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The news of Manchester United being acquired by foreign capital has occupied all the sports news pages in recent days. Now all the news in the newspapers has pointed to the Glazer family who spent 800 million pounds in this shocking acquisition.

This may be the most expensive acquisition of a Premier League club after Abramovich acquired Chelsea.

Compared with the 800 million pounds invested by the Glazer family, Higgins and Gillette spent less than 500 million to get Liverpool, which is actually very cheap. After all, Liverpool is also a veteran team.

However, unlike Manchester United's acquisition this time, Liverpool's acquisition war is completely a equity conversion trick of making money out of nothing. Most of the acquisition money of Higgins and Gillette came from bank loans.

It can be said that when Higgins and Gillette got the ownership of Liverpool, they were already clean.

Although they can declare in front of the media that Liverpool has now entered a best period and they will definitely let the club return to the great era of Shankly, this seems like bragging no matter how you look at it.

Because the two of them have not paid even a penny of transfer fee so far. Even these two pure businessmen have to think twice about firing Benítez. It’s not that they are reluctant to part with the Spanish bald guy, but they don’t want to pay a large amount of contract breach fee to that guy.

Do you think that two poor guys who are unwilling to pay the cost of firing the head coach will really spend tens of millions of pounds to strengthen the team? Don’t say that they are both very rich. In fact, they are just businessmen.

Businessmen only have to consider interests. Liverpool is a piece of fat meat, so the two of them will come all the way to make this acquisition. As for who Gerrard is and what role he plays in the team, they really don’t want to understand.

This is also why Gerrard had the idea of ​​​​transferring and leaving for the first time after the team’s equity changed hands.

Because you really can’t explain the glory of the club to two businessmen who don’t even understand the rules of football. These two Americans can only see interests in their eyes. Glory? History? These are all shit to them.

Compared with those two stingy guys, the Glazer family itself is still a little bit powerful. At least they still have a football team in the United States, and they can still take out 500 million as the principal to complete this acquisition battle.

The British Evening Standard, which has always been known for its objective comments, described the Manchester United acquisition in this way.

"The past 72 hours have been like Judgment Day for Manchester United. Now the American Glazer, who is the most hated by Manchester fans, has finally arrived. No matter how annoying he is, the Red Devils fans need to face this reality. An outsider who they think does not understand football, a "Yankee" who acquired Manchester United with a debt of 300 million, is sitting in the boss's office. He will decide all the decisions and operational directions of the Manchester United club in the future."

The banner of British football, the extremely glorious Red Devils Empire, finally "fell" under the continuous attack of Glazer.

Although Glazer stood up and stated immediately after the acquisition, he not only wanted to retain Ferguson, but also wanted to maintain Manchester United's competitiveness in the Premier League, and he would give Ferguson 20 million pounds in the upcoming transfer period to supplement the team's strength to save the embarrassment of their failure to make ends meet this season.

At the same time, he and the club's market development department will also transfer the naming rights of Old Trafford Stadium and sell TV broadcasts separately to increase the club's financial resources and strive to let Manchester United regain the position of the Premier League leader. All this sounds beautiful. Although the American doesn't understand football, he knows how to operate.

However, after talking about these superficial phenomena, the Evening Standard gave a hypothesis that made Manchester United fans a little worried. All that Glazer said now may be fulfilled on time in the next one or two years.

Even when the transfer period comes this summer, he may give Ferguson a large sum of money for acquisitions in the transfer market, but this may only be a short honeymoon period and will not become a long-term business behavior.

Glazer is good at doing business, otherwise he would not have been able to persuade the two Irish horse farm tycoons to give up their shares. At the same time, he also knows how to win people's hearts. Keeping Ferguson is just the first step of the plan.

First, take down the important old officials of the club, and then use practical actions to deal with those extreme fans who have always been prejudiced against him. Before taking action, Glazer is obviously more clever and planned than the two Americans in Liverpool.

However, all this can only continue under the premise that everything in the club is stable. Who can guarantee that Manchester United will always have strong competitiveness? Especially under the strong impact of Chelsea, how long can they last?

If Manchester United cannot get a good result for two or three consecutive years, then Glazer will be in trouble. Once the finances under his control begin to have problems, who can guarantee the future of Manchester United?

Don't say that this is impossible. Don't forget that Glazer did not participate in this acquisition battle with all cash. At least 300 million of the 800 million pounds he invested in the acquisition were loans from his financing.

