Chapter 70: Community Shield

Waiting for Levi to leave, Benjamin thought about it and called Leona anyway.

"You made up the sponsorship of Audi, right?"

"yes, how about a little gift I gave you? Do you like it? ”

That's not a small amount, but how does Benjamin feel like child's play?

"You don't have to do that......"

"Oh, what are you telling me about this, do you really think I have that much ability to influence the decision-making of Audi management?

It's because they're going to invest more in this area, and I'm just looking for an opportunity to mention it to my dad.

Besides, if you hadn't led Tottenham to the double last season, this partnership might not have worked out.

So it's because of your achievements that this partnership between Audi and Tottenham has been promoted.

Next year's Audi Cup may be able to see you play against Bayern, do you think I support Bayern or do you support Bayern? ”

Benjamin realized that he was confused, and he should have figured it out.

Such an important collaboration could not have been influenced by Leona.

Benjamin breathed a sigh of relief after thinking about it.

"Not necessarily, maybe we will meet Bayern in the Champions League this season.

If I lead the team to eliminate Bayern, don't cry! ”

"Then we'll see!"

With Kyle Norton's €8.6 million transfer to Swansea, Tottenham's squad for the new season is almost decided.

It's rare that in this year's transfer window, they didn't have a tense transfer on the last day of the transfer.

In terms of goalkeepers, one is Hugo Lloris, two are Alisson Becker and three are Friedel.

Left-backs Danny Rose and Ben Davies, right-backs Kyle Walker and Joao Cancelo.

Centre-backs Vertonghen and Alderweireld are the first choices, followed by Demichelis, Cabourg, Harry Maguire and Akanji.

Dier hasn't figured out which position to let him play for the time being, but he still tries not to play at centre-back anyway.

In midfield, Eriksen, Dembele, and Kante were the main players last season, with new signing Frank Lampard, Sandro returning from injury, and young players such as Milinkovic, Mason, and Bentaleb rotating as substitutes.

Sadio Mane, Lamela, Son Heung-min and Townsend will be four wide players who will compete fairly for the two starting positions.

Up front, Harry Kane and Bam Adebayo are the two.

Last season's Benjamin's champions embarked on a new journey with the addition of two veterans and a number of potential new stars.

Interestingly, after Tottenham lifted their appeal against Lee Probert, Alisson and Son Heung-min's labour certificates were really unimpeded.

After the first-team personnel were confirmed, everyone also chose their favorite Audi model.

It seems to have become an Audi tradition to give away cars to the teams you sponsor.

There are really a lot of models to choose from, A7, A8, Q7, and Q8 are all within the range of options.

Audi's large SUV is really popular with players, with Tottenham players choosing Q7 and Q8 the most.

Soon after the partnership was negotiated, Audi and Tottenham Hotspur issued a statement on their official website:

Today, we officially announce that Audi has reached an agreement with Tottenham Hotspur.

For the next four years, Audi will be an official partner of Tottenham!

As a premium car brand, Audi stands for advanced design and technology, as expressed in their famous slogan, breaking through technology and inspiring the future.

It's a concept that fits perfectly with Tottenham's slogan 'To dare is to do'.

Early this morning.

Brand new Audi luxury cars were parked in front of Tottenham's training base.

As soon as he arrived at the base, Benjamin saw a large group of media reporters, as well as some related personnel from Audi.

Tottenham's head of partnerships, Fran Jones, said in an interview:

"Audi is a premium brand, so we are very pleased to have Audi join the Tottenham family. We look forward to welcoming Audi to Tottenham and showcasing their products at the club."

Audi will be featured in all digital signage at Tottenham's stadiums, including LED billboards, large screens and in-stadium TVs. And of course all our digital media channels. ”

Andrew Doyle, the director of Audi UK, who was present today, said:

"This partnership has led to the union of two top brands, Audi and Tottenham.

