Chapter 457 Manchester City Has Become Europe’s Number One Public Enemy

The strength of La Liga is not just a day or two. In the past few years, Barcelona mainly relied on Barcelona to support the scene. In recent years, with the rise of Atletico Madrid and the strong recovery of Real Madrid, three strong teams with the strength of the top four of the Champions League have appeared in La Liga. It’s no wonder that the European war record is not good!

But just having a top-four team is not enough, because the final championship does not belong to them.

Since the 2010-2011 season, La Liga has not won the Champions League for five years, and in these five years, the Premier League has won three Champions League titles.

Judging only from the number of championships won, it is obvious that the Premier League has the advantage.

Although the record of the traditional giants in the Premier League is declining, it is enough for them to have a strong Manchester City.

This one alone surpasses the top three in La Liga!

In the past two years, all three La Liga heroes have been defeated by Manchester City, and Barcelona even lost twice.

This makes La Liga fans very desperate, Manchester City is too strong.

As a result, Premier League fans envy the three La Liga heroes for their outstanding European performance, while La Liga fans envy Manchester City's dominant position.

In fact, it's not just ordinary La Liga fans who feel envious. Even the top executives of some of La Liga's giants have been affected by Manchester City's performance in recent years.

The skills of Premier League teams are not very good to begin with, but with the addition of a large number of high-level coaches and players in recent years, some of their teams have caught up with or even surpassed La Liga in terms of technology.

Take Manchester City for example. Manchester City obviously follows a technical style, not a traditional Premier League team style.

This style was originally an alternative in the Premier League. Originally, only Arsene Wenger's Arsenal adhered to the technical school.

However, with the great success of Manchester City, this model is being fully promoted and learned in the Premier League.

Over time, Premier League teams will inevitably become more physical and technical, making them more difficult to defeat.

And the most worrying thing is that some fans who originally thought that the Premier League teams had rough skills and rough playing styles and looked down upon them might change their perception of the Premier League due to the development of the Premier League's technical schools, and even switch to watching the Premier League.

This has gradually become a trend in recent years. In the Premier League, matches between Arsenal and Manchester City are attracting more and more spectators, especially Manchester City. Their overseas spectators are growing significantly. .

And a large part of these growing fans were originally supposed to be the audience of La Liga, but now they have switched to the Premier League.

This will definitely have an impact on La Liga’s broadcast revenue!

The broadcast revenue of major leagues is very important to the teams. The reason why there are so many giants in the Premier League is mainly because the Premier League does the best commercial promotion. The Premier League teams can get a lot of revenue from the Premier League every year.

Once they steal the audience and even the cake from other leagues, the rise of the Premier League will probably be unstoppable.

At that time, the Premier League will become stronger and stronger, while other teams will become weaker and weaker, just like Serie A in recent years.

Therefore, La Liga teams need to make a breakthrough in the European war and break Manchester City's monopoly on the Champions League championship.

This is not only related to the honor of the three heroes of La Liga, but also related to the life and death of their league!

For this reason, teams such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Atletico Madrid and even Bayern in the Bundesliga have all reached a tacit agreement: No matter who encounters Manchester City, they will fight to the end and fight them to the end. Even if they cannot defeat Manchester City, they will still be able to win. To cause maximum consumption to them!

This year's champion can be any team, but it cannot be Manchester City!

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Manchester City did not know that the teams had privately formed an anti-Manchester City alliance, but they knew that in the Premier League, an anti-Manchester City alliance had already been formed.

It seems that they don't want to see Manchester City monopolize the Premier League championship for a long time. Now the major teams in the Premier League are like chicken blood when they encounter Manchester City.

There is no need to do pre-match mobilization. Every one of their players has high morale and wants to bring Manchester City down from the altar.

In the 16th round of the league, Manchester City faced Swansea at home.

The opponent's league ranking is 15th, ranking at the bottom of the league, while Manchester City is at the top of the list. In such a game, there should be no suspense in the eyes of all parties before the game.

However, Manchester City did not play well in this game. Swansea's defense was very tenacious, and their movements during defense were also very large.

In the 33rd minute of the first half, David Silva was fouled by his opponent and was unable to continue the game after falling to the ground injured. Manchester City had to make a passive substitution.

