June 17 is the second day after the match between England and Trinidad and Tobago, the whole world is watching the matches of Argentina, the Netherlands and Spain, the second match of the England team is already in the past, the past is the past, the World Cup matches are one after another, the discussion about one game is only one day, except for England's own media, other media rarely care about the past games.

But before a lot of the games were played, the world's media turned their attention to England, no, it should be said to their players.

Zhang Tiehan

Associated with his name is not his outstanding performance at the World Cup, but the announcement on Chelsea's official website - Chelsea Football Club has agreed with Zhang Tiehan on the contract, and Zhang Tiehan has officially become a Chelsea player.

The news is a bit outdated.

But when the news was released, everyone knew what it meant, Zhang Tiehan's transfer lasted for a long time, because the funds involved in his transfer were too huge, and more than 100 million euros was not to be said, which involved all aspects of the problem, and it was quite fast to be completely completed within a month.

The two clubs have already agreed.

Now Zhang Tiehan and Chelsea have agreed on the contract, and then the transfer is really completed, that is, Zhang Tiehan will be a member of Chelsea from now on.

He really moved to Chelsea!

Even if you are mentally prepared, it is still surprising to think about this result, Zhang Tiehan and Chelsea have a lot of 'have to say' stories, Abramovich wanted to get Zhang Tiehan as early as two years ago, and as a result, a series of reasons led to two failed transfers in two years, and now it is the third time. For this reason, Mourinho left Chelsea, and Zhang Tiehan finally came to Chelsea, but now his value is completely different, he has risen from 15 million euros to more than 100 million euros today, although the value has increased by about eight times. There are not many in the professional football circle, and some players can increase their value dozens of times in a season, but think about Zhang Tiehan, who was originally worth 15 million euros, an eightfold increase in two years, and his value has reached the peak of world football.

His transfer made a record in football.

The media is more concerned about Zhang Tiehan's salary at Chelsea, Chelsea's official did not announce the specific content of the contract, but the media are absolutely powerful. The general content of the contract was unearthed by the media that afternoon, and it was the "Sun" newspaper that announced the news, and they immediately published a feature article on the official website to explain Zhang Tiehan's contract with Chelsea.

With an after-tax salary of £9 million a year, a five-year contract with a salary increase of 25 per cent per annum, and Chelsea have a 40 per cent share of all commercial sponsorship contracts for the next five years.

The content of this contract is enough to shock many people's eyes.

The 40 per cent share of all commercial sponsorship contracts means that Chelsea own 40 per cent of the image rights of Zhang Tiehan. However, the commercial endorsements on him before were not counted, in fact. The two sides have been wrestling on this issue for a long time, but Chelsea's willingness to pay a high salary will inevitably require a portion of the image rights, which is understandable, and a commercial sponsorship contract for the next five years. It is also the bottom line of the negotiation between the two sides.

But Chelsea's salary is so high that it's impossible to refuse.

A five-year contract, an annual salary of nine million pounds after tax, and an annual salary increase of twenty-five per cent, that is. As long as Zhang Tiehan plays for Chelsea for five years, he can get more than 72 million pounds in salary alone, not including all kinds of bonuses, if Lin Lin is all together, he will definitely get more than 80 million pounds, an average of 1,600 pounds a year.

You know, it's after tax!

According to the British tax rate, the tax rate for high-income people is about 40 percent, which means that Chelsea spends more than 26 million pounds a year just to support Zhang Tiehan, and in the face of such a huge salary, 40 percent of the image rights are nothing.

But in terms of Zhang Tiehan's current fame, 40% of the portrait rights are worth at least 5 million pounds, this assessment has no definite value, but if the normal commercial operation is concerned, the gap will not be too big, that is to say, Chelsea can use Zhang Tiehan's commercial sponsorship to make up for some salary expenses, but it will not be much, overall, Chelsea still shelled out a large amount of pounds to pay for Zhang Tiehan's salary.

This contract will guarantee Zhang Tiehan an average of 300,000 pounds a week.

Such a huge salary income can also ensure that Zhang Tiehan takes root in Chelsea, because no club in the world except Real Madrid has the strength to afford Zhang Tiehan's salary.

Player transfer contracts are a big problem.

If a professional player moves from one club to another, then his original contract is extended, and if the new club wants to sign the player, he must come up with a salary that is at least not lower than the previous contract, otherwise the player will not need to transfer - he might as well refuse to transfer, then the original club will have to continue to provide him with a salary.

