It's cheating, but Hazard

Chapter 154 Chapter 152 The truth is also a lie (daily transition)
"No, no ...

Enrique ran to Florentino's presidential office in a panic.

"What happened in a panic?"

Florentino frowned, slowly poured himself a glass of water, and leisurely looked at the report on the table.

Enrique forced himself to calm down and handed over the report he had just received.

"Charles suffered a mild concussion in the Champions League and is now resting in the hospital in Kazan," Enrique breathed. "The problem now is that our team doctor is likely to be exposed."

Florentino suddenly put down the glass of water in his hand.

"There is another question, Mr. President, Platini's proposal for 'Financial Fair Play' was passed at the UEFA's internal meeting."

The core content of this proposal is that the club's transfer expenditure must not be greater than its fiscal revenue. If this rule is violated, the club will be disqualified from European competitions.

"Platini also openly criticised us in an interview with Gazzetta dello Sport."

Florentino raised an eyebrow, "What did he say?"

"He said 'I want to help the club, not kill them, I think €9300m is too much for one player.'"

Enrique said somewhat negatively.

Although he told Real Madrid's public relations director Butragueno at the Champions League group stage draw ceremony that he had no ill will towards Real Madrid and would not make public criticisms.

But this is the third time he has questioned Real Madrid's transfer operations. No matter from which perspective, Enrique feels that this is criticizing them.

The first occurred in early July.

In an interview with L'Equipe, Platini said that Real Madrid completed the acquisition with the support of the bank, which he could not understand at all and called it a scandal.

"But the club has money, what can I do?"

The second time was in an interview with Italian weekly L'Espresso in mid-July: "If Ronaldo is worth 7 million euros, then I was worth 9200 million when I was 23 years old."

Florentino fell into deep thought. This rumor had been circulating for a long time, but he didn't expect Platini to be serious.

Now, let alone earning 9300 million euros a year, how many clubs can make a profit?

Once this regulation is implemented, the club can only take out euros from its fiscal revenue to invest in the transfer market, which greatly limits Real Madrid's ability to buy players.

“When will this regulation be implemented?”

The Real Madrid president, who could no longer sit idle, stood up and motioned Enrique to sit on the sofa in the reception room.

"Platini said that this regulation will be implemented from 2012. That is to say, if we want to bring Charles to Real Madrid, we must complete it before 2012. Otherwise, if our income cannot be further increased, introducing Charles will be an unattainable dream."

Florentino nodded and motioned for Enrique to continue.

"At the same time, the most important thing now is the problem that our team doctor is about to expose. Because before the game, according to his description, he had prepared a burger for Charles, and this burger was taken from the hands of Barcelona's chef."

"Now that Guardiola has begun to doubt the hamburger problem, the rumors that Charles' secret to staying healthy in the national team is eating hamburgers will be disproven."

"So the key point now is to successfully retain our team doctor and let him continue to lurk in Barcelona;"

"The second point is to make the Barcelona people continue to believe that it is a problem of Hamburg's R&D being inadequate, and to use this to distract their attention so that our team doctor can fish in troubled waters."

"At the same time, we have to speed up our progress and find a way to get Charles to leave Barcelona as soon as possible, so that before 2012, Charles can transfer to other teams for a period of time and finally join us."

"The longer we delay, the more operations we will have to perform. Although we can do it, the risk of exposure is too high."

Just like the Serie A false accounting incident a few seasons ago, clubs such as Inter Milan increased their book profits by raising prices and exchanging players.

Everyone knows that clubs like Inter Milan are taking advantage of legal loopholes, but after repeated investigations, nothing can be found.

They can find a hundred ways to pass UEFA's financial fair play policy by playing tricks, but if they can use other more "bright" methods, it is best not to use unreasonable ones.

Florentino fell into deep thought.

"Save the team doctor... Save the team doctor... Like this," Florentino waved his hand to signal Enrique to lean closer, "Write three anonymous articles and submit them to the Daily Catalan, Mundo Deportivo, and Diario de Sport."

Enrique was a little confused, "Mr. Chairman, what to write?"

"Think about how long Ciel lasted on the field?"

The Real Madrid president patiently advised.

"Uh, 26 minutes?"

"No, it's 26.8 minutes," Florentino shook his finger. "It doesn't matter how long he lasted. What matters is how long people think he lasted. As long as it's more than 25 minutes, isn't that a great improvement?"

"In space travel, there was 'one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'. Now there is 'one minute for Charles, one month for Barcelona'."

"You wrote three anonymous articles like this. The first one mainly praised the efforts of Barcelona's logistics staff. With their unremitting efforts, Charles spent more and more time on the field, which made our team doctor stand out."

