Chapter 563: The Final Friendly Match

There are a few European sports media that are not very reliable in their reports, and generally everyone just looks at the news of these companies as gossip. The Sun is one of them.

Not long after the "Sun", the "London Post" published an article saying: "The Premier League giants, last season's Champions League champion Arsenal have been infinitely close to the talented French midfielder Pogba, according to this newspaper, Juventus and Arsenal have reached a preliminary agreement, and now it is only a matter of the player's personal wishes." According to speculation, if there are no problems with both clubs, the transfer will be finalized. ”

Considering that Arsenal's manager is the French coach Arsene Wenger, and now Arsenal's talented goalscorer Li Zihan is Pogba's former teammate and very good friend. So Pogba should have no problem with his personal wishes, provided that Arsenal FC can't be too harsh on salary. ”

As soon as everyone saw the news, they thought that the "London Post" was also listening to the wind or the rain was making a fool of themselves.

But on 26 July, the official club of Arsenal officially announced the official transfer of Paul Pogba to Arsenal.

Arsenal did not announce the transfer fee, only saying that the team's veteran Flamini was part of the deal. Flamini moved to Arsenal from AC Milan for a season and returned to Italian football.

As soon as the news came out, everyone was shocked. Because there are too many competitive giants around Pogba's transfers, including the Western Super League giants Real Madrid and Barcelona, the French League breakout Paris Saint-Germain, the Premier League's Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea and even the Bundesliga giant Bayern Munich, Manchester United may not be the most competitive giants this season.

But among these teams, Arsenal actually grabbed this talented midfielder. Everyone sighed, "Those who win Li Zihan will win the world!" "After having Li Zihan, Arsenal's sponsorship income has doubled, and at the same time, in terms of competitive factors, they have also ended eight years without a championship and won the historic FA Cup, and also made Zào team history to win the Champions League.

And now, because of Li Zihan, the young midfielder who has been in the limelight in the past two years is also joining Arsenal

When the news was officially confirmed by Juventus, Bianconeri fans said they couldn't accept it. Last season, the club sold the very talented Li Zihan, and in the end, Li Zihan's cousin at Arsenal also gave Juventus a resounding slap in the face. Now this season he has started to sell Pogba again, although Pogba is black and has received a lot of racism in Italian football, but in these two seasons he has used his watch to conquer the fans of Juventus's racists, just like Li Zihan before.

So who will the club sell next season? Vidal? Marchisio? Bonucci? Or Asamoah or Lishsteiner?

At this time, the fans showed up at the club's headquarters building, they raised flags and slogans to protest against the club's "blood selling", and at the same time they wanted the general manager Giuseppe Marotta to resign because he sold two Juventus futures in a row!!

Pogba will move to Arsenal, no spoilers, everyone speculates that this is definitely related to Li Zihan. Then many die-hard Juventus fans who were not calm came to Li Zihan's personal online social account to leave a message, of course, the content must be unsightly

Li Zihan said on his social account that every player has the right to choose his own future, and Serie A itself is not conducive to the development of young players, which is already a problem that Italian football has to face.

Li Zihan explained a little, and didn't pay much attention to it, after all, this is the practice of a small number of irrational fans.

Because the new season is coming soon, Pogba immediately went to London to participate in a medical examination after signing the contract between the two parties, and immediately flew to Spain to participate in the training camp after attending the signing ceremony after the medical examination.

At this time, Arsene Wenger officially announced that Arsenal's transfer window for this season was completely closed, and only young players would be loaned after that.

Counting Arsenal's investment in the transfer market this season, everyone was taken aback. Because Arsenal has now invested almost 150 million euros in net investment, which is a new record in the history of the Arsenal team. At the same time, it has also become one of the clubs with the largest net investment of any team.

Don't look at Real Madrid and Barcelona spending so much on signings, but considering the sale of Di Maria, Cesc Fabregas and Alexis Sanchez, they don't really have much net investment in the transfer market.

For Chelsea, although they brought in Cesc Fabregas, Diego Silva and Felipe Luiz, they sold David Luiz for more than 50 million euros alone.

Before the time came to August, Arsenal closed the transfer window. However, Arsenal's first-team squad has changed almost halfway at the moment.

