The British media always like to brag about their national team, elevate the strength of the English league, and even often refer to themselves as the light of Europe.

However, some periods are not hard blows, originally from the late 70s, the League One teams are indeed in the limelight in Europe, with Nottingham Forest and Liverpool dominating the Champions League, and then Aston Villa and Everton making a big splash in Europe.

If it weren't for the "Heysel football tragedy", Everton would likely succeed Liverpool, Nottingham and Aston Villa in the Champions League and become another flag for English teams.

Everton are similar to Nottingham Forest, but with a bit more potential because they have a chairman who knows the ball and a competent coach, which is more similar to Liverpool in the 'boot room' period.

As a result, Everton's rise has been phenomenal, as they only made it all the way to the FA Cup last season to win the title after an 18-year absence.

This season, Everton will not only win the eighth league title in the club's history, but also win the European Cup Winners' Cup.

If they go on a normal course, they will be in the Champions League next season.

However, due to the "Heysel football tragedy", Everton was rejected from the European arena, they could not participate in the Champions League, and the road to the king, which had been smooth sailing, had to come to an abrupt end at the last hurdle.

Until decades later, British fans believed that the unstoppable Everton team of the year would have had a chance to keep English football dominating Europe if it weren't for the ban on English teams.

Wu Jie felt that this was not a lie, and they were embarrassed by Everton in this game.

The fact that English teams in this period were always victorious in Europe actually illustrated that the "long pass" was not a bad tactic for always being criticized.

Because the skills of British players in this period are also improving, they may not be as gorgeous as South American players, and their skills are not as good as those of Spain, France and other countries in Europe.

But since the late 70s, the British players have become very solid on the premise of maintaining speed, height and strength, they can play practical passing skills in quick attacks, and they can always do miracles with their accurate shots, coupled with excellent physical confrontation and good defense, which is actually a bit of a coincidence.

If it weren't for these skills, how could the original British team take away seven Champions League titles in eight years?

Everton didn't hold it today, and as soon as they saw Arsenal, they sent that gorgeous midfield configuration to the point of being excessive, and directly learned Liverpool to play defensive counterattacks.

Wu Jie also met another top goalkeeper in this game, the legendary goalkeeper in the history of the future Everton team, the mid-to-late 80s, and the world's top goalkeeper Neville Sochar in the early to mid-90s.

The Welsh goalkeeper, nicknamed "The Cat", has spent most of his 20-year career at Everton, and it can be said that he has dedicated his best peak years to Everton.

He did jump up and down in front of goal like a cat today, saving more than once from a dangerous shot created by Arsenal.

Arsenal are now being restrained by such top goalkeepers, and although they have been running in for more than half a month, they are now able to start playing some simple combinations, and the overall quality is much better than they were against Liverpool before.

However, in the face of such a top-level team's iron bucket formation, it is still difficult to create good chances in the penalty area through cooperation, and most of the shots are taken outside the penalty area.

This will give the top goalkeeper enough time to choose a position and prepare for the save, and the probability of scoring will naturally not be large.

The most painful thing is that these top goalkeepers tend to get better and better as long as they manage to save a few shots.

This makes it increasingly difficult for Arsenal to make a contribution in attack, and it could easily turn into a personal show for the opposing goalkeeper in the end.

In addition, there is another pain point, the current Arsenal actually does not have unrivaled ability, but top teams like Liverpool and Everton, looking at Wu Jie's personal deterrence, will not feel any shame in playing defensive counterattacks.

This is also where Arsenal feels depressed, since Wu Jie joined the team, the opponents they encountered, whether strong or weak, will basically put themselves directly on the weak side, and then play defensive counterattack tactics with a dead face.

In the first half, Everton was stubborn for most of the time, but with the cooperation of midfield core Sharpe and striker Steven, Arsenal still made Arsenal fall behind 0-1 through efficient counterattacks.

In the second half, Arsenal, who were down by one goal, began to fight back frantically and eventually managed to deliver a golden chance for Lineker in the 68th minute through an overwhelming control of the midfield, helping the latter to equalise through a successful anti-offside position, when it was Brazilian midfielder superstar Falcao who passed the ball to him.

Wu Jie did not seem to play a key role in this goal, but one only needs to look at the Everton players who always surround him to know that the credit for this goal is still inseparable from him.

Arsenal's midfield is strong because of the ability of individual soldiers, Wu Jie, Falcao, Laudrup, these three only need to play a magic stroke, they have the opportunity to send a fatal pass for Lineker and Elkjer in the front.

Of course, this midfield has its own flaws defensively.

Magath wasn't the top midfielder at his peak, and now it's definitely a bit difficult for him to play the role of Makellele.

Falcao's defense was not good at a young age, which would be almost equivalent to a defensive black hole.

Laudrup's defense is barely holding back, but it's far from being good.

Wu Jie has historic defensive ability, but unless there is a game like the Champions League final or the World Cup, it is too much to expect him to defend.

