Chapter 684 Win First and Then Poach People
"Ravel Morrison, who came off the bench, was very active and wanted to make a personal breakthrough on the left. Ivanovic had no choice but to foul and gave Southampton a chance to set the ball in the frontcourt!"
"The time has entered stoppage time, and now the score is four to zero, and Southampton has already secured the victory."
"It was Luis Suarez who took the free kick, the Uruguayan striker played quite well in the game and scored a goal."
"The other three goals came from his teammates, Kaka, Sturridge and Hazard. Among them, Hazard scored the most beautiful goal. After passing the three Chelsea defenders on the left baseline, he fell to the ground. Going forward and scoring, it's quite exciting!"
"We could see that all the big players from Southampton had gathered in Chelsea's box."
"Drogba, Matic, Nastasic and Varane came up."
"This is Didier Drogba, the former Chelsea striker, expelled by Roman Abramovich three years ago, forced to join Southampton in the Championship, and since then, every time he returns to Stamford Bridge , will definitely be able to score goals.”
"We could hear him shouting, he was very active and the goal was strong."
"It depends on how Suarez takes the penalty this time!"
In the chairman's stand at Stamford Bridge, Abramovich was also very nervous.
It is not that Chelsea have lost games this season, such as losing to Everton 0-2, Newcastle 0-2, Sunderland 0-3, and Stoke City 0-3. All away.
At Stamford Bridge, Chelsea are unbeaten this season!
This is what Mourinho is most proud of and proud of. He is undefeated at Stamford Bridge!
But now, this game has obviously been lost, and it will be a complete and complete defeat!
Bielsa and Southampton used such a disastrous defeat to tell Mourinho that today's Premier League, where a hundred flowers are blooming, is no longer the Premier League when he left.
At the same time, it is also teaching Abramovich severely. With Chelsea's current set of old and weak soldiers, if you want to compete in the Premier League, go for it!
It's not that Abramovich didn't think about these before, but he still took a chance on Mourinho.
but now,
Being so humiliated by Southampton at home has once again uncovered this bloody scar.
With the clear whistle of the referee, Suarez quickly ran to the ball.
Hearing a bang, the ball was sent out, and everyone in the audience held their breath.
Abramovich stood up involuntarily, thinking in his heart, God bless!
There was chaos in the penalty area, and everyone was entangled with each other, but at the moment when the ball was about to fall, suddenly a red figure came out of the crowd and jumped high, like a head from the African grassland. The super giant elephant raised his long nose heavily, facing the ball, and smashed it down heavily.
The ball bounced off Cech's hand and crashed into Chelsea's goal.
Five to zero!
At the moment Drogba scored a goal, Abramovich seemed to be drained of all his strength, sat back in his seat decadently, and looked at Drogba who was celebrating wildly on the court in frustration.
The Ivorian rushed to the bottom of the chairman's stand arrogantly, celebrating himself in the stand!
From Abramovich's point of view, this seemed like a slap in the face. Every time he faced Chelsea, he repeated this celebration. Drogba seemed to have become the vengeance demon who beat Chelsea!
Oh, yes, there is also Sturridge, who has also scored in the last few games against Chelsea.
There are also Matic and Oscar. When they encountered Chelsea, they all behaved like chicken blood.
This made Abramovich feel very depressed and very annoyed.
Even he couldn't help doubting himself for the first time, asking himself, "Marina, could it be that I did something wrong?"
Sitting next to Abramovich was his direct confidant, Marina Granovskia, the CEO of Chelsea, who also looked embarrassed and worried at this time, for fear of being reprimanded by the boss.
After hearing Abramovich's words, she was also a little worried.
After a pause, Granovskia said again: "Besides, when it comes to transfers or stays, in many cases the head coach has more factors in employing people. Players come and go. This is quite normal in professional football. If If so, wouldn’t teams like Real Madrid, Barcelona and Manchester United regret it to death?”
After listening to Granovskia's words, Abramovich felt better.
It makes sense. After all, it was normal for Drogba to leave the team when Chelsea embarked on a youthful reform in those years.
As for Sturridge and Matic, when they leave Chelsea, who knows what they will do today?
The only regret is Oscar, but this player leaked the secret of the locker room, isn't it normal to leave the team?
Thinking of this, Abramovich's mood improved a lot.
But looking up at the bright red scoreboard at Stamford Bridge again, the score was five to zero, and he became clouded again.
"Let's go!"
Abramovich stood up quite disheartened, looked at the restarted game in the stadium again, and walked towards the exit of the chairman's stand without looking back.
Granovskia also quickly stood up, followed behind the boss, and left the grandstand.
There is a passage from the Stamford Bridge's grandstand to Chelsea's executive offices.
After Abramovich walked through the passage, he went straight to his office with a gloomy face all the way. All the employees only dared to greet him from a distance, but no one dared to approach.
Granovsky also followed him step by step and entered the office.
Once seated, the Russian sighed deeply.
"Marina, relying on the current lineup, I'm afraid it will be difficult to hold on!"
Obviously, this zero-to-five game made Abramovich have to face up to the current status of the team.
Granovskia also nodded, "Yeah, when we transferred in the summer, we were so exhausted by the transfer of the center that we missed the signings of several other positions."
Who said no?
Suarez first, but the Uruguayan striker decided to switch to Southampton early on.
