Chapter 349: The Tragic Manchester United
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"Chelsea's 80 million pre-purchase Ronaldo Jr., Allen + Ronaldinho to create the world's No. 1 forward combination!!"
"Mr. Abramovich has repeatedly shown his affection for 'nuclear warheads', and the countdown to the Ukrainian Shepchenko's day at AC Milan has begun"
'Jose Mourinho: We need more and better midfielders, Wright Jr. suits my tactics perfectly'
Zahavi claims that Chelsea are prepared to pay £6 million a year for Leo. Rio Ferdinand"
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In the days leading up to the Chelsea match against Manchester United, Chelsea's chief executive, Peter Brown, said Chelsea chief executive. Kenyon has repeatedly appeared on the front pages of the news, and he has been constantly seducing the superstars of these big teams with his naked pounds.
These are not all smokescreens, and all clubs know that Chelsea are capable of making these transfers, so all of a sudden, European football clubs are once again terrified, fearing that the next day they will hear that their stars are linked to Chelsea.
And in these transfer rumors, it is not all pure smoke bombs, among which, according to the analysis of some media, Ronaldo Jr. and Leo Jr. Ferdinand's rumors are the most authentic surname.
Back in 2002, Mr. Abramovich was interested in bringing Brazilian Ronaldinho from Paris Saint-Saint-German to CSKA Moscow, but in the end it failed due to Ronaldo's own wishes, and now that Abramovich has a successful Chelsea side, it is likely that he will prefer Ronaldo to complement the squad.
Bringing the world footballer to Stamford Bridge ahead of the Champions League quarter-final clash between Chelsea and Barcelona would not only be an increase in Chelsea's strength, but also a serious blow to Barcelona, who could be defenseless in the game.
And Leo. Rio Ferdinand's transfer rumours are even more real.
Although there are many big players in Chelsea's backfield: John. Terry, Claude. Makelle, Ricardo. Carvalho and so on, the strength of these players is not much worse than Ferdinand, but now Carvalho and Makelele are both injured, and captain Terry is frequently suspended, which makes Mourinho even mention Smerkin to the left-back position, which shows that at least in the back line, Chelsea is also very difficult.
If Rio Ferdinand can come to Stamford Bridge, Chelsea's willingness to offer an annual salary of $6 million is indeed not a blank check.
The Times has a detailed report on the transfer, claiming that "during Leo's ban last year, Chelsea tried to buy the surname, but Manchester United rejected it. While Chelsea's defence is now solid, the Blues are said to be looking to strengthen their squad with Rio Ferdinand. More sensitively, Rio Ferdinand's agent Zahavi has a close relationship with Chelsea owner Abou, and this time, Chelsea offered an annual salary of 6 million to bring in the England No. 1 defender, which is really very impressive to Leo, who only has a weekly salary of 70,000 at Manchester United. Ferdinand. ”
"And Manchester United's current CEO Gil has been operating a policy of lowering player salaries and replacing them with income linked to appearances and performance, which has significantly reduced the income of many players. Terry, Ricardo. Carvalho, William. Gallas and Leo. What a horror it would be for Rio Ferdinand to form a backline!! ”
In the midst of this kind of vigorous reporting, Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson Sr. quickly panicked, and Rio Ferdinand's role in the United defence is unquestionable, since his return in September last year, United have conceded just eight goals in the league in the past four months, and earned 26 points in the last 10 league games.
In this case, Sir Alex Ferguson directly demanded that the club must: "fight with teeth and nails to keep the 'best defender in the world'". ”
In an interview with reporters, the old jazz said frankly: "Leo is only 25 years old, and the central defender will not reach his peak until he is 29 or 30 years old. He's 4 years away from that, so he can play another 10 years. There's no doubt that he's very calm on the pitch and can infect his team-mates with that composure, and United need him, we need him. ”
For many big-name clubs in Europe now, once an ace player is eyed by Chelsea, they are often forced to use contract extensions to keep their star players. This time, it was the same for Manchester United, who had to rely on money to "shop" their opponents when the terrifying Abramou extended his tentacles to his main defender Rio Ferdinand.
According to the Evening Standard in London, United have to consider a partnership with Rio Blah as the Chelsea side have shown strong interest. Rio Ferdinand signed an early contract extension and is ready to keep him at Old Trafford until 2010. ”
It didn't take long for Manchester United to react even more, with chief executive Gil having made initial contact with Leao about a contract extension, and he and Rio Ferdinand's agent, Zahavi, had already drafted a contract extension.
