Xu Zhu's Successor's Football Journey

Chapter 340 Choice (1)

With the continuous progress of Chelsea's victory, the entire England team can only look up to the rise of this new giant.

Perhaps before, as the Premier League's 'second millennium' gunner Arsenal this season, they still did not recognize Chelsea's strength, but with Arsenal's 1:1 draw with Manchester City, even Arsenal fans can't help it. Do not admit, at least this season, the league title is already in Chelsea's pocket.

After the first shot of the FA Cup, Premier League defending champion Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger publicly admitted in an interview with reporters: "Only when Chelsea, the current leader, declines, at least a lot of mistakes in a row, can Arsenal have Possibly back-to-back champions."

Later, the Frenchman said again: "With only 16 rounds left in the league, Chelsea, who have not lost this season, obviously have too much advantage. Our points gap is almost beyond reach. We will seize the opportunity and do our best to keep up with them."

"Although Arsenal scored 10 points in the last four league rounds, which is already a very good result, but Chelsea have scored all 22 points in the 66 league rounds, which is not comparable at all." Wenger's face was a little bit Said gloomyly.

However, at the end of the interview, Wenger may feel that his words were a little cowardly, so he changed his tone and said: "We lost two points today, but we can't give up lightly at this time and admit that they are already the new champions. Football There are ever-changing things on the field, although Chelsea seems difficult to beat now, we have to do our best in every game, this is what the strong do."

In fact it is.

Compared with Chelsea's triumphant progress, although there are occasional defects on each front, they can't be hurt at all, and other teams are much different.

For example, Manchester United and Arsenal have not completely resolved the goalkeeper position alone. The huge vacancy left by Schmeichel and Seaman has never been filled by anyone. The strength of Carroll and Almunia is far from Cech and Thomas. Too much, not even as good as the third goalkeeper at Stamford Bridge.On the defense line, after Arsenal's general Campbell was injured, there was only one poor Xigan left, and Manchester United's defense line has always lacked a good partner with Ferdinand.

Although there are so many gaps, what makes Wenger and Ferguson the most jealous is that Chelsea has a superstar——Wang Li, a star who can turn the game of the giants, that is a heavy weight! !

Perhaps not only Arsenal and Manchester United this year, but almost all European powerhouses are jealous of Chelsea having such a player as Wang Li. When AC Milan coach Ancelotti commented on Chelsea's young coach Mourinho, he directly revealed it. Out of jealousy: "...he got lucky!"

And when it comes to the performance of other Chelsea players, it is also very unusual. If it is a defensive counterattack, not to mention Wang Li's strength, it is only the two deadly throwing knives on the side - the cooperation of Duff and Robben, that makes People are extremely jealous, the speed and breakthrough of these two "crazy" always let the team find good opportunities.

The strength of the Blues' bench also made opponents fearful. When Jose Mourinho yelled "disaster" in front of reporters after Carvalho, Huth, and Parker were injured, even the neutral media couldn't stand it anymore , They brought up the big victory of the pen and accused the Portuguese of exaggerating, and asked him to "study" Liverpool's injury list.

Indeed, although Chelsea have serious injuries, they are actually very good compared to other Premier League teams, especially Liverpool. Now Liverpool is almost really unable to make a 16-man squad. .

However, although Chelsea has firmly held the league championship in their hands, Manchester United and Arsenal, the former Premier League hegemons, still have some advantages.

Because of the financial constraints of building a new stadium, Arsenal can't put [-] million idle funds on the bench like Chelsea, but the team has the most powerful rookie team in the Premier League: the Youth Army League Cup away victory over Manchester City made the whole of Europe wonder I am amazed, Cesc, Flamini, Reyes, Clichy, Hoyt, etc., these young players are no longer fringe figures.

However, the biggest problem for young people is instability. Although coach Arsene Wenger has been saying that 'they will be more mature around March', whether these young people will develop as he said, I am afraid we have to see the reality again. Case.

Compared with the powerful Chelsea and the defending champion Arsenal, Manchester United, which has just regained the third position, is more experienced.

The old captain Roy Keane said in an interview with reporters: "We hope that our experience can count. In the past 12 years, we have always won the championship. After walking this road too many times, you will know that pressure can What a surprise. As long as we keep winning, who knows what's going to happen at the end of the season."

In fact, Manchester United's record in the last 8 rounds of the Premier League is 7 wins and 1 loss, and they have already scored 22 points, and the recognized law of Manchester United in the Premier League is: the Red Devils usually perform better in the second half than in the first half. In the 2002-03 season, Arsenal also led Manchester United by 5 points during Christmas and New Years, but by the end of the season, Manchester United not only caught up with the gap, but also won the championship with a 5-point advantage: Manchester United won 17 and drew 14 in the last 3 games , Grab 45 points.

