I build a giant in the Premier League

Chapter 49: Stop pretending, let’s show our cards!

Lowndes Street, Belgravia, London.

The morning sunlight penetrates the window and gently shines into the bright and spacious restaurant.

Abramovich had just finished breakfast and was flipping through a fresh copy of The Times.

Not surprisingly, he saw a report on last night's Premier League in the sports section of The Times.

Chelsea drew 0-0 with Tottenham Hotspur at home, suffering two consecutive draws.

Moreover, both games ended in a 0-0 draw!

After Mourinho took over as coach of Chelsea, he was subject to a lot of doubts and criticisms.

A very important reason is conservatism.

Only 6 goals were scored in 6 Premier League games.

This goal-scoring ability ranks 13th in the Premier League this season, tied with Southampton in the relegation zone.

No one will be satisfied with such an outcome.

Especially the last two games ended in 0-0, they played really badly.

The Times made the accusation in its report, while also refuting some of Mourinho's remarks in his post-match press conference.

The Portuguese said that although Chelsea only scored 6 goals, they only conceded 6 goal in 1 games. Their defensive ability is unique not only in the Premier League, but also in the four major leagues.

More importantly, with 6 wins and 4 draws in 2 games, Chelsea is currently ranked second in the Premier League, second only to Arsenal, which has 2 wins and 5 draw and remains unbeaten.

All media, including The Times, believe that Chelsea's current results are normal given their squad configuration.

But from Chelsea's playing style, Mourinho is not qualified.

The Times analyzed that not only the media and professionals were criticizing, but even Chelsea fans were dissatisfied with the team's conservatism. They believed that Chelsea, which was full of superstars, should play more proactively.

After reading several reports in the Times, Abramovich couldn't help but frown.

To be honest, he was not very sure whether Mourinho could succeed.

He was even a little worried, could Mourinho do better than Ranieri?
The Times listed the data.

In the first six rounds of last season, Ranieri's team scored 6 goals, which is 15 times that of Mourinho.

Of course, Ranieri's team also had 4 wins and 2 draws.

The Times described the match as: When iron barrels meet iron barrels…

Abramovich felt annoyed and turned to look out the window.

His restaurant faces east, and outside the window you can see the embassies of countries such as Portugal, Germany and Norway in the UK.

A few years ago, he spent a lot of money to buy an entire building here.

There are 5 floors above ground and 3 floors underground, all connected.

After going downstairs, less than 100 meters north is Knightsbridge and Hyde Park.

Less than 100 meters to the west is the world-famous Harrods department store.

But he wasn't in the mood at all now.

Flipping down the sports page of The Times, Abramovich noticed the coverage of the Championship League.

The Times used a very eye-catching headline when reporting the match between Bayswater Chinese and Queens Park Rangers.

The mysterious genius from the East!
This report first briefly introduced the report of the 9th round of the English Championship which just ended. Bayswater Chinese defeated Queens Park Rangers 4-1, which caused quite a stir in the UK.

But most of the coverage focused on Yang Cheng.

A "genius coach" who just turned 24 years old.

From last season's English League Two, to the summer transfer operations, to this season's English Championship, Yang Cheng's series of actions have been highly praised by the Times, which believes that he does not look like a rookie at all.

"He looks more like a top coach with a lot of coaching experience."

"Especially when he was commanding on the sidelines, he looked confident and calm, and he really had the demeanor of a famous coach."

After defeating Queens Park Rangers, Bayswater Chinese are currently ranked 4th in the Championship and have entered the promotion play-offs.

But the Times believes that Yang Cheng's team has demonstrated amazing technical and tactical levels in the Championship, especially their offensive football and smooth passing and cutting, which are extremely rare in English football.

"Even Wenger was full of praise for him."

"This newly promoted team is likely to become the dark horse for promotion to the Premier League this season!"

When Abramovich saw this, he glanced at the Championship standings and felt even worse.

Could it be that this kid can really bring the Chinese from Bayswater to the Premier League?
If this is true, can the land still be purchased?
Abramovich felt a sense of urgency, but also noticed the concerns in the Times report.

Yang Cheng is too radical.

The team's results were indeed good, but he was very aggressive in terms of management.

The club plans to buy land at Brent Reservoir and invest 2000 million pounds to build a world-class training base.

This project has received full support from the local government.

But this also left the Chinese in Bayswater with a heavy debt burden.

"By the time the training base is completed, Bayswater Chinese will be in debt of more than £3000 million, which is likely to bring down the financially weak club."

Abramovich read the Times article again, pondered it for a while, then picked up the BlackBerry on the table and made a call.

"Hey, Pini, it's me."

"You ask Kesh to go with you again to the Bayswater Chinese and raise our offer."

"Yes, twenty million pounds."

After a pause, Abramovich hesitated for a moment and couldn't help but add another sentence.

"You need to look at the specific situation first. If it still doesn't work, up to 3000 million pounds would be acceptable."

"Remember, I must have this piece of land!"

He must build this stadium!
……

Fans who have watched football for many years often easily discover an interesting phenomenon.

Except for those wealthy teams with strong benches, it is often difficult for mid- and lower-level teams in the top leagues to fight on two fronts.

Not to mention multi-threading.

This situation is even more obvious in lower-level leagues such as the Championship.

If we look at the Bayswater Chinese squad this season from the perspective of 2024, although there are only 21 players, many of them are very strong, and there is no problem in forming two lineups for rotation.

But in 2004, Yang Cheng had to face a difficult problem.