After closing the transfer window, the team's preparations have also entered the final moments. At this time, several main players of the German national team also ended their vacations and started their new season.

Mesut Ozil, Medsatt and the Germans of Russ Bender and Hevedes have been in training camp for less than a week. The club ended its training camp and began to play friendly matches in the new season.

In Spain, Arsenal played a friendly match against local team Real Mallorca in La Liga and La Liga newcomer Elva, and Arsenal won 2-0.

There was nothing noteworthy about the game, with Arsenal dominating the game. The two teams couldn't fight back, and in the end Arsenal stopped attacking after scoring the second goal, and they started to pass more together. It is worth mentioning that none of the new players who have been in the team for a short time have been given starts. Mesut Ozil, Paul Pogba, Hevedes were included, as well as Medsat and Lars Bender, who were only substituted in the second half.

When the Spanish media took these photos, they said that perhaps it will take a long time for these players to get their starting positions, because the training time with the team is too short, and Wenger will definitely trust the players who have worked well with him before.

After a training camp in Spain, the Arsenal squad returned to London from Madrid Airport on the last night of July.

When he arrived in London, Wenger first gave the team a day off, after all, after half a month of closed training in Spain, these players were already a little tired. Now let them relax and reunite with their families. It's just that Arsene Wenger still warned the players not to go too far, and the director is not in good shape on the training ground, otherwise there will be many players to take his place in the future.

Don't you dare to be Wenger's words, first of all, there are so many new players this season, and the team's squad still needs to be run-in. At this time, whoever cooperates with the team the best will have the most opportunities. And Arsenal's youth team has also had a number of young players promoted, such as Bellerin, Joel Campbell and Coquelin.

So now the competition within the Arsenal team is getting tougher.

After a day's rest, Arsene Wenger led the team back to the grass at A.T. Kearney training base and the lawn at the Emirates Stadium to get the players used to the grass where they were about to start playing. Of course, this part is mainly for the new players, and the veteran players are all too familiar with it.

Arsenal then played two friendlies on their home side in London, one against AFC Wimbledon Athletic, a team from the English Second Division, who won 3-1. What shocked Li Zihan was the striker at Wimbledon, not because he scored, but because of his body. can be said to be a giant, Li Zihan thought he was practicing wrestling and sumo, but he didn't expect that the other party was still a center

Li Zihan visually estimated that the opponent should have exceeded 150 kilograms, and in the game, the central defender Koscielny, who did not have the physical advantage, was very uncomfortable by the opponent, and the opponent's only goal was scored from Koscielny.

The other centre-back is the 'black and hard' Cameroonian centre-back Nicolas Nkouru, so the opponent will have to focus on Koscielny, who weighs only 76 kilograms.

In the second half, Arsene Wenger was replaced by the experienced and better physical former Schalke 04 captain, Hevedes.

Sure enough, in the second half of the confrontation, Hevedes was not as wolf as Koscielny, and even with the help of his German midfield teammate Lars Bender, the opponent's "Big Mac" center forward did not take advantage of the confrontation at all.

Then Arsene Wenger made another substitution, with Paul Pogba coming on for Aaron Ramsey, Mesut Ozil for Wilshere and Cazorla coming on for Olivier Giroud. The front field became Giroud as the central striker, Li Zihan went to the left to play the left winger, Ozil was in the middle, and the intellectual winger Sanchez was on the right

The two midfielders were new signing Russ Bender and talented French midfielder Paul Pogba, with Hevedes partnering Nkouru at the back, and two full-backs Arsene Wenger also making changes. Monreal replaced Gibbs, and Chambers, a new Arsenal player from Southampton, was replaced by Arsenal Academy youngster Bellerin, with no changes in goalkeeper.

However, the goalkeeper who started this game was not Szczesny, but the new Colombian goalkeeper Ospina

Although the opponent is not a heavyweight team, there are not many people who came to the Kings Ranch (Wimbledon home stadium) to watch the game, and most of them are Wimbledon home fans. There are also scouts from Arsenal's rival clubs, such as Chelsea, Manchester United and Tottenham

The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, foreigners also understand this truth, they are here to inspect Arsenal's run-in and tactical situation in the new season