"The second post imitated the tone of Barcelona fans, angrily scolding Rubin Kazan players, saying that they were destroying the hope of football, diverting attention and hiding our team doctor."

"The third article is written from the perspective of Rosell's fans, saying that the abominable Laporta still refuses to fire Barcelona's original chefs, causing them to seriously hinder the new chefs and completely muddy the waters. Laporta will definitely attack Rosell crazily in order to gain his presidency of Barcelona."

"We can even hope that Laporta will really do what we said and hire more chefs and put all our team doctors in."

Florentino said with satisfaction.

He is really smart.

"But, Mr. Chairman, we won't have enough team doctors..."

Enrique said cautiously.

It is not advisable for team doctors who have been interviewed to stay on the sidelines of the game as they can be easily discovered.

"Use your brain. We still have the basketball team, the B team, and Castile... There are plenty of team doctors. What are you afraid of?"

Just like Barcelona also has a basketball team, a handball team, a hockey team and an indoor five-a-side football team, and these are all strong teams in their respective fields, and they are always in a "tit-for-tat" confrontation with Real Madrid.

"But will they really believe it?"

Florentino calmly looked at the report brought by Enrique. "It doesn't matter what the truth is. What matters is what people are willing to believe. Many times, even if things are like this, there are still many people who would rather immerse themselves in their own world."

Enrique couldn't help but nod. Sure enough, there was a reason why he was just a secretary.

"The president is wise! I will write an article right now and try to replace all Barcelona chefs with our team doctors!"

……

Soon, Enrique completed the three articles required by Florentino.

This kind of simple writing work that stirs people's hearts and takes different positions and angles is a piece of cake for a top student like him - "Hey, have you written what I want?"

The intern trotted over while pushing up his glasses. “It’s already been written.”

Money makes the world go round. Especially when it comes to interns, the mill turns on its own without any need for pushing.

Soon, Enrique's carefully polished article made it to the front pages of three newspapers.

This kind of explosive, hot-topic and high-quality articles are very popular in newspapers regardless of whether they are right or wrong.

"El Diario de Catalunya: A small step for Ciardiola, a big step for Barcelona."

"Charles's road to success has always been full of ups and downs. Although fate often does not favor this Frenchman, Charles always seizes the opportunity to strike back when fate loosens its grip on Charles' throat."

"After joining Barcelona, ​​it was no longer just Charles who stood up against this hand, but also a group of people from Barcelona."

"Ruth and Charlie were the first and second names."

"In the face of Charles' situation, Guardiola designated the club to hire Ruth and Charlie to help Charles recover."

"The two made the most important decision for Charles' future career: to reduce the use of drugs and switch to scientific physical training and a reasonable diet to help Charles avoid injuries and speed up recovery after injuries."

"Sure enough, some medical experts have expressed similar views in our interviews: some drugs contain ingredients that make muscles more fragile, and long-term use is enough to turn an athlete into a 'glass man'."

“They are more suggesting that when appropriate or when appropriate, you should make your body healthier through diet.”

"The second key word for Barcelona to help Char is the 'personal fitness training plan'. This is a training program participated by Josep Borrell, the chief physician of the Barcelona Medical Department, Pruna, the senior team doctor of Barcelona, ​​Charlie, a special expert, and several club coaches, fitness trainers and physiotherapists."

“It is this excellent program that allows Charles to always perform at his best the next time he returns.”

"The third key word is Barcelona's appointment of masseur Juanyo. Whether it is Xiaer's post-match recovery, treatment after a serious injury, or intensive training on various instruments, he will provide the best help."

"Sometimes when Charles was playing for the national team, in addition to Domenegue on the bench and Charlie with Charles, you could often hear him anxiously shouting 'be careful, be careful, be careful' on the sidelines."

"You could even say that he cares more about Charles' health than Domenegue does."

"The fourth keyword is 'nutrition expert'. Barcelona is also constantly improving and developing their response and assistance level. A month ago, they recruited talents and finally two candidates stood out from the crowd."

"Sure enough, in the 2009-10 season, Charles' playing time also began to explode, from less than 25 minutes to about 30 minutes, which is very gratifying!"

"With the help of Barcelona's logistics, Charles has indeed become 'more powerful, stronger and more durable'."

"Mundo Deportivo: Rubin Kazan coach said that Charles is not a human being, Simak's behavior is understandable, and Barcelona won the game by luck."

"Barcelona beat Rubin Kazan 3-1. If Barcelona's players hadn't been too worried about Charles' injury at the end, they could have even kept a clean sheet against their opponents."

