The entire interview went very smoothly, and the benefits of a good relationship between Chen Ran and Duan Xuan were revealed at this time.

Because all the questions in the entire interview were determined after communicating with Chen Ran in advance.

It can be said that, without violating the basic facts, it fully demonstrates Chen Ran's achievements in the UK in recent years.

Successfully created the image of an outstanding young man of the new era who is smart, brave, and diligent who works hard alone in a foreign country and achieves success.

At the end of the interview, Chen Ran also took the opportunity to advertise for Crystal Palace's Chinese youth training base, announcing that Crystal Palace's nationwide youth training talent selection plan has officially begun.

At this point, the main tasks of the Crystal Palace trip to China have been completed.

After leaving Tuchel and his assistants to preside over the subsequent youth training selection work, Chen Ran flew to Tokyo, Japan with other members of the Crystal Palace staff.

As a newly emerging team, Crystal Palace does not have enough foundation after all, and unlike in China, it does not have the blessing of Chen Ran's Chinese identity.

Therefore, the attendance at the next three friendly matches at the Crystal Palace in Tokyo, Japan, Bangkok, Thailand, and Dubai, UAE, was not very satisfactory.

However, Chen Ran didn't care about this.

After all, the money that should be earned has already gone into the pockets of Crystal Palace.

As for whether he can make money again next summer, Chen Ran is not worried at all.

As long as Crystal Palace continues to win championships in the new season, I believe someone will naturally come to offer money.

After more than half a month of money-making journey, Chen Ran finally returned to London with Crystal Palace.

Because Cheryl also has her own concert tour to hold this time, she cannot follow Chen Ran to China like she did last year.

The two newlyweds had a good time relaxing for two days before they had to devote themselves to their respective jobs.

"Louis, tell us about the recent movements of our old rivals."

Chen Ran took most of the people from the Crystal Palace to Asia, and naturally he had to keep people here in London.

Louis, who is in charge of Crystal Palace's transfer affairs, became this candidate.

The task given to him by Chen Ran was to stay in London and monitor the transfer situation of major Premier League clubs at all times. If any abnormality was found, he would notify himself at any time.

"Okay. During this summer transfer period, the Premier League clubs did not make any big moves. The largest transfer was Chelsea's 50 million euros to introduce Essien."

Having said this, Lewis paused and smiled tacitly at Chen Ran.

"Chelsea's other big move is spending 40 million euros to bring in winger Wright Phillips from Manchester City."

"Then Chelsea also bought left-back Del Horno from Athletic Bilbao in Spain, and sold forward Kežman to Atletico Madrid. There is nothing to say about the rest."

"Arsenal bought a midfielder, Hleb, from Stuttgart in the Bundesliga."

"Manchester United has signed South Korean midfielder Park Ji-sung from PSV."

"Liverpool has bought old Chelsea player Zenden."

"Anyway, the transfer situation of these competitors of ours is like this, and the others are not worth mentioning."

"This summer's Premier League transfer market doesn't seem to be very lively. Except for Chelsea, other teams don't have any big plans."

After listening to Louis' report, Chen Ran suddenly felt confident.

"Yes. This year's situation is a bit abnormal, but isn't this a good thing for our Crystal Palace?"

The little fat man thought reasonably. The farther away his opponent was from the Crystal Palace, the better.

"Well, it is indeed a good thing. It seems that our main competitor for the Premier League championship this season is still Chelsea."

"That's right. The Russian owner of Chelsea is really rich. He spent more than 100 million euros on the transfer market this summer. And this has been a huge investment for three consecutive years. He really doesn't regard money as money."

The little fat man was counting on his fingers. Essien was worth 50 million euros, Wright-Phillips was worth 40 million euros, and Del Horno was worth 12 million euros. The transfer fees for these three people alone exceeded 100 million euros.

"With the full support of the Russian boss, Mourinho now has more and more cards in his hand and must find a way to solve this problem."

Chen Ran habitually tapped the armrests of the chair with his fingers and spoke slowly.

"Hey, it's okay, Chen. That Mourinho is your loser. You can still pin him down this season and be unable to stand up."

The little fat man was as confident as ever in Chen Ran and didn't take Mourinho seriously at all.

...

Chen Ran is studying his opponents, and others are also studying his Crystal Palace.

"José, so far this summer, our Chelsea transfer expenditure has exceeded 100 million euros, which has reached the budget limit allowed by the boss."

"If you still want to buy people, then you have to sell the existing players to raise funds, or you personally persuade the boss to invest more."

For transfer matters, Peter Kenyon once again invited Mourinho to his office.

"I see."

Mourinho curled his lips and agreed reluctantly.

Although he has spent more than 100 million euros in transfer fees, Mourinho is actually very dissatisfied.

First of all, his main target, not one of the main players from Crystal Palace was recruited, and he failed to achieve his goal of directly weakening his competitors.

Secondly, Chelsea's current attractiveness is really poor. Apart from the advantage that the boss is rich, they are all shortcomings.

In the eyes of many big-name stars, Chelsea is now an out-and-out upstart.

If there were other options, these big-name stars would never consider coming to Chelsea.

The most direct manifestation is that although Mourinho is waving a lot of money in his hands, he cannot buy the players he likes.

Although he spent 100 million euros, no one except Essien was the best choice in his mind.

"José, compared with our Chelsea, Crystal Palace's strength has not changed much."

Seeing that Mourinho was in a bad mood, Peter Kenyon offered words of comfort.

"Although they brought in Vieira, they also left Cesc Fabregas. Between coming in and out, the strength did not increase much."

"And the Essien, Wright Phillips and Del Horno we introduced are all players who can play the main role as soon as they arrive."

"The team's strength has been significantly enhanced. We will definitely win the Premier League championship this season."

