Chapter 860: A life-and-death struggle
A convertible version of the Aston Martin successor, as white as jade, drove out of the Hamburg Ring Expressway No. 7 at the Volkspark Stadium intersection.
After exiting the highway and heading west, turn left in less than a kilometer and you will arrive at Hamburg's Volkspark Stadium.
The periphery of the stadium is the parking lot provided for players on match days, and further inside is the team’s internal parking lot.
Like many Bundesliga teams, Hamburg's stadium and training base are located in the south and north, connected together, and also share a parking lot.
The Aston Martin successor slowly drove into the internal parking lot and parked in an exclusive internal parking space.
There were already more than a dozen cars parked in the parking lot, all of them Aston Martins.
As a British luxury brand that has been recovering rapidly in recent years, Aston Martin is the car sponsor of Hamburger SV in the new season and has even held a grand car selection ceremony before the event.
After accepting the sponsorship from Aston Martin, all Hamburg players will change their cars to Aston Martin.
As the operator of this cooperation, Thomas Lake got out of the car and immediately glanced at the parking lot. After making sure that no other brands of cars had parked there, he nodded and smiled with satisfaction and walked towards the People's Park Stadium.
"Hi, Thomas!"
As soon as I walked into the stadium's administrative office, the front desk clerk immediately stood up and greeted me.
Anyone familiar with Hamburg will know that the front desk staff at Hamburg has been replaced.
She used to be a middle-aged woman in her forties or fifties who was indifferent to anyone and anything.
But now, she has been replaced by an office lady in her twenties who wears a professional suit and looks very smart and capable.
Although he doesn't look good, he always has a friendly and kind smile on his face.
"By the way, Dietmar just told me to tell you that he is waiting for you in your office and asked you to hurry over."
Thomas Lake frowned. What happened?
But he still smiled and nodded politely at the receptionist, said thank you, and quickened his pace towards his office.
Along the way, people kept greeting the Hamburg CEO.
After a few months, the administrative department of Hamburg was completely under the control of Thomas Recke.
Although there are still many old ministers left, they can no longer cause any trouble.
In the next period of time, Thomas Lake will continue to streamline and replace Hamburg's management. He wants to set up a highly efficient and professional operation team, which is also a further requirement of Master Huan for him.
As soon as he opened the office door and walked in, he saw Dietmar Beiersdorf sitting on the sofa. Thomas Lake immediately greeted him with a smile.
"Hi, good morning, Dietmar, what can I do for you?"
Beiersdorf stood up immediately, and when he saw Thomas Lake closing the door and walking in, he immediately went to greet him.
"There is something we must convey to Master Huan as soon as possible." He said solemnly.
"What's the matter?" Thomas Lake frowned.
Having worked with Beiersdorf for so long, he rarely saw his partner with such an expression.
"I just received news that Khov and his team are planning to disclose everything to the media."
Thomas Lake originally picked up the water cup on the desk and planned to pour himself a cup of hot water, but when he heard Beiersdorf say this, he stopped, turned around in surprise, and asked, "What do you mean?"
"They decided to disclose the deal with Master Huan and the current situation of Hamburg players to the media."
"What?" Thomas Lake was shocked. "Are they crazy?"
This is simply a fight to the death!
You know, in professional football, many things can only be done behind the scenes and cannot be put on the table.
It's just like those head coaches, even if they have a falling out with their old club and are fired, they will not expose each other's secrets, let alone leak some secrets and conflicts, because they know very well that this is the unspoken rule of professional football.
Once anyone violates this unspoken rule, he will definitely pay the heaviest price.
In fact, there will never be anyone or any team willing to accept him.
Now many people have heard of the Bosman Act, and many people should think that this clause, which changed the landscape of European professional leagues, should be a great thing, but what they don’t know is that Bosman regretted it very much.
Because of his stubbornness at the time, although he created the Bosman Act, he was also rejected by teams in almost all major European leagues, and no one was willing to accept him.
In a way, he was free, but he had nowhere to play football.
The bill was indeed great and directly changed the landscape of European professional football, but as an individual, he paid the most painful price for it, which was probably something he had never imagined when he was young and energetic.
This is the power of unspoken rules!
No one, no team, can change or avoid it!
And now, what Khoff and others did was clearly to bring all the previous series of transactions to the table. They might even reveal Master Huan's background, including the affairs of Miracle Football Group.
"I don't understand!" Thomas Lake shook his head. "What good will it do them?"
Beiersdorf smiled bitterly and shook his head: "No good!"
"No benefit? Then why do they still do it?" Thomas Lake couldn't figure it out. "Doing this kind of thing is not only of no benefit to them, but it will also make them destroy the unspoken rules of football. From now on, I'm afraid they can't expect to continue to mix in professional football!"
