Chapter 94: Premier League begins! First match against Arsenal!
Chapter 94: Premier League begins! First match against Arsenal!
Some people are happy, and naturally some people are sad.
With the start of the summer transfer window, news reports about Song Wen have sprung up like mushrooms after rain on the pages of various domestic football forums.
All kinds of gossip revealed that as long as Song Wen wanted, he would immediately become a member of a top club in the top five leagues in the next season.
Looking at Song Wen who is favored by major giants, and then looking at the Chinese national football team whose possibility of appearing is only theoretical.
It seems that it is clear at this moment who the clown is.
Song Wen's reputation in China has now become completely polarized.
This forced Song Wen to spend a lot more money every day to hire internet trolls to discredit himself.
Otherwise, he was really afraid that once the Chinese national football team was eliminated, the fans of the Chinese national football team who had no emotional support would target him, and he would then become a national idol.
And as public opinion was swirling, time flew by.
As the summer transfer window draws to a close, people's attention shifts to the last question.
Where did Song Wen go?
As the hottest figure in this transfer window, Song Wen had already been the subject of overwhelming rumors before the summer transfer window began.
However, until the summer window was about to close, there was still no news about Song Wen's transfer.
Neither Ipswich nor Song Wen said anything about the transfer.
When the media interviewed those clubs that had expressed interest in Song Wen, they often responded by saying that they were working hard on the negotiations.
Just a few days before the summer transfer window was about to close, Song Wen and Ipswich Town club simultaneously issued statements on the Internet, saying that they would continue to work together to compete in the Premier League next season.
This time, the entire football world was in an uproar.
Because before this, no one thought that Song Wen would continue to stay in Ipswich.
You know, before this, there were even rumors that a club wanted to pay a transfer fee far higher than the penalty for breach of contract to buy Song Wen.
This amount could be as high as 50 to 60 million.
Song Wen’s penalty clause is only 30 million, but for player transfers, it does not mean that once you pay the penalty clause, you can directly snatch the player from the other club.
Paying the penalty is just like redeeming the player and making him a free man.
If the player and you are not in love with each other, the player can even renew the contract with his old club after you pay the penalty.
The phenomenon of transfer fees being higher than liquidated damages is not uncommon in football.
This means that the player faces competition from multiple clubs.
If a player who has only played in the Championship for half a season can complete a transfer in the transfer market with a transfer fee of 60 million, this would be sensational news even in the entire history of football transactions.
And people will not question the authenticity of this transaction.
Because the ability and talent that Song Wen demonstrated on the court are unquestionable.
Moreover, he was only seventeen years old!
This represents his future, which has infinite possibilities.
Ipswich, a team called "country bumpkins" by many fans, has always been financially strapped.
If the deal for Song Wen can be completed, it is conceivable that Ipswich can even complete a small round of player reshuffle in the new Premier League season.
From an objective perspective, selling Song Wen now can be said to be the option that maximizes profits.
Because if Ipswich continues to bear Song Wen's high salary, it will be destined to not be able to strengthen its lineup too much next season.
Football is a competition between eleven people. It is obviously unrealistic to want to gain a foothold in the Premier League by relying solely on Song Wen.
And there is no way to guarantee that Song Wen will be able to have such a brilliant performance as he did in the Championship when facing the more competitive Premier League.
After all, a player's condition will always be affected by various factors, including injuries.
If Song Wen's performance in the Premier League next season is not satisfactory, his value will also drop.
If you want to sell it at a good price by then, it may not be as easy as it is now.
For Song Wen, joining a top club seems to be better for his future development prospects.
No one understood what Ipswich and Song Wen were thinking.
Only they themselves know.
Of course, in addition to these, there is also Daniel Levy, chairman of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, a Premier League big6 team from London.
What no one knew was that this man, who was known for his calculating skills and was regarded as the stingiest of the chairmen of the clubs in the top five leagues, had offered very attractive conditions to Ipswich Town and Song Wen during the summer transfer window.
The reason for this is that they played a low-key friendly match with Ipswich during the off-season.
Although Tottenham's stars Harry Kane and Son Heung-min did not play in that friendly match.
But this cannot be a reason for Tottenham to be beaten 3:1 by Ipswich.
Liewei immediately extended an olive branch to Song Wen, but was politely declined by Song Wen and the Ipswich Town Club.
Levi, a shrewd businessman who knew he could not impress Song Wen, would naturally not reveal Song Wen's performance in the friendly match and attract the covetousness of others.
And according to him, during the transfer period, Song Wen seemed to have some minor unhappiness with Arsenal head coach Wenger.
The Premier League game is about to kick off. Coincidentally, the opponent that has just been promoted to the Premier League in the first game is Arsenal, a giant among the Premier League's big6!
This instantly made the profiteer want to watch the fun.
On the last day of the summer transfer window, Ipswich Town officially announced their last signing for the new season.
