Chapter 33: Arsene Wenger
Six days later, Arsenal suffered their second defeat of the season in the league at the Emirates Stadium.
2:1, Arsenal's players work hard enough, but hard work can't fully make up for the huge gap between the two teams, and when a team that relies on players like 16-year-old Wilshere meets Manchester United, who are in peak form, they don't have a chance.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored again, refreshing his goal statistics in all competitions this season to 39, but his expression did not look happy, because in the past week everyone was talking about Descartes' goal, everyone was praising Descartes' spirit, all he heard in his ears was Descartes, Descartes, which made him very depressed, he is the best player in the Premier League this season, he is the best one in English football this season, why are people always talking about the guy who cuckolded himself?
Although Zhenma has broken up with Descartes, but after the media rendering, his Premier League "green hat" hat can no longer be taken off, and because of the conflict with Rooney in the World Cup was criticized by the media, Ronaldo is tired of the Premier League environment, next, he hopes to find a place without noise, no insults, only cheers and praises to continue his football career, it is said that Real Madrid is in contact with his agent recently, maybe Spain is a good place?
No one pays attention to Ronaldo's inner monologue, everyone is focusing on a topic, Arsenal is already 9 points behind Manchester United, their league this season can basically be declared to be over, next, they will meet Chelsea in the Champions Cup, who gave them the first defeat in the league, live or die? That's a problem.
Descartes was also allowed to go home after a week in the hospital, and although a torn muscle was a troublesome injury, it did not require a long-term hospital stay, as long as there was a bed for him to recuperate.
After lying down for less than a day, Descartes unexpectedly saw a smiling face that haunted him.
"Why are you here?" Descartes looked at Ann Jieli, who was smiling but tearful, and didn't know how to express her feelings.
"Fool." The little girl's pink lips slowly curled, and she pouted dissatisfiedly, "People heard that you were injured, so they asked for leave to visit you." ”
"Huh." Descartes could only use these two words to express his happy mood at this time, and when the little girl's soft little hand brushed his face, the lovesickness that had been said to have turned into a little tear and fell down to his face.
"I'm sorry......" Descartes' throat was a little dry, and even he didn't know why he said these three words, maybe it was because of the drunken dreams and deaths in London for two years that made him feel guilty about the little girl all the time?
The tender little hand touched his lips, and An Jieli's eyes were a little sparkling, but she gently leaned her forehead on his forehead, and said softly: "I know, Mr. Javier has told me that you are also a victim." ”
It turned out that the two were talking about the last time they were used by Fontana, the supermodel, in Italy, Descartes was in a hurry, and when he knew the news, he was already anxious, and he didn't bother to explain it to the little girl, and most importantly, he didn't know how to explain it at all, why did he appear in front of Fontana's house? This matter does not stand up to scrutiny, and if you think about it, it will cause a permanent rift between the two.
It's just that I didn't expect the little girl to be so understanding, and she revealed this matter lightly.
But the warm-hearted Descartes did not see the bitterness in the little girl's tears, some things can be passed, but some things can really pass quietly like this?
With bandages on his body, Descartes could not take his sweetheart to the various scenery of the world capital, so he could only lie in bed with Angeli, watching the Arsenal game, and chatting about some sweet words that never get tired of being a young couple.
It wasn't until 20 days later, when Arsenal was eliminated from the Champions League by Chelsea 1:1 in two 90 minutes and 1:3 in 30 minutes of extra time, that Descartes sighed bitterly in his heart.
They also failed to overtake Manchester United in the league and could only earn a third-place reputation.
But the players' worries are over, and Wenger's worries are just beginning.
Three offers are in front of him, Barcelona 10 million for Hleb and Manchester City 30 million for Adebayo and Colo. Toure.
The departures of Hleb and Toure were expected by the professor, but he did not expect that Adebayor, who had only been with the team for two seasons, would also be on the offer list.
Adebayo did not submit a transfer application in advance, but to say that he did not know about this matter in advance, this is absolutely impossible, everyone knows that Arsenal will only have him a useful striker left at the end of this season, Manchester City suddenly made an offer to him, without his prior consent, is it possible for Arsenal to release him?
Sure enough, as if it was an agreement with Manchester City, Adebayo's agent quickly approached the Arsenal club and asked for an increase in the salaries of his players, not too much, Manchester City was willing to provide him with a weekly salary of 130,000 pounds, and Arsenal barely gave 110,000 yuan.
Wenger almost squirted a mouthful of salt soda to the arrogant agent, 110,000? Don't you see that Henry only got a maximum of £90,000 a week when he left, how can you Adebayo be able to get a higher salary than the King of Highbury?
Could it be that without you, Liu Butcher Arsenal can only eat hairy pigs?
Wenger is not presumptuous, he is still making a final effort to try to save this divorced marriage, but Manchester City is different now, Mansour's Abu Dhabi consortium has basically confirmed that he will be in charge of the Etihad Stadium next season, and the Emiratis have nothing, just money, 130,000 will not come? 150,000! 150,000 and never come again? 180,000!
Of course, the Emiratis are not stupid enough to really take a weekly salary of 180,000 to sign a striker like Adebayo, with the current price level, 180,000 weekly salary may not even be able to sign Ronaldo.
But Manchester City is such an attitude that Lao Tzu is rich, and Lao Tzu can buy it if he wants to, how about it, do you sell it or not? In the end, Wenger did not give in, but Adebayo gave in, and he threatened Arsenal through his agent: If you don't let me transfer, I will boycott and boycott!