Beiersdorf nodded and smiled bitterly: "You are right, but since they have decided to do this, they may have made up their minds not to work in professional football in the future."
"Is it that simple?" Thomas Lake sneered and said fiercely: "If they really dare to do this, I guarantee that they will have to sit in jail for the next ten years!"
Beiersdorf was also a little surprised. He didn't expect that Thomas Lake, who was always gentle and kind, would have such a fierce and angry moment and even say such threatening words.
But that's clearly not the point now.
"The point now is that we have to find a way to stop them!"
Thomas Lake nodded, wondering if he had been pushing them too hard recently, causing them to make such a decision that would hurt both sides and lead to a fight to the death.
Thinking of this, he felt somewhat guilty.
In this regard, he still underestimated the determination of Kkhov and others to retaliate.
"By the way, Dietmar, how did you know about this?" Thomas Lake suddenly thought of it.
Logically speaking, this should be a very confidential matter. How did Beiersdorf know about it?
"Peter Nogli and Holger Hieronymus told me."
After a pause, Beiersdorf sighed, "They told me that this was a decision made at Khoff's house yesterday. They were there at the time, but later they thought it was too crazy and that it would cause great harm to Hamburg. So, after thinking it over, they decided to tell me."
Thomas Lake nodded slightly, which was not very strange.
These two are Hamburg legends and their feelings for Hamburg are genuine.
For them, it is Hamburg that is their loyalty, not Kerkhove.
Taking a step back, even if they don't care about hamburgers, they should care about their own future, right?
If such a scandal really happened, they would have no hope of continuing to work in the professional circle.
Therefore, it is understandable that they chose to rebel at this time.
This immediately made Thomas Lake feel fortunate. If they hadn't tipped him off, he might have...
Thinking of this, Thomas Lake didn't bother to think about it anymore.
"Dietmar, what do you think about this matter?" Thomas Lake asked with concern.
Beiersdorf gritted his teeth and said, "If it's my way of thinking, it will be resolved sooner or later anyway, so why not just solve the problem early and save trouble."
Thomas Lake understood what he meant.
Now Master Huan is very powerful. He has the support of fan representatives, controls the team's finances and management, and also controls the competitive department. Although Khoff and others have the decision-making power in the board of directors, so what?
Besides, fans are generally dissatisfied with Khoff and others.
Therefore, if they launch an attack at this time, Khoff and others will have no chance of winning.
"But what if they really want to fight to the death?" Thomas Lake didn't say it clearly, but his meaning was clear.
Beiersdorf is also helpless, this is the worst situation.
"If it really comes to that, we can only do our best to stabilize the fans. At the same time, I think the fan representatives should also stand up to support us, so..."
Thomas Lake shook his head.
What Beiersdorf meant was not wrong and it is very likely to happen, but if the fan representatives stood up, it would be very likely that they would overthrow Khoff and immediately set up a fan supervision organization.
This is probably not what Young Master Huan wants.
"Let's call Master Huan and report the current situation."
"Um!"
The two of them really had no other choice. They didn't dare to make such a big decision lightly.
Therefore, they immediately called Yang Huan who was far away in Southampton to report the latest developments in Hamburg and the next actions of Kkhov and others.
Yang Huan listened very carefully and asked a lot of questions, trying to understand all the details as much as possible.
He even asked Beiersdorf to contact Peter Nogli and Holger Hieronymus to find out some information about the situation within Khoff's team, such as what these people were thinking.
Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you win every battle.
After a morning of dense phone calls like raindrops, Yang Huan basically understood all the situations in Hamburg.
Think tank members including Peter Kenyon, Ron Gourley, Zhao Yuanfang and others also came to Southampton and gathered around Master Huan to discuss and study the current response strategy.
Some of the proposals suggest that we should compromise temporarily now, and then separate them one by one and defeat them one by one.
But some people also believe that the fans' reaction is temporary and that they should take this opportunity to take complete control of Hamburg and kick out Khoff and others completely.
In short, people have proposed various plans, and basically everyone has come up with a feasible plan and placed it in front of Yang Huan.
Yang Huan never expressed his opinion. He just kept thinking about some issues and weighing the pros and cons.
Kkhov and others are indeed courting death, and they will undoubtedly die.
However, Young Master Huan always has to consider carefully when and how to kill them so as to pay the least price and reap the most rewards.
Young Master Huan never does such stupid things that hurt the enemy by a thousand and hurt yourself by eight hundred.
Moreover, this time, Master Huan not only wants to drive Khoff and others out of Hamburg, he also wants to send all of them to prison and tell them to stay away from Hamburg from now on!
You guys brought this upon yourselves, don't blame me for being cruel!
After Yang Huan figured it out, a fierce look flashed in his eyes.