Vol 3 Chapter 6: Goal: Win the first round

No one can say clearly about the upcoming new season, but this summer, English football is definitely lively enough.
Like last summer, Chelsea, where Russia's richest man Abramovich settled, has become the protagonist of Europe. They have spent a lot of money in the European transfer market at almost no cost.
First of all, the most notable is that Porto champion coach Mourinho joined Chelsea. This news was confirmed before June. Mourinho almost confirmed his joining Chelsea after leading Porto to the championship. .
The media broke the news that Mourinho has already received the highest salary for coaches in the world. Chelsea has prepared a new four-year contract for him. The 41-year-old Mourinho will surpass England's card coach with an annual salary of 5 million pounds. Rickson became the world's highest-paid football team coach-a weekly salary of 100,000 pounds was the same as Chelsea's highest-paid Crespo and Belon, and this number even doubled Arsenal coach Wenger!
Mourinho has won two European Cups and countless domestic championships for Porto in a row. Before leaving, Mourinho also wants to give the club another gift. At present, the Porto club is in debt of 40 million pounds. If Mourinho can convince Abu The purchase of a few Porto players will be the opinion of Porto President Da Costa – although Da Costa is still threatening to bring Chelsea to UEFA in the name of
illegal contact
, the club is actively From the point of view of Real Madrid abandoning coach Queroz to take over Mourinho, the Porto chairman has long been "confessed".
Then, Deco, Delle, Costinia, Ricardo Carvalho and Paul Ferreira were all linked to the name of Chelsea. Although Bayern also has Deco, I believe that following the teacher to England Portugal's "magician" is the first choice. In addition, Mourinho also wants to bring the outstanding center defender Carvalho in the Champions League final to Stamford Bridge to replace the veteran old captain Deseli.
Just when many media questioned Mourinho's 'rights' in Chelsea, the team's chairman Abramovich gave Mourinho the greatest support, he said that Mourinho will have the club's 'leader' right. In other words, all of Chelsea's player sales are Mourinho alone.
So the transfer storm began.
First Ricardo Carvalho, Paul Ferreira, Tiago Mendes, then Cech, Robben, Kežman, Drogba ... Before the end of the European Cup, Chelsea almost flashed Completed a series of transfers. Among them, the biggest is Drogba's £ 24 million, which is definitely the world's top player, but Drogba has not been well-known before, which makes many media treat Chelsea as if they are injustice.
In just one month, Chelsea spent £ 95 million to buy stars. At the same time, they eliminated some players who were not in the plan even at a low price, which made Chelsea look new and upright immediately. Compared with last season, they can be described as 'stars gathering'.
So they immediately became the focus of the English media.
In contrast, another notable team is Liverpool. In the summer, Liverpool also completed a coaching change. The replacement of Hollier is the Spanish Rafael Benitez, who is only 43 years old. It is also a champion coach. He is only one year older than Mourinho.
In the coaching experience, Benitez has helped the team get two La Liga championship trophies, a Kings trophy and a European Union championship in Valencia's three years, which is not comparable to Mourinho leading Porto One big, one small and two 'Triple Champions' honors, but considering that Valencia is a La Liga team, they will face the competition of two giants-Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​Benitez's lead has been quite perfect It is also because of the 'little three crowns' results of the league champions, UEFA Cup champions and Kings Cup champions, Benitez has attracted the attention of all of Europe. After breaking up with Valencia in peace, he came to England and became the head coach of the Liverpool club.
Compared to Mourinho who came to England immediately and became the focus, Benitez seemed much more low-key, perhaps. This is also because the Liverpool club, whose economy cannot catch up with Chelsea, cannot get him this kind of attention, but Liverpool ’s recruitment still cost a lot of money, Harvey Alonso, Luis Garcia, Josemi, Cissé four players It also cost Liverpool 30 million pounds of funds, but at the same time they sold Husky and Murphy, and most importantly, they sold the English golden boy Michael Owen to Real Madrid. This made the media and fans in England very dissatisfied, so you can imagine what Liverpool can get.
But Liverpool is actually pretty good.
They surprisingly became the "second focus" behind Chelsea in the summer, which was very difficult in the past, although they are one of the Premier League giants, but since the formation of the Premier League, they have not obtained anything extraordinary Results, many fans are about to forget Liverpool-although they are still a strong contender for the Champions League places every season.
The Premier League's traditional 'overlord' Manchester United and last season's league champion Arsenal are much more low-key.
Manchester United seems to be only doing one thing in the summer-chasing Everton star Wayne Rooney, this news has been from March, and it is still the news until now, the only change is that everyone knows that Everton is sure It is to sell Rooney, and Manchester United must definitely buy Rooney, but because of this, Everton even more desperate to kill a knife on Manchester United, the result is the current situation-Everton's price for Rooney, It is difficult for Manchester United to accept, and at the same time they want to get Rooney.
The news about Manchester United in July seems to be the only one. In contrast, the joining of Alan Smith and Heinze seems to have not attracted people ’s attention at all. Perhaps these two players are also very difficult to attract the attention of fans. Their value is not high, for a team of this level at Manchester United, players worth millions of pounds are really nothing.
