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Chapter 391 Glasgow

This summer, Chelsea experienced a coach change. Their head coach Mourinho left his post and was unable to find a replacement for the Portuguese, so the transfer work was completed by the youth supervisor and the competitive operation department.

Perhaps due to the influence of Russian politics, Abramovich became afraid to invest too much in Chelsea clubs, so Chelsea changed from spending a lot of money to being careful.

The Blues' summer transfer investments in the past three years have been 89.05 million, 56.1 million and 86.32 million pounds respectively, but they have only spent 13.5 million this year and have only signed in free agents for one time.

This transformation has been shown in the winter transfer last season, which is due to Abramovich's tightening of money, and it is not ruled out that Mourinho helped Chelsea gradually improve the lineup in two years. Just as the Times commented, "Chelsea's lineup is almost inexchangeable."

Chelsea's summer signings are mainly to enhance the thickness of the lineup. Last season, the team's large-scale injuries made the team "learning one's mistakes and gaining wisdom". So they introduced new players to thicken the depth of the bench - Ben Haim, Pizarro, and Sidwell, all of which were difficult for players to enter the main lineup for a while, but they were all very good supplements to their respective positions.

Israeli defender Ben Haim can play in four positions in the defense line and is particularly experienced in playing center backs. Once there is a problem with Terry or Carvalho, he can take the lead in time; Pizarro provides a new choice for the center position, his characteristics are comprehensive, and the adaptability of the Peruvian is a problem; Sidwell is the pillar of Reading, and many people think that he will be the insurance of Chelsea midfielder.

The only one who spent the transfer fee to introduce was Maluda. The Frenchman is also the most likely to hit the main position among the new players. The introduction of Maluda is also a complete solution to the lack of Robben's departure, giving Chelsea hope to continue to use Mourinho's tactics and allow Chelsea's "windback tactics" to continue.

From Chelsea’s transfer, the Sun believes that “Although Mourinho did not help Chelsea win a league championship, he has had a great impact on the team for three years.”

Chelsea's biggest problem is also here. The preparations in summer are even completed by Mourinho's assistant coach, who is also his "junior brother" Boas.

After continuing to find a suitable coach, Peter must stand up with Abramovich. He straightened the Israeli Avran Grant, who served as the head of the football department, and asked him to take over the coaching staff of the Chelsea coach.

Avran Grant has lost his reputation in European football, but he became the head coach very early.

In 1974, after 19-year-old Avran Grant coached the Petah youth team and won the Israeli Youth League championship, he was promoted to become the head coach of the adult team by the Petah club, rewriting the record of the youngest adult team in Israel.

In the 1990-1991 season, Grant led the team to win the league runner-up, thus getting the opportunity to coach Maccabi in Tel Aviv.

In Tel Aviv Grant led the team to the Israeli League championship with a 13-point lead in his first season.

In 2000, he took over the position of head coach of Haifa Maccabi, Tel Aviv's "dead enemy".

In two years, Grant won two league titles and won the 2002 Toto Cup.

After Grant left his post as head coach of the national team, Haifa Maccabi still became the first Israeli team to enter the European Champions League group stage in the 2002-2003 season.

In 2002, 46-year-old Grant was promoted to the head coach of the Israeli national team. He became the youngest and most successful head coach in the country's history. He led a young and inexperienced Israeli team to remain unbeaten in the 2006 World Cup qualifiers, leaving only France and Switzerland to bid farewell to the German World Cup.

Only after that did Grant officially step out of the Israeli gate and come to the UK to become the football department head of Portsmouth. He fought side by side with head coach Harry Redknapp and experienced a successful season.

Looking back at Avran Grant's coaching career, it is actually a bit tragic. He became the head coach of a professional club at the age of 20. After more than 20 years, he failed to leave the territory of Israel. He came to the United Kingdom to make a fortune. Grant failed to get a head coach position and could only serve as a football department head, which is almost equivalent to an assistant coach position.

Then in May this year, Grant left Portsmouth to serve as Chelsea's football department head.

Perhaps even he himself did not expect that this choice allowed him to complete a big step in his professional coaching career. After Chelsea's coach Avran Grant coach Mourinho left, Chelsea was unable to find a suitable candidate to be the head coach, and Grant was "strong" to take over.

Needless to say, Grant is secretly happy, although everyone knows that he can only be regarded as Chelsea's "interim coach". With this resume, as long as he can lead the team to achieve good results, he will easily find other opportunities to coach in top league teams in the future.

