"what are you doing?"

Chen Ran quickly ducked back.

"I wanted to see if you were sick. Do you know how much it costs to build a new stadium? That's in the hundreds of millions."

Stephen glared at Chen Ran angrily, is this guy still drunk?

"I know. That's what I think. Look, we have been promoted to the Premier League now. If we still use this old and small home court, wouldn't it be unworthy of the temperament of our future giants?"

"Everyone wants a new stadium, but do you know how expensive it is to build a new stadium in London? The stadium that Arsenal started building last year is said to have a budget of nearly 400 million pounds."

"Now it has reached 470 million."

"How did you know?"

"Didn't I go to see Wenger two days ago? He told me."

"Well, since you already know the cost, let's do a simple calculation. Even if the land price here is much cheaper than Arsenal's, it still costs two to three billion pounds. You have so much money.

?"

"I can probably come up with half of the funds, and the rest will have to be found from outside."

"Do you have that much money?"

Stephen was completely shocked now. Although he knew that Chen Ran was rich before, he never expected that he was so rich.

You can spend hundreds of millions of pounds at will. Are all Chinese people that rich now?

"Yeah, but I can only invest this money in batches, and I won't be able to get so much money out at once."

"It doesn't matter. As long as you can guarantee to come up with half of the funds, the rest will be easy. At worst, you can just find a bank loan."

Having said this, Stephen stopped and looked into Chen Ran's eyes seriously.

"Chen, let me ask you again, do you really want to build a new stadium? This is no joke."

"Of course. As long as you can find the remaining half of the money, we will build this stadium."

“How big of a stadium do you want to build?”

"At least 60,000 people."

"So big? Arsenal's new stadium only costs over 60,000 yuan."

"It's not big. Is it worthy of our Crystal Palace?"

"Okay then, I'll go back and look for connections. You wait for my news."

"Haha, Stephen, I knew you were the right one."

Stephen smiled bitterly and shook his head. His friend and boss still thought he was not busy enough, so he tried to find things for him to do.

In this way, Chen Ran left the construction of the new stadium to Stephen.

As for whether the matter can be accomplished, it depends on whether there are funders willing to pay.

After all, Chen Ran still carries a loan of 30 million euros, and now he has to borrow more money. Most people really don't dare to play with him.

Although Crystal Palace has won the championship in advance, the British Championship is not over after all, and there are still eight rounds to play.

However, Chen Ran had a new idea and called Guardiola, Southgate and Simeone over.

"Josep, I plan to leave the command to the three of you for the remaining eight games in the Championship. Gareth and Diego still have to play, so the on-the-spot command will be left to you. How do you think? Do you have confidence?

"

"What?"

"Did I hear it wrong?"

"Boss, are you kidding me?"

Chen Ran's words shocked the three people.

"I'm not kidding. Do you still remember the promise I made when I invited you to join Crystal Palace? Now I plan to fulfill it. These eight games will be a test for you."

"..."

Guardiola, Southgate and Simeone looked at each other again and again, and were all very surprised when Chen Ran mentioned his original promise.

None of them were young people just starting out. Even if they didn't realize which ones were deceiving and which ones were the truth, they figured it out after so long.

Chen Ran's original promise to select one of the three of them to succeed him as the head coach of Crystal Palace next season was not taken seriously.

Crystal Palace's momentum this season is very good, even far beyond their expectations, and they are very satisfied.

Unexpectedly, the boss now actually proposed to fulfill the original promise.

Could it be that this Chen Ran is really a real person?

Could it be that we have all misunderstood him?

"Boss, are you sure we will be in charge of the next eight games?"

Guardiola was lying when he said he wasn't moved, so he couldn't help but ask.

"I'm very sure. However, I am not without conditions. With the current strength of our Crystal Palace, I require that we win at least five of the remaining eight games and cannot lose. So, is this request not too much?

"

"Not too much."

"How could we lose to a Championship team?"

"That's right. If the team's unbeaten record in the league is broken, then we won't have the shame to come see the boss."

Crystal Palace's current record in the English Championship is 34 wins and four draws. Chen Ran allowed them to draw three out of eight games. This requirement is really not high.

Upon hearing Chen Ran's request, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief and promised that they would never embarrass the Crystal Palace.

Chen Ran's purpose of doing this is actually very simple, just to further win the hearts of these three people.

As a boss, the most taboo thing is to write a bad check to your employees and not cash it.

Maybe employees wouldn't show it at the time, but the seeds of conflict were sown from then on.

As time goes by, one day it will explode.

These three guys are all people that Chen Ran values ​​​​and he doesn't want to lose big for small things.

You might lose some money, but compared to the gains, Chen Ran still thinks it's worth it.

Therefore, in the thirty-ninth round of the English Championship, when Crystal Palace challenged West Bromwich Albion away from home, people were surprised to find that Chen Ran, the head coach of Crystal Palace, did not appear on the bench.

Instead of him standing on the sidelines and directing, it was Guardiola, the assistant coach and vice-captain of Crystal Palace.

Guardiola used a tactic he had practiced for a long time in training to suppress West Bromwich Albion in the half-court siege.

West Bromwich Albion are not a vegetarian either. They played a vigorous defensive counterattack and did not just defend.

After Crystal Palace defeated second-ranked Norwich City in the last round, West Bromwich Albion took the opportunity to replace them and move up to second place.

In this game, facing Crystal Palace, which had already won the championship in advance, West Bromwich Albion launched a defensive counterattack from the first minute.

Because the promotion system of the English Championship is that the top two teams are directly promoted to the Premier League, and the third place has to compete in the play-offs to compete for the remaining promotion spot.

With the help of Crystal Palace, West Bromwich Albion managed to squeeze out Norwich City, and they had no intention of returning the second place to Norwich City.

There is too much uncertainty in the promotion play-offs, and anything can happen.
Chapter completed!