In the 65th minute of the second half, Manchester City defender Sagna, who came on as a substitute, was also fouled by his opponent and was carried off the field on a stretcher.

Guardiola finally saw that the opponent was not here to play football, but to hurt people!

There were also huge boos at the Etihad Stadium. The fans were very dissatisfied with the killing tactics adopted by Swansea, but what made them even more dissatisfied was the referee's whistle that was obviously biased in favor of the opponent.

Even though the Premier League's whistleblowing standards are relatively loose, the opponent is obviously targeting someone. Such a vicious foul is not directly ejected with a red card, but is given a harmless yellow card. Who are they fooling?

Although Manchester City won the game cleanly 2:0 in the end, they lost two players in one game. For them, the three points were not earned.

In another focus game, Leicester City beat the visiting Blues Chelsea 2:1 at home, still maintaining a 6-point gap with Manchester City.

Although this gap is still very large, it still retains some suspense for this season's Premier League championship.

Especially after Leicester City captured the Blues, the outside world became more optimistic about them.

"Haha, have you noticed? When other teams in the Premier League meet Manchester City, they will either directly set up their buses and ask for a draw, or they will set up their buses and engage in killing tactics. Even if they fail to win, they will take a piece of flesh from you!"

"There were signs of this last year, but this year it is more common. Watching ten Manchester City games, nine of them were Manchester City chewing on the opponent's iron barrel formation!"

"Now there seems to be a voice from the outside world. It seems that no one wants to see Manchester City win the championship, so they are trying their best to cause trouble for Manchester City!"

"Being the leader will inevitably attract jealousy, especially since Manchester City has won two league championships in a row. There are so many teams that don't want them to achieve three consecutive championships!"

“Not only that, I found that players from many teams were very excited when they met Manchester City, especially some young players. They seemed to want to prove themselves in the game against Manchester City in order to attract other teams, especially Attention wealthy teams.”

The mid-to-lower teams have a relatively small fan base and a small fan audience, so very few people follow their games on weekdays.

Only when you meet some wealthy families can you get more attention.

Therefore, for the players of these teams, every time they play against a giant is an opportunity for them to showcase their talents.

As the defending champions of the Champions League and Premier League, Manchester City has a very high reputation and exposure in football. If they can perform well in the game against them, the probability of becoming famous with one goal will be greatly increased, which will help. Let them soar into the sky and realize their dream of becoming a wealthy family.

After all, players who don't want to join a wealthy club are not good players.

For young players, who doesn’t have a dream of becoming a wealthy player?

Even if he performs well, he may attract the attention of Manchester City coach Guardiola and be recruited to play in Manchester City.

Leicester City does not need to face these problems at all.

Everyone knows that they are just a civilian team, although they currently rank second in the Premier League in points.

But no one knows how long their dark horse can stay dark. Maybe they will fall off next month.

Therefore, other teams will not specifically target Leicester City. Except for some relegation teams, other teams will play normally when they encounter Leicester City and will not go out of their way to set up a bus.

The resistance the two teams encountered in the league was completely different, and every battle Manchester City fought was a hard fight.

If this consumption continues all the way, by the time Christmas comes, Manchester City is likely to be full of injured soldiers, and the players' condition will plummet due to excessive consumption.

Both Manchester City Club and Guardiola are aware of this problem, so on the one hand, the club has increased investment in the medical team and strives to hire more powerful medical experts from all over the world to enrich the team's medical team and try their best to Possibly ensure the health of the players.

On the other hand, the team has also prepared more than 100 million euros for Guardiola, allowing him to strengthen various positions in the team during the winter break.

Aguero on the striker has been injured more times this season and his attendance rate is not high. This has a great impact on Manchester City. Therefore, during the winter break, it is imperative to buy a powerful striker.

Now that David Silva is injured, reinforcements are also needed at the winger and midfielder positions.

As for the defensive midfielder position, Cross needs a suitable substitute in case of emergency.

In terms of defenders, Demichelis is old and his number of appearances this season has dropped significantly. He can only serve as a rotation. He may retire next season. The team needs a suitable rotation to enrich the thickness of the bench.

