Chapter 514: Buy Drogba?!
Arsenal's clash with Manchester City was the highlight of the Premier League's first half of the season.
Although it was only a 1-1 draw in the end, and there were not many goals, whether it was the tactical pull between the two sides, or Kaka's right-footed volley outside the instep from 35 meters away, or Chen Mo's one-on-two pick-and-turn volley in the penalty area in the final stage of the game, it was a very blood-pumping scene.
There was no doubt that the sports media around the world were covering the game after the game, and even Thierry Henry, a semi-retired veteran cadre, was invited to a talk show.
Normally, Henry shouldn't be in the middle of the season, and Arsene Wenger won't let Henry go to these talk shows, but to be honest, Henry's immediate power has seriously declined right now.
Against Manchester City, Thierry Henry was replaced by Arsene Wenger in the 65th minute.
I can't help it, I can't bear it.
Neither physically nor strongly, the 33-year-old Henry has been unable to gain an advantage in top-level matchups, especially in the center of the field.
A large part of the reason why this game was blocked by Manchester City was actually because Henry did not play the role of a big centre-forward.
Whether it is against the young Vincent Kompany, or against the 27-year-old Colo Toure who is in his prime, Henry cannot carry the ball with his back under the help of Manchester City's double midfield.
This is fatal.
Henry, as a big center forward, could not get the ball with his back at the top of the arc, and Chen Mo and Piggy, as well as Bale and Di Maria on the flanks, could not cut in without the ball from both sides, which directly made Arsenal's attacking option one less option.
This is also one of the reasons why Bale and Di Maria played less brilliantly in this game, and Chen Mo played a little struggling.
As for Lewandowski, who later came on as a substitute for Henry, it can be seen that he has talent, but after all, he is still too young, his skills need to be sharpened, and he has little experience in major competitions, and sometimes he will make wrong judgments because of nervousness.
The current Lewandowski is not enough to support Arsenal's forward arrows in the strong dialogue.
This is a relatively big problem exposed by Arsenal in this game, not only the players and coaches know, but also the outside sports media.
However, the interesting thing is that in the past, when there were problems with the Arsenal squad and needed to be strengthened, the news media used headlines such as "Wenger's dilemma" and "Poor Arsenal have no money to buy people", and then accompanied by Wenger's serious expression on the sidelines.
However, this time is different.
The day after the match against Manchester City, Klee stood on the cover of the world's sports media, and on either side of her, there stood the gray-headed Kroenke and the hairy oligarch.
[The Times: Kroenke? Out! Usmanov? Out! Ms. Hill, the richest woman in the United States, bought all the shares of the Arsenal Club for 1.17 billion pounds! 】
[The Telegraph: Shotguns for guns!] A carnival day for Arsenal fans! Ms Hill has announced that she will settle Arsenal's bank arrears within three months! At the same time, it will also fully meet the needs of Wenger in a series of aspects such as recruitment, youth training construction, and stadium transformation!
Manchester United have already lost to Arsenal in the first 10 years of the New World meeting, and it now looks like he may not have a good time in the remaining 10 years! It's all the same Yankees, why aren't the Glazer family people?! 】
[British Mirror: This year's winter window may be a very difficult winter for the major giants. Arsenal, who have received a large injection of funds, are very likely to strengthen the centre-forward position in the winter window, while adding depth to other positions. With money and an easier way to get honours, Arsenal's attraction to top players will be fatal.
However, for other mid-to-lower teams, this winter could be an early spring, as their players may fetch a better price. 】
[The Independent: BOOM!! Explosive news! It is reported that under the instruction of Ms. Hill, Arsenal FC made an offer of 250 million euros to Barcelona striker Messi!
Ms. Hill, Mr. Chen Mo and Leo Messi have been inseparable friends since childhood, and the media will also photograph the two families on vacation together every offseason, and she expressed her great hope that Messi and Chen Mo can play on the same team. 】
[World Sports News: Laporta said that Messi is a child of Barcelona, except for Barcelona, Messi will not go anywhere, he is not for sale! ] 】
[The Times: 250 million? 300 million! What's New! Arsenal raises offer again! 300 million offer Messi! Oh! If there really is a God, then Arsenal fans will definitely believe that God is a girl! 】
300 million offers!
