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Chapter 490: Changes in Football

Chapter 490: Changes in Football
Although "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" premiered in the UK, Gilbert Jr. was unable to attend the event.

However, this summer, Gilbert Jr. still went to the UK to prepare for the signing ceremony with Arsenal executives.

This year, Arsenal once again won the Premier League title with a huge lead, and also won the FA Cup again, achieving the double crown of the season.

But unfortunately, the team was eliminated from the Champions League and failed to realize Professor Wenger's Champions League dream.

After the end of the season, Arsenal’s top management officially announced the news that Hollywood director Gilbert Landrini Jr. became the chairman of Arsenal by virtue of his shareholding advantage.

When the news came out, most Arsenal fans were delighted.

Chelsea next door is owned by the oligarch Abramovich, and our Arsenal is not bad either, with Gilbert Jr. also a wealthy man.

Previously, Gilbert Jr. promised that if he took over Arsenal, he would provide a transfer fee of no less than 200 million pounds per year. Arsenal fans want to see what Professor Wenger will do with sufficient transfer fees.

On June 18, Gilbert Jr. landed at London International Airport on a private plane, and Arsenal executives arranged for Gilbert Jr. to go to the hotel to rest.

On June 19, in the presence of the club's directors and fans, and with Sky Sports broadcasting live, Gilbert Jr. and representatives of Arsenal's shareholders signed the contract and took a group photo.

When the two sides exchanged contracts and took photos, the whole audience burst into warm applause. Arsenal fans in the homes and bars also cheered and applauded to welcome the team's new owner.

Subsequently, as the new boss, Gilbert Jr. reappointed Arsenal's general manager, sports director and other positions.

In order to avoid the trouble caused by management turmoil to the team, Gilbert Jr. basically did not make any major changes to the management and retained the original team.

It simply replaced the key financial director with its own person and also created a new position, club development director.

This director does not have any specific responsibilities. He usually works with the marketing department to develop markets in Asia and America.

The most important thing is that this position is for Gilbert Jr. to be the spy in the club. He can't manage the team himself, so he can report to him at any time if there is any situation.

Afterwards, Gilbert Jr. spoke to all the fans and promised that he would fulfill everything he had said before.

Not only will the team soon have a large modern stadium, but it will also not reduce its investment during each transfer period to maintain its competitiveness in the Champions League.

The new owner seems very credible and Arsenal fans are very excited, as if they see a bright future for their team.

The fans of the rival Tottenham Hotspur next door are gritting their teeth. Isn't it just a change of rich boss? Why are they so proud?
Manchester United fans also gritted their teeth and continued to petition, hoping that Manchester United management would increase investment and not impose restrictions on Sir Alex Ferguson's operations during the transfer period.

The rest of the teams also felt that the situation in the Premier League had changed, so they quickly dug into their pockets to see how much money they had and increased their investment, otherwise they would risk falling behind.

Perhaps the fans of the Blues Chelsea are among the few who are relatively calm, because they also changed their boss and are not short of money either.

Professor Wenger and team captain Vieira also attended the signing ceremony. After the signing ceremony, Gilbert encouraged Vieira and asked him to comfort the core players of the team.

Afterwards, Gilbert Jr. had a closed-door chat with Wenger for more than an hour and listened to Wenger's plans for the team's future.

Gilbert Jr. said to Professor Wenger: "I am a patient person and I will not rush to get results. I hope you can build a reasonable lineup according to your needs and strive for the Champions League."

Professor Wenger said he understood: "Don't worry, I have a plan, our youth players are very good.

The core lineup can still last for a few years, and it only needs some repairs to have the strength to impact the Champions League. "

Little Gilbert smiled and said, "Of course, don't save money on me too much. You can try to spend money on those superstars. Who knows, one of them might be willing to come.

Even if you can't come, you can still help raise your status or something, it's fun to help others!"

Professor Wenger was speechless. He didn't expect the new boss to be so sinister. But he liked it very much because he liked to do it this way.

In the office of Manchester United head coach, Sir Alex Ferguson had just watched Arsenal's signing ceremony broadcast by Sky Sports and lamented that his old rival Wenger was finally going to become rich.

The assistant said: "It looks like there will be a bloody storm in the transfer market this year!"

"Yes," Ferguson sighed, then his face tightened: "Hurry up and notify the transfer department to speed up the finalization of the transfers I want.

Wenger will definitely intervene next, and if he intervenes it will be troublesome.”

"This," the assistant was unconvinced, "Not that fast, right?"

"Don't I know him?" Ferguson urged, "Go quickly, there are a few transfers, go and handle them yourself."