Therefore, with the guarantee of this five-year contract, even if any club is interested in Zhang Tiehan, they can afford the transfer fee, and it is difficult to afford the salary.

After the "Sun" broke the news of Zhang Tiehan's salary contract, it compared this contract with the world's high-income stars, the only one that can be compared with Zhang Tiehan's income is Beckham, Beckham is the highest salary of professional players, and it does not just refer to the salary, in fact, his salary in Real Madrid is only half of Zhang Tiehan's, but Beckham has a commercial sponsorship contract of $40 million per year, of which Real Madrid will take 30%, even so, Beckham's annual income of more than $30 million is still guaranteed, and his income is even higher than that of Zhang Tiehan.

Except for David Beckham, there are almost no professional players who can compare with Zhang Tiehan.

Now he is the world's highest-paid professional footballer and the second-highest-paid professional footballer, and the Sun has also conducted a series of analyses on Zhang Tiehan's commercial sponsorship, although Zhang Tiehan is actually far from Beckham in public. But because his performance has always been very good, The Sun assesses that if Zhang Tiehan can stabilize his current performance in the next five years, then his commercial sponsorship income will soon catch up with his salary income, and in five years, he will create a benefit worth more than 160 million.

Such a huge amount of income. It's completely comparable to Beckham.

Of course, those are the future, and now the media is talking about Zhang Tiehan's contract with Chelsea, this contract is a little amazing, before Chelsea gave Ballack the contract is enough for the German captain to become the world's No. 1 salary, and it didn't take long for the world's No. 1 to become the world's No. 2, for which many people can only sigh that the current professional football circle is definitely a money circle. You really can't play without money.

A player like Zhang Tiehan, even if it is a lot of football giants, it is really a luxury to have him.

At this time, Zhang Tiehan took advantage of a day's vacation to travel around Munich with Lola, they were with the Beckham family, and they went out to play together during the holiday, Zhang Tiehan and Lola are considered to be the 'landlords' of Munich, Zhang Tiehan grew up in this city since he was a child. Lola had studied at the University of Munich, and the two were familiar with Munich. They took the Beckham family on a relaxing excursion together.

Even after some careful dressing, Zhang Tiehan and Beckham were still wearing hats and sunglasses, but as soon as they went out, they were quickly recognized, and they met many fans and media on the way. It didn't affect them too much, and the reporters were also stopped by Zhang Tiehan's refusal to interview.

Beckham smiled, "Zhang, I really envy you sometimes, you actually said that to that reporter." ”

"It's time to rest. It's okay to take pictures if you want, but it's too much trouble to interview, and I don't want to have to face those annoying reporters on my days off. Zhang Tiehan said.

Victoria has a lot of different opinions on this.

This woman is simply born for interviews, she generally does not refuse media interviews, as long as the appearance rate is high, she can always be famous, she has always done this, she knows how to get the public to pay attention to you, she also asks of Beckham, now Beckham can become a heartthrob, so famous in the world, and Victoria is inseparable from this woman.

Zhang Tiehan doesn't care, he wants to be more famous and popular with fans, but if he is like Beckham every day, in short, put on his best state and make his life very boring, he is unwilling.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Zhang Tiehan also checked the progress of his studies in Lower Brooklyn.

He has handed over the Brooklyn boxing method, Brooklyn has not slacked off on what Zhang Tiehan taught, this set of boxing methods is very tiger and tiger in the eyes of outsiders, he can already play very smoothly, but Zhang Tiehan knows better than anyone that most of those movements are bluffing, and have no practical effect at all, he cut off the movements that may cause harm to the body, and it is precisely these actions that can play a role.

Zhang Tiehan naturally wouldn't let Brooklyn learn these moves, it's not a gateway opinion, his great-grandfather learned hard boxing all his life, and as a result, he learned to make his body into a dark injury, and his old Zhang family's special strong genes are like this, not to mention Brooklyn, the genes of the Beckham family are not very strong.

If you want to practice 'qi' by relying on this set of hard qigong alone, it is estimated that you can only do it with your own body

After a day of shopping in Munich with the Beckhams, they returned to the team's hotel in the evening, and the next day everyone was ready to go back to training.

The two rounds of the World Cup group stage have passed, and England in Group B have won two games and become the third team to qualify early, while they face Sweden in the third.

