It's cheating, but Hazard

Chapter 257 Abu: It’s time to show my money ability

As the World Cup schedule progresses, Abramovich becomes more and more excited.

He wanted to check the news about any transfer rumors about Charles three times an hour.

Although most of these are nonsense, they look very funny.

For example, after South Korea entered the knockout stage, the Korean media spread the news: "Charles was homesick and transferred to FC Seoul."

What else: "Zidane showed up at the French team's training base, opposed the new star joining Inter Milan, and persuaded Charles to join Juventus."

There is also: "Cruyff went to South Africa overnight, not for the Dutch team, but just to persuade Charles to stay in Barcelona."

But apart from these somewhat ridiculous transfer news, especially the one from the Korean media, there are still some things that make him feel frightened from time to time.

It's like: "Ken Fia changed his plans, stayed temporarily in Barcelona, ​​and finally reached an agreement with Rosell."

And: "Beckenbauer responds to fans' demands to join competition with Arsenal."

And what seems outrageous but is very possible: "Raymond Kopa and Florentino, two of the ancient big three who played for Real Madrid, went to South Africa in person to persuade Charles to put aside his prejudice and join Real Madrid, and he will also inherit Raul's No. 7 jersey."

An irritated Abramovich sat at the table, browsing the transfer news.

His finger slid quickly down the mouse wheel, but after browsing three pages, he found nothing that interested him.

With a sigh, Abu went straight back to the top and started refreshing.

However, what he didn't expect was that as soon as he refreshed the page, he saw a very short transfer news that was published 5 seconds ago.

“Breaking News:”

"Arsenal and Charlton have reached an agreement..."

Abu almost couldn't breathe, his hands trembling, and he clicked it in with a "click".

"...Charles agreed with Arsenal not to make any more offers for him."

"Shit!" Abu cursed and stood up suddenly, "I'm going to find Charles now!"

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"Okay, I got it," Ciel sighed and hung up the phone.

Wenger just called him.

Because of Rosell's flip-flopping, Arsenal is now unable to pay his transfer fee.

Unexpectedly, his agent came in from outside as soon as he hung up the phone.

"Char, Abu is outside right now. He just came here by plane and wants to see you."

"I'll come now," Charles was a little surprised. He didn't expect that he had just received a call from Wenger, and the next second Abramovich had already arrived in South Africa.

In the meeting room, Abu stomped back and forth.

"I heard that your affair with Arsenal was blown up? Is that true?"

"No, no, that's too much of a gloat."

"Chelsea will be your best choice. As long as you join, we will give you everything you didn't get at Barcelona."

"Ouch! This hurts so much, no, no..."

The secretary who couldn't bear to watch on the other side interrupted quietly, "Boss, I've read a book that says when you want to invite someone, don't use a questioning tone, but use affirmative expressions. This way the success rate will be higher."

"Is that so?" Abu touched his chin, "For example?"

The secretary stepped forward and whispered, "For example, if you want to invite your girlfriend out on a date, you can say, 'Let's go on a date tomorrow,' instead of 'How about going out together tomorrow?'"

"That makes sense," Abu had just finished speaking when there was a knock on the door of the conference room.

"It's me, Ciel."

"Come in, come in!" The overjoyed Abu immediately smiled the moment Charles pushed the door open.

"Not long ago, Carlo told me that he has his eyes on a prodigy from Santos."

"I asked him how great he was and he told me he could be your substitute."

"He's only 18 now, but he's scored 27 goals in the league and Carlo said he's ready to bring him to Stamford Bridge for £2000m."

"Then there are Pato and Thiago Silva, 8000 million euros can package them all;"

"How about Real Madrid's second captain Ramos? Maybe 4000 million euros will make Real Madrid release him."

"If you are not used to it, which Barcelona player do you like, Busquets, Xavi or Iniesta? As long as you want, I will find a way to bring them all here."

As he said that, Abu pushed the list to Charles and said, "Don't worry about the money, as long as you are happy."

Charles took the list and took a look at it, and was almost blinded by Abu's arrogance.

"Ahem, let's leave the transfer matter to the head coach and sports director. I don't have any requirements for my teammates."

"Also, didn't Pele personally persuade Neymar to stay in Santos?"

