Arena Stadium is not just a modern stadium, but also a famous shopping center in the new southeastern Amsterdam district.

Here, there are many shops such as leisure, entertainment, food, etc., which are very lively every day. If it is a game day, it is a paradise for all Ajax fans in the city to gather, and it is a festival for all shop owners.

But all of this happened after Ye Qiu took over the team.

Since moving from the old Olympic Stadium to Arena Stadium in 1996, as Ajax's performance plummeted, fans rarely have the opportunity to indulge in carnival. Although they won a league championship during Olson's time, at that time, more core players kept leaving the team, which somewhat diluted the joy of Ajax fans.

But now, after Ye Qiu took charge of the team, he has made Ajax's courageous reform, making the strength of this Ajax team improve by leaps and bounds. In addition, the team's performance has continued to improve, almost every game in the Arena Stadium has become a paradise for fans to celebrate, and by the way, it has also brought huge improvements to the business of the shops here.

When Abramovich, accompanied by Pini Zahavi and Sones, walked into one of the small bars at Arena Stadium and found that there were crowds of people everywhere, and the air was filled with alcohol.

The rich Russian frowned, and his legs that had just stepped in retreated again, shook his head, "Go and have coffee!"

Originally, he planned to experience the carnival of ordinary fans after winning the game, but at that moment, he was disgusted from the bottom of his heart. He could not integrate into the bar atmosphere full of alcohol and swearing.

Even, to a certain extent, he would rather drink red wine, eat steak, and watch the competition leisurely on his luxury yacht, which would definitely make people feel more comfortable than coming to the scene to watch.

The difference between a cafe and a bar is that one is very noisy, one is very quiet, one is on the first floor, one is on the second floor, one is not air conditioned, and the other is always maintained at the appropriate temperature and does not have the disgusting alcohol smell.

"Welcome!" As soon as I walked in, a brightly dressed waiter came politely to entertain him.

Abramovich glanced at the coffee house and there were also many people gathered, but it was obvious that there was more order than in the bar.

Arena Stadium is worth every inch of land, and the rent for shops is not cheap, but the area is very small. This coffee house is probably less than 100 square meters, but it is separated from a bar, storage room, bathroom and other facilities. The area for real guests is even smaller, but because the decorations are very neat and the guests are sitting in an orderly manner, making them look very comfortable.

Sometimes it is like this. No matter how big the space is, it feels crowded when it is messy and the space is small. As long as it is cleaned up, it feels enough. As for people, whether it is comfortable or not is purely a feeling.

"It seems that the business is good!" Abramovich smiled and found a seat next to the window to sit down.

From here, you can see Ajax fans walking out downstairs. The square below is crowded with people and tens of thousands of fans are pouring out. The scene is really spectacular.

"Yes, especially during home games, Arena Stadium has been almost full in recent years, and our business has improved." The waiter smiled and wiped the table there, following Abramovich's words.

Abramovich smiled, "From your tone, it seems that the attendance rate was not high before?"

The waiter was a little surprised. Almost all Ajax fans came here. Don’t these people know what happened in the past few years? When he thought of this, he was a little proud. He thought he had met a new rookie fan and pretended to be a veteran. "You don’t know? The results of our Ajax back then were bad. Not only were they all dug up, but the results also plummeted."

With Abramovich's encouragement smile, the waiter continued to say that at least he felt that if he pleased the guest, he might have a lot of money, and then he would make a fortune.

"I still remember that when I first arrived at the store, I lost to Eindhoven 0:4 at home. Oh my god, all the Ajax fans went crazy that day and marched downstairs of our store. We were frightened to see that, afraid of rushing in and smashing the store."

Abramovich didn't seem to be in a hurry to drink coffee or urged him. He just sat there with a smile on his face and listened.

"There was another time later, it seemed that he lost to Feyenoord, and he lost a lot. The fans were not happy and rebelled directly. That season was very chaotic and the team's performance was also very bad. In the end, the first team could not qualify for European competitions and could not even get the League Cup. Instead, the second team won the Dutch Cup and could play the League Cup."

Abramovich was amused as soon as he heard this, "Can the second team play European competitions instead? How does this count?"

"Yes, everyone is surprised. How do you calculate this?" The waiter also asked with a laugh, "In the end, it's still on the first team."

"Ye Qiu?" Abramovich could have heard this. Isn't this what Ye Qiu did a few years ago?

"Yes, Mr. Ye Qiu is so amazing. I have a friend who works in the administrative department. He told me that Mr. Ye Qiu said directly that the first meeting was held. All the players in the first team were not good. They were either veterans on the decline or were not strong. Even if there were a few players with good strength, the club had to sign ups and sell them if they had no money. As a result, he waved his hand and sold them all!"

When Abramovich heard this, he was a little surprised. He couldn't tell that Ye Qiushi was gentle and had such courage.

