The National Day eruption is complete!
I wish everyone a good rest during the holidays. I should also look at the calendar to see when the next holiday is. It's a little scary when I run out of chapters! I'm always afraid that I'll delay my work because of unexpected situations and stop updating. I really don't want to do this kind of thing. After all, I've been updating continuously for four years …
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Britain was in turmoil. On the one hand, they were concerned about the World Cup. On the other hand, the bosses of the other clubs chose to remain silent about the collapse of talks between Qin Xiong and Arsenal.
The calmness was just on the surface.
Of course, there were those who gloated.
But in the BIG4 group, apart from the meager Liverpool who treated it as a joke, the other two, Manchester United and Chelsea, naturally would not make any comments.
Because any comments would make Arsenal unhappy!
On the contrary, they would not say anything. Instead, they would do things that would make Arsenal even more unhappy!
Chelsea did not publicly offer Arsenal to buy Qin Xiong and directly offered 20 million pounds, about 28 million euros.
Manchester United also tacitly did not publicly offer 20 million pounds!
They all knew that this was an offer that Arsenal could not refuse.
When Wenger seemed to throw the responsibility to money, in the end, it was still money that drove the development of the matter!
Did Arsenal have the confidence to refuse Chelsea and Manchester United's offers?
Could he straighten his back and say that he would force Qin Xiong to stay for a year and then let him leave for free?
Could he ignore the temptation of 20 million pounds?
What did he need so much money for?
There were many things that he could do!
It was also because of this that Qin Xiong knew that as long as he made the decision, he would not have any difficulty leaving Arsenal after the World Cup. Arsenal would definitely let him go.
Arsenal needed money. Wenger did not need it, but all the members of Arsenal's board of directors needed it.
Chelsea's boss, Abramovich, called Freddy again. He had always been very sincere. Qin Xiong had previously resisted the transfer of Chelsea only because of competitive factors. There was no other reason.
Abramovich had only one condition for Freddy: if Qin Xiong was willing to come to Stamford Bridge, he would become the world's highest-paid player.
Ferguson planned to call Qin Xiong directly. Unfortunately, Qin Xiong's call was answered by Sylvia. However, Qin Xiong took the initiative to call Ferguson back.
On the second phone call with Ferguson, Qin Xiong didn't need to put forward any conditions. Ferguson told Qin Xiong the idea that was two years late.
Go to Old Trafford and build the strongest attack team in the world with Ryan Giggs, Wayne Rooney, Ronaldo, and Scholes!
Scholes would withdraw and Qin Xiong would play the role of a shadow striker or an attacking midfielder.
This idea was exactly what Qin Xiong had vaguely requested when he talked to Ferguson on the phone in Amsterdam two years ago.
At that time, Ferguson couldn't make a guarantee. Now that Scholes had entered the later stages of his career and Qin Xiong's stunning performance as the number 9 for Arsenal, Ferguson was able to make the decision to support him as the offensive core of the front field. At the same time, because of Scholes' age, there was no obstruction in completing the last step of his role transformation.
Ferguson probably didn't think that there would be such a huge change in Arsenal!
A mistake!
A huge mistake!
A core player who had just created the most brilliant achievement in the club's hundred years of history was actually leaving the team!
He realized that this was a heaven-sent opportunity. It was really different from when he unintentionally signed Cantona. However, it wasn't an opportunity like Leeds United giving Cantona to him every day.
He had to fight for this opportunity.
If it wasn't for the fact that Qin Xiong only had one year left on his contract with Arsenal, Ferguson wouldn't have thought of poaching Qin Xiong.
The price would be very expensive. For Manchester United, which went from the richest football club in the world to the most indebted club in the world overnight last year, the Glazer family was now in a state of monetary contraction. However, with Ferguson's influence on the Manchester United board of directors, he could definitely fork out twenty million pounds. Coupled with Qin Xiong's commercial influence, it would allow Manchester United to develop the Asian market with twice the result with half the effort. The Manchester United board of directors would also be happy to fork out the money.
This was taking advantage of him!
It was a huge advantage!
Therefore, after Ferguson's call with Qin Xiong, he sincerely invited Qin Xiong to join and didn't give Qin Xiong any chance to interrupt.
After he finished speaking, Qin Xiong fell into a short silence.
When he opened his mouth, Ferguson heard a response that made him extremely depressed.
"Sir Alex, I'm very sorry. The purpose of my call was actually out of respect and courtesy. I wanted to tell you personally that my first thought was to leave England for a new club after leaving Arsenal. Thank you for your appreciation and sincerity, but I can't join any English team at this time."
Qin Xiong would no longer be loyal to Arsenal.
But it didn't mean that he would go from one extreme to the other and become a traitor!
Arsenal and Manchester United were the protagonists of the war in the past ten years!
After the rise of Chelsea, the two London giants staged the most brutal two seasons of championship fighting in the history of the Premier League.
Qin Xiong had just climbed to the top of Europe wearing the Arsenal uniform and written a legend. Was it not a betrayal if he immediately put on the Chelsea or Manchester United jersey?
He didn't want things to become complicated.
If he stayed in England and joined Arsenal's rival, things would become extremely complicated.
Maybe his life couldn't go on normally. There were many fanatical and extreme fans in England.
He couldn't face the Arsenal fans who still loved and supported him now, and he also had to be wary of the irrational radical Arsenal fans harassing his life.
Why let things turn out like this?
No matter how Arsenal treated him, even if he no longer played for Arsenal, he didn't want the good memories of the past two years to become unbearable to look back on.
Ferguson was a little disappointed after hearing Qin Xiong's words.
But he understood Qin Xiong's thoughts very well. He could only comfort himself that it was a good thing he wouldn't join Chelsea.
On the Italian side, Juventus was already in a state of collapse. AC Milan was also facing a dangerous situation from the investigation of the Calciopoli incident. Only Inter Milan reaped the benefits and had the leisure to explore the transfer market. Moratti also offered Qin Xiong a price that was enough for the Arsenal Football Club to release him.
Even the manager, Mancini, publicly praised Qin Xiong and hoped that the club could invite Qin Xiong to Meazza as a guest to understand the environment of Inter Milan.
After all, Inter Milan had been pursuing Qin Xiong before.
On the German side, Bayern Munich's contract extension negotiations with Ballack also ended in failure. Bayern Munich held a farewell party for Ballack on the grounds of a superstar export. On the surface, it looked like an amicable parting. After all, there were fewer and fewer German players who could play abroad as superstars in recent years.
Bayern Munich's management philosophy at this stage was that they would not spend a lot of money to bring in superstars. But because Qin Xiong was now in the "discount" stage, coupled with his young age, and the closer relationship between the German football world and the China market, Bayern Munich decided to work hard to bring in Qin Xiong!
Madrid, Spain.
Florentino retired after Real Madrid was humiliatingly eliminated from the Champions League by Arsenal a few months ago.
The acting chairman smoothly until the eve of the chairman's election.
The election for the new chairman of the club would be held in early July.
The campaign for votes by the candidates was already in full swing.
In the campaign platform and slogan of the candidate, Calderón, he passionately shouted out four names at the general meeting.
"Qin Xiong!"
"Robben!"
"Fàbregas!"
"Kaka!"
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