However, before the match against Sweden, the media in England focused on the shapes and problems that England had to face.

The main thing is Eriksen's employment problem.

England's match against Trinidad and Tobago was broadcast live on British TV stations BBC, ITV and SKYSPORTS, and when England opened with Trinidad and Tobago playing the same drums, and even a little disadvantaged, ITV guest Venables couldn't help but say, "It's definitely a bad start!" I think the most important problem is with Christian Eriksen, who has turned Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard into almost rubbish, and he has not solved the problem of their position to this day. ”

Another guest, Manchester City coach Pierce, said: "I didn't fight in terms of speed, did I take a nap? The players didn't seem to have woken up yet, and they had to be too gentlemanly to shoot. ”

And BBC commentator Dawson said: "Erikson is too conservative. The tactics are too simple, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard are a big problem, and if one of them can play well, it won't be like that now, not just in attack, but also in defending England. ”

It's not just the narrator or the guests. After the game, an England fan who was interviewed said, "I find that we always play against Germany to see who plays more ugly, and now the only thing I want to watch is Zhang, and the other stars are not playing well." ”

Some fans also said, "Today's England team started not very reassuringly, and I'm worried about Germany and Ecuador, both of which are not easy to mess with." ”

Speaking after the game, Veners said: "England won the game by a big margin today. But the credit is all Zhang, Gerrard, Lampard and even Beckham did not play, Owen who played in the second half did not show anything at all, Eriksen's main problem is still too conservative, and he must solve the problem of Gerrard and Lampard, neither of them played, it is better to let one person play, otherwise face Germany. England are going to have a tough game. ”

Although there were quite a few people who criticized England's game, England played two games. Two 3-pointers, England haven't had a smooth start to the World Cup final week since 1982.

"We are clearly better than last Saturday (a narrow 1-0 win over Paraguay)." Eriksen spoke to the media and praised the team.

David Beckham also said in an interview that "we're getting better and better," but everybody. Both the England players and captain David Beckham have to face the fact that "of course it's not our best game, we're favourites. I saw yesterday that we were only odds better than Brazil and we still have Zhang, who has scored four goals in two games, but the rest of us haven't played too well and the win has made our prospects very positive, but we have to think about what to do against the big teams. ”

The England captain's comments were supported by former national team coach Vinables, who felt the gains outweighed the shortcomings in Thursday's game: "First of all, we got the victories we needed against the likes of Paraguay and Trinidad and Tobago, and the team started to learn to use their speed to attack their opponents and create chances. ”

However, Venables also pointed out that the team's parallel 442 tactics are currently severely limiting Gerrard and Frank Lampard's contribution to the attack, and the most appropriate solution is to reduce a midfielder and put a defensive midfielder behind the "two Germans", such as Tottenham's young midfielder Michael Carrick.

It is not known whether Eriksen will listen to Jian Yì to try this formation, but what people see is that the Swedes have started Frank Lampard and Gerrard together again and again, and Gerrard has two goals in the two games, but Lampard has no way to play, and the media evaluation believes that Gerrard's goal is still the result of his tacit cooperation with Zhang Tiehan, of course, this is also an advantage, but no one can deny that in addition to goals, Gerrard is not better than Lampard.

Sweden's narrow 1-0 win over Paraguay on Thursday night means England may not be able to finish top of the group right now, but they can finish second in Group A in the first knockout round as long as they don't lose to Sweden in the final group game.

Considering that the top half of Group A is still in a pending position, England immediately denied that they would "pick opponents" in the match against Sweden for the sake of the team's image.

"Do I want to touch Germany or Ecuador? I don't know, but we'll do everything we can to beat Sweden," Joe Cole said in an interview.

But it must be said that this is a big problem.

No team wants to meet an opponent like Germany in the round of 16, and the England team is naturally the same, most players and coaches do not want to meet the German team, and only a few players such as Zhang Tiehan want to meet the German team, and he also thinks the same as Hargreaves, who plays for Bayern Munich, and he thinks it will be interesting to meet teammates from many clubs in the World Cup.

Zhang Tiehan would love to play against the German team because he had wanted to join the German team before, but Klinsmann may have been a bit racist and he always turned himself away from the German team.

He wants to play against Klinsmann's team and beat them when the time comes, that's really interesting.

He had always thought so.