As for the full-back, whether on the left or right, it is Guardiola's biggest headache.

In Guardiola's tactics, the two full-backs bear heavy tasks, so they have higher requirements on the players' abilities.

There are not many outstanding full-backs in football who meet his requirements, and even fewer can be purchased, so he can only take advantage of it.

Fortunately, Manchester City has some excellent young full-backs in its talent pool. After they have trained for a few years and grown up, they should be able to take over smoothly.

In addition to the above-mentioned positions, there is actually a substitute who Guardiola is still hesitant about whether to buy.

The person who gave Guardiola a headache was none other than Lin Quan.

"Lin, do you think the team should prepare a substitute for you?"

Instead of just thinking about it yourself, it's better to ask the players themselves for their opinions.

Especially when the other party is your son, being open and honest is obviously more efficient.

"My substitute? Isn't this hard to buy?"

Lin Quan couldn't help but feel a little curious when he learned that Guardiola wanted to buy him a substitute.

For a player like him whose position on the field is erratic, it is too difficult to find a suitable substitute.

"It's not easy to buy, so I mainly want to buy a right winger."

Guardiola also knows that substitutes like Lin Quan are not easy to buy. He has a similar style to Messi, and there are too few players like them in football. It is almost impossible to perfectly replace them. .

Therefore, his requirements are not high. He must have good foot skills, outstanding dribbling and passing abilities, his golf quotient should not be too low, and he must have a certain speed, which is enough.

There should be quite a few wingers who meet this standard.

The price of around 40 million is estimated to be able to buy some good players.

"I do know that there is someone who better meets your standards. I wonder if you are interested in him?"

"Oh? Tell me about it?"

Guardiola is still convinced by Lin Quan's way of looking at people.

Players such as Kanter were all bought at the suggestion of Lin Quan. Later results also proved that these people bought very value for money.

"An Egyptian who played for Chelsea briefly before, his name is Salah!"

Salah is known as the player who is most like Messi in later generations. His quick and quick playing style is very similar to Messi, and his own strength is also very outstanding. In the winger position, he was once the defender of major giants. nightmare.

At his peak, Salah was worth 150 million euros, making him a superstar player.

Last year, Lin Quan recommended Salah to Pellegrini, and Manchester City also made an offer to Chelsea at that time.

But Chelsea would rather loan him out than sell to Manchester City, and the deal failed to be reached in the end.

Now that Mourinho has left Chelsea, Chelsea's record has plummeted. As a player bought by Mourinho, Salah was never played at Chelsea and naturally has no place in the new coach's system.

Therefore, the possibility of him returning to Stamford Bridge is almost zero. If Manchester City makes an offer at this time, the deal is very likely to be concluded.

If Lin Quan's memory is correct, Salah, who is on loan to Roma, will break out next spring.

By then, Roma's willingness to buy him out will definitely be greatly enhanced, and it will also become more difficult for Manchester City to take away Salah.

What's even more troublesome is that Liverpool will also keep an eye on him. If Salah really goes to Liverpool, it will definitely greatly enhance Liverpool's strength.

Guardiola remembered Salah's name, so he immediately arranged for scouts to go to Roma to inspect his performance and collect information about him.

It is now less than half a month before the winter break transfer window opens, and they must seize the time.

Manchester City wants to make a big move during this winter break, and Liverpool next door is not idle either.

In view of the fact that Liverpool's current lineup is completely insufficient to compete with top teams such as Manchester City, at Klopp's request, Liverpool's boss John Henry gave Klopp a large sum of money to allow him to play during the winter break. Find some outstanding players to strengthen Liverpool's lineup and allow them to compete for a Champions League spot next season.

There is no hope for the league championship, but the Champions League spot is still worth fighting for for Liverpool, especially when the Blues, who have long occupied the Champions League seats, are declining at the speed of light. This position will naturally be filled by Liverpool.

For Liverpool, if they can successfully enter the Champions League, it will not only help improve the club's finances, but also give them an extra income.

It can also attract outstanding players to join. After all, many players will have very clear Champions League requirements when they transfer.

Teams that cannot compete in the Champions League find it difficult to attract top players. Just like Manchester United a few years later, good players are not willing to go...