While Descartes was working hard on a free-kick, another transfer rumor quickly caused an uproar around the world: Cristiano Ronaldo's move from Manchester United to Real Madrid for a record price.

The transfer amount of up to 80 million pounds of the deal, in one fell swoop surpassed Zidane's 8-year-old world record, but also started the "Galaxy II" restart project, after three years of ups and downs, Florentino once again returned to the seat at the helm of Real Madrid, the last "Galaxy Battleship" sinking did not let him adopt his surname, on the contrary, he reopened a high investment, high return crazy business road.

Ronaldo 94 million (euros), Kaka 65 million, Benzema 35 million, Albiol 15 million, Negredo 5 million, Arbeloa 4 million, Alonso 35 million, just one summer, Lao Fu Ye made the world realize that oil is nothing, more people are the last word, Real Madrid has 30 million members, and a spit can drown Abu and his oil army.

Arsene Wenger has been hiding in his office and reading the newspaper lately, shaking his head at the newspaper and saying, "Crazy, crazy, crazy." This is what Diabi saw with his own eyes, and it is said that the professor has not slept for several nights because of this, and has been thinking about whether he should also spend a little bit of 70 million yuan?

The 70 million affair is just a joke in the streets, but after the regular half-moon training camp in Austria, Arsenal welcomed their annual Emirates Cup invitational tournament.

The two opponents this year are Portugal's Benfica and Spain's Atletico Madrid.

Arsenal have enjoyed a pretty good run of results since last year's Emirates Cup, going unbeaten in the league and winning 12 in a row in all competitions, so Arsene Wenger will be hoping to continue that good momentum this year, and he is also serious about both games.

Benfica has always been a strong team in Portugal, although they are not as famous as the "European black shop" Porto, but that is also notoriety, they still have a lot of appearances in the European arena, even if the strength can only be regarded as second-rate, but they are not familiar.

In this game with Benfica, Descartes has been sitting on the bench, because it is a friendly game, there is no problem of being in or out of the squad, all the first-team players of Arsenal this season are sitting on the bench, Bischoff, Nasri and other new players have all been given the opportunity to play, and finally they won 2-1 against Benfica with goals from Xiaofa and Bendtner.

It is good to be able to win, but the content of this game is not satisfactory, everyone can see that the Arsenal backline, which lost a lot of blood at the end of last season, has serious problems, and Galla's frizzy shortcomings have not been corrected, and after the loss of Toure in time, whether it is Alexander. Neither Song nor Silvestri could make up for his gap in time, and the goal that Arsenal conceded was due to Galla's failure to prevent the opponent's striker's cross, and Song failed to plug the hole for him in time, and was cut in by the opponent's attacking team to shoot.

Such mistakes were not made once or twice in a game, with Arsenal's backline coming close to being breached on several occasions, and it would be difficult to say who would have won this game had it not been for the excellent performance of Almunia who finally settled in the main position after Lehmann's departure this year.

In midfield, the loss of Bam Adebayo is also a major loss, although Bendtner is two centimetres taller than Adebayor, but he is too thin as a pillar in the frontcourt, and his bamboo pole-like size does nothing to help the Arsenal players at all in the fight for a place up front, except that the Arsenal players can see where he is at a glance.

Fortunately, Van Persie seemed to have suddenly opened his mind after returning from the European Championship, and his ball protection and breakthrough in the front court became Arsenal's main attacking tool, and Nasri quickly integrated into the team, which ensured the quality of the team's attack.

However, Wenger is not in a hurry at all, and when the likes of Descartes and Rosicky recover from injury, he has no worries about the attacking line.

The only thing that has cast a shadow over Arsenal's future this season is their papier-mâché backline.

Many people can't understand why Wenger will loan another central defender Senderos to AC Milan after losing Toure, in fact, they don't understand that Wenger originally wanted to bring in Real Madrid's central defender Woodgate, but unfortunately the German's knees are as fragile as glass, broken so much that even he has lost confidence, and he would rather return to China for retirement at a lower price than come to the Premier League again.

Wenger, who steals chickens and rice, can only cry secretly at this time, no matter how well he plays, he can't change as fast, others only see him messing up the back line in a daze, but they don't notice the more effort he has put into it.

Even within Arsenal, few people know what Wenger is up to, and Descartes is one of them.

He, like the outside world, saw the hidden worries in the Arsenal back line at a glance, he thought that Wenger would have a way to fill this hole, who would have expected that until the season was about to start, the transfer market had been closed, Wenger still did nothing, what did the old man do?

