The summer of '08 was not a very happy time for English football. In the summer of that year, English club Manchester United reached the Champions League final, but were beaten 3-0 by Parma in the final, writing a scene of shame. And in the summer of the same year, the Three Lions, the pride of the British, did not even enter the European Cup finals, they could only sit and watch the European Cup at home, and the mood was naturally not very happy.

There are no games, no championships, and even the English media's ability to dominate the world cannot pull any news out of the situation of English football this summer. In the past, no matter how bad the England team was, they dared to put on the title of the strongest in history and the inevitable champion, but this year, how can the team sitting at home boast? People are playing the European Championship over there, and they are always embarrassed to say that England is not going because they don't bother to participate, right?

It's a boring summer.

However, in this boring summer, an explosive news began to circulate in the English media on a small scale. At the beginning, not too many people dared to believe such news, but with the passage of time, more and more people began to believe the news.

"Shock: Tottenham have a new European champion coach in charge!"

"I actually photographed Li Bin renting a house in London! Tottenham is just around the corner! ”

"Li Bin is about to take charge of Tottenham, and the BIG4 model is expected to be broken!"

A flurry of news has gone from unbelievable to extremely credible, and when people are still suspecting that a Champions League-winning coach is unlikely to be in charge of the Premier League's second-rate Tottenham Hotspur, Li Bin has already appeared at Tottenham's White Hart Lane stadium and appeared with Levy to announce his arrival.

"This is the best news that the Premier League has to offer this summer!"

This news made England detonate all of a sudden. Originally, this summer was a very depressing summer, English football was ruthlessly swept away, and the media had almost nothing to do, but Li Bin's entry into Tottenham Hotspur made English football regain face all of a sudden: even a second-rate team can attract Champions League-level coaches, and English football is still charming!

We can still save face for English football!

'I'm very happy to be in charge of Tottenham, some people say Tottenham doesn't quite fit the criteria for a championship manager, but I would say that this team has a lot of potential to be tapped and I believe that in the near future, Tottenham will be very strong, and even in the new season, I think Tottenham could get a Champions League place.'

In an interview, Li Bin expressed his confidence in Tottenham and the meaning of his speech also made the media very excited. Reaching the Final Four? That is to say, there will definitely be a lag behind in the BIG4, for so many years in the Premier League, BIG4 has suppressed other teams in front, and now someone finally dares to boldly challenge BIG4, and it is also a coach who speaks with confidence like Li Bin, which naturally makes the British media excited.

It's not just the media who are happy, but the Tottenham fans and management are very happy too. In an interview, Levy said that he would fully cooperate with Li Bin's work, and Tottenham fans immediately began to make banners saying "You don't have a Champions League winning coach" to mock Arsenal.

However, what people want to know more than Tottenham's attitude is the attitude of many of England's giants. There is a person who wants to subvert the order of the Premier League, and it is natural for the teams to discuss.

The media first took the news to ask Ferguson's opinion, but all they got was Ferguson's smirk, "What does it have to do with me that he is fighting for fourth?" Manchester United have never fallen out of the top three, and it is not my turn to be anxious, so it is better to ask the teams that have fallen out of the top four recently. ”

Ferguson is right, but Liverpool seems to be the only one who has fallen out of the top four recently......

In the interview, Benitez did not mention the grievances with Li Bin, but only lightly brushed over the contradictions, "We just know each other, not about grievances." Tottenham have changed managers, I just hope that the two can work together better, in the past, Tottenham lost too much to Manchester United, which is a disservice to Liverpool, as for other things I don't care. Tottenham and our rivalry? Liverpool are title contenders and have no rivalry with Tottenham. ”

There was no emotional fluctuation in Benitez's words, and people thought that as the coach who eliminated Liverpool last season, Benitez would have expressed some emotions, but he completely ignored those contradictions. But his most calm and simple words are the most hurtful: he is not in a hurry to express his opinions, he simply treats Tottenham as air, and instead uses it to bite Manchester United, which is the most helpless.

Among several strong teams, the first to welcome Li Bin's arrival was not the coach of another team, but the sworn enemy of Tottenham, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.

In an interview, Arsene Wenger welcomed Li Bin very warmly, "Coach Li Bin is a very good coach, he is a very good person, suitable for coaching the Premier League. If he gets to the Premier League, he can make Tottenham football even more exciting. The Premier League needs such a good coach, such a coach who likes to attack, and can make Premier League football more exciting. ”

Arsene Wenger's support may seem strange, but it is also normal: before the 90s, there were very few foreign coaches in the Premier League who could stand on their feet, and Wenger was arguably the first foreign coach to establish himself in the Premier League, so he has always been a very influential figure in non-home coaches, and he will definitely have a say in this. Although Li Bin has fought with Arsenal, he has not offended Wenger, and Li Bin has always been very gentle in his words and actions, which can be regarded as Wenger's temper, so Wenger heard that Li Bin was coming, and he also expressed his welcome.