This made Arsenal, who pressed all the way in the midfield in the 80th minute, and unsurprisingly Everton seized the opportunity to play a fatal counterattack.

Everton's striker Steven struck a clever shot from outside the box that found David Bloom in the back of the net.

"Is it really a world-class save?"

Wu Jie was speechless when he saw this, although David Bloom threw away the kind of ball that you can't throw the pot at him.

But as a team that aspires to create a dynasty, five or six games in a row have not been a savior performance, which is actually enough to be criticized.

After observing David Bloom's three games, Wu Jie had already secretly signaled Isabella to ask the transfer department to hurry up and buy a goalkeeper.

He doesn't want a pervert like Lin Yaodong who is in the top few in history, at least a first-class goalkeeper like Neville Sochar.

Arsenal's configuration, as well as its offensive-biased style, will not be as stable as Bayern's backline after running in.

So a good goalkeeper is very necessary, like in today's game, if the goalkeeper can save one of the two goals conceded, then won't they win?

This is because in the 87th minute, Wu Jie once again relied on the physical strength of 21 people on the scene and relied on the inexplicable acceleration ability to forcibly create a free kick in front of the penalty area at the end of the game.

Everton naturally didn't want Wu Jie to get a free kick in this position, but if the foul was a little slower, it would be a penalty, anyway, it would be better than letting him burst into the penalty area with the ball.

Wu Jie's free-kick success rate this season is not high, although he kicked a historic free-kick on his debut against Liverpool.

But in the next four games, he made a total of 10 free throws and only scored one.

So even if it is calculated according to the value of character today, he should have scored a goal.

The civet cat barely reacted to the free-kick from about 20 meters away, because Wu Jie not only managed to get around the wall with a perfect banana ball, but also hit the other side of the dead corner in his direction.

With such a close penalty distance and such a tricky shooting angle, even if Lin Yaodong comes, he must be obedient, and no matter how strong Thorchar is, he can't do anything.

In the end, Arsenal equalised at home through a perfect banana goal from Wu Jie at the end of the game.

The scoreline was maintained until the end, and although Arsenal fans regretted not winning at home, it was an acceptable result to get a point at the current leaders.

Arsenal were not criticized by the British media after the game, and the Gunners were able to play some eye-catching multi-player combinations, and they were in the ascendancy throughout the game, as evidenced by their 68%:32% possession and 19:10 shots on goal after the game.

Had it not been for the civet goalkeeper's world-class saves, Arsenal would have had the last laugh and could only say that it was a result that was grudgingly acceptable to both sides.

Three days later, Arsenal drew a draw in the Carabao Cup and they met Northshire, who are currently second in League Two.

Naturally, manager Graham will not send the starting line-up, but the substitute line-up is no longer big enough to face the League Two powerhouse, and this game is played at the opponent's home stadium.

In the end, the first 80 minutes were drawn, and thanks to a long-range shot from substitute Paul Merson before full-time, Arsenal still relied on the background of the academy to win.

Wu Jie naturally knows this Paul Merson, who will be a member of the Gunners' frontcourt in the future, and will also be a regular in the future England national team.

But over the next four years, Paul Merson will only be on the bench after two or three seasons at best, and he won't have the time to develop that kind of promising star.

After the game, Wu Jie received a message in the hotel.

The traitor's descendant had gone to the Revolutionary Bookstore in New York and bought a 32-page English version of "Quotations".

Wu Jie was very concerned about the reasonableness of Yang Menghua and Lu Kechao, so Yang Menghua bought this book at the Revolutionary Bookstore in Los Angeles half a year ago, including various books of the great man.

Lu Kechao can't become a Chinese heart for no reason, let alone suddenly break with his family, this kind of thing must have a cause and effect.

Two days earlier, Lu Kechao had an argument with a Chinese student in the same community, or rather a very harmonious debate.

The final result was naturally to be speechless with the materialist dialectic, and then in a fit of rage, he ran to this revolutionary bookstore, ready to read the red books, to know himself and his opponent.

At this time, of course, Lu Kechao is no longer the original one, and this debate is to find a reasonable reason for his future change, otherwise you are a descendant of a traitor and run to buy red books for no reason, isn't that too unreasonable?

Of course, as the vanguard of anti-American efforts in the future, Lu Kechao has to do more than just become a little red pink.

He needs to make American public opinion and American politics regard him as a thorn in the side, and he wants to be the Chinese version of Zhang Jiadun and Fukuyama, whose task is to constantly expose the old background of capitalism, predict/spread rumors about the decline and crisis of the United States, and at the same time blow the core values of socialism, so that the public in the future, especially the Chinese Americans, will also hate him, and the reason here should be needless to say.

In short, Yang Menghua and Lu Kechao are not just to disgust the United States, but to disgust those banana people, in order to pick up the well-known skin.

No matter how loyal these people are in the future, and no matter how fanatical the converts are, as long as there are examples like Yang Menghua and Lu Kechao, as long as there are guys like Lu Kechao who keep peeling off the skin of freedom and democracy, I am afraid that they will usher in deeper discrimination.

