Chapter 564: The Replacement of Big Giroud

In the other warm-up game, Arsenal were held to a 1-1 draw. The opposition is also from London, but this time the team is much higher than Wimbledon, they are from Crystal Palace, one of the Premier League's lifts.

Due to the successful relegation last season, Crystal Palace remained in the Premier League this season.

It was a boring game and Arsenal had no bright spots to speak of. Although Li Zihan played, key players such as Ozil and Sanchez did not start. The chances were made by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla and Theo Walcott, who had just returned from injury.

It's just that Little Tiger's injury has not healed, and after only 20 minutes of play in the first half, he was replaced by Wilshere.

Arsene Wenger was still scouting the players in this game, and unlike the previous games, it was clear that there were a lot of opportunities for young players in this game. These include Academy graduates Joel Campbell, Bellerin and Coquelin.

Their table was decent, but not particularly good, so Wenger gradually began to make substitutions in the second half.

And Arsenal's goal, Li Zihan took the ball in front of the court to disrupt the Crystal Palace defense, and then swept the ball to the front of the middle penalty area, and the follow-up Pogba fired a furious shot to equalize the score for the team.

Judging by this scoreline, Arsenal's table is not satisfactory. Of course, it is impossible for everyone to really take this friendly game seriously, after all, Arsenal did not take the main team seriously from the beginning.

After the game, Arsene Wenger announced that youngster striker Joel Campbell and academy midfielder Coquelin had joined Crystal Palace on a season-round loan.

This kind of loan transfer is not very noticeable, after all, they are young people who need to be trained. Especially after the rotation of the two strikers Li Zihan and Giroud and even winger Sanchez in the striker, Joel Campbell does not have many opportunities to stay in the Arsenal first team, and there is also a 92-year-old high school striker Sanogo as a spare tire, so he naturally hopes to be able to go out on loan and practice more.

In the midfield position, Arsenal only has two or three starting positions depending on the lineup and tactics, which are occupied by the main force of Pogba, Lars Bender and Ramsey. Unless someone has an injury or a particularly bad look, but that is not very likely. Because Wilshere can also play in this position, as well as Diaby, who is already recovering from injury soon. So Coquelin's choice is not surprising, and everyone can understand it.

That's not the point, the point is that Arsenal's French striker Olivier Giroud was injured in a training session after Joel Campbell signed a loan deal with Crystal Palace just the following day.

According to the team doctor's prediction, the injury could be recuperated for a month and a half. So here's the problem, now that the season is about to begin, Yiqiē has entered an intense preparation stage, and at this time Arsenal's main center forward has been injured. At the same time, Joel Campbell has officially joined Crystal Palace, so who will temporarily replace Giroud in this position?

Although there is no problem with Li Zihan in this position, he can play as a center forward (shadow forward) or two wingers as well as a forward midfielder. But it's impossible to get him to play all the games, right? This is an overdraft and squeeze on his young body, so when encountering unimportant games such as the League Cup and some bottom teams in the league, Li Zihan will have a chance to rest.

And Giroud is a tactical centre-forward role at Arsenal, without which Arsenal's tactics would be one less one.

So someone has to fill this position, the French youngster who joined on a free basis last season, high school striker Sanogo? That's obviously unrealistic, it's okay as a substitute, but to replace Giroud, he really doesn't have enough to see, and Sanogo also got some appearances last season, but the final performance was not satisfactory.

Fans even exclaimed: "No wonder they joined the team for free"

So in this position, the team has to bring in reinforcements.

Arsene Wenger has set his sights on Manchester United youngster striker Welbeck, and after owning Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie and loan Falcao and ninety-five-year-old Wilco, Welbeck's position is awkward, as Dutchman Louis van Gaal believes more in his fellow Dutchman Robin van Persie, and then Tiger Falcao, who has spent a lot of money on loan.

Then it was Welbeck's turn and the youngster Wilson, but Wilson played very well in the friendlies, with goals and assists, and he even replaced Van Persie in three consecutive warm-up games.

So Welbeck himself is definitely looking for a move, whether on a permanent transfer or on loan, and United will certainly want to get rid of the youngster who has no place in tactics.

