Chapter 583: English Premier League in Turmoil

On the night of May 2, London became a city that never sleeps. Even on the next day, countless fans gathered outside the White Hart Lane Stadium and the Stratford Stadium in the Olympic Park to celebrate.

In particular, the activity of all the players of Tottenham Hotspur's first team taking a bus to parade around the city attracted the attention of everyone in the city. Countless fans of Tottenham Hotspur and other teams participated in this event.

Once a year, after Ye Qiu took over Tottenham Hotspur, this North London team has such a parade around the city almost every year. This has become a habit for Tottenham Hotspur fans, and the team has never let them down, bringing championships and honors again and again.

But after the big celebration, everything has to continue.

A week later, on the afternoon of May 9, in the last round of the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur defeated the relegated Burnley 6-0 away, ending the season ahead of schedule. Although Chelsea defeated Wigan Athletic 8-0 in the last round, it was of no avail.

So far, the entire 09/10 Premier League season has finally come to an end. Tottenham Hotspur finally won a record of 105 points with an impressive record of 34 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss, becoming the team with the highest scoring rate in the history of the Premier League, but more importantly, Tottenham Hotspur has achieved an unprecedented record of winning all against strong teams.

Falcao, who performed a hat trick in the last round, got the title of Premier League top scorer as he wished, while Messi won the Premier League assist king and the Silver Boot Award winner of the Premier League top scorer list. If the current situation is correct, these two players will also win the European Golden Boot and Silver Boot Awards at the same time.

Tottenham Hotspur's Premier League journey this season ended in a perfect way. This season, Tottenham Hotspur has set many Premier League historical records, which makes all reporters and professionals agree that Tottenham Hotspur's championship this season is full of gold content and deserves the championship.

Even, many people feel sorry for Tottenham Hotspur missing the Champions League final due to a misjudgment, but regarding this, Ye Qiu said in an interview that the team will continue to strengthen its own strength and further adjust the team's technical and tactical structure to a more reasonable structure, and will definitely make a difference in the Champions League.

"Defending the Champions League will definitely not be a flash in the pan for us, and we will not become the second Nottingham Forest!"

You know, Nottingham Forest also created glory under the leadership of Clough and won the miracle of defending the Champions League, but soon after, Nottingham Forest gradually declined, and now it is sinking into a low-level league and missed the Premier League.

Ye Qiu believes that Tottenham's current adjustments are aimed at returning to the top of Europe in the near future, and Tottenham's goal for the next season will not change, which is still the two championship trophies of the Premier League and the Champions League.

However, with Tottenham's outstanding performance, especially the Colombian center forward Romedal Falcao, who suddenly became popular this season, has attracted widespread attention from the outside world, and stars such as Ribery, Messi, Fabregas, and David Silva have also been hyped as always, and the targets are nothing more than Manchester City, Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Frankly speaking, for such a high transfer price for Tottenham players, except for Real Madrid, Barcelona and Manchester City, almost no team can afford it. When Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale transferred to Real Madrid, but Real Madrid failed to break Barcelona's monopoly on La Liga, Florentino also once again stated that Real Madrid will make further additional investments.

Because of Ye Qiu's arrival, the situation of Real Madrid has changed this season. This Spanish capital giant not only did not suffer the humiliation of being humiliated by a third-tier team in the King's Cup in the previous life, but finally reached the King's Cup final and has a good chance of winning the championship. In the league, the record with Barcelona is also one win and one loss.

Although Pellegrini's team failed to make a breakthrough in the Champions League, the joining of Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale has improved the strength of Real Madrid's two wings. With the addition of Higuain, the strength of Real Madrid's trident is not inferior to Manchester United at all, but it is not as good as Tottenham Hotspur's offensive power.

With Pellegrini choosing to stay and continue to be entrusted with important tasks, the Chilean engineer will continue to transform Real Madrid, especially the transformation of the midfield and backcourt. It is reported that he has opened a list of two positions for Florentino and Valdano, namely defensive midfielder and central defender.

It is reported that Pellegrini's most desired player in the defensive midfielder position is Yaya Toure from Tottenham Hotspur. Although the Ivorian has not performed well in the past, his performance in the past one or two seasons has been impressive, especially this season, showing the stability of a top defensive midfielder, which reminds people of Vieira in his prime.

The transfer department of Real Madrid also included Essien, who has made rapid progress at Chelsea this season, Daniele De Rossi, the defensive midfielder of Roma, and Alexander Song of Arsenal in the list, all of whom have performed very well in the past season.

As for the central defenders, according to the Spanish Marca, Tottenham Hotspur's two main central defenders, Thiago Silva and Ziglinski, are at the forefront of Real Madrid's recruitment list. The performance of these two central defenders in Tottenham Hotspur in the past season has won everyone's recognition.

But there are also reports that Real Madrid's target is not these two main central defenders, but Tottenham Hotspur's third central defender Vincent Kompany. Although the Belgian central defender rotates with Ziglinski, his performance is not inferior to Ziglinski, but the Ukrainian has a higher status in the team than him.

