While the Premier League's traditional giants such as Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and others are busy this summer, the rest of the Premier League teams will certainly not be idle, and although they are theoretically just a bunch of [***] silk, that doesn't mean they don't have more ideas.

Tottenham Hotspur, who finished fifth in the Premier League last season, also underwent a change in personnel this summer, but most of the players they brought in were unknown, such as Bente, Cabourg, Bochche and Routledge, which are almost unimpressive in the ears of fans.

Therefore, in such a group of nameless people, no one will notice a name called Bell.

The left-back, who had been roommates at Southampton and Theo Walcott, was a disaster at left-back when he first arrived at Tottenham, with no technical or defensive brilliance other than his dazzling pace, and Tottenham thought about putting him in the reserves.

But who would have thought that in the summer of 2013, this player who was almost beaten into the cold would create the highest transfer value in world football?

Tottenham spent €14.75 million to bring him from Southampton, but six years later, they sold him for a whopping €100 million!

In addition to Tottenham, Everton, who ranked sixth last season, also made a lot of moves, Danish defender Gravesson, Niglia striker Yakubu, American goalkeeper Howard, England defender Jaguerka and others, so that Moyes immediately felt that even the rocker was a little straighter, although the club has always pursued the style of spending small money to do big things, but later it turned out that the introduction of these players was worth the money.

But outside of the semi-finals, the two clubs were not the most talkative, and after July, all media eyes turned to another place, another centre of English football – Manchester.

Only this time, the focus is no longer on Alex Ferguson and his Manchester United, but on their "noisy neighbours" Manchester City.

On the afternoon of June 22, 2007 local time in England, the legal adviser of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra confirmed at a press conference that Thaksin had successfully invested 81.6 million pounds to acquire 55% of Manchester City's shares, thus placing another traditional veteran club in the Premier League into the hands of foreign capital.

From the acquisition of Chelsea by Abu in 03, to the joint ownership of Liverpool by the Americans Hicks and Geely in February this year, the Premier League has begun to frequently appear behind the presence of foreign capital, in fact, even Chelsea is not the first to be invaded by foreign capital, as early as 1997, Egyptian businessman Mohammed. Al. Fayyad had already bought most of Fulham's shares, which he had spent £30 million at the time.

In 05 years, the hegemony of English football Manchester United can not resist the surging of foreign capital, the American wealthy businessman Glazer family with a price of 790 million pounds into Manchester United, but this time the Americans are playing the trick of empty gloves white wolf, they only based on the reserve price of less than 30 million pounds, and then obtained a large amount of financing and loans from the bank, and successively acquired more than 97.3% of the shares in the hands of Manchester United shareholder McManus and others, and finally completed the acquisition on June 22, 2005.

It is unbelievable that throughout the acquisition process, the subject matter of the loan was actually Manchester United Club!

I don't study finance, so I also don't understand how any acquisition can be secured by the assets of the prey company to finance and borrow from the bank, which in my opinion is equivalent to borrowing money from the bank with someone else's things, and then going back and buying someone else, which is simply unbelievable.

But in retrospect, this kind of capital acquisition is actually quite similar to our mortgage: the same is to borrow from the bank with the unacquired house as collateral, and then gradually repay the loan and interest.

It's just that the Americans play bigger, and he doesn't have a political axe to regulate policy.

Then in 2006, Aston Villa, Portsmouth and West Ham United were acquired by foreign investors at the same time, and although the buyers behind these clubs subsequently changed hands again due to the financial crisis, the momentum of capital invasion of the Premier League has been unstoppable.

In February 2007, with the former most dazzling hegemon of English football Liverpool was jointly acquired by the Americans Hicks and Geely, the Premier League has inevitably entered the era of capital.

Although no one could have imagined that just a year later, Thaksin, who is worth 1 billion pounds, would withdraw from Manchester City in embarrassment because of the corruption [***] case, but more than one-third of the Premier League teams have become foreign holdings, which makes the media and fans in England have to exclaim "wolf"!

But in fact, a year later, the real wolf came.

At that time, Thaksin withdrew from Manchester City, and the Emirati oil capitalist Mansour and his consortium took over Manchester City, and then people learned what it means to be "not bad for money".

But even Thaksin, whose net worth is far inferior to Mansour, quickly brought several important transactions to Manchester City, including Bulgarian striker Bodinov, Brazilian striker Joo, and England goalkeeper Joe. Hart, Brazilian striker Elano, Croatian defender Corluka, these are all hot figures in European football at the moment, including Milan, Chelsea, Barcelona and many other giants have paid close attention to them.

And the most shocking thing is that Manchester City then announced the new season of the manager, England national team coach Eriksen won the seat, Eriksen did not do well in the England national team, especially after the "zip gate" incident, his reputation was greatly damaged, so he chose to part with the English FA amicably and took over the reins of the Premier League upstart Manchester City.

