Chapter 374 Crazy summer transfer window, 4 consecutive Community Shield wins

Chapter 374 Crazy summer transfer window, four consecutive Community Shield wins

2017 is not a major competition year. There is only the Confederations Cup held in the fighting countries in the middle of the year.

So football fans around the world feel very bored and hope that the new 2017-2018 season will come.

During this boring time, it has become a daily habit for fans to search for the marriage status of their favorite team.

The transfer market in European football is in full swing.

The Premier League transfer window is particularly busy.

Manchester City became the most watched team in Europe's mainstream media between June and early July.

Spending 9450 million pounds to acquire Monaco left back Mendy and midfielder Bernardo Silva, they then spent 3400 million pounds to bring in Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson from Benfica, and 5000 million pounds to take away England's popular international footballer Kai Ke from Tottenham. Walker bought Brazilian international Danilo from Real Madrid for £ million.

Manchester United, another club in Manchester, is also making big moves.

Matic was brought in from Chelsea for 40 million pounds, and central defender Lindelof was bought from Benfica for 30 million pounds.

According to media reports, Manchester United CEO Ed Woodward is in Madrid to discuss the introduction of Spanish international forward Morata with Real Madrid president Florentino.

Not to be outdone, Liverpool, one of the Big Six in the Premier League, spent 6 million pounds to introduce Egyptian international Salah from Roma and bought Chamberlain from the defending Premier League champion Arsenal, spending million pounds.

Last season's Premier League runner-up Chelsea performed well in the transfer market. After selling Matic, who was gradually losing his main position, he added Tiemoue Bakayoko from Monaco, spending 36 million pounds, and then acquired Roma and Metropolis. Ling spent 31 million pounds and 25 million pounds respectively to buy Rudiger and Zampacosta.

However, compared to the excellent performance in the transfer market, off-field topics are more eye-catching.

According to people familiar with the matter, Spanish international Diego Costa fell out with head coach Conte and there was an irreconcilable conflict.

Then Diego Costa posted a sentence on Ins to the effect of [villain].

Although it was quickly deleted, it was still screenshotted by netizens.

……

Tottenham, which is usually a search engine, also made multiple investments this summer.

Bought 21-year-old Colombian centre-back Davidson Sanchez from Ajax for £ million, bought Ivory Coast defender Aurier from Paris Saint-Germain for £ million, and signed from Swansea for £ million. Spanish center Llorente.

Martin's club Arsenal experienced a bumper harvest last season. As the owner, Kroenke knows that he must continue to invest if he wants to remain competitive.

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There are also important signings in the midfield and frontcourt.

Ronaldo, who lost his place at Real Madrid, joined on loan with a selective buyout option for a loan fee of 350 million pounds.

When recruiting in multiple positions, it is natural to lose weight.

Giroud, whose playing opportunities dropped sharply last season, chose to seek a transfer in order to maintain his form and participate in next year's World Cup in the fighting country. Wenger did not force him to stay.

Anyway, Cavani was in good form, and with Welbeck as a substitute, he finally joined Chelsea for a friendly price of 250,000 pounds.

Left back Gibbs, centre-back Gabriel Paulista, goalkeeper Szczesny and the already-transferred Chamberlain recovered £68 million for the team.

Jenkinson, Martin, Campbell and Wilshere, who returned from loan, continue to be on loan.

Veteran Cazorla, who has faded out of the team's lineup, joins Villarreal on a free transfer...

In addition, the club's top brass is still renewing the contract of Sanchez, who only has one year left on his contract.

It's just that the two parties have certain differences on the weekly salary and number of years of the renewed contract, and there has been no agreement.

In this context, the Manchester City duo thought of killing two birds with one stone.

Signing Sanchez can both weaken Arsenal and improve their own.

Therefore, Arsenal is also looking for suitable replacement players in the transfer market. Unless a suitable player joins, they will consider both parties fulfilling the remaining contract.

The Premier League transfer market has attracted much attention. Paris Saint-Germain from Ligue 1 and Milan from Serie A have also attracted a lot of attention.

It was rumored that Paris Saint-Germain were planning to forcefully sign Brazilian star Neymar by paying the release fee after their failed bid for Martin, and then introduced France's popular French star Mbappe from Monaco using a rent-and-buy defense.

According to people familiar with the matter, the total contract will be as high as 1.8 million euros.

If Neymar is finally successfully poached for 2.22 million euros, Paris will become the most entrenched team in the European transfer market.

The attention the Milan duo received is inextricably linked to the Dragon Kingdom.

Sino-European Sports, represented by a businessman named Li, completed the acquisition of 99.93% of AC Milan's shares in April this year.

The first transfer window in which AC Milan fully took over, his performance can be said to make Milan fans ecstatic.

Bonucci, Andre Silva, Andres Conte, Calhanoglu, Ronaldo, Musacchio, Biglia, Kessie and other players...

When it comes to AC Milan, you have to talk about Martin.

Mendes also received a call from Milan's new boss before, fully expressing his desire to introduce Martin.

Martin smiled immediately after hearing the news from Mendes. He knew that the businessman surnamed Li would lose control of Milan next year, but naturally he could not say anything about the future, so he could only say that he did not plan to go anywhere at the moment. The team refused.

