Ground football: Ronaldo thought I was going to assist him

Others may not know, but how could these gambling syndicates not know?

Starting with Sporting Lisbon's five-trophy haul, followed by the Champions League treble, Manchester City's double, and now Manchester City's five-trophy haul this year.

Four whole years.

Do you know how many special matches they arranged for Deng Kai?

But do you know the outcome?

All their arrangements, no matter how targeted they were.

As long as the result is that Deng Kai loses.

Deng Kai will definitely win!

This is incredible.

It's worth noting that they even arranged several matches where Deng Kai would face off against top teams.

Those are basically all going in with the intention of losing money.

Because those top teams can't possibly lose to Duncan's team.

And guess what happened?

You're so disappointing!

Barcelona is disappointing!

They hyped you up like that, but you still couldn't win!

What are you even adding to the list of things?

"If we use all our resources and bring this matter into the open, we can help you get out of this predicament." Mansour personally flew to Lisbon to discuss the matter with Deng Kai.

The European Championship was Deng Kai's first official participation in a major international tournament.

This year is Deng Kai's invincible year.

As long as he doesn't have a disastrous performance in the European Championship, it doesn't matter whether he wins the title or not; the Ballon d'Or at the end of the year will definitely go to Deng Kai.

No one can take it away.

This is very advantageous for Manchester City.

Mansour absolutely supports Manchester City's second club in making a name for themselves in the European Championship.

Even if he doesn't participate in the European Championship, he's still guaranteed the Ballon d'Or.

Sixty-five games unbeaten, that's astonishing.

But... I can't stand it.

Why should a player be unable to play football due to such dirty off-field tactics?

"However, our intelligence suggests that the Duqiu Group may only be the first layer in this matter," Jiang Yunzhu said.

Mansour's pupils contracted: "What do you mean? Could it be... there's a second layer?"

Jiang Yunzhu whispered, "According to reliable sources, the major factions participating in the Spanish Grand Tour this year have identified Deng Kai as one of their key points of contention."

"Catalan authorities are focusing on exaggerating the hatred surrounding Duncan, exploiting the historical conflict between Duncan and Barcelona, ​​and portraying this attack on Duncan and Portugal as a major achievement."

"This will also help to erase the stain of Spain being cheated by the South Korean team in the Korea-Japan World Cup two years ago. At that time, the Barcelona region was almost public enemy number one in Spain."

"Spain's current leader, Aznar, has fared poorly during the global financial crisis, with his approval ratings plummeting. His key partner, Florentino Pérez's Real Madrid, will be crucial to his success."

"In the recently concluded season, Real Madrid failed to win any major trophies, and the Galacticos became a laughing stock. The Zidane + Pavón policy became nothing more than empty talk."

"Florentino is also surrounded by enemies."

"But if we can bring in a world number one player like Deng Kai at this critical juncture, Florentino's crisis of rule will be resolved."

"With Real Madrid's influence, Aznar's declining approval ratings are very likely to recover."

Mansur is numb.

It's not that this information sounds outrageous.

After all, Mansur was born into royalty and had just gone through a struggle for the throne with his brother.

Their faction emerged as the biggest winner.

Manchester City played a significant role in this.

Otherwise, he wouldn't guarantee he'd be alive today.

If the person is gone, no matter how legitimate your status is, it's useless.

There have always been many people who, blinded by greed, break the rules and resort to ruthless tactics.

Similarly, Mansour also knew the term "dimensional reduction attack".

If you want to do anything well, sometimes you can't just do one thing.

If so, it means there must be someone protecting you from the wind and rain.

For example, when it comes to playing football, do you think that just playing football is enough?

What does an agent do?

If a player has to play football and also handle his own commercial contracts, he'll be incredibly busy.

Similarly, is the club management only concerned with the team's performance?

There must also be commercial considerations involved.

There are even considerations from local government officials.

If a team is as large as Real Madrid or AC Milan, then it's directly linked to the national government.

Football is just football.

But football is much more than just football.

The more you love football and the more you understand it, the clearer this becomes.

Therefore, truly loving football doesn't mean not allowing any falsehood in football, because falsehood is everywhere in football.

True love for football is when you discover the fake parts of it, but still remain passionate about the few genuine parts!

What surprised Mansur was actually Jiang Yunzhu's source of information.

After all, there isn't much information about this between Mansour and the UAE.

This is what they have always wanted to achieve.

They hope to participate in the international arena, become an influential party in major events, and thus continuously expand the UAE's power.

But it's too difficult.

They haven't found a way yet.

Manchester City was a turning point.

But if they use Manchester City as a starting point, it might take them ten or twenty years to reach the level of Jiang Yunzhu's current abilities.

And Jiang Yunzhu...

Jiang Yunzhu smiled slightly and offered no explanation.

A great Eastern power.

Thousands of years of sedimentation.

How could those people with no more than 250 years of history possibly disrupt things by spending 500,000?

This is a game of chess.

A very big game of chess.

Our current silence is for the sake of the tigers roaring in the mountains and the dragons soaring through the heavens decades from now!

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"Do you have a solution?" Mansur asked Jiang Yunzhu.

Jiang Yunzhu shook her head helplessly.

As I said, we should remain silent at this stage to avoid alerting the enemy.

The two then looked at Deng Kai.

This hurdle... is very difficult to overcome.

It seems that José Manuel Keco's first major tournament in Portugal will have to wait until the summer of 006 in Germany.

However, Deng Kai got up, took out a bottle of Romanée-Conti from the wine cabinet, opened it, and poured it into Mansour and Jiang Yunzhu's glasses.

Mansour was taken aback: "Kai, he's still drunk."

Deng Kai picked up his glass: "There's no time to wake him up."

Mansour felt that Deng Kai was implying something.

Sure enough, Deng Kai's next words made the two men change color: "Catalan territory is just a small place, and no matter how much it struggles, it won't affect the overall situation."

"Barcelona may become a very successful club, but it will be difficult for them to become what they want to be."

"Aznar made a huge contribution to Spain's economy. But the economy was both his strength and his weakness; his decline was irreversible."

After saying this, Deng Kai extended his glass to Mansour: "Could you please ask my most trusted and dearest partner, Mr. Mansour, to make a trip to Madrid for me?"

Mansour raised his glass and said, "You want me to use the UAE's resources to persuade Asnar to settle this matter?"

Don't be fooled by that lawyers' organization's loud antics; they seem to think they can send anyone to jail just by throwing money at them.

But once the authorities speak up, these guys have to shut up.

End of this chapter

I like playing football on the ground: Ronaldo thought I was going to assist him.