At the end of the first day of training, Leon made a huge impression on the Chelsea players.

And not just because of his excellent performance on the training pitch and the progress of his quick integration into the team.

Also because after the day's training, Leon generously invited all his new teammates and coaching staff members to dinner in the city of London.

After eating this meal, Leon directly spent more than 30,000 pounds!

This is not a small amount, and Leon's generosity has also earned him the favor of all his new teammates in a short period of time.

Strong ability to deal with things, generous and easy-going.

With such a new teammate, who wouldn't want to be friends with him?

And Leon will not be extra enthusiastic or indifferent to anyone because of his status in the team.

At the dinner that night, Leon had a good conversation with Tonil Lampard and other veteran Chelsea players.

But it was De Bruyne who showed more that he wanted to be close.

This is a surprise to De Bruyne, who is still a little transparent in the Chelsea team.

Not to mention Eden Hazard and Oscar, who are already in the starting line-up at Chelsea.

Even Lukaku, who went on loan to West Brom last season and played 17 goals in a single season in the Premier League, is even more dazzling than him.

Although last season he also played a close to a double ten in Werder Bremen.

But it's still in the Bundesliga after all.

Having not proven himself in the Premier League, De Bruyne doesn't know if he will be able to stay at Chelsea and play in the Premier League under Jose Mourinho this season.

After revealing the apparent silence and humility, De Bruyne is actually quite proud in his bones.

He is confident in his quality, but he can't find a way to prove quickly that he can adapt to the Premier League.

After today's training session, De Bruyne himself felt the dissatisfaction in Mourinho's eyes.

Although the slightest hint of dissatisfaction is not necessarily directed at him.

But how can a talented player like him who is proud of his heart accept the status quo that he is not recognized?

Conflicts and contradictions flashed repeatedly in his heart.

So when Leon's intentional closeness at this moment appeared, De Bruyne was both surprised and inexplicably grateful in his heart.

This is not the way De Bruyne wants recognition, but it is the emotion he desperately needs at the moment to be recognized by something stronger.

In a whispered conversation with him, Leon was even able to tell his thoughts and thoughts on the ball in the training match, which made him feel even more happy!

At the end of the dinner, Leon felt that what he had gained was far more than the value of 30,000 pounds.

And in the next few days of pre-season training, Leon's relationship with Kevin De Bruyne and more of Chelsea's young players is also rapidly getting closer.

After all, they are all young men, even if they compete for positions on the field and positioning in the team, as long as they are willing to take the initiative to communicate and contact in private, the relationship will heat up quite quickly.

Of course, in this transfer period that is in full swing, not all the players in the Chelsea squad have been set for the new season.

Just three days after Leon was involved in Chelsea's pre-season preparations, rumours of a Chelsea-linked transfer trade emerged.

First up are the two strikers Demba Ba and Fernando Torres.

Demba Ba, who played a fine spot at West Ham United and Newcastle, moved to Chelsea last winter window, and his goalscoring efficiency plummeted.

And his performance in the centre-forward position and his not-so-strong desire to fight did not satisfy Mourinho.

Back to Torres, it's the same old question.

Torres, who has long been at his peak due to injuries, is not at the top of his game at the moment.

In order to win the Champions League in three seasons this time, Abu gave Mourinho the power of life and death in the team.

If Mourinho is really not satisfied with Torres, then even if Abbu likes the former Spanish golden boy again, he can only send him away with tears.

However, Mourinho did not choose the most heartless way to deal with the two strikers from the start.

Perhaps earlier, for example, when he first took charge of Chelsea, he would have opted for a tougher approach to dealing with unhappy players.

But now he has changed a lot.

After two open and honest conversations, Mourinho received two very different answers.

Demba Ba is reluctant to remain a substitute striker at Chelsea and is likely to be the third in the line.

So after getting Mourinho's notice, even if not particularly reluctantly, Demba Ba contacted his agent and started to work on a transfer back to Newcastle or a new Premier League team.

Torres' answer to Mourinho was that he was willing to accept the position of a substitute.

As long as Chelsea's new striker is indeed better than him, then he has no problem.

This surprised Mourinho, who thought that Torres would be the striker who was determined to leave, but he did not expect Torres to be willing to stay as a substitute.

"I lost to Real Madrid in the Champions League final in '12, I am not reconciled, I want to stay at Chelsea and try again! I want to leave the Chelsea fans and Mr Abou with the title they want the most..."

Torres' answer silenced Mourinho, but after another conversation, the relationship between the two looked a little more intimate than before.

After dealing with the team's two strikers, Mourinho's third player to interview became Juan Mata in midfield.

It was a change that many Chelsea players did not anticipate.

Probably including Juan Mata, he himself could not believe it.

After his double-20 last season, he turned out to be one of the players Mourinho wanted to start!

The meeting was not so pleasant.

Jose Mourinho explained his tactical philosophy to Mata, and he has said many times that it is not that Mata is not good enough, but that Mata's technical characteristics are now in conflict with his tactical philosophy.

So Mourinho can't guarantee that Juan Mata will get as many starts as he did last season.

