Chapter 13 Chelsea Kills the Handsome

Manchester United released the financial statements for the first quarter of the 12/13 season (July to September). The data shows that with the continuous increase of business sponsorship revenue, Manchester United's total debt has dropped to 359.7 million pounds, the lowest since the Glazer family acquired Manchester United in 2005.

According to Sky Sports, in the same period last season, Manchester United's total debt reached 433.2 million pounds. A year later, Manchester United's total debt fell by 17%, which is largely due to the increase in Manchester United's revenue in business sponsorship.

In the new season, Manchester United signed new sponsorship contracts with 10 sponsors, including General Motors, Bwin and Toshiba, and the profit of this part alone rose by 24.3%, that is, from the previous £34.6 million to £43 million. Because many internationals have been transferred to the European Cup this summer, Manchester United also received a compensation of 1.3 million pounds from UEFA. Old Trafford was requisitioned as a football venue during the Olympics, and Manchester United received a loan fee of £2 million. In addition, the Glazer family also repaid a total of 62.6 million pounds of bonds, which significantly reduced the total debt of the Manchester United club.

Manchester United Vice President Woodward said: "Through commercial operations, Manchester United's revenue in the first quarter of the 2012/13 season set a new record. We will continue to generate revenue globally, including new media, mobile operations, retailers and sponsors. Our team will play in the 2012/13 season. The season started well. Now we are ranked first in the Premier League and the Champions League. According to the current revenue growth trend, Manchester United's turnover by the end of the 2012/13 season is expected to reach £350 to £360 million.

Since buying Manchester United with a debt of £550 million in 2005, the Glazer family has been boycotted by some Manchester United fans, but the achievements of Americans in business development cannot be ignored.

An analyst named Andy Green said: "If all the money is stopped, it will take Manchester United five years to pay off the full debt."

However, according to The Sun, the reduction in Manchester United's total debt actually hides the fact that the Glazer family is making money from Manchester United.

In August this year, Manchester United was listed on the New York Stock Exchange, raising a total of 140 million pounds. Of this £62.6 million was used by the Glazer family to pay off debts, but most of the remaining half was 77.4 million pounds, nearly 80 million pounds, which were pocketed by the Americans themselves.

According to documents released by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Glazer also received an interest fee of £1,000 from Manchester United. In addition, more than six members of the Glazer family have strong financial contacts with Manchester United. In the past two years, they have received more than 16 million pounds of so-called consulting fees from Manchester United.

Simply adding these three figures of 77.4 million, 10 million and 16 million can be found that the Glazer family has stolen more than 103.4 million pounds from Manchester United.

In addition, the Glazer family has refused to publish all financial data since the club went public, and often uses words such as "stable growth" that are not supported by data to confuse the public. A report from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said: "If it weren't for the income from selling a player, Manchester United would have faced a bigger deficit in the past two or three years."

The player referred to in the report is not Cristiano Ronaldo. In 2009, Manchester United sold Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid for a high price of 80 million pounds. It seems that all the money was used by the Glazer family to replace the financial deficit.

The news announced by the British Stock Exchange has aroused a great response among Manchester United fans. Duncan Glass, head of the famous anti-Grayzer fan organization MUST (ManchesterUnitedSupportersTrust) Duo said: "The name of the Glazer family is synonymous with poison in Manchester United's loyalties. They have turned Manchester United into a debt repayment machine. When Manchester United is no longer successful on the court, it will be a big financial disaster."

Before the start of the league, it was rare to see questions about Manchester United's debt. With Manchester United's record stabilizing this season, such news has rarely been seen!

However, I don't know if it's a bad omen, but there was another accident in the next Manchester United game.

In today's Manchester United's away game against Norwich, Carrick ushered in his 400th appearance in the Premier League. Unfortunately, the result of 0-1 is destined to make Carrick's milestone days full of bitterness.

Compared with the traditional British midfielder who pays attention to the ability to run and grab, Carrick is definitely a "strange", and his playing method is closer to the continental European faction. It is difficult for you to see a wide range of active rushing or running, let alone inserting into the opponent's hinterland to attack.

Therefore, his role on the court is easily ignored, and he is often called the "invisible emperor" by fans.

In the attack, his role is actually more to comb and drag back to control the rhythm of the game. In defense, although he is not known for forced robbery, he can better protect the penalty area and the two ribs. Alonso, who plays for Real Madrid [Weibo], once said, "I like watching Carrick play very much. He can make all his teammates around him play comfortably. His ability is really underestimated." Old Redknap also said, "Carrick is the best young player I have ever led in West Ham at that time!" Don't forget that Old Ray's West Ham United youth training also includes Chelsea's vice captain Lampard.

Today, Carrick gave 112 passes to Norwich, of which 99 were in place and had a high success rate of 88.4%. This is completely Barcelona [Weibo] Harvey-level data. Ferguson said at the beginning of the new season that Carrick was the key to Manchester United this season, and the time of appearance can indeed illustrate this point. In the 12 league games of this season, Carrick is the only player at Manchester United who plays every minute.