Tottenham Hotspur legendary captain Blanche Frelle's famous 'Walk Ahead' speech illustrates what Audi does.

Our belief in the principles of design and technology further strengthens our belief that Audi and Tottenham will be a perfect combination. ”

Benjamin and Levy were also accompanied by the Audi arrival.

"In fact, with your image of Mr. Lewis, you can be the brand spokesperson of our Audi, I don't know if you are interested?"

Young, handsome and capable, and will appear in the Champions League again this season, Andrew is not touting indiscriminately, Benjamin is indeed a very suitable candidate.

Seeing that Benjamin was a little hesitant, Andrew continued:

"There are no other requirements, just cooperate with us to shoot two commercials.

We have a partnership with your club, and you have to attend some of the events anyway, so why not? ”

Benjamin thought about it carefully, and it seemed that there really was no reason to refuse.

As long as they continue to lead Tottenham to glory, there will be more and more good things like this kind of money being sent to the door.

But he couldn't just say yes so casually.

"I see, let me think again."

"Of course, by the way, this R8 is a gift for Mr. Lewis, and I hope you don't dislike it."

Benjamin was stunned, do I have a share? Didn't you tell me before?

What he was thinking about at the moment was, could the garage of his villa not stop?

……

Every year on the Sunday before the start of the Premier League season, there is always a Community Shield for fans to warm up.

The first official match of the 2014-15 season, the last game before the start of the Premier League, the English Community Shield, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City played at Wembley.

Prior to this, Tottenham had agreed with Wembley Stadium that Tottenham's home matches for the Champions League, Premier League and domestic cup competitions in the 14-15 season would be played at the national stadium.

"Do you think this is our first home game of the season?"

Benjamin was still in the mood to joke with everyone before the game, and it could be seen that they were indeed very relaxed.

The Gold Content of the Community Shield is not high, and most of the participating teams play as an ordinary warm-up match.

What's more, there is a widespread curse, "whoever wins the Community Shield loses the Premier League", and it is said that the team that wins the Community Shield will say goodbye to the Premier League title race that season.

This further reduced the interest of the participating teams in the Community Shield.

Lloris was put on the bench by Benjamin on the grounds that he was not yet in the best fit and Alisson made his first competitive appearance for Tottenham.

The other positions have maintained the main lineup from last season.

In addition to Lloris, there are players such as Frank Lampard, Son Heung-min and Demichelis on the bench.

Benjamin glanced at the bench and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Today, unlike in the past, Tottenham finally has a feeling of having a lot of soldiers.

Although it can't be compared with the real top giants, it is much better than Tottenham in the past and even Tottenham in the future.

The captain was Belgian centre-back Vertonghen, who was in his third year at Tottenham.

Benjamin appointed the captain of the Cabourg Lily Army for the season, and the Frenchman took over the captain's armband from Dawson, who has already left.

Like Dawson last season, despite being captain, Caboul is more often a rotational substitute.

The reason why the French centre-back was chosen is also very simple, apart from Adebayo's accident, Caboul is the oldest player in the Tottenham team.

Vertonghen and Frank Lampard were also named second and third captains.

Today, only Vertonghen is on the pitch, so he is naturally the captain of the pitch.

As for Manchester City, Manuel Pellegrini's side lost to Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League last season.

Referee Oliver blew the whistle and the game officially began.

Encountering the Lily Legion again, the Chilean engineer will definitely want to avenge this arrow.

Manchester City was not prepared to keep their hands today, and after the opening game, they had a fierce battle with Tottenham in midfield.

In the third minute, Keylor Navas passed the ball from the right, and Nasri's right-footed shot from inside the box was safely picked up by Alisson.

Two minutes later, Dzeko's long-range shot was blocked by Alisson to create a corner, and Nasri drove into the box and was easily picked up by Alisson.

The Manchester City boss's eyes widened, he didn't expect Tottenham's little-known young goalkeeper to be so difficult to deal with.