After that, he fell in love with Cavani again, but in the end, Cavani was cut off by Tottenham Hotspur, the London rival.
Later, Chelsea aimed at Dortmund, but unexpectedly, even if Chelsea offered a high price and were willing to exchange De Bruyne as a bargaining chip, Dortmund still refused to let Lewandowski go.
In the end, after going around in the transfer market, returning to Mandzukic, and even being slaughtered by Atletico Madrid, it is depressing to think about it!
"What is the current financial situation of the team?" Abramovich asked again.
Granovskia certainly understood what the boss meant, but she still thought about it, "I'm afraid we won't be able to spare more funds to operate the transfer."
"Why?" Abramovich was a little surprised.
"Our current debt is over £1.2 billion."
Abramovich was not too surprised by this number, and seemed very calm.
Because he himself is Chelsea's biggest creditor!
"The team's current revenue last season was about 260 million pounds, but this year, it is likely to be reduced to less than 200 million, or even around 180 million pounds, because we lost the European competition! "
Without European events, part of the commercial income has been reduced, and part of the income from tickets and matchdays has also been reduced. In addition to the most important TV broadcast income, all of them add up to tens of millions of pounds.
"However, our salary expenditure this season will exceed 250 million pounds, ranking first in the Premier League!"
If Abramovich was calm just now, he is freezing now.
"Why?"
"We sold players like Oscar, Adam Lallana and Romeu. The salaries are not high. The sum of them is not as good as a Mandzukic, but we have introduced other players such as Schurrle, so... "
"That can't be higher than Manchester City!" Abramovich was puzzled.
"You forget, there are Drogba, Matic, Sturridge and Toni Kroos' wages!"
Hearing this, Abramovich immediately wanted to scold his mother.
It was only then that he remembered that he had been supporting these players for that bastard Yang Huan.
"Just adding up the salaries of these players, we will have to pay an extra high salary of almost 40 million euros a year."
Hearing this, Abramovich couldn't help but want to scold the word that starts with F.
The salaries of Matic and Sturridge are not high, but Drogba's annual salary is as high as 12 million euros, and it is after tax. Paid almost twenty-five million euros.
There is also Toni Kroos, when Southampton wanted to introduce him, it cost 60 million pounds, but the annual salary is not cheap.
In this way, the extra 40 million euros is not outrageous.
"Damn Xipi, it's been two or three years and Southampton has performed so well, why won't Yang Huan give them a salary increase and renew their contract?" Abramovich was a little annoyed. Could it be that Yang Huan is really so stingy?
But then I thought about it again, since there are people who have been taken advantage of to ask for the team's wallet to pay the salary, how could Yang Huan be so stupid as to renew the player's contract and raise the salary?
Even if it is really going to increase, it must be done in other ways, such as bonuses, to complete the salary increase for the players.
Granovskia shook his head, "No, boss, Mendes told me that Yang Huan registered a company in Monaco, and many Southampton players' salaries and bonuses were transferred through With this company operating, I don’t know how many taxes it has helped him avoid!”
"Although he didn't give players salary increases and contract extensions, the bonuses are quite generous!"
When Abramovich heard this, he almost spit fire and scolded his mother.
This is to evade taxes through operation, which is what any club will do, but Monaco is a tax-free zone, and it is more advantageous to operate through a company here?
No wonder Yang Huan wanted to buy Monaco back then!
Besides, the bonuses are generous, of course!
Damn Xipi, I raised your players for you. You don't need to spend a penny. Can you be generous?
"Based on the current situation of our team, we will lose at least another nearly 100 million pounds this season, so..."
Granovskia's meaning is quite obvious. With Chelsea's current debt situation, I am afraid it is really not suitable for large-scale signings, even if Abramovich is willing to invest more funds to operate.
The reason is simple, the more Abramovich invested, the higher the team's debt.
"That bastard, it seems that he intends to continue to use Drogba!" Abramovich cursed angrily.
For Southampton, retaining Drogba is nothing more than occupying a place in the first team.
But Chelsea has to spend more than 20 million pounds a year, can you not feel distressed?
"Boss, maybe, we should talk to him," Granovskia suggested.
"Talk?" Abramovich's face darkened.
He is very clear about Yang Huan's character, this bastard is cruel and ruthless, and he is a master who plucks hair, so he took the initiative to talk to him, will there be good results?
"The sooner this burden is thrown away, the better!" Granovskia saw this very clearly.
In the final analysis, it is the choice between long-term pain and short-term pain!
Abramovich is not a fool, and he knows how to play the abacus, but, do you really want to talk to Yang Huan?
Just as he was hesitating, someone knocked on the office door.
I heard the secretary push open the door and come in, "Boss, Mr. Yang Huan, the boss of Southampton, is here!"
"Him?" Abramovich glanced at Granovskia, who shook his head, expressing that he didn't have a date with Yang Huan.
"What is he here for?"
It's true that you can't talk about people during the day, just talk about Cao Cao and Cao Cao will arrive!
"He said, here to poach people!"
When Abramovich heard this, he couldn't sit still.
"To poach someone? Damn, the one who just beat us five to zero on the court and came to poach me once?"
Winning first and then poaching people, how can you swallow this breath?
It's really unbearable!
If the tiger doesn't show its power, you will treat me as a sick cat!
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