Let's not forget that in the 1995-96 season, Manchester United miraculously overtook Newcastle by 12 points, and achieved 15 wins, 13 draw and 1 loss in the last 1 games.Although they are currently 9 points behind Chelsea, as the media said: "If they win the remaining 18 rounds, they will win the ninth Premier League championship." In fact, the Premier League is even bigger than this points gap. There have been: In the New Year of 9, Manchester United's lead at the top of the table was 1998 points, but at the end of the season, the Gunners, who were 5 points behind the Red Devils and only ranked 12th at the New Year, finally won the championship with a score of 6 wins and 14 draws.
So, if it weren't for Chelsea's strong outbreak this season, Manchester United still has the hope of competing for the championship.

Of course, things don't work but...

In short, although Arsenal and Manchester United's performances are brilliant, but for Chelsea's league situation, everything is a cloud.

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During this vigorous game, as the overlord of the Premier League and the overlord of the transfer market in the past two years, Chelsea has also been poached by many teams in the winter transfer, which is similar to the funds of the Russian giant Abramovich. It has nothing to do with the financial situation. The main reason is that Chelsea's strong performance has made almost all European giants want to carve up this half-win team, because Chelsea poses a great threat to their influence.

Of course, Wang Li is the first to bear the brunt. Real Madrid, who has always liked the "star-digging movement", Inter Milan, which is not satisfactory every season, and even Barcelona, ​​Chelsea's next opponent in the Champions League, all offered huge prices to buy it. Among them, AC Milan is the most sincere. They even offered a price of 8000 million euros for this. You must know that the world's most expensive player Wayne Rooney is only worth 2700 million pounds. Under the general economic depression, this price can definitely impress many, many wealthy clubs.

Of course, Abramovich's Chelsea is by no means one of them.

Abramovich, with tens of billions of assets, will sell Alan Wang! ! ?No fans would believe what he said.

In fact, this is also the case. Facing the price personally offered by AC Milan chairman Silvio Berlusconi, Abramovich refused without batting an eyelid. For this Russian predator, he still wants to spend more. More money to buy better players, how could he sell the head star of his team, let alone 8000 million euros, even if he was given [-] million euros, he would not sell it——
Your star who scored more than 50 goals in half a season is Chinese cabbage! ?This is a rare event in a hundred years! !
However, Berlusconi's second condition made the resolute Abramovich also moved --- to help Chelsea enter the G14 league! !
This condition is indeed very attractive. If Chelsea cannot enter G05 in the most vigorous year of G14 enrollment expansion in 14, then it will be even more difficult to enter, and it should be said that it is nowhere in sight.

What it means to be in G14! ?

It means that in the hearts of many European fans, Chelsea has directly advanced from an 'upstart' to a wealthy family-even though they have never won a league championship trophy in 50 years.

For Chelsea, this is almost worth more than a Champions League title.

This Russian is really tempted by this condition, but as a famous Russian oligarch, he can clearly analyze the gains and losses of a matter, and he is absolutely decisive. He knows that as long as Wang Li keeps If Chelsea can have such a stable performance, then they can win more championships for Chelsea. As long as this condition is met, what difference does it make if they enter G14 or not.

Although that organization is indeed very influential, it is more important to be a once-in-a-century superstar.

Of course, the premise of everything is that Wang Li can have a stable performance, that is to say, to stick to the current performance. In fact, even Abramovich himself does not have this confidence, so perhaps in order to balance his psychology, he must learn from other Found some confidence in the man, so he called the team's coach Jose Mourinho.

"Jose, take a look at this." When Mourinho walked into Abramovich's room with a puzzled expression on his face, the latter directly entered the subject, and he handed Mourinho A transfer request form.

Mourinho took the application form and glanced at it in doubt, his face turned from red to black in an instant, and he immediately exclaimed: "What? Boss, you want to sell Alan!? Are you crazy!?"

After finishing speaking, Mourinho realized that his words seemed a little impolite, but Abramovich seemed to understand his thoughts, and did not blame him, but picked up a cigar, lit it, and slammed it hard. He took a sip, then faced the former's wide eyes, pointed to the application form in his hand and said, "Keep reading."

Seeing Mr. Abramovich's calm expression, Mourinho suppressed the doubts in his heart and carefully read the document in his hand.

"G14!?"

After a while, Mourinho took a deep breath and shouted out in surprise.As the head coach of Chelsea, although he has only been in office for more than half a year, the Portuguese knows very well that for the development of the Chelsea club, the most important thing at present is to win more championship trophies and strive to enter the G14. The former is more important.