It's just that as the coach of Arsenal, welcoming the new coach of his sworn rival Tottenham Hotspur is a bit unkind. Wenger certainly didn't know that he shouldn't have spoken, but he still said this, and there was some deliberate meaning in it. His attitude also made the reporters very interested. And they soon asked Wenger a new question, "Tottenham said that they want to win the Champions League next season, if this is the case, Arsenal will become a direct competitor to Tottenham, will Arsenal be challenged by Tottenham in the next season?" ”

Wenger changed his face directly on this question, "Arsenal's goal is to win the title, Tottenham's goal is to be fourth, and we don't have a competitive relationship." I also don't think that Tottenham are qualified to pose a direct threat to Arsenal in the new season, a team cannot become a strong team overnight, and Tottenham cannot succeed in a day or two. ”

Arsene Wenger's attitude is obviously the same as Benitez's disbelief that Tottenham can rise.

Of course, at this time, the media still has one more to interview, and that is Chelsea. Most of the British media originally thought that Li Bin would join Chelsea this summer and become Chelsea's new coach: as a Champions League-level coach, a team like Chelsea is obviously more in line with his identity. However, it is clear that Li Bin did not think so, and he would rather choose the weaker, but the more powerful Tottenham Hotspur did not choose Chelsea, which is quite surprising. In the eyes of the vast majority, Chelsea's squad still has a greater advantage, at least they are now a well-prepared Champions League-caliber team, while Tottenham are far worse in comparison.

However, Chelsea were also quick to announce that they had hired Scolari as their new manager. They claim that Chelsea would prefer a flamboyant Brazilian style of football and, moreover, an experienced coach.

Scolari also announced after taking over the team that Chelsea don't need to think too much about recruitment. They are a mature team and just need a little tinkering.

"We can now understand Li Bin's choice: the so-called tinkering means not paying for it. As a Champions League winner-level coach, I definitely won't go to a team that doesn't pay for it. ”

When seeing Chelsea's recruitment plan this year, which does not exceed 10 million in total, people also began to understand Li Bin's mood: obviously he wanted to find a local tyrant, but he met Grande, and he must have been very depressed. Although Tottenham is poor, the poor who are willing to pay are better than Grande.

As for Li Bin's entry into Tottenham, Scolari only expressed some opinions, "He is a lucky man, but Tottenham beat Chelsea? This is unlikely. ”

Chelsea's reaction was not too unexpected, and they did not think they were again out of the last four, but they also decided they were in the top four.

In contrast, the only one willing to talk about the competition with Li Bin is Manchester City's new head coach Roberto Mancini, who did not shy away from talking about his past rivalry with Li Bin in Serie A in an interview, "Li Bin is one of the best coaches I have ever met, and he left a deep impression on me in Serie A. But in Serie A, because there were some bad forces manipulating the game behind the scenes, we could really only face each other for one season, and that season, I had Inter Milan to lose narrowly. If Inter had followed my advice earlier and given me more agency, maybe things would have been different. And I'm lucky that City don't have that problem right now. ”

Mancini is obviously a pragmatic person, as a person who has been repeatedly deflated by Li Bin, he did not have too many excuses, but directly found the most intuitive reason - people are not good. Therefore, his words also derived a confession to the boss: Boss, give money, I will show you against the sky!

After the interviews were completed, people gradually discovered that although the news of Li Bin's entry into Tottenham Hotspur caused a lot of sensation, the major teams did not take Tottenham too seriously. In their opinion, even if Tottenham have the world's top coach, it is impossible to achieve anything.

"Coach Li Bin wants to lead Tottenham to rise, but it seems that he is still taking it for granted. They still don't have the strength to confront Haoqiang. ”

Most of the media also expressed such views. Where is it so easy for a team to break the pattern of the Premier League's semi-finals?

However, Li Bin was immediately interviewed again, and this time in this interview, his two sentences, detonated the whole of England.

'This summer, we're going to bring in good players from all over the world to make Tottenham stronger. In my plan, we are going to spend 100 million euros on reinforcements this year. And the first target I recruited is Adler in the Bundesliga - I want Tottenham to have the number one goalkeeper in the world in the future! ”

100 million?

Almost all the British media were shocked: what was the deal so big? Did we go to the wrong venue and come to the Manchester City venue? Or do Tottenham really want to go against the odds?