In short, the big black man in Togo is determined to go to Manchester City to show his value.
Arsene Wenger has long hated such a farce, and many of his subordinates have been poached by those local tyrants one by one. Cole is now Adebayo, Wenger is gradually beginning to realize that the era of capital invasion has come inevitablely, and it seems to be more and more difficult to follow the path of cultivating youth core and doing big things at a small cost.
In the end, he could only grit his teeth and angrily said to the team staff: "Tell the Emiratis that they don't want to take any piece of turf from the Emirates Stadium without 50 million!" ”
What the Emirate people are afraid of is that you will not let go of your mouth when you die, if you let go, then everything will be easy to do, and what can be solved with money is still called a matter?
In the end, after a battle of words between the two sides, the price of the deal was set at 47.7 million euros, Adebayo 29 million, and Collo. Toure 18.7 million.
Adebayo and Colone were sold here. Toure, who also sent off Belarusian Hleb, in his three seasons at Arsenal, Hleb made a total of 89 appearances and scored 7 league goals, which is not a high production, but he successfully made up for the gap in Arsenal on the left after Pire's departure, especially in the first two seasons when he was not frequently injured, his sharp breakthrough on the wing vaguely let fans see the grand scene of the 03-04 season.
Unfortunately, his body quickly collapsed in the fierce Premier League, in his third season at Arsenal, he made a total of 17 appearances, scored only 2 goals, and his performance dropped significantly, and I don't know what Barcelona fancied about him, and he was willing to spend 15 million euros to bring him to Camp Nou.
Wenger has nothing to say about this deal, Hleb has made an outstanding contribution to Arsenal, but recently he has been gradually reduced to a substitute due to injury, he wants to leave, Wenger will never stop him, 15 million euros is also worthy of his value, all teammates have sent warm wishes before he leaves.
If the departure of these players has brought some benefits to Arsenal, the departure of French midfielder Flamini has made Wenger a little angry.
Flamini moved to Arsenal from France in 2004, when Arsenal had the likes of Patrick Vieira, Gilberto and Cesc Fabregas, but he was never able to secure a place in the team and was sent to the reserves.
This season he managed to seize the opportunity to rise to the top in the pre-season warm-up game, and then squeezed out Russ out of control. Diarra, Diaby and others have secured the position of the main midfielder, making 32 appearances in the league and scoring two goals, which can be called one of Arsenal's biggest gains this season.
But at the same time, his contract has almost expired, and due to the lack of attention to him before, Arsenal actually forgot to sign a new professional contract with him.
As a result, taking advantage of this loophole, Flamini had secretly contacted the next family before the end of the season, and at the end of the last two games of the season, Flamini personally revealed his future to his teammates in the dressing room: "I have decided to transfer to AC Milan. ”
It is reported that in order to lure the Frenchman to come for nothing, Milan prepared a new contract for him with an annual salary of 4 million euros for four years.
This betrayal made the professor heartbroken, and he was ready to sell Diarra this season so that Flaminian could stay with the team in peace, but the Frenchman had already made the decision to leave quietly, and all his previous expectations were in vain.
In fact, this is not the first time the Frenchman has done this, he signed a youth contract with the club when he was in Marseille and participated in the final of the 2004 UEFA Cup with Marseille, but when Marseille was about to re-sign him to a professional contract, he went so far as to tell the club management that he had signed a contract with Arsenal privately and that his future was in Highbury, not Marseille.
At this time, he was just 18 years old.
Arsenal then paid only $480,000 to get him, a matter that made Marseille's then-manager Jose Murphy a player. Anigo was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and he told the media: "It's a beautiful betrayal, Flamini took advantage of us!" ”
Now, it's the professor's turn to endure such a betrayal.
Someone leaves, and of course someone comes.
The professor's most important target this season remains his fellow countryman, Frenchman Nasri.
For some unknown reason, it is known that Arsene Wenger is particularly fond of his French countryman, and it is not for nothing that this Arsenal team was called the "Gallic Army" in the first place, with Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Pire, Wiltord, Clichy, Sagna, Senderos, Gala, Diarra, ...... This long list of names is engraved with the words "Made in France", so the media has long been surprised that he once again extended his claws to his French compatriots.
Only this time Wenger was stubbornly resisted by his French compatriots, Nasri is from the famous French Marseille, for the last time Arsenal cheated himself to secretly take away Flamini, Marseille is still angry, I heard that Wenger wants to do something to their new star Nasri, Marseille club only one answer: no!
However, Wenger's connections and prestige in France are rarely matched, and I don't know what means he finally used, and the Marseille club finally relented and only made one demand: 12 million euros, otherwise there is no negotiation.
Compared with Porto, the "black shop in Europe", this price is simply the price of cabbage, Wenger agreed without even thinking about it, and left Hleb, I always have to add it personally, in Wenger's opinion, Nasri is the best candidate.
However, there is a lot of wisdom and there must be a mistake, and I don't know if Wenger really thinks it doesn't matter or ignores the big blood loss at the back, he only brought in three midfielders this summer, Coquelin, Bischoff, and Nasri, and there is no movement in other positions.
Gone Toure and loaned Senderos to AC Milan, Arsenal's central defenders only have Galla and Djuroud, plus a Silvestri who is not wanted by Manchester United. Song transformed into a standard defender?
Descartes learned about Wenger's work this summer through the news from his hospital bed, and when he saw the list of new teammates, he was puzzled, with such a backline, how Wenger is going to lay a place in the Premier League that belongs to Arsenal? (To be continued.) )