Manchester United legend

Chapter 196 Transfer of Premier League Powers
First Chelsea.Blue Castle spent 300 million pounds to sign Didier Deschamps, the captain of the French national team during the 1998 World Cup, from Serie A giants Juventus. The contract was signed for three years.

Didier Deschamps was a world football superstar in the 90s, and was also a teammate of Chelsea coach Vialli in Serie A. He has won the World Cup, the French League One, the European Champions Cup, the Italian League and the Cup double. He once won the European Champions Cup twice with different teams Marseille and Juventus.No matter what standard you look at, Deschamps is a world-class football superstar, the only regret is his age.

However, Chelsea's chairman Betts said: "It took me two years to finally get Didier Deschamps. We have full confidence in him. Didier Deschamps' love for football has not diminished in the slightest. What we lack is such a player who has the temperament of a winner."

Then Chelsea bought Sutton from Blackburn for £100 million, and Vialli planned to create a two-forward combination of one high and one fast.In addition, Chelsea also bought Ambrosetti, known as the "new Giggs" from Vicenza, Italy, for $500 million."I don't want to put pressure on Gabriel, but he is the most Giggs-like Italian player," Vialli said.

Newcastle signed Spanish international Marcelino from Mallorca in Spain for a transfer fee of 932 million US dollars.Of course, it is the coach Gullit who has attracted more attention from Newcastle United this summer.

The Dutch look forward to the future with confidence, "We will be a team that continues to improve. I hope we can make a good start this year and strive to achieve new breakthroughs." Gullit also signed the new star Dyer from Ipswich Town to strengthen the midfield.

Compared with teams such as Chelsea and Newcastle, Arsenal and Liverpool are more aggressive, more determined, and spend more bravely.Arsenal actually had a very battered summer, and the sports media's daily headlines were almost inseparable from their star Anelka.

Anelka refused to renew his contract with the club this summer, and Italian giants Lazio, Juventus, Inter Milan, etc. all offered him an olive branch.

At the beginning, Wenger, who had a discerning eye, was determined not to let him go, rejecting bids from all teams, even if the Lazio team had already offered as high as 3000 million U.S. dollars, Wenger dismissed it.

But Anelka is determined to escape from Highbury. His agent clamored in the media that the French striker was buried in London, hoping to leave Arsenal as soon as possible.

Just as the Italian club and Arsenal team were seeing each other, Cheng Yaojin came out halfway.In August, when the Premier League had already started, Real Madrid made a decisive move and spent a lot of money to buy Anelka.

Many media were stunned by the transfer fee when the contract was officially signed!This is the most expensive transfer in the history of Spanish football, Anelka transferred for 3570 million US dollars!

As a result, he surpassed the Brazilian midfielder Denilson, who is worth $3500 million, and became the world's most expensive star after Vieri.

Arsenal sold Anelka, Wenger naturally felt very sorry.But he has bought a replacement before the start of the season - Thierry Henry - the Gunners' new French hitman from Juventus for a whopping £1050m.

No one knows that this is the starting point for Henry to create great history at Arsenal.

In fact, Wenger and Henry have a long history.When Wenger coached Ligue [-] team Monaco, Henry was the new star he dug out in the youth team.

Henry quickly emerged in Ligue [-] and became a new generation of killers shining in France.

Henry not only performed well in the club, but also in the national team. In the 1998 World Cup in France, Henry scored 3 goals for the national team and became the team's marksman, helping France win the World Cup for the first time.

In January 1999, Henry left Monaco and joined the Italian giants Juventus with a transfer fee of 1 million pounds.

After Henry joined, most of them were arranged as wingers. He failed to adapt to Italy's tight defense and only scored 16 goals in 3 league games, which disappointed Juventus' executives and fans.

Therefore, when Arsenal asked for a purchase in the summer of 1999, Juventus readily agreed.

Henry reunited with Wenger at Arsenal, which also became his real starting point for world-class football superstardom.

Even if Henry failed to score in the first 8 games he played for Arsenal after joining, fans doubted his ability and believed that he could not adapt to the speed and physical style of English football.

Henry quickly adjusted his state and entered the horror mode of killing the Quartet!
In addition to Henry, Arsenal also signed important players Pennant and Sylvinho from the transfer market, and took back Hughes who was on loan to Fulham, and also signed Real Madrid player Davor Suker.

In terms of youth training, Wenger promoted Ashley Cole to the first team.England's best left-back for nearly 20 years is starting to make his debut in the league.

Another giant, Liverpool, also made frequent moves. Before the start of the season, Houllier kept buying people dizzyingly.

He bought Hyypia for £300 million, T. Kamara for £260 million, Stephen Henchoz for £350 million, Sandor Westerweed for £400 million, Vladimir Smicer for £420 million, Erik Meijer from Bayer Leverkusen for free, and Dietmar Hamann from Newcastle for £800 million.It can be said that except for the striker, Houllier has almost reorganized Liverpool's entire central axis.

Liverpool was once proud of Fowler, Owen, McMaraman, Ray Jack Knapp and other generations of youth training achievements, which have been slowly replaced by Houllier's newly introduced players.

Of course, Houllier also vigorously supported newcomers. This season, he made Steven Gerrard, who was trained by the team, into Liverpool's main midfielder.Since then, Liverpool has entered a "Gerrard era".

Other clubs are also making moves.Coventry paid a club record £600m to sign Robbie Keane from Wolves for the talented Irish striker.

Keane was only 19 years old at the time and became the king of transfer bids for players under the age of 20.Of course, the deal later proved to be a success, with Keane being sold for £1300m when he moved from Coventry to Inter Milan.

Aston Villa bought Dutch midfielder Boateng and Israeli defender Galayeb.The transfer fees are £450 million and £100 million respectively.Middlesbrough chose to poach people from Serie A giants Milan. They bought German winger Christian Zieger from AC Milan.

In addition to transfers, fans began to care about the schedule for the new season.When the match list was released, Manchester United fans felt very worried.Because Manchester United has always played the most games, even if it does not play the FA Cup, it will be the most.

The tight schedule is undoubtedly very detrimental to Manchester United, and the negative impact will be more prominent in the second half of the season.Despite this, the media still regard Manchester United as the favorite to win the championship, and the fans also believe that Manchester United will still be the most powerful contender for the Premier League title.

In the Premier League winning odds offered by Randbrox Gaming Company, Manchester United ranked first at 10 to 11, Arsenal ranked second at 4 to 7, Chelsea ranked third at 2 to 9, followed by Leeds United and Liverpool at 1 to 14.The odds offered by several other companies are similar.

Everyone thinks that Manchester United is still the strongest, doesn't it?
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