1.043 ready for the Premier League
The season is over for Sheffield Wednesday. It has been a fantastic season, with Sheffield Wednesday taking their league points to an unattainable height of 115 and losing just three games in the league all season. Such a scoring record, I am afraid that no team will have a chance to break it in the future. Not only that, but the 69 goal difference also brought Lee Chengfeng 69 points, and he has 184 points in the league this season, which is 9 points higher than the 175 points he received in League One last season, and it is also a little bit of making up for the loss of not being able to participate in the EFL Cup. In the cup competition, the League Cup defeated the Premier League giants, Chelsea, who won the championship with a record number of points this season, won the League Cup, and the FA Cup also reached the last four.
However, there is other good news, Leeds United, who have completely lost hope in the middle of the season, have finally agreed to let him go, and Sheffield Wednesday bought Aaron Lennon for a bargain of £1 million, and he will be Sheffield Wednesday's player next season, just waiting for the transfer window to open. Sheffield Wednesday snatched up the England homegrown star before Tottenham Hotspur made the move.
However, Nottingham Forest's Mike Dawson has no chance, it is not that Nottingham Forest are unwilling to sell, they have to solve their financial problems by selling players. Tottenham Hotspur have brought two of Nottingham Forest's young talents, midfielder Andy Reid and captain Mike Dawson, to the White Hart Lane Stadium this winter for £8 million.
Now Li Chengfeng knew why Nottingham Forest would be relegated, and they actually sold their souls. In Sheffield Wednesday's team, even if Haslam and Derek are now only substitutes, Sheffield Wednesday are also invincible in the Championship, and he has no idea of selling them this season, just to maintain the cohesion of the team and maintain stability until the new core completely wins the respect of the dressing room. Nottingham Forest actually sold the soul of the team, the young captain, Li Chengfeng couldn't understand this approach at all, even if the team's financial problems were serious and had to be sold, it should be sold after the season, not now, and the result was that the team was disheartened. The result of relegation at the end of the season is retribution.
As the dust settled, while Sheffield Wednesday fans were frantically celebrating their team's return to the Premier League with a record result, on the other side of the city, their local rivals Sheffield United lost their chances of promotion to the Premier League again this season, and they were 10 points away from the promotion play-off zone.
The other direct promotion spot went to Wigan. Sunderland have not recovered from a heavy defeat and have been overtaken by Wigan and Ipswich to finish fourth. To no avail, though, they were knocked out in the qualifying round by West Ham United, who secured the last time they qualified for promotion.
Poor Sunderland, she really went too far.
Although the league has achieved better results than last season, Lee Seungfeng still has a lot less points this season than last season, mainly because Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship this season lost the qualification to participate in the English League Cup, and he collected more than 30 points in the English League Cup last season, such a big gap cannot be made up even if the team achieves better results in the league and cup than last season. On May 31, when Li Chengfeng entered the holiday, he only had about 132 days left in his remaining life, which was nearly 14 days longer than when the holiday began last year, which is not bad.
But not only that, the League Cup championship also brought Li Chengfeng more than 70,000 pounds in bonuses, and after tax deduction, there were more than 40,000 pounds, which is almost a year's salary. In the past two years, he also has more than 100,000 pounds of funds. This money is enough for him to spend in the UK for a few years. And next season he will be in charge of Sheffield Wednesday in the Premier League and the Europa League, and the board has offered him a new contract, a two-year contract with a salary of £5,000 a week.
Li Chengfeng is quite satisfied with this contract, although the salary is not high, but considering the actual situation of the Sheffield Wednesday team, they are still very sincere. However, Lee still insisted on adding bonus clauses to his contract, such as another £200,000 if he can lead the team to European competition, and an additional £200,000 if he enters the Champions League. If they can win the Europa League, the prize money will be 200,000 pounds, and the prize money for winning the Champions League will reach 500,000 pounds. However, there is little hope for the latter two to be achieved, and Li Chengfeng has no hope.
Well, Li Chengfeng found an agent Tony last year, he is from Manchester, he is not famous, and there are few famous people under him, Li Chengfeng, who was still the coach of the Championship at that time, was already his biggest customer.