In this case, Kompany's departure from the team to Real Madrid has become a reality, and the Belgian central defender has not only made rapid progress in defensive skills, but also has a high level of ball handling and passing, which is very consistent with Pellegrini's requirements for central defenders.

In La Liga, central defenders must have the ability to pass the ball, which is a general consensus.

But it is obvious that neither the defensive midfielder nor the central defender is the superstar that Florentino wants. Therefore, many media have published that the superstars that Real Madrid will focus on introducing this season are Tottenham Hotspur's chief center forward Romedal Falcao, Inter Milan's world number one center forward Ibrahimovic, and Chelsea's Warcraft Drogba. These three center forwards are all targets of Real Madrid.

After all, with Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale occupying the left and right flanks respectively, if you want to continue to introduce attacking superstars, the center becomes the only choice.

And it is reported that Real Madrid's meritorious captain Raul will leave the Bernabeu Stadium after the end of this season, but it has not yet been determined where to go. Only the German media revealed that many Bundesliga teams are interested in introducing Raul, including Schalke 04.

When the transfer market began to surge, the English football world also ushered in a chaotic situation.

If the Premier League in the 1990s belonged to Manchester United and Arsenal, then with the rise of Chelsea in the new century, the three giants began to compete for supremacy, but soon, Liverpool also rose strongly and ushered in the top four.

But not long after, with Ye Qiu taking over Tottenham Hotspur and creating the miracle of successfully defending the Champions League, with the Abu Dhabi consortium taking over Manchester City and recruiting players under the banner of petrodollars, and last season Russian tycoon Rebolovlev acquiring West Ham United and investing heavily to build a London powerhouse, all of this made the Premier League very chaotic.

Last season, the top four teams in the Premier League were Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal, followed by Manchester City, West Ham United, Aston Villa, Liverpool and Everton.

If we look at the standings, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Manchester United belong to the first tier, especially Tottenham Hotspur, whose leading advantage is too obvious; Arsenal, Manchester City, West Ham United, Aston Villa, Liverpool and Everton belong to the second tier. You should know that the points difference between Arsenal, which ranks the highest, and Everton, which ranks the lowest, is only ten points, but the gap between Arsenal and Manchester United is also ten points.

In other words, Arsenal's fourth place in the Premier League is not solid, and the massive signings of teams including Manchester City and West Ham United have also worked. A key point is that Mancini of Manchester City and Ranieri of West Ham United have both blended a relatively strong team well, and the effect of spending money has greatly improved the performance and strength of the two teams.

But after Manchester City and West Ham United, another rich team landed in the Premier League, that is, the magpies Newcastle, which was upgraded from the English Championship and acquired by the Qatari royal family. The Qatari royal family has announced that Newcastle will take out a transfer budget of no less than 200 million in the first season of returning to the Premier League.

Perhaps many people think that the Qatari royal family's rhetoric is not very good, much inferior to Rebolovlev last season, but you have to know that West Ham United's signings last season did not actually spend 200 million. More of it was to take advantage of the good quality and low price and salary advantages to introduce stars such as Eto'o, Lucio and Carvalho, and this team will continue to further impact the top four of the Premier League this season.

With Newcastle's return to the Premier League, the whole world is surprised by the start of the new season of the Premier League, because this season's Premier League not only has strong teams such as Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United and Arsenal, but also former rich teams such as Chelsea, and current rich teams such as Manchester City, West Ham United and Newcastle. Such fierce competition is simply going to drive people crazy.

But just when everyone was amazed at the appeal of the Premier League, the Times exclusively disclosed that Reliance Industries, a Fortune 500 company from India, and Ambani, the eighth richest man in India, completed the acquisition of Liverpool with the help of the Royal Bank of Scotland, but the total acquisition amount was not disclosed.

The Royal Bank of Scotland provided Liverpool with a huge loan, but under the leadership of Liverpool's two current club owners Hicks and Gillette, Liverpool's debt has been increasing day by day, especially when Tottenham Hotspur rose strongly, Liverpool often missed the Champions League and missed a lot of profits. The club's debt exceeded 400 million pounds.

Under such a huge debt situation, not to mention the new stadium that Hicks and Gillette had promised to the fans, even the team's signings could not come up with money. There was news that the Qatari Royal Family Consortium planned to acquire Liverpool. , but the two owners of Liverpool opened their mouths loudly and scared off the big money owner. This move angered the Royal Bank of Scotland.

In the end, Liverpool's two major owners compromised with their creditors and announced that they would sell their shares to Ambani, the top rich man from India, who also founded the Mumbai team of the Indian Premier League.

As the eighth richest man in the 2009 Forbes list, Ambani's personal assets surpassed those of Mansour of the Abu Dhabi consortium and Abramovich of Chelsea. The former ranked 104th, and then ranked 51st, but Ambani is still behind Tottenham Hotspur boss Ye Qiu, who ranks higher than him.

Therefore, the first thing Ambani did after taking over Liverpool was to announce Benitez's retention.