Leo. Rio Ferdinand's current salary of £70,000 a week is already among the top players in the Premier League, and Chelsea's contract for Leo is £6 million a year, so Manchester United's salary terms should not be significantly less than that.
According to the Mirror, Manchester United is ready to pay 25 million over five years, and in addition to the increase in basic salary, his performance rewards will be greatly increased. If he succeeds in renewing his contract with the club, Ferdinand may not only surpass captain Roy. Keane has a team record of £84,000 a week and is expected to get the highest £99,000 a week (more than £100,000 would be subject to a completely different income tax rate), and is tied for second place in the Premier League with Patrick Vieira, Campbell and Frank Lampard (the first is Wang).
This alone shows the magnitude of the impact of Chelsea's lavishness.
In Peter. After Kenyon's move, many big clubs immediately dispersed a lot of smoke bombs against Chelsea, at least in terms of funds, they don't want to fight with Chelsea's 'madmen', which will basically definitely hurt.
……… Of course, these are all battles off the pitch, they are battles without gunpowder, and this is also the battle of big clubs in the transfer window, which is something that needs to be considered by the club's hierarchy, and for Chelsea, the biggest problem at the moment is the game against Manchester United at Stamford Bridge.
Before this game, Wang Li, who was a continuous 'three kills' of Manchester United, immediately became the darling of the media, and in the eyes of many media, Wang Li, who has always performed eye-catching, is destined to become the protagonist of this game.
In fact, many Manchester United fans now regard Wang Li as their mortal enemy, since Wang Li participated in the Premier League, almost every game against Manchester United can score more than 2 goals, which has almost become the biggest pain for Manchester United fans.
As a world-class giant team and the dominant team in the Premier League, Manchester United has lost three games at the feet of one player, I have to say, this is really a shame, and it is no wonder that Manchester United fans regard Wang Li as their mortal enemy.
But in reality, Wang Li has now become a sworn enemy of fans of almost every Premier League team except Chelsea, because he has scored more goals than Manchester United, but also with other teams.
When England fans were asked in interviews what they were most impressed by the player, more than 90 percent of them blurted out: "Of course it's Allen, he's scoring too many goals, and if he continues to perform like this, we don't see any hope of winning." ”
And before the game, Manchester United captain Roy Brown. Keane said: "I've been playing football for over a decade, I've seen a lot of storms and waves, and I've had strikers who have been as crazy as Allen has been, but it's important to keep that efficiency high and that's the only way to be a real goalscorer, at least so far, Allen fits that perfectly. ”
Regardless of Wang's next performance, at least in a few days, Manchester United will have to face this crazy Allen at the 'tormented' Stamford Bridge stadium, which is by no means good news for them. Rooney said with a straight smile: "I hope he didn't play well that day, our defenders will try to contain his goals, and I want to really play against him. ”
It can be seen from this that Rooney is still a little unconvinced by Wang Li's current achievements, both of them were England double stars in the past, but in just half a year, the gap between the two in the hearts of fans has been so different, no wonder Rooney feels resentful.
Although they are very good friends off the field, they are definitely rivals on the field.
Of course, there are also reporters who directly interviewed Wang Li and asked him what he thinks of the next game, they have done their homework before coming, and they are full of confidence to dig out some big news in Wang Li's mouth.
'I've promised the fans three trophies and if the Carabao Cup ends here then the pressure will be a lot higher. In an interview, Wang Li spread his hands and said sincerely.
In other words, 'the Carabao Cup is the best to win, we've secured it, and Manchester United are waiting for defeat.' ’
This is indeed a bit ruthless, but since talking to the chairman, Wang Li has higher expectations for honor in his heart, he feels that he is indeed very lacking in honor in the field of football, and until now he has only just won the honor of the top scorer in the European Cup, which is really a bit miserable, so Wang Li doesn't care what the Manchester United team thinks, he is now full of championship trophies, if Stamford Bridge can't beat Manchester United, how can he talk about winning the 'quadruple crown'!?
Regarding the mentality of winning the championship, Wang Li does not have a sense of honor in the club or anything, but just wants to win the championship to add a strong color to his football career.
Now he can get honors at Chelsea, so he chooses to stay at Chelsea, if he can get honors at AC Milan, he will choose AC Milan, this is not selfish, as a professional player, honor is the same as a merit medal, as for the so-called sense of honor, his own soul is originally a Chinese, not a pure fan of such a club, how can there be that kind of thing!?
