Chapter 3 What to Practice and How to Practice
Ibrahimovic's news became the first football news of the summer to shake the world, but it wasn't the end of the story, just when it was thought that the Swede would be the most influential transfer figure of the year in 2009, Florentino finally showed his shocking skills, 64 million euros, and he brought Kaka, the prince of San Siro, to the Bernabeu.
This transfer was hyped up a year ago, when it was rumored that Real Madrid was interested in buying Kaka, nearly 10,000 fans gathered on Tulati Street, holding a banner asking Bei Bald to keep Kaka, and finally Bei Bald and Galliani "complied with public opinion" and rejected Real Madrid's acquisition, Milan fans had regarded this as the foundation of Milan's revival, and Bei Bald has not given up treatment.
Then who would have thought that a year later, the predator Florentino still conquered the bald with a blank check, although there was no lack of instigation of the big butler Galliani, but the lack of love for Milan was already as obvious as the lice on his head, and the Milan fans could only cry now, and no one knew who would be next in the face of huge financial pressure.
64 million euros is not higher than Ibrahimovic's 66 million, but the difficulty of taking Kaka from San Siro and taking Ibrahimovic from Meazza is absolutely incomparable, and later some fans once compared Ibrahim to "Lu Fengxian", the most loyal and lowest famous player in the history of the Three Kingdoms, this is definitely reasonable, the latter is like a football bum, where there is a lot of money, he goes, loyal to him, just a bunch of meaningless moral garbage, Everywhere he went, he immediately declared it his favorite, but when they broke up. But he always walked categorically, and never cared about the reputation behind him.
Florentino's plan to bring in superstars - make a name for himself - earn advertising dollars - bring in superstars again - make a lot of money - the plan to build a space battleship is still firmly implemented, and Kaka is not his only big deal this summer. Alonso also returned to Spain for 35 million, and to be honest, I think that among the many signings of Florentino, only this one player is the most reliable, and his return has finally made Real Madrid look like a team rather than a club of male models. The Spaniard has no shortage of Pirlo-style long-pass ability, as well as Xavi's ability to control the tempo. In some ways. He's even more capable of controlling the tempo than Xavi, because no one has ever said that Barcelona have any rhythm and their only rhythm is passing, passing. taka (these two words are originally onomatopoeia, representing the sound of passing).
The Western Super League duo are racing to lead the way in the transfer market, but that doesn't stop others from making a living out of their legacy. In addition to La Liga, transfers between teams from other countries are also proceeding in an orderly manner.
In the Premier League, Chelsea have been the team of the year in the transfer market, but it is not the transfer of players that has attracted the attention of them, but the change of their managerial position.
Scolari came with the ardent expectations of Blues fans, but before the league ended, he had already taken the lead in class, although the assistant coach Clement did a good job, but Chelsea has never been the tradition of righting the assistant, when Grant led the team to get the double Asian king and could not stay, Clement such a small role naturally could not enter the eyes of the manager Abu, for the local tyrant Abu, only the world-renowned coach can become his "number one horse".
But this time Abouwang wore through the autumn water, and failed to find his confidant "lover", he had tried to reach out to Barcelona, but the limelight Guardiola and Barcelona were in a sweet love period, and his words were blocked by Russell before he could say anything; After that, he contacted Rijkaard, who single-handedly built "Dream II", but the Black Swan politely declined his invitation after asking his friend Gurlit; In the end, in desperation, Abu had no choice but to turn to his good friends in Russia.
This time, he has his eye on the current head coach of the Russian national team, Hiddink,
Hiddink's resume naturally does not need to be repeated, just by virtue of the "miracle" that he can lead South Korea to win the fourth place in the World Cup, it is enough to make him famous in history, the only problem is that he is now doing a good job in the Russian national team, the national team does not want to release people, even if Manager Abu is rich, he can't compete with his homeland, right?
After a series of tug-of-wars, the two sides finally made a compromise and Hiddink remained in charge of the Russian national team, but he could take over as Chelsea manager for the time there were no matchdays in the national team.