Now that the opportunity has come, Zhang Tiehan hopes that the top 16 will meet Germany. "If I had to pick an opponent, I would definitely choose Germany, it would be interesting to play against a strong team, and it would be interesting to knock out the hosts," says Zhang.

But his neighbors and friends in Munich certainly don't see it that way, he grew up in Munich. So Zhang Tiehan immediately stopped talking, after all, he has German nationality, and in the eyes of Europeans, he is a German, which is really a bit of a 'traitor' suspicion.

Of course, this is what the Chinese say, the Europeans actually don't see it that way, since Zhang Tiehan joined the England team, he is a player of the England team. The German team only represents German football, not the whole of Germany, and Europeans do not associate teams with countries.

There's no denying it. Fans who care about Group A and Group B are concerned about the rankings of the two groups, whether it is Germany or England, they will care about the collision of the top 16.

Judging from the current points, England has 6 points and Sweden has 4 points, and basically one foot has entered the round of 16. Trinidad and Tobago, with one point, still have a theoretical chance of qualifying, while Paraguay is determined to have no hope of qualifying.

The final round of the group stage. The battle between England and Sweden will be crucial: if England win, they will have nine points, Sweden will have to look at the situation in another game, and if the team wins and wins enough goal difference, it is still possible to squeeze Sweden out; If England draw with Sweden, then no matter what the outcome of the other match is, England and Sweden will finish first and second in the group respectively; If Sweden beats England. Sweden will then come from behind to win the group, with England second.

From the above analysis, it can be seen that England will definitely qualify regardless of win, draw or lose, the difference is only a matter of ranking; For Eriksen and his fellow Swedes, the draw seemed like a happy outcome. But due to the situation of the other group. It's not as simple as that – if Germany fail to beat Ecuador in the third round, the hosts will finish second in the group, making Group B top spot a hot potato, as most people don't want to face the hosts too early in a tournament like this.

If, then, Germany finish second in the group after two games, the Group B finale in a few hours is likely to play out in a rather complicated way.

For England, what they hope most now is for the Germans to win against Ecuador.

That would at least save them from the embarrassment of 'unsportsmanship' and they would only need one point against the Swedes to finish top of Group B against Ecuador in the round of 16 – the Germans don't want to face England and the English don't want to face the hosts early.

However, once the Germans are held to a draw or even beaten by Ecuador, then the problem is left to England boss Christian Eriksen, which is a big problem. Against the Swedes, who have not won for years, will England go all out to win, or will they deliberately lose to their opponents and choose an ideal opponent for their knockout rounds?

To choose the former would be to put yourself in a situation of pinching the Germans, while to choose the latter would be a scandal at the World Cup, and the media around the world would ruthlessly sneer at the English in the most pungent language.

In response, Eriksen even asked the whole team not to talk about it before the game.

There is only Zhang Tiehan in the whole team who doesn't care at all, he even wants to meet the German team, if the German team is staggered this time, I'm afraid there will probably be no chance in this World Cup, it is not easy for the England team to enter the final, even if he has some lack of confidence in the team, he himself is very good, but the whole team is other people's Zhang Tiehan does not want to comment, such a team will definitely be a difficult game when it meets a strong team.

The best-case outcome is for Germany to beat Ecuador to top Group A, and the next game will be easy, with England and Sweden both going all out to win to qualify for the top spot.

In fact, in this regard, the German team is also embarrassing.

The Germans never imagined that while they had won both games, Ecuador, a small South American country, would have six points, and even two more goals difference than Germany, which would only be able to top the group after winning the competition.

While Sweden could win against England, Beckenbauer has also made it clear: "We don't want to meet England in the quarter-finals!" ”

However, for the Germans, who are the hosts, they will certainly not accept the result of second place in the group, and they will have to go all out to win the group.

The question for the Germans now is whether they can win against Ecuador, who are in excellent form.

The German media also expressed concern about the prospects of the final group stage match of the German team, and the "Bild" even believed, "It will not be easy to beat Ecuador, they are a very mature team, solid defensively, and very dangerous in attack, their midfield will cause a lot of problems for the German team's back line, unless the German team can play as well as against Poland, it will not be easy to beat Ecuador." ”

The focus of Qiē was on the match between Germany and Ecuador.

This is not only the battle for the top spot in Group A, but also Group B, and even more fans are watching, in addition to Ecuadorian fans, fans all over the world hope that the German team can beat Ecuador, then the Germans are happy, and the English can breathe a sigh of relief. (To be continued......)