252. Unsatisfactory transfer situation
(PS: 2-in-1 4000 words chapter)
England reached the semi-finals after losing to Belgium on penalties.
After returning home the next day, Roy Hodgson resigned, and the FA accepted it and immediately began to select a manager.
Although the Three Lions "unexpectedly" lost again in the tournament, Qiansheng became the biggest highlight of the European Championship in France.
In addition to setting a record for the European Championship and the England national team, he also scored 9 goals in 5 games to match the French legend Michel Platini, and won a lot of honors after the European Cup.
Euro 2016 Golden Boot winners - 9 goals (5 games)
Winner of the Silver Ball at the 2016 European Championship in France
Euro 2016 Team of the Year
Euro 2016 Euro 2016 Best Goal - Free kick against Wales in the group stage
Best Newcomer at Euro 2016 in France
The all-time top scorer of the European Championship - 9 goals, shared the honor with Platini and Cristiano Ronaldo (Cristiano Ronaldo scored a goal in the semi-finals).
It is worth mentioning that the second goal scored against Northern Ireland in the quarter-finals of the European Championship was Qiansheng's 10th goal for the England national team, and he did it in only seven games, the first in team history.
After the European Championship, Qiansheng made 8 appearances for the England national team, scored 14 goals, had 6 assists, and participated in 20 goals! The contribution rate is as high as 100%.
The average goal rate of 1.75 per game is the first in team history, and in every 8 games, Qiansheng is the best player of the game, and he is a well-deserved thigh of the Three Lions.
After returning to China, Qiansheng's superhuman performance in the European Cup made his popularity soar like a rocket, attracting countless businessmen to wave banknotes to sponsor Qiansheng.
Due to the age of Qiansheng and the heavy tasks of the new season, David Beckham, who became Qiansheng's personal business developer, "troubled" most of the commercial contracts, and only chose a limited number of merchants.
They know that at this stage, allowing Qiansheng to accept a large number of commercial endorsements will not only kill chickens and eggs, but also make Qiansheng disgusted, so their reasonable planning can make Qiansheng feel at ease to hand over his portrait rights to them.
Qiansheng was not dazzled by the honor of a big push, after the baptism of the European Cup, tasted the taste of losing, Qiansheng knew that he was not strong enough, otherwise he would not have lost.
After a short break, he threw himself into Arsenal's summer preparations.
The European Championship ended after Portugal defeated the host France team in extra time, broke out a big upset, won the championship for the first time, and won its first international competition, and the transfer battle in the summer window became more and more intense.
Although Arsenal announced a series of shocking transfer lists at the end of the season, David Dunn, who has a lot of money in his hands and is good at negotiations, has returned to lead the transfer; Although Mino Raiola patted his chest with confidence and promised to bring all his players.
However, apart from Paulo Pogba, who was still considering whether to leave Italy and return to England, the players under the Italian fat man have slapped him in the face very swollen and swollen.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic finally politely rejected Qiansheng and Raiola, on the grounds that there is no room for two tigers, Arsenal's forward core is Qiansheng, and the core of the midfield is German bread feeding master Mesut Ozil, and more importantly, Ibrahimovic wants to compete with Qiansheng on the pitch, and is unwilling to deign to go to Arsenal to be a substitute for Qiansheng, the Swede's strong self-esteem and unwillingness to eat Arsenal's back-to-back grass (in the nineties of the last century, he almost joined Arsenal and wore the No. 9 shirt, but because he refused to try, So Arsenal regretted the loss of this great Zlatan).
Under the call of the Premier League giant, Manchester United's new coach Jose Mourinho, Ibrahimovic joined the Red Devils, and afterwards, called Qiansheng and said: "Little monster, see you on the pitch." ”
Henrik Mkhitaryan, the best midfielder in the Bundesliga last season, ended up at Manchester United for more than €40 million, and the Armenian reasoned that he was unwilling to substitute Mesut Ozil, even if Gunners boss Arsène Wenger personally guaranteed his place in the main team.
