On September 21, Arsenal beat Bolton Wanderers 3-1 away to reach the top of the Premier League table with a record of 4 wins and 1 loss, which made the ridicule that lasted in the media for a week a little quieter.

The situation in the Premier League this season is very complicated, last season's Champions League runners-up Chelsea sacked their firefighting coach Grant, citing "poor results", to be honest, Grant can bring a team that changed managers in the middle of the way to the Champions League double runner-up position, it is not easy, but Abu manager and Blues fans have already been fed by Mourinho, "double Asian king" does not satisfy them, even the Premier League title may not be able to satisfy them, what they want is to stand on the top of Europe.

World Cup-winning coach Scolari was in the firing line, Big Phil has a more reintributious name and the ability to rule the army with an iron fist, Abu fancied his world title and experience, so he poached him from the Portuguese national team at a high price, becoming the fourth coach under Abou, perhaps no one could have imagined that this would be the beginning of six changes for the Blues in the next eight years, and Chelsea is about to enter a chaotic phase.

Manchester United, on the other hand, lost their top card Cristiano. Ronaldo, 80 million pounds is not something anyone can refuse, Ferguson once said that "not a single bacterium will be sold to them", and in the end he sold his heart.

The power of money, even a giant like the Red Devils Manchester United can't resist, and Florentino has made the world understand a truth, compared to Real Madrid, you are not qualified.

Liverpool may be the only one who is stable, but equally stable is Benitez's disdainful eye, who brought in Coloccini and Robbie for £10.3 million and £20 million respectively. Keane, of course, these two players are good players, but it's a pity that Benitez won't use them, and as a result, Liverpool occupies two places on the top ten worst transfer lists in the Premier League in the 08 season, and Bei Bald has a dark face.

After 5 rounds of league games, Arsenal returned to the top with 12 points, while Chelsea and Liverpool followed with 3 wins and 2 draws and 11 points. They are currently seventh in the league with just seven goals scored, as many as third-from-bottom Stoke City.

The Manchester Evening News, which used to ridicule Arsenal for having to step on Manchester United's corpse if they want to win the title, is now silent, and they understand a truth very well: when the master is in a trough, it is best not to go out casually to provoke right and wrong, otherwise there is no way to get back if you are slapped in the face.

As the vanguard of the "anti-Arsenal" alliance, the Manchester Evening News was instigated, and other newspapers and magazines followed suit, so the atmosphere at Arsenal was quite good both internally and externally during this time, which also made them start the journey of the League Cup with a happy mood.

The format of the English League Cup is played by a total of 92 teams from all four levels of the English league (including the Premier League, the Championship, League One and League B), but it does not mean that every team has a fair chance, with League C and League B teams competing for a place in the first round of the Cup, and the teams that have qualified will continue to compete with League One teams in the second round for a place in the next round, and the Premier League teams will not join them until after the third round.

Therefore, although the League Cup has been played since August, Arsenal will not join the team until September.

In contrast to the League Cup, the FA Cup is a larger team, and in addition to the four levels of professional teams, amateur teams are also eligible to participate, which is a real "battle royale", so the FA Cup title has more weight than the League Cup, which is recognised in England.

The FA Cup doesn't kick off until late October, with Premier League teams also making their appearances in the third round.

Arsenal's first opponent in the Carabao Cup was Sheffield United from the Championship.

The team used to be a regular in the Premier League, having only been relegated in the first two seasons, but unlike many other teams, Sheffield United did not have the backing of big corporations or wealthy businessmen, and that relegation was a devastation for them, so they have not been able to recover to this day, staying in the Championship.

Sheffield United put up little resistance against a mighty Arsenal side, conceding three goals in each half and losing 6-0 as Arsenal made it through the Carabao Cup.

Although the win was still a big win, Arsenal did not have too happy expressions, mainly because of Wenger's stubborn rotation policy.

Arsene Wenger's rotation is quite rigid and regular, in his mind, although Arsenal has as many as 26 first-team players, but the maximum number of people who can really enter his squad is only 18, his unchanged main lineup and thunderous substitution time, has become the object of countless verbal criticism from major media, but Wenger has never tried to make changes, he firmly believes that according to the "successful experience" (03-04 unbeaten championship) to do things, the team is enough to win everything.

As a result of this stubbornness, many of the young players who have entered the first team have not been given the opportunity to work and are full of complaints, while those who have been playing are very tired and will always run out of energy after February, eventually leading to the collapse of the team.

Even in this Carabao Cup match against a weak team like Sheffield, Wenger also lined up most of the main lineup, with Cesc Fabregas, Gala, Almunia, Van Persie and other central axes all on the field, although they won the game, but the players lost time to rest.

Then in the sixth round of the Premier League, the consequences of Arsene Wenger's own way were quickly reflected, and they played loosely at home, losing to Hull City with a score of 1:2, and broke out the biggest upset of this round.

Arsene Wenger turned pale in the face of such an unexpected result, the Arsenal players were disappointed, and the media was even more cheerful about a new wave of disparagement, especially the Manchester Evening News.

"Arsenal didn't lose until the 31st round of the league last season and finished third, and now they have lost two of the first six league games this season, so they want to win the title with such a performance?" The columnist for the Manchester Evening News is like a monkey with a smile on his face, pouting and happily jumping up and down the tree.

