Chapter 377 Qatar Consortium: 200 million euros is too little, we need to pay more!
When Juventus fans saw Lin Quan pass Buffon and push the ball into the empty goal, they all fell into despair.
The game had entered injury time and they were two goals behind, with no time to equalize the score.
Losing at home and giving the opponent 2 goals is such a huge disadvantage that it can almost be said that Juventus's Champions League journey will end in the quarterfinals.
I'm not willing to accept this!
We finally made it to the Champions League, and I don't want to stop here.
Pirlo raised his head and glanced at the blue figure in front of his own penalty area, his heart full of bitterness.
This should have been his last Champions League, but he didn't expect it to end like this.
It seems that his wish to help Juventus win a Champions League title will never come true.
After Lin's whole body, Buffon, who lost in the speed competition between the two, was filled with regret and unwillingness.
If I had been faster and more decisive, I might not have lost the ball.
Compared to Pirlo, Buffon has never won the Champions League trophy before.
He is older than Pirlo and his career is obviously coming to an end.
Even if the goalkeeper's career is longer, at his current age of 37, he can only last another three or four years at most.
In the next three or four years, can Juventus really win the Champions League? Buffon fell into deep doubt! Compared with the frustration and unwillingness of the Juventus players, after Lin Quan scored this goal, the people in the coaching and substitute benches of Manchester City were all crazy.
Guardiola was so excited that he ignored his identity and rushed into the grass with the substitute players and gave Lin Quan a bear hug who rushed over.
Originally, winning 1:0 would have completely met his psychological expectations, but he did not expect Lin Quan to score another goal in injury time, which completely exceeded his psychological expectations.
After taking a two-goal lead in the first leg, Manchester City had a lot of room for error when they returned to their home ground for the second leg.
If Manchester City's chance of advancing to the semi-finals was 70% at 1:0, then at this point, their chance of advancing was probably over 80%! There was not much time left in the game, and after Manchester City finished celebrating, the referee quickly blew the whistle to end the game.
In the end, thanks to Lin Quan's two goals, Manchester City defeated Juventus 2:0 away.
After the game, most of Juventus players were very frustrated. After thanking the fans who came to support them, they hurriedly left the stadium.
But there are some exceptions who are thick-skinned, such as Morata.
"Brother Lin, exchange jerseys with me!"
He took off his jersey early and ran over happily to exchange jersey with Lin Quan.
Lin Quan nodded, took off his Manchester City jersey and gave it to Morata, patted him on the shoulder and encouraged him: "Keep working hard and strive to become our number one striker in Spain as soon as possible!"
After Torres and Villa have successively faded out of the national team, Spain's current main forwards are only Diego Costa and Morata.
However, Spain's main player now is Diego Costa, and Morata only has the opportunity to play when the team plays with a double striker tactic.
If he wants to get a stable starting position, he needs to show his strength and beat Diego Costa in the competition.
"Don't worry, I will definitely defeat Brother Meiyan and become the starting player!"
Morata seems to be very confident about this and firmly believes that he will make a big splash in the future.
Lin Quan originally wanted to remind Morata to work harder on his shooting technique, but seeing the guy's appearance, he immediately gave up the idea.
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After the game, Lin Quan took half a day off and invited Buffon and Pirlo to have a meal together.
During this period, Pirlo has been consulting about the situation in Major League Soccer and New York City. Buffon on the side has no intention of leaving the top five leagues for the time being.
But when Lin Quan and Pirlo were talking, Buffon still pricked up his ears and listened very carefully.
He doesn't want to retire now, but that may not be the case in the future.
Perhaps after he wins the Champions League and fulfills his Champions League dream, he will end his long career!
However, Buffon has not yet decided where to retire.
Maybe he will go overseas to seek fortune, or maybe he will choose to return to his hometown with the team where he made his debut.
"You guys at Manchester City are really good at playing. Lampard's rental fee is so low, and you only bear half of his annual salary. It's like New York City has borne tens of millions of euros in expenses for you!"