Arsene Wenger's second target is Chelsea striker Fernando Torres, and with the additions of Didier Drogba and Diego Costa, Torres, who needs more appearances, is naturally out of place at Chelsea and has to be relegated to the bench. That's something Torres doesn't want to do, and Chelsea are more than willing to throw Torres into the 'baggage' of high wages and then use the money to bring in a Diego Costa replacement, Remy. Because Drogba certainly doesn't play much at his age, he is more of a coach. At this time, Chelsea were going to be found a spare tire by Diego Costa, and Torres was out of the question, so Remy became a better choice.

But given Torres' salary and age, as well as his current form, Wenger shook his head and began to re-screen his targets.

It didn't take long for the media to break the news that Arsenal were about to bring in another signing. Of course, everyone guessed that after Giroud's injury, Arsenal will definitely have to make adjustments. Either it's a tactical adjustment, or it's a search for a replacement.

Tactically unrealistic, because Arsene Wenger has spent so much pre-season refining and deployment, it is impossible to knock out all of them at once, so he has to bring in reinforcements.

According to speculation and clues from the London Post and the Manchester Post, they suggest it is likely to be Manchester United's homegrown black striker Welbeck, and then Chelsea's Fernando Torres.

Many times the media reports are not all rumors, and some are still indicative, such as this one

It didn't take long for Arsene Wenger to send an email to Manchester United asking for Welbeck. But the Red Devils Manchester United for a sworn enemy like Arsenal, of course, has the idea of digging a hole if it can't, and digging a hole to make people a hole if it can't.

So Van Gaal directly replied to the fixed price, and 20 million pounds could take away the "Black Shell"!

Wenger is naturally scoffed at such a price, and Manchester United sees that Arsenal has spent a lot of money on reinforcements this season, which is like coming up and knocking on the mallet.

But the business is done, and if you ask for a price, I will pay it back on the spot. Arsene Wenger discounted it in half and paid back a price of 10 million pounds.

Arsene Wenger doesn't plan to spend too much money on Giroud's role as a substitute, because after Giroud's injury is healed and he is back in form, he will definitely still be the main centre-forward, so if this substitute is expensive, it will not be cost-effective for Arsenal. Arsene Wenger's idea was between £1,000 and £13 million, with a maximum of £15 million.

Of course, this is for players who have a Premier League account book, that is, players who have been trained by England's own academy. As for players from outside England, Arsene Wenger thinks a kill would be enough for £10 million.

10 million pounds Manchester United will definitely not do it, especially if the opponent is Arsenal, if it is Tottenham, maybe 13 million Manchester United will do it.

Louis van Gaal rejected Arsenal's requisition outright, and then when Arsenal raised their offer to £12 million, they immediately returned £18 million.

It can be seen that Manchester United is not not selling Welbeck, but it is not going to sell cheaply.

The two sides began to bargain.

When transfer talks began to stall, Arsene Wenger took a break. At this time, Arsenal had already offered a price of 15 million pounds, and Wenger came to see if Manchester United would take the initiative to reduce the price, and secondly, he began to make other preparations.

Arsene Wenger prepared for the worst, starting to have his aides sift through other suitable targets before starting to prepare for the game himself.

As last season's FA Cup winners, Arsenal are heading for a traditional tournament before the season – the English Community Shield!

Also known as the England Charity Cup, a charity match is played about a week before the start of the league each season, and all proceeds are used for charity.

The competition is a match between last season's league winners and the FA Cup winners, and if both titles are the same team, then the FA Cup runners-up will go to the side.

Last season's FA Cup was won by Arsenal and the league was won by Manchester City, so this year's Community Shield is Manchester City's strong dialogue against Arsenal. These are also the two favourites to win the Premier League this season.

Before the game, Arsene Wenger also announced his starting lineup for Manchester City, and everyone paid special attention to this, because although this game is also a warm-up game, it can generally be seen from the lineup of this game that the team's main lineup this season can be seen.

The goalkeeper is still Szczesny, although Ospina is good in the friendly match, but it is still worse than Szczesny, mainly because of the run-in problem with the team.

The centre-back partnership has changed, with Merdessat paired with his German countryman Hwedes, and the centre-back partnership should work well together. There is no Koscielny in this position, who was the main player in the warm-up games last season and before, which surprised everyone.

Then on the wing-back side was Gibbs and new signing Chambers, with Southampton's Academy youngster joining Arsenal to replace the vacancy vacant that Sonia had left.