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Volume 9 2002 Volume 9 Chapter 541 Newcastle

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    On the tenth day after the working group led by Xu set off, the small group led by Pei Wei arrived at Soho in London, where the FA is located, after some twists and turns on the road.  Pepe's contribution

    It can be seen that Xu and the others had a good communication with the FA in the early stage. After contacting the FA, Pei Wei and his party immediately received warm hospitality. The John Bulls did not show their unique arrogance and arrogance.  Unreasonable, he treated them with the most gentlemanly attitude, especially towards Pei Wei, who was leading the team, and showed all kinds of enthusiasm, which made Pei Wei start to feel a little strange.

    Later, Pei Wei learned that the Football Association also attached great importance to the collective visit of the Chinese Football Association to learn from the experience. On the one hand, it can strengthen exchanges between the two sides, and now there are many Premier League teams planning to open up the Chinese market. On the other hand, as a modern  It is also a very honorable thing for China, the birthplace of football and the birthplace of ancient football, to come to learn from them. How can we not make the FA, who are so proud of their achievements, feel proud of themselves?

    As for Pei Wei, he is more enthusiastic because of his status as a FIFA executive committee member. The English Football Association has little influence in FIFA. There is only one British member of the FIFA executive committee list, Will David, and this  The dual chairman of the FIFA Referee Committee and the Legal Affairs Committee is also a Scotsman. As we all know, the relationship between Scots and English people has never been very good, so the Football Association also hopes to have something to do with Pei Wei, the FIFA executive committee member.  The last point about friendship is that "someone in the DPRK is easy to talk to" is not only known to the Chinese.

    But after getting in touch with Xu and the others, Pei Wei found that he had become an insignificant person - the fresh blood in the league department were constantly looking through the information.  Learn the Premier League's operating model, while the members of the Foreign Affairs Department led by Xu used their expertise in diplomacy.  There was a heated fight with the officials of the Football Association - there were nearly twenty people in the two groups, and only Pei Wei had nothing to do.

    "Old Xu, I can't go on like this" One night, Pei Wei said to Xu depressedly: "If this goes on, I will doubt whether I still have the value of survival. Peipei's contribution"

    "Well, judging from the current situation, you are indeed the most boring person in our delegation." Xu said seriously.

    "Damn. Even you are attacking me!" Pei Wei said angrily: "No, I have to find something to doDon't tell me that I have to act collectively when I come to the UK this time."

    "It's a collective action." Xu said, and then he saw Pei Wei's expression of wanting to kill someone, and hurriedly continued: "But you are an exception because you have many friends in the UK, although Professor Wenger and those few  The international players haven't returned to London yet, but I think you won't have nowhere to go. You can move around freely in the next time."

    "That's pretty much it." Pei Wei's expression relaxed, and Xu looked at Pei Wei.  I couldn't help but ask: "Where do you want to go? You have to pay attention to safety. There are many hooligans here in the UK, unlike at home."

    "It doesn't matter, I won't sneak into the alley." Pei Wei said nonchalantly: "I plan to go to a Premier League club for an on-site inspection. After all, Ling Binghun and the others only got written data from the Football Association.  The level of a player cannot only be judged by his data, but also by his performance on the field. The same is true when observing a club.¡±

    "It makes sense." Xu nodded: "So which club do you plan to visit? Or visit a few more?" He did not ask what method Pei Wei would use to get the opportunity to visit Premier League clubs.  He believed that Pei Wei had this ability.

    "I haven't thought about it yet, but I don't think I need to visit several clubs. I just need to choose a representative one." Pei Wei replied.

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    On August 15th, Pei Wei came to Newcastle.

    Newcastle, located on the north bank of the Tyne River in northeastern England, is the political, commercial and cultural center of northern England. The purpose of Pei Wei coming here is of course the only local super team Newcastle United.

    Although Newcastle is one of the earliest clubs in the UK and even Europe (founded in 1999), it is still in the modern Premier League.  They can only be regarded as a mid-range team. Although they won consecutive third place in the Premier League and second place in the Premier League in the early 1990s, after entering the 21st century, they can only linger in the mid-range. For a long time, they  Even participating in the UEFA Cup has become a luxury. Compared with the two giants Manchester United and Arsenal that dominated the entire 1990s, the gap is quite large. It is not as good as Chelsea and Liverpool, which have recently begun to rise. Pei Wei did not go to visit the most negative players.  There is a reason why the famous Manchester United did not visit Arsenal, which is closely related to him.

