It was raining in the middle of the night, but London was still brightly lit and full of pedestrians.

Especially on the way from Heathrow Stadium to Stamford Bridge, with the dazzling street lights, watching the pedestrians walking slowly on both sides, and the bars where business is booming, this is the first time Ye Qiu has felt the scenery of London after midnight.

They all said that the British like to walk, which is true, even if it is raining, but they still walk slowly on the street, and even a few Yu Crisp did not even have an umbrella, just like this in the rain, looking very excited, probably because of the drink in a nearby bar.

Speaking of pubs, this has become a kind of British culture, especially around the Chelsea area, which is basically inhabited by the rich, white-collar workers and the middle class, plus the home stadium of Chelsea and Fulham is not far apart, Fulham's home stadium is close to the Thames, and the surrounding area can be said to be full of bars.

Ye Qiu was new to London and was not very familiar with London, he knew more about the road from Heathrow to Stamford Bridge, driving his Ferrari Enzo from Amsterdam, and did not dare to walk in the slightest.

London can be said to be at a premium, especially in Kensington and Chelsea districts, where land is even more valuable, so although Stamford Bridge, which made Chelsea, is located in the wealthy area of London, it is surrounded by all kinds of buildings, and there is no room for expansion and development.

Another way to see the crowding at Stamford Bridge is that the team's museum and club shop are not arranged at the more prominent entrance to the stadium, as is the case with other clubs, but are arranged at the back of the stadium.

In other words, fans have to go around the stadium to buy something in the store.

There is also no parking at Stamford Bridge, so parking is prohibited, even the club's vehicles can only be parked behind the pitch, and even parking spaces are scarce in a small parking lot next to the shops.

Security guards are on duty every evening at Stamford Bridge, and the office is located on the ground floor of the stadium's main entrance.

When Ye Qiu arrived, the headlights shone into the office, and then he heard the roar of a Ferrari and stopped at the door.

"Mr. Ye Qiu" The security team leader on duty at night walked out of the office, saw Ye Qiu get out of the car, ran over quickly to avoid the rain, and pointed inside, "He said that his name is Frank Ribery, he is a professional player, and he is from France." ”

After speaking, the security guard shrugged his shoulders and quietly leaned over to Ye Qiu's side, "Although he does have a jersey and sneakers on him, why does he not look like him, and ...... He came on foot."

"Walking?" Ye Qiu was stunned for a moment, although the UK calls are made in advance to make reservations, but they are not used at the airport and some bus stops, the purpose is to facilitate these foreign tourists.

"Who knows?" The security guard shrugged his shoulders, very helpless, but added at the end, "This kid speaks English very badly, but his temper is very big, and there is that scar......"

This security guard also knows how to stop in moderation, and he originally planned to say, is such a big scar the underworld?

Ye Qiu didn't care, walked into the security guard's duty office, and saw Ribery sitting inside, with a bag of luggage beside him, looking up at him, and waited until Ye Qiu came over, he stood up.

"Didn't I give you my number?" Ye Qiu wanted to laugh a little when he saw him dressed like a chicken in soup.

"Lost," Ribery replied bluntly, but he didn't directly say that he threw it away.

Ye Qiu raised his eyebrows, smiled, "Let's go" and turned around and left.

"Where to go?" Ribery hurriedly grabbed his luggage and followed him out.

Ye Qiu shook his head with a smile, "Are you planning to stay here tonight?" ”

Out of the door of the duty office, Ribery was immediately frightened by the fiery red Ferrari in front of him, he is also a car lover, at a glance recognized this is a Ferrari limited edition Enzo, the most exclusive sports car, only Ferrari's high-end customers have the opportunity to buy, limited to 399 units worldwide, it can be said that it is the dream lover of all car lovers.

"What's the fuss? Get in the car" Ye Qiu had already opened the car door and sat in.

Ribery stood cautiously and watched, his eyes wandering around, but he didn't open the door and sat in.

"Get in the car, what?" Ye Qiu wondered, this kid is weird.

