Football's Number One Madman

Chapter 621 My physical fitness is not good!
Marina and Emenalo did not dare to complain to Abramovich in the end.

They are more aware than anyone else that they can sit firmly in the senior management position under Abramovich.

Not only did they not file a complaint, but their work efficiency was unprecedentedly efficient. After the meeting on August 8, they received their first scouting report that night!
Vilmar Barrios, a Colombian, was born in October 1993, with a height of 10cm, a weight of 179kg, and a lower back position.

The midfielder recommended by Hazard is not young anymore. Now he is about to turn 25 years old and has been playing in South America. Two years ago, he joined the old Argentine giants Boca Juniors for 250 million euros. .

Although he was doing well in Boca, after hearing that Chelsea wanted to buy him, this young man who had never seen the big world suddenly wanted to fly to London that day!

Since Abramovich bought the Blues, the entire world of football knows that even if they are substitute players at Chelsea, they are all rich and rich with millions of dollars a year!
With the player's wishes, the negotiations went extremely smoothly. Only two days later, Chelsea had reached a preliminary intention with Boca Juniors.

Compared with the price when they bought the player two years ago, Chelsea paid 4 times the transfer fee to the other party at one time!
1000 million euros! -
Affected by the World Cup, the preparations for the new season are very tense.

Apart from a meaningless warm-up match with a League One team on July 7, Chelsea's players have been undergoing the most basic physical recovery training.

No way, in the first team, 6 players played to the last round of the World Cup.

Champion England 3 people: Lee Polo, Cahill, Cheek.

Runner-up Belgian 1: Hazard, Courtois (just left).

2 runners-up from France: Kanter and Giroud (participating in the third runner-up battle).

In addition, Golovin and William reached the quarter-finals (July 7), and the physical condition of the entire team is not optimistic.

The first game of the new season is a contest with Manchester City.

Even if it's just the Community Shield, Chelsea can't afford to lose.

Last season, they overwhelmed Manchester City and snatched all the championships. If they lost to them in the first confrontation of the new season, wouldn't it be a shame? -
Although at the first player representative conference, Li Polo proposed to let Chelsea's youth players get more opportunities to play, but the head coach is Conte after all.

Although Lee Polo has unparalleled influence in the locker room, he does not intend to overthrow the fool Kong Er, and he directly holds three positions: player, director, and head coach.

So the two took a step back in a tacit understanding.

Except for Cheek named by Li Polo, who can be registered in the first team, other players can still only stay in the reserve team or U21, at most they can only participate in team training.
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On August 8, after sorting out the World Cup record, FIFA announced the latest ranking of the national team.

Belgium, which was originally ranked second, leapfrogged the 2014 world champion, Germany, which had been leading the standings before.

And England, which ranked 8th last time, relied on the momentum of winning the World Cup to surpass traditional strong teams such as Portugal, France, Argentina, Brazil, and Germany in one fell swoop, and ranked second in the standings.

This result is already real enough. After all, the score difference between England and Belgium was more than 300 points. Although the World Cup final is highly anticipated, it is not enough to offset such a huge gap in the cold and ruthless points system.

And because many teams were blown away by England, conceding too many goals caused them to deduct points to varying degrees, which led to some national teams that did not participate in the World Cup, but their positions in the standings rose...

For example, Panama, which was conceded 12 goals by England, their ranking was even surpassed by the Chinese team, which had been rested for two months...
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April 8, 5:2 p.m.

After a summer of concerts, the new Wembley Stadium finally ushered in the long-lost football match.

After all, in the city of London, Wembley can also be counted as half of Chelsea's home court.

In the warm-up training before the game, Chelsea also specially invited the chairman of the FA, Greg, to show off in front of [-] fans with the newly acquired Hercules Cup.

Lee Polo held up his small World Cup Golden Globe trophy and showed it off in front of the Blues fans.

It is no exaggeration to say that leading the team to win the first World Cup championship in half a century is enough for ordinary people in England to ignore his skin color and race and regard him as a hero of the whole country!
Of course, there will inevitably be some untimely voices.