"It seems that the charm of this birdman is not small." Qiansheng scrubbed his chin, squinted at Raiola, who was sweating profusely and looked embarrassed, and said jokingly: "I heard that there is a big black man, and that birdman also wants it." ”
Romelu Lukaku, a Belgian centre-forward, performed well at the European Championship and scored a goal against England, and Qiansheng has a good impression of him.
After his excellent performance in the European Championship, Mourinho wanted him, but this "little monster" seems to have been obsessed with the things that he did not pay attention to when he was at Chelsea, and he is not worried about leaving home, it is said that Real Madrid and Barcelona in La Liga, Juventus in Serie A and other giants are interested in him.
Raiola hurriedly said: "Don't worry, Romelu told me that he will never go to Manchester United. ”
Qiansheng raised his eyebrows: "Don't come to Arsenal either?" ”
Raiola snorted for a long time, scratched his head embarrassedly, and said, "He wants to go to other leagues." ”
"Now that the team is so rich, why can't it buy people?" Qiansheng sighed, and when he came back, he learned that Arsenal's current transfer situation is not ideal, and most of the players on the transfer list announced at the press conference did not come.
Only before the start of the European Championship did he sign Granit Xhaka, the captain of the Swiss national team, becoming Arsenal's first transfer this summer.
The Swiss back is worth 38.25 million pounds, and its technical characteristics and performance in the European Championship prove that it is worth the money, and Wenger is also glad that he bought it before the European Cup, otherwise, with the wonderful performance of his fellow countryman in the European Cup, I am afraid that more than 30 million pounds will not be able to buy.
Most recently he has lobbied his international team-mate, Wolfsburg's main left-back Ricardo Rodriguez to Arsenal.
After all, Kieran Gibbs has become a glass man, and the team's main player, Nacho Monreal, is getting older, and Arsenal desperately need a strong left-back like him.
With Rodriguez's interest in Arsenal and Arsene Wenger guaranteeing his place in the regular line-up, the Swiss national team's first-choice left-back looks very promising to join.
It's not all bad news, as Bruno Sardin, the agent of Napoli's main centre-back Kalidou Koulibaly, finally got the tough Napoli president and joined Arsenal for £30 million to sign a five-year contract, the second signing of the summer for Arsenal.
Mario Balotelli, who wants to change his mind and start over, promised a salary cut in order to join Arsenal, and with the arrival of negotiator Dunn, he finally brought the former Italian international to the Emirates Stadium for a bargain of 10 million pounds, becoming the third signing this summer.
Arsenal are also chasing French ace midfielder Paul Pogba, who is rumoured to be the summer champion, and Riyad Mahrez of Leicester City, Arsenal's Player of the Season of the Year in the Premier League last season, new champions Leicester City.
Juventus have put a staggering £120 million price tag on Pogba and clearly do not want to sell the talented midfielder, but Arsenal have said they want to offset some of the offer with the player, and if the deal goes through, it could be the transfer bid of the summer.
In order to win the Premier League's best player who can play in multiple positions up front, Arsenal have made a £42 million offer for Leicester City, which has made the Foxes quite excited, and the two sides are likely to continue negotiations in the coming period.
Keeping the team's lineup stable is conducive to the acceleration of tactical run-in to a certain extent, but some players who are unwilling to sit on the bench most of the time have to choose to leave in order to have more opportunities to play.
It is a happy worry for a manager to have three strong goalkeepers in a team's first team, especially since all three goalkeepers are still in their playing years and need consistent playing opportunities.
Last season, the Gunners' main goalkeeper was Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech, who was 34 years old but remained in very consistent form.
The second goalkeeper, David Ospina, the main player of the Colombian national team, has not played many times, but he has also performed very well, and the youngest Polish international Wojciech Szczesny, who has performed well in the European Championship, has performed very well during his loan spell at Roma and has been firmly in the main team.
With Cech in form, he could still play for another two or three years, so the Colombian and Pole are hoping to leave the team this summer, and they are not worried about going off the shelf anyway.
Among them, Turkish giants Fenerbahce are very interested in Ospina, while Roma are also hoping to sign the young Szczesny.