This series of shocks has brought a lively summer to English football, and when Descartes and others return to London from the holidays, it seems that the Premier League has changed, and there is talk of Thaksin and the possibility of Manchester City's rise this season.

Descartes and others returned to London on July 12, and although the new Premier League season only kicked off on August 19, pre-season training and warm-up were a must.

Arsenal's pre-season training is still the same as usual, with a two-week preparation trip to Austria in favourable weather, before returning to London on the 31st for the Emirates Cup warm-up match here.

Arsenal will face Serie A giants Juventus and Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven.

Juventus was relegated after the "phonegate" incident in 06, most of the team's main players went their separate ways, Zambrotta and Thuram left Barcelona together, Cannavaro and Emerson traveled to Real Madrid together, Vieira and Ibrahimovic were robbed by Inter Milan, and a dignified king division fell apart in an instant, and the gloom was bleak.

But fortunately, several veteran players of the team still insisted on flowing, so that the Italian football giants have not broken their backbones, Piero, Nedved, Trezeguet, Camoranesi, Buffon and others have persevered, so that Zebra fans can still see the hope of a resurgence.

Although it is down, but after all, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, the Bianconeri were unstoppable in Serie B last season, and the excellent performance of new players such as Giovinco, Nocerino, and Paro made them rise again after only one season of sinking and returned to Serie A as the first place in Serie B......

You know, Juventus was not only forcibly relegated to Serie B, they still entered Serie B with 17 points at the beginning of the season!

Juve's strong return proves the strength of this old club, the so-called giants, probably nothing more than that, their success stems from the professional management of the club's top management, rather than relying on the big investment of the boss behind Milan or Inter Milan.

Two years later, when Silvio Berlusconi stopped spending money and Moratti was plagued by the economic crisis, Juventus finally took advantage of the momentum and regained their dominance in Italian football.

This also shows that in the world of football, money may bring temporary success, but if you want to become a century-old giant, you can only rely on sound management and professional work.

Juventus chose to warm up with opponents like Arsenal in the preseason, of course, they also hope to test whether the squad they have just pulled back from Serie B can withstand the test of the world's giants.

As for the other opponent, PSV Eindhoven is an old powerhouse from the Netherlands, who are known as the top three in the Eredivisie along with Ajax and Feyenoord, and often appear in the Champions League.

PSV Eindhoven have also been one of the biggest clubs in history, winning the Champions League in 1988 and bringing together world-class players such as Romario, Ronaldo and Ruud van Nistelrooy.

PSV Eindhoven won the Eredivisie last season by one goal difference over Ajax to secure a Champions League spot, and they opted to play Arsenal in pre-season for the same purpose.

This season's Eindhoven squad has also undergone great changes, and most of the original team that won the championship has gone, but they have loaned young Turkish player Shahin from Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga, and introduced striker Matafuz from Slovenia, plus Ngral, who has been selected for the Dutch national team, and strong players such as Bouma and Tovoyinen, still have good strength.

Arsenal, which is about to usher in two big games, finally completed the assembly of the whole army on July 15, due to the European Championship qualifiers, the French players reported a little later than Descartes and others, and on July 16, the full squad of Arsenal embarked on a flight to Austria.

For the first time, Descartes saw his new comrades, two dark and strong midfielders, Diarra and Alexander. Song, a handsome Eduardo with short blond hair. Reach. Silva, the tall Danish Bentner with all the bells and whistles, and the pigtailed right-back Sagna.

Although it is not known what the strength of these players will be, but in the next year, they will be teammates who will play side by side, so Descartes took the initiative to come forward and talk to them, although Sagna and Eduardo and others are not very good at English, but even the comparison, Descartes still had a good time talking with them.

When Descartes mingled with several new players, Wenger couldn't help but look at Fabregas, who was sitting in the plane seat with his eyes closed, and saw that Xiaofa didn't seem to be involved in their conversation, Wenger secretly frowned.

Xiaofa may indeed be a good player on the court, which is why Wenger did not hesitate to abandon Vieira to help him up, but in private, Wenger was helpless against his taciturn spleen, as the team's captain this season, Xiaofa did not show any enthusiasm for the addition of new teammates, he still adheres to his style of saying less and doing more, and is an ordinary role player, which may be blameless, but now that he has taken on the responsibility of captaincy, it is a bit too much to keep silent.

On the contrary, it was Descartes, who was a year younger than Xiaofa, who showed his excellent interpersonal skills, and although he had only met his new teammates for the first time, he had already become the central figure in the conversation between the group, and the new teammates were firmly together.

Arsene Wenger once lamented that Descartes was "born to captain", but it was only at this moment that a thought suddenly occurred to him that he had not had before: Could it be that this little guy is more suitable to be the leader of the team? (To be continued.) )