Ribery was standing there a little confused, he could already feel the group of security guards behind him laughing, "You open the door." ”

Ye Qiu almost lost his voice suddenly, it turned out that this kid didn't know how to open the door, "There is no handle, the one in the back gap of the car door is concave, you can open it with your hand in it"

Ribery followed Ye Qiu's words, reached in, grabbed hard, and the door of the Eurowing car slowly rose, which made him feel as if he was in the world of science fiction, and then he deliberately patted the clothes on his body, as if to pat off the dust, and then sat in, but he couldn't close the door, so he could only stand up a little more before closing the door.

"It's trouble," Ribery grumbled, but his eyes were looking around like a thief, as if everything in the car was so new to him that he never dared to imagine himself in such a car before.

Ye Qiu smiled a little vainly, and slowly drove out, "Why did you come on foot?" It can't be from Boulogne across the English Channel and swim, right? After saying that, he laughed.

Ribery sighed, "I came by plane, I called a taxi, told him he was going to Chelsea, and then told me a lot, and then I didn't know where to go, just threw it down and left, and I was depressed. ”

Frankly speaking, this French kid's English is not too bad, and there is no problem with daily communication, presumably other problems.

"And then?" Ye Qiu asked with a smile.

"I can't get a taxi, I can't find a place, so I asked someone along the way" Ribery shrugged his shoulders, looking very open, but Ye Qiu listened to it, and felt that there was a little bitterness in his words.

Just imagine, a person alone in a strange city, unfamiliar with the place, in the middle of the night on the street looking for people to ask for directions, the misery can be imagined, because even in the United Kingdom, don't think how friendly the people here will be, especially when they see Ribery's face, they must be avoided

"Who told you to throw my business card?" Ye Qiu scolded with a smile.

Ribery was taken aback, "I accidentally lost it, not threw it," he reminded with great emphasis.

He thought about it along the way, throwing and throwing are two completely different concepts, and he made up his mind, and he didn't admit that he threw it to death.

"For me, it's all the same," Ye Qiu said with a smile.

Ribery didn't hesitate, let him speak, turned his head sideways, and looked at London's flowery world and bustling night scene with a fresh look, full of surprise.

This was the first time in his life that he had come to such a bustling world-level metropolis, and everything was new to him.

The car slowly left the city and came to the Skyline Hotel near Heathrow Airport.

The hotel is located next to Heathrow Airport and only a kilometre away from the Harrington training base, and Ye Qiudu chose to live here when the villa in Totledge has not yet been renovated.

Because most of them are airport passengers, the hotel is an hourly service, Ye Qiu took Ribery to have a midnight meal, opened a room for him, let him take a shower, and sleep comfortably.

"Raise your spirits, follow me to the training base tomorrow"

Finally, Ye Qiu said this sentence that stabilized Ribery and made him sleep comfortably for a night.

When I saw Ribery again the next morning, I was in the hotel restaurant.

Ye Qiu informed the waiter at the hotel and asked Ribery to go directly to the restaurant to find him after waking up, and when this kid arrived, Huang Chu was just about to go to work, and the two just took a face, but this stinky boy was dumbfounded.

"Boss, your girlfriend is so pretty" Ribery was amazed.

"My wife" Ye Qiu raised the coffee cup to hide his pride, this stinky boy knows how to pat himself on the back.

Ye Qiu is also weird, he doesn't like to pat him directly, but he can't pat him indirectly, he is quite frustrated.

"That ...... that day," Ribery thought for a moment.

"My agent, Eliza Moon," Ye Qiu introduced.

Ribery suddenly realized, and couldn't help but compare in his heart, is his wife beautiful? Or is the agent pretty?

After thinking about it for a long time, this kid finally came to a conclusion, both of them seem to be so beautiful that it is difficult to distinguish between the superior and the inferior.

"By the way, do you have an agent?" Ye Qiu asked casually.

"Yes," Ribery said as he munched on bread, "but when he was in Ales, he didn't get paid and ran away with someone else."

