Chapter 1: A New Beginning

"Just £6 million?" Originally, this was the financial inventory of Blackburn's management regarding this summer's transfer, but after seeing the list of players listed for sale by Newcastle United in the Monchi report, Arthur became interested in a certain player. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The player's name is Andy Carroll.

Born in 1989, Carroll made her UEFA Cup debut for Newcastle in Palermo on 2 November 2006 and came off the bench in the second half at the age of 17 years and 300 days, becoming Newcastle United's youngest player ever to play in a European competition.

On January 17, 2007, Newcastle United suffered a 5-1 defeat at home to Birmingham City in the third round of the English FA Cup, and Carroll was introduced in the last 10 minutes as a personal debut for the first team in the domestic competition.

It wasn't until 25 February that he lost 1-0 at Athletic Wigan and made his Premier League debut as a substitute at the end of the game. In March of the same year, Carroll won the "Our Jackie Milburn Award," which is given to the Northeast's rising star of the year. In April, he signed a new contract with the club and remained with the club until 2011. In the 2006-07 season, Carroll played seven games for the first team, as well as playing for the reserve team, and became a top scorer for the reserve team with eight goals.

Carroll played in a series of warm-up games for Newcastle in the summer of 2007 and scored a goal in a 2-0 win over Juventus against Newcastle, with goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon praising Carroll for a bright future ahead of the game. However, Carroll was soon loaned to Preston North End in the Championship.

After returning to Newcastle in 2008, a number of Premier League sides offered Carroll on loan, but Newcastle rejected them. Throughout the second half of the 2007-08 season, Carroll did not get many appearances, as Newcastle also had the likes of Viduka, Martins, and Owen at the time. In the second half of the 2007-08 season, Carroll made four league appearances and two FA Cup appearances without scoring.

The following season, Carroll was given more appearances. He caught the world's attention when he scored his first competitive goal for Newcastle United against West Ham United in January to help them avoid a three-game losing streak, and assistant principal Chris Hughton praised the home-trained player after the game.

On January 28, Carroll scored a goal against Manchester City, but the team still lost 1-2. Newcastle soon signed a new contract until 2013. He was also called up to England's Under-20s to prepare for a friendly against Italy.

On 11 April, he scored an 81-1 equaliser against Stoke City in the relegation battle to give interim manager Alan Shearer his first point in charge, but Carroll's brilliant performance failed to save Newcastle as they were relegated to the Championship at the end of last season and Carroll was put up for sale at the end of the season.

However, in the face of a high transfer fee of 6 million pounds, many clubs have chosen to back down, and the giants who are willing to spend money do not have a place for Carroll.

However, Arthur has a great interest in Carol.

Although Carroll is known to Arthur, it is more because he spent £35 million to bring in Carroll from Newcastle in the final moments of his previous transfer in January 2011 to fill the void left by Torres.

Carroll was seen as the new Alan Shearer by the Reds, but in fact he scored only 11 goals in 58 appearances for the Reds, and was later sold to West Ham United in what was described as another case of injury.

Even if he believes that Blackburn will be able to develop players better than the Reds, Arthur is not at all confident that Carroll can become the new Alan Shearer.

But £6 million is obviously a small number compared to £35 million.

"Monchi, I'm a little interested in this Andy Carroll, you go and get in touch with Newcastle, you can consider buying it for about 5 million." Arthur commanded Monch.

"No problem." Although he didn't understand why Arthur looked up to Carol, a young fool, he never doubted Arthur's vision.

Carroll simply couldn't resist Blackburn's lure, and Newcastle compromised in the face of the Blues' final offer of £5 million.

Arthur also took a fancy to Carroll because he wanted to add a strong bridgehead to the forward line after Drogba was getting older, and if Carroll really couldn't be cultivated, then he could also be sold to a "wronged head" like Liverpool who liked England's household registration book through speculation two or three years later.

Arthur had always disliked the "Grandtaine" profiteers who traded at a loss.

After Carroll joined the team, Blackburn's 2009 transfer door was completely closed.

Carlo Ancelotti has officially taken over Blackburn!

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As a giant team, whether it is Blackburn Rovers or AC Milan at its peak, their players themselves have strong skills and tactics, they will form their own understanding of tactics, as the coach of the giants, the work off the field is more important than the work on the field, and the work of pacification is more important than the tactics, many civilian coaches tend to fall behind when coaching the giants - what the stars need is not that you give too much tactical guidance.

They understand, maybe they know better than the manager, because they're the ones who play on the pitch.

But there will be contradictions between the stars, the outside world will put pressure on the stars, and most of the stars are young people in their twenties and thirties. The domestic media is too much about the coach's problem, after all, it is the players who play on the field, and the tactics themselves cannot be said to succeed or fail.

A bit similar to a large software company to write an excellent software, need a lot of excellent programmers to cooperate with each other, if a person who does not know much about the program as a leader, those excellent programmers are naturally not convinced, excellent programmers about algorithm problems, architecture problems are likely to quarrel, if you can't do a good job of appeasement, its efficiency problem is worrying, and Ancelotti is different, he is already two Champions League in his playing days, is AC Milan's meritorious player, is the main midfielder of the AC Milan dynasty era, Many legendary stars including the Dutch Three Musketeers, Maldini and Baggio were his teammates, and after retiring, he also assisted the famous coach Sacchi to become an assistant coach of the Italian team, born with a shiny resume, although he is not as handsome as Muginho, and he does not have his arrogance, but Ancelotti has enough dizzying capital before becoming the head coach of the giants, and his coaching difficulty is much lower than that of Muinho.