Compared with Manchester United, Arsenal's biggest disadvantage is that they do not have a mouthpiece newspaper of their own, although the Times and the Post are both based in London, but the main direction of these two newspapers is social affairs and current news, and the other is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur, and it is basically impossible for them to speak for Arsenal.

Therefore, in the face of the provocation of the mouthpiece of the sworn enemy, Arsenal can only hold this breath in their hearts, and cannot make any counterattack in words at all.

This situation was very frustrating for Descartes, and some signs within the team made him even more worried, Nasri, who had arrived at the beginning of the season but performed well, began to complain to his teammates that his wages were too low, while Fabregas seemed to have made up his mind, according to Diaby, he once heard Fabregas talking to Pique on the phone, and Pique encouraged him to fight for his "freedom" by boycotting the game.

Descartes didn't know what Fabregas was thinking, but Henry's words before his departure came back to his ears that he would have to keep the team in his own hands if he was to avoid further turmoil.

So he approached Arsene Wenger with a heavy heart.

"Mr. Wenger, I ......, I have something to talk to you about." Descartes wanted to stop talking, he didn't know whether to tell Wenger about Fabregas, in fact, anyone could see that Wenger really treated Fabregas as his own son, and if he knew the truth of the matter, I don't know if he could bear it.

Arsene Wenger was surprised by the sudden arrival of Descartes, and although his office door was open to all players, no player would normally come here to talk to him, and his authority and bitter face made the average team feel a sense of awe for him.

"What do you want to say, Deska?" Wenger glanced at Descartes, and noticed that his expression seemed to suddenly understand, so he asked with a wry smile: "Do you want to discuss the salary with me?" I know that your current salary is a bit underwhelming in the team and we are talking about that......"

"No, Mr. Wenger!" Descartes hurriedly argued: "I am not here today to talk to you about salary. ”

"Oh? So what would you like to talk to me about? Wenger was also a little curious at this time, looking at Descartes's appearance, it seemed that some words were difficult to say......

Suddenly, Wenger's face sank, he thought of a very terrible possibility, and looked at Descartes with a hint of disappointment and heartache, did he want to come and tell me that there were other teams ready to poach him?

In Wenger's heart, Descartes and Cesc Fabregas will be the cornerstone of the team's construction in the next ten years, and there are a lot of offers about these two players in the wastebasket in his office, but no matter how many zeros are behind that number, Wenger never looks at it and throws it into the wastebasket, and now Descartes actually took the initiative to find himself, is it possible that another team has resorted to Chelsea-like means and secretly reached an agreement with Descartes in private?

As soon as he thought of this possible surname, Wenger felt that his heart twitched, the departure of Henry, Adebayor and others has made Arsenal's rebuilding pace dragged down again and again, and now even Descartes, who has just emerged, is it true that Arsenal can't retain talents, and has become a star processing base like Ajax?

At this moment, Arsene Wenger began to have a little doubt about his transfer policy and the team's operating philosophy, and although this doubt was not enough to overturn the philosophy he had adhered to over the past decade, it was like an inconspicuous seed that had been planted somewhere in his heart.

Thankfully, Wenger's words were greatly relieved by Descartes' words, and he did not notice the change in Wenger's face, but said to himself: "I think there is something wrong with the way the team is playing now, and I think we need to make some changes. ”

"Huh?" Wenger's eyes widened in surprise, didn't he want to make a transfer? That's good, that's good...... However, after reminiscing about what Descartes meant, he quickly frowned again and asked seriously: "What do you think is wrong with the team?" Just say it, I believe you're for the good of the team, I trust you, Deska. ”

Arsene Wenger's words reassured Descartes, who boldly said: "The team has been getting more games lately and I think we should have more teammates in rotation and everyone has the opportunity to play and rest. ”

"You're saying there's a problem with my rotation policy?" Wenger's eyes narrowed, in fact, Wenger has fought with the media countless times on this issue, and the outside world agrees that his rotation is too rigid, but Wenger firmly believes that it is with this policy that he has won three league titles, and he will not easily make changes.

Unexpectedly, even within the team, there are people who question his policy!

If it were a normal player, Wenger would either ignore it or suspect that they were trying to make trouble and find an excuse to leave the team, but in the face of Descartes' silent but determined gaze, he didn't know how to answer for a while.

Descartes was brought back from Italy by him, and the speed at which this little guy grew up surprised and made him very happy, and more importantly, from Descartes's experience as a child, it can be seen that this is a very tenacious young man, which is also Wenger's favorite quality. Arsenal has countless players with gorgeous footwork, but they have always lacked a spirit, Wenger has seen this spirit from Descartes many times, he believes that this little guy is the future leader of the team, so in Wenger's mind, Descartes and ordinary players are not the same.

Now that his future leader is in doubt, he's certainly going to have to think about it.

After a long silence, Wenger sighed in a low voice and said to Descartes: "I know, I will seriously consider this issue, you go back first." ”

There was a hint of disappointment in Descartes' eyes, he originally wanted to say two things when he came to Wenger this time, one was about Xiaofa, and the other was about rotation, but he couldn't say anything about the first thing, and he couldn't get an answer to the second thing, which made him feel a little frustrated.

But as soon as he left the door, Wenger suddenly called out to him: "Wait a minute, Descartes. ”

Descartes turned his head and saw Arsene Wenger's warm smile: "You did a great job this time, I welcome you to come and give your opinion to the coaching staff, remember, my office door is always open for you." ”

Descartes' heart warmed, and Wenger seemed to see some exciting changes in his eyes. (To be continued.) )