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Volume 11, 2004 Chapter 659 This Summer (Part 1)

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    After the Army Cup ends, for most players, their vacation has ended, but for those players with higher salaries and prominent European international status, their vacation has not yet begun.

    2004 is a major competition year. The European Championship and Asian Championships begin in the summer. The Champions League final ends on May 26th, and the first game of the European Championship is on June 13th.  There is only more than half a month between the two, and for Newcastle's European internationals, they have almost no time to rest.

    And next season the team will be concentrated in late July. For them, this summer, the rest time is only a pitiful half a month

    There are six players in the Newcastle team who will participate in the European Championships. Among them, Woodgate, Dyer and Janas were selected for the England national team. Robert impressed the French team coach Santini with his outstanding performance in the Premier League this season.  , and Makelele was selected together with him, and Ibrahimovic was selected for the Swedish national team.

    In addition, Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech, who will join the team next season, has also been selected for the Czech national team. In addition, Nie Fei will participate in the Asian Cup in July, so before the start of this season, Mourinho faces  It will be a broken team.

    Pei Wei has no good solution for this. The conflict between the national team and the club has been around for a long time. The head coach of every club hopes that his team will always be complete, but the national team will always let a team  The club team has become incomplete, and the head coach of the national team is always complaining that the club is not cooperative enough, so that their tactics cannot be deeply understood by the players.

    To put it bluntly, each country has different interests.  Therefore, it is impossible to resolve the contradiction in this aspect.

    In order to comfort Mourinho - although Mourinho did not seem to need comfort, Pei Wei decided to take his whole family and watch the entire European Championship with the Mourinho family. Although Pei Wei believed that this European Championship  There won't be any changes before Sai He is reborn. After all, his influence has not yet affected the European Championships.

    Mourinho is very happy with this invitation, as a professional head coach of a European club.  When there is a big game, it is their job to watch the game live - to check the status of their players during the game.  Observe the level of opponent players and discover possible newcomers Since Pei Wei is paying the bill, no one will gossip even if he takes his family with him to Portugal.

    During the process of watching the game, Pei Wei did not show off such words as "Greece will win the championship".  He is not that shallow yet. After all, it doesn't matter if he does such things occasionally, but speaking out the results like a prophet every time will definitely arouse people's suspicion.  Mourinho is a very smart man, and Pei Wei does not intend to let him see anything.

    While watching the game, Pei Wei and Mourinho naturally paid more attention to the games of Newcastle's six international players. Makelele is now the absolute main force of the French national team, but Robert has no chance to play. In England, three Newcastle internationals  Players are even less likely to get a chance to play. Woodgate's competitors are Ferdinand, Terry and Campbell. Dyer's position includes Beckham and Joe Cole, and Janas is even worse.  Gerrard and Lampard firmly occupy the center position of England's midfield, so where can there be room for him.  Probably only Ibrahimovic's position is the most stable. He and Larsson are the unbreakable forward partner of the Swedish national team.

    Of course, Pei Wei was not idle when watching the ball.  He already knew that it would be impossible to discover any new players in this European Championship, besides.  With Newcastle's current status as the new European champion, the temptation for players is also quite large.

    He is busy with the summer warm-up match. Bayern Munich is very interested in going to China to play a warm-up match in the summer, while Inter Milan is a little hesitant. In the future, Inter Milan is probably the most popular European club among Chinese fans.  The club is the only European giant that has not been to China since the 1990s. Their annual summer training is held in the Middle East. This is because they cooperate with a consortium in Dubai on youth training and echelon building.

    However, Inter Milan and Yunjia Tianyu have also cooperated for many years. It is impossible not to ignore Pei Wei's invitation to Moratti. After discussing with the newly appointed head coach Mancini, Inter Milan agreed to conduct a one-week training camp in China.  Training and competition.

    Of course, Pei Wei will not only do this little thing this summer - for club owners, the annual transfer period is their busiest thing, except for Pei Wei who likes to give himself an assistant coach title and spend all day with the first team  Except for the bosses who deal with each other, the other bosses are the most relaxed after the start of the season.

    Although they won the European Champions Cup last season, both Pei Wei and Mourinho knew clearly in their hearts that??, Newcastle is still far from a world-class giant.