After learning about the relationship between New York City and Manchester City, and the possibility that he would be loaned to Manchester City to play football after joining New York City, Pirlo, who was born into a merchant family, immediately realized the trick.
“Is this used to circumvent UEFA’s Financial Fair Play regulations?”
"That's not the case. New York City has gained big-name players, which has improved its brand image. We have gained immediate combat effectiveness and can also save costs. This is a win-win cooperation."
"I don't believe you, why doesn't New York City cooperate with other clubs like this?"
Pirlo couldn't help but roll his eyes. Lin Quan's explanation was too fake and was completely misleading.
"In fact, this method is not only used by our club. There are many financial groups in the Middle East, such as the Qatari financial group behind Paris Saint-Germain. They are also actively planning to acquire a series of teams to increase the influence of the Qatari financial group and facilitate their future transfer operations."
After hearing the plans and goals of these big consortiums, Buffon couldn't help but sigh:
"It feels like football is about to become a plaything for these financial groups!"
"Who says it's not true? A consortium with hundreds of billions of dollars at its disposal, such a behemoth, who can beat them?"
Pirlo is born into a wealthy family, so he understands the power of money more deeply than others.
Several people are a little worried. With the increasing influence of capital on professional football, what will the future of professional football look like? …
There are many strong matchups in this round of the Champions League, including the matchups between upstarts like Manchester City and established powerhouses like the Old Lady.
The city derby between Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid, as well as the clash between Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, can attract countless people's attention.
However, the results of these games were not beyond everyone's expectations.
Manchester City, which had the advantage in strength, defeated Juventus 2:0 away, and Barcelona, with the MSN trident, swept Paris Saint-Germain 3:1 away.
After a fierce competition, Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid finally shook hands and made peace.
However, what should have been a match with the biggest disparity in strength turned out to be the biggest upset of this round of the Champions League.
Bayern Munich, who was absolutely favored to win the championship before the game, was beaten 3:1 by the opponent at the Dragon Stadium in Porto.
In this game, Quaresma, Ronaldo's good friend who was abandoned by Barcelona and Inter Milan, suddenly exploded and scored two goals by himself, leading the team to complete a counterattack and defeat the arrogant Bayern Munich.
The score of 3:1 is very dangerous even for a top team like Bayern.
Porto, holding a two-goal lead, will advance to the semi-finals as long as Bayern does not score two goals in the second leg.
Porto has never made it to the semi-finals since Mourinho led the team to win the championship.
If they can do it this time, it will definitely greatly increase Porto's popularity and attract the attention of all of Europe and even the world.
By then, Porto's player supermarket will open, and those players who have performed well in the Champions League will be able to win the expectations of many giants and make a fortune for Porto.
"What's going on with Bayern? How did they get beaten by Porto? With Porto's lineup, how could they possibly beat Bayern?"
"If I hadn't watched the live broadcast of this game, I really wouldn't have believed this score!"
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"Yes, judging from the situation, Bayern has an absolute advantage!"
In this game, Bayern had more than 65% possession of the ball, 30 shots, but only scored one goal, while Porto had less than 35% possession of the ball, only 11 shots, 5 shots on target, but scored 3 goals.
If we ignore the number of goals and only look at these data, we can imagine how Bayern beat Porto at the Dragon Stadium.
However, once the goal statistics of both sides are added, Bayern's situation becomes very embarrassing.
Although the opponent had few shots and few ball possession rates, their offensive efficiency was very high and their luck was also very good. Porto used several counterattacks to not only create threats but also score goals.
This proves that Bayern's weakness was discovered by the opponent and hit directly.
If they can't find a way to make up for this shortcoming as soon as possible, Bayern will most likely lose when the next round of the game starts.
Bayern lost when Manchester City won, which led many Guardiola fans to launch a counterattack against Bayern:
"Haha, Guardiola led his team to a 2-0 win over Juventus, and they are on the verge of reaching the semi-finals, but now Bayern Munich is not even in the semi-finals. Do you still have the nerve to blame Guardiola now?"
