Russian tycoon Roman Ablahimovic bought Chelsea Football Club from Bates in the summer of 2003 and over the next decade he hired nine managers, burned $1.5 billion and won 13 titles.

It can be said that it was Abu who opened a new era of golden football in world football.

Statistics show that in the ten years since Abou joined the Premier League family, the wages of Premier League teams have exploded 23 times, and the proportion of player wages in club spending has risen from 45% to 80%.

I still remember that the local tyrant 8L in the game "Legend" once had a sentence to show off his wealth: "Don't use your annual salary to challenge my pocket money." This sentence is very appropriate for Mr. Abrashimovich, the "real football manager".

Under Abouren, the coach who has survived the longest and is the most popular with the military is naturally the "special one" Mourinho.

It was the original phrase "I am a special one" that made Mourinho attract attention when he first arrived in England, and then he used utilitarian football to lead Chelsea to win one championship after another, and even Lord Freck, who was once overwhelmed, had to join forces with Arsene Wenger to compete with it.

Remember what Ferguson said at a big dinner party in October '04? When the reporter asked who he would kill first if he were given a gun and a bullet between the spice girls and Wenger, Lord Fold asked on the spot: "Can you give me two bullets?" ”

This sentence illustrates how serious the antagonism between Lord Fred and Arsene Wenger was at that time.

However, after Chelsea snatched the Premier League title for two consecutive years in 04-06, Lord Ferdiners began to change his tune, and Arsene Wenger and Arsenal changed from "they are just a group of ** who win by luck, we are the best team" to "I think there has always been respect for each other's work, and you can't go without arguing with anyone for such a long time".

Even Lord Ferguson, who has never bowed his head, had to send a signal of reconciliation to his sworn enemies, which shows how much pressure the Magic Bird and his Chelsea legion have put on the Premier League powers.

And this season, Chelsea has invested heavily in Ballack, Shevchenko, Ashley. Stars such as Cole and Bora Luz have grown rapidly, and although they are temporarily behind Manchester United in the league standings, no one dares to underestimate their stamina.

It is especially worth mentioning that in the two transfer cases, Chelsea offended Manchester United and Arsenal one after another.

First up is Ashley. Cole's transfer, Chelsea secretly contacted Cole without the consent of the Arsenal club, and then encouraged him to completely fall out with the club through a strike and other means, and finally took Ashley from Arsenal for 5 million pounds + Gala. Cole, this incident was so angry that Wenger scolded in front of the media regardless of his demeanor, and even almost went to court for a time.

Not only are they digging into Arsenal's corners, but Chelsea are also playing against Manchester United at the same time. Manchester United had already announced the signing of Nigerian player Mikel before the start of the season, and even passed the medical examination, Mikel had even sworn allegiance at the press conference wearing a Manchester United shirt, but in the blink of an eye, Chelsea informed Manchester United that Mikel was already their man, and he was now training with Jose Mourinho's team at Stamford Bridge.

This left Manchester United fans and officials dumbfounded!

However, Ferguson is not the good-natured Arsene Wenger, and he has only one way to deal with Chelsea's cross-cutting love: and that is to go to court. The transfer ended with Chelsea paying Manchester United £1,200 and Chelsea paying double the amount of money Mikeldo.

Offended the two bigwigs of English football one after another, Chelsea is no longer so comfortable this season, Lord Ferguson and his "Manchester connection" continue to be suppressed in the Premier League, so that Chelsea can only follow Manchester United's ass for most of the season to eat dust, the Champions League met the "natural nemesis" Benitez, the Blues were eliminated by the Reds in two legs, and Mourinho's second Champions Cup has never arrived.

Over and over again, the League Cup has become Mourinho's last straw this season, if you can't even win the League Cup, this season's boss Abu, who has spent a lot of money on reinforcements, can only usher in a season empty-handed.

Therefore, for this League Cup final, Mourinho is determined to win, and in the face of Wenger, who has won more and lost less since he landed in the Premier League, the magic bird is also full of confidence.

The Carabao Cup final is on 25 February, and the Premier League will enter a period of recuperation as the national team break takes place between mid-February and early March, when most of the national team's warm-up matches take place.

Pleasantly surprised, after the World Cup, Descartes was once again called up to the national team, and on 17 February, Italy will face European powerhouse Romania at the Stadio Friuli in Udinese, and Descartes is lucky to be part of the squad.

However, at this time, the Italian national team is no longer the team that won the World Cup a year ago, and the meritorious head coach Lippi announced his resignation as head coach of the national team three days after winning the World Cup, it is said that the reason is that he and his son were slandered and hurt by a lot of media in the boiling "phonegate" incident, which caused him to be very depressed, so he actually made up his mind in the World Cup.

Following the head coach, the team's two pillars, Wolf King Totti and captain Maldini, also announced their retirement from the national team, Maldini wants to work in the club for two more years because of his age, so he is ready to get rid of the shackles of the national team and play for Milan wholeheartedly; And how Totti was unanimously criticized by the domestic media because of the saliva incident in the World Cup semifinals, and the fierce wolf king decided to withdraw from the national team in anger and postponed his comeback indefinitely.

Having lost the brains and two important pillars of the team, the Italian national team is currently in turmoil, and Donadoni, who took over the Lypithelia position, is not a famous coach in China, and he can sit in the position of head coach because he is said to be favored by his Milan teammate, the legendary captain Albertini, who was one of the two commissioners of the Football Association at that time, responsible for inspecting coaches for the national team.

