In this summer window, Chelsea seems to be blue while the wealthy families are dying. In just a few months, they got Ziyech, snatched Werner, smashed Chilville, signed Thiago Silva without a signing, and then got the popular Bundesliga Havertz at a very low price. So, Chelsea fans were singing the name of a woman while being cheered up and down.
She is Marina Granovskaya.
[Russian art beauty who went off the wrong way]
If you look at Marina Granovskaya's resume, you will know that her entry into the football industry is an accident. This sister, who has dual Russian and Canadian nationalities, attended a school known for music and dance as a child. According to her parents' plan, she should take a growth path from a beautiful woman in the art circle to a fat Russian aunt. But her life ran in a strange direction because of Abramovich.
In 1997, Marina graduated from Moscow State University with a major in foreign languages. Her first job after leaving the university entrance went to Abu Siberian Petroleum Company. Due to his excellent conversation and decisive and thoughtful way of dealing with people, Marina changed from a front vase secretary to a private consultant to the big boss Abu in just five years. As the trust increased, Marina began to manage various things for Abu in Russia. After becoming an important think tank member of the boss, Abu suddenly told her one day: "I opened a new copy in the UK, you can watch it."
Yes, this copy is Chelsea. In June 2003, Abu invested 150 million pounds to buy the Chelsea club, and Marina also moved from Moscow to London in the same year. However, Marina was only responsible for helping her boss and guests booking planes, decks and souvenirs at Chelsea at the time, and did not participate too much in the club's operations. Because... If you are an old fan, you must still remember the theorem that rampant European continent in the summer window of 2003 - anyone Chelsea likes will have no chance, and they don't even have the qualifications to raise it.
So, at that time, Chelsea, who did whatever they wanted in the transfer market, did not need a financial manager or negotiation expert, and Abu was a real FM player in the early stages of his business. Whether it was buying his friend Shepchenko or introducing Eastern European fellow villagers Smertin and Jerkov, he was his own idea, and others could not interfere.
However, everything changed in the 2007-08 season. For Chelsea, Mourinho was dismissed in that game, and the Blues bid farewell to the first golden age since Abu's takeover; for Abu, he divorced his third wife that season, and his wife divided his wealth of 5.5 billion euros, followed by the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008, and Abu's wealth shrank again. Coupled with the fiscal fairness bill introduced by UEFA in 2009... All this means that Chelsea must change its way of life.
So the problem is, how can Abraham, who uses money to solve everything like before, control Chelsea's operations?
Abu gave the answer: Marina.
[I am Chelsea’s No. 1 sister, I endorse the boss]
In the 2009 Champions League semi-finals, Drogba scolded the referee at the camera camera after the game, "This is really a shame", which caused an uproar. At that time, we were about to negotiate a contract renewal with Drogba, so many Chelsea executives thought it would be better to sell Drogba while it was hot. However, Marina stood up toughly and said, "Stay Drogba! If any trouble arises, I will be responsible."
In August 2009, Chelsea renewed its contract with Drogba for three years. Later, Drogba, who was 31 years old when he renewed his contract, reached another three years in the Blues, not only helping Chelsea win the Premier League and the FA Cup, but also led the team to the first Champions League trophy in team history in 2011-12.
Nowadays, Chelsea insiders generally believe that the Drogba incident is a turning point in Marina's influence in Chelsea.Since then, Abram has consulted Marina at Chelsea from big business policies to small business relationships, and Marina has also begun to become an important figure in the Blues.
——In 2010, Marina officially became Abu's spokesperson at Chelsea and began to participate in player transfer work. Torres's joining was her work.
—In 2013, Marina joined the club's board of directors, and from face to inside, she became the real power of the Blues. How strong is her voice at that time? In the summer of 2013, when Naples chairman De Laurentis was asked by reporters whether Cavani could transfer to Chelsea, De Lao said that it depends on Marina's decision.
—In October 2014, Chelsea former CEO Ron Gurley resigned. From then on, Marina decided on all matters of Chelsea club. Marina gradually showed the temperament of a gang leader. When she talked about renewal with Terry that season, Terry was very hesitant about the contract signed once a year. As a result, Marina swears at the Chelsea captain: "Either accept it or just throw it away." Terry finally signed the one-year contract extension. Marina like
is no longer the little secretary of the past. Once Abu went to London and wanted Marina to accompany him to buy a gift for his friend, and then the boss received a reply from his former secretary: "I'm too busy and don't have time to spend time with you."
This is indeed the case. According to English media estimates, Marina has to conduct more than 500 negotiations every summer, basically either at the negotiating table or on the way to negotiate.
Although these negotiations have wins, losses, profits and losses, most of her opponents will sigh after they walk down the negotiating table:
"Sister No, you are so amazing."
[Sister No, the mother at the negotiating table]
Speaking of Marina's negotiation skills, we have to mention her name as Sister No. When Marina took office in 2010, when Chelsea's business strategy changed, she had to find ways to help the Blues deal with FFP. At that time, Marina had a unified attitude whether she bought or sold her people.
—When buying a player, she will say no as soon as possible and then recommend a plan B to the coach.
—When selling players, no matter how much the other party’s first offer is, her response is no, no, no!
An agent told the Daily Telegraph: "If you don't know about business with Marina, it's not okay. Ordinary people say that from time to time, it actually means let's meet again 20 times, and then finally set a price. But when she says no, you won't hear from her again. This is really rare in the football world."
So, the name No sister spreads in the world.
