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Chapter 2 - Chapter 2 - Mortgaged

First of all, Felix needs to determine, whether the events that happened currently in this timeline matches with the memories and events of his previous life.

Fortunately the Champions of 07-08 season in

-Premier League is Manchester United.

-Serie A is Inter Milan.

-La Liga champion is also Real Madrid.

-And the two teams that have finally entered the Champions League final are also the same as his previous life, the Premier League Giants Manchester United and Chelsea.

Since all of the events that he remembers according to his previous life are the same, Felix finally breathed a sigh of relief...

Felix did not immediately started the management of the team. it's common that a person cannot cook a food without the ingredients.

Even though Felix had many ambitions regarding the club, it was difficult to fulfill all those ambitions when the club is undergoing severe financial crisis as it has a debt of 110 million pounds.

Felix fell into his thoughts on how to improve the condition of the club and remove the financial crisis going on and after a long period of thinking, he decided to do something that no one have ever expected.

Felix borrowed 100 million pounds from the Barclays Bank Nottingham branch by mortgaging the Notts County Club.

Actually the worth of Notts County fell from 150 million pounds to 80 million pounds in the past two seasons but in the case of the friendship of his father, the Manager of the bank did a favor to Felix.

Of course, Felix will not publicise such a thing, if the fans of Notts County came to know that the new chairman of the club instead of focusing on how to strengthen the team and promote the team to a higher level, he has motgaged the club. Then they will beat him to death.

Even if Felix is doing this for the future of the team, who can understand his approach before the matter is resolved in the favour of the team.

But luck was not in favour of Felix because a staff member of the Barclays Bank who operated in the loan taken by Felix, happened to be a die-hard fan of Nottingham FC, the rival of Notts County. This news was like finding a new world to him, he directly informed this news to the local media of Newcastle upon Tyne.

As a mortal enemy of Notts County, fans of Nottingham Club wished for Notts County to fell directly in the last tier, and the sudden news of Chairman who mortgaged the club to the bank make them very much happy and excited.

Even if Nottingham FC is now playing in the Premier League and Notts County are still struggling in the Third tier, but seeing the mortal enemies in the same city, is unpleasant to the fans of Nottingham FC.

On the contrary, after the fans of Newcastle United read the newspaper, no one could accept this cruel news that was publicized in it.

There was a little bit of hope in the heart of the fans of Notts County, that Felix will make a strong team this season and can lead the club to rise one more time and the team will once again play in the Premier League and compete with the Giants.

Although Felix, the young chairman was unanimously supported by the fans because of his continuous and generous investment, even though the fans were dissatisfied with some of his decisions, but Who would have thought that Felix will make such a decision, the beloved Club of Notts County was actually mortgaged by him.

Just after hearing this news, loyal and sensible fans approached the club headquarters and pulled banners outside the gate, calling on the Young Chairman Felix to put an end to his absurd behavior and cruel decision. The wanted Felix to buy the club back and pull it on track before causing even more consequences.

When no response was given by the Headquarters, the fans shifted to aggressive mode, they gathered outside Felix's residence and started screaming loudly believing that if Felix walked out of the house, then he must be greeted by solid bricks and wine bottles.

Unfortunately, at this time Felix was already out of the town by taking the 100 million pounds to the foreign.

The upcoming Champions League final was Felix's first step towards the bright future of the club.

In the previous life, Felix was very impressed with this Match. It was quite slow, but very dramatic and suspense.

Within the span of 90 minutes, the two sides had a 1:1 draw, and neither side made any achievements in overtime and the game entered a penalty shootout.

However, the Blues (Chelsea) once again fell in the finals. In the cruel penalty shootout, they lost to the Majestic Red Devil's (Manchester United), and could only watch their opponents enjoying with the championship trophy with happiness and cheers.

Now that he knows the result, why should Felix let go of this opportunity of earning a huge amount of sum?

During the betting process, Felix did not make all the trade-offs and hesitated quite a lot, because such a choice is not very simple, no one wants to lose his money if he is not fully assured.

The odds of betting on the winning team are generally between 2.7 and 3.1, while the odds of the Final match score of 1:1 between the two teams are between 6.7 and 7.9, and there is even a gaming company with more than 9 Of high odds.

If the final result has not changed, then Felix's start-up funds will be in the right place; if the result changes, then Felix will have nothing, including the Notts County Club.

Of course, there are some interesting bets, such as, Who will be the Man of the match? Which team will score within which time period? and the odds were also higher in these bets, So, Felix also betted his left money in these odds to earn more money.

On the day of the final, Felix watched the Match at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. After looking at this giant and magnificent stadium and the fanatic fans on both sides of the stadium. He vowed secretly in his heart that one day, Notts County will also become the top-tier giant, playing in these type of glorious stadiums and accepting everyone's cheers.

Same as his previous memories, Cristiano Ronaldo scored a goal in the 26th minute of the first half and Manchester United took the lead but Frank lampard equalized the score, seconds before the end of the first half.

The second half was mainly full of the opportunities but no team was able to take the lead and the game went on to extra time.

When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the Extra time of the game, Felix was so much excited and happy that he was on the verge of collapsing on the stands.

Even if you knew what was going to happen in penalty shootout, the atmosphere created by the fans made him also excited to see the live result with his own eyes.

The stadium erupted with the cheers of the Manchester United fans, when Van der Saar saved Nicholas Anelkas penalty kick to secure Manchester United Third European Cup title.

Looking at the players of the Manchester United happy, some crying and mainly holding The Champions Trophy in their hands running around in the field, Felix also felt greedy at one point.

He also became determined to make a team of future football stars and lead Notts County towards the glory.