For Mata, such an answer is obviously something he does not want to hear, and even more unwilling to accept.

So the choice Mata now faces is simple, either to rotate Mourinho for the new season or to leave.

Three players have been interviewed by the manager, two of whom are likely to leave Chelsea in the near future.

Such a change has caused the rest of the Chelsea players to start worrying about their future at Chelsea.

Fortunately, after the conversation with Mata, Mourinho is not talking to other players for the time being.

However, Leon learned a Chelsea-related transfer news from Mendes.

That is, the German striker Schurrle, who has been inspected by Boas and Di Matteo before, has now been crossed by Mourinho from the transfer list.

The deal was an easy one for Chelsea to work out.

After all, Schurrle is very willing to move to Chelsea, and Bayer Leverkusen can't resist Chelsea's offer of more than 20 million euros.

However, Mourinho has decided to terminate the deal for Schurrle after a detailed analysis with the new Chelsea coaching staff.

In a word, not suitable.

Because Mourinho does not plan to switch to 442 in the new season, it is not suitable to play on the wing, and Schurrle, who plays as a forward center forward, is even more untenable.

As soon as it went on, there were almost two Chelsea players who were leaving, and then a new player who was supposed to come to Chelsea was not coming.

At present, there are many veterans in the Chelsea team, but the strength is not bad, and with a group of young players with full potential, the overall team framework is still no problem.

That is, if Chelsea are to focus on the previous Real Madrid's set of 4231 in the new season, they will need to add players on the wing and in the center forward position.

Eden Hazard's individual performances last season were quite impressive, and the statistics of 13 goals and 17 assists throughout the season fully reflect his current strength and super talent.

Handed to Eden Hazard and the old and stalwart Ashley Cole on the left, Mourinho was reassured.

But on the right, Chelsea are just one knife away from it.

Juan Mata can't play speed up on the right flank, he is a playmaker type of wide midfielder, so in Mourinho's two-wing tactics, Mata really can't find a place.

Not to mention the centre-forward position, neither Torres nor Demba Ba are the right candidates, and if they want to produce consistently in the new season, then Chelsea still need to buy a first-class centre-forward in football.

It's better to be a first-class high school striker in his playing years...

When Leon reviewed the current Chelsea squad at his hotel, like Jose Mourinho, he was worried about the position of the team's central striker.

He instinctively remembered Llorente, who had been abandoned and refrigerated by Athletic Bilbao.

If you want to talk about characteristics, Llorente really meets Mourinho's requirements.

The body is tough, the header is prominent, the fulcrum is strong, and the key is that the goal is reliable.

Slow speed is not a very important flaw, after all, most of the high school forwards in football are not fast.

If he can really partner with Llorente at Chelsea, Leon will definitely work well.

But in the end, he still didn't give Mourinho any advice in this regard.

You say that it makes sense to give a coach tactical advice once in a while, as you did at Real Madrid.

But in terms of team building and recruitment, Li Ang has always been able to talk less than he can, which can be regarded as a red line between players and coaches.

So until the news of Juventus' successful transfer of Llorente on a waiver reached London, Leon did not mention Llorente's name to Mourinho.

Seeing that the date of the International Champions Cup (friendly match) is approaching, Li Ang has put all his mind into the run-in training with his new teammates.

It would be nice for the coaching staff to get the starting centre-forward and right winger as soon as possible.

If you can't do it in the near future, you can't stop the progress of training and preseason.

Li Ang can only do his best first, speed up the run-in progress with his existing teammates, and play the expected performance.

As for other things, they are not within his jurisdiction, and he can't manage them even if he wants to.

Besides, if you really can't do it, you can take Lukaku this kid for a while, even if he just likes to pull sides?

As long as he can maintain the level of performance and impact he played at West Brom last season, he will pull the side.

It's better than having no one available!

Leon was mentally prepared anyway, and he also entangled Lampard to further hone his long-range shooting skills during this time.

The improvement training of archery is easy to say, because his previous shooting level is too scummy, so the improvement speed is not slow.

And as soon as he saw Li Ang's offensive project, Oscar felt uncomfortable first.

Li Ang is now frequently practicing long-range shots and shots, it is impossible to play in the back in the new season, right?

If nothing else, in the follow-up run-in training camp, Li Ang should be promoted to the position of central midfielder or even forward by Mourinho.

Oscar knows that his starting position should be out of place.

And Hazard's side didn't rejoice for long, and he was approached by Leon cheekily to ask for the knowledge of dribbling.

So Hazard also emo, after all, he didn't know that Leon just wanted to learn more offensive methods now in case of emergency.

He thought Leon was already planning to take over the attacking ball in Chelsea's front court for the new season.

That's a lot of pressure on two young Chelsea talents!

After all, competing with them for the status and position in the team is the first midfielder of the post-90s generation who has won three top league titles in the past three years and successfully defended the Champions League with Real Madrid.

Usually, in training, they also learned Li Ang's offensive and defensive skills.

It's really hard to compare at this stage.

Even if Eden Hazard and Leon are playing in different positions, he can only admit that if Leon is marking him in a game, it will be really difficult for him to make a difference.

