Chapter 144: Arsenal that is different from what I imagined
I don't understand what the Arsenal hierarchy thinks, and they don't understand Wenger's thinking, maybe they think they're right, but time will tell what kind of decision they made.
Although the transition between the old and the new at Arsenal is inevitable, it is also necessary to pay attention to the transition process!
Relying on the underage Xiaofa and the inexperienced Flamini to prop up Arsenal's backbone, thinking about it makes Wenger feel that he is helping the seedlings.
Even with a squad without Vieira, Arsenal still reached the Champions League final, but Arsenal with Vieira and Arsenal without Vieira are definitely two teams.
Of course, Arsenal can't be because of the transfer fee that is not high, after all, purely from the transfer fee, Arsenal will not sell Vieira for much more than to buy Quaresma.
Perhaps there is an element of Vieira's high wages, or perhaps Wenger feels that Vieira is no longer so important, but in Quaresma's view, these reasons are a bit pale.
Football is too complicated, the water is too deep.
What started as excitement turned into excitement, and Quaresma suddenly felt less excited about life at Arsenal.
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The next day, Quaresma felt the training base early, and at this time no other players had arrived, Quaresma entered the locker room under the guidance of the staff, found a random locker box that no one used, changed his jersey and ran to the training ground to start warming up.
The Arsenal players arrived one after another, but when they found Quaresma who was already warming up, they were very curious and very interested in the new Arsenal signing.
After all, Arsenal's financial situation is terrible, but they still spent 1,500 euros to buy Quaresma, and everyone wants to know how amazing Quaresma is and deserves Wenger's heavy bet.
You know, Wenger has been paying attention to Hleb who plays in the Bundesliga, and the name of the Bundesliga assist king is still quite loud, but because of Quaresma, Wenger directly gave up his plan to introduce Hleb.
Quaresma didn't have much curiosity about the old people at Arsenal, after all, he knew them very well in his previous life, so he was the first to greet them.
"Hello, I'm Quaresma from Portugal!"
The first time we met, it was better to be a little more decent, after all, it was strange, and it was right to leave a better first impression, after all, Arsenal was not Porto, and there were not so many unserious guys.
However, Quaresma was obviously wrong again, and it didn't take him a few days to understand that in fact, the world was as black as a crow, the cattle in Porto were very promising, and the cattle in Arsenal were also quite wild......
Ashley Cole, Campbell, Kolo Toure, Van Persie and a few other guys are frequent guests to nightclubs, often yelling at them to go to nightclubs in a chic way, even if Wenger asks them to restrain a little bit every time, but they still go their own way.
In their words, nightclubs are beliefs that cannot be thrown away.
What's even more terrifying is that Quaresma actually forgot the existence of Eboue's teasing, he is comparable to the fighter in Balotelli's teasing!
It didn't take long for Quaresma to be ruthlessly dragged into the water when he couldn't help but reveal his cynical nature.
Sometimes Quaresma is very emotional, isn't there a normal person who plays football?
Maybe football was supposed to be a sacred sport, but when something weird got in, everything changed.
It's not just the animals, everyone around them is weird anyway.
Bergkamp didn't know where to get the secret recipe, and every day he held a thermos cup soaked in wolfberries, and he had already entered the health stage, so that Quaresma wanted to give him a pair of walnuts;
Flamini's economic acumen is amazing, he sells products in the locker room every day after training, you can't buy it, and after a few days, Quaresma's wallet deflated at a speed visible to the naked eye;
Lyman performs strange and mysterious rituals every day, which are said to bring harmony between him and his wife;
To make matters worse, he found that even Arsene Wenger could not be relied upon, and the professor had severe amnesia, and one day almost forgot that Quaresma had joined Arsenal......
If he hadn't signed his contract, Quaresma would have fled back to Porto long ago.
Is it too late for me to join Chelsea?
Then, at night, Quaresma dreamed that he had fled Highbury to Stamford Bridge, and then he was greeted by Chelsea captain John Terry, who had a smile on his face that gave Quaresma a creep.
"Ricardo, your wife is so beautiful!"
Quaresma woke up in a cold sweat!
Arsenal is so nice!
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At first, the news of Quaresma joining Arsenal caused a lot of repercussions in the football world, but as the transfer market was detonated, no one cared about it.
When the dust almost settled, Quaresma found that his transfer fee could not even enter the top ten in this transfer window, and there were 9 transactions in the entire transfer market with a transfer fee of more than 2,000 euros.
Well, he is a model of good quality and low price, and Quaresma can only comfort himself with this.
Arsenal's pre-season training camp is also gradually on track, and the physical training has not yet ended, and a warm-up match has been arranged, which can also be called a friendly match.
It's just that although the Gunners haven't found their form yet, they still use their absolute strength to turn a friendly match into a friendly match.
The opponent is Barnett, a club from the lower divisions of England, who is clearly used by Wenger to find form for his team.
In the game, it may be more for scouting, Wenger arranged for Quaresma to start, but did not let Quaresma play as a striker as said before joining, but put Quaresma on the right wing, and the right winger Ljungberg sat on the bench, and the starters on the front line were Thierry Henry and Reyes.
There doesn't seem to be a problem with this arrangement, Quaresma is used to playing on the wing, even if he doesn't play as a striker, if he can compete with Ljungberg and play the main force on the right flank, he is perfectly acceptable.
Within minutes of the game, Quaresma felt the difference between Porto and Arsenal.
Although it is not as pure pass-and-possess tactics as Barcelona later on, the beautiful football that Wenger has always insisted on makes this Arsenal team's attack play smoothly, and Porto's rough style of play based on defensive counter-attacks is almost two extremes.
Quaresma's involvement in the attack on the right side is extremely low, after all, his team coordination ability is not enough now, and at the same time, he does not have a tacit understanding with his teammates, although once he has the ball, he can use his personal breakthrough to tear apart the opponent's defense, but that is obviously not a long-term solution.
At half-time, Quaresma didn't show much in attack except for a few wonderful breakthroughs, and although Arsenal were already leading 4-0 at this point, it had nothing to do with Quaresma.