Chapter 391 Glasgow

This summer, Chelsea experienced a coaching change. Their head coach Jose Mourinho left his post and could not find a replacement for the Portuguese, so the transfer work was all done by the youth director and the sports operations department. .

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

In the past three years, the Blues' summer transfer investment was 89.05 million, 56.1 million and 86.32 million pounds respectively, but so far this year, it has only spent 13.5 million, and at one time only signed free agents.

There are signs of this change from last season's winter transfer. There are both reasons for Abramovich's tight money, and it is not ruled out that in two years, Mourinho has helped Chelsea to gradually improve the lineup, just like "The Times" " commented, "Chelsea's lineup is almost irreplaceable."

Chelsea's summer signings are still mainly to enhance the thickness of the lineup. Last season's large-scale injuries made the team "eat a bit and grow smarter", so they introduced new players to increase the depth of the bench--Ben Haim, Pi Salo and Sidwell are both players who are difficult to enter the main lineup for a while, but they are all good supplements to their respective positions.

Israeli defender Ben Haim can play four positions on the defensive line, and he is especially experienced in playing central defenders. Once Terry or Carvalho have problems, he can top them in time; Pizarro has provided a new choice for the center position, and his characteristics are comprehensive , the Peruvian's adaptability is a problem; Sidwell is the mainstay of Reading, many believe that he will be the insurance of Chelsea midfielder.

The only one who spent the transfer fee to introduce is Malouda. The French is also the most likely to hit the main position among the new aids. The introduction of Malouda also makes up for the lack of Robben's departure, giving Chelsea hope to continue to use Mourinho. tactical ideas, so that Chelsea's 'winger tactics' continue.

From Chelsea's transfer, the "Sun" thinks. "Although Mourinho didn't help Chelsea win a league title, his three years in charge at Chelsea made a big impact on the team."

Chelsea's biggest problem is also here. The preparations in the summer were even led by Mourinho's assistant coach and his 'little brother' Boas.

After continuing to find a suitable coach. Peter - definitely stepped up with Abramovich. Righting the Israeli Avran Grant, the head of the football department, to take over as Chelsea coach.

Avran Grant is not well known in European football, but he became the head coach very early.

In 1974, 19-year-old Avran Grant coached the Petah youth team and won the Israel Youth League championship. Coach's record.

In the 1990-1991 season, Grant led the team to the league runner-up. And thus got the opportunity to coach Maccabi 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 as the head coach of Tel Aviv's "rival" Maccabi Haifa.

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

Maccabi Haifa became the first Israeli team to reach the Champions League group stage in the 2002-2003 season after Grant left for the national team.

In 2002, the 46-year-old Grant was promoted to head coach of the Israeli national team, making him the youngest and most successful head coach in the country's history. He led a young and inexperienced Israeli team to an unbeaten qualifier for the 2006 World Cup, falling behind only France and Switzerland to bid farewell to the World Cup in Germany.

after. Grant has only officially stepped out of Israel to become head of football at Portsmouth, where he has enjoyed a successful season alongside head coach Harry Redknapp.

Looking back on Avran Grant's coaching career, it is actually a bit 'tragic'. He became the coach of a professional club at the age of 20. After more than 20 years, he failed to step out of Israel and came to the UK from the position of coach in Israel. In his career, Grant also failed to obtain a coaching position, and could only serve as a director of the football department, which was almost equivalent to the position of assistant coach.

Then in May of this year, Grant left Portsmouth to become Chelsea's head of football.

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 Avran-Grant coach Jose Mourinho left, Chelsea was slow to find a suitable coach. The candidate was chosen, and as a result, Grant was supported by 'strong'.

There is no need to say how much joy in Grant's heart, although everyone knows that he can only be regarded as Chelsea's 'interim coach', but with this resume, as long as he can lead the team to achieve good results, then he will easily find other people in the future. Opportunities to coach in top league teams.

However, with opportunity comes pressure.

Chelsea’s head coach is by no means anyone can be the role. First of all, Grant has to face two problems. One is the authority of the team. There are many big-name stars in Chelsea. They don’t trust Grant’s coaching ability at all. There is no authority at all.

