397. Ripping Fork War
Cahill is on fire, from the summer to the present.
In the summer, Bolton was in debt, and there were many teams with the idea of playing Hill, Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester City were quite interesting to Cahill, and Arsenal, which lacked a central defender, had substantial contact with Bolton, of course, under the circumstances, Arsene Wenger's first choice was also Jagielka, but he was also quite interested in Cahill, a rising central defender.
He is also said to have met with Cahill and solicited him in person.
Because of the interest of several teams in Cahill, Gatside and Coyle sat on the ground and insisted on the minimum sale clause of £17 million in Cahill's contract, a price that scared many suitors.
Is £17 million expensive?!
Actually, it's really not expensive, David. Luiz has spent Chelsea a whopping €30 million, and it's hard to say who is better between him and Cahill.
The most important reason why Bolton got 17 million pounds to scare off many suitors is that they are clearly in debt and shouting such a high price, and everyone is not stupid, and they think it is extremely unreasonable.
Now that the winter window is approaching, Bolton's debt crisis is intensifying, and suitors are coming to the door again, and this time Bolton is estimated to be unstable.
When Cahill was unfortunate to contribute an own goal, Wen Sheng secretly wondered if he had done Cahill's suitors a great favor and helped them push down the price by at least another 1 million pounds!
Whoever buys Cahill should give me at least 1 million in benefits! Hugo muttered silently in his heart.
The win over Bolton took Palace to 49 points, but the other piece of good news came from Manchester City, where Roberto Mancini's side were once again unable to win on the road, this time even more humiliatingly, as they lost to Sunderland and allowed Palace to extend the gap to four points.
2012 is quietly coming, and there is bound to be a dark war in the transfer market.
The news on the first day of the new year came from Manchester City.
Under the urging of Parish, the Crystal Palace management accelerated the pace of transfers, and the matter of wanting Britsy became a secret that was not a secret, and rumours in the media were flying.
Wen Sheng's desire for Bridge is not too strong, but as everyone knows, Bridge is actually a hot commodity for his mother, and Arsenal is also very interested in him.
This interest is completely understandable, after all, Arsene Wenger has recently planted himself in the absence of full-backs, and Bridge has a household registration book, which used to be very strong, and the professor has set his sights on Bridge.
When both Crystal Palace and Arsenal offered an olive branch to Bridge, he did not hesitate too much and was easily ready to choose Crystal Palace.
The reason is simple, Crystal Palace are at the top of the table and it is easier to win the league title, while Arsenal are struggling to fight for the top four.
And Crystal Palace does not have a genuine left full-back to use, Larsson said that it is just a panacea, and Shills's return from injury is still far away, who can say what the state will be after the comeback, after all, it is a big injury, the two are compared to Bridge, who thinks that the probability of his loan to Crystal Palace must be greater, and the full-back on Arsenal's side is not a serious injury, and it is estimated that he will have to watch the water cooler again after his comeback.
Wen Sheng persuaded the hesitant Bridge in just a few words, which made Wen Sheng sigh at the convenience brought to him by the top position.
But as Manchester City, who pay Bridge's salary, they are in a crazy competition with Crystal Palace, and sending even their own marginal players to Crystal Palace is a naked act of capitalisation, and Mancini is not stupid at all and simply does not agree to such a plan.
So on the first day of the new year, Bridges made Mancini very unhappy, and directly quarreled with Mancini on the training ground, boycotted, and spoke to the media that Mancini was unfair to him, in short, Lao Tzu had to go to Crystal Palace!
Wen Sheng swore to heaven that he would never teach Bridge to use this trick, but Mancini and the media would not care about that, and Wen Sheng would have his back on it.
The Manchester Evening News directly pointed out that Crystal Palace had made private contact with the players, and that Wen Sheng had a meeting with Bridge, and then Bridge had a strike, and the righteous Manchester Evening News accused Crystal Palace and Wen Sheng of being despicable.
In the 20th round of the league, at the pre-match press conference of Manchester City's home game against Liverpool, Mancini also issued strong accusations against Wen Sheng.
"I think some people really use all kinds of means to win the championship, and what some clubs do is to deliberately destroy the stability and unity of our team! But I firmly believe that these means will only bring us closer together! ”
"I think the FA should be involved in the investigation into the private contact of some people with our players!"
The media categorically did not expect that a fringe player would inexplicably trigger a war, well, war!
Mancini took the lead, and Wensheng was forced to fight.
Crystal Palace's opponent in the 20th round is city rivals Chelsea, which is obviously a very gimmick game, but the focus is not on Wensheng and Boas, but on Wensheng and Mancini.
"I don't know who he's talking about! I don't care who he's talking about! If someone thinks we have a problem, we can get investigated, and that's not a problem at all! My interest in Bridge is genuine, and I won't hide it! ”
"The problem with Manchester City is that they are too chaotic to manage themselves! I've said a long time ago that they should standardize management, and Mr. Mancini may be a good coach, but I think he probably has a lot of room for improvement in management! ”
Wen Sheng's mouth is now notoriously stinky, and Mancini mocked him, and he unceremoniously scolded him by name.
just caught Mancini's sore feet, reminded the media, and pointed out the direction of attacking Mancini, and sure enough, many media began to list the gods from all walks of life who did not get along with Mancini, and they all felt that Wen Sheng was reasonable, and this Mancini was really not good at managing people.
Outside the pitch, the league has to go on.
Chelsea in west London travel south to Croydon to Selhurst.
In recent years, Chelsea have been hurt the most by Crystal Palace, with Villas-Boas leading Chelsea to lose at home to Crystal Palace in the first half of the season, and he came with a lot of anger in the second half of the season.
However, their form is really not good at all, with four league games without a win recently, and Villas-Boas is gradually losing support from the Chelsea dressing room, and the media are not optimistic that they can beat Crystal Palace away from home, and the odds for an away win are quite high, and the bookmakers are looking at this game as a clear match.
But the reality was that Chelsea actually won away at Crystal Palace with a 2-1 scoreline.
Villas-Boas played the main force in this game, Wensheng also played the main force in this game, the two sides played extremely open, Crystal Palace is the dominant side, but today's luck does not belong to them, Cahill gave Crystal Palace an own goal in the last game, this game Crystal Palace did not pay off the debt on Bolton, but ran to Chelsea to pay off the debt.
Just eight minutes into the first half, when a Chelsea corner kick was awarded, Crystal Palace's top scorer Jamie Vardy actually scored, but it was an own goal, and he unfortunately blocked the ball into his own goal!
With the score behind early, Crystal Palace's game strategy has been disrupted, and in such a dense schedule, Wen Sheng has no intention of choosing to spend money with Chelsea, and he can't afford it, so it is king to equalize as soon as possible.
The frenzied comeback failed to bring Palace to the back of the net, and Jamie Vardy looked out of form after scoring a fatal own goal and missed two or three good chances.
Chelsea, who had been fighting in the second half, scored a goal in the 63rd minute through Frank Lampard to make it 2-0, and it was substitute Klose who scored a face-saving goal, which came late in stoppage time, when the tired Crystal Palace players basically gave up the game, whether they liked it or not.