"At that time, this incident broke out in Ajax, and the directors were crazy. They thought Mr. Ye Qiu was just doing things randomly. In addition, the players he introduced later were not very famous. The performance was not very ideal at the beginning, so they wanted to fire him. But later, as the team's performance gradually improved, the directors were helpless. Instead, they were stripped of power one by one, and some were kicked out of the board of directors. The management was eventually led by Chairman Van Prager."

"When we look back, some of the players sold by Mr. Ye Qiu are no longer visible, some are unable to play at all, while others can only play in the middle and lower Eredivisie, or even other worse leagues. This is enough to prove how vicious Mr. Ye Qiu's vision was at that time."

A newspaper once made a summary. Among the people who were driven out of the Ajax lineup by Ye Qiu, either Glenshare, Avilazze, Konopé and others who actively requested transfers or sold money. The transfer fees of these players were converted into Ajax's signings, and there were also several players such as Van Haast and Aaron Winter who played in the middle and lower Eredivisie teams. Most of the remaining players were silenced and almost never continued to appear in front of the media and fans.

For example, the Portuguese genius Dani, who was introduced by Atletico Madrid, was eventually disappeared. After Konopé left Ajax, his performance was still unsatisfactory. Some other players, Glencier, performed well in the Premier League, that's all.

Therefore, many people believe that although Ye Qiu's approach back then seemed a bit too far, it also reflects his understanding of Ajax, and launched a reform that started from the bones, which completely made Ajax look brand new.

Watching the waiter leave, Abramovich's smile became stronger, and Ye Qiu's eyes even praised Zahavi. Almost every player he introduced proved his strength in the end.

I won’t say much about anything else. Look at Arteta, a player Barcelona despises, and directly treats it as a transfer bonus and gives it to Ajax. But as soon as they arrive in the Eredivisie, they immediately showed that they dare not say that they are top-notch, but at least they are also the strength of a first-class European midfielder. They almost made a seamless connection with Ajax and became a well-known European rookie.

There are also Van der Fat, Sneider and Robben, the new Dutch musketeers. Some people call them and Feyenoord's Van Persie the fourth Dutch young master. However, Van Persie is now in the cold palace by the latter because of open conflict with Van Marvik. However, these three musketeers of Ajax have made a name for themselves in Europe, attracting the attention of many wealthy families including Barcelona and Real Madrid. The gap is not ordinary.

The coffee was delivered, but Abramovich did not take a sip. Zahavi and Sones were sitting quietly opposite him. They were both very clear that the Russians were thinking about some problems at this moment.

No one would have thought that these issues would completely overturn the current European football landscape.

After a long time, Abramovich put away his thoughts and looked at Zahavi, "What do you think of him?"

Sonez was embarrassed and disappointed because he was completely ignored by Abramovich.

After hearing this, Zahavi smiled, "I heard that what he dislikes the most are those wealthy families. Because he has been poached by wealthy families many times, he once said that there is nothing great about wealthy families. Give him time and money, and he wants to build another wealthy family!"

As soon as he said this, Abramovich's eyes lit up. He was ambitious and wanted to build a wealthy family.

For Abramovich, who grew up in the Soviet Union, who had a complicated relationship since childhood, he had a very complex purpose in entering the field of football, but his goal was very clear, that is, to use the influence of football to become the most popular group of people in the world, so that he could continue to survive safely.

And no one has received more attention from European media than a boss of a super wealthy family. In addition, his personality has always been to hope to become the strongest and the most powerful decision-maker, so he is unwilling to be inferior to others. He either does not do it, and he must do the best.

Zahavi knows how to guess Abramovich's mind, and he is a very smart guy.

Why is he willing to put so much effort into Abramovich?

Because he tried every means to instigate Abramovich, or incite Abramovich to acquire a Premier League team, in his opinion, the power of the agent is always limited, and controlling players is far less influential than controlling a giant team.

When Abramovich heard this, he smiled and said nothing more. He drank the cup of coffee in front of him in one breath, stood up, "Let's go, Pini, didn't you say you would take me to Eindhoven and introduce someone to me?"

After hearing this, Zahavi also stood up with a smile, "Yes, he is Eindhoven's general manager, Frank Aneson, the most complete youth training expert in scouting networks in the world today."

After a pause, he smiled and said, "If an excellent champion coach can bring you the present, then Aneson is the one who can give you the future!"

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Ye Qiu didn't know whether Abramovich had come to Arena Stadium to watch the game, because he didn't have time to contact anyone before the game, so he spent all his time preparing for the game and the game. During the game, there were so many people in the stands, so where did he have time to find someone slowly?

Even if he can find it, he doesn't have that intention.

Ajax defeated Manchester United 3-1 at home, which really made a big and small unpopular, shocking the entire European football world, because Ajax will firmly hold the top spot in the group with the victory of this game.