    Newcastle United is a rather special team in the entire Premier League - they don't have a city derby!In the UK, a country with thousands of sports teams and nearly a thousand professional teams, it is normal for a city to have more than two professional teams.

    London is the most important. In the Premier League alone, they have strong teams such as Arsenal and Chelsea. There are countless other small and medium-sized teams in League One and League Two.

    And Newcastle, a city with a population of more than 300,000, only has one professional team, Newcastle United, which is the only city in the UK with no semicolon.

    It¡¯s question time, which team has the most English fans in the Premier League?

    Is it Manchester United?  No, although they have a considerable number of fans around the world, their influence in England is not even as big as that of fellow city team Manchester City.

    Is it Arsenal?  No, they don't have as many fans in London as Spurs.

    Is it Liverpool?  No, although the Red Army once swept across Europe, their influence was limited to Liverpool.

    Is it the upstart Chelsea?  No, they have the smallest number of fans of the three Premier League teams in London.

    The answer is this humble Newcastle United team, which uses the magpie as its mascot.

    Perhaps because this team has a representative player of England like Alan Shearer, this team has the largest number of fans in the whole of Great Britain. The only regret is that this team has both historical heritage and financial investment.  The team has only won four English top league championships, and their last top league championship was far back in 1927, a full seventy-five years ago.

    Compared with England, which has thousands of professional, amateur and regional teams, China is simply incomparable in this regard. Although it has more than 50 professional teams, they are basically concentrated in the northeast, southwest and southwest.  Along the coast and even in central China, only Hubei and Henan have first-class teams, let alone the vast and sparsely populated Northwest.

    So Newcastle has more reference significance. How a club establishes a foothold in a city is what Chinese clubs need to learn now.

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    Although Li Qiang returned to China and served as the chairman of Yunjia Tianyu Club, Yunjia Tianyu's European branch has not stopped operating. The current head of the European branch is Li Qiang's former deputy. With his contact, Newcastle quickly  Knowing that Pei Wei planned to visit their club, they readily agreed to this request.

    At this time, Pei Wei's other identity came into play - he is one of the top 50 people in the Forbes list of personal wealth. Although Newcastle is a quite wealthy team, for their current chairman Sheffield, it is like  A person like Pei Wei whose wealth is far above him cannot be offended.

    Compared with the steel magnate Sir John Hall, the former club chairman who single-handedly saved Newcastle from the second tier and the current honorary chairman of the club, Sheffield's achievements after taking office are really pitiful. In 1998, he succeeded Hall.  With Jazz as club chairman, Newcastle's performance in the league has gone from bad to worse, from a strong team capable of competing for the championship to a standard mid-range team. In the past four years, Newcastle's only good results have been two FAs.  Only the runner-up of the Cup!

    Therefore, Newcastle fans now dislike the current chairman. They have collectively requested the former chairman Sir Hall to come back again more than once. However, Sir Hall is old after all, and his son Douglas is not interested in becoming the club chairman.  Sheffield also holds on to power very tightly, and he just refuses to step down from his position as chairman. If it weren't for the highly respected head coach Robson supporting the club, Newcastle would probably not even have the chance to participate in the UEFA Cup every year.

    However, these things have nothing to do with Pei Wei, and Pei Wei has no interest in helping Newcastle rebuild its glory. In his previous life, he did not pay much attention to the Premier League. His impression of Newcastle is that the team spends a lot of money to buy players every year. Spain's  Luke, England's Owen, Turkey's Emre, but few can play a big role, and they can be regarded as relatively weak famous European teams.

    As a club, to be successful, it undoubtedly needs to have the following points - a deep foundation, abundant funds, and strong support from fans - these three points are the most basic, and Newcastle does not lack these three points, but it just takes  Less than the championship - except for Inter Milan, no European giants in the 1990s would be so unlucky.

    "If it weren't for that damn labor certificate, Newcastle would be a good choice." Pei Wei thought with regret as he looked at Sheffield who was facing him with a smile.
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