At the end of Aston Villa's match against Arsenal.

On another field, referee Atkinson also blew the whistle to the end of the game.

Aston Villa's city rival Birmingham tied the powerful leader Chelsea at home with a tenacious zero-to-zero draw.

"Chelsea tied!"

The shouts of assistant coach Steve Warner made the visiting team locker room at Emirates Stadium boil.

"Long live!"

"marvelous!"

Aston Villa's players are all excited.

Originally, winning Arsenal has ensured that Aston Villa surpassed Arsenal and ranked second in the league with 41 points.

Now, Chelsea is tied by Birmingham and the points are 4 points.

Aston Villa is only one point behind Chelsea!

The 19th round of the league and the half-time of the league ended, and the team ranked second in the league.

Aston Villa is only one point behind the leader Chelsea.

At the same time, he was one point ahead of Manchester United.

Leading Arsenal three-pointer.

Such results and rankings are something that no one dreams of.

This is also Aston Villa's best half-time result in the past thirty years.

At the post-match press conference.

A reporter asked Fang Jue that Aston Villa is only one point behind Chelsea now. Have you ever thought about winning the Premier League championship?

"Our goal is to stay in the top four in the league at the end of the season," Fang Jue said.

"League Champion?"

"That's what Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool are doing."

"Aston Villa's young and handsome head coach firmly denied that Aston Villa has the strength and opportunity to win the league championship." The Times.

According to the Times, Liverpool's reaction to this is quite embarrassing, and some Liverpool fans even suspect that Aston Villa's head coach deliberately eliminated them.

Because, after the 19th round of the league, Aston Villa ranked second in the league with 41 points; while Liverpool only ranked seventh in the league with 30 points.

You are the second place and say that the seventh place is closer to winning first place. Are you sure you are good things?

...

Manchester United's bus drove slowly in the night.

The players were in a good mood and were very happy, playing in the car.

Ferguson closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.

He didn't want to sleep, the old man enjoyed this feeling after winning.

Listening to the young men's happy words, he felt extremely satisfied and at ease.

"Arsenal lost to Aston Villa 1-4 at home." A voice sounded in his ears, Ferran's voice.

Ferguson opened his eyes and showed a surprised expression.

It was not that he had thought that Arsenal would lose to Aston Villa, after all, Aston Villa had already beat Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United before.

He just didn't expect Arsenal to lose so badly.

"Go back and sort out this game, I want to watch it." Ferguson said immediately.

"Okay." Feilan nodded.

"Ashley Young came on the bench in the second half, first assisting Husky to score, and then scored a goal." Ferran continued.

Ferguson first showed a surprise expression and nodded with satisfaction.

Then the old Scottish man smiled bitterly and shook his head, "The Villas will definitely ask for a higher price."

...

Manchester United has a lot of negotiation skills.

Ashley Young's outstanding performance will directly affect the player's transfer value, which is inevitable.

Buy up or down.

Manchester United knows Aston Villa will be more greedy to raise the asking price.

Therefore, Manchester United took the initiative to raise the quotation the next morning.

£0 million!

Manchester United directly raised the quotation of 18 million pounds to 0 million pounds.

This is the power of Ashley Young's pass and shot, which directly caused Manchester United to increase the price by two million pounds without hesitation.

However, this price tag obviously still cannot satisfy Aston Villa.

Fang Jue handed over Ashley Young's transfer negotiations to the club's general manager Byron.

All his energy is spent on the home game against Liverpool a day later.

He just played with Arsenal on December 27th.

I will play for Liverpool on December 29th.

Then January 2 of the New Year is the FA Cup against Blackburn.

Aston Villa has to play three games in seven days, two of which are strong dialogues.

Such a intensive schedule also made Fang Jue want to scold people.

The day before the game with Liverpool, after training.

The team's local center Husky, who is about to turn 32, found Fang Jue.

"Coach, do you have time?" Husky asked.

Fang Jue looked at Husky in surprise, nodded, and signaled the other party to talk to him to the office.

Husky was honest.

He told Fang Jue that he had received a offer he could not refuse and wanted to transfer to leave Aston Villa.

"Coach, I'm very happy with you for the past half season," Husky said.

"It's just that, I can't refuse this offer," Husky continued. "As my age, this may be the last generous contract I can get."

Fang Jue nodded, and he expressed his understanding.

He wasn't angry either.

First of all, Husky's attitude is very good.

Secondly, reasonably, if a veteran wants to pursue the last generous contract of his career, the club should not set obstacles.

Of course, there is a prerequisite for this, that is, the interests of Aston Villa should not be harmed.

Moreover, there seems to be no need to worry about this.

The invitation to the former England international was to send a generous contract to the UAE giant Al Ahli.

This Bay Big League team is not short of money.

According to Husky, Al Ahli will show sincerity in the transfer fee.

Fang Jue likes this sentence.

No, to be precise, he likes to deal with such sincere teams.

After all this was said, Fang Jue knew that he could not stop Husky from making big money.

The only worry is that if Husky transfers and leaves, the team's employment issues on the front line.

In this case, Fang Jue has three genuine strikers, including Van Nistruei, Diego Costa and Abonrajo, as well as Mane.

Of course, Gareth Bale and even Desler can also play as a winger.

Normally, such a front line configuration is OK.

However, I am most afraid of getting injured, especially in the center position. Once one of Van Nistrui or Diego Costa is injured, then Fang Jue will not have a center substitute to use.

If possible, after the winter transfer window opens, we should see if we can find a substitute center in the transfer market.

...

January 9.

Round 0 of the Premier League season 009/010.

It was also Aston Villa's last game in 2009.
To be continued...