However, there is pressure when there is opportunity.

Not everyone can handle the Chelsea head coach. First of all, Grant has to face two problems. One is the authority of the team. There are many big-name stars in Chelsea, and they don’t trust Grant’s coaching ability at all, so Grant has no authority at all.

For example, the team's forward scorer Drogba kept clamoring to leave after Mourinho left. How long does he have to stay at Stamford Bridge? It even became a hot topic among major European bookmakers. Just after the tenth round of the Premier League, Chelsea vice captain Frank Lampard told the media that Chelsea will try his best to retain Warcraft. The reason is very simple. He is the world's top scorer.

In the tenth round of the league, Drogba scored the winning goal of Chelsea's victory over Middlesbrough, which was also the second goal in two games Drogba's return from injury.

This was a good thing, but Drogba repeatedly emphasized that he hoped to leave Stamford Bridge because Jose Mourinho's departure had already lost his combat effectiveness, but as a teammate, Lampard hoped Drogba could change his mind.

"Didill is one of the best forwards in the world, and he is the best forward I have ever seen." Lampard declared, "There are many types of forwards in the Premier League, such as Manchester United's Rooney, who usually scores with strong bodies. For example, Manchester City's Torres, who usually scores with skills, but Drogba's skill, body, and speed are all in one. I think he is the strongest forward in the Premier League."

"You can find him at any position on the court, whether it is running, strength or assist, and he can also kick his head and feet, and he can do everything."

"He is the best striker in the Premier League at present, he is also the spiritual leader in the team's locker room. He has never given up any game. No one in the football world can always be full of fighting spirit like him."

"It is crucial for the club to stay at Stamford Bridge. Every player in the Blues wants teammates like Drogba to be around."

Drogba is 29 years old, but he has gained interest from many European giants. Many media believe that the Ivorians are likely to leave England after the end of this season.

AC Milan, Real Madrid, Ligue 1 six-time champion Lyon and Bayern Munich all expressed their hope to sign the powerful African striker. Today, the Italian media revealed the latest new giants that are preparing to acquire Warcraft - Inter Milan!

Wan Sheng is still very concerned about the news about Chelsea, because Manchester City will play the 11th round of the league with Chelsea, but he is very disdainful of what Lampard said, "Drogba is the best striker in the Premier League."

Lampard said that Rooney relies on her body and Torres relies on her skills, which is nothing wrong with him, but where does he place other strikers, such as Darren Bent?

Darren Bent, his skills are much better than Drogba, his health is a bit worse, but he is definitely not bad. Speaking of speed, there are not many players who run better than Darren Bent Express. Besides, the most important data for the striker - goals.

Darren Bent currently scored 6 goals in 10 league rounds and 1 goal in 2 Champions League games. This efficiency is definitely the top in the Premier League. Even Drogba, who is in the best form, is difficult to compare.

Compared to Darren Bent, Drogba is hard to have any advantage.

Wan Sheng just smiled at Lampard's statement. As Manchester City's head coach, he didn't need to argue with a Chelsea vice captain.

Before the league with Chelsea, Manchester City still has two games to play.

One game was the English League Cup, and Manchester City's opponent was Derby County. In this game, ten thousand wins were rotated, and several main players did not play. Some substitutes, such as Lungberg, Giovani Morisio, Boateng, etc., got the opportunity.

In comparison, Derby County has less intention to win. Their biggest goal is to be able to complete relegation. The League Cup is of little significance to them. In order to deal with the upcoming 11 rounds of the league, they have not even sent out their main lineup, and Bolton Reit has not obtained playing time.

As a result, Manchester City won the victory easily 2:0.

Two days after the League Cup, it was the Champions League group stage. Manchester City took the train to Glasgow. The three-hour journey was still a bit far away. Manchester City set off in the morning and arrived in Glasgow at noon. They rested in the arranged hotel for one afternoon. In the afternoon, all the players gathered and entered the Ebrox Stadium to warm up.

In the Champions League e-group, Glasgow Rangers are the fourth-level team. In terms of strength, they are the weakest in the group, but their performance in the first two rounds was very good. It is not something that ordinary teams can do, but Glasgow Rangers did it, especially the three away wins of Lyon in the last game, which made the team's morale stand.

After defeating Lyon, the Glasgow Rangers continued their strength in the Scottish League. Just five days ago, they just defeated the Celtics 3-0.

This also made their morale reach one.

In this case, it is definitely not a good time to deal with Glasgow Rangers away. (To be continued.)
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