Golden Greenery

Chapter 043 The high-level undercurrent surges again

Barcelona returned home with an away draw in the league. At first, everyone didn't pay much attention to it. The league is a long-term competition, and you will be happy until the last laugh. But in the game that ended later, Real Madrid defeated Racing Santander 1:0 at home. This result made every Barcelona person a little depressed.

With this victory, Real Madrid temporarily overtook Barcelona and ranked first in the league standings after 11 rounds.

In Real Madrid's 1:0, there was no problem with Higuain's goal. Taking advantage of the error in the return pass between the Santander goalkeeper and the defender, the butcher De Jong stole the pass and Higuain scored the header easily. But in the second half, Santander Luis Garcia scored in the middle and broke through Casillas' goal, but was called offside by the referee, which was an obvious misjudgment.

The pro-Barcelona media collectively turned on the firepower of ridicule. They ridiculed that Real Madrid could only rely on a stolen victory to overtake Barcelona. The pro-Real Madrid media were not to be outdone. They dug up many old accounts to show how much advantage Barcelona had taken because of the penalties. They were full of saliva for a while. It was a very lively day.

In an instant, the war of words intensified, and the media on both sides began to attack each other from all angles. Doing this is not because you have nothing to do, but because the first Spanish El Clasico of the season is coming soon, and building momentum in advance is both cheering and tacit hype.

After playing Athletic Bilbao, Barcelona will face two heavyweight games at home at Camp Nou in the next week. Three days later, there will be a fatal battle between the Champions League and Inter Milan, and then we will face the league's 'leader' Real Madrid.

These two games will almost determine Barcelona's honor and disgrace in the next three months. Whether to live in flowers and praise or in a storm of spit, the decision lies at the feet of Zhuoyang.

Although the confrontation with Real Madrid in the media has begun, it is Inter Milan that bears the brunt. After four rounds of the Champions League, Inter Milan has 6 points, Kazan and Barcelona share 5 points, and Kiev has 4 points. Who would have thought before the game that the situation in Group F would be so tangled.

Inter Milan must win the first game, otherwise they will go to Kiev in the last round. Thinking about the difficulties they encountered in Kazan before, Barcelona, ​​which is not good at away games, especially in Eastern Europe, simply does not dare to pin all its hopes on the last round of counterattacks. Kill.

Not counting friendly matches, Barcelona has played 10 away games on three fronts this season, with a record of 4 wins and 6 draws. It is very different from the 8 wins and 1 loss in 9 games at home, so it must be behind Inter Milan at home. The situation for qualifying for the Champions League has become clear.

But can Inter Milan win if they want to? As Puyol said, Barcelona would rather play ten games with Real Madrid than play one with Mourinho's team.

No matter how loud the rhetoric, the game still has to be seen at the feet. Barcelona is seriously preparing for the upcoming Champions League life-and-death battle at its own training base, but there is an undercurrent surging at Barcelona Club again.

"World Sports News" broke the heavy news: Someone stole personal emails between Spain's largest media company MediaPro Group and Spain's Huxon International Co., Ltd., as well as between the Barcelona Club.

MediaPro is a company started in Barcelona. They have the main broadcasting rights for Spanish football matches in the next three seasons. MediaPro also owns Barcelona's league broadcasting rights.

Harkson International Co., Ltd. is also an investment company started in Barcelona, ​​mainly engaged in real estate. The founder of Harkson International is Joan Laporta, and Golda, one of the current vice-chairmen of Barcelona, ​​is also Harkson. One of the shareholders of Kesen.

According to the report, a senior executive within MediaPro took advantage of the opportunity to repair the office computer of group chairman Joao Rolles and stole a large number of Chairman Rolles’ emails, including the company’s internal negotiation meeting minutes, TV broadcast plans, and his Correspondence with Laporta, Guardiola and the agents of Barcelona players.

A secret account of the senior executive was discovered. He received approximately 300,000 euros in income through this secret account, and the source of this income pointed to a shell company owned by FC Barcelona.

The company has a close relationship with Russell, one of the four vice-chairmen.

The specific content of those emails was not exposed in the report, and perhaps "World Sports News" did not reveal the truth. Perhaps there was nothing invisible about the content of the emails, but this kind of theft itself is a standard act of commercial espionage.

The news was leaked from within the MediaPro Group, and they were the ones who said the words, but none, including Chairman Rolles, did not show all the evidence and make it completely public. Others involved in the incident, Laporta, Guardiola and Rosell, have yet to express their opinions.

Zhuoyang was also involved because those emails contained correspondence from his agent Milo Raiola. As the "Mr. One Hundred Million Dollar" in history, there are many overt and covert accounts behind huge financial transactions, including commissions, commissions and signature fees.

After completing the transfer from Milan to Barcelona, ​​Zhuoyang had an extra 8.5 million euros in his account. The fat man said: Money is the cleanest thing in the world, spend it well.

Now no one knows what secrets those stolen emails revealed. Everyone is waiting and watching, and no one dares to say anything easily. But this incident has obviously deepened the power struggle between Barcelona's top brass, especially Laporta and Rosell, and is likely to be part of the conspiracy in itself.

Laporta is not too worried about the 'Spygate'. In his impression, the emails with Rolles did not involve any privacy that would be detrimental to him. Otherwise, Russell would have been exposed long ago, and he would have waited for Rolles to get angry first. ?

Laporta's recent worry is that the long-planned chest advertisement is not going well.

In the past, the membership-based La Liga did not have advertisements on the chests of their jerseys, but now, not to mention the wealthy clubs, all teams have advertisements printed on their chests. Barcelona is the only one in the world that has remained "pure" so far.

It’s all water, so no one can pretend to be pure. Laporta has long wanted to develop the commercial value of this piece of water. Since taking office in 2003, he has been constantly testing the tone of Barcelona members. In order to make everyone gradually accept the 'tacky' on the chest, Laporta printed 'UNICEF' on the front of the jersey in 2005.

UNICEF is the United Nations Children's Charity Fund of Zhuo Yang, the international goodwill ambassador. This kind of chest advertisement is completely public welfare and has a very high profile, which is the only one in the world of football.

Over the past few years, Barcelona members have become accustomed to having something on the front of their originally bare and hairless jerseys. In fact, it's just hypocritical. Nike's little check mark has been on the right chest of the jersey for several years, and no one has had a disembowelment in protest.

In the member survey, everyone finally stopped opposing the advertisement on the chest of the jersey, and the support rate exceeded those who opposed it. After all, it can bring a lot of revenue to the club, and Laporta took advantage of the opportunity to start this investment. When the chest advertisement is successfully completed, Laporta also plans to sell the naming rights of Camp Nou in the future.

But the grand plan has just begun, and things suddenly change for the worse.

Several Chinese trademarks that are the main targets have been in good terms, and Qatar United Airlines, which Laporta used as a spare tire, has also been caught with a fishhook. But recently, for some reason, Chinese merchants no longer compete with each other to raise prices. Instead, they have put forward more demands. These demands are very unreasonable or even excessive, and the negotiations have a clear feeling of going backwards. Qatar has also become lukewarm and seems to have the intention of withdrawing.

If you don’t get it right, it will turn yellow!

Laporta vaguely felt that there was a dark hand behind this matter, and that the Spanish government was using its national influence to suppress him. It all stemmed from his idea of ​​a "full-name government" in Catalonia.

Laporta is racking his brains to strategize, and amidst the chaos, Barcelona also welcomed Mourinho and his Inter Milan at the Nou Camp.

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