The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 253 Lost Contact
After the crucial battle between Chelsea and Manchester United, the whole of England and even Europe began to talk about the collapse of Manchester United. Among them, Ye Qiu's comments on Manchester United were widely spread and affirmed by countless professionals. Ye Qiu's views on Manchester United hit the nail on the head, and Ferguson couldn't argue with it.

But sometimes it is like this, you know the opponent's weaknesses and flaws, but this does not mean that you can beat the opponent.

There is a saying that is true, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, no matter how bad Manchester United is, its absolute strength is still one of the best in the Premier League, not a powerful character that any relegation team can kill.

Ye Qiu also sees this very clearly, so having said that, he believes that sooner or later the results will come out, so he doesn't care about what will happen to Manchester United. This is completely useless for Chelsea, because only by playing well Your own game is serious.

If you haven't played your own game well, even if someone else made a mistake, what advantage can you get?
In the middle of the week, Chelsea ushered in their opponents in the round of 16 knockout rounds of the League Cup and challenged Reading away.

Although it is an away game, it is not far from London, but Ye Qiu has already arranged a substitute and a young player lineup to play. Van Persie's goal helped Chelsea beat Reading 1-0 in the away game, and successfully advanced to the next round. The opponent is West Brom. Romwich.

Back in the Premier League, Chelsea challenged Leeds United away.

Just experienced a peak battle with Manchester United, the team has been affected. As a result, Manchester United beat Aston Villa 4-0 in this round, but Chelsea drew Leeds United 1-1 away, and it was Pennant Helping Leeds United score first, Ronaldinho finally equalized the score.

Fortunately, Arsenal also tied this game, so Chelsea's lead is still 6 points.

Ye Qiu was also very dissatisfied with this. After returning to London, he held a special internal meeting for the first team, and severely beat this group of players who thought that after defeating Manchester United, they could easily beat other teams. Just use the fact that they suffered a draw with Leeds United in the away game to tell them that there are no weak teams in the Premier League.

On December 12th, Chelsea played against Turkey as a substitute. The goals of Van Persie and Sun Jihai finally helped the team beat Besiktas 9-2 in an away game, and finally qualified as the top of the group.

In this way, all the matches in the 8 groups of the Champions League are over, and Chelsea and Sparta Prague qualify as the top two in the group.

Among all the groups, Ye Qiu also paid attention to another team, his old club Ajax.

After all, Van Basten is still a little tender. Although Ajax let go of many outstanding stars including Maicon, Van der Sar and Ibrahimovic this season, Ajax's Dutch team Still, Mascherano, Yaya Toure, van der Vaart, Robben and Sneijder are still in the team.

But Ajax was eliminated in the competition with teams such as AC Milan, La Liga Celta and Belgium Brugge, and fell to fourth in the group. It has not even qualified for the UEFA Cup. This has to be said It is a very regrettable thing.

Ye Qiu didn't care about who won the first place in the group, what he cared about was the second place in the group.

I don’t know if I don’t see it, I was shocked when I saw it, Bayern Munich and Deportivo are in the second place in the group, but Lyon and Monaco, the two Ligue [-] teams, beat the Bundesliga and La Liga to get the first place in the group. I have to say that the giants in Europe seem to be in trouble this year.

But even so, no one wants to meet such a powerful opponent, and Heathfield is also very skilled in the knockout rounds.

The draw ceremony was held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. Ye Qiu did not participate because he was busy with the league. Peter Kenyon, who had just taken up his duties at Chelsea, went to Switzerland. As soon as the bald man came out, he immediately brought good luck. Chelsea drew In the same group as Manchester United, but ranked second in the Bundesliga Stuttgart.

Manchester United encountered Porto, Real Madrid was unlucky, encountered Bayern Munich, and Arsenal encountered Celta.

After learning the result of the lottery, a reporter from England interviewed Ye Qiu immediately. The latter gave Stuttgart a very high evaluation and believed that the strength of this team is very good. Munich, it can be seen that the strength of this team is extraordinary, and they are very good at playing at home!"

Ferguson's Manchester United suffered a big loss from Stuttgart in the away game. This team plays offensive football in the Bundesliga, but they also made the same mistake as Ye Qiu when he coached Ajax to participate in the Champions League for the first time. They were too persistent. In terms of offense, this is difficult to take advantage of in the Champions League.

Ye Qiu wasn't worried about meeting an opponent like Stuttgart. On the contrary, he felt that the lottery was drawn well. If he was unlucky enough to draw Bayern Munich, he would definitely cry miserably.

The good luck of the UEFA Champions League draw did not extend to the team. In the 16th round of the Premier League, Chelsea welcomed Bolton at home. As a result, the Blues seemed to have exhausted all their energy in the game against Manchester United, ushered in two consecutive draws, and another It was 1:1, and opponents Arsenal and Manchester United defeated their opponents successively, and the lead was reduced to 4 points.

