Chapter 167 Abu's expectations
Now is the time for Chelsea to be proud. Like in previous seasons, they have invested a lot of capital in the transfer market to supplement the team's lineup.
Shepchenko, Mikel, Bolaruz, Kalu, and the names of these players are put together. Even if Damien Duff and others recycle 18 million pounds, Chelsea will undoubtedly become the largest player in the transfer expenses of the Premier League and even Europe this summer.
Among these players who arrived, the most important ones are Shepchenko and Barak.
Shepchenko is undoubtedly one of the top striker scorers in world football. He is the absolute core main force of A Milan. He has become the best scorer in the Serie A league in two seasons. Last year, he also won the top honor for European players - the Golden Globe Award, which has brought his personal career to the peak.
He is undoubtedly the world's top superstar.
Barack is even more worth looking forward to than Shepchenko. He is the captain of the German team, Bayern Munich, the German national team's absolute core player. He is the best current star in Germany. His arrival has made Chelsea's midfield configuration reach the top in the world.
Not only that, Chelsea is also striving to win the joining of Ashley Cole. Ashley Cole may not be as famous as the first two, but he is undoubtedly England's best full-back after 2000, and even one of them can be removed, especially when he is only 26 years old, and at the peak of an upright professional player, such a player can greatly enhance Chelsea's ability to defend and attack on the side.
Of course, Ashley Cole's value is definitely not low.
If this transfer is finalized, Chelsea's transfer fee investment and pure expenditure will set a new record since Abramovich took over Stamford Bridge.
In this case, Chelsea's enthusiasm is impressed.
Their goals in the new season will undoubtedly charge towards the Premier League and Champions League double-line champions, but at the same time, they were also very unhappy when they thought about their previous results. For two consecutive seasons, they lost to the team led by Wan Sheng in the league, and they could only ranked second in the Premier League and in the UEFA Champions League. Their performance was not satisfactory, one in the top four and one in the top sixteen, which was even worse than Chelsea led by Rather in the 20304 season.
So before they win the double-line championship, they have to use the game to prove something.
This time the match with Manchester City is just right. They want to avenge their revenge in the first game and let everyone in the world see whether Chelsea is strong, whether Chelsea is strong, or whether Chelsea is stronger!!
The first round of the two sides was at Stamford Bridge Stadium.
Before the game, London media had tried their best to build momentum for the game and played the slogan of "foundation" and the "foundation battle", which was the foundation for Chelsea's victory in winning the championship.
Then they did not forget to use Wansheng’s ‘slogan’ to help Chelsea promote.
"Last season, it was also at this time. Wan Sheng said that Manchester City's goal was the league championship. Now it's Chelsea's turn to say this. Chelsea's goal is the league championship, the UEFA Champions League champion! It is the king of Europe! Now is Chelsea's first step to win the championship, opponent, Manchester City!"
"Chelsea wants to use a good start to prove to England fans who is the strongest club in the Premier League! Manchester City just won a league championship. It is impossible to always have good results based on luck and motivation. Everything still has to be said according to strength! This season has not started yet, but we can already look forward to Chelsea's championship!"
"This is a good opportunity to prove it! The team will be very motivated by the defending champion in the first game!"
"Chelsea introduced many superstars in the summer. Barack's joining was already at the end of May. Now Chelsea has completed another transfer that shocked the world football world. They introduced Ukrainian 'nuclear warhead' from A Milan for 50 million euros. Last year's Golden Globe winner Andre Shepchenko! Today, Chelsea has gathered all the best stars on this planet!"
"Shepchenko, Barak, Drogba, Marklele, Lampard, Terry, Robben"
"A few seasons ago, Real Madrid called them the Galaxy battleship, but now Chelsea is the real battleship, but perhaps it is more suitable to call it the 'Blue Battleship'!"
The London media that supports Chelsea desperately want to prove that Chelsea is enough to defeat any team they encounter, and these teams naturally include Manchester City.
Chelsea also thinks so.
