Chapter 347: Choice 1
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As Chelsea's victories continue to grow, the whole of England can only look forward to the rise of this new giant. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Perhaps before, as the Premier League's 'second millennium' gunner Arsenal team did not recognize Chelsea's strength, but with Arsenal's 1-1 draw with Manchester City, even Arsenal fans have to admit that at least this season, the league title is already in Chelsea's bag.
After the first shot in the FA Cup, defending Premier League champion Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger admitted in public in an interview with reporters: "Only the current leader Chelsea has a dip in form, at least a lot of mistakes in a row, Arsenal can win the title for a second time." ”
The Frenchman then reiterated: "With only 16 games left in the league, Chelsea, who have not lost this season, clearly have too much of an advantage, we are almost unreachable in terms of points, and if they are in a big slump, we will take the opportunity and do everything we can to keep up with them." ”
'Although Arsenal have picked up 10 points from their last four league games, which is already a very good result, Chelsea have won all 66 points from 22 league games, which is not comparable at all. Wenger said calmly with a somewhat gloomy face.
However, at the end of the interview, Arsene Wenger may have felt that his words were a little cowardly, so he reversed his tone and said: "We lost two points today, but we can't give up and admit that they are the new champions at this time." Football is ever-changing, and although Chelsea look hard to beat at the moment, we have to give our best in every game and that's what the strong do. ”
In fact, this is also true.
Compared with Chelsea's soaring progress, although there are occasional deficiencies in each front, they cannot be broken at all, and other teams are much different.
For example, Manchester United and Arsenal have not completely solved the goalkeeper position alone, Schmeichel and Seaman have left a huge void that no one has been able to fill, and Carroll and Almunia are too different from Cech and Thomas, and even inferior to Stamford Bridge's third goalkeeper. At the back, after the injury of Arsenal's big man Campbell, only a poor Sigan remained, and Manchester United's backline has been lacking a good partner with Ferdinand.
Despite all these differences, what makes Arsene Wenger and Ferguson jealous the most is that Chelsea have a superstar - Wang Li, a star who can turn the tide of the game of the giants, and that is a heavyweight weight!!
Perhaps not only Arsenal and Manchester United this year, but almost all European giants are jealous that Chelsea have such a player, AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti commented on Chelsea's young manager Jose Mourinho, and his words directly showed jealousy: "......... He's gone shit luck! ”
When it comes to the performance of other Chelsea players, it is also very unusual, if you play defensive counterattacks, not to mention Wang Li's strength, just the two deadly knives on the side - the cooperation of Duff and Robben, which makes people jealous, and the speed and breakthrough of these two "side crazy" always allow the team to find good opportunities.
The strength of the Blues' bench also made opponents fearful, and when Carvalho, Hut, Parker and others were injured, Jose Brown. When Mourinho shouted "disaster" in front of reporters, even the neutral media couldn't stand it, and they all picked up their pens to accuse the Portuguese of exaggerating and asked him to "learn" Liverpool's injury list.
Indeed, although Chelsea have serious injuries, they are actually very good compared to other Premier League teams, especially Liverpool, who are almost on the verge of putting together a 16-man squad.
However, although Chelsea have firmly held the league title in the palm of their hands, Manchester United and Arsenal, the former Premier League giants, still have some advantages.
Because Arsenal, which is financially stretched to build a new stadium, although it can't put 100 million idle funds on the bench like Chelsea, the team has the most powerful rookie army in the Premier League: the Youth Army League Cup away win Manchester City has impressed the whole of Europe, Sesk, Flamini, Reyes, Klichy, Hoyt, etc., these young players are no longer marginal figures.
However, the biggest problem for young people is instability, and although manager Arsene Wenger has always said that 'they will be more mature around March', it will be interesting to see if these youngsters will develop as he says they are.
In contrast to the mighty Chelsea and defending champions Arsenal, Manchester United, who have just regained third place, are more experienced.
Veteran Captain Roy. Speaking to reporters, Keane said: "We want our experience to count, we've been winning championships for the last 12 years. After walking this path too many times, you will know how amazing stress can be. As long as we keep winning, no one knows what will happen at the end of the season. ”
In fact, Manchester United have a record of 7 wins and 1 defeat in the last eight Premier League games, have already taken 22 points, and the prevailing law in the Premier League is that the Red Devils usually perform better in the second half than in the first. In 2002/03, Arsenal also led United by five points during the Christmas and New Year period, but by the end of the season, United had not only caught up with the gap, but also won the title by five points: the Reds had won 14 of their last 17 games and drawn three, grabbing 45 points.