Ye Qiu has his own views on his team's sluggish performance in the last two rounds. He believes that this is the price the team must pay to adjust their physical fitness, and the adjustment of physical fitness is to better cope with the winter break schedule, but he I believe that this will definitely not affect the team's stable performance on the way to the Premier League championship.

"We still have a four-point lead now, don't we?"

In the middle of the week ushered in the quarter-finals of the League Cup. Chelsea challenged West Bromwich Albion away. Goals from Cesc Fabregas and Ribery helped Chelsea pass the quarter-finals and reach the semi-finals. The opponent is the Premier League. Dellsburg.

This also makes Chelsea's bench thickness and youth team rookies affirmed by everyone. Players such as Van Persie, Franck Ribery, Fabregas, Messi, Robert Huth, etc. have performed well in the League Cup, and they are all now Became a member of the team's bench lineup and played his own role.

Almost everyone believes that over time, Chelsea's rookies will become the backbone of the team.

In the 17th round of the Premier League, Chelsea ushered in Fulham.

This is a derby match between London teams. The home courts of the two teams are not far apart. With the rise of Chelsea this season, Fulham, as a neighbor, is very unwilling. The young coach who helped Ye Qiu attack Arsenal before Chris Coleman did everything possible to attack Chelsea in this game.

I have to admit that when Fulham played a tenacious counterattack, it was difficult for Chelsea to make a difference, but in the end, Drogba's goal in the 71st minute helped Chelsea beat the opponent 1-0 in the away game .

Feng Shui took turns, this time Arsenal tied Bolton 1:1 in the away game, the latter is now in the limelight, and has directly become a sniper for the Premier League title contenders, and they only play against these strong teams. Wenger is very helpless about this, Seeing that his league points were stretched to 6 points by Chelsea again, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

After finishing this round, the Premier League ushered in a short one-week Christmas holiday.

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What about Christmas and winter break?
This is obviously an annoyance for players in La Liga, Serie A and Bundesliga, but they are headaches about where to go on vacation.

But for the Premier League teams, this is not a problem at all, because they finished the 20th round of the Premier League on the 17th, and ushered in the 26th round of the Premier League on the evening of the 18th, and the most intensive winter break will follow For the race schedule, they didn't even think about vacationing in that way.

But almost all Premier League teams will make arrangements for Christmas and winter break, because this is a good opportunity for the club to communicate with the players and take advantage of the festival to show their image to the outside world.

Chelsea did not let go of such an opportunity, so after the 17th round of the league, the team went to the most famous St. Mary's Hospital in London to visit the hospitalized children, and presented a small Christmas gift from the club, hoping that they Able to recover and leave the hospital as soon as possible.

And considering that the players have to spend Christmas with their families, and the team's training will continue from the 21st to the 24th, Ye Qiu negotiated with the club and decided to hold a routine on the afternoon of the 24th. Line dinner activities.

This kind of dinner party will be held once a month in Chelsea. Ye Qiu has seen the effect of this kind of dinner party during his previous coaching period at Ajax, so after he came to Chelsea, he still promotes this kind of player dinner party once a month. , the location is not necessarily, random arrangement, it can be in hotels and restaurants, or at the player's home.

Because Ronaldinho has always hoped to invite players and coaching staff to his home as guests, it was finally agreed that this Christmas Eve dinner before Christmas will be held in Ronaldinho's Cobham villa.

This villa is not far from Chelsea's new training base, so the team finished training that morning, changed their clothes and took a shower, and after lunch, everyone boarded the team's bus. Cobham training ground.

In order to put it into use faster, Chelsea listened to Ye Qiu's suggestion and divided the entire project into two phases. The first phase is mainly the team's training building and football field. The goal of this phase is to strive for the next season. Completed before the start, which means that next season the team will start daily training at the Cobham training ground.

Ye Qiu has to admit that it is really easy to do things in this world with money, even in London, England.

Abramovich is not short of money, and his requirement is fast, so in just over three months, the first team training building at the Cobham Training Base has been capped, and the surrounding walls have also been completed. It's just the decoration and the purchase of equipment. I believe it will be completed within half a year, so there will be no big problem.

The entrance of the gate is divided into two roads. Go straight to the training ground of the first team, and go south to the training ground of the youth training camp. The acres are very large, and one-third of them are used by the first team, and the rest are all training areas for the youth teams.

The training ground of the first team is also very ample in terms of pitches. In addition to the regular pitches, there are also small-sized pitches and a large-scale comprehensive training ground dedicated to the first team. Different from the Harrington training base, every training ground here The fields have advanced drainage and geothermal systems.

This time the first team came to the Cobham training base to observe. It was Ye Qiu's intention. He hoped that the players could feel the club's intentions for them, so despite the fact that the youth training camp was still full of yellow land, the first team The facilities beside it are very complete, and the scenery of the entire training base is very beautiful. The club even introduced river water from the Mole River to create an artificial lake.