Grealish transferred from Aston Villa.
This deal did not attract much attention. Although Grealish is now somewhat famous, he still has no status in the football world.
This deal was also made at the urging of Song Wen.
The reason why Song Wen wants Grealish to join is naturally not because Grealish has a lot of resources.
But it’s because this kid does have certain abilities.
Although Grealish has been called a fake by fans since he returned to Manchester City, he has been compared to Compass Squint.
But you have to know that the so-called parallel imports are compared to his transfer value of 100 million!
And now, Ipswich has signed Grealish from Aston Villa for only eight million.
After Ipswich bought Grealish, they moved Grealish from the midfield position to the winger position.
In this way, Song Wen's pressure on the offensive end will be greatly reduced.
During this summer transfer window, the clubs' moves were actually not very big.
The most sensational news was that Brazilian superstar Neymar left Barcelona and transferred to Paris Saint-Germain for 2.2 million euros.
Apart from this, other clubs have not made any shocking deals in terms of signings.
Song Wen did not pay too much attention to the news of other leagues, but simply learned about the transfer changes of the Premier League's big six.
, Chelsea coach Conte carried out a major cleanup of the first team, especially the substitutes. Of course, from the perspective of the first team lineup and the rotation substitutes, Chelsea still made targeted additions: Caballero replaced Begovic, Rudiger replaced Terry, and Bakayoko replaced Matic.
Judging from the value of these people alone, it seems that Chelsea's team strength has remained stable compared to last season.
But Chelsea have one more deal.
They replaced Costa with double reverse footballer Morata.
Manchester City coach Guardiola also carried out a crazy cleanup of the team this summer and strengthened the team with some players.
Compared with Manchester City, Manchester United's main players have also undergone relatively large adjustments.
So far, three players have left Manchester United.
The most eye-catching thing is that Ibrahimovic left the team, and Manchester United introduced the famous Belgian striker Lukaku.
And Manchester United has also made certain reinforcements to their midfield and backfield.
Although Arsenal is eager for change this season, the huge debt has always restricted Wenger's ability to do things.
Although Kolasinac and Lacazette were introduced, Arsenal fans were not too happy because the future of players such as Ozil, Sanchez and Chamberlain is directly related to the success or failure of Arsenal next season or even several seasons.
It should be noted that these three main players have only one year left on their contracts, and all of them have refused to renew their contracts. The outside world believes that they have already decided to leave the team, and Arsenal cannot accept the fact that they will lose both people and money. If this is true, then the £5300 million to introduce Lacazette, even if it breaks the record, will still have limited impact on the overall strength of the team. Therefore, Arsenal expressed a strong interest in Song Wen during this transfer period.
But Wenger was short of money and couldn't squeeze out any coins when he searched his pockets.
Wenger was initially hesitating between Lacazette and Song Wen. In fact, he contacted Song Wen first.
After learning that a club had offered 50 million for Song Wen, Wenger considerately gave the option of 50.01 million and allowed Song Wen to go to Arsenal for a trial.
To this, Song Wen’s answer was: “Song Wen never tries out.”
As for Liverpool, they signed the African Footballer of the Year, Pharaoh Salah, from Roma.
The two sides signed a five-year contract. Roma officially announced that the transfer fee was 4200 million euros, which also broke Liverpool's record for signings.
As for the players who left the team, except Lucas, the others are not even marginal players.
Song Wen briefly looked at the transfer situation of various top clubs and understood the situation.
After the team makes personnel adjustments every season, especially when the club spends a lot of money on signings, fans will have many expectations for the future.
But if you look at it from the perspective of a time traveler, some deals will become a laughing stock in the future, while some deals are worth the money.
For example, Liverpool. In the 17/18 season, with the joining of Salah, the Reds will also usher in their rise.
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2017 8 Month 12 Day.
The 2017/2018 English Premier League season has officially kicked off.
7pm local time.
There is less than half an hour left before the newly promoted Ipswich Town's first game after being promoted to the Premier League.
The first opponent they faced in the Premier League was Arsenal Football Club, a top club from the Premier League's big six.
Arsenal Football Club was founded in October 1886 by workers from the Royal Arsenal Arms Factory.
Initially, Arsenal played in friendly matches or participated in local competitions. It was not until 1891 that the team completed its professionalization reform.
Since Arsenal first entered the First Division, they have never left the top league to this day.
It became the only team in history that has never been relegated, and in the 1980s and 1990s it became one of the most dominant teams in Europe.
After this, Arsenal entered a period of dormancy until they welcomed their first foreign head coach.
That is the current head coach, Wenger.
Wenger is undoubtedly an excellent coach.
Under his leadership, Arsenal created the myth of winning the championship without losing 49 games in a row.
The best thing about this coach is not just his achievements in grades.