For example, the team's striker Drogba, after Mourinho left, Drogba has been clamoring to leave, how long does he have at Stamford Bridge, and even become a hot topic of major European gaming companies, Just after the tenth round of the Premier League, Chelsea vice-captain Frank Lampard told the media that Chelsea will try their best to keep the World of 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 in Chelsea's victory over Middlesbrough, and this was also the second goal of Drogba's two games back from injury.

This would have been a good thing, but Drogba has repeatedly stressed that he wants to leave Stamford Bridge, because the departure of Jose Mourinho has made the team already incompetent, but as a teammate, Lampard hopes that Drogba can change his mind.

"Didier is one of the best strikers in the world, he's the best striker I've ever seen." Lampard declared, "There are many types of strikers in the Premier League, such as Manchester United's Wayne Rooney, who usually uses strong Physically scoring goals, for example, Torres of Manchester City, he usually scores with technique, but Drogba combines technique, body and speed, I think he is the most powerful striker in the Premier League."

"You can find him anywhere on the pitch, whether it's movement, strength or assists, he can play head-to-head and do everything."

"He is the best striker in the Premier League at the moment, and 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 the fighting spirit to win like him. "

"Drogba's stay at Stamford Bridge is crucial for the club and every Blues player wants a teammate like Drogba by his side."

Drogba is 29 years old, but he has received interest from a number of European giants. Many media believe that the Ivorian is likely to leave England after this season.

AC Milan, Real Madrid, Ligue 1 six-time champion Lyon and Bayern Munich have all expressed their desire to sign this powerful African striker, and today the Italian media has revealed the latest new giant to acquire World of Warcraft - Inter Milan!

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Wansheng is still very concerned about Chelsea's news, because Manchester City and Chelsea are about to play the eleventh round of the league, but he is very disdainful of Lampard's statement that 'Drogba is the best striker in the Premier League' Take a look.

Lampard said that Rooney's body and Torres' technique are not wrong, but where did he put other strikers, such as Darren Bent?

Darren Bent, his technique is much better than Drogba, his body is not as good, but it is definitely not bad. When it comes to speed, there are not many players who can run faster than Darren Bent. Besides, the forward is the best. Important stats - goals.

Darren Bent is currently scoring 6 goals in 10 rounds of league games and 1 goal in 2 Champions League games. This efficiency is definitely the top in the Premier League. Even Drogba in the best form is difficult to match. Compare.

Compared to Darren Bent, Drogba hardly has any advantages.

Wan Sheng just laughed at Lampard's remarks. As the manager of Manchester City, he didn't have to argue with a Chelsea vice-captain.

Manchester City still have two games to play before the league match against Chelsea.

One is the English League Cup, Manchester City's opponent is Derby County, this game Wansheng adopted a rotation, several main players did not play, some substitute players, such as Ljungberg, Giovanni-Mauricio , Boateng and others got a chance.

In comparison, Derby County is less concerned about winning. Their biggest goal is to be able to avoid relegation. The League Cup means nothing to them at all. In order to cope with the upcoming 11th round of the league, they have not even sent their main lineup. Don Reiter didn't get minutes.

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

Two days after the League Cup, it was the Champions League group stage. All Manchester City took the train to Glasgow. The three-hour journey was still a long way. Manchester City set off in the morning and arrived in Glasgow at noon. At that time, all the players gathered and entered the Ebrox Stadium to warm up.

In the Champions League Group E, Glasgow Rangers are the fourth-tier team. In terms of strength, they are the weakest in the group. However, their results in the first two rounds were very good. They beat Stuttgart and Lyon in a row. It was done, but Rangers did it, especially the three-goal victory over Lyon in the last away game, which boosted the team's morale.

After beating Lyon, Glasgow Rangers continued their strength in the Scottish League. Just five days ago, they beat the arch-rivals Celtic 3-0.

It also brought their morale to a peak.

In this case, it is by no means a good time to deal with Rangers away. (To be continued ~^~)