For example, "Don't you feel ashamed to rely on the yellow race to win the championship?"

"Only trophies won by pure Anglo-Saxons are eligible to be placed in the Hall of Honor of the British Empire!"

However, now that Lee Polo is in the limelight, these insignificant voices are no different from mosquitoes, and will not have any impact on his reputation.
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Considering the physical condition of the players, both Conte and Guardiola have arranged a rotation lineup.

For Chelsea, the absolute main players such as Hazard, Kanter, Cahill, and William all took turns, and young players such as Cheek and Callum Odoi got the chance to start.

However, in contrast, Fabregas, Pedro, Alonso, Azpilicueta, Rudiger and other players are still on the starting list. This is thanks to Germany and Spain for their early start in the World Cup. go home……

Manchester City has also been affected by the World Cup.

The old captain Kompany is still recuperating from his injuries. Players who participated in the finals such as De Bruyne, Sterling, Stones, and Walker have not entered the squad, and most of the players are still at a loss in physical fitness.

However, in the starting 11, the main players such as Aguero, Fernandinho, Sane, B seat, Mendy, Otamendi, Gundogan, Ederson, etc. are still retained, as well as those who have just completed the transfer. Will Mahrez.

Compared with Chelsea, which has a disorganized lineup, Manchester City's starting strength is obviously stronger.

Perhaps considering that his starting lineup was too strong, Guardiola also arranged 19-year-old Diaz, 18-year-old Foden, and 18-year-old Claudio Gomez on the bench. What fantasy.

For example, Lee Polo, who was at the end of the battle, left the field early because of his physical condition, and Manchester City took advantage of the situation to take the lead, so he could let the young people play to see the world...

This is entirely conceivable.

As a top professional player and coach, Guardiola has also experienced the sequelae after the national team game, which is the so-called "FIFA virus".

Especially after a major event like the World Cup, the state of the players tends to experience huge ups and downs.

This is the case with Sterling and De Bruyne in the Manchester City team. Whether they are champions or runners-up, they are not only in poor physical fitness, but also in a mental state that has not entered the rhythm of the new season at all, so they are directly excluded from the squad today. outside……

Stones is better, after all, he is only England's rotation central defender, and he only played the last 10 minutes in the final, and he can still stand by on the bench.

Lee Polo seems to have seen through Manchester City's thinking. When he was in the team in the player tunnel, he frankly admitted to the Manchester City players:
"Guys, I want to tell you that I'm not in the right shape, so I can only play 60 minutes and even be replaced at half-time."

Although Aguero, Sane, Gundogan and others standing a few steps away were surprised by his speech, they still didn't say anything when they thought of the tragic failures in the past few years.

[This guy's stomach is full of bad water, you can't sympathize with him! 】

[No, he just won the World Cup, who would sympathize with him? 】

Li Boluo opened his arms and showed his signature kind smile:

"So, if you want to beat me, you have to give it your all in the first half, otherwise... I'll make the second half garbage time!"

Aguero couldn't help but pursed his lips.

[Made, I knew this bastard didn't have a good word! 】

[Negative sentiment from Manchester City's starting 11, +4848!]
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Attached (no billing):

2018-2019 season Chelsea first team lineup:

Goalkeepers (3 people): No. 32 Navas, No. 20 Caballero, No. 37 Eduardo

Defenders (8): No. 2 Rudiger, No. 3 Alonso, No. 5 Cristo, No. 21 Zapa Costa, No. 24 Cahill (captain), No. 27 Christensen, No. 28 Azpilicueta (vice captain), No. 31 Tomori
Midfielder (7): No. 4 Fabregas, No. 6 Golovin, No. 7 Kanter, No. 8 Barrios, No. 12 Loftus-Cheek, No. 15 Moses, No. 38 Mount;
Forwards (6): No. 1 Lee Polo, No. 9 Remy, No. 10 Hazard, No. 11 Pedro, No. 18 Giroud, No. 22 William.
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