In the summer window of 2015, Sister No came to discuss Zhang Linpeng's transfer with Evergrande Club. When Sister No just arrived in Guangzhou, Evergrande's representative Liu Yongzhuo said: "Thank you very much for sacrificing your public holiday to discuss the transfer matter." However, a few days later, Mr. Liu, who has always been very well-educated, swears: "I have never seen a transfer talk like this. Does she think she is buying cabbage in the market?"
has no choice, this is Sister No's style of acting. Chelsea often gathered together to announce a large number of players the day before the transfer window closed, because Sister No's style of never giving up until the last moment, and even Levi was willing to give in.
But this style is not all advantageous in the football circle. After all, good players on the football field are scarce products, and if you accidentally lower the price, you will be poached by other companies. On the one hand, this has caused some panic purchases by Chelsea in the transfer market, and Baba Rahman, Drumshui Ge, and Zampa Costa are all this; on the other hand, the control of the budget has also made the Blues pass by some good players. Mourinho once complained: "I want to buy XX, but Marina said No, and then turned around and recommended me a player with a 60% discount..."
However, Marina's rule has indeed completely changed the image of Chelsea being stupid and having a lot of money. She constantly competes with her opponents at the negotiating table, and pursues a financial management method of "selling people and buying them again and making money", which has brought women's thrifty nature to the extreme.Especially in terms of selling people, Marina's skills, Liverpool's love can always be forced to fight. For example, she sold Mata, who had fallen out of favor under Mourinho to Manchester United for £37 million; for example, she also sold Matic, who was valued at the time of Germany for £40 million; for example, she sold countless taxis at high prices over the years, and Chelsea earned £194 million by selling the little monster in the past 10 years.
However, Marina has always been criticized for her buying people. Not only do people often mock her for buying people based on her appearance, but she sometimes shows the impulsive consumption nature of women - for example, she didn't even pay back the price, so she directly threw the Kepa for 80 million euros. For this kind of operation with a huge contrast and suffocating contrast... Well, think about my mother buying vegetables at the stall, making careful calculations for a 50 cents, and then buying health care products worth thousands of dollars without blinking, but she just felt like she was running away.
So, Chelsea fans have always had two comments on Marina.
A. Selling 90 points, buying 50 points.
B. Whether you buy or sell, you are a ruthless person.
In fact, Marina's work at Chelsea has always been mixed and criticized until the summer window of 2020...
The ruthless Marina Granovskaya finally ushered in her own moment.
[Crazy buying, buy, sister No is the only god of this summer window ]
In February 2019, Chelsea encountered a transfer ban, and neither transfer window could buy people. So Marina's operation began.
She first bought Pulisic by delayed delivery, and then bought out Kovacic by early loan registration, allowing the Blues to attract two strong aid during the transfer ban. In order to squeeze out the 29-year-old Hazard's last surplus value, Marina negotiated a high price of 120 million euros with only one year left in the Belgian; then Cahill cleared the position, Luis sold out, Higuain withdrawal from the lease, Zambacosta Baccayoko rented out, and gave up a large amount of salary space for the Chelsea Festival; then Atletico Madrid announced early that it would buy out Morata for 50 million pounds, making this already wealthy family even more overwhelmed; coupled with the impact of the epidemic, the transfer market plummeted... A rich wife who had a lot of money for a whole year caught up with a luxury goods sale, so what are you waiting for? Fighting!
——On February 13, Chelsea officially announced: Ziyech joined for 38 million yuan.
——On June 18, Chelsea officially announced: Werner will join the Blues at the end of the season.
——On August 24, Chelsea officially announced that they would exempt Thiago Silva from a 1+1 contract.
——On August 26, Chelsea officially announced that they signed Chilwell from Leicester City for £50 million.
——On September 4, Chelsea officially announced: signing Havertz, a popular transfer market.
In this summer when everyone tightens their belts and lives a poor life, Chelsea has become the only big family in the entire international football world. With one month left before the transfer window is closed, Sister No, who is retaliatingly spending, has already spent £230 million. Even so, she still did not forget to turn Havertz, whose price was as high as 90 million pounds, successfully turned into a basic transfer fee of 62 million pounds + 8 million pounds floating...
This summer sister No, who was the winner of the gods in one battle.
So, can we describe Marina like this?
- She is a typical negotiating expert, always staying strong at the negotiating table, trying to lower the price without compromise.
—She will think about the problem from a business perspective at the first time, and she is not a good wife and mother at all in terms of her ruthlessness in business.
—Since taking over the team's management, she has to handle about 120 contracts every summer window, from signing youth training to signing big-name players, from getting agents to subdue players, from negotiating with players' parents to arranging accommodation for new players, everything is very important.
- She pays great attention to the youth training development of the out-of-the-border army. She has been seen many times watching Witz's game with Alexander Zigilinsky, the Russian boss of Witz, and even took over the huge commercial sponsorship of the British Truphone Mobile Communications Company with Peter Gensler, the former marketing manager of Witz.
- Although there are many difficulties, she is still planning to build a new stadium with larger capacity and more advanced facilities for Chelsea. If it succeeds, it may help Chelsea surpass Manchester United to become the No. 1 club in the Premier League box office.
After 2003, Abraham changed 3 wives and Chelsea changed 13 coaches, only she has been with Abraham and Chelsea. Nowadays, Chelsea's board of directors has three members, namely Chairman Bruce Buck, Director Eugene Tenebaum and Director Granovskaya. Among the three, the first two have basically retreated behind the scenes.
To this day, she still has no Wikipedia introduction, nor does she play social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. She only has a LinkedIn account, but there is only basic educational background and job information on it.
For Marina, it is difficult for you to use the word "no blowjob or no black", and your evaluation of her is always the two poles of either blowjob or black. However, whether it is praise or irony, you cannot deny this woman's ability and ambition.
According to Chelsea insiders, "She has no interest in becoming a celebrity, and her greatest pleasure is to hold power."
In fact, this sentence is the real Marina Granovskaya.
