The Godfather of Football

Affected by the London Olympics, the war scene at the Premier League Chairman's Summit did not attract the attention of the outside media and fans. Everything was still going on in an orderly manner. No one knew that the Premier League was already turbulent in secret and was brewing a huge change.

Because Wembley Stadium was occupied by the Olympics, this season's Premier League Community Shield was scheduled to be held at Villa Park in Birmingham. Ye Qiu led the team to compete in the game, and taking this opportunity, Peter Kenyon met with the club leaders of Aston Villa and Liverpool to conduct in-depth negotiations on the salary and debt limit plan.

The management talked passionately in the stands, but the players were invincible on the court.

Affected by the Olympics, many main stars of Tottenham Hotspur had to miss the game.

In this game, Ye Qiu still arranged the 433 tactics. The goalkeeper was Cech, the back line was Luke Shaw, Nesta, Kompany and Azpilicueta, the midfield was Pogba, Pirlo and Vidal, and the front trident was Hazard, Cavani and Messi.

Among them, Azpilicueta and Cavani both participated in the Olympic Games, but Spain and Uruguay both stopped in the group stage, so they returned to the team early, and Britain also lost to the South Korean Olympic team a few days ago, and Brazil also lost to Mexico in yesterday's final, but the Tottenham players of these two Olympic teams did not participate in the Community Shield.

French scarred Ribery also missed this game due to injury in training.

Compared with the absence of many main players of Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool can be said to be strong and powerful. Benitez's team is ambitious to make a difference in the Premier League and European arena this season, and the Community Shield is his first shot.

Both sides started playing calmly. Tottenham Hotspur was mainly absent from the team's main players, especially many new players. For the sake of safety, Ye Qiu did not adopt the tactic of rushing to attack after the opening. On the contrary, Benítez's team played rushing to attack from the beginning, trying to suppress Tottenham Hotspur's momentum.

In the first half, until the 42nd minute, Mata broke through and passed the ball, Suarez shot in the penalty area and scored, opening the record for Liverpool, and the Red Army also kept this score until the end.

In the second half, neither side made substitutions, but Tottenham Hotspur's performance improved.

In the 59th minute, Pirlo made a pass to the right, Messi stopped the ball and cut inside to pass the ball, Cavani followed up and shot directly in the penalty area, hitting the dead corner of Liverpool's goal, 1:1, equalizing the score.

After that, Tottenham Hotspur continued to take the initiative to attack Liverpool, while Liverpool took a defensive counterattack. The two sides played hard, and it was not until the 78th minute that a goal appeared again.

Eden Hazard dribbled the ball on the left and broke through Glen Johnson. After the breakthrough, Hazard made a low pass to the middle, and Skrtel cleared the ball with a tackle, but the ball did not leave the danger zone. Pogba followed up, and his stop was a little big, because Scholes's kick was a clearance, not a pass.

Javier Martinez also reacted very quickly. He moved in front of Pogba at the first time, trying to stop the French midfielder from passing the ball forward or shooting directly. When he saw that Pogba's stop was a little big, he subconsciously made a move to intercept the ball, but Pogba's reaction was faster. After all, he knew that he stopped the ball too big when he stopped the ball.

Pogba was tall and had long legs. He got ahead of Javier Martinez, pulled the ball to the right, avoided Javier Martinez's interception, and swung his right foot. Before Lucas Reva arrived to block, he made a powerful shot with his right foot. The ball went into the goal guarded by Reina from the near post, 2:1!

Two consecutive goals, both scored from the front of the penalty area, and both were powerful volleys, full of violent beauty, making all Tottenham fans who came to Villa Park excited and celebrated wildly, because this goal represented the team's reversal of Liverpool.

Immediately afterwards, Liverpool launched a round of crazy attacks, but Tottenham began to shrink their defense appropriately. In the 86th minute, Pirlo made a diagonal pass to launch a counterattack. Hazard tore through Liverpool's defense again at lightning speed. After getting the ball on the left, he passed it to the right. Messi followed up and shot directly, 3:1!

Consecutive goals allowed Tottenham to finally beat Liverpool 3:1, won the Community Shield, and won the season's opening victory. This is also the first championship trophy Tottenham has won this season.

When the whistle sounded at the end of the game, all the Tottenham players rushed into the stadium to celebrate the team's victory. Ye Qiu waited for Peter Kenyon who came down from the stands. The latter made an OK gesture to him. The answer is self-evident, that is, he has successfully convinced Liverpool and Aston Villa.

Sometimes, people are like this. If you want to be the boss, you must have subordinates to obey you. If no one obeys you, it will be useless even if you become the boss. Therefore, if Tottenham wants to occupy a place in the core of power in the Premier League, it must have its own partners, not just Southampton.

At the very least, it must strive for more than two-thirds of the votes!

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After Tottenham defeated Liverpool 3:1, the London Olympics also came to an end.

