"Chen, I didn't say I was going to sell the Crystal Palace now."

"If you go by your judgment, there will continue to be foreign investors who want to acquire Premier League clubs in the future. As the Premier League champion, Crystal Palace will definitely become their first target."

"As you said, these poor Americans only want to borrow money to buy Premier League teams, and they can't squeeze out much profit. But if we are attracted by those oil tycoons in the Middle East, they will directly pay a sky-high price. If not

Wouldn’t it be a shame to sell it?”

Stephen studied finance, but is now engaged in the football industry and has become the CEO of Crystal Palace Club.

But to him, business is business.

Maximizing the interests of the Crystal Palace Club was his best explanation to Chen Ran.

In Stephen's eyes, Chen Ran was able to bring Crystal Palace, a British Championship team, to its current position in three years. It is obviously not difficult to bring a team with a higher starting point than Crystal Palace to the same position.

matter.

This is like starting a business. After growing a small company into a unicorn, it goes public and cashes out.

Then create a new company and develop it into a new unicorn step by step.

Stephen now even feels that if this cycle continues, it is not impossible for Chen Ran to be on the Forbes list.

"Haha, if an oil tycoon really pays a sky-high price to buy the Crystal Palace Club, I don't know if I can still bear it."

While Chen Ran was responding to Stephen, the image of a camel in a rabbit looking for a rabbit to buy missiles appeared in his mind.

Being rich means being willful, and most people really can't handle it.

Chen Ran didn't know whether the two Americans, George Gillette and Tom Hicks, would accept his asking price of one billion pounds. What he was most concerned about now was the current physical condition of the team members.

Now that we have reached the end of the season, all fronts have reached a critical moment to sprint.

The physical energy that the players had reserved before the season has basically been exhausted. Now it depends on who can grit their teeth and persevere.

Simeone's injury has also been diagnosed, which is a muscle strain on the hamstring of his right thigh.

According to the doctor, there is no good solution for this kind of injury except to rest.

In nine out of ten key battles in the final period of Crystal Palace, Simeone will not be able to catch up.

However, Chen Ran still used the "One Recovery Card" previously awarded by the system to Simeone. Although it can only reduce the injury recovery time by 10%, it is better than nothing.

Chen Ran took Guardiola and Southgate to the hospital to visit Simeone. Although Simeone cannot play now, his brain is still fine.

Right in front of his hospital bed, Chen Ran held a meeting of the coaching staff and distributed the schedule for the final sprint of the season to his three assistants.

On April 15, in the 34th round of the Premier League, Crystal Palace will visit Old Trafford to challenge Manchester United;

On April 17, in the 35th round of the Premier League, Crystal Palace faced Newcastle United at home;

On April 19, in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-finals, Crystal Palace will face Italian giants Inter Milan at home;

On April 23, in the semi-finals of the English FA Cup, Crystal Palace faced West Ham United at home;

On April 26, in the second leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-finals, Crystal Palace will fly to Italy to challenge Inter Milan away from home;

On April 29, the 36th round of the Premier League, Crystal Palace will challenge Portsmouth away from home;

On May 2, in the 37th round of the Premier League, Crystal Palace will face Arsenal at home;

On May 7, in the 38th round of the Premier League, Crystal Palace will challenge Aston Villa away from home.

After the three of them finished reading the schedule and their faces turned dark, Chen Ran spoke.

"Let's talk about it. What should we do in this final stage?"

It was so silent that you could hear a pin drop in Simone's ward.

The three looked at each other again and again, and finally Southgate and Simeone stared at Guardiola together.

In desperation, Guardiola had no choice but to bite the bullet and stand up again.

"Boss, this final stage of the schedule is really abnormal, and I really can't think of a good way. I can only give up part of the game, but even so, I'm still not sure what the result will be."

"At least you can come up with a way, which is much better than these two guys. Let's talk about it in detail."

As Chen Ran said this, he gave Southgate and Simeone a hard look.

"Boss, I think we must first be prepared to give up the FA Cup."

Guardiola's first words were a punch.