Donadoni caused a controversy in the media at the beginning of his tenure, his national team dismissed Grosso, Nesta, Zaccardo, Di Michele, Iaquinta, Inzaghi and other famous players, but added 33-year-old Roma players Tonetto, Quagliarella, Bonella, Ambrosini and other national team newcomers, although it looks like a new look, but it is not favored by the media at all.

The match against Romania will be Donadoni's national team debut, and after this game, the media will make the final decision on his nearly half a year of work, heaven or hell, only between this game.

The recruitment of Descartes is also a step for Donadoni to update the Italian national team.

In fact, although Donadoni was ousted from the position of head coach of the national team because of the team's very poor record, his transformation of the Italian team cannot be said to be a complete failure.

It's just that his pace of reform is too big, and he has eliminated many meritorious veterans in the team at once, but he can't find suitable players to replace them, plus his temper is too stubborn, the more others say that he has to do it, and he doesn't bow to Totti, and he trusts those strikers who can't be supported (in fact, I want to say that Italy does not have any strikers who can handle it during this time, Inzaghi is 34 years old after all, and Donadoni can't be blamed for not worrying about him), as a result, the team's record plummeted, In the group stage of the European Cup, he also stumbled, and his dismissal became inevitable.

However, before the match against Romania, the media was still cautious about Donadoni and his national team, because after all, the team was still the team of that national team, and no one expected it to decline to such a level in just half a year.

Back in Italy, Descartes saw many familiar faces, as well as some new ones, just as he did when he first came to the national team, with a little trepidation and excitement and hope for his future.

Descartes thought it was a little funny, and before he knew it, he had become a "veteran" of the national team before he was 18 years old, and he really didn't know what to say.

There are a total of 24 people on the list announced by the Italian national team, including goalkeepers: Buffon, Amelia, Abbiati; defenders Tonetto, Oddo, Zambrotta, Bazagli, Materazzi, Cannavaro, Bonella, Pasqueira; Midfielders Mauri, Ambrosini, De Rossi, Gattuso, Pirlo, Semioli, Perrotta, Camoranesi; Forwards Quagliarella, Gilardino, Rossi, Toney, Piero, Descartes.

If nothing else, most of the players who will travel to next year's European Championship qualifiers and European Championships will be on this list.

Among the players who were missed, there were only two or three people such as Nesta and Totti.

Italy's opponent in this warm-up match, Romania, is also a traditional second-rate team in Europe, they have emerged Hadji, Petroscu, Popescu, Iliye and other famous players, and they are also a force to be reckoned with in European football.

It's just that with the turmoil in Romania over the years, their player talent pool has gradually withered, and most of the current Romanian team are unknown, and the only one who is a little famous is probably the defender Zivo who plays for Inter Milan.

Before the game, everyone laughed and said that Donadoni picked a soft persimmon to pinch, but no one expected that the Romanian soft persimmon almost choked the Italians.

The first half of the two sides played without wind and waves, the new Italian national team still needs to run in after all, especially their forward line, after Piero and Toni are a year older, the two gradually seem to be a little unable to cope with the national team's game, although they both work hard, but the lack of Totti's tandem in the midfield, Pirlo's long pass alone can not make Italy's frontcourt active, especially the two players are not the type that can burst into the belt, Italy is very weak in attack.

On the other hand, the Romanians still have a certain degree of reverence for the world champion, so they played very conservatively after the opening, with four defenders firmly standing in the defensive line, and the midfielders did not dare to press easily, so they did not pose too much threat to Italy.

The 45 minutes of the first half ended in such a dull process.

At the beginning of the second half, Donadoni made a large-scale substitution, after all, the warm-up game was used to practice the lineup, and he needed to be more familiar with the players under him, so he replaced more than half of the starters, Quagliarella, Bonella and other national team newcomers have been put on the field, and the appearance of the entire Italian team is completely different from the first half.

But unfortunately, Descartes still didn't get the chance to play, and he turned his longing gaze to the scumbag-faced Donadoni, but in exchange for the other party's indifferent eyes.

Descartes couldn't understand why Donadoni didn't give him a chance to play in such a warm-up match when he was recruited into the national team.

In fact, Donadoni himself has suffered from the fact that his national team has poured in too many new players, and he has been questioned by the media before the game, and he must let these new players come on the field to be tested, otherwise the media may criticize him even louder.

In this case, he can only choose to give more time to his hand-picked Quagliarella, Rossi and others, otherwise how can he gag the media?

As for Descartes, Donadoni also admitted that he was very talented, but he only played in Italy C at first, and then went to England, Donadoni could only observe him through video, so he didn't know much about him, the reason why he was recruited was also thanks to the advice of his predecessor Lippi, Italy's forward talent gradually withered over the years, and he was not accepted, Lippi was most optimistic about this Descartes, so he also recommended him to Donadoni, as a successor, Donadoni could not overturn everything of his predecessor as soon as he came up, Hence the call for Descartes.

It's just that he didn't expect that in order to prove his vision and employment, he could only helplessly leave Descartes on the bench for a full 90 minutes, and as a result, Italy almost capsized in the gutter in this game, and was scored a goal by the Romanians, and finally drew 1:1 with Romania at the Friuli Stadium, and failed to get a good start.

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