Will be a man. When Ancelotti became the coach of AC Milan, Berlusconi had an unbearable character---- meddling in the team, and even passing a note to Ancelotti and asking him to play according to this tactic, which is unbearable for many managers, but Ancelotti has been in AC Milan for so many years, and can endure it, like any team, AC Milan's internal quarrels are inevitable, but they are rarely known to the outside world, this is not only a problem that can be explained by a knight's table, by calming down, reconciling, Covering up internal contradictions can at least reduce a lot of pressure for the team.

The bigger the team, the more Ancelotti needs Ancelotti, and it was a coincidence when Ancelotti joined Blackburn Rovers that the biggest name in the team, Cristiano Ronaldo, has left, and the bigwigs such as McCone and Vidic who emerged in the dressing room have also left his team. And Blackburn's whole team is formed, they don't need a coach to teach them, they don't need a coach to improve their team too much, they need a coach with a lot of experience in the Champions League, a coach who can calm the contradictions within the team, a coach who can shock the team and convince everyone, and the whole world can provide the Blue Devils, except for Ancelotti, there will be no one else.

In the blink of an eye, Carlo Ancelotti has been in charge at Blackburn for almost two months. The Blackburn players have been training with Carlo Ancelotti for a few weeks and have played five warm-up games. The reference value of the warm-up game is limited, and it is difficult to put the tactics or data analysis in place, but if you look closely, you can still see some clues of the An-style Blackburn.

Carlo Ancelotti's Blackburn Rovers have scored 15 goals and conceded seven goals in five warm-up games, winning four and drawing one.

Carlo Ancelotti did not change much of Blackburn's style as stated in his previous declaration, with possession still high, even playing 76 per cent possession in the first half of the 4-1 win over Inter Milan who lost Jose Mourinho in the United States on Saturday.

At the moment, Lippi is still very imprinted, and the formation is still dominated by overall upward pressure when attacking, and the defensive line is often mentioned near the midfield. The reliance on the wings in attack is similar to that of the Lippi era, once the two wing-backs enter the opponent's half too much, the midfielders will take the initiative to retreat to the middle of the two central defenders to maintain the balance of the defensive line.

Blackburn's passing is still quite fluid, with a very high one-kick delivery rate, and the passing statistics are on par with those of the Lippi era. In terms of player position, Carlo Ancelotti also seems to have no intention of making a big change from the Lippi era, and he has also made Alonso the playmaker and central attack and defence of the whole team, and it has been quite good.

In front of the media, Ancelotti never said that he wanted to change anything, and repeatedly mentioned that Blackburn's style of play is very mature. However, as time went on, Blackburn showed some changes, especially on the offensive end.

After entering the opposition half, Blackburn's through balls increased significantly, the passing angle of the middle side became much steeper, and the ball was often sent directly to the corner area, which corresponded to the obvious increase in the amount of unattended running advances, and the counter-attacks launched from the defensive line sometimes advanced into the opponent's penalty area within 5 seconds.

At the same time, almost all players dared to try a long-range shot from outside the box. Bale and Torres, on the other hand, have been given a great deal of freedom up front and can move in any area, which is also a significant difference from the Lippi era.

After Cristiano Ronaldo left Blackburn, it was clear that Arthur and Carlo Ancelotti both had intentions to establish Torres as the Blues' top name, while Bale was shaping him into the Blues' future hopeful.

These small changes are, of course, largely deliberate on the part of Carlo Ancelotti. Captain Duff said Carlo Ancelotti asked his players to pass the ball more vertically and more directly. As for the effect of this more adventurous, not extreme pursuit of ball control stability play, of course, it depends on the test of actual combat in the new season.

Relative to subtle changes on the field, changes on the sidelines are more pronounced. Blackburn fans will no longer see the Silver Fox, who was so calm during the game, and the younger Italian appeared to be a lot more active and involved more than Lippi during the game. In the breaks between games, he would often find the players to talk to them individually and tell them what he thought, which was different from Lippi.

Of course, the players can also appreciate such changes. In the past week, Bale has repeatedly expressed his opinion of Lippi to the media, including mentioning that Lippi sometimes talks too much.

In contrast, Carlo Ancelotti, who has always been known as the "good old man", will try to wait until the break or after the game to tell the players if he has an opinion about the performance of the players, instead of shouting directly at the players from the sidelines, while Lippi's temper is directly expressed and hopes that the players will make changes immediately on the field.

As for the difference between the two coaches and the way the players communicate, which one the players prefer is also different from person to person.

With Carlo Ancelotti's experience with other teams, I believe he can also get along with the players at Blackburn Rovers and have a good atmosphere.

Compared with the outgoing Ronaldo, Blackburn's current focus on Torres and Bale is more shy and soft, coupled with the two veteran captains of Duff and Lampard, who have strong authority in the team, as well as Alonso, Thiago Silva and other stalwarts, Blackburn has shown a completely different style from the previous two managers.

During Mourinho's time, Blackburn was a mad dog in a frenzied pursuit of titles; During Lippi's time, Blackburn was a sleeping lion who swallowed frogs in warm water; During the Ancelotti period, Blackburn began to transform into a dignified king.

The new Blackburn is ushering in a new tomorrow.

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2009-10 Blackburn Rovers (26)

Goalkeepers: Cech, Defoe, Tom White

Defenders: Ashley Cole, Martin Taylor, Kompany, Baines, Branivic, Thiago Silva, Vermaelen, Phil Jones, Darmian

Midfielders: Frank Lampard, Duff, Alonso, Cambiaso, Bentley, Chen Tao, Bale, Flamini, Arshavin, Di Maria

Forwards: Didier Drogba, Fernando Torres, Balotelli, Carroll (To be continued.) )