Chapter 862: Medal of Honor and Bronze Statue of a Real Person
The new season is a long way to go for Valencia, but Iello has successfully helped his teammates to pull away the hatred points, and I believe that the results of the new season will definitely not be bad......
Valencia and Chelsea had negotiated a transfer agreement for Elloh, and the two sides will play a friendly at Stamford Bridge before the start of the new season, in which Ello will play half a half game for each team, and now this time has been set, Chelsea's first league game of the new season is on August 16, at home to West Bromwich Albion, and the warm-up match is scheduled for the evening of the 12th.
Chelsea's two warm-up games in Germany before the season were in excellent form, beating Hamburg 3-1 on 2 August and then narrowly beating Borussia Dortmund 1-0 on 6.
Scolari, who has just taken over the reins of Chelsea, has even shouted the slogan that he will win the Premier League title in the new season.
Therefore, Scolari is quite concerned about Chelsea's final warm-up game against Valencia before the start of the new season, the level of the two teams in the Bundesliga is very good, but there is still a gap compared to the strong Chelsea squad, which means that the two warm-up games in Germany are not fully able to test the overall level of the team.
Valencia are different, they are crazy in the summer transfer window......
It is worth mentioning that Zhang Linpeng gave up his summer vacation and came to Chelsea in advance to report, Scolari was quite surprised by this, plus Zhang Linpeng's five games in the World Cup made him memorable, able to attack and defend well, and even covered up the light of Schalke 04 right king Hao Junmin, so the Chelsea management decisively gave up continuing to loan Zhang Linpeng, thus becoming a very important star of hope for Scolari.
It's just that the first warm-up game of the new season is not important for Ancelotti, he mainly wants to check the form of a few fringe players and young players, and if the table is good, he can continue to stay in the team, otherwise he will go out on loan to train or sell to slim down the team.
The main players are: Cesar Azpilicueta, Jordi Alba, Isco, James Rodriguez, Feghouli, Xavi Martinez, Benatia, Schneiderlin, etc......
In addition, Carlo Ancelotti is hoping that the team's hierarchy can bring in a high-quality midfielder, and with Baraja's retirement, Albelda, Albiol and Javi Martinez have all given him a feeling of inreliability.
And the attacking midfield is quite bloated, and it is urgent to slim down.
Elo, David Villa and David Silva are sure to occupy the three main positions in the front, so indirectly squeezing the playing time of the midfielders, coupled with the introduction of Cazorla, who has excellent dribbling and organizational skills, so Ancelotti made it clear that last season's main striker Mata will not be able to guarantee the main position, but there will be a main substitute.
Mata instantly felt that his future in Valencia was uncertain, but he didn't want to leave Valencia lightly, and he knew that with the return of Elo, there would be no shortage of titles......
Three seasons in Valencia allowed him to get acquainted with the place, where his family and girlfriend settled.
If you have to adapt again once you go to a new club, and the Premier League pays a lot of attention to physical contact between players, it will be difficult to adapt to his small body, so ...... He began to hesitate at a critical moment.
The clubs that have expressed interest in Mata are mainly Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid, but Real Madrid's chances of buying it are very low, because Valencia, who are not short of money, will not sell Mata to them, so the Valencia hierarchy prefers to trade him to the Premier League.
The closest to Juan Mata is undoubtedly the deep-pocketed Manchester City and Chelsea, both clubs have ample financial guarantees, but after Manchester City's failed bid to buy David Silva, manager Mancini became interested in Mata who had the idea of leaving, and directly offered 45 million euros, and general manager Carboni was quite satisfied with the price.
It's just that...... The parties are still wavering.
After negotiating with Carlo Ancelotti, Carboni decided to halt the transfer first and see how the warm-up schedule before the new season went.
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The entire Valencia squad arrived at London Heathrow International Airport at 3pm on the 11th, where thousands of Chelsea fans welcomed Arlo back to London.
Of course...... At this time, there were also a number of Chelsea fans holding up banners and slogans insulting Eiro, who saw Elo's departure as a betrayal of the great Blues, and the words he said on his return to Mestalla left them deeply heartbroken and dissatisfied.
The reporters who came to the airport took a wild shot at Iro, knowing that there would be no shortage of best-selling stories tomorrow.
That evening, Iello met Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich at an upscale café in London.
