Chelsea went through a change of manager this summer, with manager Jose Mourinho leaving his post and a long time to find a replacement for the Portuguese, so the transfer was all done by the head of youth and athletic operations.

Perhaps due to the influence of Russian politics, Abramovich also became afraid to invest too much in Chelsea Club, and Chelsea went from spending a lot of money to being calculating.

The Blues have spent £89.05 million, £56.1 million and £86.32 million on summer transfers over the past three years, but have only spent £13.5 million so far this year, at one point only signing free agents.

Signs of that shift were evident in last season's winter transfers, both as a reason for Roman Abramovich's monetary crunching, and as Mourinho helped Chelsea gradually improve his squad over the course of two years, as The Times commented, "Chelsea's squad is almost irreplaceable." ”

Chelsea's summer signings are still mainly to enhance the depth of the squad, and last season's large-scale injuries made the team 'eat a trench and grow a wisdom', so they introduced new players to thicken the depth of the bench - Ben Haim, Pizarro, Sidwell, are all difficult to enter the main squad for a while, but they are all good additions to their respective positions.

Israeli defender Ben Haim can play in four positions in the defence, especially at centre-back, and he can get on in time if Terry or Carvalho have problems; Pizarro offers a new option for the center forward position, his characteristics are comprehensive, and the Peruvian's adaptability is a problem; Sidwell is a pillar of Reading's backstop and many believe he will be an insurance policy for Chelsea's midfield.

The only one who spent a transfer fee on Malouda was brought in, and the Frenchman is also the most likely new signing to hit the main position. The introduction of Malouda also complements the absence of Arjen Robben's departure, giving Chelsea hope that they will continue to follow Mourinho's tactical thinking. Let Chelsea's 'winger tactics' continue.

From Chelsea's transfer, The Sun believes that "although Mourinho did not help Chelsea win a league title, his three years in charge of Chelsea still had a big impact on the team. ”

Chelsea's biggest problem is also here, and the summer preparations were even led by Jose Mourinho's assistant coach, his 'junior brother' Villas-Boas.

After a steady stream of not finding a suitable manager. Peter must have stepped up with Roman Abramovich to straighten out Israeli Afran Grant, who is head of football, and let him take over as Chelsea manager.

Afran Grant is not well known in European football. But he became manager very early.

In 1974, at the age of 19, after Avran Grant won the Israeli Youth League in charge of Petah's youth team, he was promoted to senior coach by Petah FC, rewriting the record for the youngest adult team manager in Israel.

1990-1991 season. Grant led the team to a runner-up finish in the league. Thus got the opportunity to coach Maccabi Tel Aviv,

In Tel Aviv, Grant led the team to the Israeli league title in his first season with a 13-point lead.

In 2000, he took over the position of head coach of Maccabi Haifa, Tel Aviv's sworn enemy.

In two years, Grant won two league titles, winning the 2002 Toto Cup.

After Grant left for the national team managership, Maccabi Haifa became the first Israeli team to reach the group stage of the Champions League in the 2002-2003 season.

In 2002, at the age of 46, Grant was promoted to head coach of the Israeli national team, making him the youngest head coach in the country's history. He was also the most successful manager, leading a young and inexperienced Israeli team to an unbeaten run in the 2006 World Cup qualifiers. After France and Switzerland, they only finished in Germany for the World Cup.

It was only then that Grant officially stepped out of Israel and moved to England to become head of football at Portsmouth, where he played alongside manager Harry Redknapp for a successful season.

Looking back on Afran Grant's coaching career, it is actually somewhat 'tragic', he became the head coach of a professional club at the age of 20, and then for more than 20 years, he failed to step out of Israeli soil, came down from the Israeli coach's position, and came to England to break through, Grant also failed to get a coaching position, and could only serve as a football department director, which is almost equivalent to the position of assistant coach.

Then in May this year, Grant left Portsmouth to take up the role of head of football at Chelsea.

Perhaps even he didn't expect that this choice would allow him to complete a big leap in his career as a professional coach - after the departure of Chelsea manager Avran Grant manager Jose Mourinho, Chelsea could not find a suitable candidate for the manager's position, and as a result, Grant was 'strong' to take the position.

Grant has a lot of joy in his heart, although everyone knows that he can only be regarded as Chelsea's 'interim manager', but with this resume, as long as he can lead the team to good results, then it is easy for him to find other opportunities to coach in the top flight in the future.

However, with opportunity comes pressure.