The reason why Li Chengfeng chose him was simply that he was obedient enough and would not mess around. Lee Seung-bong doesn't want to take up his time because of the mess of off-field matters, he just needs someone to help him take care of the contract and negotiate with the club. And big-name agents also have a lot of requirements, and often ask you to take on some jobs to increase income, but now the CM world and the real world take up too much of his time, and he doesn't have the energy to do other things, and he chose Tony for this reason, he is really obedient, at least he will ask for Li Chengfeng's consent before making any decisions, which is enough.
In the CM world, Lee Seung-bong started his vacation, in addition to communicating with the club about the plans for the next season and the introduction of players, it was to travel and relax. Sheffield Wednesday will play in the Premier League next season, and only 38 games of the Premier League are eight fewer than the Championship, which means that to close the gap, Lee will have to lead the team to a very good result in the UEFA Cup. Considering the fierce competition in the Premier League, Lee Seung-peak knows that if he wants to get enough points for next season with his existing players, even if he is possessed by Pep Guardiola in 10 years, he will not be able to do it.
New players, stronger players, have to be added, and some of the existing players can only let them go. Bratten, for example, although he was Sheffield Wednesday's top scorer for both years and was named the team's Player of the Year for two consecutive years, his poor shooting and somewhat unique style of play limited his development to a higher level. Relying on his superior skill and physicality, he is a big killer in the lower leagues, but when it comes to the Premier League, once targeted, his role is greatly reduced. In the real world, he moved to Premier League underdogs Bolton Wanderers in 2007, but his performances were not good, and a year later he was transferred to Toulouse in Ligue 1 as an add-on. Braten's experience also made Li Chengfeng dare not pin his hopes on him, not to mention that there was a problem with his contract renewal with the team, and it was impossible to be willing to play as a substitute, so his departure was certain. Presumably, the best player in the Championship can be sold for a good price, and Lee Seung-peak does not feel disappointed.
The team's backline also needs to be supplemented, Caldwell, Onuoha and Spector are good in the Championship but can only play in rotation in the Premier League, and Lee Seungfeng needs a stronger main central defender. He already had a candidate in his notebook. Lescott of Championship Wolfhampton Wanderers, later Manchester City's champion defender. He was worth £27.5 million when he moved to Manchester City in 2009, but now, only a few million pounds is enough, and as a Premier League side, Sheffield Wednesday can afford the money.
However, the most worrying thing for Lee Seungfeng is the goalkeeper position, the 18-year-old Kasper has a lot of potential, but the current ability to be the main goalkeeper of the Premier League team is still lacking. Sheffield Wednesday's strength last season overshadowed his shortcomings, but the Premier League is much more competitive than the Championship. Kasper may be able to become a qualified Premier League goalkeeper in a few years, but now, it is not reassuring to hand over Sheffield Wednesday's goal to him, not every goalkeeper is Gianluigi Buffon.
But there are no suitable candidates in the transfer market right now. Fulham's Van der Sar is naturally an excellent choice, and he is worth only 2 million pounds, although he is almost 35 years old, but in the real world he has maintained the status of a world-class goalkeeper until the age of 40. But Sheffield Wednesday is facing competition from Manchester United, and Lee Seung-peak originally wanted to finalize the transfer before Manchester United made a move, but Ferguson, who has been struggling with the goalkeeper position, has also been following Van der Sar for some time, and has also joined in when he knows the news that Sheffield Wednesday is ready to make a move. The competition between Manchester United and Sheffield Wednesday, a fool knows how to choose, Li Chengfeng watched such a cheap goalkeeper transfer to Manchester United.
Knowing that his foresight is not omnipotent, Lee Seungfeng had no choice but to re-select his target, and he made a request to Chelsea to sign Italian goalkeeper Carlo Cudinic on loan. The former Chelsea best player, who has barely played since Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech joined Chelsea and has only managed to make a few appearances in unimportant domestic cup competitions, Lee Seungfeng felt the loan was not difficult, but Mourinho forcefully rejected the deal. It wasn't because Mourinho felt a little unhappy that Sheffield Wednesday had won his first title at Chelsea last season, but that a mere promotion was not enough to threaten the proud man, but he felt that the team needed such a quality substitute and turned down Sheffield Wednesday's loan request.