Chapter 1137 The 1516 Season Smoke Returns
The America's Cup is over, and summer is basically coming to an end.
The Premier League teams are almost done.
When Dong Fangzhuo returned to England, he was half happy and half lost.
Because the Van Dijk he expected from Manchester United ended up not coming to Manchester United, but to Southampton.
It made him laugh and cry, and Ferguson brought Mbappe but not Van Dijk.
However, this is still the fertilizer water that has not flowed to the outside field, and Van Dijk belongs to Southampton anyway.
Manchester United's defence has not changed much, but in midfield, Ferguson still brought in Schweinsteiger.
He seems to be a German midfielder who trusts him very much, although Dong Fangzhuo thinks that Schweinsteiger will not be able to adapt to the soil in England, but he also believes that he should be able to play at the level of Ferguson's hands, after all, Ferguson is not the Van Gaal of the year, and Manchester United doesn't have him Dong Fangzhuo in charge?
Back in England, he gave his first interview to the news media, and the Manchester Evening News had the pleasure of interviewing him.
As the captain of the team, Dong Fangzhuo is still ambitious when talking about the new season, "I absolutely believe that we can go far in the new season, and I believe that we can hit the league for three consecutive championships." If you look at all the games we had in the second half of last season, we got almost all the points and we can do that this season. β
'We've got a lot of new players coming in for the new season, and they're all champions, so it's our goal to win the Premier League and it's our goal to win the Champions League because we're Manchester United!'
'Even though this year's Premier League is more intense than in previous years and two of the best players in the world are here, we are still very ambitious.
Speaking of this, Dong Fangzhuo mentioned Messi and Ronaldo.
'It's the most incredible thing to be in the same league as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, I feel motivated and happy for the fans all over England.
"It's going to be the craziest and I think the three of us are ready for it."
He didn't mention anyone else, obviously in his eyes, only Messi and Ronaldo are qualified enough to compete with him, which is extremely confident.
The three strongest players in international football at the moment are the three of them, and the other players are indeed beyond the reach of the dust.
Judging from the odds offered by bookmaker William Hill to win the championship, Manchester United's prospects are still better than those of Chelsea and Manchester City. This is, of course, because of Dong Fangzhuo's existence.
However, the three teams are basically changing their eyes, and the prospects for the new season are still unknown.
But journalists are more interested in his Southampton.
"Dong, do you think Southampton will have a chance to compete for the title?"
"Why is it not possible? Southampton are also star-studded, Rooney, Gerrard, John Terry, Michael Carrick, these are the top players in the Premier League, plus Virgil van Dijk, Sadio Mane and other practical players, they may really surprise everyone, I'm not kidding. Even Claudio Ranieri's Leicester City team could pull off miracles. β
Dong Fangzhuo naturally knows the Premier League in the 1516 season very well, this season is Leicester City's final league championship, although there is no problem with eating. He also believes that Leicester City will have a good result this season, but want to win the title? It's almost impossible this time, isn't it......
The main thing is that the arrival of him, Messi and Ronaldo has changed everything, and it is impossible to follow the previous plot.
Other than that, the rest of the players in the Chelsea and Manchester City line-ups have not changed, except for Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, but the addition of these two guys is terrifying, because the two of them can change the situation alone......
However, the English media are not so optimistic about Manchester United.
The Times wrote: The much-anticipated 2015-16 Premier League season will kick off, after this summer's recruitment, 20 teams are reloaded, they will fight for their goals, Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool and other giants will compete fiercely for the title, and Champions League qualification, Europa League qualification and relegation battle will also be exciting. At present, it is difficult for Manchester United to be as smooth sailing as last season on the road to the title, and many Premier League giants have a chance.
In fact, their analysis is very objective. The battle for the Premier League title is the biggest attraction, and from the perspective of squad strength, there are no more than 5 giants with the strength to attack the championship, namely Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, and Liverpool. Last season, Manchester United won the Premier League two rounds in advance, and in the second half of the season basically did not encounter effective resistance, Ferguson's team stayed at the top of the table for a total of 125 days, which shows the strength of Manchester United, but after the start of the new season, Manchester United may not be able to do it.
