Chapter 589: Volume 5, Red
Real Madrid lost to Nottingham Forest. This result is not considered "unpopular". It is normal for these two teams to beat the other. After all, where is the strength of the Forest team?
The next night, Tang En took the whole team to watch the match between AC Milan and Lokomotiv Moscow, and observe their opponents in the final. Although it was just an invitational tournament, Dunn still decided to take it seriously.
Because of the participation of the host, the popularity of this game was guaranteed. The stands were full of people, most of them were fans of Lokomotiv Moscow from Russia, and there were only a handful of fans of AC Milan.
Although there are few people, they are generally optimistic that their team's victory over Lokomotiv Moscow will not be a problem. But this is the case. Compared with the other three teams, the host is not strong.
But to say that he will definitely be eliminated?
Football is round, until the end of the game, who knows what the result will be?
At eighty-five minutes, Twain stood up in the stands and stretched his waist: "Go back and rest, guys. There is nothing interesting about this game."
At this time, the score on the big screen is: "2:0".
The home team is at the front and the visiting team is at the back.
That's right, AC Milan is behind.
Ancelotti did not send all their main players, and Lokomotiv Moscow played the strongest lineup. One side wants to train soldiers, and the other side wants to win honors. The result can be imagined.
In the end, AC Milan lost to Lokomotiv Moscow. A week later, Lokomotiv Moscow will compete with Nottingham Forest for the Railway Cup championship trophy, while AC Milan will play a match with Real Madrid to decide the third place.
This result disappointed many people. Originally they wanted to see the re-enactment of the Champions League final in Moscow, but who would have thought that AC Milan would lose in the first round.
A week later, Nottingham Forest won the first championship trophy of the season with a score of 3:1 at Lokomotiv Moscow.
Even though it was only an invitational championship, it could boost morale. After winning the Champions Cup just now, the Forest players at the awards ceremony still looked very excited.
Beckham assisted his teammates twice in the final and was voted the best player in the final.
For David Beckham, he doesn't have to worry about integrating into the team. After these two games, he is already "one of his own".
And Beckham's performance in the invitational game also blocked some people's mouths.
In the past, there was a voice that Beckham could no longer achieve any success, and his career had entered the end of the game ahead of schedule due to frequent business activities. Real Madrid was absolutely right to choose to drive him away, because his championship in the last season was just a flashback. It took only four years to win a championship in a league like Spain, and he went to the faster-paced and more competitive Premier League. With Beckham's body that is constantly injured, he can't see what he can achieve.
Beckham has been a controversial player since his debut. He himself has a deep understanding of this, so no matter what the outside world says about him, he just trains every day and then plays his own level in the game.
Dunn didn't buy him to help sell jerseys. He valued Beckham's crosses from the right and precise long passes from the midfield. These are technical characteristics that complement Forest's counterattack. Albertini is gone, and the Forest team lacks a man with accurate long pass ability in the midfield. Van der Vaart's short pass is very creative, but the long pass is not far behind. In this regard, Beckham's ability is unmatched in the world. When he was in Real Madrid, he used countless long passes over 50 meters from the backcourt to accurately deliver the football to his teammates.
In the past, the two sides of the Forest team relied on speed to win, but once the opponent compressed the defensive space, the Forest team's side attack would be blocked. Now with Beckham, who is good at long passes, the Forest team's wing attack routines are more diversified, making it difficult for opponents to defend against.
In addition, thanks to his four years in Real Madrid, Twain could also let Beckham play a cameo as a defensive midfielder, using long passes to directly attack, which was much faster than rushing up with the ball.
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Nottingham Forest, which won the first championship of the new season, also ended their training camp in Russia and flew back to the UK to prepare for the upcoming Premier League.
They had no way to participate in the Charity Shield. The Premier League title was won by Manchester United. The FA Cup final was a meeting between Manchester United and Chelsea. The two sides drew 0-0 in 120 minutes. In the final penalty shootout, Chelsea won. . So the new season's Charity Shield will repeat last season's FA Cup final - Manchester United VS Chelsea.