And let's not forget that in the 1995-96 season, Manchester United miraculously rebounded from 12 points behind Newcastle, winning 13, drawing 1 and losing 15 of their last 15 games. Although they are currently nine points behind Chelsea, as the media has said: "If they win the remaining 18 rounds, they will win their ninth Premier League title." In fact, there have been many turnarounds in the Premier League: in 1998, Manchester United had a five-point lead at the top of the table, but at the end of the season, the Gunners, who were 12 points behind the Red Devils and only sixth, won the title with 14 wins and two draws.
So, if it weren't for Chelsea's strong outburst this season, United would still have a title hope.
Of course, there is no such thing......... All in all, despite the impressive performances of Arsenal and Manchester United, it was all over the box for Chelsea's league situation.
………… In the course of this vigorous competition, as the hegemon of the Premier League and the hegemon of the transfer market for two years, Chelsea's winter transfer has also been poached by many teams, which has nothing to do with the financial and financial situation of the Russian giant Abramovich, the main reason is that Chelsea's strong performance has made almost all European giants want to carve up this half-way winning team, because Chelsea's influence on them poses a great threat.
Wang Li is of course the first to bear the brunt, Real Madrid, who has always liked the 'star digging sport', Inter Milan, which is not satisfactory every season, and even Barcelona, the next opponent of the Chelsea Champions Cup, they have offered a huge price to buy Wang Li, and AC Milan is the most sincere, they even offered a price of 80 million euros for this, you must know that so far the world's most valuable player Wayne. Wayne Rooney's transfer value is only £27 million, which is definitely enough to impress many, many big clubs in the context of a general economic depression.
Of course, Roman Abramovich's Chelsea are by no means one of them.
Abramovich, who has tens of billions of assets, will sell Allen. King!!? All the fans won't believe it.
In fact, in the face of the price offered by AC Milan President Berlusconi himself, Abramovich didn't even move his eyelids, and directly refused, for this Russian predator, he still wants to spend more money to buy better players, how can he sell the star of his team, not to mention 80 million euros, even if he is given 200 million euros, he will not sell it - your star who has scored more than 50 goals in half a season is cabbage!? This is a once-in-a-century experience!!
However, Berlusconi's second condition also impressed the determined Abramovich - to help Chelsea enter the G14 league!!
This condition is indeed very attractive, if Chelsea cannot enter the G14 in the most vigorous G14 expansion year in 05, then it will be even more difficult to enter again, and it should be said that it is far away.
What does it mean to be in G14!?
This means that in the minds of many European fans, Chelsea have gone straight from being an 'upstart' to a big club – even though they have never won a league trophy in 50 years.
That's almost more than a Champions Cup title for Chelsea.
For this condition, this Russian is really very excited, but as a famous Russian oligarch, he can analyze the gains and losses of a thing very clearly, and is definitely very decisive, he knows that as long as Wang Li has been in Chelsea can have such a stable performance, then he can win more championships for Chelsea, as long as this condition is true, then what makes the difference between entering the G14 or not.
Although that organization is indeed very influential, it is more important to be a once-in-a-century superstar.
Of course, the premise of everything is that Wang Li can have a stable performance, that is, stick to the current performance, in fact, even Abramovich himself does not have this confidence, so perhaps in order to balance his psychology, he must find some confidence from others, so he called the team's coach Jose. Jose Mourinho.
"Jose, come and see this." When Mourinho walked into Abramovich's room with a puzzled look on his face, the latter got straight to the point, handing Mourinho a transfer request slip.
Mourinho took the application form suspiciously and looked at it twice, his face instantly turned from red to black, and he immediately exclaimed: "What? Boss, you want to sell Alan!? Are you crazy!? ”
After saying that, Mourinho realized that his words seemed to be a little rude, but Abramovich seemed to understand his thoughts, and did not blame him, but picked up a cigar, lit it and took a puff hard, and then faced the former's wide eyes, pointed to the application slip in his hand and said: "Keep reading." ”
Seeing Mr. Abu's calm expression, Mourinho forced the doubts in his heart and carefully read the documents in his hand.
“g14!?”
It took a long time for Mourinho to take a deep breath and shout out in some surprise. As Chelsea's head coach and having only been in charge for just over six months, the Portuguese is well aware that the most important thing for the development of Chelsea FC at the moment is to win more trophies and try to get into the G14, and the latter is more important than the former.
Originally, entering the G14 was only because of the news of the G14 expansion, and there are three places in the whole of Europe - one in Serie A, one in the Premier League, and one in La Liga, but now because the other two clubs are facing a financial crisis, which seriously drags Chelsea's feet, this year's expansion seems to be far away.