Club chairman Abramovich is very optimistic about the new season, and the first two seasons disappointed him. His expectation was originally to "conquer Europe", but Mourinho led the team but did not even conquer Britain. While annoyed Mourinho's performance in leading the team, Abramovich also knew that he had thought it was too simple before. European football clubs, especially European giants, are not easy to deal with. It is not just a few stars to bring a top coach, and the team can achieve good results. What Chelsea lacks is that kind of foundation, such as Arsenal and A-Milan last season. Arsenal is also good. They can enter the finals of the UEFA Champions League with a momentum, but they still lose to A-Milan easily in the finals?
This is the naked gap in strength between the two teams!
Last season, Chelsea seemed to have outstanding players in every position, but in fact, they are not better than other teams. Compared with Manchester City, which is the champion of the league, Anelka is not inferior to Drogba at all, Morris is not inferior to Lampard, Distin, Dunn and others, nor is it much worse than Terry and Carvalho. Even if Chelsea players are expensive, one transfer will increase the player's value, and the other is the player who has the "champion halo" and is in the age of playing. When it comes to the real field, they may not be much better than those blue-collar players in the top court.
This may also be an important reason why Chelsea cannot conquer England and Europe with absolute strength.
So the key is to introduce a few real superstars, such as Barcelona, their famous Ronaldinho, such as A Milan, they have superstars such as Shepchenko, Kaka, Pirlo, etc., such as Bayern Munich, they have Balacquered and almost all the German football markets, and almost all German players will hope to join Bayern Munich, and they will not lack outstanding players.
In contrast, who is Chelsea?
Lampard, Drogba? No, they are still far from the real top stars.
So this summer, Abramovich took great efforts to bring Barack and Shepchenko. Now Chelsea is no different from the top giants!?
The big deal in summer is enough to explain to fans. The rest of the work is coming to this season.
Now Chelsea will use the game to prove the rise of England's new giants!
Abramovich is full of confidence in the first league with Manchester City. His smugness is the joining of two superstars Shepchenko and Barack, who is already planning to watch the game in person.
But Chelsea coach Mourinho has a headache for the team.
The most important thing is Shepchenko.
Shepchenko is not the player he needs, and the reason why Chelsea sought to buy Shepchenko was the idea of club chairman Abramovich.
No one could interfere with his team before, but now it is different. Because he failed to lead the team to achieve ideal results in two seasons (first in the league), Abramovich already doesn't trust him so much, and then it is inevitable that this strong chairman will point fingers at the team.
Shepchenko can be said to be Abramovich forced into Chelsea, but Mourinho is still welcomed by Shepchenko's joining on the surface. After all, this is the world's top striker's striker, but the arrangement for this shooter has become a problem.
First of all, whether Shepchenko can adapt to Chelsea’s tactics in a short time and whether she can quickly integrate into the team is a headache.
Chelsea's tactics are not that complicated. The formation is just 442 and 433. Choose one of them. Mourinho claimed to the outside world that "use which formation is easy to use." In fact, he also thinks so, but even if the tactics are not that complicated, it still needs to be adapted. Some small tactics and other things need to be done step by step, especially Shepchenko has just scored the team and has almost no tacit understanding with his teammates. It will take him a long time to play for Chelsea.
In addition, even if the Ukrainian adapts to Chelsea, can he adapt to the Premier League?
This is a very critical issue.
Unlike Serie A, the league's confrontation ranks first in the world football world, and many players from other leagues cannot adapt to the Premier League. This is also a wide range of top scorers in other leagues, but English clubs like to use English players.
Shepchenko has played in the Italian league for several years and it is not easy to adapt to the Premier League. But the key problem is that Mourinho cannot put him on the bench for a long time because he is a player Abramovich is optimistic about, and even has a good personal relationship with Abramovich. He is also a heavyweight star introduced by Chelsea for 50 million euros.
A 50 million euro star, sitting on the bench for a long time? Even Mourinho himself feels unreasonable.
