Chapter 368: The Possibility of Returning to Real Madrid?

Leon's post-match speech was like stepping on the sensitive tail of countless Manchester United fans, and they were so angry that they jumped to their feet!

What do you mean by "Manchester United have to adapt to the long days of playing in the Europa League"?

What can this call a human being?

Manchester United's results have been a bit turbulent in recent seasons, but that's also because the team is in the throes of a rebuild.

Manchester United wants money and money, and if you want people, the foundation of the whole team is not bad, at most, there are many problems in the appointment of coaches.

What do you mean that this is not the same as it used to be?!

Manchester United is not Milan, as one of the world's top commercial clubs, Manchester United's annual large sum of money is where the confidence of the fans lies.

We'll see!

After Manchester United ushers in the "new Ferguson", those who have laughed at Manchester United in recent years will be slapped in the face!

Red Devils fans are convinced and looking forward to it......

Li Ang watched Manchester United fans' "counterattack" against him on the Internet, and he had to sigh, whether it was local or overseas, Manchester United fans were quite angry these years.

However, he is too lazy to continue to refute these Red Devils supporters who still have high expectations for Manchester United.

Time will tell if everything he says is correct, and the fact that the Glazer family continue to suck blood on Manchester United will not change in the slightest.

In the end, it was only these poor United fans who were saddened.

Leon is deeply sorry for this, but he has no relationship with Manchester United, and after a little sigh, he is still very happy to usher in a long-lost holiday.

After the 22nd round of the Premier League, the Premier League will be temporarily suspended, and the 23rd round of the Premier League will resume nine days later.

Without the ties of club and national team competitions, the main players of the Premier League teams have ushered in a golden break.

The Chelsea coaching staff gave the whole team three days off anyway.

Leon originally wanted to take Anna, who was on winter vacation, back to Madrid for a visit, but Ibrahimovic met halfway, and Leon went directly to Milan.

Ibrahimovic and Da Boateng drove themselves at the airport to greet Leon and Anna, and the three brothers had not seen each other for a long time, and they all seemed very enthusiastic when they said goodbye.

Before coming to Milan, Li Ang also took a special look at Milan's recent results, and of course he knew why Ibrahimovic and Da Boateng were in a good mood now.

Ibrahimovic has scored goals in the last three rounds of the league, helping Milan to win three consecutive victories, and at the same time leading Milan to the top three in Serie A!

And after Da Boaten experienced a failed Bundesliga career and was terminated by Schalke 04, he re-signed with Milan and regained his career confidence.

In the first 20 Serie A games of the new season, Ibrahimovic has scored 12 goals and registered five assists, while Boateng has also scored four goals and four assists.

Galliani originally wanted to ride a bicycle to get two celebrities back to Milan to support the new season, but he didn't expect that this fishing really put the goal of reviving Milan on the table!

The current Milan under the leadership of Ibrahimovic is as stable as an old dog, and the team's upline power may not be comparable to Juventus and Napoli, but it is not inferior to Inter Milan and Roma.

If you are sure to look forward to it, not to mention that Milan has regained the dominance of Serie A from Juventus in recent seasons, but at least they can return to the Champions League zone steadily.

This is the most important thing for the Milan management, which now pursues the "truth" of doing more with less.

After all, if you can return to the top four in Serie A and play the Champions League stably every year, it will properly represent more money coming in!

After two or three seasons of such a virtuous cycle, Milan was able to recover and greatly shorten the recovery period.

This is a change from the previous Ibrahimovic, who certainly does not agree with this way of running the club.

After all, what he wants to win more is the Champions League, and when a club doesn't have the ambition to invest a lot of money, it naturally can't attract his attention.

But after Chelsea won the Champions League they had so much to offer, Ibrahimovic's mentality changed completely.

He returned to his favourite club and patiently taught his younger team-mates and encouraged them to grow.

On the pitch he is still the victorious Zlatan and in private he has become a more mature and respected role model.

Li Ang is quite happy to see that his former teammates are now living a comfortable life and their careers are going very smoothly.