The assistant had no choice but to quickly communicate with the transfer department and jogged forward.

After the signing ceremony, Gilbert did not meet the players because the players went on vacation during the off-season. However, he visited the team's training base Colney accompanied by Arsenal executives.

"The Colney training base was planned and built by Professor Wenger himself. It has a total of ten standard football fields, which are exactly the same standard as Highbury Stadium. Each field has an automatic irrigation system and drainage facilities to ensure the growth of the grass. The two fields used for the first team training also have a geothermal system to ensure the quality of the grass even in winter."

Steve Braddock, the head of the training base, introduced the base to Gilbert Jr., his words full of pride.

He can say that Colney Training Base is the best training base in the Premier League, and Manchester United cannot catch up.

Needless to say, after Abramovich took over, he was dissatisfied with the shabby Chelsea training base and ordered people to renovate the training base as soon as possible.

Little Gilbert doesn't understand football or anything related to training, but he still feels comfortable looking at the beautiful environment of the Kearney training base.

Gilbert then toured the training base's office building, which has six rooms of adjustable size, a sauna, a swimming pool with adjustable depth, a gym, a treatment room, a massage room and a restaurant.

In addition to the players and coaches, there are 2 full-time gardeners, 10 ground staff, 4 nutritionists, 3 building managers, coaching assistants and youth team assistants serving the base.

Prior to the Colney base, the team had to occupy the grounds of the London University Students' Union, which had been the training ground for Arsenal Football Club since 1961.

Before this, Arsenal players could only use Highbury Stadium for training.

In the years before decision-makers renovated the old stadium, they could only train by running with weights along the coal-dust path between the stadium and the subway station.

Professor Wenger played an extremely important role in the development project of the training base.

In fact, the planning and design of this building was almost entirely handled by Wenger and his think tank.

The coaching team led by Gary Levine has become familiar with using this venue to meet the needs of important training subjects.

Tony Corbett, the fitness coach, has a close relationship with the British Fitness Association and his gym is fully equipped to help players stay in top condition.

Today's Kearney training base may not be as good as La Masia and Valdebebas, but it is also the most modern and advanced training ground in Europe.

While Gilbert Jr. was strolling around the Kearney training base, the outside world had already created quite a stir because of the completion of the signing ceremony.

The entire European football world has long known that Gilbert Jr. is going to join Arsenal. It has only been more than half a year since the rumors first came out at the end of last year to the signing of the contract now.

This makes people have to admire the efficiency of little Gilbert, who is very fast.

The English Football Association quickly welcomed Gilbert Jr. and welcomed him to join the Premier League family. Prince Charles also welcomed Gilbert Jr. to participate in the great sport of football as a team owner.

However, Prince Charles felt a little resentful because he had encouraged Gilbert Jr. to acquire Burnley, but Gilbert Jr. did not listen to him.

If Gilbert Jr. acquires Burnley, Burnley will receive sufficient financial support and will be able to develop very well.

The media also reported on the signing ceremony on a large scale, and football experts analyzed the future landscape of football.

With the entry of Gilbert Jr. and Abramovich, the future of football seems to be moving towards an era of money.

For this reason, a reporter from The Guardian interviewed Manchester United head coach Sir Alex Ferguson, who was very disgusted with this kind of money-wasting behavior.

"Football is a competitive sport, not a money game..." The Jazz left this sentence angrily and turned away.

After Professor Wenger learned about this, he said to his assistant: "Alex is jealous of me. Go and find out about Manchester United's recent transfer activities."

The assistant asked, "Are we going to rob someone?"

"What Alex likes, can I like it?" Professor Wenger said unforgivingly: "Raise the price for him. If you want it, you have to spend money!"

The assistant was speechless. Wenger and Ferguson actually have a good relationship. They are both wine collectors and enthusiasts. Last time when Wenger celebrated his birthday, Ferguson gave Wenger a bottle of red wine from his collection.

But when it comes to football, the two are like old enemies and neither of them gives in.

It is conceivable that Professor Wenger's behavior this time must have made Ferguson curse again.

In addition to the British media and local British fans, the media and fans of other European leagues are also paying attention to the changes in Arsenal.

The Spanish media were sarcastic about their British counterparts, believing that it was not a good thing for an American director who did not understand football to take over Arsenal.

However, after hearing that Arsenal's transfer fee exceeded 200 million pounds, the Spanish media could only envy and hate.

The Italian sports media is very objective. Major media such as Turin Sports Daily and Gazzetta dello Sport have made objective analyses of the future of European football.

In short, the landscape of British and even European football has changed.

(End of this chapter)

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