Note that it is "temporary", not inaugurated.
The long-term drama dragged on for almost two months in the media until the start of the new season, but Chelsea missed out on the time to bring in only right-back Zhirkov from CSKA Moscow and Sturridge from Manchester City, with the squad not much improved and Didier Drogba a year older.
And the coach Mr. Guus Hiddink, who has high hopes for Blues fans, will not be able to take office until February next year, and the Blues' managerial position can only be replaced by Clement, who thought he was out of play.
This farce is undoubtedly a carnival for the media, but for Chelsea and the fans it is almost a lose-lose situation, the team has not strengthened, the manager is not in place, this season's Premier League has not started, the Blues have been kicked out of the championship circle, which is completely unthinkable in the period when Mourinho is still there, Muhammad's iron army is the favorite to win the title every season, the Blues have been used to enjoying the victory and the title in his hands, and now the war has not started, people are out. This world-apart gap makes Blues fans feel embarrassed.
Unlike Chelsea, who were the first to go out of the competition, after Manchester United's thrilling title defense last season, people thought that Lord Ferguson would be more vigilant and strengthen his efforts to bring in reinforcements this season, but it is not known whether the old man is too confident in his disciples, or too contemptuous of Arsenal, who are almost empty in midfield, after losing Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez in succession this season. Only a little-known right winger Valencia, who was later called one of Manchester United's four wonders, cost the old man 17 million pounds, and then the old man did not move, making Manchester United fans wait anxiously.
After that, it was not until the moment before the transfer market was about to close that Manchester United finally spread the good news again, they got the former "golden boy" Owen for free, in order to taste the championship in his lifetime, Owen finally gave up Newcastle, who had never left him, and came to the thigh club with his lost youth and injuries.
Switching from the Reds to the Red Devils. It's definitely a journey full of bumps and bumps. However, with Owen's current state and spirit, even Reds fans don't want to blame him, and most Liverpool fans even sent him their best wishes, except for some die-hard KOPs. After all, for a golden boy who became famous at a young age. I have played in the Premier League for more than ten years, but I haven't won a league title once. This is undoubtedly a huge tragedy, and Owen, who was once the son of England and Liverpool, should not end his football career with such an ending.
Owen's contribution made Manchester United fans happy for a long time. But compared to their arch-rivals Liverpool, even the most loyal Red Devils fans will be resentful, because when Alex Ferguson pushed Tevez to Manchester City for a measly £3 million difference, Liverpool were once again the protagonists of the transfer market this summer.
£18.5 million from Portsmouth to bring in right-back Glenn. Johnson, £17 million to bring in midfielder Aquilani from Roma, although lost Alonso, Arbeloa, Hyypia and other players, but Liverpool has been greatly replenished, people are always discussing how much money the local tycoon Abou and the new local tycoon Mansour have spent on how many people, but few people have noticed that Liverpool's investment in recent seasons is not necessarily much worse than these local tycoons.
Poor Americans Gillette and Hicks, they invested more than vampire Edward, but got nothing, and even had to be burdened with infamy and bankruptcy, everyone is a businessman, and the gap is really not ordinary.
Of course, although Liverpool has spent a lot of money, they are not the biggest figures in the transfer market, they are also the protagonists, but at most they are only the second actor, and the first actor is someone else, that is, Manchester City, who entered the "fighter among the local tyrants" last year, after spending 24 million pounds and 25 million pounds to get Arsenal's Nasri and Manchester United/West Ham United's Tevez for 18 million pounds, and 12 million pounds to snatch Barry from Liverpool, spent more than 107 million to bring in new players in just one summer, and quickly made the whole team look suddenly high-end and high-end, more high-profile and shocking than the original manager Abu.
While all eyes were on the most competitive clubs, few noticed that at White Hart Lane, a young man named Bale officially became a first-team member of the team, playing at left-back and currently as a substitute.
