Perhaps before July of '03, not many people in the football world knew who Abu was.

But a year back, in the spring of 02, when Millwall met Barcelona and Real Madrid in succession in the Champions League pinnacle battle, before the big game that kicked off at the Lion King Stadium, Abu took Barnett's private jet to London, and he was greeted by Andrew Hall, who accompanied him to watch the heart-wrenching battle in the stadium.

A year later, when Abu returned to England to watch the game, he was greeted at the airport by Zahawi and Blackburn Rovers coach Souness.

Zahavi, an Israeli agent, has been featured in England football in numerous transactions, and few know that he is Andrew Hall's henchman.

Andrew doesn't often show his head and wants to see him, and only when there are some seismic transfers, such as before the World Cup, when he took four Italian internationals to Milan City, and some other players trade, he will let others come forward, such as Rio Ferdinand's transfer, Zahavi is the representative of Andrew to the front of the stage.

Andrew probably realized what was going to happen, so he started to keep Zahavi in touch with Abu in the spring, while he himself, in order to avoid suspicion, money, still had to earn, but did not want to cause some trouble for Aldrich.

After all, if he is too showy, he will inevitably get involved in some indescribable right and wrong.

Abu came to England this year, not to London, but to Manchester, and Zahavi welcomed Abu with Souness with Andrew's VIP tickets that had already been prepared, and then watched Manchester United and Real Madrid at Old Trafford.

At the end of April this year. Zahavi had a private meeting with Chelsea executive Pochi. Among the issues discussed was Chelsea's player deal. Finally, a new topic was raised around Chelsea's financial problems, Chelsea needed money, and Zahavi knew a man with a lot of money.

It is no secret that Abu wants to buy a Premier League team.

Britain's position in the world is there, and excluding Manchester United's political influence after Manchester, London is the highest.

From the end of April onwards, throughout May, Abou was linked to Chelsea. But I didn't care.

It's easy to pay.

However, he is a rich man, and he can choose goods slowly.

couldn't buy Millwall, he originally thought that the second option was Manchester United, but considering the turmoil caused by Murdoch's acquisition of Manchester United, coupled with Manchester's geographical location, Abu finally chose to give up.

As a result, his range of options was only in London, not even Liverpool.

Arsenal. Tottenham, Chelsea.

Chelsea are at the bottom of the table.

Arsenal's situation is too complicated. With the exception of the club's majority shareholder, most of the shares are in the hands of conservative Britons.

Abu really started to ask Zahavi to help negotiate a deal with Tottenham when he started it.

When Zahavi asked at what price he wanted to sell his 29.9% stake in the ENIC group, Levi, a Jew who took Abu as a Kaizi, directly asked for 150 million pounds, in fact, Levi's own valuation was less than 50 million pounds, not to mention that the total value of Tottenham's shares did not exceed 80 million pounds.

As a result, Abu gave up on Tottenham again.

Finally, at the end of June, Chelsea's share price was still in a slump, and Chelsea, because Bates hesitated in many choices, seemed to be afraid that they would suffer a loss, and as a result, some of the rich owners who threw olive branches were very dissatisfied, and when Abu decided to start talks with Chelsea, it was Chelsea's last choice, or the best of the remaining options!

But this was not the best choice from the beginning, because there was a consortium that bid higher than Abu before, but unfortunately, Bates paid a certain price for his greed, but this is negligible.

At just after 7 o'clock in the evening of June 26th, at the luxurious Doschest Bar, a place frequented by the powerful and celebrities, Bates met with Abu and Abu's entourage, they drank mineral water and ate snacks provided by the bar, the meeting was not protracted, Bates could not withstand the pressure, Abu was not a stingy person, only 45 minutes later, the two shook hands and the deal was made!

The next day, Abu and his private team arrived at Chelsea Village for an impromptu meeting with Chelsea management.

In the past day, Abu's funds have been confirmed by Citibank, and the full acquisition is officially launched!

A hurricane swept through English football, and in this decadent and desperate time, the impact brought by Abu seemed to re-energize the entire English football scene!

Despair, from those small teams that are constantly going bankrupt, with no hope in sight, from Leeds United who are still falling, and Chelsea's seemingly inevitable fate is also going to sink!

What people talk about the most is a worse and worse future, as if English football is dying, which has nothing to do with competition, but the foundation of the survival of a football kingdom is shaking, teams, one after another bankrupt, one after another ushered in reincarnation, even if they still have Millwall, Manchester United, Arsenal and other strong teams, but if there are no other teams, or other teams are in the pace of decline and death, then Millwall, Manchester United, their survival, will it be the same as now?

