No one can tell how the upcoming new season is like, but this summer, English football is definitely lively enough.

Like last summer, Chelsea, whose richest man, Abramovich, joined the company, became the protagonist of the entire Europe, and they threw a lot of money in the European transfer market almost at any cost.

The first thing that is most noteworthy is that Porto champion coach Mourinho joined Chelsea. Before June, this news was confirmed. Mourinho almost confirmed to join Chelsea after leading Porto to the championship.

Media reports said that Mourinho has received the highest salary of coaches in the world, and Chelsea has prepared a new four-year contract for him. Mourinho, 41, will surpass England's coach Eriksson to become the world's highest-paid football team with an annual salary of 5 million pounds - the weekly salary of 100,000 pounds is the same as Crespo and Perron, the highest-paid Chelsea team, which is even twice that of Arsenal coach Wenger!

Mourinho has won two European Cups and countless domestic championships for Porto. Before leaving, Mourinho wants to give the club another generous gift. Porto club is currently in debt of 40 million pounds. If Mourinho can convince Abraham to buy several Porto players, this will be what Porto chairman Dacosta is happy to see - although Dacosta is still threatening to sue Chelsea for UEFA in the name of "illegal contact", judging from the fact that the club is actively contacting Real Madrid abandoned coach Queroz to take over Mourinho, Porto chairman has long "accepted his fate".

Then, Deco, Del Le, Costinia, Ricardo Carvalho and Paul Ferreira are all associated with Chelsea's names. Although Bayern also likes Deco, he believes that following his mentor to England is still the first choice for Portugal's "magics". In addition, Mourinho also wants to bring Carvalho, who performed well in the Champions League final, to Stamford Bridge to replace the old captain Deselli.

Just when many media questioned Mourinho's "rights" at Chelsea, team chairman Abramovich gave Mourinho the greatest support, saying that Mourinho will have the right to "top leader" for the club's transfer, that is, Mourinho has the final say in all Chelsea players.

So the transfer storm began.

First, there were Ricardo Carvalho, Paul Ferreira, Thiago Mendes, and then Cech, Robben, Kezerman, Drogba... Before the end of the European Cup, Chelsea completed a series of transfers almost at a speed of lightning. The biggest move was Drogba's 24 million pounds, which was definitely the world's top player, but Drogba was not very famous before, which made many media view Chelsea as if they were looking at the sucker.

In just one month, Chelsea spent 95 million pounds to buy stars. At the same time, they even directly terminated the contract by cutting off some players who were not within the scope of the plan, which immediately made Chelsea look brand new. Compared with last season, they can be described as "gathering stars".

So they immediately became the focus of the English media.

In comparison, another team worth noting is Liverpool. In the summer, Liverpool also completed the change of coaches. Espanyol Rafael Benitez was the one who replaced Hollier. He was only 43 years old and a champion coach, and he was even one year older than Mourinho.

In terms of coaching experience, Benitez helped the team win two La Liga titles, one Copa del Rey trophy and one UEFA Champions League champion, which is not as good as Mourinho's two "triple crowns" honors, one big and one small, but considering that Valencia is a La Liga team, they have to face the competition between two giants - Real Madrid and Barcelona. Benitez's team results are already quite perfect, and it is precisely with the league championship, UEFA Cup championship and the "triple three crowns" results of the King's Cup championship. Benitez attracted the attention of all Europe. After a peaceful breakup with Valencia, he came to England to become the head coach of Liverpool club.

Compared to Mourinho, who immediately became the focus when he came to England, Benitez seemed much more low-key. Perhaps this is also because the economy cannot keep up with Chelsea's Liverpool club, which cannot get this kind of attention. However, Liverpool's signings still cost a lot of money. Xavi Alonso, Luis Garcia, Josemi, and Cice also spent 30 million pounds of Liverpool. However, they sold Husky and Murphy, and most importantly, they sold England's golden boy Michael Irving to Real Madrid, which made the English media and fans quite dissatisfied, so it is conceivable what evaluation Liverpool can get.

But Liverpool is actually pretty good.

They surprisingly became the "second focus" behind Chelsea in the summer, which was difficult before. Although they were one of the Premier League giants, they have not achieved any outstanding results since the establishment of the Premier League. Many fans are about to forget Liverpool - even though they are still strong contenders for the Champions League place every season.

Manchester United, the traditional Premier League 'overlord' and last season's league champion Arsenal have become much more low-key.

Manchester United seems to have done only one thing in the summer - chasing Everton star Wayne Rooney. This news has been going on since March, and it is still the news. The only change is that everyone knows that Everton must sell Rooney, and Manchester United must buy Rooney. But because of this, Everton wants to kill Manchester United, and the current situation is the case - Manchester United is difficult to accept the price tag Everton gave Rooney, and at the same time they really want to get Rooney.

There seems to be only one news about Manchester United in July. In contrast, the joining of Alan Smith and Heinze does not seem to attract people's attention at all. Perhaps these two players are really difficult to attract fans' attention. After all, their value is not high. For a team of Manchester United's level, a player worth millions of pounds is nothing.