Youth and experience.

When he built this team, he consciously looked for young players.

This is in line with the current positioning of Bayswater Chinese. Young players are not only cheap, but also have development potential. After playing for a few years, they can be sold for a sum of money.

For example, didn’t Luke Chambers and others appreciate in value as a Chinese in Bayswater last season?
For the same price, you can buy old players whose fighting ability is not bad, but after playing for two or three years, you will find that they are not sellable.

And usually these older players have higher salaries.

The disadvantage of young players is that they are not strong enough and lack experience.

Yang Cheng’s strategy is to rotate when necessary.

For example, three days after the 9th round of the Championship, the second round of the League Cup began.

Bayswater Chinese host Reading.

This is the second time Yang Cheng has encountered Koper this season.

Unlike Koper who continued to field his main players, Yang Cheng made major rotations.

He didn't take the League Cup too seriously.

The only thing that concerned him was that more than 8 fans bought tickets for this game.

But what surprised him was that in this game, just 14 minutes later, Roger Johnson scored the first goal for Bayswater Chinese with a corner kick.

Gianni Vio scores again!

Reading fought back and tried to turn the situation around.

But in the 79th minute of the second half, the Chinese in Bayswater launched a quick counterattack. Lambert assisted Ashley Young to break Reading's goal again.

2 is better than 0!

Win!
……

This weekend, in the 10th round of the Championship, Bayswater Chinese will challenge Gillingham away.

Bayswater Chinese, with all their main players on the field, encountered tenacious sniping from Gillingham in the away game.

After failing to break through the defense for a long time, the Chinese in Bayswater made a defensive mistake in the 89th minute.

Las Diarra, who has performed well this season, tried to launch an attack when he intercepted the ball in his own half, but failed to pass the ball in time and launched a quick counterattack after the ball was intercepted.

0 is better than 1!

Bayswater Chinese lost this game away from home.

This is already the third loss for Bayswater Chinese this season.

Las Diarra's problem of sticking to the ball was also highlighted in the game, but Yang Cheng still praised Las Diarra by name in the locker room after the game and refused to criticize him for losing the ball.

"What I saw was not one mistake that led to the loss, but that he helped us get the ball back seven times throughout the game."

……

Three days later, in the 3th round of the Championship, Bayswater Chinese lost 11-0 to Nottingham Forest away from home.

After two consecutive defeats, Bayswater Chinese's ranking dropped to 8th place.

But Yang Cheng still firmly believes that there is no problem with the team.

In the 12th round of the English Championship at the weekend, the Chinese team in Bayswater finally got their revenge.

When Sheffield United visited Loftus Road, they tried to use defensive counterattacks to face Bayswater Chinese again.

Everyone has analyzed that in the past two rounds, the Chinese team in Bayswater had all the advantages, but was counterattacked in the second half, which led to the loss.

Sheffield United head coach Neil Warnock naturally wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to grab some points.

But he overlooked one thing.

Others can hold on because of their excellent defensive abilities.

More importantly, the Chinese at Bayswater have been fighting on two fronts, playing two games in a week, which has put a lot of pressure on the players and their form has been fluctuating.

But what about Sheffield United?
They were facing Bayswater Chinese, who had lost two games in a row and were forced into a situation with no way out.

Such a team will either explode or continue to sink.

Yang Cheng and his team chose the former.

Sheffield United only held on for 29 minutes before the goal was forced.

Kitson was in great form in this game, first scoring against Sheffield United in the 29th minute.

Four minutes later, Ribery scored again after Kitson passed the ball, 4-2!

In the 35th minute, Modric dribbled into the penalty area and was fouled, creating a penalty.

Kitson calmly scored the penalty and scored his second goal, helping Bayswater Chinese to secure the victory.

In just 6 minutes, 3 goals were scored.

This made the more than 9 fans at the scene go crazy with joy.

After the change of sides in the second half, Ribery scored another goal in the 60th minute, making it his second goal.

4 is better than 0!

After two consecutive defeats, Bayswater Chinese had a big outbreak and slaughtered Sheffield United at home.

After this round of games, Bayswater Chinese once again made it into the promotion play-off zone in the standings, with the same points as Stoke City, Queens Park Rangers and Millwall, all with 20 points, but ranked fifth with the advantage of goal difference.

Yang Cheng is quite satisfied with the current situation of the team.

After all, a lot of players were introduced this summer and the team's lineup has changed, so more time is needed to get used to each other.

More importantly, after coaching for so many years, Yang Cheng feels that the current Bayswater Chinese are still in a stage of accumulating strength and need to accumulate continuously.

He believes that the team will undergo a transformation.

……

After the 12th round of the Championship, two weeks of national team matches are coming up again.

The first thing Yang Cheng did was to give all the players a holiday so that they could have a good rest.

Since the club has had decent income recently, Yang Cheng also paid for them to return home to visit their families and take vacations.

This move indeed received a warm response from the players.

They are all a group of young people around 20 years old. The league is so intense and fierce. For them, there is nothing better than being able to take a breath and relax.

But the day after the team went on holiday, Lin Zhongqiu received a call from Cash Harris of the City of London.

That afternoon, Pini Zahavi and Cash Harris visited Bayswater Chinese again.

This time they are not playing tricks, their first move is a powerful one.

£3000!
Stop pretending, let’s show our cards!

I'll use the money to kill you!
"Our boss is determined to get this land!" said Pini Zahavi, who is rich and powerful.

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