Arsenal ... even lower profile.
Everyone knows that they are raising funds for the construction of the new stadium. It is difficult for the club to have any transfer fees. In this case, Arsenal can understand it in a low-key manner. The only news that the media revealed is that they bought a Dutch star Van Persie. But it's just a striker. Look at the Arsenal strike line to know that this young kid must add to the depth of the bench. No one cares.
Otherwise it is gone.
This is Arsenal in July.
Compared to England's four most concerned teams. Derbyshire is naturally a little-known. Even though Derbyshire 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. Millions of pounds of transfers in the Premier League are everywhere, especially the players bought in Derbyshire are very unknown and it is more difficult to attract the attention of the media.
So since Derby County started preparing for the battle, the name of the team was hardly seen in the news.
Perhaps some media reporters want to know what Derby County is doing, but the team's training is closed. It has not even been open to the public for two weeks in a row, which has caused some media dissatisfaction. Many Derbyshire fans also want to see the team, but Wansheng insists on closed training. Except for the two warm-up matches, the team is not allowed to contact the outside world. Focus on training for the new season.
The effect of this persistent training is very good.
Everyone can feel the improvement of the team's tactical training, which gives everyone more confidence. Naturally, there are fewer complaints about hard training, which is especially reflected in the new players.
at the beginning. Van der Vaart and others can't understand the team's training. They don't know why everyone thinks so. It's just training. Just keep the state and know how the team can't play. But after a period of ‘no way to keep working hard’ training, they became a lot more active, because they obviously felt their improvement and at the same time could feel the improvement of the entire team in tactical training.
This is surprising.
In just two weeks, you can feel a significant improvement, which seems incredible to many people. It is like learning a sport. At the beginning, it is not at all. Generally, it takes a long period of practice to become proficient. In terms of football tactics, this is a long time. Generally speaking, teams are calculated in months or even years. Compared to skilled tactics, two weeks is almost the beginning, but they have felt that the team is already very skilled in tactics and can even apply tactics to the game. in.
This feeling is surprising, the old players are already used to it. They attributed this to Wan Sheng's ability, in their words, "This is the movement of science."
Van der Vaart and others began to dismiss this, but now they feel that their teammates are right, otherwise how to explain that they soon become familiar with tactics and can use the practice? What makes them particularly excited is that they adapt to the team very quickly. They thought they would have to spend a certain period of time to fully adapt to the team, but now they do n’t have this trouble, they feel that they can fully compete in the official game. Played, and can adapt to the position and have a good cooperation with teammates.
In this case, Wansheng also arranged two warm-up matches, one with Jilinham and the other with Middlesbrough.
Gillingham is a British Championship team (in the summer of 2004, the English Champions League was formed to replace the previous Premier League). The two teams were at the same level before, but they are now completely different. This is the first in Derbyshire in the summer. There was still a lot of attention in the warm-up game, but in the end Derby County only played 1: 0. Although the victory was good, but only won a goal, it was still a bit less.
After the game, the media's evaluation of Derby County's performance is, "The team played very well, and it seems that it was not as good as last season."
Afterwards, Derbyshire held a second warm-up match. The opponent was Middlesbrough led by McLaren. This is the warm-up match that Wan Sheng contacted him. His personal relationship with McLaren is not bad. He decided by a phone call. Warm-up match.
This warm-up match is a match between two Premier League teams. Before the league officially started, it was still very concerned. Even the opponents of those leagues have noticed the match of the two teams, but the game is actually not worth watching. Both coaches frequently adjusted their tactics during the game, and made frequent substitutions. Both teams didn't care about the results at all. The game ended at 2: 2 and the two teams drew and ended peacefully.
In the game, Derby County's play is still very general.
Applying a more positive comment from the media, "Derby County's performance is not as good as last season. Their strength has declined, and the new season can only target relegation."
This disappointed many Derbyshire fans.
At the same time, the English media's attention to Derbyshire has also decreased significantly. Although they were the stars of last season and are also expected in the summer, these two warm-up games and the low-key of Derbyshire have proved that they are just an ordinary team. .
Many people also think it is normal ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Derby County was excellent last season because they participated in the second-tier league and some of the strong will naturally perform well, but this season they have reached the top league, every game in the league The opponents they meet are all strong opponents, and every game is difficult for them, so they become ordinary teams.
After all, Derbyshire is really nothing compared to the massive investments of Chelsea and Liverpool and the historical strength of Manchester United and Arsenal.
In this kind of report and opinion, fewer people pay attention to Derbyshire.
But what many people do n’t know is that after the match with Middlesbrough, Wan Sheng led his team back to Derbyshire, and waited for all the players to get off the bus. 'S performance is good, as long as we can maintain the state after a week, we will definitely win the first round of the league! "
His words were full of confidence.
Many players also clenched their fists, full of fighting spirit, because in the first round of the league, the opponent they met was the Premier League champion Arsenal last season. (To be continued.) Xh118