He stayed in Milan for three days to catch up with his old friends, and it just so happened that Anna also liked to stay in Milan to watch the fashion show, and the couple spent a very good three-day vacation in Milan.

In the end, Leon couldn't help but sigh deeply at the thought of going back to London soon.

After all, there's really no comparison between living in London and Milan, Barcelona and Madrid.

But complaining is complaining, and Li Ang quickly returned to the training base to report as soon as the holiday ended.

After a tight fixture schedule, Chelsea's main players were given a rare break in their spirits.

After resuming training, the Chelsea coaching staff were in no hurry to get up to speed immediately.

After a full day of recovery training, Chelsea began their tactical drills as normal.

Because the next round of league opponents is Crystal Palace, the whole Chelsea team seems to be more relaxed in their preparation.

However, two days before the start of the match with Crystal Palace, Mendes rushed to England to bring a piece of news, but it really disturbed Leang's mind.

"Back to Real Madrid? Haven't we already talked about this topic in the summer? I don't think it's a good time to continue talking about it, Jorge, I've signed a new contract with Chelsea......

Faced with Mendes' straightforward proposal, Leon subconsciously wanted to refuse to discuss.

On the one hand, it is because, as he said, he signed a new contract with Chelsea, and he is doing well at Chelsea now, so there is really no need to risk falling out with the Chelsea hierarchy and the fans to go back to Real Madrid.

Wasn't the lesson of Xiaofa tragic enough?

On the other hand, of course, it is because of Cristiano Ronaldo.

Li Ang chose to leave Real Madrid in order to be able to lead the team to win the Champions League and compete for the Golden Ball.

Now Ronaldo is still in quite good shape, he returns to Real Madrid at this juncture and has to fight with Ronaldo in the competition for the Ballon d'Or, why bother?

He believes Mendes knows this, and he and Mendes agreed last summer.

So now he somewhat doesn't understand the meaning of Mendes's rehashing of the old story.

"Everything was fine, but, alas... I'll be honest, Leon, Chris has bypassed me and gone straight to Mr. Perez!

I don't know what he thinks, but now this problem is in front of me, I have to fly directly to Madrid tomorrow to meet with the Real Madrid executives, I have no bottom in my heart about this negotiation, and I am ready for the worst!

Chris has his own needs, which I can understand, and I think he deserves a higher annual salary, but he was just too headstrong this time!

Things have come to this point, and I hope you'll be mentally prepared if... I mean if! If Chris really chooses to leave Real Madrid at the end of this season, then you have to be mentally prepared to be poached by Real Madrid, and bringing you back to the Bernabeu is after all the thing that Mr. Perez has been thinking about the most in the past two years......"

Mendez explained the ins and outs of the matter. In the end, he left with a little relief, but what he left behind was shock and confusion.

Li Ang really didn't expect that the brilliant success of their Muslim Real Madrid would stimulate Ronaldo in advance and make him choose to "take risks" for his salary increase.

And Real Madrid's lack of heavyweight championship trophy harvesting in the past two seasons has also made Lafayette no longer so lenient towards Ronaldo.

Think about it, if Ronaldo does choose to leave Real Madrid this summer, will Galeries Lafayette do whatever Mendes says will do to bring him back to the Bernabeu?

Li Ang instinctively wanted to persuade himself that it was unlikely that this would happen, but in the end, he had to admit that according to Lafayette's temperament, he really did it!

It just so happened that some time ago, Li Ang also heard Mendes talk about Abu's excessive investment in the transfer market over the years, his personal business is not very good, and the flow of funds is a little tight......

Stringing these things together, Leon couldn't help but have a little insomnia before the start of the game for the first time.

However, his ability to adjust is still very strong.

After forcing himself not to fantasize too much about what has not happened yet, before the official start of the league with Crystal Palace, Li Ang also adjusted his personal routine and mentality.

On the afternoon of 25 January, Leon, who looked to be in order, was in the starting line-up for the Chelsea-Crystal Palace league clash with him.

This match did not attract much attention from the British media before the game, after all, the suspense is too small.