Those investment banks are not pushovers. Although they absolutely support the Glazer family in this acquisition battle, will they still stand firmly behind the Glazers when the debt comes due in the future?

Anyway, no one knows what will happen in the future, including Glazer himself. After all, he is not God yet.

If one day the Glazer family encounters a financial crisis, then Manchester United will also be in disaster.

Maybe someone will step forward to take over the banner of Manchester United at a critical moment, but no one can tell what will happen in the future.

As the commentator of this report said, what awaits Manchester United is an unknown fate.

Now not only Manchester United is facing such an uncertain future, but at least three or four Premier League teams, including Liverpool, have to consider such troubles. When Chelsea's future is bright, those asset tycoons from abroad , have regarded running Premier League clubs as a good business that can make a lot of money.

When both Manchester United and Liverpool have fallen into this capital war, can the mid-to-lower teams still refuse?

Fulham, Manchester City, these teams are all involved in this kind of takeover war without exception. Maybe Abramovich just planted a fire when he bought Chelsea. When he succeeded, the fire was starting to burn. .

Maybe next season will reveal how many old clubs will become the private properties of capital giants.

Anyway, now is the moment when Kenyon feels a little headache. After two seasons of squandering, he finally discovered that his checkbook may not be able to handle everything, because the number of wealthy people is gradually increasing.

Maybe one day the oil giants from the Middle East will enter the Premier League's takeover battle. By then, tycoons like Abramovich with a net worth of billions will not be considered the richest man. The boss is here.

When more foreign capital is injected, the melee in the Premier League will become more intense, and the challenges to Chelsea will become more and more. Not only Kenyon understands this, Mourinho also knows what this means. .

If we say that the past may have been an era when Manchester United and Arsenal dominated the world, then when Chelsea rises, it can be said that the world is dominated by three points. But in the future, no one can jump out and compete with Chelsea for the top position in the Premier League. I guess no one can predict Even Mourinho himself didn't know it. After all, the power of money is really terrifying.

The troubled times in the Premier League are taking shape little by little. Now there may no longer be the myth of one team that has dominated for more than ten years. Instead, there will be more intense confrontations, more crazy competition for points, and an era of princes competing for hegemony. .

However, Mourinho is confident that he will always lead Chelsea to the top of this competition, just like now.

Regarding the future era of chaos, Mourinho does not need to think about it for the time being. After all, no one can predict what actions the two clubs will take after the exchange of blood in the summer, including Arsenal's actions.

Unlike Manchester United and Liverpool, Arsenal has no foreign capital intrusion now, but compared with the top teams in the Premier League, Arsenal's lineup will also undergo major adjustments when summer comes.

For example, after winning the FA Cup, Wenger cryptically announced at the post-match press conference that both Pires and Bergkamp were likely to leave at the end of the season, as well as Vieira and Ashley Cole. The future is not certain either.

Although Pires' departure made many Arsenal fans a little sad, many fans rarely sided with the players regarding Bergkamp's future. Many people denounced the club's actions on this issue. ruthless.

Bergkamp's problem is already a commonplace. The Dutchman only wants to renew his contract for one more year, and there is no requirement on salary. All he wants to do is to complete his career at Arsenal and retire here to hang up his boots.

But Wenger has been slow to respond to him, and the attitude of the Arsenal club is also very tough. They believe that the prerequisite for contract renewal is not the size of Bergkamp's salary requirements, but whether he is still "useful".

Ice Prince has worked diligently at Arsenal for ten years, but now he sadly finds that he cannot get a one-year contract extension.

Perhaps it was Arsenal's young guards who gave Wenger the courage to say no, but while Mourinho was watching all this with a cold eye, he only made a comment to Brito privately, "What he has lost is irreparable experience. "

Cesc Fabregas, Van Persie, maybe these little guys are very strong, but Mourinho knows that even if Wenger has 11 Lin Wings, he still needs those old guys on the court to guide them how to play the game.

This is no longer the era when a group of talented boy scouts can sweep the Premier League. For this opponent in the Community Shield next season, Mourinho can only see that it is on the road to gradual decline.

decay? Yes, it is decline, a decline that has lost the nourishment of experience. . .

In such chaos, maybe a ruler should really stand up. Could it be Chelsea? Maybe.