No. [015]: The warm-up match of the new season is coming
The news of Dongfang Chen's joining the Arsenal team has been noisy, and the whole world knows the news.
At this time, the people of Nike really couldn't sit still, they really didn't expect that in just one month, Dongfang Chen's identity has changed greatly, and now Dongfang Chen is no longer the players of the small team Birmingham, but the players of the giant Arsenal team.
The instantaneous change in Dongfang Chen's identity also thought that Dongfang Chen's worth would rise, and the endorsement fee would also rise significantly.
At this time, Nike finally knew why Dongfangchen was so calm not long ago, it turned out that they had this hand.
Dongfang Chen joined the Arsenal club, his influence will definitely become bigger, and the people of Nike believe that Dongfang Chen's influence will become greater and greater in the future, at this time, he must sign Dongfang Chen, and he can't let Adidas take the lead.
Therefore, Nike's John Bruce had to get in touch with Dongfang Chen's agent Gao Qi again, and they discussed Dongfang Chen's endorsement of Nike.
This time, the initiative is completely on Dongfang Chen's side, and John Bruce has no way.
This time, Dongfang Chen still attended but he did not join in the negotiations, and this qiē was handed over to his agent Gao Qi to negotiate, and he believed in his agent Gao Qi.
Previously, Dongfang Chen offered a contract of two million in the first year, four million in the second year, and five million euros in the third year, for a total of 11 million in three years.
At that time, John Bruce directly refused, he did not think that Dongfang Chen was worthy of such a big contract.
But now John Bruce has to think about it, after all, Dongfang Chen now has a vast Chinese market behind him, and he also has the Arsenal team as a backing.
However, John Bruce still did not agree to this condition, and John Bruce and Gao Qi began heated negotiations.
In the end, Dongfang Chen and Nike reached an agreement, and Dongfang Chen officially signed a contract with Nike, with a contract of 2 million euros in the first year, 4 million euros in the second year, and 4 million euros in the third year, for a total of 10 million euros for three years.
This contract is also very good, Dongfang Chen and the two signed this contract after thinking about it. Seeing Dongfang Chen sign this contract, John Bruce was relieved.
John Bruce immediately stretched out his right hand to Dongfang Chen and said, "Dongfang Chen, welcome to join the Nike family." ”
Dongfang Chen also stretched out his right hand and said: "I am very happy to cooperate with Nike, and it is my honor to be able to join Nike." ”
John Bruce revealed the content of his work to Dongfang Chen and left, flying back to Nike's headquarters to report the good news to the headquarters.
It didn't take long for Nike to press a press conference in Zhao County, announcing that Dongfang Chen was the endorsement of Nike, which immediately caused a sensation, and many eyes focused on Dongfang Chen.
Now it seems that a superstar is rising.
In addition to these trivial matters, Dongfang Chen has been training with the Arsenal team, after these days of contact, the players of the Arsenal team have basically accepted Dongfang Chen, Dongfang Chen is really good, they have become a mix.
Seeing such a situation, Arsène Wenger is naturally very happy, Dongfang Chen can integrate into the Arsenal team, this is the best news.
At this time, the official website of the Arsenal team was updated with new news, that is, the Arsenal team brought in French defender Koscielny from the Lorient team in Ligue 1.
The Arsenal team has not only strengthened the forward line but also strengthened the back line, and it can be seen that the Arsenal team is really ambitious this season.
And at this time, Arsenal's first warm-up game before the season began, and their opponent was Barnett.
Yes, it's Team Barnett!
In recent years, Arsenal and Nate have reached an agreement that the two teams will play a pre-season warm-up match at Barnett's home stadium at Yamashita Stadium before the start of the season each year.
Barnett is an English League Two team in north-west London. Founded in 1888, it is also translated as the Ban Train Team. They finished 21st in League Two last season. Barnett's record in the last 6 games is 1 win, 0 draws, 5 losses, scoring 3 goals and conceding 10 goals. Barnett has won just 1 of his last 7 matches.
Barnett's team is not strong, and this game is equivalent to a game for the Arsenal team to find form and build confidence.
Barnett's strength is not strong, the Arsenal team did not line up their strongest lineup, and Dongfang Chen did not appear in the starting list.
In this game, many Arsenal fans went to the away stadium to watch this game, they just wanted to see Dongfang Chen's watch and Dongfang Chen's state.
However, now Dongfang Chen has not been fully integrated into the team's tactical system, so Arsène Wenger did not put Dongfang Chen in the starting lineup. Dongfang Chen sat on the bench and waited for the opportunity.
The fans of the Arsenal team who came from afar are calling for Dongfang Chen to play, and they can't wait to see Dongfang Chen play.