However, you should know that Carrick is also 31 years old. When Norwich fought back quickly, even the Iron Man Carrick seemed a little powerless.

Although Carrick can connect Manchester United's midfield and backfield well in every game, his contribution in the front court is the drawback of his playing method, so his partner needs to have a strong organizational and offensive ability in the front court.

Ancelotti has tried various combinations of middle players and Pogba this season, but who is Carrick's "best partner" in Ancelotti's mind?

In today's game, when the score fell behind in the second half and the midfield was unable to turn the ball possession rate into an effective attack, although An Shuai let Mata and Cleverley warm up one after another, he replaced Kagawa, who had just recovered from injury the day before yesterday in the 69 minutes.

After the latter came on the court, he tried his best to organize and dispatch with his accurate long and short passes, and even desperately recovered his own penalty area defense when the whole team was hit by the opponent. In the 90th minute, Carrick's long-range shot outside the penalty area was blocked. Norwich made 2 fast attacks. The exhausted Carrick had given up the defense. At this time, it was Kagawa who was not good at defense. I don't know how many people would sigh when he saw this scene.

Manchester United has a large number of midfields. In this game, Mata, Cleverley and Fletcher all appeared on the bench. At the last desperate moment, An Shuai unexpectedly sent Kagawa, which was an absolute trust in the veteran and a kind of helplessness.

400 Mr. Carrick also has his own comments on his good partner. "Since the first day I came to the club, I have been learning from him all the time, but there are some things that only he can really do. It's incredible."

Loss 3 points that should have been lost in the away game, which also made Manchester United, who has recently become addicted to reversals, have a period of days when there are no longer miracles.

However, at this moment, Chelsea is more unlucky than Manchester United. It seems that the Premier League has won the title of the Blues this season!

After Ancelotti and Boas, Di Matteo became the third Chelsea head coach to be dismissed yesterday because of the disagreement between the club's top management on the use of Torres.

Since he defected from Liverpool [Weibo] to Stamford Bridge at a high price of 50 million pounds in January 2011, Torres, who performed mediocrely on the court, has put his lethality on his coach, dramatically prompting Blues boss Abu, who spoils him, to complete the "handsman's hat-trick" ".

As soon as the official news of Di Matteo's departure came out, the major British media immediately made in-depth reports.

Among them, the team reporters of the two major newspapers, The Sun and the Daily Mail, coincidentally disclosed that the direct reason why Di Matteo lost his job was that he disobeyed Abu's orders in the 0-3 away game against Juventus [Weibo] and insisted on excluding Torres, who was in a sluggish state, from the starting lineup. The inside story of Rong.

Abu was very dissatisfied with this. The team returned to London from Italy in the early morning of November 21st local time. Even before dawn, Chelsea Club announced the official statement of Di Matteo's dismissal at 4 o'clock.

Neil Aston, a reporter who has been interviewing the Chelsea game for a long time, wrote that the gap between Di Matteo and Torres has actually existed for a long time.

He recorded everything he saw in detail in the article: At the beginning of his succession to coach Boas last season, Foshuai arranged Drogba and Torres to compete for the starting position of the Blues. In the end, Drogba successfully won, and Torres was full of complaints - even at the UEFA Champions League award ceremony. He was sad; and after Di Matteo was officially corrected this summer and Drogba transferred to the Chinese Super League, he had submitted a signing plan to the head coach's boss Abu, among which the first preferred target was Atletico Madrid, who is currently being chased by the major giants in the Premier League.

Abramovich agreed to Di Matteo's other acquisition requests at that time, but refused to agree to pay for Falco.

The Russian also sent a message to Di Matteo, "We already have a world-class scorer". The subtext of this message is very obvious. "Toreth must be the preferred striker in the 2012-13 season", even if Torres only scored poor 19 goals in 97 games for Chelsea.

The boss's will, the smart Di Matteo, understands it very clearly. Torres got enough playing time in the first 10 rounds of the Premier League and several rounds of the Champions League group matches of the new season, but his performance was still mediocre, and the team's performance was also dragged down. The battle of Tianwangshan, which lost 2-3 at home to Manchester United in the league last month, also led to the complete disclosure of the conflict between the two.

Although Torres's second yellow card was a little wronged, the Blues general had a fierce dispute after the game.

In the training class after arriving in Turin on Monday, some Chelsea players who heard the news began to secretly talk about the rumors that the team might change positions. Sure enough, when the team shared lunch at noon on Tuesday, Di Matteo got up and announced the list of the game that night. Hazard replaced Torres in the first game. Woman."

It's a pity that Chelsea suffered a complete defeat in this battle with the Serie A champion, and the hope of qualifying in the group was basically dashed.