This game has nothing to do with the Forest team, they are complete spectators. Their first important championship of the new season is on August 31, competing with UEFA Cup champion Liverpool for the UEFA Super Cup.
Tang En was not interested in this opponent. It was clearly the European Super Cup. Because the opponent was a league team, it felt like the "England Super Cup". There was nothing new about it.
He would prefer to play against Sevilla.
But it is a pity that the best club team selected by FIFA last year wanted to defend the title, but was defeated by Liverpool in the final and lost the championship.
That is also impossible. If he doesn't win a reasonable championship, Benitez may be dismissed from get out of class. Apart from helping the team miraculously win the Champions League in his first season at Liverpool, Benitez has done nothing in recent years. Originally, Benitez was not good at playing in the league. With the sudden rise of the Forest team, they lost the qualification to enter the Champions League for two consecutive years, which made the club directors and fans very dissatisfied.
If he loses the UEFA Cup again, Benitez will have no choice but to take the blame and resign.
Fortunately, this championship saved his coaching career in Liverpool.
In the new season, Liverpool is recruiting troops and vowing to return to the ranks of contending for the championship.
After the signing of the new Premier League TV broadcasting contract, it brought more money to the Premier League teams. According to the new broadcasting contract, the Premier League champions can get 50 million pounds in bonuses, while even the bottom team can get 30 million pounds - catching up with the Premier League champions in previous seasons. Regardless of the quality of the England national team, the Premier League remains the most profitable league in the world.
In this context, except for Nottingham Forest, which wants to build a new stadium, other clubs have only two options: either spend money or be left behind.
No one would choose the latter.
Liverpool bought Ryan_Babel for £11.5m, bought Yossi_PBenayoun from West Ham for £5m and brought in Waller from Bayer Leverkusen on a free transfer Ning (Andriy_Voronin), their biggest deal was to buy Torres from Atletico Madrid for 21.5 million pounds.
Just looking at the money spent on these transfers can explain Liverpool's ambitions. Of course, Twain had reason to believe that after spending so much money, if Liverpool still couldn't make it to the Champions League next season, then he would have no choice but to leave.
Life is always full of various surprises.
The Liverpool people will not so quickly forget the humiliation that Nottingham Forest gave them at the end of last season-kicking them to fifth in the league and losing their qualification for the Champions League for two consecutive years.
Now is the chance for revenge.
Rafa Benitez's side can snatch Nottingham Forest's first serious title of the new season at the Stade Louis II in Monaco. Didn't Tang En always say "he is the head coach who pursues the championship"? Then stealing his championship trophy is the best revenge for him.
Even the English Premier League has not yet started, Liverpool's media is starting to hype the game on the last day of August. For many Merseysiders, they have never been more eager to win a game - beating Nottingham Forest.
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According to the schedule of the new season, the first round will be fully rolled out on August 11th. In the last warm-up match before the beginning of the season, Manchester United and Chelsea drew again in the Charity Shield, relying on penalty kicks.
This time it was not Mourinho who had the last laugh, but Ferguson.
The two teams have faced each other 30 times in the history of the Premier League. Among them, Manchester United has 8 games, 13 draws and 9 losses. Mourinho has contributed a lot here. After he came to Chelsea, he allowed the team to achieve good results in the confrontation against the top teams in the Premier League, except for Liverpool.
The Charity Shield loss to Manchester United is only a small part of the grievances between the two.
Mourinho congratulated Manchester United for winning the Charity Shield, because that would mean they would lose the league title and Chelsea would win it again.
And Ferguson ridiculed Mourinho is still talking about the old calendar, the curse of the Charity Shield has long been a thing of the past. And said that even if Manchester United cannot win the league championship, Chelsea will not win the league championship.
The much-anticipated war of words between the two sides was staged before the league started, and it was the best advertisement for the new season of the Premier League.
It's a new Premier League season, new TV rights sales, new TV deals, new players, new teams, and... a new champion.