“Ah, that happened before,” Abu said with a smile.

"We actually started preparing to offer him before the Champions League semi-final last season, and Pele said at the time that he should stay in Brazil and develop well instead of rushing to enter European football."

"But after the Champions League semi-final, Pele changed his tune."

"Originally he thought that although Neymar joining Chelsea would give him more opportunities to participate in high-level competitions, he could not guarantee enough playing time, which was not conducive to his development."

"If he stays in Santos, Neymar will be the main force of the team and can improve himself through continuous competition."

"But now Pele said that being your teammate would be very helpful for Neymar's improvement. Sometimes you just need to reach a higher level."

Charles didn't know what to say for a moment.

After the Champions League ended, he has been preparing for and participating in the World Cup, and indeed has not paid much attention to the story of Santos and Neymar.

Of course he has watched Neymar's game videos.

Extraordinarily gifted and very spiritual.

There are also Pato and Thiago Silva mentioned by Abramovich, they are all players that are targeted at buying from AC Milan.

But it is also true that Chelsea's current head coach Ancelotti was previously the head coach of AC Milan, so it is very normal for him to have a good impression of both of them.

Just like 10 years later, Fujisheng has feelings for Ajax's Fuji Armor Army, this is very normal.

The only difference is that Fujisei has difficulty controlling his emotions, while Ancelotti is more rational.

Looking at Abu's eyes, Charles had to find some topics to talk about.

Not to mention the coach.

He was afraid that Abramovich would really recruit players from all over the world, and finally Chelsea gathered Ancelotti, Guardiola and Wenger.

In fact, apart from anything else, these three should be compatible.

Ancelotti looked at the food and was friendly;
Wenger and Guardiola have similar football philosophies, beautiful football and passing and controlling the ball. Apart from the big difference in defensive concepts, they have many other similarities.

"Let's talk about Chelsea's cafeteria."

Ciel said with a smile.

Abu clapped his hands and the secretary immediately handed him the information.

"Don't worry. Although British food is hard to describe, we at Chelsea serve French, Russian and Italian food. And we can guarantee that our kitchen will be cleaner than Barcelona and Manchester United's canteens."

After saying that, Abu looked at him with a smile on his face. Charles looked into his eyes and didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Ah, that's good."

"So, Charles, do you have any other requests? For example, about tactics or jersey numbers?"

"You don't need to change your number, just use number 7, there are no other requirements."

Charles said.

After chatting for a while, seeing that it was getting late, Abramovich stood up and said, "Okay, then I'll go to Barcelona to discuss the transfer contract."

Charles and his agent stood up immediately, "Roselle is not an easy chairman to get along with. Have a safe trip."

"It's okay. Any chairman will become friendly in front of me."

Abu said with a smile.

Just as Abramovich was flying to Spain, Wenger walked into the study with a book.

Turning on the desk lamp and computer, Wenger put on his glasses and began to turn the book to the place where he had previously placed a bookmark.

Under the light, "The Complete Guide to Self-Studying PS: Teaching You Step by Step from Beginner to Mastery" glowed white.

Soon, the computer started up. Wenger held the mouse in one hand, opened PS, and held the book "Self-study PS Encyclopedia: Hand-in-hand Teaching You from Beginner to Mastery" in the other hand.

"First, create a new Photoshop file and drag the image you want to process into it, then press the 'alt key' on the keyboard and scroll the mouse wheel to zoom in on the clothing, as shown in the picture..."

Wenger reduced the size of the PS interface, and then dragged the prepared promotional photo of Charles officially announcing his joining Barcelona into it.

"Next, we click on the 'Quick Selection Tool' in the left toolbar to select the clothes of the person in the picture. Remember, when selecting, hold down the 'alt key' to reduce the area, and hold down the 'shift key' to add the area."

Wenger pushed up his glasses, leaned close to the computer screen, and began to skillfully outline the outline of Charles' jersey.

Half an hour later, after drawing several times, Wenger finally came up with the result that he was most satisfied with.

"After making your selection, right-click and select the 'Layer via Copy' option. You can see a new clothing layer appear in the layer bar on the left, as shown in the picture."

"At this time, we drag the picture of the clothing style we need to change into the software, and use the "ctrl+T" key to adjust its size so that it completely covers the area of ​​the clothing just now, as shown in the picture."