In Song Wen's opinion, the most amazing thing about Wenger is that he spent 1.36 million pounds and 20 years to build a stadium, and basically won the Champions League every year, as well as the league championship, which no other coach could have achieved.
Many people laugh at Arsenal for being a top four contender, but Song Wen knows how difficult it is to achieve this with a depleted team that is almost always short of manpower.
If you had to pick the best signing in Arsenal's history, it would have to be Arsene Wenger.
However, due to financial reasons, Wenger missed out on many outstanding players, and was jokingly called "Wenger's bad signing" by the fans.
As the saying goes, there is a stone of football jokes, but Arsenal has eight of them.
As one of the oldest and most powerful teams in the history of the Premier League, Arsenal has many loyal fans all over the world.
However, Arsenal's poor record in recent years has turned this once favorite team to win the championship into a team fighting for the top four.
Although Arsenal fans are reluctant to admit it, the Reds have undoubtedly become one of the favorite teams of online joke makers.
As long as she keeps her eyes on this North London powerhouse, Nana will never disappoint the fans.
The most talked-about among them is the temperature difference signature.
Wenger almost signed the player.
As a famous coach in the world of football, Wenger has a very accurate and sharp eye for discovering players.
Whether it is a young European player or a South American superstar, Wenger is always able to discover these future superstars at the first opportunity.
In fact, among many clubs, Arsenal was the first club to contact Ipswich and Song Wen.
In the history of temperature difference signings, the most famous are the peerless duo of Messi and Ronaldo.
After missing out on the two superstars, Wenger also missed out on big-name stars such as Ibrahimovic, Buffon, Pique, Pogba, Suarez, Di Maria and others.
If Arsenal had not missed them, perhaps they would be dominating the football world now.
In order to ease the embarrassment of not being able to sign players, the old man who wanted to save face said stubbornly during an interview:
"The strongest man is already in the formation."
As soon as this statement was made, it aroused heated discussion among countless fans, and the term "the most self-defense formation" was born.
Wenger had 70 million in his hand at the time, but perhaps because he was used to living a frugal life and had to cut back on everything, he did not make any moves in the transfer market, and was mocked by fans as "Seven Deposit Interest".
It means that 70 million is placed in the bank and earning interest.
When it comes to Arsenal's transfer signings, we have to mention "climbing trees and getting down trees".
In the summer window of 2013, the news that Higuain was about to transfer from Real Madrid was a hot topic.
Many authoritative European media have confirmed that the Argentine striker has arrived at Arsenal's medical examination room.
At that time, anxious Arsenal fans joked online that the signal in our village was not good, and everyone in the village climbed up trees to wait for the signal, but they still couldn't see any official news from Arsenal.
But what people didn't expect was that what the fans were waiting for was not Higuain joining Arsenal, but Higuain joining Napoli.
So the fans joked that Higuain went straight through Arsenal's medical examination room and went straight to Naples.
From then on, the fans’ act of waiting for the official announcement became climbing up the tree, and once the transfer was finalized, it became getting down from the tree.
Interestingly, in 13, Wenger made an offer to Suarez, who was then in the limelight at Liverpool.
The price was forty million plus one pound.
This directly made Liverpool management and Suarez himself feel that Arsenal was insulting them.
So I decisively chose to refuse.
Song Wen thought about the offer Arsenal made to him this time. It was obvious that they suffered a loss in the Suarez incident. They did not offer 50 million pounds plus one pound, but 50.1 million pounds. It was obvious that they learned from their mistakes.
But not a lot of them are long.
So although Song Wen understands Wenger very well and respects him very much.
But his statement that he offered Song Wen 50.1 million pounds and asked him to go directly for a trial was obviously too insulting.
In fact, it happened long before the game started.
The heated discussion on the Internet about Arsenal and Song Wen has long been a hot topic.
The offer Wenger made to Song Wen quickly spread.
As the pride of Ipswich, the Tractor Boys fans instantly felt greatly insulted and started a verbal battle with Arsenal fans on the Internet.
But the number of Arsenal fans was too large after all, and they soon drowned out the voices of Ipswich fans.
The media also interviewed Wenger, the person involved in this incident.
Facing media interviews, Wenger also seemed somewhat dissatisfied with Song Wen's words and deeds.
"I asked him to come for a tryout, but he actually told me that Song Wen never has a tryout. His pride will hurt him sooner or later."
Later, Song Wen also said in an interview with the media:
"Arsenal should not be called an arsenal, but a bowl-making factory, because they always hold their bowls outside and beg like beggars. Even when you are unwilling to put a coin in their bowls, they will rush up excitedly and bite you."
The confrontation between Wenger and Song Wen undoubtedly made the atmosphere between the two clubs more tense.
At this moment, when Song Wen looked up at his home stadium in Ipswich and saw that most of the seats were occupied by Arsenal fans, he knew -
He was able to restock.
(End of this chapter)