Di Matteo, who lost the last chip, has foresaw his future. After the game, he did not leave the court for the first time. Instead, he negotiated with his Italian agent in the player's channel for half an hour. When he returned to the locker room, he shook hands with each player affectionately, as if a farewell ceremony was being staged.

We don't know what Torres looked at that time. But on the way back to London, Torres did not pay attention to anyone reading a Spanish book called Leyenda (Legend) alone. When the bus to pick up the players from the airport arrived at Chelsea's training base in the early morning of November 21, Torres was the first player to jump off the bus and pick up the car home.

Di Matteo was called into the office by club officials, and by the time he left, he was no longer the head coach of Chelsea.

On the same day, former Liverpool coach Benitez was appointed as the new head coach by Chelsea. In Torres' words, Benitez is "the most important coach in his career and knows me best." The two Spanish legends who used to be praised by KOPs at Anfield Stadium dramatically gathered at Stamford Bridge at this time.

A few hours after Chelsea announced the end of class, Chelsea announced Benitez's appointment. In the eyes of many fans with "conspiracy theories", it was Chelsea boss Abramovich who had planned it for a long time. It is also not easy to choose Benitez, who has coached Liverpool before and had an unpleasant time with Chelsea, how to get the support of the fans.

The Sun said that Benitez, who had just been announced as Chelsea's head coach, was bad-mouthed before he appeared.

The newspaper said that in view of Benitez's lineup rotation and buyer strategy failure during Liverpool, as well as his second failure in the Inter Milan era, it was concluded that he would "end with tears" at Chelsea.

As another head coach of Chelsea in Abu's hands, Benitez once led Liverpool to a number of honors known as the "Five Crowns" in 2005, but due to his consistent adherence to the "funny" rotation system (who has changed the lineup in 99 consecutive games) and his visionless transfer ability The power impressed the Premier League fans. In terms of getting along with people, Benitez is also widely questioned.

As the main central defender of Benitez when he coached Inter, Italian international Materazzi said that he didn't get along well with Benitez: "I don't get along well with Benitez. He thinks he knows everything, but he is even afraid of his shadow. Materazzi hinted that Benitez was jealous of Mourinho's achievements: "He asked me to tear off the picture of Mourinho and Lippi in my locker room cabinet, which recorded the most important moments of my career."

Real Madrid midfielder Alonso has been a relatively successful foreign aid for Liverpool for many years. He believes that Benitez lacks team management skills and does not know how to communicate with players: "No matter when, every player likes the head coaches who are closer to the players, but Benitez is not that kind of person. He once told me that he wanted to sign someone else to replace me. If there was really a new place at that time, maybe I would have been sold.

Chelsea's tying of Di Matteo has been questioned by fans, and the invitation of Benitez is unbearable to the fans.

According to the Daily Mirror, thousands of Chelsea fans expressed their boycott of Benitez through their official website and Twitter, and Chelsea's official Twitter was even close to collapse. Dave Johnstone, the editor of Chelsea Fan Magazine, said directly that the fans don't like Benitez: "Benitez is not the head coach of Chelsea. He is not what we want. When Mourinho was in office, Benitez always disdained Chelsea and treated us very rudely. At Benitez, no matter what goes wrong, it's someone else's fault, and he will get rid of himself.

It is reported that a large number of Blues fans have begun to threaten. When Benitez took office, they tore up their season tickets and did not watch the ball, and called Benitez "fatSpanishwaiter" full of fat.

At the same time, former head coach Mourinho, who coaches Real Madrid, generously sent blessings to Benitez. Mourinho said, "Everyone knows that I like the teams I have been to, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Porto. I like these clubs, so I hope they get good management, and I hope Benitez can do it well.

Chelsea announced the dismissal of coach Di Matteo. The Blues thanked "Fang Shuai" for his merits in the official website statement: "The boss and the board of directors would like to thank Di Matteo for everything he has done since he took over in March. He helped lead us to the historic Champions League and the seventh FA Cup. We will never forget. Remembering his contributions to the history of the club, Stamford Bridge will always welcome him.

This seemingly warm-hearted word can't hide a bloody fact: no matter what you have done for Chelsea, in the eyes of the Russian boss Abu, you will always be just a migrant worker.

Di Matteo took office in March and took over the mess of Boas. He miraculously led the team to win the FA Cup and the Champions League, creating Chelsea's history. But just over three months after the beginning of the new season, the meritorious deeds in the summer lost their jobs. Hearing this news, people can't help but be surprised: Isn't this too fast?!

Chelsea's recent record is sluggish, and Di Matteo is responsible, but it is a well-known fact that the Blues are in a transitional period this season. A group of veterans have retired, and the team's style is also being transformed. In such a period, it is actually normal for the results to fluctuate. If it is replaced by any famous coach, I'm afraid that the team will change the team will change. At the same time, you can continue to win the game. But Abu didn't care about this. He killed the meritorious "Buddha Shuai" without tears.