After the start of the game, the Arsenal team clearly dominated the initiative on the field, Barnett did not have many chances, and the Arsenal team had a lot of chances, but the Arsenal team did not take the opportunity, and the game was tied 0-0 at work.
After the start of the second half, Dongfang Chen still did not play and sat on the bench. Ten minutes after the second half, Dongfang Chen came on.
Dongfang Chen brought good luck to the Arsenal team as soon as he played, and his long-range shot blasted Barnett's goal open, helping the Arsenal team take the lead, which made the Arsenal fans on the scene excited.
Later, Dongfangchen's partner Van Persie received a cross from Cesc Fabregas, turned and volleyed, and finally Arsenal won 2-0 against Barnett.
Dongfang Chen played this game for a short time, but his table was very good, and he scored as soon as he got on the field, which made the Arsenal fans very satisfied, and they firmly believed that Dongfang Chen would bring great help to the Arsenal team, and the Arsenal team would be very strong in the new season.
Arsenal fans have a lot of confidence in the new season and they are confident that Arsenal can achieve good results.
At this time, the Arsenal team left England and began to set off for the pre-match warm-up matches. In the next warm-up game, Arsenal's opponent is the Graz Storm.
This time Arsenal are ready to leave England to prepare for the new season abroad, and their first game is Austria.
Graz Storm are not very strong, but they have been regulars in European competitions in recent years, participating in UEFA Europa League matches.
This game is still good for the Arsenal team, and they can experience the European battlefield as much as possible, after all, Arsenal have the task of the Champions League this season.
Dongfang Chen is a player who has proven himself in the Premier League, but Dongfang Chen has not participated in European competitions, this is the only worry of Arsenal fans about Dongfang Chen now, they are afraid that Dongfang Chen will not be able to adapt to European competition, so this season Arsenal team will be hanging.
However, Dongfang Chen is very confident in this, he said in an interview with media reporters: "European competition and the Premier League are the same, they are ordinary football matches, I don't think that changing the name of the game will affect my performance or state, I am very confident in the European competition." ”
Arsenal's match against Graz Storm was regarded by Arsenal fans as a test of Dongfangchen's game.
However, in this game, Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger still did not let Dongfang Chen start, but let Dongfang Chen sit on the bench and continue to wait for the opportunity.
The Arsenal team is much stronger than the Graz Storm team, and at the beginning of the game, the Arsenal team naturally took the initiative of the team and began to besiege the Graz Storm team, but the strength of the Graz Storm is stronger than Barnett's.
Now the Arsenal team has not found the form at all, so the Arsenal team is scoreless in the game, which makes Wenger's brows furrowed, it seems that the preparation of the Arsenal team is not good, and the state of the players must be played as much as possible.
In the first half, Arsenal created a lot of chances, but they were unable to take advantage of them, but allowed the Graz Storm team to break the deadlock on the pitch with a quick counterattack before the end of the first half, and the home team Graz Storm took the lead.
This made the players of the Arsenal team unexpected, and Dongfang Chen also did not expect it, it seems that the luck of the Arsenal team today is not very good.
In the second half of the game, Dongfang Chen was ordered to be replaced in danger.
After Dongfang Chen was substituted, his appearance was very active, very good, the players of Graz Storm were a little unable to prevent Dongfang Chen, and gave Dongfang Chen a lot of opportunities.
However, Dongfang Chen didn't seem to wear shooting boots in this game, and his shots were always off the mark and didn't score. However, the Arsenal team still relied on Dongfang Chen's assist to equalize the score, 1-1.
However, towards the end of the game, the Graz Storm team made another surprise attack and Arsenal goalkeeper Szczesny made a mistake to allow a lucky goal.
In the end, Arsenal lost in Austria to the Graz Storm, who had not been favored by anyone before. In this game, Dongfang Chen's table is not bad, he is very active, and he is the best group of players in the Arsenal team.
However, Dongfang Chen did not score today, only sent an assist. It seems that Dongfang Chen is still a little unfamiliar with the Arsenal team, and the fans of the Arsenal team still have to give Dongfang Chen more time.
However, at this time, there are voices from the outside world that question Dongfang Chen, they think that Dongfang Chen is definitely not a very good performance in the European competition, he can't even take a team like Graz Storm, what else is he going to play in the Champions League?
Fortunately, such a voice is not loud, after all, Dongfang Chen has only arrived in the Arsenal team, and he now has such a table is actually very good, and if you give Dongfang Chen a little more time, Dongfang Chen will already have a better appearance, and the fans of the Arsenal team are very convinced of this.
Dongfang Chen didn't take these things to heart, he was still preparing according to his own requirements. Joining a new team does need to be run-in, of course, Dongfang Chen also knows that his current state is not adjusted to the best, as long as he adjusts his state well, he will have a better appearance.