Now that we are about to enter the league and fight with Manchester City, how to arrange Schepchenko has become a problem. Mourinho thought carefully and could only choose to include Schepchenko on the roster and put it on the lineup. After all, whether Schepchenko can adapt is still a matter of doubt. This has not been confirmed. He also hopes that Ukrainian stars can perform well.
Wan Sheng didn't know that Mourinho was worried about Chelsea's "superstar". If he knew, he would definitely smile bitterly, because he also hoped to have such "happy troubles".
He won't worry about his opponent, but before the game, he still smiled when he saw that there was Shepchenko on the Chelsea roster.
As a time traveler, especially a time traveler who likes football in his previous life, Wan Sheng is very clear about Shepchenko's performance after transferring to Chelsea. He is not even as good as second-tier stars such as Mikel and Kalu. After playing for Chelsea for three seasons, he returned to A Milan. A Milan is unwilling to spend any transfer fees to buy him.
It can be said that Shepchenko's joining Chelsea was the beginning of his career to the end. Then it is easy to imagine how much he will perform in the first league game of the Premier League.
The outside media said that Manchester City needs to be "beware of" Shepchenko's outbreak, but in fact, when Wan Sheng arranged the team's defense, the player he focused on was still Drogba.
Compared to Shepchenko, Mr. "Warcraft" is more terrifying.
In the Stamford Bridge visiting team locker room, Wan Sheng put down the roster and said to all the players, "You should pay attention to Drogba, he knows how to defend, right?"
Kopelle Ferreira, Dunn and others nodded. They are no strangers to Drogba. They played against Chelsea twice last season, which is enough to give them experience in defending Drogba.
"Where is Sheva?" Joey Patton asked.
"You should also pay attention, but there is no need to focus on the defense. I think their midfield will be more threatening." The midfield composed of Lampard and Barack is of course very threatening!
In fact, there is no way for Wan Sheng to do this. Chelsea have too many stars, such as Drogba, Lampard, and Barack all have to focus on guarding. Even if they are on the wing, Chelsea and Robben and Wright Phillips, they cannot focus on guarding all the opponent's stars. In this case, they have to have a choice to mark.
Wan Sheng means that when you want to defend against Drogba and Shepchenko at the same time, focus on defending Drogba, and letting go of Shepchenko is related to the choice of players on the court and may also be directly related to the safety of the goal.
Abramovich sat in the VIP room early and waited for the game to begin.
Wadell sat with him.
The two can only know each other. For several seasons, Chelsea and Manchester City have met, and sometimes when both of them come, they will sit together. After all, they are the presidents of their respective clubs.
In the previous few seasons, Abramovich would have the last laugh because Manchester City is not Chelsea's opponent at all.
Last season was different. Manchester City and Chelsea met twice, winning and drawing, and gaining an advantage. Abramovich saw Wadel again, and his expression on his face was not good.
But Abramovich still smiled because he believed the victory belonged to Chelsea.
Wadell smiled, too.
Manchester City was the league champion last season. This is Manchester City's first league game. It is hard to say who wins and loses the game against Chelsea. He believes in winning ten thousand wins, but probably that young Chinese can win without 100% sure, right? So he came with a failure mentality.
If you lose, you lose!
Wadel has been the chairman of Manchester City for so many years and has lost too many games, and it doesn't matter at all. He comes with the mentality of appreciating the game, and also wants to see the specific situation of Manchester City's new season.
This kind of mentality will make you feel much more relaxed, so his smile is very sincere.
The two shook hands politely, then returned to their seats, and looked at the competition field through the window.
Players on both sides are playing at this time.
Abramovich's smile became stronger because he saw Andre Shepchenko, the best "members" in the lineup, in the lineup, he spent 50 million euros, but not only bought a superstar, but also brought the "members" he admired the most to Chelsea and established a dynasty with him, which also made him think the money was very worthwhile.
Now he has begun to look forward to Shepchenko's performance. (.)
Chapter completed!