Arsenal...is even more low-key.

Everyone knows that they raise funds for building a new stadium, and it is difficult for the club to have any transfer fees. In this case, it is understandable that Arsenal is low-key. The only news from the media revealed that Arsenal is that they bought a Dutch star Van Persie, but they are just a striker. Just look at Arsenal's forward line. This young boy must have added the depth of the bench, and no one cares about it at all.

Apart from that, it's gone.

This is Arsenal in July.

Compared with England's four major teams that are highly concerned, Derby County is naturally insignificant. Even though Derby County still has two million-level transfer news, it is also difficult to attract the attention of the English media. After all, this is the Premier League, and transfers of millions of pounds are everywhere in the Premier League, especially the players purchased by Derby County are very insignificant, which makes it even more difficult to attract the attention of the media.

So since the Derby County preparations began, the team's name was hardly seen on the news.

Perhaps some media reporters want to know what Derby County is doing. But the team's training is closed and has not even been opened to the public for two consecutive weeks, which has caused dissatisfaction among some media. Many Derby County fans also want to see the team, but Wan Sheng insists on closing the training. Apart from two warm-up matches, the team will not be allowed to contact the outside world at all, and they are dedicated to training and preparing for the new season.

This persistence training effect is very good.

Everyone can feel the team's improvement in tactical training, which makes everyone more confident. Naturally, there are fewer complaints about hard training, which is especially reflected in new players.

At the beginning, Van der Fate and others could not understand the team's training. They didn't know why everyone thought so. It was just training. Just stay in shape and know how the team should play. But after a period of training that "no one can only keep working hard", they became much more active because they obviously felt their improvement. At the same time, they could also feel the improvement of the entire team in tactical training.

This is surprising.

In just two weeks, you can feel a significant improvement, which is incredible to many people. This is like learning a sport. It is completely impossible to start with. It usually takes a long time to practice. In terms of football tactics, this is even more a long time. Generally, the team is calculated in months or even years. Two weeks are almost the beginning compared to proficient in tactics, but they already feel that the team is already very proficient in tactics and can even apply tactics to the game.

This feeling is surprising, the old players have long been used to it, they attribute it to Wansheng's ability, in their words, "This is the sport of science."

Van der Fate and others began to disdain this, but now they feel that their teammates are right, otherwise how can they explain that they will soon become familiar with the tactics and can be used? What excites them is that they can adapt to the team very quickly. They originally thought that they would have to have a period of excessiveness to fully adapt to the team, but now they don’t have this trouble. They feel that they can play in the official game and can also adapt to the position and cooperate well with their teammates.

In this case, Wan Sheng also arranged two warm-up matches, one against Gillingham and the other against Middlesbrough.

Gillingham is the English Championship team (in the summer of 2004, the English Champions League was formed, replacing the previous English League One). The two teams were in the same level before, but now they are completely different. This is the first warm-up match of Derby County in the summer and has received a lot of attention. However, in the end, Derby County only played 1:0. Although it was good to win, it only won one goal, which was a little less.

After the game, the media's evaluation of Derby County's performance was that "the whole team performed very poorly and seemed to be worse than last season."

Afterwards, Derby County held the second warm-up match, with the opponent being Middlesbrough led by McLaren. This was the warm-up match that Wan Sheng contacted himself. His personal relationship with McLaren was pretty good, so he decided to make a call.

This warm-up match was a match between two Premier League teams. Before the league officially started, it was still very popular. Even those league opponents noticed the match between the two teams, but the game was actually not very interesting. Both coaches frequently adjusted the tactics and made frequent substitutions. Both teams didn't care about the results at all. The final match ended 2:2, with the two teams drew and ended peacefully.

Derby County's performance was still average in the game.

To apply the media's more affirmative comment, "Derby County's performance is completely inferior to last season. Their strength has declined, and they can only target relegation in the new season."

This disappointed many Derbyshire fans.

At the same time, the attention of the English media on Derby County has also decreased significantly. Although they were stars last season and were also quite expected in the summer, these two warm-up matches and Derby County's low-key prove that they are just an ordinary team.

Many people also think it is normal.

Derby County was outstanding last season because they participated in the second division. If they were stronger, they would naturally perform well. But this season they went to the top division. The opponents they encountered in every game in the league will be strong enemies, and every game is difficult for them, so they have become ordinary teams.

After all, compared to Chelsea, Liverpool's large investment, and compared to Manchester United and Arsenal's historical strength, Derby County is really nothing.

In this kind of coverage and perception, even fewer people are following Derby County.

But what many people don’t know is that after the game against Middlesbrough, Wan Sheng led the team back to Derby County and waited for all the players to get off the bus. The first thing he said to the players was, “Everyone performed well today. As long as we can still maintain our form in a week, we will definitely win the first round of the league!”

His voice was full of confidence.

Many players also clenched their fists and were full of fighting spirit, because in the first round of the league, the opponent they encountered was last season's Premier League champion Arsenal. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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