"The difficulties Liverpool encountered in the past should obviously not be borne by the head coach. I think Benitez is a very good head coach, and he is also one of the few top players in today's football who can keep pace with Ye Qiu. Famous coach, I have no reason to let such a talent go!”

Ambani also announced that Liverpool will spend heavily on signings this season to rebuild Liverpool into the top team in the Premier League and allow Liverpool to win results worthy of the team's honors. He will also immediately honor the two former Americans. The one promise that the owner was unable to fulfill was to announce the restart of the team's new stadium plan, which is expected to be officially opened in the summer of 2013.

It can be said that this move by the Indian boss immediately won the recognition of Liverpool fans. After all, in the past few years, Liverpool fans have already bought Hicks and Gillette's stinginess and their false promises, and they all believe that, There is no problem with Benitez's coaching ability. If he can be allowed to build the team as he pleases, Liverpool's revival is expected.

With Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur all announcing changes of ownership, Arsenal is the only one that has not lost. This does not mean that Arsenal still maintains its local characteristics, because the Gunners' shareholders have long been flooded with foreign investors. There are traces of the consortium, but the shareholders of the Gunners are now eagerly waiting for the consortium's huge acquisition.

The Guardian exclusively reported that one of Arsenal’s unnamed shareholders told the Guardian reporter that if a consortium is willing to offer 1.5 billion pounds and promises to take over all Arsenal’s debts, it can get all the shares in Arsenal. .

But these words were dismissed by professionals as wishful thinking. The reason is very simple. Arsenal is currently heavily in debt. The short-term debt of the Highbury Square Apartments will expire in 2012. But aside from this debt, Arsenal still has There are liabilities of over £250 million.

In other words, if anyone buys Arsenal for 1.5 billion pounds and assumes all debts, the total acquisition amount will exceed the 1.8 billion pounds purchase price of Manchester United set by the Glazer family, and even the Qatar royal family is interested in Manchester United. Thank you for the sky-high price. Is there anyone willing to buy Arsenal at a higher price than Manchester United?

Of course, Arsenal has good reasons. Their 250 million pounds are long-term low-interest loans and bonds held by some fans, which are healthy debts. But the question is, who is willing to bear these?

Arsenal's board of directors is right when they say that any company needs debt. This is right because running a company is not as simple as outsiders imagine.

Just like the current Tottenham Hotspur, Ye Qiu just recently obtained a low-interest long-term loan of 200 million pounds from Barclays through Tottenham Hotspur. This loan was almost taken by Barclays Bank. The interest rate proposed is very low, and for Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur, there is a low-interest long-term loan of 200 million pounds, so don't give it up in vain.

With this money, Ye Qiu plans to build a China Town on a 150-acre land between the Royal Albert Dock and Canary Wharf in East London through Tottenham Hotspur Real Estate Company. .

There have been rumors about the construction of a Chinatown in East London Docks for many years, because the existing Chinatown is located in Soho, a densely populated commercial center in London, where the FA headquarters is now located, which has brought inconvenience to the planning and development of London.

In the planning of the London Municipal Government, this is not only to build a Chinatown, but also to build an international development project to attract Chinese investment. There was a special plan in 2004, but then London's main task has always been It was during the Olympic Games, and there were problems with funding for the Olympic Games, so the Chinatown plan was always shelved.

Ye Qiu's idea is that this should not only be built into a new Chinatown, but also be a window for Chinese culture to display itself to the outside world. Therefore, in the entire project, there are not only old-fashioned Chinese-style shopping streets and food streets, but also At the same time there are

Classical Chinese gardens, temples and a range of traditional buildings.

This is an authentic large-scale Chinese theme park, and it will also be the first theme park in Europe to comprehensively display Chinese traditional culture and characteristics. In Ye Qiu’s words, the purpose of building this China Town is to make all British and European people can better understand Chinese culture and traditions.

Ye Qiu's suggestion has been supported by the Chinese community in London, and these overseas Chinese who have a deep understanding of the habits of Londoners have also given quite a lot of good opinions. For example, they think that one of the important reasons why American theme parks failed in the UK before is that the proud British do not want to become followers of American culture.

"We should tell them about the fascinating Chinese culture in a way that they can't refuse!"

So, this is not only a theme park for cultural display, but also a city within a city that integrates business, office, food, tourism, Chinese education, and leisure and entertainment.

For Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur, they don't need to pay almost any fees for the Chinatown project with a total investment of 200 million pounds. All investments are provided by Barclays Bank with low-interest loans, and all engineering projects are handled by engineering teams from China. It is expected to be completed before the London Olympics!

This project has not only received strong support from the London City Government, which has always wanted to develop the area around the Royal Albert Dock, but also received strong support from the Chinese government and all walks of life. Many investors have even expressed their interest in investing in the area around Chinatown, which has also attracted the attention of the British and London governments.

It can be said that the entire Chinatown project has not yet started, but is only in the design stage, but it has already attracted attention from all walks of life and has been frequently reported by the media, making it popular in advance.