Things were indeed as Gao Han expected.

When the espn selection list was released, it immediately caused an uproar all over the world. Countless supporters who supported Gao Han and countless fans who opposed Gao Han began to have a big fight, and there was a large wave of silent neutral parties in the middle.

Media reporters, like sharks who smelled the bloody smell, immediately moved to the wind and expressed their positions, either supporting Gao Han or opposing Gao Han, and fought a news war in major newspapers.

Even soon, some media magazines followed suit and launched their own lists.

For example, European Professional Sports Magazine also selected the fifty most influential players in European football, but they directly pushed Gao Han to the top, defeating FIFA President Blatt and UEFA President Platini to win the championship.

Soon, other media and newspapers also launched similar selections. Gao Han's rankings were either high or low, basically within the top 20, and they were on par with club giants such as Berlusconi and Moratti, leaving players such as Beckham, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo far behind, not to mention the head coaches.

For a time, the selection of the most influential figures in the world football caused huge disputes around the world, and Gao Han also appeared in the pages of media and newspapers around the world again and again, and even the front page headlines, standing on the verge of the storm.

Although there are different criteria for judging Gao Han's ranking on various different lists, one thing is recognized by everyone, that is, Gao Han is already one of the most influential figures in the world football today.

But when the list incident was fermenting rapidly around the world, Gao Han was in Madrid in a low-key manner to renew several Chinese City players. At the same time, he studied the team's tactical play, training program arrangement, and encouraged the team's morale, hoping that China City could get out of the three-game losing streak as soon as possible.

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London, south of Hyde Park, high-end conference room at Oriental Mandarin Hotel.

On both sides of the oval conference table are filled with professional elites in suits, representing the top talents of two of the most famous financial investment institutions in London's Financial Street, and is preparing for a transaction that is more than one billion pounds.

Next to the conference room, in a luxuriously decorated lounge, several people dressed in traditional Middle Eastern clothing were chatting and laughing. The atmosphere was completely different from the tense negotiation atmosphere next door, and it seemed very comfortable here.

Manchester City's boss Mansour stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window, looking at the beautiful Hyde Park from a distance, and was a little confused.

It was not until someone approached that he was awakened and looked over.

The person who came was fatter than him, and he was from the Middle East, but he came from a different country, Qatar.

Tamim is the best in Qatar, and the future Emir, who is the chairman of the Qatar Investment Bureau, manages assets of more than 100 billion US dollars. This time he came to London in person to deal with an asset of more than 1 billion pounds.

Barclays, the main sponsor of the Premier League.

A year ago, when Mansour acquired Manchester City, Barclays was affected by the US subprime mortgage crisis. The situation was very bad. Several consortiums including the Middle East and Asia provided them with 5 billion pounds of financing and acquired shares of Barclays.

Therefore, Mansour's Abu Dhabi Consortium and Tamim's Qatar Investment Authority became the two largest shareholders of Barclays Bank.

Barclays received this 5 billion pounds of financing, enriching the bank's capital. Not only did it steadily survive the difficult subprime mortgage crisis, but it also took half of the financing to develop its business. Its strength began to recover steadily, profits recovered, and its stock price gradually rebounded.

By now, last year's investment has made a lot of money for them, and it is time to consider withdrawing and selling shares in Barclays, and the actuaries in the conference room next door are calculating this.

"This time you can cash out at least 1.3 billion pounds, and I heard the news, Tamim, the Qatar Investment Agency intends to use this money to acquire Manchester United, is it true?" Mansur asked with concern.

Manchester United is Manchester City's mortal enemy. If the Qatar consortium takes over Manchester United, it will have a great impact on Manchester City.

Now that Manchester City has Gao Han in charge, Mansour is not worried at all, but Gao Han is only willing to sign a two-year contract. Two years later, once Gao Han leaves, can Manchester City beat Manchester United with the support of the Qatar consortium?

But Tamim shook his head angrily, "The talk has collapsed."

"It's broken?" Mansour smiled, and his mood improved a lot, "Why?"

"The Americans are just a group of vampires, they demanded 3 billion pounds. Do you think we can accept it?" Tamim still seemed very indignant when talking about this.

Mansour nodded, it was indeed a bit lion-spoken.

How much did the Glazer family buy Manchester United?

The outside world has been evaluating that about 1.5 billion pounds can satisfy the Glazer family's appetite, which has made them at least twice as much. They have made a fortune, but they didn't expect that their appetite is so big that they actually demanded 3 billion pounds. Are the people in the Middle East really Kaizi?

"Since the talks have collapsed, then you still have to sell Barclays shares?" Mansour asked curiously.

Tamim nodded, "I won't sell it all. I plan to get some money to acquire Harros Department Store and buy a few shops in Knightsbridge. You know, the rent in this area is still quite considerable."

Mansour is unanimous. Everyone has different interests and preferences for investment.