Invest up to 2.3 million euros!

The introduction of multiple high-level players has also made AC Milan fans around the world ecstatic. What’s interesting is that fans from the Dragon Kingdom also specially reminded the boss surnamed Li: You don’t need to buy all the players in all positions again when you buy the team. …

Inter Milan, another Chinese-owned company, has also made multiple signings.

Vecino, Skriniar, Dalbet, Bastoni, Coridio, Valero.

Both Milanese heroes have made important signings to the lineup, and Juventus, which has dominated Serie A in recent years, is not far behind.

Bernardeschi, Matuidi, Cuadrado, Benatia, De Sciglio, Bentancur, Douglas Costa, etc.

Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​which have spent huge sums of money in the transfer market in the past few seasons, are not so crazy and have become petty.

Real Madrid only spent 30 million euros to buy right back Theo Hernandez from local rival Atletico Madrid, and 10 million euros to introduce Ceballos from Real Betis.

Barcelona only spent 12 million euros to buy back Deulofeu from AC Milan.

However, there are many players who have scandals with Barcelona.

Dembele, who shined in Dortmund last season, Paulinho of Yangcheng Evergrande, and Benfica defender Semedo.

The reason for the lack of signings is quite simple.

No money.

Martin smiled when he saw the media reporting Barcelona transfer rumors. Although it has been more than three years since he traveled to this highly parallel world, he still remembered the news about Neymar leaving Barcelona to join Paris.

In fact, Neymar and Paris have already reached a private agreement, but Neymar is greedy and wants to take into account the interests of both parties.

He not only wants to get the loyalty bonus of signing with Barcelona, ​​but also wants to get the high signing fee of Paris.

Neymar joins Paris Saint-Germain in soap opera, at least until August.

At that time, Barcelona will be "blackmailed" in various ways.

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The time has come to July, and it is getting closer and closer to Arsenal’s pre-match meeting for the new season.

After Martin completed his crazy gold-fishing mission in late June, he headed non-stop to the backward mountainous area in the western part of the Dragon Kingdom, doing whatever he could for public welfare in a low-key manner.

By the time he appeared in the public eye again, he had already returned to London to prepare for the new season.

For a football superstar who is affected by transfer rumors every summer, the media and fans are very concerned about his future, even if he signed a new contract with Arsenal this summer with a basic weekly salary of up to 50 pounds.

Arsenal fans were particularly excited to see Martin return to London, knowing that the captain would remain with the team in the new 2017-2018 season.

During this time in early July, the European transfer market was still hot.

The most watched ones are undoubtedly the soap operas of Paris Saint-Germain, Neymar and Barcelona.

Walcott, who gradually lost his starting position last season, transferred to Everton for 45 million pounds.

As a supplement, Arsenal spent 60 million pounds + 10 million pounds in floating terms to introduce Algerian international Mahrez from Leicester City.

Martin, who returned to London, was a little surprised when he saw this transfer news. He had the impression that Manchester City failed to pay a transfer fee of 90 million pounds. But soon, he figured out why.

因为自己的出现，蓝狐奇迹没有出现，马赫雷斯经过2015-2016赛季的惊艳发挥，在上赛季的表现下滑比较严重，从2015-2016赛季的18球11助攻下降到2016-2017赛季的10球6助攻。

另外，2015-2016赛季代表莱斯特城出战39场，而2016-2017赛季达到48场。

The number of games has increased but the goals and assists have dropped significantly, which all shows that Mahrez lacks sufficient adaptability when being closely monitored.

It is precisely for this reason that Leicester City is willing to sell Mahrez this summer.

With the arrival of Mahrez, Arsenal's summer transfer window has almost come to an end.

Although Manchester City and Bayern want to introduce Sanchez this summer, Wenger has been unable to find a replacement player, so the deal has been temporarily shelved.

"Football London" also summarized Arsenal's signings this summer.

The sale of Giroud, Theo Walcott, Gibbs, Chamberlain, Gabriel Paulista and Szczesny totaled 1.38 million pounds.

The introduction of De Ligt, Alves, Ronaldo and Mahrez cost a total of 1.28 million pounds.

Among them, Alves is a free agent with no transfer fee, and Ronaldo is a loan fee of 350 million pounds.

Arsenal's first official game of the new season is the Community Shield at the new Wembley Stadium on August 8, followed by the European Super Cup with Manchester United three days later at the Philip II Stadium in the Macedonian capital Kopley.

The season build-up is scheduled for July 7.

The pre-season warm-up arrangement is not much different from last season. Last year, they went directly to Dragon Country to play two International Champions Cup games.

The difference this year is that we will first go to Australia to play a warm-up match with Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers, and then play an International Champions Cup match with Bayern Munich and Real Madrid in Shanghai and Guangzhou respectively.

After returning to London, Martin squeezed out a few more days to take his adoptive mother Clara Anna to the resort island of La Palma. He did not take a flight back to London until the day before returning to the team.

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July 7th, local time in England, is the day when the Arsenal team gathers.

Martin, as captain, was the first to arrive at the Colney training base.