In this summer transfer window, the Premier League giants have opted for significant reinforcements. Among them, Liverpool have brought in the most signings, and new coach Jurgen Klopp's team has brought in eight new signings such as Danny Ince, Klein, Bentekeke, Firmino and Milner, among them, in the central striker position, the Reds have made up for the weakest link, the squad has been greatly strengthened, and they are expected to return to the level of the 2013-14 season, so the Reds will not be to be underestimated.
Manchester City has not brought in many signings this summer, but the arrival of Messi and Sterling is enough to make their frontcourt super luxurious, Messi, Sterling, David Silva and Aguero any three of the trident can make the entire Premier League tremble, plus Manchester City's squad is already super luxurious, they have more confidence to win the title.
With their rivals all bringing in a lot of signings, Chelsea didn't buy a lot, and they bought Manchester United's outcast Falcao and Begovic. Of course, the most awesome thing is the purchase of Ronaldo, and Mourinho is also back! Chelsea's biggest concern should be at the back, as John Terry and Felipe are gone, leaving them with just five men left in the backline, and if there is no fresh blood pouring in, then Chelsea will have a huge problem.
Comparatively speaking, Arsene Wenger's team is much shabby, the Gunners brought in Petr Cech this summer, and the squad has no shortcomings, but it is not very star-studded. But if you're a veteran Premier League fan, there's no shortage of hope for Arsene Wenger's side, who pose no title threat, and who struggle for the top four every year and have to play in the Europa League this season......
However, Spinach believes Arsenal has such potential. The reason they gave is very good: the main framework of the squad has not changed, which means that compared with some giants with more entry and more exit, Arsenal has no run-in period after the official start of the new season, and the maturity index of the squad is better than that of other competitors.
So which team has the championship picture? At least from the pre-season, it seems to have seen a lot of things.
Especially Arsenal, Arsenal's performance in the warm-up game is as fierce as a tiger.
Arsenal played a total of 5 warm-up games this summer, successively 4-0 victory over Singapore Stars United, 3-1 victory over Everton, 6-0 victory over Lyon, 1-0 victory over Wolfsburg, 1-0 victory over Chelsea, just looking at the score is enough to prove that Arsenal has done a good job of preparing for this summer, in fact, it is true, many main players gradually regain the feeling of the game through warm-up games, such as Iwobi, Akpong and other young players have also broken out of the cocoon like many seniors, the most important thing is that the new signing Cech and the defensive generals have established a tacit understanding.
It's a pity that in the last game against Chelsea, Ronaldo did not appear, it was not convincing, if it wins against Chelsea with Ronaldo, then this Arsenal team will be really terrible......
Another down-and-out giant, Liverpool, went to Asia to pan for gold, but Uncle Scum's first year at Liverpool was not optimistic.
In the Asia-Pacific region, Liverpool played four warm-up matches, winning three and drawing one. Despite the commercial nature of the game, Liverpool still exposed a lot of problems, against the Brisbane Roar, Liverpool conceded a repeat last season, the lack of protection at the top of the box arc, neither Milner nor Henderson, can do this, this will be a fatal danger in the new season, and worse, Liverpool have not added to it so far. In addition, except for the attacking firepower against the Thai Stars, the rest of the four matches were still weak, and Origi and Ince proved to be overwhelmed in the warm-up games, and they must not be counted on if they want to do well in the new season.
Fortunately, there are many players in the front field who remain at Melwood's training base, such as Roberto Firmino and Benteke, and it remains to be seen whether they can solve Liverpool's lack of strikers; At least compared to the weak defence, Liverpool are still expected to be expected at the offensive level.