Li Ang's status in the team was slowly established after this training run-in one after another.

It's no wonder that Mourinho firmly believed that Leon could handle the matter of fighting for his position in the team by himself.

Let's not talk about how much Chelsea spent to poach Leon from Real Madrid.

Just talking about the current strength of Leon, it is completely easy to subdue these young players in the Chelsea team.

You must know that Li Ang has repeatedly played against Messi in La Liga before.

On weekdays, in Real Madrid's intra-team training matches, Leon often faces top attackers such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Di Maria.

Where are Hazard and Oscar?

Since Mourinho didn't give an additional explanation, then of course Leon had to do it his own way - to use his performance on the training ground to speak for himself and fight for his status.

At noon on 30 July, the Chelsea players, who had been training for a long time, were finally given a half-day free break before the start of the pre-season friendlies.

With a wave of his hand, Li Ang invited him and his teammates to a private French restaurant in the city for a meal.

But as soon as he finished rinsing and changing his clothes, he was called by Mr. Faria to Mu Shuai's office.

And this time, as soon as Leon stepped into Mourinho's office, his good coach made a jaw-dropping request to him.

"Let me call Zlatan?"

"Yes, you play first, then I play again, first ask Zlatan about his personal wishes, if he doesn't reject it, and then make contact at the official level of the club..."

Mourinho isn't embarrassed at the moment.

Compared with Chelsea's tricky matter of missing a reliable centre-forward, he and Leon can certainly be exposed to this idea.

So Leon acted as a pioneer and took the lead in dialing his good brother Ibu that night.

After going back and forth, Li Ang asked Yi Euphemistically:

"Zlatan, would you like to play with me if you had the chance?"

Ibu on the other end of the phone thought that Leon was joking.

He said with a big grin that if he had the opportunity next year, he would definitely suggest that the club's management try again to poach Leon.

But when Leon made it clear that he would not go to Grand Paris, Ibrahimovic quickly understood what Leon meant.

"Little Lion, is this a personal matter, or is it..."

"The boss said he would call you tomorrow too."

At the critical moment, Li Ang still chose to sell Mu Shuai and sold it extremely cleanly.

It was Eevee's turn to stop talking, but he gave Leon a pretty good answer at the end.

"Then tomorrow after I talk to Coach Mourinho, I'll tell you my answer, you boy who has learned to be slippery..."

Li Ang was hung up by Ibu like this, and how Mu Shuai communicated with Ibu after that, Li Ang didn't know.

On July 31, Ibrahimovic did not make any phone calls to Leon to explain.

But Leon didn't think that Ibu and his boss had fallen apart.

On the contrary, he thinks it is likely to happen!

Because if Ibrahimovic doesn't want to come to Chelsea, then at least give him a call and explain the situation and the reasons.

But now Ibrahimu is still silent, and Leon feels that his big brother may be talking to an agent about the feasibility of a transfer.

If you think about it, what else is the attraction of Paris Saint-Germain compared to Chelsea?

Chelsea now have Jose Mourinho, Leon and can meet Ibrahimovic's salary demands and honours.

Leon couldn't think of any reason why Ibrahimovic would turn down Chelsea's offer at the end.

On the morning of 1 August, the Chelsea players, who had completed their pre-match training camp, boarded a plane to Indiana, USA.

They will compete in the first round of the International Champions Cup in Indianapolis.

Shortly after the arrival of the Chelsea players in the United States, the French media were the first to break the news:

Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain have reached a preliminary agreement on the transfer of Ibrahimovic!

This blockbuster transfer news, which has never been revealed before, has once again shaken the entire European football world!

At first, the fans who ate melons shouted that they didn't believe it.

But with the transfer scandal that Higuain and Paris Saint-Germain were suddenly implicated, appeared.

The fans quickly changed their tunes.

After all, Ebu is good, but he is about to turn thirty-two years old

Compared to Higuain, who has proven himself at Real Madrid and is in his playing year, Paris Saint-Germain is really not difficult to choose.

As soon as the two transfer fees are offset, PSG may only need to add a few million euros to bring Higuain to the Parc des Princes.

This doesn't earn? It's a lot of money, okay!

All day on August 1st, the French and British media were releasing various news, pinching the traffic and spreading the transfer progress that seemed to be true and false.

And "Sky Sports", which had been silent before, did not officially post until the morning of August 2, saying that Paris and Chelsea had reached an agreement on the transfer of Ibrahimovic!

They also said that Iguaz had flown to Paris at the moment and was ready to undergo a medical examination in Paris!

As soon as two blockbuster transfer information was released, "Sky Sports" once again successfully pulled the attention of all fans to itself!

Many fans who eat melons are still very confused, but less than two hours later, Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea officials issued an official announcement with almost the same content!

With 18 million euros, Ibrahimovic, who is about to turn 32, has officially moved to Chelsea!

Premier League fans in the new season are about to see Ibrahimovic in the blue shirt on the Premier League stage!

Zlatan, descend on the Blue Bridge!

(End of chapter)