"It should have been a perfect game, a visual feast presented by Charles for all fans, but in the end, Simac ruined the treasure of football time."

"Ruby's head coach defended Simac after the game, saying: 'I believe Simac regrets it now. He did it because he was too anxious and didn't have time to react. Simac is our core player. He has always been excellent, but he didn't control himself this time.'"

"'As soon as the game was over, Xima told me very sadly that he was going to buy a fruit basket and visit Charles.'"

"'Besides, in such a tense game, it is understandable that Simak lost his composure.'"

"'Simac did accidentally hit someone, but he hit the air more than the person,' Rubin Kazan coach reiterated, 'Simac didn't do it on purpose, and Charles himself is also very vulnerable to injury, who knows how much this has to do with us.'"

"For the final defeat, the Rubis coach believed that Barcelona was the lucky side: 'Football games are like this, sometimes we are lucky, sometimes we are unlucky. Today, we were unlucky, but we scored a goal in the last minute.'"

"Daily Sports: Laporta's mistakes are keeping Barcelona away from victory. Perhaps Rosell is the wisest choice."

"Compared to focusing more on non-competitive matters and ignoring many things that should be paid attention to, such as Barcelona's chef, Rosell, who has initially made his policy agenda public, seems to be a better candidate to lead Barcelona to glory."

"For a long time, inside the Barcelona dressing room, as early as last season, before Charles joined Barcelona, ​​the view that the first-team squad was short was collectively agreed: Barcelona has a group of high-level players, but the number is too small."

"Charles, Messi, Xavi and Iniesta are very good, but they need rest and they need substitutes."

"It is this obvious fact that has led to the club's changing attitude towards transfers - after exchanging Eto'o for Ibrahimovic, they first said that the club had completed its recruitment task, then quickly spent 2500 million to sign Zielinski, and then reiterated that there was no need to consider the winter market."

"But when the news came out that Rosell was likely to bring Fabregas and Robinho with him when he was elected, Laporta once again stated through the media several times that the team would make additional investments in the winter market..."

"Laporta has been blindly driving this ship called Barcelona. He is always unwilling to patch it when he finds a problem. He has to wait until someone threatens his safety and position before he does something lazily."

"Charles' health requires a lot of investment, but Laporta has always been very stingy. If there is no request from Guardiola and Cruyff, Barcelona will not introduce two new chefs again."

"And now, we are even wondering if the former Barcelona chef is holding the players back? We understand that Real Madrid..."

"It's not just Charles. Laporta's chameleon nature has made other players suddenly feel like they have become the target of public criticism. You know, every call for winter signings means that the club is dissatisfied with the performance of the existing players."

"For a while, even Guardiola had a hard time."

"Although last season's great achievements will not make anyone doubt him, for Guardiola, who is extremely demanding of himself, this is both motivation and resistance."

"Once it feels like it can't be done better, no one knows what choice Guardiola, Cruyff's successor and perfectionist, will make."

"After all, the signature column of the Barcelona coach's contract extension is still blank."

"If Laporta can see this article, maybe what he should do now is to do something."

"After all, his only advantage now is that he is still willing to 'patch'."

Charles is recuperating in a hospital in Kazan.

All Barcelona teammates and coaches have been here, but because Barcelona has a game coming up and Charles is not fit to fly now, he can only stay here temporarily.

Well, in addition to Charlie and his assistant, Barcelona also thoughtfully left three chefs with him.

The next morning, Charles just woke up and opened the dark green curtains to look outside.

It's snowing again in Kazan.

"Charles, here are the latest newspapers." Charlie took three or four newspapers from the table. "I just bought them from someone at the airport. It's really hard to find Spanish newspapers here."

After thanking him, Charles was about to take the newspaper, but Charlie took his hand back and said, "I almost forgot. You may not be able to see the words on the newspaper clearly now. Let me read it to you."

"...fruit basket."

After hearing about Simak's guilty conscience about sending him a fruit basket, Charles almost moved to Bengbu.

"So where's the fruit basket?"

Ciel turned around and asked.

Charlie touched his ear and said, "He put the fruit basket on a wheelchair and pushed it over. When Pep saw it, he was furious and almost had a cerebral hemorrhage. He asked Puyol to kick him out."

"You were only hit on the head, so Pep thought he was cursing you for having a leg injury as well."

Ciel sighed.

The fruit basket is also good, after all, it is not easy to eat fresh fruits in this season*.

Heavy snow fell in Kazan for three days in a row, and Charles was finally able to leave the hospital by plane.

Foreign "vegetable baskets" are not as good as ours. For many years, our vegetable and fruit production has been ranked first in the world.

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