If 250 million is a nuclear bomb explosion, then 300 million is a cosmic explosion!
With the latest report from The Times, the whole world was shocked!
300 million euros to buy a player?!
You must know that three years ago, in 2005, the Glazer family bought Manchester United for only 790 million pounds!
And among them, the Glazer family actually contributed only 250 million pounds, and the remaining 265 million pounds were directly borrowed from the bank with Manchester United's Old Trafford and training base as collateral, and the last 275 million was also borrowed from hedge funds with 30% of Manchester United's shares as collateral!
To put it simply, the Glazer family only spent 250 million pounds to buy Manchester United, and the rest of the money was mortgaged to Manchester United's own asset loans and leveraged, and they did not pay off the previous debts to Manchester United!
Now Klee directly buys Messi for 300 million!
All of a sudden, the Internet was full of [Messi> Manchester United! The United fans who were inexplicably lying on the gun directly expressed their speechlessness.
However, Manchester United fans are uncomfortable, but Arsenal fans are so excited!
If you can buy Messi, then you need a fart big center!
The tacit understanding between Chen Mo and Messi in the national team is obvious to all!
With Messi's lethality, even if he plays the center, as long as he plays as a pseudo-nine and retreats back, the opposing central defender will follow, and when Bale and Di Maria are obliquely inserted into the penalty area on both sides, Messi and Chen Mo will play a pass and run in the middle to cooperate.
Isn't this picturesque?!
Imagining this kind of picture, Arsenal fans climaxed directly, and even some fans went to Barcelona to invite Messi to join with a big poster.
However, from beginning to end, Chen Mo did not come forward.
As a young man who has known him since he was a mother, Chen Mo knew that Messi would not come to Arsenal.
At least not at this stage.
The first is that Messi has feelings for Barcelona, and the second is that coming to Arsenal at this time, for Messi, it is equivalent to losing to him.
With what he knows about Messi, Messi is unlikely to accept this kind of thing.
So there is only one possibility to poach Messi, that is, Barcelona wants to sell Messi, but Barcelona is not short of money.
In these years, Catalonia has not yet become independent, and the government team of Catalonia has not yet been taken over by the Spanish government.
With the government of Catalan, Spain's richest region, Barcelona simply running out of money.
Laporta wants political achievements, which are the "political achievements" played by Barcelona.
Sure enough, not long after Arsenal's 300 million offer was reported, Barcelona held a press conference on the grounds of renewing the contract with Messi.
At the press conference for the renewal of his contract, Laporta looked kind, saying that Messi was not for sale in the absolute sense, and finally hugged Messi in front of countless reporters.
There is no doubt that Barcelona's contract renewal with Messi has completely cut off Arsenal's opportunity to poach Messi this year, but the team's center forward position does need to be strengthened.
Without Messi, Arsenal's center forward position can only be a big center forward who can carry people.
But it's actually a bit embarrassing in the year.
The group of big and small Luo have either abdicated or their form has declined seriously, and the new top striker like Benzema and Lewandowski has not yet grown, so Arsenal has set its sights on Chelsea's Drogba.
Arsenal are poaching Chelsea people!
Hearing the news, the entire Premier League fans were in a hurry.
Chelsea fans dropped their jaws in shock, with disbelief written all over their faces, while fans of other teams were all eating melons and watching the show, one by one.
To be honest, Chelsea in this year is not very popular with fans of other teams.
Mainly because after Chelsea opened the Premier League's golden dollar football, not only a large number of people were poached, for example, Arsenal's Ashley Cole was poached with a high salary after being contacted privately by Mourinho, but also because the salaries of players have risen sharply, and many middle and lower teams with relatively low income cannot retain stars at all because the local ball market is relatively small.
Now to see Arsenal, who had always been known for their poverty, going to poach Chelsea, to be honest, there is a very grotesque feeling.