However, there are pros and cons to everything, and the international student community will suffer more difficulties in the future.

But for those who are committed to their studies and plan to return to their home countries after completing their studies, this discrimination is not worth mentioning.

And for those gold-plated second generations, or those who don't plan to come back after completing their studies, this doesn't seem to have any real impact, and Wu Jie wants to embarrass them.

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The next day, Wu Jie, accompanied by the behind-the-scenes team, finally went to see a four-story single-family house in the affluent area of Islington, overlooking the Regent's Canal.

Wu Jie is very satisfied with the surrounding environment of this property, although it is located in the downtown area, but this villa area seems to be isolated from the hustle and bustle of the world, and you can stand by the window in the quiet and take in the scenery on both sides of the strait, which can be said to be extremely comfortable.

There is also a private dock with direct access to the shore, so you can take the boat to the canal for a relaxing time.

Of course, Wu Jie knew that this kind of property would definitely not be cheap, even in 1984, the homeowner's offer was still as high as 400,000 pounds.

But this money is still not worth mentioning for him.

Wu Jie doesn't know how much money he has now, anyway, he has lent Luda more than two million dollars before and after.

After the previous Olympics, he simply took out another two million dollars to directly invest in Luda's Black Mountain Electric, but only received a return of 5% of the shares, and the bastard was black enough.

But these investments have finally paid off, and Montenegro Electric has now successfully launched "automatic washing machines" and "refrigerators", with the former having a monthly output of 5,000 units and the latter also having a monthly output of 3,000 units.

This output is naturally very weak from the perspective of later generations, but for Montenegro Electric, which has just been reorganized for two years, not only to train skilled workers, but also to have certain requirements for quality, this output is already very rare.

By the end of next year, Ruda hopes to triple or quadruple their production before building a second production site.

Wu Jie pays more attention to the production of color TVs, and most of the investment in Montenegro electrical appliances is smashed on this thing.

Ruda is also very troubled by this, although they have introduced a full set of technologies, but every time they solve a problem, they will find more new problems.

Until now, Montenegro Electric can only produce about 200 units per month in the production of color TVs.

But these color TVs not only can't meet the design requirements in terms of performance,The yield rate is also high,For the time being, it will definitely not be officially put into production,At least the yield rate must be increased to a certain extent,Otherwise, it will really sell one and lose one。

So until the end of 84,They mainly sell black and white TVs,A small part of color TVs are mainly for government departments,And leaders,For the time being, it has not been officially sold。

Wu Jie is a little contemptuous of this, because the color TVs provided by Montenegro Electric to the leaders are actually assembled with finished picture tubes purchased from Sony, and to put it bluntly, they are OEM goods.

This is no different from the original plane of using foreign chips to polish and pretend to be domestic to cheat funds, and Luda does intend to use this means to obtain national policies and subsidies, which can be said to be very despicable.

But the reason that Ruda found for himself is: most companies have this kind of shady thing in their infancy, the difference is that some people can keep their hearts, will not forget their original dreams, and will not really deviate from the course; But some people are just to cheat the subsidy, and they have never dreamed.

Wu Jie believed this, because strictly speaking, Luda was not a human at all, so naturally he would not forget the goal he designed for him, and at the same time, he would not mind completing the task through part of the gray land.

After he bought the property, it would take about half a year to renovate it.

During this time, Wu Jie will still stay in the hotel's penthouse suite, which costs up to £200 a day.

But this money is even more insignificant to him, and he doesn't even have to spend money, and Arsenal reimburse him.

Wu Jie also deserved this treatment, and in the next three League One games, he delivered a total of 4 goals and 2 assists, helping Arsenal complete a wave of three consecutive wins, and the Gunners' ranking has also been improved to third.

The last game of October was another League Cup that left the top teams in League One tasteless, but it was a pity to abandon it.

This League Cup, also known as the League Cup, was restructured in the nineties, and before the restructuring in the nineties, the League One teams also started to participate in the first round, not from the third round later.

At this time, Arsenal had reached the third round, and they were drawn against Oxford United, the current leaders of League Two.

Originally, Arsenal lost away to Oxford United this season and were eliminated in the League Cup early.

But in this position, Arsenal first won the home sign in the home and away draw, and this Arsenal squad is also very different from the original position.

Graham still did not send a core player to the game, but at Wu Jie's suggestion, he still sent some of the main players, such as Cunningham and Elkjer, to start.

In the end, thanks to two goals from young high school striker Neil Quinn and Elkjer, the Gunners beat Oxford United 2-1 at home to reach the fourth round of the Carabao Cup.

At this time, Wu Jie had already set his sights on a familiar name on the schedule, and he felt that he should give his best once, because the name of the opponent in the next game was "Manchester United".

In the eyes of the outside world, this game is just a game of the third in the league VS fifth in the league, and the highlights cannot be said to be none, but it is also a contest with the highest two stars.

But for Wu Jie, this is a game worth some effort, at least a three-star battle.