A.T. Kearney training base, North London, England.

Arsenal Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Ivan. Gazidis's office.

The 48-year-old was born in South Africa and is a graduate of Oxford University. Gazidis became Arsenal's chief executive in January 2009 and previously served as deputy commissioner, where he has a say in key strategic and commercial decisions. As vice president of the U.S. Championships, Gazidis was involved in everything from player transfers, players signing professional contracts, stadium management and security, players, coaches and refereeing matters.

Therefore, the outside world has been speculating that in the past four years, the cooperation between Gazidis and Wenger has not been harmonious, and the South African has always wanted to weaken the authority in Wenger's hands, and the most direct signal is that Gazidis's voice in player transfer matters continues to expand.

However, it is clear that the media also believes that Gazidis will still be difficult to shake the professor's position at Arsenal in the short term.

In this regard, Chinese fans have a more interesting analogy, Gazidis is a civilian clique, and professors are a clique of military attachés...... The two sides rub, rub, rub again.

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"Arsna, do you really think the team needs to continue to bring in reinforcements up front?" Ivan. Gazidis asked, clasping his hands.

He was skeptical of the plan.

Gazidis thinks Arsenal's forward line is good enough.

In the summer transfer market, Arsenal has spent 12 million euros to recruit "Prince Porti" to strengthen the forward line; In addition, Olivier Giroud, the 201/2012 Ligue 1 Golden Boot, also joined Arsenal for 12 million euros, and before the transfer market closed, Arsenal also made a lightning move for Spain international Cazorla for 19 million euros, and 43 million euros (37.8 million pounds) to attract three attackers.

Therefore, Gazidis believes that Arsenal's attacking side is luxurious and strong enough.

However, it is clear that the Arsenal CEO has chosen to ignore the fact that in the summer, Van Persie and Alexander. Song Shuangshuang left, and Arsenal received more than 58 million euros through these two transfers, and the Gunners still made a profit of 15 million euros.

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"The team needs to improve their attacking strength." Arsene Wenger shook his head and said, "At the moment our attacking ability is too weak and needs to be strengthened urgently. ”

He is also distressed, the Premier League has been played for 8 rounds, and the heavily invested Podolski has only scored one goal in the league so far, and the only consolation is that Prince Porti has already scored two goals in the Champions League.

As for Olivier Giroud's performances, he was even less impressive, scoring his first goal for Arsenal until the seventh round of the league.

Arsenal are currently only ninth in the Premier League in 2012/2013, with three wins, three draws and two defeats that are really difficult to satisfy Arsene Wenger, and Arsenal's biggest problem is in attack, with only 13 goals scored in eight league games, including a 6-1 home win over Southampton in the fourth round of the league. It shows that Arsenal have only scored 7 goals in the remaining 7 league games, and this kind of attack is really weak.

Although Wenger is confident that Arsenal will be able to return to the top four after the season, will they have to wait until the second half of the season to start their game?

If the team can improve their offense, they can't do anything further.

He can not care too much about the performance of the Basel twin stars Salah and Jiang Chenxi in the Swiss Super League, but in the Champions League, the young duo gave a wonderful performance together, which made the professor have to be tempted.

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"But......," Ghazidis mused.

"The transfer fee for these two youngsters will not be too high." Arsene Wenger said that this is also the reason why he is interested in the Basel twins, Arsenal has never had a tradition of bringing in famous superstars in his hands, how good young people are, young people have potential, strong plasticity, and he likes this feeling of teaching and training first-hand, watching the lads continue to improve, which is very fulfilling.

"Then let's get in touch first." Gazidis nodded immediately.

Although his cooperation with Arsene Wenger is not particularly harmonious, he admires the professor, is very good at thinking about the club, has never had a bad habit of spending too much, and has a very accurate eye for people, training young people, scratching lottery tickets, how good.

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27 October 2012, 14th round of the 2012/2013 Swiss Super League.