Chelsea head coach is by no means able to be anyone, first of all, Grant has to face two problems, one is the authority of the team, there are many big-name stars in Chelsea, they don't trust Grant's coaching ability at all, so Grant has no authority at all.

For example, the team's striker Drogba, after Mourinho's departure, Drogba has been clamoring to leave, how much time he has at Stamford Bridge, and even became a hot topic in major European bookmakers, just after the tenth round of the Premier League, Chelsea vice-captain Frank Lampard told the media that Chelsea will do their best to keep the monster, for the simple reason that he is the world's top scorer.

In the 10th round of the league, Didier Drogba scored Chelsea's winning goal over Middlesbrough and was the second goal in two games since Drogba returned from injury.

That would have been a good thing, but Drogba has repeatedly stressed that he wants to leave Stamford Bridge because Jose Mourinho's departure has made the team ineffective, but as a team-mate, Lampard wants Drogba to change his mind.

'Didier is one of the best strikers in the world, he's the best striker I've ever seen. Frank Lampard declared: "There are many types of strikers in the Premier League, like Wayne Rooney at Manchester United, who usually uses his strong body to score goals, and Manchester City's Fernando Torres, who usually uses technique to score, but Drogba combines technique, physicality, and speed, and I think he's the best striker in the Premier League." ”

'You can spot him anywhere on the pitch, whether it's movement, power, assists, he can do it, he can head over his feet, he can do anything.

'He's the best striker in the Premier League at the moment, he's the spiritual leader in the dressing room, he's never given up on a game, and there's no one in football who can always be as motivated to win as he is,'

'Didier Drogba's stay at Stamford Bridge is vital for the club and every player in the Blues wants a team-mate like Drogba to be around.

Didier Drogba is 29 years old, but he has received interest from a number of European giants, with many media outlets believing that the Ivorian is likely to leave England at the end of the season.

AC Milan, Real Madrid, six-time Ligue 1 champion Lyon and Bayern Munich have all expressed their desire to sign the African powerhouse, and today the Italian media revealed that the latest giants who are ready to buy Warcraft - Inter Milan!

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Wan Sheng is still very concerned about the Chelsea news, because Manchester City is about to play the 11th round of league games with Chelsea, but he is very dismissive of Lampard's statement that 'Drogba is the best striker in the Premier League'.

Frank Lampard said there was nothing wrong with Rooney's physicality and Torres's technique, but where did he put other strikers, like Darren Bent?

Darren Bent, the technique is much stronger than Drogba, the body is a little inferior, but it is definitely not bad, when it comes to speed, there are really few players who run faster than Darren Bent, and the most important statistic for strikers is to score goals.

Darren Bent has scored six goals in 10 league games and one in two Champions League games, an efficiency that is definitely among the best in the Premier League, and even Drogba, who is at his most in-form, is hard to match.

Compared to Darren Bent, Drogba will hardly have any advantage.

Wan Sheng only laughed at Frank Lampard's remarks and as Manchester City's manager, he didn't have to argue with a Chelsea vice-captain.

Manchester City have two games to play before the league game with Chelsea.

One was the English League Cup, Manchester City's opponent was Derby County, and in this game Wansheng used a rotation, several main players did not play, and some substitutes, such as Ljungberg, Giovanni Moricio, Boateng and others, got their chances.

In comparison, Derby County are less likely to win, their biggest goal is to avoid relegation, the Carabao Cup does not mean much to them, in order to cope with the upcoming 11 rounds of the league, they have not even sent out the main line-up, and Bolton Reiter has not been given playing time.

As a result, Manchester City still won easily 2-0.

Two days after the League Cup, it is the Champions League group stage, Manchester City all took the train to Glasgow, three hours away is still a bit far, Manchester City set off in the morning, arrived in Glasgow at noon, rested at the arranged hotel for a noon, and in the afternoon, all the players gathered and entered the Ebrox Stadium to warm up.

In Group E of the Champions League, Glasgow Rangers are the fourth-tier team, and in terms of strength, they are the weakest in the group, but their results in the first two rounds are very good, beating Stuttgart and Lyon in a row, which is not something that ordinary teams can do, but Glasgow Rangers did it, especially in the last three-goal away win over Lyon, which made the team morale greater.

Rangers continued their strong run in the Scottish league after beating Lyon just five days after beating Scottish Premier League rivals Celtic 3-0.

This also brought their morale to a peak.

In this case, it is never a good time to play Rangers away from home. (To be continued.) )