This young man who broke Ronaldo's transfer record in the future is now unknown at all, even if the media occasionally mentions Tottenham, most of them will talk about Crouch's 10 million pound transfer fee, where would anyone have thought that a little-known left-back has been playing from defender to winger, and his value has risen from millions of euros to 100 million?
Of course, the changes in these rivals have all fallen to Arsene Wenger and Descartes, and Arsenal have not stopped strengthening their opponents as they continue to strengthen themselves.
Arsene Wenger's plans ahead of the transfer window went well, with Russian Arshavin and Frenchman Koscielny both quick to respond to the call and an agreement was reached in the shortest possible time, with Arsenal getting the two high-caliber players as they wished, with the only problem being Everton's Mikel Arteta.
Moyes is not interested in selling Arteta, after receiving Arsenal's inquiry, he directly quoted Arteta for a transfer fee of 30 million, which shows that he does not want to open his mouth, but does not want to sell people at all, a player who has never proven himself in a top team, it is impossible to sell for such a value, of course, unless the buyer is a second-class youth like Real Madrid, 30 million Pepe and 100 million Bale They dare to start, I'm afraid in addition to the lesson, There is nothing in this world that they dare not buy.
David Moyes' offer is a good indication of his attitude, but Arsene Wenger is still unrelenting. He personally called Moyes and hoped that the two sides would sit down and have a good talk, but Mo Ye's attitude was very resolute, Arteta was not for sale, even if it was to be sold, it was not now.
To be honest, Mo Ye has been regarded by the media as Ferguson's successor many years ago, and this news has even been acquiesced by the old man himself, so Moyes has been committed to preparing for Old Trafford, after all, Lord Fu is more than 70 years old, how long can he work with this body. No one knows for sure. If Moyes is serious about being the new coach of the Red Devils, he will have to bring a few of his own descendants with him, right? With Everton's current squad configuration, Arteta is his biggest descendant, so until the situation of Manchester United's managerial position is not clear. He didn't intend to let his favorite descendants leave.
Wenger didn't know what Mo Ye was thinking about. But he knew a little. That is, I am afraid that there is no hope of bringing in Arteta this year, which makes the professor feel very hurt, and Xiaofa is really gone. His position is irreplaceable, how to configure the Arsenal midfield in the new season?
At this time, Wenger finally began to miss David. Dunn came, when Dunn was there, Wenger only proposed the list of players to buy, he could always get the players back at the right price, and he never made a mistake, but when he was kicked out of the board of directors, Arsenal's reinforcements began to suffer repeated setbacks in the past two years, buying Henry and Vieira in the past few million were all done for millions and 10 million, and now what Koscielny buys has to be knocked out of 12.5 million, and he almost can't even buy it, Wenger's title of "God Eye" finally began to show his negative attributes.
Unable to buy Mikel Arteta and Arsene Wenger had no other plans to spare, it was time for the squad to regroup in July, when the squad began to regroup, and the squad found that there had been a huge change in the squad.
First of all, it must be that the captain Fabregas that Wenger once praised is gone, and the love triangle between Xiaofa and Arsenal Barcelona finally ended with him returning to his old love after several seasons of separation, although this news was confirmed in the second half of last season, but when the Si people are really gone, it is inevitable that the former teammates are a little sentimental.
After all, the Frenchman has only been to Arsenal for one year, and his personality is relatively shy, and most of his teammates are not close friends, so more people only see him as a passer-by who comes and goes in a hurry, and has achieved certain results in Arsenal, and then goes away and does not leave a ripple in the team.
What makes Descartes and others really happy is that because the midfield has lost two generals one after another, Diaby, who has been on Wenger's cleaning list, was lucky to be retained, Diaby's offense is not distinctive, and the defense is not an iron gate, and, lewd, gossip, lazy, has gradually lost Wenger's trust, but his only advantage is optimism, and his popularity in the Arsenal team is very good, Wenger kept him, I am afraid that in addition to multiple substitutes, he just wants him to be a lubricant in the dressing room, Spice up the relationship between teammates.