However, this time, in the face of Wang Li's provocative words, Manchester United then fell silent, except for the team's Luiz, who had just returned from injury. Aside from Saha's vowed 'shame before Stamford Bridge', there was little to no contribution.
While many Manchester journalists described the situation as 'calm before the storm', the London press dismissed it as 'unrelenting'.
For some neutral media, they are still optimistic about Chelsea, not to mention the difference in performance between the two teams this season, in terms of the current squad alone, the two teams are almost evenly matched, but Chelsea have a superplayer Wang Li, which has become an overwhelming heavyweight.
Although some players of Manchester United claim to suppress Wang Li's performance, there is no real way for them to deal with this performance, which makes many media completely disbelieve this kind of statement.
But even so, the game was a dazzling affair of Mars hitting Earth, and for all the football clubs in Europe, they certainly hope that United can end Chelsea's winning streak.
'They're so good and I hope Manchester United can win and if Chelsea do have that kind of glory, it's not a joy for most clubs.' In an interview, Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez gave his thoughts on the game: "However, I still think Chelsea will win, whether it is the format of the two teams or whatever the other factors, Chelsea have a certain advantage, but football is a game of uncertainty and of course they can lose. ”
After Benitez, various 'professionals' in English football have also expressed their opinions, and this year's 46-year-old generation of dribbling malady Stanley Matthews has directly begun to predict the score, in an interview with reporters, he claimed that he will go to Stamford Bridge to watch the game, and predicted that Manchester United will win 1-0.
However, most of the media and fans are non-committal to Stanleymatthews's statement, they don't believe that two teams with such strong attacking ability will only score one goal in 90 minutes, even if both teams are strong defensively, but Chelsea's attacking ability is real, besides, Wang Li has scored in every game since this season, if the final score is 1:0, then many fans prefer to believe that the winner is Chelsea, not Manchester United.
………… Amid this controversy, on 11 November, ahead of the clash with Chelsea, Old Trafford welcomed an amateur team.
It was an FA Cup last-64 knockout game, and Manchester United faced an amateur team, Exeter, who made it to the FA Cup last-64 this season with a little bit of strength and great luck, which is indeed a bit incredible.
Although Ferguson's squad for this amateur team is mainly youth army, but Lord Ferguson believes such a squad is enough, compared to the visiting amateur team, many of them are Manchester United fans, but they proved themselves to be the most unusual fans of Manchester United in this game, because from the beginning of the game, Exeter team has been playing against the Red Devils on Manchester United's home turf.
In just five minutes of the opening game, Exeter had the same chance to threaten the opponent's goal as Manchester United, and the subsequent game was more of a stalemate, Manchester United did not press the visitors as expected, and there were many dangers in front of their goal, especially Phil. Neville's handball in the box escaped the referee's execution, and Manchester United seem to have become the most favored by the referee in recent times, relying on the referee's help in two consecutive games to barely save the last of their underwear from being stripped off by their opponents.
The ensuing game was even more insulting to Manchester United, and in the 34th minute, Exeter's striker Steve Brown. Fleck even opened the door to Manchester United, although the old Jazz replaced Scholes, Smith and C. Ronaldo and other main players in the second half, but in the end they could only play a 1:1 score, which made Manchester United have to be embarrassed to participate in the rematch.
After the game, Exeter's striker Steve, whose main occupation was actually a bricklayer, was Exeter. Fleck said: 'Actually, I've been watching Manchester United on TV and I'm probably half a fan of them, but I was disappointed today because before the game between Manchester United and Chelsea, I have to say that if Manchester United were only that, they would have been beaten into a sieve. ”
This somewhat insulting sentence was directly said by Ferguson, who was stunned and out of breath, but there was nothing he could do.
A draw with an amateur side at Old Trafford was definitely the most tragic FA Cup game for United in 20 years.
Afterwards, manager Alex Ferguson could only apologise to the fans, claiming: "This is Manchester United's worst FA Cup game." ”
'My mind can't figure out what happened today, but I need to apologise to the United fans because the team was sorry for the way they played today. We were terrible in this game, which we haven't done in our previous weekly games. ”
In the end, hail and high winds in the north of England during the game became an excuse for Ferguson, who made no excuses, and such "excuses" were difficult to hold up because the opponents faced the same situation.
Before the big game with Chelsea, Manchester United suffered such a 'humiliating' game, which really made Manchester United fans lose much confidence in the team.
As the media bombarded Manchester United and other Premier League teams ridiculed Manchester United, on the afternoon of January 13, Manchester United's bus drove into London and into Stamford Bridge.
(To be continued)