"Next, select the style layer in the layer bar on the right, right-click, and select the 'Create Clipping Mask' option. You can see that the style of the character's clothes has changed."

Wenger quickly dragged in the picture of this season's Arsenal jersey from the desktop.

But this time, it looked awkward no matter how you looked at it.

There is no longer the same sense of satisfaction as when I first learned it.

Reading further, I found that there were indeed other explanations in the book.

"The style looks a little unnatural because the new style doesn't reflect the wrinkles that the clothes should have. So we need to select the style layer and click the 'Color Dodge' option to adjust the opacity of the layer to make it look more wrinkled overall."

Wenger followed the instructions in the book again.

But it still doesn't work.

Finally, he sighed helplessly.

Changing jerseys is impossible after all.

Then we can only use the old method.

Thinking of this, Wenger turned the book to the most familiar page.

"First, open the base image of the head photo that needs to be replaced in Photoshop."

Wenger deleted the promotional photo of Van Persie from the season before last, and dragged in one from last season.

"As shown in the picture, in the second step, select the 'Magnetic Lasso Tool' in the left toolbar and select the character's head."

Wenger then selected Charles' head.

“Press Ctrl+J to duplicate the head layer, set the background layer to invisible, select the “Move Tool”, and move the copied head to another picture.”

“Press Ctrl+T to adjust the size and position of the character portrait.”

“Select the character’s head layer, right-click and select ‘Merge Visible Layers’, select the ‘Spot Healing Brush Tool’ in the toolbar on the left, and paint where the two layers meet to make the connection between the two layers more natural.”

Seeing this, Wenger closed the book directly.

Now he has mastered it completely.

The next step was to adjust the color difference between the photos of Van Persie and Charles.

After another half an hour, Wenger looked at the new official photo of Charr with satisfaction and finally printed it out.

The photos just printed are still warm.

Wenger found the double-sided tape on the table and carefully stuck the latest photos on the wall.

And right next to this photo, there are two similar photos.

The bottom of the middle one has the words "2100 million euros" written on it.

As for the first one?
It says "4 hours" on the bottom.

After posting the photos, Wenger returned to the table, picked up a pen and wrote under the latest photo: "9000 million euros."

Wenger had just put down his pen when his cell phone rang.

"Mr. Abramovich?"

Abu on the other end of the phone smiled and walked off the plane, "Just call me Roman."

Wenger sat down in his seat puzzled, "What do you want?"

He is not that familiar with Chelsea's boss yet.

Abramovich didn't beat around the bush. "Here's the thing, Arsene, are you interested in becoming Chelsea's head coach?"

Wenger was almost choked. "Ahem, isn't Carlo Ancelotti the current coach of Chelsea? Isn't he doing a good job? Why did you call me suddenly?"

"I'm not as stingy as Kroenke. If you want, you can also drive a galactico in Chelsea. Yes, Carlo is good, but this has nothing to do with you coming to Chelsea."

Abu said.

"So you're going to fire Carlo?"

"No, no, no, you misunderstood. You can become the head coach of Chelsea with him, but you cannot register as the head coach when you register. You can only register as a tactical analysis coach, assistant coach, etc."

"In fact, this is not a big problem. Just like Ferguson, he is not the head coach of Manchester United in name, but everyone knows that he is the real boss of Manchester United."

The certificates Ferguson possessed did not support him becoming a Premier League head coach, and officials also wanted him to take an exam, after all, he would definitely pass it.

But he was not interested in this, so in order to avoid such problems, Manchester United's head coach registered as an assistant coach with a top coaching certificate, and Ferguson registered as an assistant coach.

But everyone knows that the nominal head coach is the assistant coach, and the nominal assistant coach is the real head coach and the person in charge of Manchester United.

Wenger said nothing.

Because Abu's behavior really shocked him.

"Also," Abramovich said excitedly, "Charles is about to join Chelsea. I think you are special in his heart. Maybe you will have a lot in common. Just imagine, beautiful Chelsea-style football with Charles..."

I wonder if you want to see Neymar transfer to Chelsea?

I forgot where I saw the Ferguson coaching certificate, but it should be accurate. If there are any mistakes, please point them out in time.

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(End of this chapter)