As for Chelsea, Mourinho knows this team too well, almost seamless, Ronaldo is also directly adapted to Chelsea's system, the first four warm-up games start, the average performance of 2 goals per game is amazing, but the fifth game against Arsenal, Uncle Bird refrigerated Ronaldo, and as a result, Chelsea lost 0:1 to Arsenal, which also shows that Chelsea is now playing around Ronaldo, with Ronaldo and without Ronaldo are completely two levels, and finally why not let Ronaldo play Arsenal, maybe to protect Ronaldo, Afraid of Arsenal's retaliation?
But Ronaldo is not the most eye-catching player, Messi who returned from vacation is still the strongest guy, Messi also played four games, but Messi scored a hat trick in two games, scored two goals, and pressed Ronaldo alive. After Pep Guardiola took charge of Manchester City, he quickly copied his tactics in Barcelona and built a new Manchester City around Messi.
And Messi quickly found happiness here.
Messi immediately said in his first interview with The Times: "I'm happy here, I love it, Barcelona is a thing of the past, and the Manchester City fans love me very much, which flatters me!" Pep Guardiola knows how to use me, we can definitely achieve something this season and I can't wait to start the new season. β
Messi did quickly conquer the fans of Manchester City, and the limelight was unmatched for a while.
However, Dong Fangzhuo and Manchester United seem to be in a little trouble.
Their results in the pre-season warm-up were very poor, and the opponents were really average.
Compared to the other four teams, Manchester United's squad is the most varied and the youngest, and has been grinding in the squad for four games.
New signings Schweinsteiger and Schneiderlin were both entrusted by Ferguson in the midfield position, Dong Fangzhuo in front of them, and there were three small melons on the front line, Rashford on the right, Januzaj on the left, Martial on the center, or Mbappe on the right, Rashford on the center, and Januzaj on the left.
In the first friendly match against Guangzhou Evergrande, Manchester United and Evergrande played 3:3, and the three-goal lead was forced to draw by Evergrande. Ferguson was unhappy at the back and brought Juan Mata on in the second game.
In the second game, he played Shanghai Port, fell behind 0:3, and Manchester United made it 3:3, and Ferguson had no temper at all.
Manchester United's performance has been too inconsistent.
In the third game against Guoan, Manchester United finally played a beautiful game, 6:2, but the defense was still not very good.
In the fourth game against Kashima Antlers, Manchester United played a score of 4:3.
The point is that Dong Fangzhuo has appeared, he only averages one goal per game, and more offensive opportunities are left to young people, and he mainly organizes attacks in the midfield.
However, United have shown two main weaknesses, with inconsistency at the back and up front.
Ferguson has finally realised that United really need to make up for their defenders, but time is running out for them......
Therefore, in the latest odds of winning the championship, Manchester United was pressed down by Manchester City and Chelsea.
Manchester City are the favourites, followed by Chelsea and Manchester United in third.
"Manchester United's turnover is too serious, it's too much for Manchester United, and if they don't make up for the defenders, then Manchester United's prospects in the league this season are not optimistic."
"The average age of the first four guys is not less than 20 years old, how do they fight? This is not the Premier League of ten or twenty years ago, and Ferguson's idea is too naΓ―ve. β
Naive?
I don't know if Ferguson is angry, anyway, Ferguson didn't buy a defender, but suddenly poached Di Maria! Angel Di Maria abruptly landed at Manchester United from Real Madrid.
Even Dong Fangzhuo was very surprised, not to buy a defender, to buy a midfielder, which means that Ferguson only has an attack in his eyes and doesn't want to defend anymore?
The old man's mind is really getting more and more elusive......
However, Dong Fangzhuo has no opinion, Manchester United has always won the championship without relying on defense......
The Times bluntly said: "Crazy, lord, crazy, what the hell are Manchester United going to do this season? Can Manchester United, who are weak in attack and weak in defence, really make a difference this season? This is too risky, Ferguson is old and dizzy, and he has lost his mind. β
Do?
The Community Shield knew what was going to happen, against the hapless Liverpool......
All England is focused on this game, and they all want to see what kind of result will be played by such Manchester United and Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool.