novelhk Chapter 491
Chapter 491
The next day.
Carrington training base.
Around ten o'clock in the morning.
Ferguson walked into his office with a smile on his face.
Last night, Manchester United beat Barcelona 1:0 at Old Trafford and reached the final of the European Champions League for two consecutive years. David Gill was so happy that he organized a small celebration party for the team in a local restaurant in Manchester.
Ferguson was also very happy.
In the league, even in the fiercely competitive Premier League, there may be teams that can win the league championship for two or even three consecutive years.
But in the Champions League.
It is not easy for a team to reach the final for two consecutive years.
So at the celebration party last night, Ferguson also made an exception and drank a little champagne.
Today the entire Manchester United team is on holiday, but Ferguson did not give himself a holiday.
The 2007-2008 season is about to end. After playing yesterday's game, Manchester United only has the last four games left in this season.
The opponents in these four games are not weak teams, and the results of the games against them will determine whether the efforts of himself and the players for a whole season can really be fruitful.
The old Sir Alex, who was in a good mood, put down his things, picked up the cup and walked to the place where the coffee machine was placed. He was going to have a cup of coffee before starting a new day's work.
However, before the coffee was ground, someone knocked on the door of the office.
Is there anyone else working overtime today?
Looking up at the door strangely, Ferguson whispered: "Come in."
The next second.
The door of the office was pushed open, and David Gill hurried in.
It was obvious.
The expression on David Gill's face was a little unnatural, and the feeling he revealed was completely different from last night's dinner. He looked a little... flustered.
"What's wrong, David?" Ferguson noticed this keenly.
Gill waved the white paper in his hand towards Ferguson and spoke quickly: "Alex, have you read today's The Sun and The Yorkshire Post?"
Ferguson was stunned.
What the hell?
I'm busy as a dog every day, how can I have time to read gossip media like The Sun? As for The Yorkshire Post, it brags about Li Shiguang and Leeds United on the page every day. Isn't it annoying to read it?
So the old Sir shook his head and replied: "No, David, you know me well. When have you seen these two newspapers in my office!?"
Seeing Ferguson in a state of confusion.
David Gill was too lazy to keep his old partner in suspense.
He walked to the sofa and sat down, then slapped the paper in his hand on the coffee table and said in a bad tone: "Alex, we received an email in our mailbox half an hour ago, a quotation email!"
Ferguson saw Gill's panic just now, and thought something big had happened, which made the old Sir Alex himself a little nervous.
But now he heard that he had only received a quotation email, and he was relieved and joked with a smile: "No... David, it's not your first day as CEO. It's just a quotation email. Is it necessary to be so flustered?"
Seeing that Ferguson didn't care, David Gill turned around and looked at Ferguson who was still making coffee very seriously: "Alex, do you know who the quotation was made to?"
"Who?" Ferguson didn't even raise his head.
"The quotation was made to Cristiano."
Who?
Cristiano?
Hearing Ronaldo's name, Ferguson's smooth movements suddenly slowed down, and he looked up at David Gill in disbelief: "Did that old man Fiorentino regret it?"
"Not him." David Gill shook his head.
Ferguson's eyes were even more confused: "Who else could it be?"
"Leeds United, Li Shiguang!"
"This is impossible!" Ferguson's voice suddenly became louder, "David, Li should know that Cristiano will not agree to go to Leeds, he can't do such a useless work!"
"What is this?" David Gill picked up the paper on the coffee table and shook it in front of Ferguson, "Alex, I have printed out the quotation email, it's here. And do you know why I asked you if you have read The Sun and The Yorkshire Post? Because these two newspapers reported that Leeds United made an offer to us for Cristiano!"
"Fuck!"
After David Gill finished speaking, Ferguson couldn't help it anymore, and the swear words came out of his mouth, and the good mood that accompanied him when he got up in the morning was gone.
Then.
A terrible idea came to Ferguson's mind. The old Sir Alex looked at David Gill with a dark face and asked word by word: "Malcolm knows? "
"Ah..." David Gill sighed heavily, "That's why I was so anxious to come to you, Alex. Less than ten minutes after I received the email, I received a call from Malcolm, asking if there was any progress in the contract renewal between us and Cristiano. ”
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Malcolm Glazer, American businessman, Jewish.
He has many identities.
One of them is the owner of Manchester United, the real boss.
Of course.
Manchester United fans prefer to call this Manchester United owner a "vampire".
Because since the complete acquisition of Manchester United in 2005 and delisting, the Glazer family led by Malcolm Glazer immediately made Manchester United bear more than 500 million pounds of debt, making this legendary club the first time since 1931.
Although many fans are against the Glazer family.
In fact, from Ferguson's perspective, the Glazer family is okay. After all, when Ferguson needs money to buy players, the Glazer family can always support him.
But Ferguson knows better than anyone.
Malcolm is a businessman. He bought Manchester United not for charity, but to make money.
Support yourself to buy players.
It is also for Manchester United to achieve better results and make more money.
Since as a businessman.
In some decisions, Malcolm It will also make Ferguson feel bad.
For example, when Ferguson conveyed the new salary conditions proposed by Mendes about Cristiano Ronaldo to Malcolm, the Manchester United boss rejected it immediately.
And Malcolm's attitude was quite firm.
He only agreed to give Ronaldo a 10% salary increase and asked for a five-year contract extension.
This is very different from Mendes' proposal to give Ronaldo a 50% salary increase and a three-year contract extension.
So after learning that Real Madrid gave up on introducing Ronaldo and Mendes was reluctant to lower the price, With the relenting, Manchester United put Ronaldo's contract renewal negotiations on hold for the time being.
Ferguson and David Gill originally planned to slowly negotiate with Mendes after the season ended.
But now, Li Shiguang has inexplicably emerged.
Although Ferguson subconsciously felt that Ronaldo would not agree to go to Leeds United, his contract only had one year left. If Li Shiguang's offer was sincere enough, Malcolm would not refuse the money in front of him, but wait for Ronaldo's contract to expire and leave the team as a free agent!