Chapter 196 Guardiola and Mourinho Return to the Premier League! Matic's Summer Transfer Deadline [Subscribe! ]

Scoring a hat trick in the warm-up match against AC Milan, this was a pretty good debut performance for Ibrahimovic in his Chelsea career.

Chelsea fans were very happy to see it, AC Milan fans also felt good, and they could see Li Ang and Ibrahimovic playing in the same team, which was enough.

As for the US media's report that Ibrahimovic's running-in with other Chelsea players has made significant progress because of this warm-up match, that is pure nonsense.

Li Ang has been training and running-in with Chelsea players for two weeks now.

But he can only say that he has initially established a tacit cooperation with most Chelsea players.

And his progress in integrating into the new team is already very fast, not to mention Ibrahimovic, who has only trained with the team a few times and played a warm-up match.

This new Chelsea still needs a lot of time to run in.

Training is still very important.

In private, with Li Ang's introduction and Ibrahimovic's active integration, the relationship between the players is still quite good, and the familiarity is progressing quickly, which makes Mourinho very relieved.

In addition, Mourinho is in a good mood because of the recent progress in Mata's transfer.

Compared with Demba Ba's quick transfer back to Newcastle.

Mata's explosive data last season, so his value in the transfer market is naturally much higher.

Currently, there are basically only a few powerful teams in the Premier League that can afford Mata's transfer.

Among them, the most suitable teams are Arsenal, Manchester City, and Manchester United.

These three teams can afford the money, and the tactical system they play is more suitable for Mata to go.

Originally, Mourinho planned to recommend Mata to the professor.

The professor finally paid a large amount of transfer fee this year, and Walcott's injury in the preseason and Rosicky's incompetence just gave Mourinho an opportunity to promote Mata.

Wenger is of course also very tempted. Mata has proved himself in Chelsea. After all, he is a player who can play double 20 plus in a single season, and his strength is naturally needless to say.

Mata himself was more inclined to stay in London, and with Wenger's invitation, he had no resistance to leaving Chelsea and joining Arsenal.

Chelsea offered Mata a transfer fee of 40 million euros!

To be honest, this price is not expensive. There are very few players on the market who can score more than 20 points in a single season.

Wenger gritted his teeth and basically agreed. He asked for installments in three years for the payment method.

Chelsea is not short of money, and the professor was about to grind it down.

As a result, a "Sir Mo" who has a lot of money and is crazy about new players came out halfway!

Speaking of it, this matter is really related to Chelsea.

Previously, Manchester United basically focused on Li Ang, who might leave Real Madrid.

Moyes originally wanted to hook up with Kroos in advance, and then hook up with his direct disciple Fellaini in Everton.

As a result, the top management of Manchester United kept shirking the responsibility, so they asked him to focus on Li Ang, and did not buy any of the other players he was optimistic about in rebuilding the team.

As a result, when Li Ang joined Chelsea in a flash, Kroos was impatient and chose to stay in Bayern for another year.

Fellaini was also deterred by Everton's high asking price, which made Manchester United's current CEO, Sander, hesitate.

Look at what happened. Moyes took office as the new coach, and none of the signing promises he received before signing the contract were fulfilled by the top management.

Seeing that the warm-up matches have been played, and now the suitable young midfielders on the market have each found a new team, Manchester United still hasn't bought anyone. Moyes is really anxious!

Sir Alex Ferguson may feel a little sorry for Moyes.

He fooled this person to come, and he is optimistic about him. The club should give him some face and support, right?

So Sir Alex Ferguson personally went to talk to the top management of Manchester United.

Not to mention the 100 million or 200 million transfer fee this summer, the old man led Manchester United to regain the Premier League title last season by stepping on Manchester City.

Let's not talk about more, the transfer fee of 70 or 80 million can be taken out, right?

So Moyes finally got the initial transfer fee of 50 million pounds from the reluctant Sanders.

So this is just the right time!

Chelsea is going to sell Mata, the core player of last season, and the industry has not kept it secret.

And seeing that Mata and Chelsea are about to reach an agreement with Arsenal, my Sir Mo directly chose to spend money!

Manchester United's first offer for Mata reached 38 million pounds, which is about 45 million euros!

So at this moment, Chelsea and Arsenal naturally put Mata's transfer on hold.

And Mata probably got Moyes' personal promise.

Faced with the higher annual salary and the possible core midfield position of the Premier League's top club, he was deeply tempted.

Now Mourinho is waiting for Wenger's decision.

If Arsenal can match Manchester United's offer, Mourinho would still prefer to sell it to Wenger.

Of course, it doesn't matter if Arsenal finally chooses to withdraw from the transfer deal.

After all, with Manchester United, who is more generous, taking over, Chelsea can sell Mata at a higher price, and Mourinho will have more sufficient funds for subsequent signings.

Why not?

So the smile on Mourinho's face has never faded in the past few days.