Ye Qiu took a sip of coffee and almost sprayed him directly in front of him, how could this kid say that the agent seemed to have eloped with someone.

"As is customary, I have to take you to the Harrington training base, the conditions are terrible, but they are still improving, and we have bought a piece of land nearby, we will move in a year, this summer's training camp丨We are arranged in Austria, if you have no problem, I will arrange an agent for you, and you sign the contract with the club."

"That's it?" Ribery asked.

"What do you think?" Ye Qiu is strange, isn't it good to sign a contract like this?

Ribery was still thinking about it, no matter what, he had to try out for a while, or for some time, but listening to Ye Qiu's tone, he seemed to be full of confidence in himself, and he was going to sign a contract with him directly.

"Questions?" Seeing Ribery stunned, Ye Qiu thought he was unhappy.

"Oh, no, no problem, how can there be a problem?" Ribery shook his head vigorously, "It's just, my salary ......"

Ye Qiu smiled, this kid is really not small, he asked him to play in the Premier League, he took special care of him, but he was good, and he raised his salary? However, Ye Qiu knew in his heart that when he came alone, he had actually made it clear that he would be slaughtered, but now that he wanted to sign the contract, he had to ask clearly.

"The weekly salary is 10UU pounds, plus appearance fees, winning bonuses, goal bonuses, championship bonuses and league rankings and other bonuses, if you perform well, the salary can also float to 50 This time next year, I will give you a new contract, the salary depends on your performance"

When Ye Qiu said this, Ribery's eyes lit up.

The weekly salary is 10UU pounds, which is almost more than 4,000 pounds a month, which is much better than him being a brick movers.

"Still have questions?" Ye Qiu asked again.

Ribery kept shaking his head, he was not afraid that Ye Qiu would lie to him, to be honest, he also knew Ye Qiu, the Champions League champion coach, and the head coach of a big club like Chelsea, the hottest manager in European football today, such a figure would lie to him for more than a thousand pounds?

If that's the case, then he still can't wait for it, because with this piece of news, he will be able to eat and drink for the rest of his life.

"By the way, boss," Ribery thought of something again, "is the club in charge?" ”

"Have you ever seen a club keep it?" Ye Qiu asked funny.

Ribery was tempted to say yes, as he had dormitories in Lille and Boulogne, but he didn't dare to say so.

"I heard, you're married?" Ye Qiu asked casually.

"Hmm," Ribery remembered when he left home, "I'm going to be a father soon." ”

Ye Qiu was slightly stunned, then looked at Ribery, thinking about his work on the construction site, he could more or less detect something.

Although he had only met Ribery twice, he felt that this kid was a bit unruly, his education level was not high, and he didn't look like a person who was willing to put down his body to move bricks, but now, hearing him say that he was going to be a father, Ye Qiu understood a little.

"Because you don't need a transfer fee, I can give you another signing fee of 10,000 pounds, and I will ask the agent to help you find several houses, and when the team comes back from training in Austria, you can pick a house, go back and take your wife over, settle down and play football with peace of mind."

Ribery was stunned when he heard this, and immediately understood that this was an additional benefit given to him by Ye Qiu, obviously helping him, and he didn't say anything, he nodded, as if all this was what he deserved, but he couldn't help but feel a little warmer in his heart for this city that had just finished raining and was a little cool.

Signing for a club is actually a very simple thing and not as complicated as outsiders think.

Generally speaking, clubs have pre-programmed several different types of standard contracts in advance, and then make different changes depending on the outcome of negotiations between the player and the club.

The agent Ye Qiu found for Ribery was, of course, Eliza, which was called Fat Water and Leaving No Outsiders, and the whole signing process was so simple that Ribery wondered if he was wrong, because it was done in ten minutes, and then he got a professional contract with a salary of 1,000 pounds a week.

If this contract is in Boulogne, or Alex, it is the highest salary contract, it is estimated that the club has to consider it for a long time, but in the Premier League, in London, it is a matter of ten minutes, which makes Ribery a little surprised, but also feels that he has really come to the right place.