Crystal Palace, who are ninth in the league, can't afford to cause too much trouble for Chelsea no matter how you look at it.

But the media publicity is only one thing, and when it comes to the game, it's another thing.

Don't look at the fact that Crystal Palace is currently only ranked ninth in the Premier League, but it is only four points away from West Ham United, who are sixth in the Premier League!

If there are really two brushes, Crystal Palace will be rated by the British media as Liverpool's biggest opponent in the top six this season?

After the official start of the day's game, Crystal Palace sat on the advantage of being at home and put pressure on the Chelsea defence very aggressively from the start of the game.

Zaha was also very positive today, repeatedly taking the ball in the opening stages, and even suppressed Kieran Trippier at one point, so that he did not dare to take the ball forward easily.

It was still rare for Leon to take the initiative to retreat in the opening stages to help his teammates consolidate the defense.

While sighing that the other "king of the ball" in London today is in good shape, he made a decisive move and strangled the possibility of Zaha continuing to play one-on-one!

Because Chelsea is playing away, today's tactical play is relatively conservative and safe.

After Leon locked up Zaha in the opening stages, Mourinho simply signaled the whole team to shrink the formation first and switch to the defensive tug-of-war.

It wasn't until the first 30 minutes of the first half that the sharpness of the Crystal Palace starters was almost worn out, and Mourinho commanded the disciples on the field to slowly press out and try to attack!

However, at this time, Crystal Palace manager Alan Paddu was also very clever to make tactical adjustments in a timely manner, and did not choose to fight against Chelsea.

Crystal Palace, who were resolute and thorough in their defensive stance, did not allow Chelsea to take advantage of it, and the first half ended in a 0-0 draw.

At the beginning of the second half, Chelsea chose to grab the start, and the attack was like fire, so that Crystal Palace could hardly raise its head!

It was also at this stage that Suarez seized the opportunity again, and after receiving De Bruyne's inward cut, he successfully reversed the offside position and scored a single goal!

After breaking the deadlock, Chelsea moved into the counter-attacking phase that they are most familiar with.

Alan Padu is very helpless, but at home stadium, he can't face the situation behind and signal the team to consolidate the defense first.

So attacking became the only option for Crystal Palace at the moment!

South Korean winger Lee Cheong-ryong, who played mediocre for the first 60 minutes of the game, was decisively replaced by Alain Padu, and he was replaced by Moroccan winger Shamach.

The Moroccan prodigy attacking player was once a wide player in Ligue 1, but unfortunately he was injured frequently in his second season after moving to Arsenal.

In the 13-14 season, the Moroccan winger was able to score six goals in a single season at Crystal Palace, which was a bit of a career comeback, but then illness found him again.

After several stumbles and injuries, Shamacher is no longer a dangerous wide knife in addition to his rich game experience.

But Alan Padu can't help it, after all, he has so many people at his disposal, and there is only one pure winger on the bench Shamach.

And after making such a substitution adjustment, the offensive of Crystal Palace can also be imagined.

Zaha was a lone player on the left flank, but Leon took the initiative to sacrifice his offensive nature to completely stare him to death at the defensive end, and Crystal Palace could no longer afford the slightest wave of threat!

In the 78th minute of the second half, Chelsea seized the opportunity of Crystal Palace's full pressure and played another brilliant quick counter-attack!

This time, it was Suarez who received a long pass from Leon and advanced with the ball.

After a 3-on-3 situation up front, Suarez caught the attention of two Crystal Palace defenders before the ball was distributed to De Bruyne, who was also high speed on the right flank.

Then De Bruyne's powerful cross also found Hazard, who was almost unmarked at the back of the Crystal Palace penalty area, and assisted him to easily push the goal!

It was a goal that sealed Chelsea's winning position and the score was firmly settled at 2-0.

When he celebrated with his teammates after the game, Leon's eyes flashed with contemplation from time to time.

And on the other side of the sea, in the city of Madrid, a super storm that can shake the world sports world is also quietly brewing......

(End of chapter)