Even before the International Champions Cup final with Real Madrid.

Whether it is Mourinho or Li Ang, they are both very relaxed at the moment, not at all like they are facing a great enemy as advertised by the outside media.

The two left Real Madrid, but they did not leave in a quarrel with the club.

They completely broke up with Real Madrid peacefully as meritorious service.

There is no grudge between them and the club, and there is no big problem between them and their former teammates and former disciples.

If I must say, Mourinho's anger and tough departure were also due to the leak of information from the locker room.

Casillas suffered this misfortune because of his loud-mouthed girlfriend, and Ramos was affected because he had to stand on Casillas' side.

If Mourinho was still in Real Madrid, his relationship with the two of them would have definitely reached a freezing point.

But after Mourinho left the team, the three of them had enough time to calm their heads and analyze the ins and outs of the matter.

Thinking of the cooperation over the past three years, they still united closely after having differences of opinion and won so many championships...

So Casillas and Ramos, who were apologetic, had already called Mourinho to apologize.

The hug and greeting between the three before the start of the Champions League final can be regarded as a complete shattering of the conspiracy rumors among various media.

Of course, the same is true for Li Ang.

If he continues to stay in Real Madrid, because of the showdown with the old man, there will probably be some minor frictions between him and Ronaldo soon.

But now he has left Real Madrid, so the frictions and conflicts that may arise in the future will naturally disappear.

During the entire off-season, he kept in touch with his old teammates in Real Madrid, including Ronaldo.

When they met again, Li Ang still laughed and high-fived and hugged all his old teammates, just like before!

So today, the tearful fans have changed from Milan brothers to Meilingge.

The victory or defeat of this International Champions Cup final is completely unimportant to Real Madrid fans.

They watched their Mourinho-style Real Madrid reunite on the court with sentimentality and nostalgia.

It's just that in the past, the figure who always passionately commanded on the sidelines, the figure who was always high-spirited and never gave up running on the court, is now standing on the opposite side of them...

The intensity of the game was still raised because of the title of the final, and the confrontation was fierce, but there was not much fire.

Real Madrid, which is still at its peak, is far ahead of Chelsea, which is still in the process of reconstruction, in terms of the degree of cooperation and tacit understanding between players.

Ronaldo once again became the most shining star in the final of this International Champions Cup.

He helped Real Madrid beat Chelsea 4:2 with two shots and one assist.

He was also elected the best player in the final of this International Champions Cup friendly match.

As for Chelsea fans, they were not dissatisfied with the team's loss to Real Madrid.

On the contrary, they were very satisfied with the results of the team's warm-up match in the United States.

First of all, the most satisfying thing is of course that Li Ang "successfully inspected the goods".

Secondly, several young players in the team played well, and Hazard was constantly improving his shortcomings.

Finally, of course, it was because Ibrahimovic's game state and feeling in front of the goal far exceeded their expectations.

Originally, many Chelsea fans were worried that Ibrahimovic, who was nearly 32 years old, was only a temporary option for the coaching staff, and worried about his adaptability and performance in the new Premier League season.

But from these two warm-up matches, Ibrahimovic's static confrontation ability and feeling in front of the goal are still at the top level in football.

At least compared with Lukaku, Ibrahimovic's fulcrum role in front of the penalty area and his scoring ability in the penalty area are much stronger.

It can be said that if it was Ibrahimovic 10 years ago, Chelsea fans might not feel so surprised.

After all, the peak Ibrahimovic should play like this.

But in 2013, we can still see Ibrahimovic's evolution in the penalty area and stable ball-playing performance.

Chelsea fans immediately felt that their club had made a big profit this time!

Spend 18 million to buy Ibrahimovic who has learned to use his physical advantage to dominate in the penalty area?

The smiles on the faces of Chelsea fans have become more and more unbridled, even perverted!

Last season, Torres and Demba Ba rotated in the center position, and Chelsea finally achieved the third place in the Premier League and the runner-up in the Europa League last season.

If it weren't for the runaway Atletico Madrid in the Europa League final, Chelsea might have won a Europa League championship last season!

Although Chelsea has begun to establish a new core this season.

But compared with last season, Chelsea's paper lineup is undoubtedly much stronger.

If there is no problem with the running-in, then Chelsea fans naturally have reason to expect better results this season, and even win the championship trophy!

And in the Chelsea team, many old players also see the hope of competing with Manchester United for the Premier League again.

Well, Manchester United these days has not become the "Manchester United" that creates countless memes for Premier League fans to watch in the future.

Last season's Premier League championship plus the result of the Champions League quarterfinals, Manchester United still sits firmly in the position of the Premier League hegemony.

Before the new season started, even though Ferguson was no longer the head coach of Manchester United, Manchester United's odds of winning the championship in the new season were still firmly in first place.

Originally, the second place in the championship odds should belong to Chelsea.