But in any case, Descartes and Walcourt and the others are very happy that their friends are staying, and the eating and drinking quartet is not a bully organization in the locker room, but they are their best partners in their usual pastimes, and if Diaby does leave, then I am afraid that there will be a lot less fun in the future.
But the truth is always not as expected, some people will stay, some people will leave, some people laugh and some people will cry, Diaby stayed, and another member of the eating and drinking quartet, Vela had to leave, this time Wenger loaned him to Coventry, and there is an additional buy-out clause in the contract between the two sides, which means that after four seasons at Arsenal, Wenger has finally given up on the cultivation of the Mexican "little demon" and is about to leave him to fend for himself.
Bella's helplessness, more or less also has a little bit of Descartes implicated in it, if it weren't for Descartes' rapid growth in recent years and has become the core of Wenger's key training, Bella may not lose the opportunity so soon, but the two good friends have their own different destinies, one has grown into the cornerstone of the team, and the other has to leave because he can't get the opportunity to perform, which has to be said to be a kind of life.
Bella had already left first, and the other members of the foursome at the Kearney base didn't see him, and he didn't even come back to say hello to Descartes and the others, perhaps because he was full of sadness at the moment, and didn't want to see his friends sigh in vain, so he didn't meet with Descartes and the others at all, but at this time the others didn't have time to experience his feelings, because on the first day back at the base, the Arsenal players heard a news that shocked them.
"Yes, we're playing 433 this season, and we're going to have a round of tactical innovation." Wenger's words are still gentle and elegant, but the content makes all the Arsenal players feel a huge shock, Wenger, who has played 442 for more than ten years, why did he suddenly think of changing the formation to 433?
Barcelona! These four words instantly appeared in the minds of many players.
With the start of the five crowns, Barcelona has now become the most famous and limelight team in world football, driven by them, there seem to be tens of thousands of more teams around the world playing 433, high pressing, passing and controlling football, these tactical concepts have quickly become a new trend in football, and have been studied by clubs and national team coaches in major countries.
Looking at Wenger's current appearance, it is clear that after the failed Champions League final, he has also become Barcelona's "protégé", although Wenger may add something of his own to Barcelona's tiki-taka, but there is no doubt that his sudden change of tactics that the team has adhered to for more than ten years actually proves that there have been some compromises in his philosophy.
Descartes doesn't like this feeling, to be honest, although he feels very powerless against Barcelona, but after a conversation with Kobe, he has that frustration thrown away from the depths of his heart, he now sees Barcelona as the strongest enemy, there is already an invisible resistance in his heart, suddenly heard from Wenger's mouth that they want to learn from Barcelona, Descartes even felt a little uncomfortable for a while, 433, can they play Barcelona?
The most important question is that also playing 433, Arsenal's midfielder and Barcelona have to fight? The midfield composed of Denilson, Arshavin and Rosicky, no matter how you look at it, it is impossible to be the opponent of Xavi and Iniesta Gabsquets, pressing high is not a panacea tactic, once the pressing fails, it is the opponent's sharp counterattack, even Barcelona will be afraid of Mourinho's counterattack, how will the beginner Arsenal perform in the face of those defensive teams?
These questions quickly lingered in Descartes's mind, and this is the difference between Descartes and other players, who would only accept and obey orders when they heard the coach's arrangement, but Descartes would take the initiative to think about the problems and then have their own opinions.
Of course, out of respect for Arsene Wenger, he will not ask these questions directly, but these questions are like a seed, planted deep in the heart of Descartes, maybe when things change one day, he will quickly take root and grow strong.
"Because our tactics have changed a lot, so in the training camp before the start of this season, we will mainly train new tactical positions and coordination, I announce that this year's training and pre-competition warm-up matches in Austria will be cancelled, we will spend a month on closed training, everyone, your hard days are coming!" Arsene Wenger's words were sonorous and powerful, and in just a few seconds, all the Arsenal players felt a sense of imminent tension about the big game, and now they finally understand that the holiday is behind and a new challenge is coming. (To be continued.) )