The entire British media immediately began to turn their attention to the Premier League. At this time, the second meeting of the Premier League Chairman's Summit was also held at the Zhenhua Hotel. Representatives of twenty Premier League teams participated in this meeting. .

This time, there was a vote on the salary limit clause. This was almost discussed last time. Now the Premier League has drafted a plan and framework. The vote was passed in one go. All club representatives had no objections. After all, The salary limit does have great benefits for the Premier League.

But it's still the same as last time, although this time there are more complete preparations for debt limit. Peter Kenyon, who participated in the meeting on behalf of Tottenham Hotspur, also gave a very detailed plan, including debt limit. Specific timetable and specific debt ceiling, etc., but the entire vote still failed to pass by one vote.

Thirteen teams passed, one abstained and six opposed. From a proportional point of view, Tottenham Hotspur won Liverpool and Manchester City. Although this meeting failed again, Peter Kenyon's other One initiative was recognized, that is, to settle this clause before the first round of the new season, so the two parties agreed to discuss it in three days.

After Peter Kenyon ended the meeting, he went straight to Theobald to find Ye Qiu. In addition to explaining the results and process of the meeting, he also put forward some constructive suggestions made by many club representatives in the meeting. Some clauses that Ye Qiu thought were It was also a good fit to join, so Peter Kenyon began to revise his proposal.

In the following two days, Peter Kenyon visited Newcastle, West Ham United, Swansea and Sunderland and other teams to conduct in-depth analysis and communication on the debt limit clauses. This time, Peter ?Kenyon showed his ability to dance, and he finally succeeded in convincing these teams.

Three days later, the twenty teams returned to the Zhenhua Hotel for another closed-door meeting.

There were three consecutive closed-door meetings before the season. In addition, the Premier League teams were so intensively traveling back and forth and meeting. The outside world also smelled the special smell, so many British media were stationed outside the venue.

The meeting was eventually extended from the original three hours to six hours, and the final voting results showed that Tottenham Hotspur's proposal passed with sixteen votes and four against, and was successfully voted on by the Premier League. The league officially signed agreements with 20 Premier League teams to implement this clause.

That evening, Premier League CEO Richard Scudmore held an impromptu press conference in the conference hall of Zhenhua Hotel to formally express his position to the outside world, but this time he did not mention who proposed it. The motion only states that the Premier League has officially adopted this salary limit and debt limit clause and will submit it to the government’s Ministry of Labor and the Players Union for review.

As long as it is confirmed by the government and the players union, this clause will be implemented from the next season, and we will strive to reduce the liabilities of all Premier League teams to a reasonable and risk-controllable level in 2018, five years after the clause is implemented. within the range.

This is a very, very important event for many teams, especially for teams such as Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United with such high debts. It is no less than a bolt from the blue.

But also at this press conference, Manchester City representative Mubarak said, “This is an important measure that is beneficial to the long-term future development of the Premier League. Only when risks are controllable can Premier League teams maintain long-term and stable development. "

Even Mubarak said that the team will control Manchester City's current liabilities through a series of measures, including selling some of the team's substitute players, reducing the team's salary expenses, and actively increasing investment in business development, but he also Said that the plan to build a training base will not change as a result.

Richard Scudmore highly affirmed the key role played by Tottenham Hotspur in this competition at the press conference. He believed that Tottenham Hotspur is the best team in the Premier League. The team’s role model and role model.

"We all know that the salary limit and debt limit are not targeted at a certain team or a certain number of players. We have only one purpose in implementing this policy, and that is to enable our league to develop better and benefit all players. All teams can enjoy more long-term benefits from the Premier League.”

"We not only want to limit salary and debt, we also hope that more teams will consider the fans, because we all know that in the past few years, the price of Premier League tickets has also been rising. , and according to the data we have obtained, in the past five years, the average ticket price of the Premier League has more than doubled, and many fans can no longer afford such high ticket prices.”

"Here, I must mention Tottenham Hotspur. The reason why they are a role model in the Premier League is that in the past six years, that is, from 2006 to 2012, for six years and six seasons, they have not had any tickets. The price increase is even a penny, which is a very, very rare thing in the past few years, but Tottenham Hotspur's net income has doubled or tripled."

"This proves one thing. Even without high ticket prices, as long as the team operates properly, it can still maintain profitability. This experience and this business model are worth promoting and worth learning by all Premier League teams!"

Scudmore's last words were more of an appeal, because it is impossible to write ticket price restrictions into the clauses. After all, different regions have different consumption levels, and a one-size-fits-all approach is not acceptable, especially considering that ticket sales are basically the business projects of each team, and the Premier League should not interfere too much.

After this press conference, the British media immediately interpreted the new Premier League policy, and as they gradually dug, many truths gradually surfaced. Everyone was surprised to find that this new policy was led by Tottenham Hotspur, and this team relied on this new policy reform to successfully get the most weighty voice in the Premier League, even surpassing Manchester United, a veteran team.

At the same time, Peter Kenyon, who personally participated in this reform and was evaluated by Schudmore as playing a key role, also became popular in the Premier League and the English Football Association, even surpassing David Gill. After all, the latter's way of handling things in order to safeguard the interests of Manchester United this time made many people dissatisfied.

Sir Dave Richards, the vice chairman of the English Football Association in charge of league business, will step down, and the candidate who will replace Sir Dave Richards will be selected from the twelve board members.

Among the twelve board members, five are representatives from the England national team, five are representatives from the professional league, plus the chairman and general secretary of the English Football Association, there are exactly twelve people, and recently there are two non-executive directors, one of whom is the 56-year-old vice chairman of Millwall, Ms. Rabat, but they are not qualified to compete for the vice chairman.

After this incident, the outside media analyzed that once Sir Dave Richards steps down, the next person to replace him will be selected from the five existing representatives from the professional league, and the most popular candidates are David Gill and Peter Kenyon from the Premier League.

Regardless of which of the two people is finally elected, they will become the powerful figures who hold both the club management and the vice chairman of the English Football Association after David Dunn. You know, David Dunn stepped down in 2006, but before that, Arsenal had always been the favorite to win the championship, and after that, Arsenal has been without a championship for many years.

Therefore, many people also associate Arsenal's success in the past with David Dunn's position as vice chairman of the English Football Association.

This time, if Tottenham Hotspur's CEO Peter Kenyon really becomes the vice chairman of the English Football Association, Tottenham Hotspur will undoubtedly dominate the Premier League.

That is, when the entire British and even the world media are full of expectations and admiration for Tottenham Hotspur to lead the Premier League, the new season of the Premier League finally ignited the war.

With Tottenham Hotspur having completed an unprecedented four consecutive Premier League titles and won 88 unbeaten games, whether Tottenham Hotspur will end in the new season has become the focus of everyone's attention.

And this season's Premier League, even Arsenal, has begun to spend a lot of money on signings, trying to strengthen its own strength by introducing them, return to the top four of the league, and return to the Champions League. After all, for Arsenal, the loss of missing the Champions League is too heavy.

Like the past Premier League, although the Premier League schedule is random, there is at least one highlight in almost every round. The opening game of the new Premier League season is Reading at home against Stoke City, but the real highlight is Tottenham Hotspur away to Newcastle.

The broadcasters arranged this game on Saturday night, which shows how much they value this game, and everyone is full of expectations for the start of Tottenham Hotspur's new season. After introducing the famous coach Ancelotti, Newcastle also announced that it would play a better performance in the new season.

Therefore, this game has attracted much attention from fans.

In this game, Tottenham Hotspur can be said to have played all the main players.

The goalkeeper is Cech, the defense line is Marcelo, Thiago Silva, Kompany and Kyle Walker, the midfield is Ramsey, Pirlo and Vidal, the front court is Hazard, Cavani and Messi, and Ribery is absent due to injury.

At the beginning of the game, Tottenham Hotspur took an aggressive offensive strategy, contrary to the conservative tactics used in the Community Shield against Liverpool. Ancelotti was also very familiar with Ye Qiu's tricks. At the beginning of the game, Newcastle was as solid as a mountain, but did not make a decent counterattack.

The first half of the game was very dull, and there was no change in the second half. After all, this was the first round of the league, and the players of both sides had not yet fully entered the rhythm of the league.

But in the 55th minute, Tottenham Hotspur's frontcourt Messi retreated and passed the ball continuously. After Pirlo inserted in the 30-meter area, he pressed very low and almost passed the ball over the head of the opponent's central defender Zielinski, and fell to Newcastle's left.

Hazard rushed all the way, stopped the ball and passed David Santon, and passed the ball into the penalty area. Cavani, who came from the back row, shot hard in front of the goal, scoring the first goal of the season for Tottenham Hotspur, 1:0!

The goal stimulated the players of both sides and ignited the battle of Tottenham Hotspur.

Less than fifteen minutes later, Pirlo took the ball from the back row and passed it directly to Ramsey at the front of the penalty area. The Welshman stopped the ball and passed it diagonally, and Messi stopped the ball and cut into the penalty area from the ribs between the opponent's central defender and full-back, creating a penalty.

The Argentine scored the penalty himself, 2:0!

The two goals almost sentenced Newcastle to death, but the data left behind by the game left people with more reverie.

Tottenham Hotspur had a ball possession rate of 55.1%, a pass success rate of 90.7%, 28 shots, but only eight shots on target, and scored two goals.

Guardiola was sitting in the stands of St. James' Park. He logged into the OPTA data company's APP and got this data, but his mind could not calm down for a long time, because it turned out that Cruyff was right!

And the live broadcast of Sky TV captured Guardiola's appearance!