Wasn't Wei Shihao Xiaojiang's teammate during his time on the Olympic team? How come he suddenly became an employee? ]

[Wei Shihao is also very happy. Normally, players who play in Portugal can't get a weekly salary of 1 euros. When Xiao Jiang was in Porto U17, his weekly salary was only a few thousand euros.]

[Ah ha? In December, Shanghai SIPG posted a notice on Weibo. Wei Shihao joined on loan in February. Why did the transaction suddenly stop? ]

[Lexon Ish felt that Wei Shihao was not good enough for the first team, so they wanted to make some money by renting him out. Unexpectedly, the boss suddenly became Chinese. Lexon Ish cannot be blamed for this.]

【...6】

[Fuck, Wei Shihao is so cool]

[Wei Shihao: Sorry guys, the domineering president fell in love with me, I have to stay in Portugal for a while]

[Jiang Yuan has only been playing professionally for 2 years, so his total assets should not exceed 3500 million Euros. If he directly uses half of it to buy the club, what will he do if he loses money? ]

[To be honest, I feel that Xiao Jiang has no intention of making money at all, but I don’t know why he bought a Portuguese First Division club. However, Lexon Ish seems to be one of the stronger teams in the Portuguese First Division.]

In fact, the news of Jiang Yuan's acquisition of Lexon Ish also caused quite a stir not only in China but also in Europe.

The player spends nearly 2000 million euros to buy a club.

Not to mention it's rare, it's simply unheard of!
Reporters from The Sun and London Football came to the Cobham base and wanted to conduct a private interview with Jiang Yuan, but the club declined on the grounds of closed training.

"London Football" left directly after being rejected, but the reporter from "The Sun" chose to stay at the Cobham base, hoping to complete the interview with Di Jiangyuan through some special channels.

The final result was that the Sun reporter did not interview Jiang Yuan, but observed Jiang Yuan's afternoon training life through some special methods.

The Sun: Jiang and his teammates completed warm-up exercises under the guidance of a Russian coach on the training ground (a picture is attached here)
During the training, Jiang was assigned to a team with Zouma, Falcao and Pogba. Mourinho had the players engage in a 7v7 confrontation that lasted 52 minutes. Jiang scored 6 goals in the training.

After the training, Jiang did not leave the field immediately, but sat on the grass of the training ground.

Jiang took the phone from Hazard with a serious expression, ready to decide what show to watch. At this time, the staff of the training ground suddenly came over and asked him if he wanted to eat something, and he agreed. The staff handed him a sandwich wrapped in tin foil and said it was afternoon tea today. But the sandwich alone was a bit difficult to swallow, so he asked for some juice.

Jiang put his phone on the ground and started to eat his sandwich, one bite after another, but something seemed wrong. He was not satisfied with the fatty tendons in the ham. He took another bite and continued chewing, staring blankly at Pogba who was walking towards him. (Attached here is a picture)
Everything seemed normal, but then Jiang received a message on his phone. He looked at the screen for less than three seconds. It was a message from the Portuguese media, commenting on his acquisition of Lexion.

After seeing the message, he took another bite of the sandwich, then took out his headphones, selected a Chinese song called "West Sea Love Song", and talked to Hazard beside him. (Picture)

Afterwards, Chelsea's physiotherapy team came out to relax the players on the grass. It was a rare sunny day and everyone was in a good mood.

About half an hour later, Jiang Yuan lay on a double-layer yoga mat, chose an American web drama called "Stranger Things" on Netflix, and discussed the content of the drama with Pogba.

Jiang was watching the sixth episode of the web series. He and Pogba seemed to like the content of the series very much. When the sixth episode was played to the 6th minute, the patrolling security guards around the Cobham base discovered the reporter and expelled him.

……

The entire report in The Sun described the entire process from the reporter's filming to his arrest, but did not mention Jiang Yuan's personal views on the acquisition of the club.

But it doesn’t matter. The Sun has achieved its purpose of reporting on Jiang Yuan.

What they need is not to understand why Jiang Yuan acquired Lexon Ish, but to get the traffic from Jiang Yuan.

And they have succeeded!

Portuguese media "Record" reported: Club executive Felina hopes to sell Chinese player Wei SH because she believes that keeping players with insufficient abilities in the team is not conducive to the long-term development of the club.

Official announcement from Leixoes Sports Club: Leixioes Club has terminated the contract with the team's deputy director and transfer window manager Fileena Bahris, and transfer management matters will be temporarily handled by John Biko.

……

Lexon Escola, which was originally only famous in Portugal, suddenly entered the field of vision of football fans around the world. After Jiang Yuan acquired the club, he commissioned agent John Biko to do some very puzzling things.

I thought Jiang Yuan would be running back and forth between London and Lexington, but I didn't expect that Jiang Yuan had been training at the base all the time.

According to the news released by two paparazzi from The Sun, Jiang Yuan has not put the management of the club on his agenda, and so far all matters are handled by his agent.

After learning about these situations, Chelsea fans were worried that Jiang Yuan, who had become a shareholder of the club, would have no time for training. Now it seems that there is no need to worry at all.

Jiang Yuan knew it best in his heart. He had to make money by playing games. Training and playing well were his current priorities. Now was the most critical time for the league. The Champions League knockout rounds and Asian preliminaries were about to begin. Jiang Yuan was under a lot of pressure.

Of course, there is also the FA Cup. Chelsea seems a little weak in the league title race this season, but they can easily get into the top four. At this time, events like the FA Cup must be taken seriously.

It was the afternoon of January 1th in London.

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(End of this chapter)