After signing the contract, Ye Qiu asked Roland to take Ribery around to have a look, while he was in the office with Eliza to discuss the transfer of Makelele, the French defender is the player he wants very much.

Of course, if it really doesn't work, he has another candidate, Albelda in Valencia.

Valencia's strong rise in recent years is inseparable from the pair of Albelda and Baraja, a pair of double back combinations, among them, Albelda is a very traditional interception and steal type of midfielder, with a very good sense of position, like Makelele, they rely on awareness to defend, but because of this, Ye Qiu is more uncertain about whether his body can cope with the Premier League.

However, Alberta's advantage over Makelele is that he is from Spain, and he is better than Makelele in terms of ball control and handling, but at this point, Chelsea already have Deco and Ronaldinho, so Ye Qiu's first choice is still Makelele.

"Makelele has already conveyed his idea to Real Madrid through his agent, either raise his salary or leave, and from my contact with Real Madrid, they are not opposed to selling Makelele because what they want is Vieira," Eliza analyzed.

Real Madrid's pursuit of Vieira is undoubted, because Vieira is the first person in Florentino's eyes.

Many people think that Florentino is after a superstar up front, but in fact he is wrong, what Florentino wants is that Real Madrid is a superstar in every position, and Makelle is not, his compatriot Vieira is.

Therefore, in the previous life, someone summed up Florentino's failure, that is, after selling Makelele, he failed to buy Vieira.

"You say, if we bring in Makellele, will they bring in Vieira?" Ye Qiu asked with a smile.

To be honest, Vieira doesn't like Chelsea, but he would love to go to Real Madrid and establish himself as a superstar alongside Zidane, Ronaldo, Figo and others.

Ye Qiu remembered that in his previous life, Makelele's transfer was carried out one day after the end of the transfer deadline, and did not leave enough time for Real Madrid to operate Vieira, so what about now? It's just July, and I have a lot of time, so will I buy it?

"Real Madrid's asking price for Makelele is not low," Eliza pouted very coquettishly, "UU million euros." ”

You must know that the transfer fee of a superstar like Beckham is only 30 million euros, and now that the ball market is so sluggish, a little-known defensive player like Makelele is priced as high as UU million euros, which is already sky-high, who wants to be such a big boss?

But Ye Qiu thought about it for a while, nodded and said, "Promise them"

"Huh?" Eliza suspected she had misheard.

"Directly offer UU 10,000 euros, don't make a counteroffer, get it all at once, I want to make a quick decision" Ye Qiu's attitude was very resolute.

Is UU Wan buy Makelele expensive?

In Ye Qiu's opinion, it is not expensive at all, since this is the case, there is no need to quarrel with Real Madrid, they want to sell, Chelsea wants to buy, directly from the net profit point, how much is the money, saving more dreams at night.

Why can't Ferguson buy Ronaldinho?

To say something unpleasant, he slammed the door

Before the end of the season, Ronaldinho was worth less than 10 million, and if Manchester United gave a ruthless price and directly opened 10UU million or a start, Paris Saint-Germain probably agreed, even if it was 15UU million later, you directly threw a UU million, and they would agree.

But as more and more teams began to operate in the transfer market, and as Real Madrid and Barcelona joined the competition, Manchester United found that Ronaldinho's value had risen, and Paris Saint-Germain began to have something to fear.

Chelsea's process of getting Ronaldinho is very simple, Eliza learned about the psychological price of Paris Saint-Germain through various ways, and found that their bottom line is around UU million euros, slightly lower than Beckham, so they directly threw 30UU million euros over, and the other party immediately agreed.

Is it wronged? Maybe a little, but the problem is, are you going back and forth with PSG, and you are still taking such a big risk, just for 5 million euros? Maybe any of these changes will cause Ronaldinho's value to rise again, and you may not be able to buy it for 30UU million euros.

Sometimes, buying players is like an auction, and it is more deterrent to kill them directly