Especially when Arsene Wenger replied in an interview that "Arsenal not only have honors, but there are many, many Marin", fans all over the world stayed in the city.
Arsenal are not short of money right now, and there is no doubt that Chelsea are not short of money either.
Normally, it would be difficult for Arsenal to poach Drogba, but the problem is that with the rise of Manchester City last year, Chelsea have already lost Champions League qualification this year.
Losing qualification for the Champions League is a very difficult thing for the giants, especially for the giants of a very competitive league like the Premier League. What's more, there is no Champions League, and Chelsea, which has just risen, is not technically a giant.
The blow is fatal.
It's very simple.
Unless they are supergiants who have reached the end of their careers, most of them want high salaries and honors, and they can't play in the Champions League, which means that they will not have the opportunity to win the highest honor in the professional arena within a year.
The most intuitive result is that people cannot be retained.
Ashley Cole was poached directly from Manchester City, Essien's side has been rumored with Real Madrid throughout the summer window, and even Ballack, who is 33 years old this year, is considering returning to the Bundesliga.
In the whole of Chelsea, the only one who took the initiative to say that he would stick to it was Frank Lampard.
Old players were poached in various ways, and at the same time, because they did not qualify for the Champions League, Chelsea did not buy the top superstars of their playing year in the summer window.
At the end of the first six rounds of this season, Chelsea are currently sixth in the league table, although this is only the beginning of the season, and the ranking is not directly closed, but it must be very uncomfortable for the atmosphere in the team.
In this case, it's not just the players who want to leave, but even the club wants to rebuild.
No way, Chelsea wants the Champions League, and the year before last Mourinho was fired because Mourinho didn't win the Champions League, but now top superstars can't be bought, and it is difficult for middle and upper players to compete for the title.
The only way left is to cultivate supernovas, hibernate for a period of time and then wait for the opportunity to rise, otherwise now forcibly use middle and upper reaches players to hold them up, resulting in potential newcomers not getting enough exercise, and finally slow death.
It's not a bad thing to let the newcomers develop, but the problem is that Drogba is already in his thirties this year, and he is not in his peak for a few years.
When Drogba, who is at the peak of his tail, acts as a sparring partner for newcomers? It's a bit of a big Parisian flavor.
For Chelsea, selling Drogba is not something that cannot be considered at all.
As for Drogba himself, his current situation is a bit like Henry in the original timeline, as a top striker, but he has not touched the Big Ears Cup in his entire career, and now he is at the end of his career, and the team's hopes of winning the championship have become even more slim.
Both the team and the players have something to say.
However, things are not so easy.
Arsenal want to poach Drogba because there is no other top center forward in the market that can be bought, which is also a problem for Chelsea, who also rely on big center forwards, to play defensive counter-attacks.
Chelsea at least have to find a replacement for Drogba, even if the strength is not as good as Drogba now, it can't be too bad, otherwise if the results have been thin in the past few years, then Chelsea can't accept it, and at this time, a black boy with a surprising skeleton appeared in Chelsea's sight - Balotelli.
Eighteen years old, height 189, weight 189, delicate feet, explosive physical fitness!
What is it?
A proper template for the top striker of the future!
And Balotelli has not renewed his contract with Inter Milan yet, and his contract is about to expire!
Undoubtedly, the sweet and delicious Balotelli also made Chelsea more determined to let Drogba go.
However, it is still early in the winter window.
So, in the time of Arsene Wenger's bargaining with Chelsea, the days went by.
Soon, the attention of fans around the world shifted from the acquisition of Arsenal to something else.
The 2008 Golden Globe Awards will be held in Paris, France.
Will Chen Mo complete the Golden Ball Award and win the third Golden Ball Award in his career, or will Messi or Kaka succeed in counterattacking?
In the anxious anticipation of all fans around the world and the fierce quarrel, on October 8, Chen Mo, who rarely wore a black suit, took the pot-bellied Kaoru Tsukichi and Klee on a flight to Paris, France.