It is unlikely that Arsenal will let go of two quality goalkeepers at once, especially the second, and once Cech is injured, there will be no one to step up.
But Ospina is not willing to sit back and wait for this "opportunity" to get into the position by injury, let alone the academy goalkeeper Szczesny that Arsenal has cultivated with great difficulty.
Therefore, if these two goalkeepers leave, Arsenal will need to look for a quality backup goalkeeper in the transfer market, among them, Spanish goalkeeper Diego López, who is a year older than Cech, is a good choice for Arsenal.
Others, on the other hand, will be decided based on the performance of the summer warm-up matches.
The Gunners, who are known for their ability to develop young players and give them a chance to play, still have a strong influence when it comes to attracting homegrown goblins.
England Under-21 centre-back Rob Holding has moved to Arsenal from Bolton Wanderers for a bargain of £2.5 million.
His team-mate, 19-year-old Ben Chiwell, Leicester's talented left-back, has rejected Leicester's offer to keep him and sought a move to Arsenal and Liverpool, with the Foxes rumoured to have made an offer of £10 million.
17-year-old Reece Oxford, a West Ham United goblin, is another homegrown talent who broke the all-time record for playing last season.
Young, coupled with the hukou book, this talented defender nicknamed "Oxford brother" was concerned by giants such as Manchester United, Manchester City and Arsenal, and West Ham United gave him a price tag of 18 million pounds, which shows the gold of England's hukou book.
In addition to the turnover in terms of players, there have also been some changes to Arsenal's coaching staff.
Thanks to Josepp Guardiola's gracious invitation, Mikel Arteta eventually opted to join Manchester City's coaching staff.
In Arsenal's echelon, Thierry Henry left the Arsenal Youth Academy due to his reluctance to give up his high-paying commentator job at Sky Sports, and in this regard, Qiansheng said that although his mentor left, he would continue to support himself and Arsenal. And with Henry's love for Arsenal, he will come back sooner or later.
With the end of the European Cup and the Copa America, in addition to some players who need to take a vacation, most of the Arsenal players, especially the newly transferred players, came to the Kearney training base to report at the specified time, and Arsenal also began preparations for the new season.
According to the plan, Arsenal will travel to the north of France on July 22 to face Ligue 2 side Lens after training at A.T. Kearney for the first game of the new season.
Arsenal will then travel to the United States for warm-up matches against the Major League Soccer Stars (28 July) and Guadalajara (31 July).
The club will then travel to Northern Europe for the final two pre-season matches against Vikings (6 August) and Manchester City (8 August).
Arsenal then returned home for the first game of the Premier League season five days later, at home to a red-and-blood Reds Liverpool.
With some of the players involved in the European Championships and Copa America, Arsene Wenger granted them a leave of absence until early August, allowing them to regroup in Norway until 3 August.
Although the Beckhams regret that they can't go to the United States to expand his influence, but fortunately, he is young and has a long future, and now he needs to help the team win the championship and prove that he is different from the short-lived meteors of the little demons in the past.
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There have been jokes about the four major illusions of world football on the Internet: England is strong, Italy is weak, Argentina can win the championship, and the Chinese team is easy to sign.
On July 23, when Arsenal drew 1-1 with Ligue 2 side Lens in the first game of the warm-up match, the cadres who trained at the Kearney base learned about the new coach of the England national team from the visiting Martin Taylor.
The day before, on July 22, England officially announced that former Sunderland coach and local coach Sam Allardyce officially took charge of the England national team, with an annual salary of 3 million, and the goal was the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Looking at the sweaty Qiansheng who had just returned from training, Taylor sighed in his heart: This is the real genius. Most of the international players who participated in the European Championship are on vacation, and Qiansheng has been training since he returned.
This kid can have so many honors, it is definitely not a flash in the pan, compared to the current young geniuses, the diligence and sweat of the dry are far more than them.
"Sam Allardyce?" Qiansheng silently read it a few times, shook his head, didn't know it, and didn't understand. You just need to do your duty.
"Dry, I'm here to tell you the news, but I also want to know what you think." Taylor hesitated, then said. (To be continued.) )