Chapter 58: It Must Be Him!
Frank? Arneson drove to Canary Wharf, London.
Canary Wharf is a famous yacht marina in London, and Abramovich's world-famous Eclipse always stops along the coast of Canary Wharf if it is not out at sea.
Walking on the pier, you can see at a glance the Eclipse, which is particularly white in the sun.
With a total length of 168 meters and a width of 21.5 meters, such a large size is considered a giant in Canary Wharf.
Not only that, but it is also an amazingly protective yacht, equipped with a German-developed anti-missile system, two helicopters on standby, twenty jet skis, and so on.
Every time he sees this yacht, Arneson can't help but want to curse.
Rich people are so fucking cool!
But now, the more he walked along the Eclipse, the more uneasy he felt.
He was well aware of the reason why Abramovich had called him to Canary Wharf.
He messed up a very important thing!
Walking up the Eclipse and up the spiraling staircase to the deck, Abramovich sat on the deck, opposite Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti, much to Arneson's surprise.
"Boss." Arneson stepped forward.
Abramovich nodded, casually pointing to the seat across from him, motioning for him to sit casually, while staring at his phone.
Ding Dong ~ Ding Dong, in less than three or four seconds on the mobile phone, two messages came one after another.
After Abramovich read the news, he couldn't help but laugh.
This made Frank, who was sitting on the sidelines? Arneson and Carlo Ancelotti are both odd.
What are you looking at? So funny?
Abramovich handed over his phone, "Take a look. ”
Ancelotti was the closest and immediately leaned over, and Arneson originally wanted to poke his head out, but seeing Ancelotti taking the lead, he immediately retracted.
He, the technical director, is not in agreement with all the managers of the team, before he was with Mourinho, and when Mourinho left, Grant was slightly better, but whether it was Scolari or Ancelotti, they had a bad relationship with him.
It turned out that Abramovich was following Southampton's press conference on the WeChat platform.
'Hello Neymar, I'm Rodolfo from the Brazilian daily newspaper and I would like to ask you why you chose Southampton, which is lower level, between Chelsea and Southampton?'
There's nothing funny about this question, what's really funny is the following expression.
A cartoon picture of Neymar, which occupies half of the screen of the mobile phone, sells a cute version of Neymar, squatting on the ground to go to school for a break, but grabbing his head vigorously, with a very exaggerated, distressed and embarrassed expression.
Rao is Ancelotti has been prepared for a long time, and when he saw this emoji, he couldn't help but smile.
There was another ding-dong, and soon Neymar's reply came.
Ancelotti pushed the phone back to Abramovich, who picked it up and looked at it.
Neymar replied: "Joining Southampton was a deliberate decision for me and my family, I wanted to play in a European team, but it was too risky to join a big club like Chelsea, so I decided to play in a lower division team like Ronaldo and Ronaldinho and get used to the European style of football. ”
"Another very important reason is that I have been in contact with Southampton so much about the ambition and quality of Southampton, and the team brought in Zlatan Ibrahimovic this summer, and they told me that they will continue to bring in more stars, and I am sure that we will return to England and enter the European competition soon."
"I'm young, I'm only 18 years old, and after two years, I'm getting used to European football and the team is back in the English League, and that's when the best Neymar is going to be!"
'As for Chelsea, I've never had any contact with them.
Then there is a cute expression that occupies nearly half of the screen, and a cartoon picture of Neymar with an exaggerated big tongue.
Although he was putting down Chelsea, Abramovich couldn't hate it, but thought it was cute and cute.
"Look at it." Abramovich pushed the phone in front of Arneson.
Arneson took the phone, picked it up and pulled it up and down to look at it, feeling a little panicked.
He is indeed a bit careless about Neymar's transfer operation, because he feels that this is just another rookie who has been touted too highly in Brazil, and it is not worth spending so much money at all.
So he made an offer of 20 million euros, but Santos paid back a sky-high price of 35 million euros.
It is impossible for Arneson to agree to such a deal, that would be crazy, and 35 million euros is impossible, and Neymar's contract break fee is only 30 million euros, who would be stupid enough to bring in Neymar for 35 million euros?
"Southampton directly used the contract break money to buy out Neymar's contract." This is Arneson getting the news.
Abramovich nodded faintly, "I know." ”
Picking up the phone handed over by Arneson again, he didn't continue to look at it, just turned off the screen and put it on the table.
'I just want to know right now, why, we're losing to a League One team?'
This last sentence shows the anger in Abramovich's heart.
Even if he deliberately suppressed it, no one could hear that he was holding back his anger.