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On August 11th, Nottingham Forest will go to Liverpool, but their opponent is not Liverpool, which is "envious of enemies", but Liverpool's city rival Everton.
Moyes and Twain have been friends for many years, and the smell of gunpowder in this game will not be too strong. The special thing is that this is the first league game played by former Forest player Arteta for Everton, and he ran into his old club Nottingham Forest.
At the same time, this game was selected by Sky TV as the live game of the current round. There are two reasons, one is because this is the first game of the new season of the European champions; the other is because Beckham is back, this is the first game of Beckham's return to the Premier League after four years, and it is bound to be popular. It is worth noting that the live broadcast of this game will also bring more advertising revenue to Sky TV.
When Beckham left Manchester United, some economic experts once said that this was not only a loss for Manchester United, but also a loss for the Premier League. There was even an exaggerated statement at the time: Beckham's departure meant the decline of the most profitable Premier League, and the world's No. 1 league would become La Liga.
Before this season, the Premier League company re-auctioned the TV broadcast rights of the Premier League for the next three years. The broadcast rights were divided into six parts, each containing 23 games, four of which were sold to Sky TV. The price is as high as 1.31 billion pounds! The rights to broadcast all matches of the Premier League in the next five years will be shared by Sky TV and Ireland's Setanna TV, with a total value of up to 1.7 billion pounds! And this money is only the broadcast fee in the UK, and does not include the broadcast rights sold by the league to foreign TV broadcast organizations-TV channels in more than 200 countries will pay the Premier League in order to broadcast the Premier League in the next three years. 1.23 billion U.S. dollars, or about 617 million pounds, a figure that makes the NBA feel ashamed. Their annual overseas broadcast revenue is only a mere 130 million U.S. dollars, or more than 50 million pounds. The new season's Premier League champions a club's prize money.
Here, it cannot be said that it has nothing to do with Beckham's return. Beckham's return to the Premier League has given many big companies the confidence to continue investing in the Premier League, and is also conducive to the promotion of the Premier League to the world. I believe that in the next five years, due to the previous performance, the broadcast rights of the Premier League will charge a higher price.
The man was brought back by Tony Twain, and the big cake of profit was partly eaten by twenty clubs.
You know, Murdoch only spent 191 million pounds when he bought the broadcasting rights of the Premier League for five years. Five years later, in 1997, it was 670 million pounds. After the bankruptcy of the German and German Kirsch Media Group, the Premier League broadcast rights were still sold for a sky-high price of one billion and twenty million pounds. The Premier League remains the most profitable league in the world.
Allen and Evan decided to start the new stadium construction plan this season impatiently. In addition to the Forest team winning the Champions League again after a lapse of 27 years, the new TV contract was successfully signed before this season. Twenty clubs again have a large sum of money at their disposal. Almost all of the 1.7 billion pounds was given to the Premier League teams. With this fund, all clubs can calmly plan and build their own future, including Nottingham Forest.
Tang En and Allen may have a lot of small frictions in their daily work, after all, each performs its duties and seeks its own affairs. But when it came to signing Beckham, Allen was so happy that he wanted to hug Tang En and kiss him wildly.
Because the TV broadcast fee of the Premier League is not like that of the NFL (American Professional Football League), which is divided equally among thirty-two teams. It is determined by the number of games broadcast by a team during the season and the final ranking. Teams with good results and more stars will get more live broadcast opportunities and more bonuses at that time.
As European champions, they will get more TV broadcast opportunities. On this basis, because there are world-class stars and popular idols like Beckham in the team, their broadcast times will also increase. Especially considering the large audience in Asia and the Americas.
In the new season, Sky TV chose to broadcast the Nottingham Forest game live, which is a clear proof-the charm of business is unstoppable.
The Nottingham Forest team in the 2007-2008 season will become the star team that has attracted the attention of the whole World Cup. If they can still achieve results that match this attention, then the goal that Evan has been looking forward to will be realized ahead of schedule.