Because of this, Abu came down like a god, and his arrival alone changed the fate of a club that survived the noble district club of London, making everyone feel desperate, and the irreversible situation was reversed by him alone!

And the day after he bought Chelsea, the front pages of the newspapers on Fleet Street, large and small, all published his photos, and he became a household name, he came from cold Siberia to London, the heart of Europe, and began to be known by people all over the world with the football circle as a springboard!

He no longer had to hide in the Kremlin as a shadow cabinet of mysteries, despite the fact that he was in exile in Britain with his mentor. The former Russian oligarchs are in the same city. But the fate of the two. It is already very different, one has to worry every day about being quietly brought back to China by Russian agents to stand trial, and the other can be active in the West as a glamorous identity, away from the center of power in Moscow as a plaything and a tycoon, break free from the shackles and be free.

One day. Chelsea's shares changed hands by more than 270,000 shares, up more than 40%, and a total of 127 shares were traded before the new news was announced, causing a shock in the London stock exchange, which immediately asked the financial services department to investigate, and finally recorded that there were shareholders within Chelsea who took advantage of the opportunity to make windfall profits, and five of them and two companies were blacklisted.

And on July 1, Chelsea was saved from the brink of death. Nirvana reborn!

Although there are still a number of football insiders who have expressed concern that a foreign billionaire owns Chelsea Football Club privately, in the long run. Not a good thing.

But compared to death, who can live, who will think about the ethereal future?

Abu has become the most mysterious and the most talked-about headliner.

Chelsea saw a series of shocks within the country.

Bates got his wish to stay at the club as chairman and began to pat Abou on the back and enjoy the ease that he had not enjoyed for the past 21 years, even at Chelsea.

Ranieri was on vacation in France and was told by the club director that the club was forbidden to trade!

Goodjohnsen received a call from his agent, and his father, yes, when he left Millwall two years later, he parted ways with Andrew, leaving his father as an agent, and his father told him not to rush to sign the new contract, not even to show his attitude, to drag it out and wait and see.

It seems that in the eyes of everyone, Abu, a rich man who spends a lot of money, has endless oil and water.

Chelsea, on the other hand, from the first day of the Abou era, started in a very different style.

Their goal is "ideal", and their requirement is "perfection".

Every Chelsea man started talking about a glorious future, putting Chelsea in the top of Europe, as they saw Manchester United, Millwall, Real Madrid, Barcelona, AC Milan and others as contenders.

As Bates said in an interview, "It's a wedding in heaven." Let's be honest. I've been running Chelsea frugally. We should have continued this policy, but if we wanted to compete with Millwall and Real Madrid, we needed money, a lot of money. With Abu behind the scenes, we can compete on the world stage, which has always been my dream and why I have always worked hard for the club. ”

A team that has not won a top flight in 50 years has suddenly started talking about directly participating in the world's top competition in the green shade because of its sudden money, and Bates, who has been king at Chelsea for 21 years, seems to have not seen the reality clearly.

On the second day of his official arrival at Chelsea, Abou and Bates walked around Stamford Bridge and Abu reiterated his motivations.

For fun!

He didn't put on a noble feeling of dying for football, he was very simple, so many die-hard fans might be ashamed to hear the adjective: entertainment.

It's like the process he used to build a Russian provincial ice hockey team into the pinnacle of the Superleague: entertainment.

In Russia, however, there have been many voices of condemnation of Abu.

The president of the Russian Football Federation angrily said: Abu's money should be invested in sports in Russia.

The mayor of Moscow also denounced Abu: he betrayed Russia!

But Abu, who is the party concerned, simply ignores these voices, once as a mysterious person in the shadow cabinet, he is the closest distance to the pinnacle of power in Russia, and the object of the game is not the chairman of the Football Association, not the mayor, he is out to entertain, take the initiative to marginalize himself, to avoid angering the iron-fisted bigwig, you must know that there were nearly 100 Russian oligarchs back then, and now they can still live happily, there are only a handful, in the future, there may be no one left, why? In addition to embezzling state property, the oligarchs also tried to control the government and establish political power.

From this day on, modern football has changed.

Once upon a time, football was a public welfare activity that represented the honor and spirit of the community.

Before yesterday, football was a commodity, an investment commodity like real estate, stocks.

Starting today, football can be an entertainment tool for the rich. (To be continued......)