At least, he has no interest in this type of assets.

"But we will definitely find a suitable team again next. You know, we are determined to win the right to host the World Cup." Tamim said with a serious face.

Qatar is striving to prepare for the 2022 World Cup, but its competitors are also strong, including the United Kingdom and the United States. It is not easy for Qatar to win, and the most important thing is to increase its popularity and influence in the world and football circles as soon as possible.

That's why the Qatar consortium wants to acquire Manchester United.

"By the way, how credible is this list?" Tamim handed over a magazine.

The American version of espn magazine, one of the most authoritative sports magazines in the world.

The magazine happened to flip through a page, which was a list of 50 most powerful people in the world football world.

This news has been a hot topic recently. Mansour has naturally heard of it and read it, so he just smiled slightly, "As far as I know, this magazine is quite authoritative and highly credible."

"What about Gao Han?" Tamim asked with concern.

In this list, Gao Han only ranks under FIFA President Blatt, even higher than Danny Jordan, the chairman of the South African World Cup Organizing Committee, which forced Tamim to pay attention.

"It's hard to say, but judging from the many football people I have come into contact with, Gao Han is undoubtedly the most influential and appealing person in the world football world today. You know, he has never lost since his debut and has been winning. This is unique in the history of world football for more than a hundred years."

From Mansour's tone and expression, it is not difficult for Tamim to see his admiration for Gao Han.

With his understanding of Mansour, not many people can get this review, which shows that Gao Han is definitely a real material.

"Wait, what do you want to do?" Mansour suddenly felt a little wary.

Although they are all from the Middle East, Qatar and the UAE are neighbors, and when they come to Europe, they often cooperate, but there are still two groups of people in their bones, so they still have to be wary of each other.

"Don't be nervous, I have nothing now and I won't threaten you." Tamim laughed, "However, I heard from people that Gao Han has a football team in Spain. He has been upgraded to La Liga step by step in nine years, which is very legendary."

"You want to acquire this team?"

"Of course." Tamim nodded without any concealment, "Chinatown, the name of this team is very interesting."

What he values ​​is not only Chinatown, but also Gao Han who stands behind this team.

"But Gao Han may not necessarily sell it." Mansour has some knowledge of Chinatown.

"Then I will convince him with the most sincere price." Tamim smiled confidently.

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Gao Han didn't know that someone was planning to acquire his team behind his back. After dealing with the matter of Chinatown, he returned to Manchester and returned to his position as Manchester City head coach.

During the national team competition, Gao Han brought other players to the training.

Kaka was not recruited by Brazilian national team coach Dunga because of her foot injury. She continued to train with the team, but she still failed to train with the team, but trained alone.

After the two-week national team game, the international players returned to the team one after another.

In Gao Han's mid-term order, Manchester City and other teams were booked for a special plane transfer, including South American internationals, all returned to Manchester on time in accordance with the coaching staff's regulations.

After a day of rest and training, Manchester City went to challenge Wigan Athletics away without stopping.

Influenced by the national team game and away games, Manchester City players' performance in the first half was not ideal, especially at the beginning, when the home team Wigan Athletics scored several long shots, but none of them could threaten Cech.

Manchester City did not fight the first threatening offensive until the 29th minute.

After that, Manchester City gradually controlled the situation on the field, but never created a threat. Instead, before the first half was about to end, Wigan Athletic seized an opportunity and made a counterattack. Enzobia scored a close-range shot, opening the first record for Wigan Athletic.

During the break, Gao Han severely scolded the player for his poor performance in the first half, believing that the player was a little too careless.

After the side change and the game in the second half, Manchester City launched a counterattack according to the strategy formulated by Gao Han midfielder.

With the support of the assault card, Sanchez made continuous attacks on the right at the beginning of the second half. In the 46th minute, he broke through continuously and passed the ball to the middle. Benzema, who was inserted, ran a little over and blocked the defensive player with his body and let the ball pass by him.

Cristiano Ronaldo inserted and scored with his right foot, tying the score.

Just five minutes later, Benzema retreated to receive the midfield pass and made a wonderful pass behind the Wigan Athletic defense line. Cristiano Ronaldo dribbled the ball into the penalty area, but the shot was blocked by the opponent's central defender Bramble who returned to the defense, and the ball fell to the right.

At this time, Sanchez caught up with the horse and easily pushed the empty goal to reverse the score.

In the end, Manchester City, in poor form, reversed Wigan Athletic 2-1 and won nine consecutive victories.

In the other games of this round, Manchester United defeated Bolton 2-1 at home, Arsenal defeated Birmingham 3-1 at home, and Liverpool lost to Sunderland 0-1 away.

In another game one day late, Chelsea scored two goals away from Aston Villa with Drogba's first goal, and eventually lost to Aston Villa one-two.

This is also Chelsea's first defeat in the new season.
Chapter completed!