Seeing Peter Kenyon's confident look, Mourinho moved his lips slightly, but in the end he said nothing.

...

Manchester United, Ferguson's office.

"Alex, I'm very sorry, all our offers for Crystal Palace's main players have been rejected."

"Neither the players nor the Crystal Palace club accepted our offer."

Manchester United CEO David Gill had the courage to report the bad news to Ferguson.

At the beginning, David Gill also took the route of contacting the players first, but found that the Crystal Palace players were busy negotiating contract extensions with the club.

David Gill thought this was a good opportunity to take advantage of the situation, so he offered a lot of attractive big contracts. This move did arouse the interest of some players.

However, as Chen Ran successively threw out three heavy blows: bringing in Vieira, building a new stadium, and signing a sky-high sponsorship contract with Emirates Airlines.

The Crystal Palace players, who were already a little tempted, immediately terminated contact with Manchester United and signed contract extensions with Crystal Palace.

David Gill didn't give up when he saw this situation. Since it didn't work for the players, he might as well go directly to talk to the Crystal Palace club.

At this time, Chen Ran had already taken the Crystal Palace team to Asia. The little fat man who stayed behind immediately contacted Chen Ran after receiving David Gill's quotation.

Chen Ran did not ask the fat man to report Manchester United's specific offer at all, but simply replied with three words: "Let him go!"

But just as the little fat man was about to hang up the phone, Chen Ran suddenly added: "Wait a moment, I'll think about it again."

"Ah? Chen, you don't really want to agree to Manchester United's offer, do you? They want to poach our Crystal Palace's main players."

Chen Ran's pause shocked Louis. He thought Chen Ran was really moved.

"What nonsense are you talking about? I was just thinking about how to take this opportunity to dig a big hole for Manchester United."

So, Chen Ran laid out the plan he had just thought of to the little fat man step by step.

The next day, the little fat man replied to David Gill, saying that Chen Ran and most of the Crystal Palace staff were in Asia now, and he could not make the decision on such a big matter.

So he could only report the matter to Chen Ran and wait for Chen Ran to come back before making a decision.

It is not a secret that Chen Ran took a large team of Crystal Palace people to Asia to make money. Many people in the circle knew about it, and they were very envious and jealous about it.

So David Gill didn't have any doubts about Louis' excuse for delaying time.

It is true that such a big transfer cannot be decided by Louis, the sports manager, alone.

Chen Ran's calculations were very precise. He just wanted to hold Manchester United back for as long as he could.

It would be best to wait until the end of the summer transfer period before telling the other party that Crystal Palace will not accept any offers.

In this way, if Manchester United wants to find other foreign players, either the suitable candidate has already negotiated the transfer, or it may be too late in terms of operation time.

After hearing Chen Ran's plan, Louis also thought it was a clever plan, and immediately volunteered to cooperate with the performance, and successfully made David Gill fall into the pit.

Seeing the plan being implemented smoothly step by step, Chen Ran, who was far away in China, really experienced the feeling of "strategizing and winning thousands of miles away" this time.

Although it is a bit unethical, who asked Manchester United to poach him? This is retribution.

To say that Lewis is definitely a capable actor, he can at least win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his acting skills.

He not only made David Gill think that Crystal Palace might agree to Manchester United's offer, but he didn't stick to his words and delayed the reply time and time again, making this old world go round and round.

Until David Gill finally lost his patience, but at this time, there was not much time left before the deadline of the summer transfer period.

Listening to David Gill confessing that he had been deceived by Crystal Palace, Ferguson was speechless for a while.

It's really embarrassing that David Gill, an old gangster, was fooled around by that fat boy from Crystal Palace.

But now that the matter has come to this, what else can he say?

David Gill had a good relationship with Ferguson, and he always followed Ferguson's lead in the Manchester United club, which was of great help to Ferguson in controlling the Manchester United club.

Therefore, instead of losing his temper about this matter, Ferguson helped David Gill hide it.

This moment made David Gill feel even more grateful to Ferguson, and he vowed to repay Ferguson in the future.

Although Ferguson gained the loyalty of David Gill through this incident, for the Manchester United club, it has lost valuable recruiting time.

In the end, this summer transfer period ended with Manchester United just hastily introducing a South Korean midfielder Park Ji-sung.

From then on, David Gill hated the little fat guy Louis, who didn't even say hello when he met him.

But he and Ferguson didn't know until the end that the idea actually came from Chen Ran, who was far away in China at the time.

...

London, Arsenal Club, Arsene Wenger's office.

"Boss, Chelsea has invested the most in the Premier League transfer market this summer. It has now exceeded 100 million euros. That Russian is really rich."

Assistant coach Pat Rice is also reporting to Wenger on the transfer situation.

"What about Crystal Palace? Apart from taking Patrick away from us, are there any other signings?"

"I heard that they once competed with Chelsea for Essien, but judging from the result, Crystal Palace still lost. There was nothing left. Oh, by the way, they also snatched a high school student from Southampton.

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"High school student? Tell me about the specific situation."

Upon hearing this, Wenger immediately became interested.

As a coach known for developing young players, Wenger is more interested in these extremely talented little monsters than those famous stars.

"I heard that this young player once represented the school team and won a regional championship. The rest of the situation is not very clear. Boss, do you need to send someone to investigate in detail?"

"Forget it, once it's in the pocket of that little Chinese guy, no one else can get it again."

"This is true. Originally, everyone thought that Crystal Palace would poach a large number of key players this summer. But unexpectedly, so far, no players have left Crystal Palace. This is really a miracle."

Seeing the super stability shown by Crystal Palace, Pat Rice was also amazed.

For a seasoned player like him, he has seen too many newly promoted teams with outstanding performance, only to be hollowed out by those wealthy clubs.
Chapter completed!