Arsene Wenger certainly wanted to do something about it, and he now has a ton of scouting materials on his desk, several of which he has circled in red by his name: Belgian centre-back Thomas Thomas. Vermaelen, French centre-back Laurent. Koscielny, Russian midfielder Andrei. Arshavin, Portuguese midfielder Pinto. Veloso.

This is the player Wenger intends to bring in in in the winter or next season.

However, regardless of how famous these names have since been, Arsenal have made major moves this season, and he has no choice but to cope with the upcoming new season with his current squad.

The match against Atletico Madrid has been very worrying for Arsenal fans, the Bed Legion has been known as the third pole of La Liga in the last two years, second only to the Spanish Super League duo, and they have a rather terrifying forward line in the 2008-2009 season, Maradona's son-in-law Sergio Aguero and Uruguay captain Diego. Forlan, supplemented by Juanito, Cabrera and other powerful players, their strength should not be underestimated.

The problems at the back of Arsenal were completely exposed in this game, and in the face of the onslaught of Aguero and Forlan, the centre-back combination of Galla and Silvestri was literally beaten into a sieve, and Atletico had 11 shots on goal in the first half, five of which were within the woodwork, and Arsenal were one goal down 1-2.

In the second half, Arsene Wenger, who had lost hope at the back, simply put out a 433 formation and played against Atletico Madrid, and the result was that the forward line of Descartes, Van Persie and Bendtner finally lived up to their mission, and they reaffirmed the basic rules of the football game: no matter how many goals you score, I only need to score one more than you and I will win.

The score at the end of the game was 4:3, Arsenal relied on a more powerful attack to make the Sheets subordinate, but such a score instead attracted more fierce criticism from the media, they agreed that the top-heavy Arsenal did not have the title at all this season, even a team like Atletico Madrid can score their three goals, against opponents such as Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, can they still count on this tofu dregs backline?

Wenger is a stubborn person, but he also has a good side, in order to deal with the crisis of the central defender, he suddenly came up with a lineup called 352, Arsenal rarely mentions other formations other than 442, but Wenger thinks it doesn't hurt to try, anyway, the team is now a central defender who can be used, it is better to strengthen the interception of the midfield, and block the danger before the back line.

For this reason, he deliberately changed the team's starting line-up, Diaby and Alexander. Song became the first choice for the double midfielder, Cesc Fabregas was promoted to the position of central midfielder by him, and at the same time used Nasri and Walcott to form a two-wing assault lineup, and Van Persie partnered with Bendtner to become the starter on the front line, no way, Eduardo and Descartes are both recovering from major injuries, and they can't put too much burden on them at the beginning of the season.

The only thing that can make Descartes happy is that the former member of the Eat and Drink Trio Bella is back, he ended his loan spell at Osasuna and returned to Arsenal to form a new "Eat and Drink Four" with Descartes, Walcott and others.

Of course, friends had to celebrate together, so after the game against Atletico Madrid, while Arsene Wenger was still worrying about how to adjust the team's backline, the four of them appeared together in one of London's busiest bars.

"Don't be like this, we should let go of everything and enjoy life happily when we come to have fun, you see, there are so many beautiful girls around, shouldn't we say hello to them first?" Walcourt saw Descartes' worried look, of course he knew what he was worried about, Wenger earlier announced the appointment of Descartes as the team's second captain, but I didn't expect this guy to really take it seriously, even after the game was still thinking about the team's problems.

Vela is also very happy, he is happy to be back in the team to play with his friends, and he is even happier to be back in the world of London's colorful nightlife, with so many happy things piled up, where will he think about the team?

A couple of guys egged on Descartes for a binge drink, then stuffed him with a pretty chick who was said to be a tender model, and left in a burst of lewd laughter.

When Descartes woke up from his hangover the next morning, he found another slick white body on the bed, and if he had been a little bit of a habit of it, life in London had taught him not only how to be a good player, but also how to be on the court.

Although he occasionally thinks about it, he also feels sorry for Angelie, but Diabi and others always comfort him that this is the life that a man should have, and he and these girls are just playing, mutual benefit, and there is no need to talk about feelings, there is no need to feel guilty about it, after struggling a few times, he quickly used this set of rhetoric to convince himself, and gradually sank into such a sea of sensuality.

Looking at the sun's halo of fog in the early morning in London, Descartes told himself that a new season was coming, and it would be a new journey. (To be continued.) )