But soon, everyone forgot Ajax, Ye Qiu who defeated Ferguson, and remembered another name.

Antich!

Barcelona this season is indeed tragic. Gaspart bet on all his belongings on Van Gaal, confident that Van Gaal's return will definitely bring changes to Barcelona. But what he didn't expect was that Van Gaal's Barcelona fell to 15th place in the league and almost fell into the relegation zone.

Many people began to suspect that Van Gaal would make Barcelona another giant team to be demoted to the Spanish Second Division after he made Barcelona Atletico Madrid.

After the winter break, Van Gaal finally couldn't bear the pressure and announced his resignation. The chairman Gaspart, who supported him, also announced his resignation. Vice Chairman Reina temporarily took over the board. After a short period of training by Rexac, former Yugoslav coach Antić, who relegated Atletic Madrid that year, took over Barcelona.

Everyone knows that Atletico Madrid has many reasons for relegation, and it cannot be blamed on Antić, but he still feels pessimistic about Antić's future in Barcelona. However, what he did not expect was that the highly questioned head coach faced Inter Milan at the Camp Nou Stadium, and beat his opponent 3:0.

Cooper's Inter Milan is full of stars, but he has no combat effectiveness at the Camp Nou Stadium. The Argentine coach publicly criticized the team's midfielder and defender after the game, and even gave severe accusations to the team's top central defender Cannavaro.

"Today's game gave us a painful lesson. The running of Cruyvit and Saviola created huge space. Our central defender and central defender were too far away, so the opponent took advantage of it, especially Saviola, who played the best game since joining Barcelona, ​​and we have to be responsible for it."

According to Inter Milan's pre-match arrangement and performance in the game, Cooper was placing a combination of Cannavaro and Carlos Gamara, among which Cannavaro, the shorter Cannavaro is responsible for marking Saviola, while Gamara is responsible for Cruivet, but Saviola's performance in this game is very eye-catching.

Although Cooper did not name it, everyone knew that he was very dissatisfied with Cannavaro's performance.

As early as the summer of 2002, Inter Milan was interested in Nesta, and AC Milan was interested in Cannavaro. But by chance, it was puzzling that the two actually exchanged their bosses. After Cannavaro came to Inter Milan, his injuries were stopped and his performance was hugely different from that in Parma, which was difficult to satisfy.

With his 3-0 home victory over Inter Milan, Antiic's Barcelona won the recognition of fans and media for the first time, and also made himself the number one figure who has risen rapidly in the Champions League.

Leverkusen, who is in the same group as Ajax, just experienced a change of coaches, and the team's combat effectiveness has declined rapidly and he has no fighting spirit at Bayer Stadium. Even if he is facing the Locomotive Moscow from Russia, the pharmaceutical factory does not have the style of the Sanya King last season.

In 30 minutes, the Locomotive of Moscow only took 30 minutes to completely collapse the pharmaceutical factory.

In the 6th, 16th and 30th minutes, Moscow Locomotive scored three goals from the pharmaceutical factory. Although Leverkusen scored one goal in the 26th minute, it was useless in the end. He watched the Russian team win the first victory of the second round of the group stage at his doorstep, while the pharmaceutical factory lost three consecutive games in the second round of the group stage.

The entire German football world is incredible about Leverkusen's decline. The Sanya King, who was glorious last season, became a weak team in the Bundesliga to fight for relegation only half a year later. He had no combat effectiveness in the Champions League. This is indeed puzzling and a little bit more sighing.

Some people even expressed such doubts: If Barack was still there, would Leverkusen still sink to this point?

No one knows the answer, but it is obvious that both Manchester United's Ferguson and Ajax's Ye Qiu have eliminated Leverkusen from the list of qualifying opponents. Now for these two teams, the biggest suspense is not qualifying in the group, but who can become the first in the group.

Back in the Eredivisie, Ajax challenged Udrecht away.

For the game played at Old Trafford four days later, Ye Qiu arranged most of the substitutes to play in this game, but eventually tied with Udrecht 1:1 away.

In the 74th minute, Hetinga had a conflict in an entanglement with his opponent, but was sent off by the referee both red cards. Utrecht's striker Kuyt scored a bargain to tie the score for Utrecht in the 83rd minute.

In the locker room after the game, Ye Qiu gave a harsh warning to the uncool and rational Heatinga, and also expressed disappointment at the performance of several players in the team. If there was no such red card, Ajax would be able to win the game.

Now he has only scored one point, but Hiddink's Eindhoven defeated Breda and scored 3 points. The gap between the two sides has been shortened to 2 points. Ajax's momentum of winning the championship was once again impacted by Eindhoven.

Before the training class the next day after returning to Amsterdam, Heatinga apologized to the head coach and teammates and admitted his mistakes for his recklessness yesterday. Ye Qiu and the club did not intend to continue to impose punishment on Heatinga, but he told Heatinga not to have another next time.
Chapter completed!