Originally, entering the G14 was only due to the news of the expansion of the army in G14, and there are three places in Europe-one in Serie A, one in the Premier League, and one in La Liga, but now the other two clubs are facing financial crisis, which seriously hinders Chelsea. , which led to this year's military expansion seeming to be nowhere in sight.

And Berlusconi, the richest man in Italy, does have this ability. With his influence in Europe, if he does his best to help, it is very likely that Chelsea will be "specially recruited". class, and then become a real wealthy family.

This is indeed a great temptation for the current Chelsea! ! !

Facing the 8000 million European + G14 chips, even the head coach Jose Mourinho was a little hesitant. Now he finally knows why Abramovich called him to discuss Wang Li's transfer.

There is no doubt about Wang Li's strength. As a head coach, Mourinho understands that this is really a once-in-a-century super football genius, but even though he performed very well this season, he even broke many in one fell swoop The Premier League and even the world's scoring record, but who knows that this performance is not a kind of shining! ?

At least, he can't guarantee it.

It can be said that Galliani's idea to Berlusconi directly hit Chelsea's weakness and found their most important needs.

So, in Abramovich's office, there was another man who couldn't make a choice.

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At this moment, Wang Li is on the training ground of Chelsea's first team, playing a simple football game with his teammates, that is, three people stand on three corners, can pass the ball at will, and two people run non-stop in the middle Come to grab the ball, the person who makes a mistake will replace the person who grabs the ball in the middle.

A simple game like this is just an adjustment for these big-name players in the boring training, but many people never get tired of it.

However, very few people like to play with Wang Li, because Wang Li almost never loses. Even if he stands in the middle to grab the ball, but the almost plug-in stealing ability of the 'following legs' makes him quickly regain the ball. Got the ball.

At this moment on the court, in Wang Li's group, Lampard, Wang Li, and Bridget stood in the triangle, and Robben and Johnson were fighting for the ball in the middle. As an offensive player, Robben is obviously not very good at grabbing the ball, so he is already tired and sweating.

The football was once again passed to Lampard by Wang Li easily. Robben, who was grabbing the ball next to him, could not help looking at him with sad eyes, and complained: "Alan, you must save your strength, you must know The game against Manchester United will be played in a few days, and you can play again when the game is played!"

"Hahahaha, Alkin, don't you say you are too stupid!!" Lampard, who had just received the pass, couldn't help but sarcastically.

"Otherwise, come and take a look. If you can grab Alan's ball, I'll treat your family to a big meal!!" Robben heard a harsh ear, and he immediately turned around and counterattacked resentfully.

Lampard spread his hands, turned his head to avoid Johnson's grabbing the ball, kicked Brigid again, and said at the same time: "But you are the one who loses now, don't try to lie to me, let's talk about it after you grab the ball." .”

At this time, the assistant coach Clark ran towards them, and several people thought that they were going to regroup for other training, so Brigitte kicked the ball to Robben casually, and then ran over.

However, Clark didn't mean to gather. He just walked up to Wang Li and said, "Alan, stop training first, Mr. Chairman wants to see you."

"See me!?" Hearing assistant coach Clark's words, Wang Li was stunned for a moment, and asked in confusion after reacting.

Wang Li was a little surprised.In his impression, the chairman of the club, Mr. Abramovich, is more like a fringe existence. He only takes money to invest in the transfer market, and in normal times, even if he has something to do, he will go to the team. The head coach Mourinho and CEO Peter Kenyon discussed that the mysterious Mr. Chairman would appear in front of the players only after the team achieved a very meaningful victory.

To Wang Li's surprise, since he joined Chelsea, he has only seen Mr. Abramovich after the game. In normal times, he basically only saw the chairman's car driving around in the club. Except for meeting alone once at the beginning of the season, they haven't met alone for a long time.

'So, what's going to happen this time? 'Wang Li said silently in doubt.

"Is it now?"

Clark smiled and said, "It's right now, in the office on the top floor, and Mr. Mourinho is also there."

"Oh, well, I'll go right away." Wang Li nodded, turned around and walked out of the court.

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Looking at the back of Wang Li leaving, Lampard and the others looked at each other in blank dismay. When they saw the assistant coach Clark also walk away, they reacted and continued their football game. However, at this time, football has arrived. Alkin Robben feet.

This Dutch kid has been played for a long time, and now he finally got the ball, he looked very proud: "Haha, it's not over yet, I got the ball!!!"

"No, I passed it on to you." Brigi retorted involuntarily.

"But the game isn't over yet, it's your mistake, so..."

"However, there are only 4 people left now. We have to find another person to continue. At that time, the game will start again." 'The Straight Man' Lampard chuckled a few times before turning around.

"Oh no, my God!"

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(End of this chapter)