The two were like old friends reunited after a long absence, chatting about Chelsea's past glory and hopes for the future, and Iroh could easily hear Abramovich's reluctance to give him up, and in the words of the Times report, Chelsea without Iroh is equal to no championship guarantee.
What does Abramovich invest a lot of money in every season?
Not for the sake of honor?
When a person is used to having trophies every season, then he feels extremely uncomfortable when he loses these things, and this is the case with Abramovich now......
But he is a man of his word, saying that only one season is one season, but people are not as good as heaven, and the 2009-2010 season was smooth sailing, but who would have thought that the sudden appearance of a serious injury would allow Iroh to directly reimburse the entire season?
The next day, the London media reported either that Iroh had returned to Stamford Bridge to play or that Iroh and Abramovich had a good conversation at a fancy London café last night.
As Valencia's Spain international is due to return in three days' time, the squad at Stamford Bridge will be dominated by newcomers.
In the afternoon, the warm-up match held a press conference at Stamford Bridge, attended by both managers, captains and Elloh.
The focus of everyone's attention was naturally on Iroh, and he sat in the middle of the press conference.
Both Scolari and John Terry have praised Eiro, especially Terry, who has been with him for three seasons and is more convincing than Scolari's understanding of him, saying: "The loss of such a top team-mate is a huge loss for our team and I feel very sad at the same time, but I understand this choice very well and he is like I will never leave ......Chelsea".
Sitting in the middle, Ilo turned his head to Terry and frowned and said: "Thank you John for your understanding, if you have the opportunity to meet Chelsea in the Champions League, I will repay you, you know......"
The scene immediately erupted in a burst of good-natured laughter.
In this case, Terry was naturally not far behind, and pretended to be ruthless: "I won't let you succeed!" ”
With this 'performance' of Iello and Terry, the atmosphere of the press conference was very good, and when it was the turn of the new Chelsea manager Scolari, he did not take the initiative to mention Iello as the reporter meant, but expressed that he would lead Chelsea to the top of the championship again in the new season!
And the next warm-up win will also belong to Chelsea.
Thereupon...... The press conference in a good atmosphere at the scene had a faint smell of gunpowder under Scolari's interference.
Fortunately, the press officer reacted quickly and quickly returned to the topic.
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Chelsea's friendly against Valencia at Stamford Bridge takes place at 7pm local time in London, which is 3am GMT, but there are plenty of Chinese fans tuning in as there will be three Chinese players – Elo, Zhang Linpeng and Wang Xiaolei – on the line.
"There will be a rare scene in the friendly match at Stamford Bridge this morning, according to the pre-match disclosure between the two sides, Ailo is playing for Chelsea in the first half, and the second half is playing for the new club Valencia, it can be said that this game is full of highlights, in addition to the focus of Aillo, with the World Cup during the emergence of the young player Zhang Linpeng is also worthy of our attention, he will be very entertaining in the first half with Ailo......
CCTV connected to the signal from Stamford Bridge an hour before the start of the game, and the on-site commentator Zhan Jun spoke eloquently.
Stamford Bridge was already packed at this time, with Blues fans in blue shirts dominating the stadium and countless fans welcoming Iello back to the game, with slogans, banners and huge posters.
'The love that die-hard Chelsea fans have for Iello is very deep, from his arrival at Chelsea three years ago to his return to Valencia, he has brought countless accolades to the Blues, and from the summer of 2007 to the eve of 2010 was their happiest moment, but there is no such thing as a feast in the world......
Time passed quickly, and both sides returned to the dressing room in accordance with international practice, and the next thing was for the players of both sides to stand in the tunnel of the players.
As the players from both sides walked out of the tunnel with Webb, the players automatically lined up in two rows, and the live radio sounded the inflamed voice of announcer Bill Chapman: "Now...... One of the greatest stars in Chelsea history—"
"- Ai!"
At the same time, more than 40,000 Chelsea fans erupted in chanting.
Then Ello stood up from the Chelsea queue and waved to the Blues fans in the stands on all sides of the stadium, before receiving the Chelsea Medal of Honour from the club's CEO, John Kenyan.
But it wasn't that was the highlight of the game, but Kenyon's words: "Ai has left Chelsea, but I believe his future will be closely linked to Chelsea...... With the unanimous agreement of our top management, it has been decided to ...... before the start of the new season Build a life-size bronze statue of Ai at Stamford Bridge Square!! ”