"They say Guardiola has ruined Bayern. Guardiola led the team to win the Bundesliga title, set a new record for the longest unbeaten streak in team history, and led the team to the Champions League semi-finals. Even if it were Real Madrid, such results would definitely not be considered a failure. Who do Bayern think they are? Must they win the Champions League every year to be considered successful?"
Facing the counterattack of Guardiola's fans, Bayern's fans naturally refused to give in: "Haha, as the defending champions, they couldn't beat Manchester City, and were shut out by Atletico Madrid in the semi-finals. Isn't this embarrassing enough?"
"If you say that, the defending champion Chelsea didn't even make it out of the group stage, and Real Madrid, which has won nine Champions League trophies, is ranked 16th every year. Isn't that more shameful?"
"People are greedy, they only accept success but not failure. Does that mean other teams are rubbish and only you, Bayern, are allowed to be great?"
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Because of Bayern's loss, Bayern's odds of winning the championship dropped a lot after the end of this round of games.
The team that is currently most favored by bookmakers is neither Manchester City nor Bayern, but Barcelona.
Barcelona's offensive firepower is really strong this season. Suarez's perfect integration has brought Barcelona's strength to a higher level.
In this round, facing the powerful Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona played a dominant game, firmly suppressing the opponent throughout the whole court and making Paris Saint-Germain lose all their temper.
After the game, Paris Saint-Germain fans wailed, they felt that their team was doomed.
After losing so badly at home, how could they survive away from home? In this match, Sheikh Jassim, the big boss of the Qatari consortium, came to watch the game in person.
He is full of confidence in the team he has spent a lot of money to build, and feels that with the Qatari consortium's unsparing support, Paris Saint-Germain should have reached the level of top European clubs.
Therefore, he was full of confidence and thought he would be able to enjoy a wonderful battle between two powerful teams.
However, the process and results of the game were completely different from what he had imagined.
Paris Saint-Germain, armed with money, was beaten without any chance of fighting back by the real giants.
Ibrahimovic, who was hailed as the best player after Messi and Ronaldo a few years ago, has not shown the strength that matches his fame.
On the contrary, it was the MSN trio within the Barcelona team that demonstrated extremely strong individual strength and teamwork, and each of them left a very deep impression on him.
Especially Messi and Neymar, these two made him drool.
No wonder people think that Manchester City, Barcelona and Real Madrid are the three strongest clubs in football.
It turns out that superstars play such an important role on the court! This made Sheikh Jassim feel a little moved. If he wanted to take Paris Saint-Germain to the next level, buying top players would probably be useless.
They need to buy a real superstar!
Last summer they spent 200 million euros but failed to buy Lin Quan, and the Qataris were still very dissatisfied. But now, after suffering a loss, they finally realized the true value of the superstar.
200 million euros, it seems that it is still too little, we need to strengthen it! Thinking of this, Jasim began to make a plan in his mind: he planned to increase the offer to 250 million euros, and then go to Manchester City's Lin Quan, Real Madrid's C Ronaldo, Barcelona's Messi to try again.
If it doesn't work, we can buy a player of Neymar's level.
However, this kid's fame and strength are somewhat different from those of the superstars, so the transfer price needs to be lowered a bit and cannot exceed 250 million euros.
Otherwise, if the price is driven up to the sky right from the start, the price to pay later on when you want to buy a real superstar will be too high.
There were less than three months left until the summer transfer window. After Jassim made the decision, the Qatari consortium immediately took action.
They began to collect recent game videos of the three superstars and hired professional analysts to help them analyze the strength, status and commercial value of these three players, so as to evaluate their value.
For a time, many Paris Saint-Germain scouts appeared in the stands of Manchester City, Barcelona and Real Madrid, and began to collect intelligence blatantly.
Considering that they are rivals of Barcelona in the Champions League, it is understandable that they collect intelligence on Barcelona.
But Manchester City and Real Madrid have nothing to do with them, and if they are eliminated by Barcelona, it is impossible for them to meet in the Champions League.
So their move of sending people to Manchester City and Real Madrid to collect intelligence immediately aroused speculation from the outside world.
Many people think that Paris Saint-Germain is planning to take action against Lin Quan and Ronaldo!
(End of this chapter)