Basel won 3-1 away against Zurich, Basel coach Vogel tried Jiang Chenxi and high school striker Streller for the first time to start the front line, Jiang Chenxi and Streller each scored a goal, and Salah also scored a goal, which made Warger very happy.

However, the league opponents are not strong enough, and this option needs to be tested more often.

The day after the game, the focus of the Swiss media was not on the Swiss Super League, and all eyes were drawn to the list of European Golden Boy awards published by Torino Sport.

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Founded in 2003 by Italy's "Torino Sport", the European Golden Boy Award is one of the most authoritative awards for young players in European football, judging the best young player of the year, and is also considered to be the "coming-of-age ceremony" of young talents. The selection must be for young players under the age of 21 who play for European clubs. It can be said that the European Golden Boy Award is the most authoritative award for young players in European football.

The Golden Boy Award is the "Golden Ball Award under 21", with an expert jury composed of 30 journalists from 20 European countries, such as "French Football", "Team Newspaper", "The Times", "Marca", "World Sports", "Bild" and other authoritative media are judges.

Van der Vaart, Wayne Rooney, Lionel Messi, Cesc Fabregas, Sergio Aguero, Anderson, Pato, Balotelli and Gotze are the winners of the European Golden Boy Award for the past nine years.

The voting rules for the Golden Boy Award are that each judge selects 5 players from the candidates and scores according to their ranks, with 10 points for the first place, 7 points for the second place, 5 points for the third place, three points for the fourth place, and 1 point for the fifth place.

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The 40-man squad for the 2012 European Golden Boy Award was announced, including young talents who play for many big teams, such as Alaba (Bayern Munich), Thibaut Courtois (Atletico Madrid), Philippe Coutinho (Inter Milan), Deulofeu (Barcelona), Draxler (Schalke 04), Al Ayl. El Shaarawy (AC Milan), Jose (Real Madrid), Koke (Atletico Madrid), Lamela (Roma), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal), Paul Pogba (Juventus), Shelvey (Liverpool), Raheem Sterling (Liverpool), Raphael Varane (Real Madrid), Verratti (Paris Saint-Germain), Isco (Malaga).

Among them, the last Golden Globe Award winner Götze was also shortlisted again because he was only 20 years old this year.

Among those players, Spain youth international Isco, who plays for La Liga dark side Malaga, is considered the favourite to win this year's European Golden Boy award.

What attracted the cheers and attention of the Swiss media was that Basel's young twin stars, Chinese player Jiang Chenxi and Egyptian player Salah, also entered the 40-man squad for the Golden Boy Award.

This is the first time that a player from a Swiss Super League team has entered the squad for the Golden Boy Award, and it is a double cannon all of a sudden.

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As soon as the 40-man squad for the 2012 European Golden Boy Award was announced, the official website of FC Basel couldn't wait to send blessings to the team's twin stars.

They excitedly announced the news on their official website, and sent praise and blessings.

The greeting on the front page of the official website is similar to 'Congratulations to my club players Jiang Chenxi and Salah on their selection in the European Golden Boy squad'.

As soon as the list of the European Golden Boy Awards was announced, Jiang Chenxi's personal mobile phone was almost blown up.

Countless media, especially domestic media, want to interview him, and according to Su Xun, there are also media giants such as CCTV.

The sports section of the CCTV evening news of the day also solemnly and solemnly broadcast a piece of sports news:

Italy local time announced at 10 o'clock this morning in the 2012 European Golden Boy Award 40 shortlist, playing in the Swiss Super League of China's young player Jiang Chenxi successfully shortlisted, this is also the first time that Asian players shortlisted for the award, the European Golden Boy Award is an award created by the "Torino Sports Newspaper" in 2003, by 30 authoritative media in Europe to participate in the selection...... World-famous stars such as Messi and Wayne Rooney have all been winners of the European Golden Boy Award, and the European Golden Boy Award also has the reputation of the future European Footballer......