The staff have long been accustomed to Martin arriving early and returning late, and they all greeted him warmly.

It wasn't until more than half an hour later that players began to arrive at the training ground.

Van Dijk brought his little brother De Ligt with him. The two talked and laughed. When they saw their teammates, they would immediately introduce De Ligt, who was not yet 18 years old.

Another new aid, Mahrez, also arrived very early. Although his performance in the Premier League and Champions League last season was not particularly outstanding, his ability was recognized by the whole team, so they all took the initiative to warmly embrace him as a welcome.

All teammates for at least the next season.

What surprised Martin was that Ronaldo and Ospina did not arrive together, and there was no communication between the two throughout the process.

Martin, who has never been in the habit of paying attention to gossip news, was a little confused.

Not long ago, he followed his new teammate Ronaldo on Instagram, and also noticed the divorce between Ronaldo and Ospina's sister.

But the reason was that Ospina's sister Daniela was unwilling to give up her career in Colombia, and the two did not want to continue to be separated for a long time before they broke up peacefully.

"It shouldn't be..."

Cavani seems to understand Martin's confusion. When he is not doing anything, he always likes to pay attention to gossip news, especially some affairs between celebrities and football stars.

It turns out that the divorce between Ronaldo and Ospina's sister is not what it seems.

At the end of last year, Spanish media broke the news that Ronaldo was suspected of cheating on model Love Katie.

A few days ago, foreign media broke the news that a host named Wilson Ortiz revealed on the radio that Daniela was actually having an affair with a player who played for the Colombian first division team Santa Fe Independiente. players.

It is equivalent to saying that J and Luo couple could not bear the loneliness and cheated.

In this context of divorce, Ronaldo and his former uncle Ospina will naturally have no contact outside of the workplace.

The key is that one of the two is a goalkeeper and the other is an attacking midfielder, and there is no direct connection.

Alves was one of the last players to arrive at Colney's training ground.

However, his body is in very good shape, better than many returning players on the team.

Of course, there is no comparison with Martin, a master of body management.

According to international practice, the first day after returning to the team is to participate in the team's physical function test, so that the coaching staff can make targeted training arrangements for each player.

Prior to this, head coaches Wenger and Martin welcomed the new players on behalf of the team.

Immediately followed by Arsenal's traditional program: new players singing.

Except for Alves who is tone deaf, Ronaldo, De Ligt and Mahrez all sang very well.

Listening to the beautiful singing of his teammates, Martin couldn't help but want to sing a song.

Sanchez jumped directly on Martin's back and covered his mouth with his right hand: "Captain, I'm one of you, don't talk."

Martin: "..."

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It took about a day for all the players on the team to be tested.

Starting from the next day, the players will carry out recovery training according to the targeted training formulated by the coaching staff to restore their physical condition to the best or near-best condition as soon as possible.

After seven days of training, the players' physical condition has recovered, and then they take a flight from London to Sydney to participate in two business warm-up games to open up the Australian market.

Although the Arsenal team has only just assembled, their strong overall strength still easily crushed two teams from the Australian Super League.

First, they defeated Sydney FC 3:1, and two days later they defeated Western Sydney Wanderers 2:0.

After playing two warm-up matches, he flew non-stop to Shanghai to participate in the International Champions Cup held at the 80,000-person stadium.

Bayern is in very poor shape preparing for the new season, while Arsenal, led by Martin, is in very good shape.

5:1

Arsenal defeated Bayern without any blood.

Martin contributed 2 goals and 1 assist.

What excites Arsenal fans is that the new players have integrated very quickly, with Mahrez, Ronaldo, and Alves all contributing goals or assists.

De Ligt performed well when he came off the bench to partner with compatriot Virgil van Dijk. His ability is not to mention, but his performance was a little nervous after just joining the European champion Arsenal.

Three days later, the International Champions Cup held at the Tianhe Sports Center in Yangcheng was particularly eye-catching.

This... is a repeat of last season's Champions League final.

The two teams played quite openly in this warm-up match of the International Champions Cup, which made the fans at the scene excited. Even the fans who paid a high price to buy from scalpers thought it was worth the money.

After ninety minutes, the two teams were tied at 4:4.

Martin and Ronaldo each scored two goals.

According to the rules of the International Champions Cup, a tie in the 90th minute will directly enter a penalty shootout.

Both players had good footwork, and the penalty kick went to the goalkeeper in the 11th round.

Ospina kicked the penalty kick and Navas hit the post.

In the end, Arsenal was lucky enough to win the last game of the summer warm-up match.

It was August when the whole team returned to London. Wenger gave the team a day off and started preparing for the traditional Community Shield at the new Wembley Stadium from the morning of the 3rd.

If they can defeat last season's league runner-up Chelsea, Arsenal will also tie Everton's record of four consecutive championships from 1984 to 1987, but the predecessor Charity Shield in 1986 was shared with Liverpool.

The conflict between Conte and Diego Costa that broke out this summer has obviously affected the team's state.

Arsenal defeated Chelsea 4:1 with goals from Martin, Cavani, Ronaldo and Van Dijk to complete their fourth consecutive championship in this event.

(End of this chapter)