Football’s First Defender

Although Chelsea won the Premier League title and the FA Cup title after the season, the team did not complete the ultimate goal of defending the Champions League, but it is also a reality.

With the advent of summer, there is a more realistic question, which is where is Chelsea's goal for the next season?

For the fans, what they are looking forward to is actually very simple, that is, a championship, a variety of championships, from the Champions League, the league championship, to the FA Cup, the League Cup.

But for the management, they need to consider the team's investment in the next season based on the team's true goal.

After all, football in reality is not a game. Every player in the team represents a huge salary!

Because Chelsea won the Champions League before, in front of the Chelsea boss, there was still a carrot of "the first restructured team to defend the Champions League".

But with the elimination of Inter Milan this season, this carrot is gone, and for Abramovich, it is now a lost goal.

It's like a level game. For Abramovich today, it seems that there are no more levels worth conquering in the next season, or in other words, there is no achievement that can be achieved immediately.

As for the defending league champion, Mourinho did it in the era.

The achievement of multiple crowns can actually be won every season, and the difficulty is really a bit big. With so many strong teams in the Premier League, Abramovich still has an AC number in his heart.

So when there is not much desired result, the lineup that Chelsea has built to cope with the defending of the Champions League is a bit too bloated, and the team’s salary expenditure is too much.

Abramovich is indeed rich, but no matter how rich he is, it is impossible to invest without a bottom line in the game of football.

In recent years, Abramovich has focused on building Chelsea’s youth training system, and used his financial resources and influence to build some satellite teams for Chelsea.

In particular, the Eredivisie, which is a European sub-level league, has become a training place for the little monsters in the Chelsea youth training camp.

As for Abramovich, who treats Chelsea as a business, his goal is to make Chelsea a real giant, not a nouveau riche with countless money.

So in the new season, Chelsea also need to consider, cut spending, and have a benign financial environment.

The first is to save a lot of transfer fees. With the overall tactical framework of the team stable, and most of the main players still have long-term appointments, Chelsea will not be surprised next season and will only focus on the league, so now Chelsea’s lineup is definitely sufficient.

The team will pay more attention to the construction of a new training base, as well as the emphasis on youth training, and create new blood for the first team.

However, although Chelsea has retained the overall framework of the team, there are too many players from the corners.

As soon as the season ended, the confirmed departure list made Chelsea coach Ancelotti heartache.

In the first team, the young player Matic’s lease and leveling leave did not let Ancelotti’s attention, but the free transfer of the four players of Ballack, Belletti, Joe Cole and Deco really made Ann. Celotti was heartbroken.

Especially Ballack and Joe Cole, but now Chelsea's midfield attack is an effective supplement, and the playing time is not a lot. The departure of these two men will have a huge impact on Chelsea's attack and defense in the middle of next season.

After that, the agents of Alex, Carvalho, Kalu, and even Yang Feng, who were still in the team's plan, applied to the team for a transfer!

For Alex and Carvalho, the two central defenders whose playing time has been significantly reduced during the season due to Yang Feng's suppression, chose to transfer and leave, Chelsea can still understand.

As for Kalu himself, leaving is also very simple. In most of the time he can only be a substitute forward, Kalu, who has enough team honors in his hand, really wants to go to a team that can play the main force and chase. Better growth.

But for Yang Feng's application for a transfer, Chelsea's management didn't understand it. The first thing they thought was that this was Yang Feng's agent who wanted to sign a new contract for Yang Feng and raise his salary.

But there is no need to urge Yang Feng’s agent to raise wages. With two years left in the contract, Chelsea should indeed reopen a high-priced contract to retain the cornerstone of the team’s future centre-back.

However, the new contract for Chelsea's salary increase was not approved by Yang Feng. It was not the agent who was playing tricks, but Yang Feng himself rejected it.

For Chelsea, Yang Feng certainly has feelings, but as far as the future direction of the team is concerned, Yang Feng does not intend to hang himself on the Chelsea tree.

Although Chelsea won the Champions League early due to Yang Feng's butterfly effect, the future direction of the team, so far, does not seem to have changed much.

After completing most of his achievements, Abramovich is not so obsessed with investment, and Chelsea's own management has its own internal division.

Moreover, with a group of meritorious veterans occupying positions, it is difficult for the team to give the newcomers enough playing time.

Not surprisingly, in terms of Chelsea's current development trend, even if Yang Feng joins, the general trend of the team will not change in the future.

Yang Feng remembers that the invincible Chelsea in the Mu’s second period and the glorious moment of the three-back Chelsea in the Conte era were all wiped out after a season. The power struggle within Chelsea will affect Chelsea in the future. Good giants team.

Yang Feng still wants to go to a team that can desperately fight for honor, to a vigorous team, to a team that can prove his strength even more.

The World Cup is in full swing, but Chelsea’s transfer department has not stopped in the slightest. On the one hand, they are paying attention to the new aid in the transfer market. After many main substitute players have left the team, the team must make appropriate supplements. , They also face poaching from other teams.

Real Madrid, after receiving the gossip that Yang Feng wanted to transfer, directly quoted Yang Feng at the sky-high price of 40 million pounds!

Without any hesitation, Mourinho, who helped Inter Milan win the Champions League and retired to Real Madrid after winning the Triple Crown, showed a certain attitude towards Yang Feng, a central defender.

The high transfer fee of 40 million pounds is definitely a huge sum of money in this era of tight money, and it also broke the 30 million pounds created by Ferdinand that year’s highest net worth for a defender. Chelsea’s management said it was a fake not to be moved. .

Football has never been a non-sale item, not for sale, but the quoted price is not enough!

But for core players like Yang Feng, the decision is still in the hands of the team's big boss.

Abramovich really wants to make Chelsea the kind of team that balances payments and can make blood by itself, but this does not mean that Abramovich is short of money and will completely turn Chelsea into a profit-oriented business field ~ www.readwn.com ~ even in the media The news about Yang Feng’s high-priced transfer spread all over the world, but Chelsea eventually rejected Real Madrid’s offer.

Even if Real Madrid later increased the price to 50 million pounds, which is about the same value as Kaka last year, the outside world thinks Mourinho has gone crazy. Chelsea rejected the offer even more crazily. Yang Feng is the team's not for sale...

Although Yang Feng has not planned to start the renewal negotiations for a long time, Yang Feng, who has a two-year contract, does not have to make Chelsea too panic.

Chelsea management still believes that they can keep Yang Feng, even for a top salary in the Premier League, but Chelsea will not easily let go of this kind of central defender who can serve as the core of the future.

Kalu was bought by the French team Lille, and Alex moved to Paris Saint-Germain at a low price, but Mourinho, who did not buy Yang Feng, took away the former favorite Carvalho.

Except for Yang Feng's failure to make it, Chelsea are open to the departure of other players.

But compared with the loss of many players, Chelsea did not invest much in introducing players.

Due to Yang Feng and Terry, in last season's iron man attribute, for the central defender reserve this item, Chelsea only low-cost introduction of the Czech Republic Callas as a substitute central defender.

However, for the midfield position, Chelsea’s supplement is still sufficient. Benfica player Ramirez joined Chelsea with a summer top ten worth 22 million euros. With him, the original Liverpool player Benayoun has two midfielders. With the addition of players, coupled with some young talents in the youth team, Chelsea believes that their team can still have a battle in the Premier League in the new season.

Although Yang Feng wants to transfer and leave, there is no accident. Maybe he will have to play another season at Chelsea...