And Berlusconi, the richest man in Italy, does have this ability, with his influence in Europe, if he does his best to help, it is likely that Chelsea will be 'specially recruited', so that Chelsea's road to a giant can directly jump a class, and then become a real giant.
This is indeed a great temptation for Chelsea at the moment!!
In the face of 80 million euros + G14 chips, even Jose, as the head coach. Mourinho was a little hesitant and now he finally knew why Abu had called him to discuss a transfer for Wang.
Wang Li's strength is undoubted, as a manager, Mourinho knows very well that this is really a once-in-a-century super football talent, but even if he has performed very well this season, and even broke many Premier League and even world goal records in one fell swoop, but who knows that this performance is not a kind of shine!?
At least, he didn't dare to guarantee it.
It can be said that the idea that Galliani gave to Berlusconi directly hit Chelsea's soft underbelly in one fell swoop and found their main need, which is really ruthless.
As a result, in Abramovich's office, there is another man who can't make a choice.
………… At this time, Wang Li was on the training ground of the Chelsea first team, and his teammates were playing a simple football game, that is, three people stood in three corners, could pass the ball at will, two people kept running in the middle to grab the ball, and those who made mistakes had to replace the person who grabbed the ball in the middle.
A simple game like this is the spice for these big-name players in the boring training season, but many people enjoy it.
However, few people like to be with Wang Li, because Wang Li will hardly lose, even if he stands in the middle to grab the ball, but the almost out-of-the-box stealing ability of the 'shadow legs' makes him quickly grab the ball again.
At this time, on the court, in Wang Li's group, standing on the triangle are Frank Lampard, Wang Li, and Brigi, and in the middle of the ball are Robben and Johnson, as an offensive player, Robben is obviously not very good at grabbing the ball, so he is now tired and sweating.
The football was once again passed to Frank Lampard by Wang Li's easy oblique kick, and Robben, who grabbed the ball next to him, couldn't help but look at him with complaining eyes, and complained: "Alan, you must save your strength, you must know that you will play against Manchester United in a few days, and when the game comes, you can play again!" ”
"Hahahaha, Alkin, don't you say you're too stupid!!" Frank Lampard, who had just received the pass, couldn't help but sarcastically say.
"Otherwise, if you can grab Allen's ball, I'll treat your whole family to a big dinner!!" Robben listened harshly, and he immediately turned around and retorted.
Frank Lampard spread his hands, turned his head to flash Johnson's snatch, kicked Brigi again, and said: "But you are the one who loses now, don't try to scold me, wait until you grab the ball." ”
At this time, assistant coach Clark ran towards them, and several people thought they were going to regroup for another training, so Brigitte casually kicked the ball to Robben and ran after him.
However, Clark didn't mean to gather, he just walked up to Wang Li and said, "Allen, stop training first, Mr. Chairman wants to see you." ”
"See me!?" Hearing assistant coach Clark's words, Wang Li was stunned for a moment, and then asked suspiciously.
Wang Li was a little surprised. He has the impression that the club's president, Mr. Abramovich, is more of a marginal being, who only takes money to invest in the transfer market, and in normal times, even if there is anything, he will go to the team's head coach Jose Mourinho and CEO Petro. Kenyon deliberated that it would only be after the team had scored a very meaningful victory that the mysterious Mr. Chairman would appear in front of the players.
To Wang Li's surprise, since he joined Chelsea, he has only seen Mr. Abu after the game, and in normal times, he has basically only seen the chairman's car driving around the club, that is, except for one time at the beginning of the season, they have not seen each other separately for a long time.
So, what's going to happen this time? Wang Li said silently in confusion.
"Is it now?"
Clark smiled and said, "Right now, in that office on the top floor, Mr. Mourinho is there." ”
"Oh, okay, I'll go right away." Wang Li nodded, turned around and walked towards the outside of the court.
………… Looking at the back of Wang Li leaving, Lampard and several people looked at each other, and when they saw that assistant coach Clark also walked away, several people reacted to continue their football game, but at this time, football had arrived in Altyn. At Robben's feet.
The Dutchman had been playing for a long time, and now that he finally got the ball, he looked very proud: "Haha, it's not over yet, I grabbed the ball!! ”
"No, that's what I passed on to you." Bridget couldn't help but retort.
"But the game isn't over yet, it's your mistake, so ......"
"However, now there are only four people left, and we have to find another person to continue, and then the game will start again." 'Honest man' Frank Lampard chuckled a few times before turning around.
"Oh no, oh my God!"
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(To be continued)