    Shearer can't play for a few more years. He is already thirty-four years old. Maybe this age is not too old, but for a forward, this is the age when he is about to retire. After Shearer, the captain of the Magpies is  Who, that's a question worth considering.

    Although Newcastle has never lacked local players, that is already a thing of the past. Starting from Newcastle's main lineup last year, Given may be a good candidate. Although he is Irish, he has been in Newcastle for a long time.  Time, but Cech will come to Newcastle next year. Given may not be able to compete with him by then. A substitute will definitely not be able to be the captain. Woodgate is also possible, but after all, he is not a player born in Newcastle. Janas is still  He is young, and he was also trained by Nottingham Forest. Dyer cannot guarantee the main position

    Other non-English players Mourinho will not consider for the time being, unless he stays at Newcastle for a long time, otherwise for a club that has always been proud of its local flag, letting a foreigner serve as the team's captain  Captain is simply unthinkable.

    Looking at the major European giants, which one does not have its own local flag?  Manchester United's Keane is half English, Arsenal's Henry also wore the captain's armband after a long time after becoming the King of Highbury, Chelsea has Terry, Liverpool has Gerrard, AC Milan has Maldini,  Real Madrid has Raul, Barcelona has Guardiola before him and Xavi after him, Juventus has Del Piero, and although Inter Milan¡¯s Zanetti is Argentinian, Inter Milan itself is an international team, and Zanetti  He came to Inter Milan in his early twenties and stayed there for ten years. He fully deserves the captaincy.

    Obviously, Newcastle does not have such a person now. Maybe Shearer can still play for another year, but Pei Wei and Mourinho must start making preparations now.

    In addition, there is the issue of youth training. Although Newcastle's echelon construction is also quite famous in England, the one they are currently using is somewhat outdated. Pei Wei plans to invest some funds to improve youth training facilities.  He has never been stingy in terms of training, and it is very likely that the echelon teams from China will also train in this training ground in the future. By doing this, Pei Wei can be regarded as keeping the good news from others.

    The rest Newcastle's status is different now. As the European champions, they must have sponsors and sponsorship fees worthy of their status. Pei Wei can't stand the sponsorship fees in the past.

    Naturally, the club's financial staff will negotiate for the chest advertisement. Pei Wei doesn't want to change the Northern Rock Bank advertisement on the chest. After all, this is an old local bank in Newcastle. It may be troublesome to change it, but Pei Wei doesn't want to change it on the chest.  The revenue from advertising is only a little over two million pounds a year.

    As for the jersey, Pei Wei has already planned to change it. Now there is only one year left in the Adidas contract. Pei Wei does not intend to renew the contract, although Adidas has shown intentions in this regard after winning the Champions League championship.  However, they were only willing to pay a maximum of five million pounds, and Pei Wei refused immediately - why are the sponsorships for the jerseys of those wealthy clubs tens of millions, and we only have five million?  We are now the world champions!

    The reason why Pei Wei is so confident is that he has reached an intention to cooperate with the domestic Li Ning Group. In one year, the two parties will formally reach an intention to cooperate. This is a win-win situation for both parties. When Newcastle carries Li Ning's name on its chest,  When Chinese advertisements appear in the Champions League, it will play an immeasurable role in opening up the international market for Li-Ning Group, and Li-Ning's good domestic sales network can also sell Newcastle's genuine jerseys to all parts of China - Pei Wei naturally will not  Making the mistake of other giants, the price of jerseys can easily reach hundreds of euros. By then, the price of Newcastle fans will be controlled within the range that a Chinese fan can afford while ensuring profits. Only in this way can the Chinese market be truly developed.

    European clubs want to develop the Chinese market. They just come to play a high-paying warm-up match in the summer, open a few specialty stores with extremely luxurious facades and extremely expensive items, or open a few stores with hanging  A restaurant with a club namethat's definitely not enough.

    As Chinese fans, they generally don¡¯t have much money in their hands. Even if they do, they are not those European fans who have supported a certain team since their ancestors. They are willing to save money to buy genuine jerseys to support the club  Even if there are, there won't be too many such fans.

    What they can accept is that they can buy jerseys to wear when playing football for less than one hundred yuan. Therefore, in China, if compared with the sales volume of genuine jerseys, how can those genuine jerseys of European teams that easily cost hundreds of euros?  The sales of authentic jerseys of domestic teams that cost 100 yuan are not as good.
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