But on the morning of August 10, when Manchester City officially announced that Guardiola officially took over Etihad and became the new helmsman of Manchester City.

Manchester City jumped up, and its odds of winning the championship in the new season directly went from fourth in the Premier League to second in the Premier League!

And countless Premier League fans were stunned by this news!

After all, the clubs previously associated with Guardiola have always been Bayern Munich and Juventus.

The fans who eat melons have also been waiting for the big bosses of the Bundesliga and Serie A to compete, to see which of the two teams can laugh last in the "Guardiola battle".

As a result, no one expected that Guardiola would give everyone such a shocking surprise!

Guardiola finally refused the invitations of the two giants, and he actually came to coach the local tyrant team in the Premier League? !

Li Ang was also very surprised when he heard the news, and even had a very absurd idea in his head:

Could it be that Guardiola failed to recruit Aguero from Barcelona before, so he took the initiative to come to Manchester City to train Aguero?

This fantasy was of course just a joke in Li Ang's heart.

But he thought about it and found that Guardiola seemed to be the most suitable to come to Manchester City except Bayern.

In addition to being able to gain 100% control of the team in Manchester City, Guardiola's most valued should be the current batch of technical players in Manchester City.

There is Aguero on the striker line, David Silva and Nasri on the offensive line, Fernandinho and Barry in the midfield, and Kompany on the central defender line.

These players are all strong and technical.

In addition, Yaya Toure, who can compete for the title of the world's No. 1 B2B midfielder with a normal mentality.

Hiss…

Guardiola came to the Premier League early and bought a lot of things. Wouldn’t he really make the super Manchester City that dominates the Premier League come out in advance?

Li Ang felt inexplicably excited at this moment.

If they each develop for another season, will the iron-blooded blue army of Mourinho’s second period and the blue moon army of Guardiola’s first period meet? Will there be a chance to reproduce the traffic scene of the Spanish national derby in the past?

What kind of nostalgic scene will it be when Guardiola and Mourinho return to the Premier League?

As soon as such a hypothesis appeared in his mind, Li Ang, a otaku who is not very sensitive to public opinion, felt faintly excited.

Not to mention the vast number of Premier League fans and the British media who like to stir up trouble!

The new Premier League season will not start for more than a week.

As a result, the British media, big and small, began to speculate on the victory, defeat and score of the first encounter between Chelsea and Manchester City in the new season.

Such a grand discussion made the friendly matches between Chelsea and Manchester City on August 11 and August 12 attract more attention from fans.

As a result, Chelsea and Manchester City, the two kings of traffic, lost in their respective friendly matches.

What's even more bizarre is that the two teams lost in exactly the same way.

They scored first in the first half, and then lost to their opponents in the second half.

Once this happened, the majority of fans could not help but complain about Guardiola and Mourinho.

"Did you two make an appointment by phone before your respective friendly matches?"

As public opinion gradually became lively, the players of Chelsea and Manchester City seized the time and raced against time to adapt to the new tactics and speed up the running-in progress before the new season arrived.

On the morning of August 14, Mata's transfer was finally settled.

After a few days of tug-of-war, facing Manchester United's high price of 47 million euros, Wenger could no longer bear it and had to choose to withdraw from the battle for Mata.

After Mourinho obtained sufficient selling fees, he also accelerated his own signing progress without saying a word.

Chelsea, which had previously failed to reach an agreement with Benfica on the transfer of Matic for a mere 5 million euros, once again showed its tycoon style.

After agreeing to Benfica's offer of 23 million euros, Chelsea bought back Matic, who it had sold to Benfica for 5 million euros.

Looking at the now fully-filled back line, Mourinho also waved his hand and directly announced the end of the summer transfer window.

Although De Bruyne is still a little immature in the right forward position, Mourinho also discovered the great potential of this young Belgian genius.

With Li Ang leading the way, De Bruyne's tactical ideas can't fly to the sky.

Mourinho feels that if De Bruyne can be trained well, Chelsea's balanced pattern of left and right passes on both wings will be stabilized.

After all, after the setbacks in this summer window, Mourinho has figured it out. It is still too difficult to find top-level winger with strong breakthrough ability on both sides.

Now the only teams in football that can have such a luxurious configuration are Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. Barcelona's two wings can only be regarded as first-class in football after Messi plays in the middle.

Perhaps after Neymar proves himself in the new season and Messi switches to playing as a right winger, Barcelona can return to the ranks of top giants on both wings.

Thinking of this, Mourinho's mood has improved a lot.

And recently he is thinking about letting Lukaku lose weight, so that he can rotate between the two positions of wing and center forward in the future, and save a lot of signings.

At this stage, Chelsea has sufficient personnel in all positions. The new and old structures are also relatively reasonable, and the only thing left is to speak with results.

On August 18, the first round of the Premier League against Hull City, Mourinho vowed to get a good start in the new season!