Neymar was shouted out by him personally, and Ancelotti personally expressed his desire to bring it in, but in the end he switched to other teams.
If it's Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United and other top giants, it's a little better, but it's a League One team, which is a slap in the face of Abramovich and Ancelotti.
What will people out there say who don't know? What will they think of?
Everyone will joke that Chelsea lost to a League One team!
Arneson was silent, he couldn't explain anything, it was indeed his problem.
It can only be said that he is too careless and self-righteous.
"I'm sorry!" Arneson could only bow his head and apologize.
Other than that, he couldn't do anything.
But the eyes that looked at Ancelotti were full of anger and hostility.
It must be this damn Italian who makes a small report in front of the boss!
It had to be him!
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In the corner of Mountain View in Silicon Valley, AP headquarters, the second floor of a very ordinary office building.
Yang? Coombe stared blankly at the desk in front of him, with a computer on it, an Apple phone in front of the computer keyboard, and a handwritten note nailed to the phone.
"Don't advertise! Don't play! No gimmicks! ”
The author of this handwritten note is right in front of him, and his co-partner, Brian? Acton.
And at this moment, both of them were wondering for the first time whether the three don'ts on the note were correct.
Brian? Acton propped his hands on the desk, propping his forehead on, looking extremely distressed.
"According to the latest news we have received, their press conference is focused on South America, and with this press conference, they have also updated their WeChat version and launched a service called mood stamp."
Since the launch of WeChat, AP has been unlucky, first for a limited time for free, but the server crashed twice in a short period of time, and then crashed again because there were too many users, and the server could not carry it, three times in a row, which damaged their reputation a lot, and lost a large number of users.
Today, WeChat's users have passed the AP, they have passed four million, and they are hitting five million.
The AP has been stuck at three million, and there is even a faint danger of slipping from the three million gear.
This left the two founders worried.
What undermined their confidence even more was their credo in running the company.
Don't gimmick?
Opponents rely on gimmick marketing to outdo them!
"South America?" Yang? Coombe's face grimaced, and he realized a problem.
"Any questions?" Brian? Acton didn't figure it out for a moment.
Yang? Coombe was tempted to say something, but his mind was in a mess, and it took him more than a minute to get up to his feet.
"Smartphone users in the U.S. usually use a monthly subscription system, after which calls, text messages and Internet traffic are all free, so they are not very interested in saving money on text messages."
Yang? Coombe's words completely woke up Brian? Acton.
The monthly subscription system in the United States is a unique phenomenon, and other countries and regions such as Europe, Asia, and South America rarely adopt this monthly subscription system, so they are very interested in this kind of service promoted by WeChat and AP.
Because it helps them save a lot of money.
In Europe, WeChat has already made a name for itself, and now they have to work in South America and Asia.
"This is a conscious act of seizing the market!" Yang? Qom can swear one hundred percent that the opponent is premeditated.
Brian? Acton is also dumbfounded, their limited time is free, more for users in the United States, the reason is very simple, SMS verification is required to register for AP, and the SMS verification fee in the United States is the cheapest, only two cents.
Did you know? If it is abroad, for example, to the Middle East, Asia and South America, it will be charged 65 cents per piece.
The more users abroad, the higher their operating costs.
In other words, SMS verification has become the rope that binds AP Xunzhan.
As for WeChat, they don't need SMS verification, so they can attract users anywhere in the world with impunity.
The only trouble is that they have to have good enough servers.
But looking at the recent times, the quality of their servers is quite outstanding.
"What should we do now?" Brian? Acton was a little tired.
He now thinks that the business model that they used to be very perfect, but it turns out to be full of mistakes and omissions.
Moreover, they simply did not slow down, carefully adjust, and fill the holes in time.
WeChat's strong exhibition is to force them to keep up quickly.
They've launched celebrity accounts first, and now they've launched mood stamps, and they're probably going to follow 66 to launch more services, which will allow them to attract more and more users.
Once users have accumulated a certain amount of social connections, they will no longer be willing to transfer platforms lightly.
In other words, these people will become hardcore users of WeChat!
Yang? Qom didn't know what to do?
Judging from their current situation, it is difficult to attract the interest of investors, and without anyone investing, they will not have enough funds to fight with WeChat, so they can only watch their competitors step by step with themselves and go away.
After more than a year, they worked hard and spent more than a year to create this company, which was completely defeated in just one week!
At this moment, both of them were a little frustrated.
At this time, Young? The door to Qom's office was knocked twice and opened, revealing the panicked faces of the employees, "Boss, our servers are crashing again!" ”
Yang? Coombe and Brian? Acton's face was as dead as ashes, and he was even more desperate!
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