Although Chen Ran doesn't pay much attention to the FA Cup, he has already reached the semi-finals, and his opponent is West Ham United, which is not very strong.

It would be a pity to just give up.

"Can."

Although Chen Ran felt a little pity in his heart, he could still distinguish between what was important and what was not.

"That's good."

Seeing that Chen Ran agreed with his idea of ​​giving up the FA Cup, Guardiola breathed a sigh of relief and continued:

"If we give up the FA Cup, then this schedule can be divided into two stages. The first three games and the last four games. There is a week in the middle to allow our main players to recover to a certain extent."

"However, the first three games are too close together. They have to play three games in five days, and the first and third games are against Manchester United and Inter Milan respectively."

"So my suggestion is that for the games against Manchester United and Inter Milan, we use the middle of the main lineup and for the game against Newcastle United, we can only send in substitute players."

Having said this, Guardiola stopped and looked at Chen Ran.

"Yes. It's definitely not possible to use the same lineup for three games in five days. As for the game against Newcastle United, it all depends on the performance of the substitutes."

In fact, Chen Ran's plan is similar to Guardiola's.

The reason why he asked the three assistants questions was to take this opportunity to exercise their abilities.

After all, these guys can't be his assistant coaches forever. There will always be times when they will be on their own. By then, these are all practical problems they will encounter.

Judging from several feedbacks, Simeone and Southgate are much worse than Guardiola. It is no wonder that Guardiola had the highest achievements in his previous life.

"Boss, I think the last game against Aston Villa can be ignored for the time being. Because this game is four days apart from the previous games, the players have sufficient recovery time."

"And by that time, maybe we will have won the league championship in advance."

"Okay. Don't think about the last game for now."

Chen Ran also nodded in agreement with Guardiola and marked this game with a pen.

"The next three games will have more time than the previous three. This time there are three games in seven days. However, in the first and third games we faced Inter Milan and Arsenal respectively, both of which are strong opponents.

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"So my suggestion is to use the entire main lineup against Inter Milan and Arsenal. In the second game against Portsmouth, use most of the substitutes and a small number of main players."

"Very good, Josep analyzed it very well."

As soon as Guardiola finished speaking, Chen Ran took the initiative to applaud him, and then glanced at Southgate and Simeone.

"What do you two think? Is there anything you want to add?"

"Boss, I think Josep has said it very comprehensively, and I completely agree with him."

Upon hearing Chen Ran's name, Southgate immediately jumped out to express his support.

"Boss, does Chelsea have any strong opponents in the final stage of the game?"

Simone raised his own question to Chen Ran.

"One, in the 37th round of the Premier League, they will face Manchester United at home."

Chen Ran nodded approvingly at Simeone. He is indeed a famous coach. Even Guardiola didn't think of asking about Chelsea's schedule just now.

Thinking of this, Chen Ran couldn't help but secretly shook his head.

No wonder Southgate has no outstanding achievements except for the position of head coach of the England national team. The gap is still very obvious.

"Boss, although Chelsea are five points behind us, they have a schedule advantage. They have been eliminated from the Champions League, which means they have two less intense games than us. We also have one more Arsenal to play than them.

I feel like the five-point advantage is a bit unsafe."

After hearing Chen Ran introduce Chelsea's schedule, Simeone's face suddenly looked worried.

"It doesn't matter, let alone we are still five points ahead of Chelsea. Even if we are not ahead by one point, we can still win this championship."

Seeing that his three assistants had bad expressions, Chen Ran waved his hand indifferently.

"What we need to consider is always the next game. As for the following games, forget about them now. Just play one game after another. As long as we work hard, I believe we will have a good result."

"That's right, the boss is right. Why do you want so much? Just do it and you'll be done."

Chen Ran's favorite, Southgate, once again demonstrated his value.

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Manchester, Manchester United Club, Sir Alex Ferguson's office.

"Alex, this is Crystal Palace's schedule for the final stages."

Ferguson's assistant Queiroz also made full preparations for the match between Manchester United and Crystal Palace.

"Haha, that Chinese kid is probably having a headache right now because of this schedule, right?"
To be continued...