In addition, the facilities in the training building are also luxurious. All the dormitories of the players are built according to the standards of a five-star hotel, in order to provide the best training environment for the players. There are also medical rooms, gymnasiums, swimming pools, and media rooms. A series of facilities such as everything, the function is very complete.

In addition, the training ground has a large area and is located on the outskirts of Cobham. A comprehensive security team is set up at the intersection to prohibit anyone from entering. In addition, it is difficult for anyone to spy on the team's training in the way of greenery. Condition.

Ye Qiu is very satisfied with this training base, and after this trip, he can clearly feel the shock and admiration of the players for the club's generosity, because whether it is from the player's dormitory or the software and hardware of the training base Facilities, Chelsea strive to be the best and perfect.

To put it bluntly, once this training base is completed, it will be comparable to Arsenal's Kearney training base.

Ye Qiu also took this opportunity to encourage the players. After all, the team invested so much money with a clear purpose, which is to create the most comfortable and best training environment for the players, and the players can also improve the team's performance. In return, the better you beat your opponent on the court.

Amidst the players' constant admiration, the team boarded the bus again, left the Cobham training base, and went to Ronaldinho's mansion in Cobham.

Cobham is a place where rich people in London like to live. It is relatively close to London and the transportation is very convenient. The houses are basically single-family villas, each with its own courtyard and garden, and they are all made of the best British-style architectural design, the only drawback is that it is old.

Ye Qiu had also visited the houses here before, but in the end he did not choose to stay in Cobham, but went to Totridge, because the house he chose later was newly built, with a relatively modern architectural style, and many The facilities are also more complete, after all, they can keep up with the times.

Ronaldinho's villa has a large garden and a very good home theater, which is perfect for Brazilians who like to listen to music and watch movies.

The house is not small. It is a typical two-and-a-half-story British mansion without a garage. The first floor is the living room and Ronaldinho’s mother’s residence, the second floor is his brother and sister and their families, and the second and a half floors are home theater and Ronaldinho's bedroom.

In Brazilian terms, the only regret of this house is that there is no swimming pool.

Because there is no garage, Ronaldinho and his family’s cars are parked in the garden behind the house, which is equivalent to an open-air parking lot when connected to the road, and their real garden is in front of the house, which is very large. One piece, because it had been prepared for a long time, so when the team bus arrived and the players rushed past, the place was already full of the smell of Brazilian barbecue.

Ronaldinho's mother and sister are both masters of cooking. They have been preparing for this dinner. As soon as the players arrive, they can enjoy the most delicious food directly, and in order to accommodate the dining habits of professional players , They all carefully selected food, and many of them were suggestions given by the club.

The guests are not only Chelsea players, but also several neighbors around. I heard that they have helped them, and this time they are also invited to the dinner, and many of them are chasing after this group of Chelsea stars. Group photo.

Ye Qiu also met his own fans, but he mostly stayed away from the players and got together with his coaching staff.

Because he knows very well that no matter how friendly his head coach is, he must still have the authority of the head coach in front of the players, so as long as he is there, it is difficult for the players to let go of their hands and feet to have fun , so every time such a dinner, he will keep himself away from the players.

Ronaldinho's older brother Assis was in charge of greeting Ye Qiu and the coaching staff, together with the children who adjusted the atmosphere, it was fun.

"By the way, Mr. Ye Qiu, is Miss Moon coming?" Ronaldinho's sister Daisy came over and asked. If she remembered correctly, Eliza Moon was also Ye Qiu's manager.

"Did you invite her?" Ye Qiu asked with a smile, he didn't know about it, so he didn't ask her.

"Of course, she gave us a lot of help when we were choosing a house and moving. I told her about it a few days ago, but today the phone is always disconnected and the phone is turned off. Will something happen? It's really scary Worry!" Daisy seemed to have a good impression of Eliza, with a worried look on her face.

"It's okay, I'll make a phone call for you and ask." Ye Qiu said with a smile.

He took out his phone and first called Eliza's private cell phone. Like him, Eliza also had two cell phones, one for business and one for personal matters. But to Ye Qiu's surprise, the private cell phone was also turned off. It's a bit unusual.

Ye Qiu frowned, and made another phone call to the company, but the people at the company told him that he hadn't seen Elisa all day, and the phone was turned off when he called, and he had lost contact for a while. It's been a whole day, which makes Ye Qiu feel strange, logically speaking, it shouldn't be like this.

After thinking about it, Ye Qiu felt that there was no need for him here, with Ronaldinho's family entertaining him, and the coaching staff watching over here, there shouldn't be any major problems, so he just went with Assi Si said a bit, then apologized to the players, and left Ronaldinho's house early.

When they arrived at Cobham, Ye Qiu went straight to Eliza's house when the taxi arrived.

(End of this chapter)